/lit/ - Literature

>>11904002
Lolita

>>11904012
Already read that.

>>11904002
The Sound and The Fury

Atomised was kind of like that; More because a lot of the plot is a burning trainwreck you can’t look away from.

House to House by David Bellavia

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James Paterson.

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John Grisham.
Anything by him. The man can write.

Dan Brown

Clive Cussler is damned good.

Michael Cretin

>>11904002
Norse mythology by Neil Gaiman

>>11904067
Get off of 4chan, Jesse.

>>11904002
the gospel according to jesus christ

I read the Death of Grass in one day.

>>11904002
Unironically Gravity’s Rainbow.

>>11904002
All memes aside, The Stranger.

>>11904002
Moby Dick

>>11904002
No Longer Human. Pretty much read it in one sitting. I find Murakami books hard to put down as well, he really has a way of pulling you in with the atmosphere. After Dark wasn't great story wise and the ending wasn't satisfying but I had a hard time putting it down because it was very engaging and comfy. Would /rec/.

>>11904101
this. I seem to read it once year in one sitting. Earlier this year read it on shift on my phone on the ambulance.

>>11904002
Did somebody say did somebody say totalitarianism??

>>11904002
Journey to the end of the night

>>11904150
Elaborate please.

Atomized by Houellebecq.

>>11904002
Elementary Particles

>>11904002
If a book doesn't do this, I probably don't read it, unless it is of considerable acclaim or relevance. Maybe White Noise or American Pastoral.

>>11904309
>American Pastoral
dude, gloves lmao

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>>11904299
these

>>11904002
Unironically Crime and Punishment.

the bell jar desu

Growth of the soil

>>11904520
That's like ten pages. The rest is weird incest american dream middle class destruction jewishness

>>11904002
I think it was Pushkin, The Captain's Daughter.

Musashi

>>11904002
Kiss of the Spider Woman. Really good, there's no narrative, just dialogue.

Brave new world. Found it astonishing how many things he got right.

Native Son. Can't remember the last time a book actually made my heart pound almost continuously

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Robinson Crusoe

>>11904002
The Unconsoled

Ask the dust

>>11904072
*crack*

>>11904002
Siddhartha and Moby Dick for fiction. Decision Points for non

Perdido Street Station kept me up late a couple nights in a row.

>>11904988

Perdido Street Station has a couple slow parts but otherwise it is a decent book. I felt like it didn't need to be over 1000 or so pages but one or two storylines just didn't interest me as much as what was going on with Isaac.

Probably Butcher's Crossing or Moby Dick.

>>11904072
the first one. john grisham writes really great. pretty much impossible to put down

>>11904002
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

>>11904213
this

>>11905009
I appreciated that the less interesting stories were in there early on so that when it came full circle and focused back on Isaac, there could be more meat in the story at hand.
And man, the ending left me feeling emotionally drained, but in a good way.

Harry Potter

Btw. Not to bring politics into this or anything, but Drumpf is literally Voldemort

Genealogy of morals

>>11904002
Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air
Ed Viesturs’ No Shortcuts to the Top

>>11904002
La boutique del mistero by Dino Buzzati
My first book in Italian and the last one I read, it is really really comfy, has a catholic vibe, the short stories are great, and the language is just beautiful and it makes it really, really better
I don't know if it has been translated to english, but even if it was, I would recommend reading in italian since it is a more beautiful language

Infinite Jest[1]
[1] When at it's best...some sections tended to drag like the tennis matches and Eschaton, although most anons like that part [a]

[a] presumably

>>11905530
Anon here. I can confirm that I indeed do like the Eschaton section despite being irritated at the start of it.

The Puppet and the Dwarf
blew through that in like two days on vacation

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. It's quite short and has no chapters, so it really does lend itself to be read in a single sitting.

>>11904002
notes from underground by dostoevsky
cant stress that one enough

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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

>>11905530
Eschaton was great because of the way it started out as this long, dragging explanation of technical rules and regulations, only for everything to descend into chaos as soon as one person starts doing their own thing.

>>11904002
12 Rules for Life

>>11904002
Knausgård’s Min Kamp

Picked up the first, and disn’t stop until I had read all of them.

