/lit/ - Literature

This one's not bad.

Seriously fuck /mu/ though.

comme ceci?

The general consensus on Gravity's Rainbow is that it's Pynchon's greatest work which means a little more than half the people here think its spectacular while the rest find it to be overrated tripe.

Personally, its one of my favorites, but like the last guy said you should read it to find out yourself.

Also, you should probably refresh yourself on parabolic motion, basic German, and Newtonian entropy.

sup /lit/

Noob literaturefag here.

Don't rage, but I have to ask: What the fuck is modernism and postmodernism, and what is the difference? I have a very vague understanding from people throwing the word around, but that's about it.

Pic related; books /lit/ told me to read.

http://thegreatestbooks.org/

And pic related, though we're not as organised as other boards, like /mu/, with this sort of thing.

>>1025584

This is closer but on /lit/ we don't ever really get a consensus.

>Communist Manifesto
>you fucking pleb

What a magnificent sentence, almost Camus-esque in its absurdity. I love it.

OP: see pic. Start with the "modern" stuff. Not Joyce.

>Any suggestions for a first timer!

Completely ignore horror, fantasy, scifi, and any other kind of genre literature. Start with the "modern" stuff in the pic. Come back in a year or two for more.

Books I genuinely like? These.

>And also that I'm not good at reading books that aren't some of the best books in the world.

That sentence does not parse. In any case, given your list I think you'd enjoy the classics. Start with the "modern" ones in the list to the left.

Start with the "modern" ones.

Start with the modern ones.

One of these, perhaps?

Just started reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I'm on page four, and lolwut.

>>753875

>>727034
Well than you should have said that more clearly in your original post.

here these should keep you busy for a while.