/lit/ - Literature

>>2284973
it's a children's book. you are children for liking it.

I enjoyed Infinite Jest.

The Stranger

Come at me

1984
Lord of the flies
Brave new world
We

I highly enjoyed George MacDonald's "Lilith" on audiobook.

>>2284994
We: That's not how space rockets, totalitarian states or black people work.

I really enjoyed it.

>>2284994
Go back to high school

>>2284973
>throughly enjoying things
FUCK YOOOOOOUUUUUUU
>>2284983
>>2284986
>>2284988
>>2284991
Never heard of them it must be hipster crap you're only reading to yourself look smart
cause you're not smart
>>2284994
It would have been a lot easier to just watch the movies you idiot
>>2284996
>audiobook
>not getting the braille version instead
>lilith is a stupid name

In conclusion, I hope you all feel very bad for enjoying things. Please know that your taste is shit and revel in the sad feeling this knowledge gives you.

Farenheit 450
1984
Animal Farm
Showdown
A Brave New World
Watchers

>>2284973
If you read the clumsily-retconned Second Edition you might as well go watch Greedo shooting first. And feel bad.

"Never even heard of the King" indeed. An exemplar of hackwork.

The Time Traveler's Wife

:)

I enjoyed Gone With The Wind...

I really love The Catcher in the Rye.

>>2285028
See
>>2285013

>>2285053
Thats not even a reason, perhaps you should learn to read again anon.

>>2285042
That's great, but if you just want something to schlick to you could've gotten some Tor romance novels cheaper

>>2285055
You're reading literature at the maturity level of those who do not know how to use their penises yet

>>2285079
on what do you base this assumption? Provide me reason why you claim that the maturity level of these books is so low.

>>2285029
Disfruta tu masturbación con necrofilia incluída al cadáver del boom latinoamericano, mezclado con imaginería barata mexicana y una bohemia acartonada y ridícula.

I liked the Years of Rice and Salt

Nine Stories

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher is one of my favourite books. Have at it.

>>2285290
oh god the shit weasel. the fact that the crazy military guy is named kurtz. it features a magical retard. the only thing positive I can say is that there's a 400 page chase scene that's thrilling but nonsensical. it's a fucking HORRENDOUS novel

Elric of Melniboné
The Black Company
The Call of Cthulhu
Conan the Barbarian
The Space Merchants
The Gods Themselves
Foundation

come at me bros

>>2284973
I love any of the Blizzard novels that aren't written by Knaak.

>>2285290
>Stephen King
He's the Justin Bieber of modern literature.

>>2285364
No, Stephenie Meyer is. Stephen King is more like Lady Gaga or some shit pop singer

i like the bourne identity

I enjoyed reading the Count of Monte Cristo

3 books read on this thread and liked: stranger, lord of the flies, BNW

okay: stranger; contrived! i get it the protagonist has emotion but so what he is till a dumpweed. just didn't care about him or his pathetic life, nothing to do with emotion. same as Holden Cauflield.

L.O.T.F.; Simon is NOT a Jesus character. period. Piggy is totally unappreciated for his contributions which wouldn''t occur in democracy like the author suggests. Didn't find those following Jack believable as a transplant of militarism or ideology driven dictatorship, but, I do understand it in a WWII context.

BNW; far too much capitalism. the T ford symbol replacing the cross?? any capitalist society would immediately disregard god and yes I used lower case on purpose. over all, okay, but, personally I hate sci fie as a genre.

skulduggery pleasant. (read 1-3. if you're gonna tell me why i shouldnt like it, please dont spoil 4-6, or at least give warnings)

Snow Crash

I very much enjoyed Justine by Marquis de Sade.

I hated "The Idiot" by Dostoyevsky - depressed the hell out of me.

Why should I feel bad for hating that book?

>>2285422

Because Prince Myshkin, Nastassya Filippovna and Rogozhin are excellently written characters.

>>2285364

Haha oh wow.

I enjoyed Slaughterhouse-Five

Fight Club and American Psycho

>>2285414
This will be the next book I'm going to read. I really much enjoyed The Diamond Age, so this must be great too.

Starship troopers, one of my favorite books.
Other than that one I guess I, Robot and The moon is a harsh mistress, recently started reading Caves of steel and I like it so far.
I really enjoy Heinlein and Asimov as authors.

>>2284973
Tao Lin - Eeeee Eee Eeee

Come at me bro, I don't give a fuck, I shoot cops.

>>2284983
no actual content in this book. just a lot of pages. strictly for bragging rights.

>>2285414
this book is phenomenal.

>>2285412
>god and yes I used lower case on purpose.
Reasons you should feel bad for existing in no particular order:
>You think you're deep and also edgy
>Your grammar is atrocious
>You think your opinions matter
>You're a cunt
>I don't like you

One-hundred years of solitude

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Catch-22 is my favorite book.

>>2285542
Too Grimdark, You are worse than WH40K fags.

>>2285546
I was gonna say Bro fist but then I noticed you were a trip faggot.

soconflicted.jpeg

Vardeman & Milan's War of Powers series...when I "post a book" I don't give you just the title, open in wordpad.

>>2285542
Fuck you, I couldn't understand that and therefore no-one can. Fucking hipster with your toodeep4u bullshit

I liked The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

The collector was pretty good

>>2285551
self important asshole of an author who thinks sex is more important than it really is

when I'm at university I want to do my phd thesis on this.

