/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.788577]

Dear e/lit/ists, how many books have you read/bought based on recommendations by other fellow /lit/erates?

I'd say around 20 and the last two I got were Jude the Obscure and The Bell Jar thanks to that thread about really depressing books.

Feel free to list whatever you read or bought last.

[Anonymous No.788592]

zero

I don't need recommendations. I can think for myself, unlike the rest of /lit/, who apparently cant think for themselves.

[Anonymous No.788601]

Reading books recommended by /lit/ is like playing video games recommend by /v/.

One out of 100 will be great, the rest will be total garbage.

[Anonymous No.788607]

I read Atlas Shrugged because of /lit/.
Also Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land.

[Anonymous No.788618]

>>788601
Well, I've read around 15 of those 20 books and they were all pretty good.

[Anonymous No.788622]

>>788592
>I only read books nobody else has ever read

[Anonymous No.788626]

I think /lit/ gives good recommendations most of the time.

[Mallest !!4kiduM48C/p No.788951]

I'd say /lit/'s main strength is good book recommendations.

Anytime I see someone come here to discuss a book, it, 99% of the time, ends in 10-20 posts or with a plethora of sages with some variation of the comment, "Do your own homework."

However, just asking the other night for poetry in the same vein as Walt Whitman garnered me a very good list of poets I'm highly enjoying. Same on the novel front (I *love* ASOIAF)

[Anonymous No.788958]

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[Anonymous No.788966]

I tend to check out recommendations in genres I like. Then if I like the book I'll read more by the same author. So as a result of that I've probably read dozens of books due to /lit/.

[Anonymous No.789172]

2.

One was The Road. That was very good.

The other was Old Man's War. That sucked, even for sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.789194]

I have a bigger list on amazon because of /lit/, but none bought yet. Camus and others are in there because of this board, but I have so many books that I haven't read yet that they have to wait.

[Anonymous No.789226]

I had about 10 books before I started browsing /lit/

After countless recommendation threads, I know have probably over 100. Thank the lawd for used book stores.

[Anonymous No.789233]

Quite a few actually.

I never really read much sci fi or fantasy, but they're pretty popular here, so I picked up A Game of Thrones, Foundation and Stranger in a Strange Land.

Also picked up House of Leaves, The Road and John Dies at the End.

Enjoying most of them.

[Anonymous No.789281]

i was buying some books the other day and i was crouched down at the shelf looking for camus books, took the plague, stood up, and right at eye level was bulgakov's master and margarita. i remember /lit/ lauding it so i bought it on a whim. still have yet to read it.

[Anonymous No.789295]

I'm in love with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Amazing novel. And I want to read Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, but that's supposedly one of the most difficult books in the English language, sooooo...

[Anonymous No.789309]

>>789281
I'm currently reading The Master and Margarita too, also by /lit/'s rcommendation (Russian lit guide pic) and so far (150 pages) I can say it's awesome.

[Anonymous No.789387]

>>789309
awesome; i'm looking forward to reading it.