/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9909132]

Last thread was good, lads.

ITT: Your personal 10/10s. It might not be perfect in everyone's eyes, and that's fine, because it's perfect for you. Suggestions and recommendations based on people's personal 10/10s is cool too.

Here's mine.

[Anonymous No.9909135]

[Anonymous No.9909145]

Started reading Bernhard last year and still wondering how it take me so long to discover his work. Hard to decide for a favourite though, as I found pretty much all his novels great and each one seems to be different but nonetheless brilliant.

[Anonymous No.9909149]

> the trauma of Hector's death and the inevitable doom that Troy is to experience
> book ends before shit gets truly real

I don't think I've felt as shaken from reading something in such a long time.

[Anonymous No.9909151]

i'm just going to bump

[Anonymous No.9909154]

>>9909149
lol, who are you writing the spoiler for, everybody knows what happens

[Anonymous No.9909207]

>>9909154
You'd be surprised, anon.

[Anonymous No.9909213]

[Anonymous No.9909218]

My most recent 10/10 was To The Islands by Randolph Stow. It's about an elderly priest on a mission in the Australian outback who loses his faith and goes full nihilist and starts lashing out at everyone. Eventually he gets into a fight and injures the other guy so badly that he thinks he's killed him, so he flees from the mission intending to kill himself. On his way to "The Islands", a mythic place of the dead in indigenous spirituality, he reflects on his past life and yeah it's really amazing guys you should read it.

Any young guy who has had an existential crisis will appreciate it,

[Anonymous No.9909222]

I always loved the movie when I was younger but never had chance to read the book so I picked it up from Waterstone's last year and dove straight into it.

This book is wonderful, it's beautiful. The depth of research into actual rabbits' habits, warrens and English countryside/ecosystem hierarchy is impressive, but then to develop it into rabbit-based societies where they express faith, folklore, poetry, and develop dictatorships, defensive strategies, relationships, unconditional bonds, fears, hopes, etc. It's beautiful. I know it's a children's book but anybody could read this and gain something from its development of themes and ideas - or at the very least, a fun adventure story.

wtf I love rabbits now

[Anonymous No.9909231]

>>9909222
> the final chapter

Thinking about it is just enough to break my fucking heart, anon.

[Anonymous No.9909242]

>>9909231
>>9909222
One chilly, blustery morning in March, I cannot tell exactly how many springs
later, Hazel was dozing and waking in his burrow. He had spent a good deal of
time there lately, for he felt the cold and could not seem to smell or run so well as
in days gone by. He had been dreaming in a confused way -- something about rain
and elder bloom -- when he woke to realize that there was a rabbit lying quietly
beside him -- no doubt some young buck who had come to ask his advice. The
sentry in the run outside should not really have let him in without asking first.
Never mind, thought Hazel. He raised his head and said, "Do you want to talk to
me?"
"Yes, that's what I've come for," replied the other. "You know me, don't you?"
"Yes, of course," said Hazel, hoping he would be able to remember his name in
a moment. Then he saw that in the darkness of the burrow the stranger's ears
were shining with a faint silver light. "Yes, my lord," he said, "Yes, I know you."
"You've been feeling tired," said the stranger, "but I can do something about
that. I've come to ask whether you'd care to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to
have you and you'll enjoy it. If you're ready, we might go along now."
They went out past the young sentry, who paid the visitor no attention. The
sun was shining and in spite of the cold there were a few bucks and does at silflay,
keeping out of the wind as they nibbled the shoots of spring grass. It seemed to
Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the
edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get
used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing
inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses.
"You needn't worry about them," said his companion. "They'll be all right --
and thousands like them. If you'll come along, I'll show you what I mean."
He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and
together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the
first primroses were beginning to bloom.

[Anonymous No.9909254]

obvious choice

[Anonymous No.9909267]

>>9909213
> genre fiction
> 10/10

lmao haha good one haha my dude

[Anonymous No.9909297]

You've convinced me anon. I know and love the film but never read the book, it's going on The List

[Anonymous No.9909301]

>>9909135

damn...

[Anonymous No.9909304]

>>9909297
for >>9909222

[Anonymous No.9909309]

>>9909242
i didn't ask for these feels, anon

[Anonymous No.9909316]

>>9909297
>>9909304
Hope you like it, anon. The rabbits even have their own limited vocabulary for understanding things (silflay is to eat grass, hraka is to go to the toilet - bigwig tells a rabbit to "eat my hraka" at one point, there's one they use to describe predators but i can't quite remember that one).

Genuinely wish more people had read this book on /lit/ to be honest. Will definitely read it to my own kids when I have them.

[Anonymous No.9909365]

>>9909316
People who meme that women can't write haven't read any of muh girl Virginia yet.

[Anonymous No.9909400]

People who meme that women can't write haven't read any of muh girl Virginia yet.

[Anonymous No.9909436]

>Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
>Hart Crane's White Buildings
>Ezra Pound's Personae
>Rainer Rilke's New Poems

[Anonymous No.9909465]

>>9909132
I know Cormac McCarthy gets meme'd here a lot nowadays (it wasn't like this two years ago) but I genuinely think The Border Trilogy is a solid 10/10. I think Cormac manages to make the grotesque sound beautiful and it's clear he's researched well for the development of each of his books.