The Sound and the Fury, especially each subsequent reading after the first

Youth without God by Ödön von Horváth, the prose and the story were amazing, read it in one session.
I'm suprised it isn't discussed here that often, it's an amazing book.

>>11904002
I’ve never read such a book

>>11904002
Suttree

>>11904983
*sip*
"A Time to Kill"
NOW THAT's some real grisham.

Michael Kohlhaas, even though it was exhausting to read. But following the utter madness of the plot was a great and rewarding ride. The end was beyond great.

>>11906105
Sadly german literature is heavily underdiscussed here. If /lit/ would know Gustav Meyrink it would love him. Or at least any other writer than Goethe and Mann.

>>11904058
I borrowed myself Submission from a friend, will probably start reading it tonight. Now you've highered my expectations.

>>11906664
>highered
Heightened.

>>11906669
Thanks, it was already sounding kind of bad. But I checked it out and the verb to higher exists as well but I guess it's not really used.

>>11904002
Unironically this

>>11906068
Wash your penis haha jk it's a good book

Patrick O'Brian's novels are like crack cocaine to me. I'm halfway through the Aubrey series and trying not to burn through them too quickly.

One day, these books are gonna end ...

>>11905743
came to post this

>>11904133
No longer human was pretty confusing for me, can anyone shed light on it? It really does just read out like the ramblings of a mad man.

>>11904002
Stephen King’s The Outsider. Though my thought was more that it was like Potato Chips. It just kept you going.

The end was a bit disappointing but would recommend

>>11904123

yeah because 150 pages about whale anatomy is so riveting you fucking fraud

lincoln in the bardo

giles goat-boy

>>11909135
Really???

>>11904002
The picture of Dorian Gray desu. I think that brief length and rapid pacing are a must for any book to be considered a page-turner.

>>11904002
The Idiot

>>11904002
JR by Gaddy

I read Death on the Nile last week, and the ending broke my heart

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

>>11904002
The Star my Destination

Any of the Jordan Peterson books.

I mean he’s just so BASED and REDPILLED.

Dare I say it.... he’s /our guy/?

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>>11909264
In all seriousness however, I recently re-read Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, and whilst they are not very complex or anything, they are very interesting reads.

Journey to the End of the Night by celine

In the Miso Soup

Fear and Loathing as well, but I have read it many times over the years

All postmodern writers like Cormac Mccarthy, Philip K. Dick, Don Delillo, Bolano, etc use forms of addictive writing that functions like crack. They're designed in a way that was new at the time, but everywhere nowadays. Harry Potter, thrillers, 50 shades of grey, whatever are all written like this.

>>11909507
Wtf are you talking about, the first category is nothing like the second.

The Void
His Majesty's Dragon

I enjoy high level physics and stories with cute fantasy beast races, sue me

In terms of free shit people in this thread might go and read:

Worm by Wildbow. Seems kind of shit at the start but is hugely rewarding. Cleverly written, for the most part.

HPMOR, by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Singlehandedly redeems the entire Harry Potter franchise from brainlets and plebeians. Very cleverly written, feels like a 3 way 4 dimensional chess match as opposed to Rowling's game of Snakes and Ladders.

Count of Monte Cristo

2666. Mostly all of it but the part about the crimes really kept me up late at night reading.

>>11908268
I think that's pretty much what it is.

Dorian Gray
We have always lived in the castle
Siddartha
Moby Dick minus the cetology chapters

>>11904072
>John Grisham

probably harry potter if im being completely desu

>>11909068
Stay pleb, pleb.

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
The Great Divorce
Job

Not the most recent, but I feel like it should be more widely read regardless, so I'm going to mention Lanark by Alasdair Gray. It's told in four books which alternate between two narratives that coalesce, one fantastical and one a coming-of-age narrative. It's highly regarded, but I never see anyone talk about it.

>>11904002
starship troopers, I'm same age as jonny + dislike the same things Heinlein hates aka Marxism.

>>11910723
Unironically this. The Azkaban book when I was 13.
Too bad I hate Rowling now.

Either the "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling, the "Tantalize" series by Cynthia Leitich Smith, "The Vampire Chronicles" series by Anne Rice, "The Black Jewels" trilogy/series by Anne Bishop, et cetera.

To be quite honest, I have read waaaay too many books that I consider to be page-turners and ones that I couldn't really put down, so...

three body problem trilogy.

