/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17911741]

What's the most fun you've had while reading a book?

[Anonymous No.17911743]

Lolita, Dead Souls

[Anonymous No.17911752]

>>17911741
Aristophanes

[Anonymous No.17911753]

If you are having fun it means you are reading the wrong books. Books should be challenging, hard to get in and feel like a journey and ask everything from you mentally.

[Anonymous No.17911762]

>>17911741
Frolic of the Beasts

[Anonymous No.17911763]

>>17911753
Shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.17911769]

>>17911741
Masturbating while reading Story of the eye

[Anonymous No.17911788]

>>17911753
what books do you read?

[Anonymous No.17911819]

>>17911788
Mostly non fiction

[Anonymous No.17911835]

>>17911819

cringe and gay
literature is for pure escapism

[Anonymous No.17911907]

>>17911753
bugmen self-improvement mentality
books are a doorway to the world of an aesthetic bliss, just like paintings and music

[Anonymous No.17911949]

>>17911741
Reading and re-reading LOTR.

[Anonymous No.17911959]

The Crying of Lot 49

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Il cavaliere inesistente

[Anonymous No.17912046]

>>17911741
Reading the beach scene in A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

[Anonymous No.17912051]

>>17911741
White Teeth by Zadie Smith.

[Anonymous No.17912055]

>To read without pleasure is stupid.

[Anonymous No.17912086]

>>17911741
Narnia, when I was younger

[Anonymous No.17912092]

>>17911753
shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.17912151]

>>17911907
Nice post

[Anonymous No.17912410]

Probably Don Quixote, laughed out loud multiple times.

[Anonymous No.17912480]

>>17911741

[Anonymous No.17912528]

>>17911741
When I first started on a Clockwork Orange I found it really tedious to translate the books fictional nadsat language. Then, around 40 pages in it clicked and I fucking loved it, working out the words and looking them up on a nadsat website was what made the book so memorable. Plus, it’s a pretty good book just in general

[Anonymous No.17912540]

>>17911743
How do you find Dead Souls? I brought it on impulse when I found it in an op shop after hearing that Joy Division song was loosely based off it, still never got into it

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>>17911753
>cannot have fun with challenging books
Sad!
But I do agree with your estimation of books
Try to be less of a faggot about it though

[Anonymous No.17912577]

>>17911741
When I was a lad, my friends and I used to read all those Great Illustrated Classics books, all the Jules Verne and HG Wells stories and that.
When we went outside to mess around we used to reenact scenes from Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, and all those, especially Robinson Crusoe.
I sometimes miss those days when we were little and didn't have computers or phones and we spent all our free time reading comics and books and going outside, building tree forts and all that fun stuff. Anything could be anything.

[Anonymous No.17912587]

Jane Eyre is a white-knuckle riot once the boring part about her schooling is over.

[Anonymous No.17912679]

>>17912540
I'm russian and found it hilarious, as it touches upon a lot of the local mentality in quite a scathing way
not sure if it'll resonate as much if you're a westerner

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>>17911753
Either you're a (you)-farmer or you're an idiot. Either way get off this board

[Anonymous No.17912873]

>>17911741
The Floating Opera

[Anonymous No.17912907]

>>17911753
Unironically kys

[Anonymous No.17912967]

Any book that defied my expectations, especially in unexpected ways.
For examples, I am reading Pyle's King Author and for the first half of the book, Arthur is mostly just riding around dabbing on other kings and jocking on his friends and generally acting like a lad. He's canonically 19 or so, so it makes sense.
But I just didn't know to expect this. I was only familiar with his battles and chivalry, not him beating up his four friends incognito then making them wait on him while dressed as a peasant and making his fancy friends seeth. I love it.

[Anonymous No.17913232]

>>17911753
shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.17913261]

>>17911741
Probably when I read Hitchhikers guide back in the day. I've never really laughed out loud that way from a book since.

[Anonymous No.17913362]

>>17911741
Three Men in a Boat.
In some parts of it's sequel I thought: man, stop it already or I'll die from laughter, but the first part doesn't have weak spots.

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>>17911949

My guy.