Genuinely hope he manages to finish The Passenger soon.

[Anonymous No.9909472]

>>9909242
This is emotional, it resonates with me because it reminds me of when my dog needed to be put down (which is emotional anyway but when he's your first dog you had from the very beginning to his very end, that shit will stick with you for life).

[Anonymous No.9909474]

>>9909267
> clearly hasn't read it

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

[Anonymous No.9909480]

>>9909218
Will look this up, sounds good. Don't think I've seen it mentioned here before to be honest.

[Anonymous No.9909487]

I expected old-time spooks and thrills, but what I got was one of the more endearing portrayals of pure friendship, loyalty and one's own self-esteem. There's still the spooks in there too, but it really is more focus on Mina Harker rather than anything else.

Surprised Dracula is considered such an enduring horror novel when it really is less horror than you'd expect.

[Anonymous No.9909494]

[Anonymous No.9909508]

>>9909400
Its a half truth
Normie women can't write.
If a gril gets raped by her half brother, has psychotic episodes, dislikes Jews but marries one, has lezzie affairs once married and ultimately decides to go for a swim with a lot of rocks in her pocket, she might be destined for greatness.
Normie women only have normie woman suffering. So they're boring.

[Anonymous No.9909509]

>>9909135
memes aside, imagine being that 6 year old kid, writing a short poem that has some genuine profundity to it, and it's likely he won't realise it until he's in his 40s.

love this little poem. it's fun to just post yes YES at times, but it genuinely is a nice little poem. How excited he is for that tiger to be out is my favourite bit about it.

[Anonymous No.9909514]

>>9909508
What is considered a normie woman though?

Is it a blanket term you use for traditional writers like Austen or is it a term you use to describe most women published nowadays (i dont know any examples desu)

[Anonymous No.9909533]

When I try to explain what makes this book so incredible it never quite works. So occasionally I'll flip to any random page and read (the people I hang out w/ are pretentious as well)


>And the more substantial, the more solid the core of me became, the more
delicate and extravagant appeared the close, palpable reality out of which I
was being squeezed. In the measure that I became more and more metallic, in
the same measure the scene before my eyes became inflated. The state of
tension was so finely drawn now that the introduction of a single foreign
particle, even a microscopic particle, as I say, would have shattered
everything. For the fraction of a second perhaps I experienced that utter
clarity which the epileptic, it is said, is given to know. In that moment I
lost completely the illusion of time and space: the world unfurled its drama
simultaneously along a meridian which had no axis. In this sort of
hair-trigger eternity I felt that everything was justified, supremely
justified; I felt the wars inside me that had left behind this pulp and
wrack; I felt the crimes that were seething here to emerge tomorrow in
blatant screamers; I felt the misery that was grinding itself out with
pestle and mortar, the long dull misery that dribbles away in dirty
handkerchiefs. On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there
is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and
drama. If at any moment anywhere one comes face to face with the absolute
that great sympathy which makes men like Gautama and Jesus seem divine
freezes away; the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of
this dung-heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want
roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish
it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will
reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close
his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured, disgrace,
humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui --in the belief that overnight
something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all
the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in
there and shut it off. All the while someone is eating the bread of life and
drinking the wine, some dirty fat cockroach of a priest who hides away in the
cellar guzzling it, while up above in the light of the street a phantom host
touches the lips and the blood is pale as water. And out of the endless
torment and misery no miracle comes forth, no microscopic vestige even of
relief. Only ideas, pale, attenuated ideas which have to be fattened by
slaughter; ideas which come forth like bile, like the guts of a pig when the
carcass is ripped open.

[Anonymous No.9909547]

I read this when I was probably at the lowest point in my life, the part with the river, his son and the chance meeting with a certain someone and the conversation they had left me mentally broken for a week.

It spurred me into action to seek help and I always think of this book when I'm out taking a walk and walk past a river. It makes me feel so melancholic that I have to read that part again just as a reminder.

[Anonymous No.9909559]

>>9909547
Been meaning to dive into Herman Hesse for a while now. He seems like the author I need. Siddhartha, Glass Bead Game and Steppenwolfe are on my to-read list.

[Anonymous No.9909565]

>>9909514
Happy and well adjusted = normie
Pathologically obsessive and you might be destined for greatness (but be a miserable square peg in a world of round holes)
I don't like Austen but no she wasn't a normie otherwise she would have said it's impossible to be a lit woman so there's no point in trying. She had no choice but to write. She had to say what she had to say even though she had to realize it was an exercise in futility.

[Anonymous No.9909581]

>>9909565
Fair enough, anon.

Couldn't this be applied to men too though? Don't the eccentrics in literature have more to offer than the well-adjusted dudes who are just writing to make a buck?

