/lit/ - Literature

Native Son, in the beginning when Bigger accidentally stifles Mary with a pillow.

It upset me so much, I threw the book across the room.

Dracula. Frankenstein was complete shit, but I am the only person on earth who holds this opinion and have resigned myself to being alone.

Typically, I need silence. Sometimes I'll go with classical, though, as long as the volume's low- I like Bach and Wagner. As for modern classical, Zoe Keating is the best.

>>877187

>Island of the Blue Dolphins

YES THIS.

Sabriel, Redwall, A Wrinkle in Time, Hatchet, Little House on the Prairie (I remember "On the Banks of Plum Creek" being esp. good), The Secret Garden, The Hobbit, The Phantom Tollbooth, almost anything by Roald Dahl (my favorite was Danny, Champion of the World).

That's what I remember reading at age 10.

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Gender: Female

Age: 18

Occupation: Student / Pharmacy Peon

Country: USA

Other boards your browse: I'll drop in on /r9k/ occasionally. I check /u/ every day, but I'm not into loli so I find mostly nothing.

Favorite book: Shit. Hamlet, I guess.

Favorite music album: Demon Days, by the Gorillaz.

Favorite movie: Clue

Favorite TV series: I don't watch TV.

Comments: Data!

I'm reading The Hobbit. It's pretty good, but I'm at the end where Bard has killed Smaug and Thorin turns into an enormous douchebag with the treasure.

>>844251

EULALIAAAAAAAA!

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171427

I have no idea why I like this.

Here's the definition I was given in AP Literature:

Genre fiction is written to make money and/or entertain, frequently both.

Literature is written to explore the human condition.

>>834600

I was a bit young when I read it; I suppose if I revisited it now, I would like it more.

>>834568

I disagree.

The cantos may reference each other, but that's not the entire story; it's a fairly linear tale of a journey down to hell and up to heaven. You can like one part more than another in the same way that you can like one part of a vacation more than another.

I read up to the middle of Paradiso. People rattle on about The Inferno because it is the only interesting part. Purgatorio + Paradiso were boring as shit, imho.

>>828968

LOTR it is! :)

I just finished this, and loved it, which is not surprising because I know I like Steinbeck.

The question is this: What to read next, /lit/?

Top Contenders:

-Lord of the Rings Trilogy
-A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
-Lord Jim
-July, July
-Demian
-House of Leaves

I like chamomile + mint. Pic related. However, the only hot thing I can drink in the morning is coffee (and sometimes instant breakfast).

I don't put sugar in anything. Personal preference.

We are, in all likelihood, no more or less diverse than the men of /lit/.

One of the best unreliable narrators ever written.

Steinbeck, man.

>>792813

Among other things, but mostly this.

It's shit like this that makes me ashamed of playing Warcraft.

>>792047

They both produce flat notes.

The Monster At The End of this Book?