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>>17911753
Here's a (you) faggot. You should read such book only once a while, not every time

[Anonymous No.17913469]

>>17911835
Lately I'm finding it harder and harder to read non fiction, even though I started reading with history books
Now they just bore me. Still read them tho

[Anonymous No.17913495]

Catch-22 of course. The scenes with Major Major Major Major is fucking hilarious.

[Anonymous No.17913503]

>>17911741
A Clockwork Orange. Play out all your sick, fascistic, misogynistic fantasies. Then grow with Your Humble Narrator Alex at the end. It's a trip.

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>>17911753
Shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.17913687]

Easily the Count of Monte Cristo.

[Anonymous No.17913705]

Probably reading Harry Potter as a child, or Warrior Cats and then roleplaying with my friend.

As of recently, the Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton. I really need more fantasy that's fast-paced, really weird, fucked up and gross, and still ment to be entertaining.

[Anonymous No.17913831]

>>17911741
I love wholesome Pepe's.

[Anonymous No.17913949]

The three body problem and the rest of the trilogy. It was fun for me.

[Anonymous No.17913982]

The Crying of Lot 49

[Anonymous No.17914010]

>>17911741
>What's the most fun you've had while reading a book?
Spike Milligan's books are hilarious. Only thing I've read that makes me actually laugh.
>>17911753
loser

[Anonymous No.17914043]

From what I've read fairly recently, Mason & Dixon was a ton of fun.

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>>17911741
sit down with a friend, read to each other. I like switching off chapters, but I enjoy just reading to them.

[Anonymous No.17914517]

>>17911753
Good bait for once
>>17912046
You’d/you’ll love the beach scenes in Ulysses, then.
>>17912528
Very good book. Wish I still had my old copy.
>>17913362
Have this on my shelf, gotta read that next if it’s that funny

For me it’s probably the moment when Infinite Jest clicked.

[Anonymous No.17914526]

Gargantua and Pantagruel. The book had me laughing out loud in the coffee shop like a madman

[Anonymous No.17914539]

the third policeman was great times

[Anonymous No.17914698]

Cows by Stokoe
Pure childish carnage

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>>17911753
i think you'd fit in better at reddit

[Anonymous No.17916065]

Good Omens and American Psycho were both quite fun. The elaborate bureaucracy of the afterlife being torn apart by the power of friendship and grizzly murder being planned with the same casual contemplation as an afternoon snack are joy to read.

[Anonymous No.17916084]

>>17911753
pseud alert

[Anonymous No.17916555]

>>17911741
>kid fun
Reading some of the halo books when I was about 10, mainly because I was excited that there was all this story between the games, first strike was the one I enjoyed most. It’s childish and I’m sure if I went back to those books I’d find the writing awful but I’m glad I have the memory.
>as an adult
reading Moby-Dick, especially the mid section of the book, the first time I read it I couldn’t stop thinking about it for months afterwards as well, truly a wonderful book.
>>17911753
Soulless bugmen will never interact sincerely with art. Intellectual struggle is fun in itself anyway but a lack of enjoyment for art denotes a truly empty person.

[Anonymous No.17916684]

>>17911753
Can a challenge not be fun?

>>17911907
Do bugmen improve themselves? Sure doesn't seem like it to me. Self improvement is good.

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>>17911741
Dostoyevsky is always fun desu. Always feels feverish. For instance, The Gambler and Notes got pretty intense. Ulysses is a fun book as well.

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>>17911949
Nothing comfier than falling asleep to Rob Inglis's LoTR. just wish there were a version with all songs omitted.

[Anonymous No.17917190]

>>17911741
house of leaves

[Anonymous No.17917219]

>>17911763
Based

[Anonymous No.17917220]

>>17911741
The Alex Rider Books as a kid. I get a smile on my face just remembering the action filled scenes that used to captivate me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.17917241]

>>17911753
kill yourself, fr

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>>17911753
it seems our excellence has caused quite a bit of controversy

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>>17911741
Sometimes a Great Notion

[Anonymous No.17917673]

Candide

[Anonymous No.17917698]

Catch-22

[Anonymous No.17917873]

The Linux Bible.

[Anonymous No.17917909]

Spillane might unironically be the greatest prose writer of the 20th century, and having your hero run around gleefully murdering communists is great fun.