[Anonymous No.9909612]

>>9909135
Not even gonna lie this is lit

[Anonymous No.9909626]

>Radiant Companion by Matt Hart
>All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
>The Plague by Albert Camus
>The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
>Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
>Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss
>Hank by Abraham Smith
>Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum
>One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>The Little Prince by Atoine de Saint-Exupery
>Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
>The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
>Pretty, Rooster by Clay Matthews
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
>The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
>The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
>Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkners
>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
>The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien

[Anonymous No.9909641]

>>9909581
Most well adjusted men don't write. They have ghost writers do they crap. They just throw touchdowns or trade junk bonds or meme themselves to the Oval Office. Its grubby Irishmen with fart fetishes or Portuguese shutins with imaginary friends doing the interesting stuff

[Anonymous No.9909644]

Under the Volcano. It's like Ulysses on easy mode but consistently more satisfying.

[Anonymous No.9909668]

>>9909213
Hell yes son

[Anonymous No.9909685]

>>9909149
fagles translation is shit desu

[Anonymous No.9909844]

[Anonymous No.9909849]

Culture of Critique by based Kevin Macdonald.

[Anonymous No.9909859]

>>9909559
Siddartha is considered the weakest of his works just a heads up.

[Anonymous No.9909862]

>>9909685
Aesthetic>translation
Fagles editions of the og meme trilogy are perfect for shelf display

[Anonymous No.9909883]

>>9909644
i keep reading that name and idk if its just me but i feel like im now seeing it everywhere? Shall i feed into my delusion and get it?

[Anonymous No.9909888]

[Anonymous No.9909942]

>>9909135
>thw nael is a better poet than you

[Anonymous No.9909972]

Just finished it yesterday, bawled my eyes out. First time I got so emotional

[Anonymous No.9910133]

>>9909474
I've read it. Giving it a 10/10 indicates either ignorance, youth, or mental deficiency. It is 10/10 on the genre fiction scale, which means it can be at most a 6/10 on the literature scale.

[Anonymous No.9910138]

>>9909135
Love the name of his collection too

[Anonymous No.9910153]

>>9909465
Seconded

[Anonymous No.9910173]

If we exclude things like influence/literary importance, this probably the greatest novel I've ever read.

Cornelius Suttree is one of the most compelling and interesting characters I've ever came across. And McCarthy's prose and description of Knoxville is superb.

>>9909972
Try East of Eden.

It will destroy you.

[Anonymous No.9910379]

Recommend me something similar, anons.

[Anonymous No.9910386]

>>9910379
I Malavoglia by Verga (although I don't know if it translates well into English)

[Anonymous No.9910565]

Milton's "Lycidas"

[Anonymous No.9910672]

This poetry book isn't much. It's for kids but its my favorite book. Not for the words in it but the meaning it has to my life. It will always be my favorite book. It's not bad, actually it's cute and a little sad.

[Anonymous No.9911333]

>>9909242
Fuck i feel it

[Anonymous No.9911339]

>>9909641
Well said, anon

[Anonymous No.9911346]

>>9909685
Good thing I read Fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.9911385]

>>9909508
Rowling suffered too and she can't write.
99% of the great male writers have also suffered.
I just hope I didn't respond to another /pol/ crosspost.

[Anonymous No.9911448]

>>9909480
Wise decision my friend

[Anonymous No.9911516]

>>9909487
On second and further readings the cheesy thriller part of the story shines through. It makes me love it all the more.

Personally, Cannery Row or The Sea Wolf. Enjoy the characters of Cannery Row and enjoy how comfy the story makes me feel.
The Sea Wolf is an excellent adventure. While debating the morality of his and others actions, Humphrey Van Weyden is forced to deal with the harsh reality of what is. Some of Larsen's more impassioned speeches are certainly memorable.

[Anonymous No.9911523]

>>9909135
I've posted about it many a time before, but this poem unironically moves me.

[Anonymous No.9911528]

>>9909641
Who's the Portuguese shutin with imaginary friends? I get the Joyce reference

[Anonymous No.9911537]

My only 10/10

[Anonymous No.9911555]

>>9911528
Fernando Pessoa

[Anonymous No.9911606]

>>9910173
LMFAO at Harrogate's bat trap in this

[Anonymous No.9911719]

>>9909132
It somehow pulled me out of a years long depression.

This book
In my heart, it is everything.

[Anonymous No.9912012]

How Green Was My Valley. It's music and music. Comfy and you'll cry. Probably the most underappreciated book in English.

>>9911719
Happy for you, anon. I'll give it a read for you. It'll be my first by him.

[Anonymous No.9912060]

>Dubliners by Joyce
>Company by Beckett
>Das Schloss by Kafka
>the complete poetry of Trakl
>the complete poetry of Camilo Pessanha

[Anonymous No.9912078]

>>9909859
not him, but what's the strongest? i usually hear people gushing over siddharta

[Anonymous No.9912131]

>>9912012
I hope you enjoy it, anon. I'll check out How Green Was My Valley myself.
>>9912078
Steppenwolf, easily.

[Anonymous No.9912597]

>>9909213
why this one in particular? I don't remember it standing out.
>>9909222
also +1 more for bunny aeneid

[Anonymous No.9912830]

Under the Volcano. It's like Ulysses on easy mode but consistently more satisfying.

>>9909883
It's incredible.

[Anonymous No.9912932]

>>9909213
Holy shit yes. I think this was better than the original Dune.

