/lit/ - Literature

Borders is closer to my house. It also might have a slightly better selection than my local Barnes and Noble.

B&N does have a nice selection of notebooks compared to Borders. I got a pretty cool leather bound notebook about a week ago there.

I don't really like video game novels, but that's mostly because I don't tend to read sci-fi and fantasy and that's what they generally are. Video games also tend to not to be A+ plotwise. Not that I don't like video games, but I play video games for different reasons than why I read.

Post your latest book purchases/Tell me what to read next.

>Other Voices, Other Rooms-Capote
>A Scanner Darkly-PKD
>Steppenwolf-Hesse
>Casino Royale-Fleming

I'm thinking of reading Casino Royale since I just finished the Kite Runner and that was heavy shit at points.

Location:
>On the couch with the fire going or in my bed with some incense burning.
Sustenance:
>Maybe some tea or soda
Music:
>None
Bookmark of choice:
>Dogears, this bookmark I made in 4th grade with a horrible reading slogan on it, a postcard from the Museum of fine arts

Thanks guys. I'm using the sails network right now but it isn't really helping. :/ I'll try your recommendations.

Sup a/lit/gators
Anyone here know some good ways to find scholarly sources for research papers? Specifically, I'm looking for ones dealing with the legality of marijuana.
I don't need actual sources, just the means to find them.

>How long have you been in /lit/?
Since it was added.
>How many books did you read last year?
About 20
>Do you pay attention to our most "popular" tripfags (tybrax, D&E, Brownbear, etc)?
Not really. D&E irritates me, but other than that no.
>Do you care about Tao Lin threads?
Nope. It does get annoying when people bump the threads complaining about how they're always on /lit/. *Hint: If you don't like Tao Lin threads, do reply, or sage when you do and they won't stay on the front page very long.

>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Vol. 1)
>The Maltese Falcon
>The Idiot
>The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Posted this on /v/ earlier:
Nintendo DSi
Pokemon Soul Silver (or Heart Gold)
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
The Maltese Falcon by Hammett

St. Petersburg-Crime and Punishment

I have to write a research paper about positive uses for radiation. I've written about smoke detectors and carbon dating so far. Fucking science.

>>1338948
I'm reading it in Spanish. It's a pretty understated style of prose, but I found the village and the gypsies to be pretty cool and I found José Arcadio and Úrsula to be endearing right off.

>>1339129
Don't worry about it OP. Just ask Amazon for a replacement. I agree with you. When I go to a book store I don't buy a book if the binding is torn up like that, and I wouldn't expect to get one when I buy it off of Amazon. Sure, it's nice to be "above" liking books for their presentation, but from the standpoint of a consumer, its unacceptable that Amazon would take your money and give you a damaged book.

I'm only 1 chapter in. Chapter 1 was fantastic.

Female. I read mostly fiction, but I read non fiction from time to time (mostly history). Currently struggling through 100 Years of Solitude in the original Spanish right now (its a fantastic book, but my Spanish is shit)

Even though OP says it's a fact that more women read books, less women browse 4chan so I'm not surprised its a sausagefest here.

>My face when foreign languages are >implied to be shit tier.

Guess OP won't be reading any Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Muakami, Gogol, Marquez, Dante, Voltaire, Camus, or Cervantes. Also I guess my country will cut off communications with any country that does not speak our language because it would be a waste to employ some "shit tier" translators.

Also, if I had a nickel for every time I saw this damn picture posted, I could buy all the books on all you bastards' Amazon wishlists.

I don't know OP I really liked Dmitri.

>>1323161
I read fanfic from time to time. Mostly for the porn though. Most non-porn fanfics aren't well written compared to the original thing, and they don't have anything (ie porn) to keep my attention. :/

SHAME

I felt inferior as fuck taking this because there were so many words I didn't know. I got 34,700. I have a good memory for words though (I study foreign languages).

Philip K Dick? I don't read that much sci-fi but Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was good The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is really cool too. If you haven't read any of the Dune series I reccomed you at least read the first one.

also:
>Implying you can buy 10-15 new books with $55. Maybe used books, but I know someone who bought one of those used books and they came in pretty shitty shape.

>>1318655
I'd do him just because I liked the size of his novels.

This is my favorite picture of Joyce. He looks like a loser in the other one, but he looks like a badass gentleman pirate in this one.

You had an arse full of farts that night.

And I fucked them all out of you.

>>1294841
That pic is hawt....
but your friend is nawt

Two Russian textbooks and the workbooks that go with them. They're called Golosa.