[Anonymous No.17918062]

>>17911769
Fuckin bet, based as hell

[Anonymous No.17918109]

69 by Ryu Murakami

[Anonymous No.17918165]

>>17911743
>Lolita
Anon the question was most fun, not most hard.

[Anonymous No.17918198]

American Psycho, no contest. Hilarious book

[Anonymous No.17918213]

>>17911753
First off there is no reason to not enjoy genre fiction. Just recently I went from finishing Brothers K to reading the Pern Trilogy as I knew it was something my dad reveres out of nostalgia due to him reading it as a child.
Secondly if you don't find fun in reading this isn't the hobby for you. When I read history books I find it fun. When I read ancient literature I find it fun, anthropological books are also fun. The attainment of knowledge or the questioning of knowledge is something I can find enjoyable when I'm either in the mood or interested in the topic. Seeing morals of an author or society get represented and being able to analyze this is fun for me. Etc etc. If you do not find enjoyment out of the books you are reading you are nothing but a pseud and will never truly be able to understand literary works the same way a man who is emotionally moved understands it.

[Anonymous No.17918238]

>>17916065
American Psycho is supposed to be comedic. It’s a black comedy. I don’t know how anyone can read that book, come across a chapter heading titled “I brought an Uzi to the Gym” and the text underneath of the chapter being complete incomprehensible gibberish as hilarious.

I didn’t pick up on this, but I read an interview with Ellis about the inspiration for American Psycho and he claims it came from what he noticed as the intermixing of the influx of macho American yuppie Wall Street guys due to finance capital boom in the late 70s/80s and the gay subculture and how the two interacted which is also fucking hilarious as well. Functionally heterosexual men emasculating themselves and unwittingly/unconsciously adopting gay lifestyles despite consciously being homophobic because they think that’s what they’re supposed to do to fit in. I think the novel is genius

[Anonymous No.17918275]

>>17911741
The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.17918283]

>>17911741
Treasure Island

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>>17918198
>kids across the world vaping
>southerners get on the dip train instead
Was a based time

[Anonymous No.17918419]

>>17911753
amogus

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>>17913705
>Probably reading Harry Potter as a child
Same. I Remember all they hype when each book was released. Even my provincial backwater had people queuing outside the book shops.

[Anonymous No.17918528]

Throwing knives while listening to an audiobook of Anne of the Green Gables

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>>17911741
Demons.
Love reading Mr. Fyodor to see how much of a fucking retard he was

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>>17912051
very bullish for me finally reading this

[Anonymous No.17918994]

The Sword in the Stone
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Aubrey-Maturin series
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Hound of the Baskervilles

[Anonymous No.17918998]

>>17918994
Fuck
Forgot Wind in the Willows
Shamefur Dispray

[Anonymous No.17918999]

>>17918980
also Crime & Punishment is my pick, I miss existing in St Petersburg boys

[Anonymous No.17919036]

>american psycho
the most hilarious part was when he cut that dop open
>women
listening to the audiobook it's like having buk drunk next to you going on a rant about how bad his life is

[Anonymous No.17919099]

>>17911753
(You)

[Anonymous No.17919108]

>>17911753
But I bet down the line you get a giddy afterglow, even if you suppress it, that you are better than others, or that you are closer to the truth. Your method just includes more steps to reach fun. Am I wrong?

[Anonymous No.17919114]

>>17914517
>For me it’s probably the moment when Infinite Jest clicked.
I went back and re-read the first chapter to make sense of it all. I got the whole Himself as a wraith, the film being an attempt to communicate with his emotionally mute son and that he was buried with the master copy/anti-entertainment (whatever it was). But the connection to Don Gately's dream about going up north in a bus and the boy saying 'Too Late' were lost on me till a friend recommended I reread the first chapter. Glad I did. Orin was one mailing out the copies of the samizdat right?

[Anonymous No.17919139]

>>17911741
When I read white fang while in class in grade school. It was really comfy.

[Anonymous No.17919155]

>>17912679
I read it too, as a westerner. I admit that most of the intricacies of the book have passed right over my headn. I still found it interesting and hilarious.

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>>17911741