[Anonymous No.9912936]

[Anonymous No.9913230]

>>9909533
Wow, what a load of insufferable crap. The parts about cunts are disgusting as well but somehow they seem more honest than this. I'd rather read Bukowski; at least he barfs raw bile instead of pissy philosophy.

[Anonymous No.9913249]

>>9909132
If I'm not mistaken there's no english translation to this, is a genuine 10/10 and I'm learning Italian so I can translate it into english. (Read it in spanish originally)

[Anonymous No.9913384]

definitely this, it's the only book of his worth reading though

[Anonymous No.9914305]

>79 replies
>not pic related yet

lit is sure dying

>>9909254
also this

[Anonymous No.9914671]

>>9909533
Favorite book as well anon

[Anonymous No.9914690]

>>9913249
What's it about? And why does it have the same picture as Capitalism and Schizophrenia?

[Anonymous No.9914717]

For me.

[Anonymous No.9914755]

>>9914305
Ulysses is 9/10 at best.

[Anonymous No.9914882]

>>9914755
okay. make up your case, whats a 10?

[Anonymous No.9914903]

[Anonymous No.9915157]

>>9909222
Shit i always brushed this off as a dumb kids book but now i need to read it

[Anonymous No.9915162]

>>9909494

the movie adaptation is really good too

[Anonymous No.9915177]

>>9914903
I really dig the cover art.

[Anonymous No.9915181]

I don't care how much of a meme it's considered around here, this book is a personal 10/10. love the prose, the characters, the plot, the ideas... it's something i can keep coming back to, year after year and still find something new i missed before.

[Anonymous No.9915183]

>>9915177
that's not even my favourite cover for it

[Anonymous No.9915259]

>>9915181
currently reading it. page ~300

some great parts, some annoying parts, but I am liking it overall

[Anonymous No.9915757]

Unironically my favorite book. I think the angsty bullshit is kind of a meme but I think a lot of pseuds can self-identify as they struggle to be a true intellectual in a world of Facebook and instagram and whatever else

[Anonymous No.9916275]

>>9909135
jeez, i wonder what Nael has done since then

[Anonymous No.9916411]

[Anonymous No.9916452]

>>9915757
reddit alert, sound the autism alarm

[Anonymous No.9916749]

>>9912078
Narcissssss und goldstein

[Anonymous No.9916985]

>>9909254
Yes, always go for the Dick.

[Anonymous No.9916994]

>>9909508
All right. But the same could be said for men.

[Anonymous No.9917659]

self-indulgent novel but I love it anyway

[Anonymous No.9917679]

Saved my life as a teen
Nobody believes me though

[Anonymous No.9917913]

>>9912830
the lit discord group is reading it rn.

[Anonymous No.9917928]

brothers k/crime and punishment
the country doctor
alice in wonderland & through the looking glass
anna karenina
butchers crossing
blood meridian
passion of new eve
the waste land
goblin market
at the mountains of madness
wise blood
beckett trilogy
holes
the catcher in the rye
danny the champion of the world
the odyssey

[Anonymous No.9918109]

nothing comes close than this to me. the ending grips

[Anonymous No.9918156]

Pic related.

[Anonymous No.9918171]

>>9918156
Also this

[Anonymous No.9918187]

>>9917679

:)

Extra points for Reclam

[Anonymous No.9918362]

>>9917928
12 years old?

[Anonymous No.9918593]

>>9918362
dude youre probably like 16

[Anonymous No.9918767]

I'm Colombian, so a lot of the themes and motifs in this one really speak to me on a personal level. The ending nearly made me cry I only held back because I was on a plane

[Anonymous No.9919529]

>>9909135
When was this published

[Anonymous No.9919555]

>>9909132
I know lit considers Steinbeck a mid-tier writer, and maybe most of is stuff is, but this one transcends everything I've read in my entire life so far.

[Anonymous No.9919576]

Literally, find a Children's Book with a more bittersweet Ending.

My heart cracks everytime I think about it.

[Anonymous No.9919648]

>>9919576
Good choice
>>9909222
Same goes for this

Imo its tough to decide which was more emotional

[Anonymous No.9919664]

[Anonymous No.9919669]

>>9919576

the recent ghibli film did an outstanding job adapting

[Anonymous No.9919716]

It's hard to find a favorite, but Poe's work were one of the major reasons I wanted to become a writer.
The dude changeded my life.

[Anonymous No.9919722]

>>9915259
Those annoying parts become some of the best the second time through.

[Anonymous No.9919734]

I know it's a meme. I know it gets a lot of hate. I don't care, this fucking book knocked me on my ass. People like to talk about the overly dense prose and call it shallow, and it's obvious they've never read it because this novel has some of the most genuinely beautiful scenes I've ever read. It's definitely hard, but it's worth it.

[Anonymous No.9919744]

>>9909132
Dream of the Red Chamber
Tale of Genji
Anatomy of Melancholy
Lolita
The Alice books

[Anonymous No.9919781]

>Didn't have to read it in high school
>Went into the book not thinking I'd like it, thought it was just going to be high school-core but figured I'd give it a chance
>Fell in love almost immediately, ended up reading it in about 2 1/2 days
>Read more than 3/4ths of the book on the final day, legitimately, no joke, "thought" in the accent of the speakers of the book for about a day.
>Not even a socialist but could still understand Steinbeck's point
And that ending was just fucking spot on.

