/lit/ - Literature

>>1116265
btw if you like the covers (as I do)...

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&gbv=2&q=josh%20kirby&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=o
g&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=554

>>1116268
plus it's a Sam Vimes novel. so why wouldn't you read it?

the story depicts this bloke who exits prison upon being wrongly convicted of setting fire to some writer's house. he finds his home life in turmoil when his wife is getting off with his neighbour. suddenly more writer's homes begin to burn down. our hero must journey through out this northern province in the U.S. to try to stop these fires. it is funny but quite down once the ending occurs. here is the cover for you to enjoy. I recommend it.

a bit of ending fatigue

also the lines like

>Gotta get off this boat
Coz it’s sinking like lead.

are pretty weak. but not bad I guess

for a private library that's pretty big, for a public library that's pretty small

number 2 is the best BY FAR. wizard murder mystery = awesome.

I got the audiobooks read by Stephen fry recently and listened through the deathly hallows one. man that shit is depressing. it's basically 700 pages of Harry Potter staving off suicide while Rowling kills of half the supporting cast to create slap-dash drama.

>>852507
considering I saw this years ago, but it said 'sup /b/' back then, I think it's safe to say this is photoshopped

Angelas Ashes

read by Frank McCourt

>>801402
guards guards

>>801447
ah I remember seeing this on sky1 a few weeks back. it was really really good. they did hogfather and the colour of magic as well, but I never saw those.

>>776496
shame. it's a fucking awesome read

>>776339
it's defiantly in my top 10 children's books of all time. and was also made into shia laboufs only good movie.

>>770879
as much as I liked it, it's not a literary great, more of a historical great. it's more like, pre-industrial age war-waging for dummies

pirate bay has a whole category for it. just downloaded the whole discworld collection.

http://thepiratebay.org/browse/102

simply syndicated (back when they were good) used to do a books you should read podcast: in which they got people from around the world to review books they had read on 10 -20 minutes audio. they had some great ones. they may still be on itunes podcast library, however I do not know for sure.

>>765259
reading literature
and being literate

are two very different things. I too find today's lack of reading books disturbing

you're better than this /lit/...

so OP, what's the most over used and re-hashed plot/concept/theme in literary comprehension?

you can find far more tedious than catch 22 OP.

>>684884
Artfag here, it's CHee-a-roh-scur-oh. Pronounce it like an Italian and you'll sound fine.

prestidigitation: to show skill with your hands

it's in the opening chapter of Captain Corelli's Mandolin

>>685133
my favourite biographical book. there's a very very good film by spike lee, that draws a lot of passages from and cites a lot of Malcolm's autobiography. Denzel Washignton plays Malcom excellently.

>>673865
FUUUUUUUUUUU-

damn you Raglan

in mine I like to write down conversations of strangers, (as long as they're not boring)
thoughts and feelings.
the times and dates.
things I find out about history.
short stories.