/lit/ - Literature

Can you please make that list better?

thanks.

For content or asthetics?

>both

>mfw

>>1707664
content preferably but higher res would be nice

I'm going to be unapologetically overly pedantic but House of Leaves was published in 2000, thus making it a "must-read" of the 20th century, not the 21st century. And by "must-read" I mean, "a shit book only teenagers think is deep and edgy"

>>1707676

>implying the book isn't very well written

>implying it hasn't got an excellent sense of adventure

>implying it doesn't get you emotional in places

>four orson scott card books
>one godawful stephen king book
>four margaret atwood books

Yeah, maybe the 4 Atwood books was a bit much, and it definitely was for OSC. Oh well. Feel free to make your own list.

I've read about half of it. It feels a lot like the first half of Infinite Jest, where there was a bunch of random stuff happening and the significance wasn't clear yet. The difference is that IJ actually went somewhere with all of its plot threads, while I've heard that TPK just trails off into nothing. It might be better to think of it more as a collection of interrelated short fiction pieces than a novel. In any case, it's well worth reading.

And Wallace's prose is still amazing, of course.

>>1707686
also, why no AtD?

>>1707680
again, to be pedantic, i didn't IMPLY the book was shit. I explicitly said the book was shit. it's over long by half. the text within a text game is irritating, especially since every bit with johnny and the other is poorly written. the only bright spot in this book is the actual entry into the new hallway. and then it peters out. also, danielewski thought he was so clever pointing out the labyrinth and the minotaur stuff, but the only way he could do it was to actually point it out and then use the strike-through option on his word processor. the entire book is a criminal act of "telling" instead of "showing"

i will, however, give you points for the blind assassin. this point is taken away, unfortunately, for having under the dome on there

>>1707692
even if you didn't have a trip, i would know it's you. never change, scarsdale. you're like the only person on /lit/ who champions that book.

>>1707696
It's fucking good.

>>1707698
i don't dispute. it's my second favourite, after v.

>>1707706
V. is your favorite??!?

I put AtD, Mason & Dixon AND Gravity's Rainbow after V. . . .

but to each his own

it's still pretty freaking great

>>1707708
v. is just such a blast.


anyways, more on topic, sunhawk's list. hey, sunhawk, what did you think about freedom? i really liked it, but i know /lit/ fucking loathes franzen (even though the corrections is a pretty awesome book). the only part i didn't like about freedom was the son's story arc, which i found to be weak. what'd you think, sunhawk?

>>1707694

Yeah, I didn't read The Blind Assassin was a famous (sort of) book until recently, although I read it last May. Really good.

>>1707692

I've never read ATD, so I didn't include it (obviously). I've been thinking about reading it for 3 or 4 months, but I don't think I will, really. I've read several Pynchon books, and didn't enjoy any of them much. They're just not for me. Postmodernism is good though.

>wah wah wah he wasn't a postmodern writer

>>1707721
I thought it wasn't as good as the corrections

>>1707721

I thought Freedom was very good indeed. Good prose, good characters, decent enough plot. My favourite sections were the Joey and Connie sections, since he was so interesting (and reminded me a bit of the Glass children), and she was so depressed and sympathic. The mother was good, especially the first POV chapter for her. Walter was meh, and Richard Katz was boring, and an obvious vehicle for a spiel on corporate America.

The Corrections was also alright, certainly not as good as Freedom. I quite liked the son, actually. That book was far too depressing.

>Moscow 2042
>21st century book

>>1707746

Good catch, I think that was actually written in the 80s. No idea why I put that in there.

>his list doesn't have any Paul Auster or Rawi Hage