>>9909494
Also this. I didn't think I'd think it was anything special when I read the blurb on the back, but I cried reading it.

[Anonymous No.9919792]

Mishima Yukio

Runaway Horses

BONSAIIIIIIIIII

[Anonymous No.9919794]

>>9919781
Try East of Eden next.

[Anonymous No.9919808]

From the concept to the execution, it was just very, very well done. I enjoyed reading this a ton at the time, and I learned something too.

[Anonymous No.9919826]

Stoner
The Road
As I Lay Dying
The Old Man and the Sea
Call of the Wild
Midnight's Children

[Anonymous No.9919837]

Maybe I should try reading it again because it's been a while now but I'm just too afraid I won't like it as much the second time around.

[Anonymous No.9919843]

I really enjoyed it senpaitachi.

[Anonymous No.9919868]

>>9919843
been on my list for a while, but I haven't read it yet. What did you like about it?

[Anonymous No.9919876]

For me Nana was pretty haunting.

[Anonymous No.9919887]

>>9919837
This is mine too, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy, but also understood.

[Anonymous No.9921112]

>>9919669
Not that anon but agreed. Saw the film with my mother and she was crying for ages afterwards. Very emotional story.

[Anonymous No.9921115]

>>9919781
Steinbeck was truly amazing. All his books hit hard home for me and I'm not even American. Really he does know how to milk one's own empathy. Love the guy.

[Anonymous No.9921118]

>>9919837
Need to read this sometime. Read passages and paragraphs of it in the store before buying it and it just seemed really fun and playful. I'm sure I'd find it bewildering and probably get lost in it but it seems like a fun ride.

[Anonymous No.9921276]

>>9919555
>i know lit ....

who is lit? who cares ur lit too

[Anonymous No.9921315]

>>9909132
I love the wanderer. Definitely not shown enough love here on lit.

[Anonymous No.9921321]

Love this book.

[Anonymous No.9921412]

[Anonymous No.9921619]

>>9919555
>>9919781
Do not worry, lads. Steinbeck is great.

[Anonymous No.9921983]

>>9915162
I didn't like the film at all. They tried to make Stevens' story into some kind of weird boring satire of Englishness and perverted the actual poignancy of the book

[Anonymous No.9922119]

The ending made me feel melancholic.

[Anonymous No.9922132]

Just finished reading this and I was blown away by the sheer amount of effort into each page. I'm not one that gets scared by horror easily but that shit unsettled me more than any other piece of media I consumed.

[Anonymous No.9922631]

>>9922119
Damn that cover is fine

[Anonymous No.9922654]

>>9911385
>Le every idea I disagree with must be from /pol/
You faggots really are scared of the boogieman aren't you?

[Anonymous No.9923623]

>>9918767
Also this. I'm from Mexico btw

[Anonymous No.9923726]

>>9922631
fits the book perfectly as well. i picked the book up on the cover alone and i was blown away

[Anonymous No.9924165]

>>9909213
Dont remember too much from Emperor,but Children is a close perfect for me.

[Anonymous No.9924176]

>>9909508
That's awfully specific and situational, which is a clear sign of you either shitpoting or justifying your hate for women and still like da Woolf. If the latter then keep hatin bitch nigga, there's plenty of good women writers and you're not well read.

[Anonymous No.9924189]

this thread better not die come tomorrow, I want to look some of these up. I've seen some of these before other places but it's nice to see /lit/ post more than just IJ and G'sR.

[Anonymous No.9924215]

>>9916452
Hey man, that's not very nice

[Anonymous No.9924224]

This right here. I love this book. The way he writes about nature is just so god damn wonderful. Some of the best prose I have ever had the pleasure to read.

[Anonymous No.9924235]

Federman's Double or Nothing is the most impressive book I've read that wasn't Ulysses. I think it's more fun and more accessible.

[Anonymous No.9924244]

>>9909547
>>9921321
>>9919837
These along with Crime & Punishment were close contenders.

10/10 for me though has to be The Master and Margarita. It was assigned for one of my courses and I left reading it to the last minute. I didn't even intend to really get into it but decided to check at least some of it out so I wouldn't be clueless. Ended up reading it from cover to cover over the whole day. There is something special about this book for me, nothing else has hooked me in like M&M, even with the notoriously confusing first half. The Pontius Pilate/Yeshua section, the Faustian elements, the satire of Soviet society, Woland and his retinue, and Margarita herself are all so interesting. I've heard that unfortunately the rest of Bulgakov's writing isn't as good, anyone know if this is really the case?

>>9909400
Based Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway is excellent! I'm going to be reading To the Lighthouse for a course this semester and I can't wait. Have you read any Jean Rhys?

[Anonymous No.9924255]

>>9924244
I have read most of Bulgakov. I would recommend Morphine and Heart of a Dog above all. You'll like them if you liked M&M.