>>11904002
The Portrait by Nikolai Gogol

>>11904854
Really? Find it astonishing how people keep praising that book.

>>11904002

the loved one

>>11904002
American pastoral

>>11911964
Why? Because it's negative about gay space communism?

I absolutely power-read dune, as in the whole classic dune series, in the span of two months as I was traveling. Hands down my favourite series.

>>11904012
really? reading it rite now and boy am i dissappointed

>>11904002
One hundred years of solitude, especially at the end.

>>11904002
Apostol Calculus

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>>11904988
Stop shilling your shit, Ben

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Calvino

The Shadow of the Sun by Kapuściński

>>11906105
Can you expand on why you like it?
>>11906664
Meyrink has been discussed here from time to time. I actually learned about The Golem on /lit/, it became on of my favorite novels.

>>11912013
Were you expecting something else?

>>11904002
heroes shed no tears by gu long

There's a book on the bestseller list about why gravity doesn't exist.

I couldn't put it down!

>>11905743
I felt bored and couldn't be invested in his emotional experience. I read from the wiki he meets some thot on the second part. Is the action worth it?

Crying of lot 49

You faggots all have such tryhard shit taste, holy fucking Christ you people embarrass the fucking shit out of me.

Kill yourselves, all of you. There needs to be a separate board for all the philosofaggotry that goes on on this board, holy shit..

Gulliver's Travels

>>11913270
no i didnt really have expectations outside of childfucking. i guess i just dont find the frenetic listing of refrences to be funny or effective at building a charachter of humber that i care about. i read fiction almost exclusively for style , so despite the book being subversive content i still am turned off by nabakov’s clear demonstration that he is not a native english speaker

>>11913579
infidel

Sister Carrie

>>11904002
Book of the New Sun. The short chapters make it very moreish.

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>>11912011
I read Dune like that on the country bus home when I was 14 or so, probably the best time I had as a teenager

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>>11904002
Life and opinions of tristram shandy

>>11913644
>dropping a 100 page book

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Jane Eyre

>>11905769
You post this same post every time someone mentions Eschaton. We get it. You think your analysis is apt.

>>11913579
Kafir

A horse walked into a bar

Unironically some shitty YA book that was essentially anime in book form. I read 4 books in a week.

>>11905530
Eschaton made me kek really hard. Mainly because I grew up playing tennis and the whole affair seemed like something that would happen at my hometown country club back in high school.

Pretty dumb, but it was The Secret History. The book has plenty of problems, but fuck if it wasn't entertaining

The red and the black, by Stendhal.
Also, a short story by Cortázar: Cartas de mamá (Letters from mom).

>>11913579
I get it

>>11904072

Fucking boomers

>>11904002
Journey to the End of the Night
>>11904012
did you enjoy jerking off to a middle-age man fucking a young teen?
>>11904047
gay
>>11904058
yes
>>11904072
Tom Clancy too

>>11904002
Lord of the flies

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

>>11904002
Like 15-20 years since I read them but Wings and Escape from Robotropolis.
I'm sure there were others I liked, but I still remember them.
Wings was about a boy who grew wings and had to cope with this.

Good reads links for convenience since they are kinda hard to look up:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495873.Wings
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414845.Robot_Odyssey_I

Oyasumi punpun

>>11904002
name of the rose by umberto eco

>>11904072
>tfw that book about the 3 old judges who blackmail the president over gay porn
i read that shit in 5th grade, blew my mind

The Early Church Fathers on War and Military Service

>>11904792
Holy fuck this, it's like a 1000 pages and a very simple prose (maybe because of translation) but it just grips you and doesn't let go.

The Catcher in the Rye

fun sci fi is my guilty pleasure

Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

>>11921084

I liked most of it well enough but the ending was fucking weird I thought

>>11921093
I wasn’t crazy about it either, I guess it’s because I don’t really like epilogues that show how removed the characters are from the central events and how they’re wasting away somewhere, loved the test of the book though

>>11906664
>Michael Kohlhaas
basiert und rottablettiert

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

>>11904002
A picture book called Drawing for Architecture.

>>11906664
I loved all of Von Kleists short stories. Michael Kohlass and the Marquise of O are two of my favs.

Which one is the one with the knight that nearly dies in a dueL?