>>2285560

I read this when I was 14 and thought I was smart.

>>2285560

Also, I just realised you're in High School. This is probably the intellectual level you're at then ...

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Golem

GIVE ME SOME

Norweigan Wood

or any Murakami

House of Leaves

Atlas Shrugged

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>>2285582
You read Atlas Shrugged. I'm not going to insult you, you've suffered enough.

>>2285585
That book is sexist and you're a misogynist for liking it.

Norwegian Wood

>>2285589
>That book is sexist

okay i can see the argument

>and you're a misogynist for liking it.

cmon son

Madame Bovary

>>2285595
That book is a thorough description of a very classy slut

I liked Brave New World though

The Bell Jar

>>2285601
Grow a vagina and kill yourself.

As I Lay Dying was thoroughly enjoyed by myself.

I don't care what you pretentious faggots say, John Grisham is God tier.

>>2285593

Sounds like the gentle cooing of the Butthurt Feminist. Fuck them, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest rules & I wanna bang McMurphy.

Sherlock Holmes
>You will never help an autistic man fight crime in late 19th century London

>>2285643
One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest is a chauvinistic rant against matriarchy and women. It should be burned along with our bras, sisters.

She wrote the Henry Huggins books.
Great tale of a woman going to college in the 1930's and how she became a writer.

>>2285648
somehow i doubt you're posting in good faith

>>2285566
You hurt my feelings. I wonder, when I will realize that I'm in High School? I'm glad you know my intellectual level too. You're great.

Game of Thrones

>>2284973
OP are we supposed to explain why you should feel bad in a joking manner or is this a free for all thread on being pretentious as fuck? Judging by the butthurt of those who get responses on their books it's the latter.

>>2285671
I took it as joking. Every other thread is pretentious as fuck, always, so I took this thread to be sort of the meta/lit/ experience. That said, other people are retards and don't know how to take a joke.

>>2285588

lol

>>2285667
You are a rapist.

>>2285574
you mad, that book's too weird

PS:I love it too

Zalacaín el aventurero

Bio of a Space Tyrant and Incarnations of Immortality.

Tell me why, /lit/. Author's other works do not count. Tell me why THIS book.

>>2285804
>One of the greatest pieces of dialogue I've ever seen in the KOTOR series
>Obsidians writer is a god among men for developing Kreia.

>HURP DERP EA HERE!
>KOTOR SERIES NO LONGER CANON
>RETCON FOR A NEW SHITTY NOVEL FOR OUR NEW SHITTY GAME

I never felt so much anger when I learnt they retconned the entire fucking story and replaced it with this load of tripe.

>Darth Bane
>Bane
Seriously. SERIOUSLY?

HARRY POTTER
it changed my lyfe

To the Lighthouse

>>2285821
>do you read?
>yes, I really love reading!
>awesome what do you like?
>I really love Harry Potter!
>...uhm... okay... have you read anything else?
>Eh... not that I can talk about or remember...

Why
She was fuckable too

>>2285828
it is a very good books though
ashame about the lack of pictures howeevr

the inheritance cycle.

give me all you've got

>>2285828
Did she maybe have other interests?
Maybe she was wanting you to save her. Teach her the world of literature. And you blew. She's back sucking my manly, football watching, bro before hoeing, dick.

You could have been the best thing for her. But now she is depressed, watching me pump iron and watch the big bang theory. She thinks about you a lot. But not when I'm fucking her. Oh, not when I'm fucking her.

Atlas Shrugged

Liked this series back when I was in school.

Since then Cook wrote some more, good.

Power of now
Master and margarita
Twilight

Liked them all for different reasons

come at me hoes

>>2285769
AWESOME
LET'S HAVE SEX

Come angst me, bro.

>>2285995
on my desk--> next read after i finish a bukowski.

I like Palahniuk.

I've read about a dozen Warhammer 40K novels.

Pic in relation to content of post. In case you're wondering, the text above is German.

>>2285028
>Fahrenheit 450

Errm...

Come at me, brah

I love all the books in both series come at me /lit/

Abarat by Clive Barker.

Anything else like this (intriguing alternate worlds, adventurous nature, etc.)?

It seems like /lit/ is the most accepting of other people's taste in media of all the 4chan boards when one glances at this thread.
I approve. I want that people read first, and that people read good books second (not in chronological but hierarchical order).

>>2286045
Agreed. Let's be honest, falling down the paths that shit boards like /mu/ take is unbelievably counterproductive and annoying.

Hunger-Knut Hamsun
Kiss of the Spiderwoman-Manuel Puig
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
House of Leaves-Mark Danielewski

Also, I despise Joyce and Dickens.

>>2286030

Jim Butcher indulges in childhood fantasy every chance he gets. It's as bad as Stephanie Meyer.

I do like When the Wind Blows / The Lake House by James Patterson

>>2286054
>Hunger-Knut Hamsun

it's like reliving a fever dream. a good book and for that very reason you should feel bad.

>>2286057
>Calls out Jim Butcher
>likes James Patterson
I hope you like the last maximum ride.

>>2286072
Yeah, it's a pretty tough book to get through. I like reading it whenever I'm REALLY down in the dumps and super nihilistic.

Mistborn: The Well of Ascension, mostly because Sazed is fucking awesome

>>2286007

3 short stories that were unfit for print, hastily combined into a so-called "novel" with no cohesive point. you sure know how to choose em.

>>2286004
Good.


Battle Brother.