[Anonymous No.9924842]

>>9924189
If it's anything like the last thread, it'll be here all week.

[Anonymous No.9924886]

>>9924244
In Russia we mostly don't like this book. Because it's realy popular between dull girls and policemans (justifying of Pilate and all this shit)!
Sorry for my English!

[Anonymous No.9925123]

>>9924886
You just an ignorant fuck as a lot of poor educated Russians nowadays. Don't listen to him, that book is marvelous and considered such by Russians, along with Dog's heart.

[Anonymous No.9925226]

>>9925123
You are so funny, go on, what's next on your favourites list? Let me guess The Alchemist and Dandelion Wine lmao
It's just a shame to extole Bulgakov when you have such russian modernists as Platonov, Andrey Bely, Bunin and others.
Btw Dog's heart is nice

[Anonymous No.9925235]

>Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
>The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
>The Magicians trilogy, by Lev Grossman
>The Ego and Its Own, by Max Stirner not joking

Recommend me some fiction?

[Anonymous No.9925239]

>>9925235
Well, the Magicians was more of an 8.5 or 9/10. The others are all 10/10 for me, though.

[Anonymous No.9925254]

Pic related forced me to become a better writer, I'm not sure how. Only other experience I've had is with Mrs Dalloway, which is also a 10 in my humble opinion.

[Anonymous No.9925271]

>>9912078
demian my man

[Anonymous No.9925301]

the most honest 'writers life' kind of book ive ever read. no allusions to greater artistic sensitivity, just straight up everyday challenges that writing has on a person.

also the sailor who fell from grace and night flight. both have incredibly delicate prose with great atmosphere, almost as if emotion and action are rolled into the same experience. joseph ceravolo does the same in his poetry and it's something I really want to work at replicating.

[Anonymous No.9925360]

>>9912060
rare Trakl detected <3

[Anonymous No.9925372]

>>9919555
seconded, amazing novel

[Anonymous No.9925383]

>>9909267
>he lets arbitrary distinctions stop him from enjoying great books so he can tell himself he's an intellectual who only reads "real" literature

lmao haha good one haha my dude

[Anonymous No.9926111]

Simple, and sad. It's what I look for in literature.

[Anonymous No.9926345]

>>9918767
>>9923623
My favorite book too.

t. Murican

[Anonymous No.9926389]

Is this the only type of thread where you guys aren't being annoying cunts? seriously, how can you guys seem pretty cool and almost (heh) lovable in one thread and then be annoying "whooa so smug and ironic" fucking cunts that I want to blast in the fucking face in the next

[Anonymous No.9926460]

>>9926389
Why do you talk like DFW? ...holy, it couldn't be...

[Anonymous No.9926479]

It's short but sweet. Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker but every time I reread it I discover another wordplay, a joke or a detail I missed. The logic of dreaming is so perfectly captured in the writing, the pace and the characters.
Also, Alice is best girl.

>>9926389
Don't analyse the moment, savour it

[Anonymous No.9926506]

>>9926389
because this thread started off with saying "personal 10/10" so people here are going to go into this thread taking opinions as opinions

other threads might go into discussions and thats when ideas start to conflict and people make it their goal to prove people wrong. that pisses people off, leading to name calling and other bs

[Anonymous No.9926516]

>>9926389
You're a woman aren't you
Don't be scared

[Anonymous No.9926642]

>>9925254
Been hearing how good this trilogy is meant to be more recently. Time to checkett Mr Beckett

[Anonymous No.9926654]

>>9925383
> he thinks fiction has merit

lmao haha good one haha my dude

[Anonymous No.9926664]

>>9926389
This thread can't be immune because you sound like a cunt yourself.

[Anonymous No.9926765]

>>9926664
no fuck you you dumb cunt

[Anonymous No.9927001]

>>9926654
>he thinks anything has inherent value

kek well played lad

[Anonymous No.9927009]

>>9926642
Godspeed, anon. I suggest the Everyman's Library edition:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Samuel-Beckett-TrilogyMolloyMalone-Dies-and-The-Unnamable-Samuel-Beckett/9781857152364?redirected=true&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=Base2&utm_source=AU&utm_content=Samuel-Beckett-TrilogyMolloyMalone-Dies-and-The-Unnamable&selectCurrency=AUD&w=AF45AU963X1NL6A80CP8ACU6&pdg=kwd-104399950179:cmp-680104063:adg-32696820702:crv-151943499815:pid-9781857152364:dev-c&gclid=CjwKCAjwrO_MBRBxEiwAYJnDLFoN0AbZg-LU5xwmSUbBAkSa6hTsnHXu2Gl6kGAJDakig66MpNKikBoCGicQAvD_BwE

[Anonymous No.9927090]

>>9918109
Read this as Never Shite on the Beach

[Anonymous No.9927304]

[Anonymous No.9927956]

>>9926389
>This entire posting style
You must be 18 or older to use this site.

[Anonymous No.9927972]

[Anonymous No.9927987]

>>9926389

>fucking cunts that I want to blast in the fucking face in the next

Teenage boy is mad. You don't want to mess with teenage boy when he is mad. Very scary.

[Anonymous No.9928715]

>>9909207
I appreciated it, I'm on book 3 :)

[Anonymous No.9928716]

>>9926765
lmao btfo nigga

[Anonymous No.9928719]

>>9927001
> he thinks that nothingness is not something and believes that inexistence and existence are not mutual

haha lmao my man haha weed

[Anonymous No.9928726]

>>9909465
I really really liked All the Pretty Horses but I tapped out in The Crossing because I just wasn't feeling it, the wolf seemed like it had a human thought process rather than an animal one and it was jarring and silly.

[Anonymous No.9928729]

>>9909135
Yes
YES

[Anonymous No.9928733]

>>9914305
Ulysses is boring as fuck, Finnegans Wake is much better imo

[Anonymous No.9928738]

>>9927090
well you shouldnt really do that either

[Anonymous No.9929863]

>>9911719
I agree with this anon. It's actually a tie between this and Hard Boiled wonderland and the end of the world.

[Anonymous No.9930192]

Surprisingly I rarely see him mentioned on /lit/. I understand that most (if not all) of his books share a very similar theme, yet I really enjoyed this particular book. Something in me just resonated with the main character.

Other favorites include:
King, Queen, Knave by Nabokov
White Nights by Dostoyevsky
Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut.
A part of Speech by Brodsky.

[Anonymous No.9930377]

>>9909222
Why is this book not mentioned enough on here

Also nice trips

[Anonymous No.9930524]

James

[Anonymous No.9930545]

>>9926389
I mean you are right...but it is also 4chan what do you expect.

[Anonymous No.9930923]

[Anonymous No.9930932]

this is about as comfy as a book can possibly be

[Anonymous No.9930942]

>>9909844
dude i came in to post this... This was the book that got me into literature.

[Anonymous No.9930946]

>>9910379

[Anonymous No.9930998]

[Anonymous No.9931003]

A Song of Ice and Fire

[Anonymous No.9931035]

>>9914305
memes aside, this easily

also To The Lighthouse

[Anonymous No.9931053]

>>9922119
damn I never see this posted on here

personally thought it was just alright but some parts really got to me especially the death of billy. glad you liked it so much anon

[Anonymous No.9931136]

she's also a good translator (proust and flaubert so far)

[Anonymous No.9931281]

you guys never told me how perfect this was... why did i waste my time with dfw and pynchon

[Anonymous No.9931852]

frankenstein for me at least

[Anonymous No.9931862]

>>9931281
It's the power of sincerity DFW was trying to get you to see all along!

[Anonymous No.9931883]

This and LOTR are the only books that I can reread endlessly.

[Anonymous No.9931934]

>>9931281
Hahah exactly. I wonder how many new users with good taste got duped and disappointed by dfw and pinecone

[Anonymous No.9931945]

>>9931852
I was about to post this

[Anonymous No.9931974]

>>9931883
Cover looks like it could be teribble. What's it about

[Anonymous No.9931980]

None of you fags probably even know who this is, but if you can find a copy of this book anywhere, fucking grab it,

[Anonymous No.9932006]

>>9931974

It's a post apocalyptic novel told from the perspective of monks whose mission is to guard knowledge or books from the old world. The story is told over the course of hundreds of years and documents the rebuilding of society, from the desolated primitive years, to the renaissance, to a modern space traveling age and it has a lot to say about various philosophical issues. This is actually one of the books that inspired the Fallout games. Think Brotherhood of Steel except Catholic.

[Anonymous No.9932067]

>>9931980
lol no thanks ill read literature instead

[Anonymous No.9932073]

>>9911555
I was momentarily flattered when I thought anon had read my book.

[Anonymous No.9932080]

pic related, also V by Thomas Pynchon & The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard

>>9909254
>>9917659
>>9922132
>>9912060
I agree absolutely with all of these

>>9909626
children of hurin is tolkien's best imo, happy to see i'm not the only one who loves it

>>9911719
>>9914305
just bought these this summer, hoping to start them soon, any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.9932087]

>>9919555
I read this in the seventh grade I still see certain situations in life through the lens of these stories.

[Anonymous No.9932099]

>>9932080
>children of hurin is tolkien's best imo
Hey man, shut the fuck up and never offer your shitty opinion ever again, okay?

[Anonymous No.9932127]

>>9924244

>>9924886
Why would Russian dull girls and policemans justify Pilate?
>>9924255
I don't know, I feel like they will be... underwhelming versions of M&M.

Has anyone read Aleph or Fictions by Borges? They're classified as magic realism too, maybe they're pretty close to M&M.

[Anonymous No.9932144]

>>9921321
The cover illustration is so good for allegedly hack edition of a book. We should probably post on /wsr/ to have someone remove the text in the top half.

[Anonymous No.9932148]

>>9909213
Excellent choice, probably my 2nd favorite of the original series. My 10/10 is Dune and I think a big part of why I like it, is that I knew nothing about it when I finally read it.

[Anonymous No.9932251]

>>9932099
>Hey man, shut the fuck up and never offer your shitty opinion ever again, okay?

i'll bet The Hobbit is your favorite Tolkien book

[Anonymous No.9932293]

>>9932251
Silmarillion is objectively the best faghot

[Anonymous No.9932354]

>>9911385
Not being able to find a job after graduating is not suffering pmsl

Weak

[Anonymous No.9932373]

>>9909132
Dark and religious, funny and bizarre, logical but completely wacky, and a premise that could only come from the addled mind of a true genius.

Out of the huge PKD catalogue this is the one that still makes me the most excited (at least so far). It plays to all of the man's strengths while still being completely its own animal.

[Anonymous No.9932388]

>>9912830
Loved it, but at times Lowry's prose seemed somewhat over-descriptive and boring. The ~20 pages describing Hugh's life were a notable high point, and the last sentence is maybe the best finish of any book I've read.

[Anonymous No.9932458]

>>9911719
>It somehow pulled me out of a years long depression.
makes me interested in it
can you tell me why was that?

[Anonymous No.9932487]

>>9932293
>Thinks The Silmarillion is Tolkein's best book
>Doesn't like Children of Hurin, a story from The Silmarillion

[Anonymous No.9932528]

>>9909135
i teach martial arts, mostly to 5-15 age bracket.
the things young people say and do give me a strong belly laugh every day. Seems growing up is controlling the good side of childlike thinking and rationalising childishness.

[Anonymous No.9932533]

>>9909242
>just kidding, you die AND ROT IN THE GROUND

[Anonymous No.9932538]

>>9932487
It's present in Silmarillion abridged. The full version can be found as a paper back. The fact you don't know that, but say Hurin is your favorite, is odd.

[Anonymous No.9932540]

>>9925123
>>9924886

Damn you Ruskies. No mention of The White Guard (an excellent book!).

>Andrei Bely

Currently reading his Petersburg.

[Anonymous No.9932547]

>>9909641
'interesting' is a critical dodge, anything can be interesting, absolutely anything.
Valuable, worthy, the line between dreams and waking, the human condition, stuff like that has a bad rep today.

[Anonymous No.9932602]

>>9919734
what other books do you like?

[Anonymous No.9932694]

Suttree.

...fug you I don't have to explain myself. just pick it up and read

[Anonymous No.9932919]

>>9932354
Ok then rupi kaur was raped, is that also not suffering?
Maybe your mother was raped too, by a nigger, but she doesn't admit she suffered?

[Anonymous No.9932963]

>>9924224
I agree, it is inspiring

[Anonymous No.9933082]

>>9932127
Policemans like this book because Иeшya finally justifies Pilate and lets him go. Pilate is a figure that they associate themselves with.
Idk why it's popular, may be this book just makes the impression that you are getting into something deep, even if you understand a little and take it superficially.

[Anonymous No.9933522]

I think both novellas in this are great, but there's something so out there about the second one that I really love. The gay haunting and the Hallam/Tennyson stuff was somehow both out there, but also very understandable and emotional and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.9933542]

My last 10/10 i read was this.

A modern masterpiece imo

[Anonymous No.9933679]

[Anonymous No.9933818]

>>9932538
thanks for repeating my point, it looks a lot more compelling now that the text isn't green

[Anonymous No.9933860]

>>9912060
>tfw when German is your mothertongue and you recently purchased the whole of Trakl's collected poems

[Anonymous No.9934194]

The prose is beautifully subtle and the characters feel extraordinarily realistic. Every time I read it I marvel at how perfect it is.

[Anonymous No.9934586]

>>9933082
No, man, the book was just fucking amusing. When the man was teleported to Yalta... fucking priceless. It amazes policemans, dulls girls, patricians, anyone. Pretentious patricians can only deny it because it becomes averse to them just because simple-minded people find it interesting.

[Anonymous No.9934734]

>>9914305
We don't want to go for the obvious choice, anonette

[Anonymous No.9934772]

>>9909400
The argument is that women can't write as good or as much as men. Every time someone goes "oh, so women can't write, eh? Here's a list of about 20 good women writers" I can't help but think "yeah, 20 is a good number, I guess. How many good men writers are there, again? Hundreds?"

Same goes for music, really.

[Anonymous No.9935675]

this

[Anonymous No.9935945]

>still no Proust

[Anonymous No.9935952]

>>9911523
It's unironically better than anything I've done in my life.
What do I do about this crisis?

[Anonymous No.9935963]

>>9935952
>What do I do about this crisis?
Rest easy knowing that true genius and beauty truly are in-born traits, even to those who don't know that they have it, and that you don't have to try and longer because if you haven't shown it yet, you never had it to begin with.

[Anonymous No.9935967]

>>9910672
I was going to post this as a joke for second, then I realized that the reason it hit my head first before anything is because it actually hit me harder than anything else i've read.
Fuck.
I think I still have that in my book case.

[Anonymous No.9935972]

>>9935963
Are you all so morose and lugubrious?

[Anonymous No.9935993]

>>9935972
Always have been, always will be

[Anonymous No.9936037]

This is the 10/10 for me from the first page to the last. Clever, melancholic, engaging, I buy it as a gift for people often.

[Anonymous No.9936189]

>>9935963
>>9935993
t. mega pleb

[Anonymous No.9937011]

>>9933542
I liked the movie.