I wanna start reading more but every time I do, I end up getting bored and inadvertently quitting before I'm 1/4 of the way through. I'd like some recs for books that are not boring, preferably fiction. Violence and sci-fi are pluses. I enjoyed the Ender's Game series as a teenager. No verbosity and unnecessary length please.
Also please don't dump a huge list. I wanna be able to look into your suggestions and see if they look worth buying and not have it take a day to do so.
Thanks in advance and sorry if there was a needy or demanding tone.
go to the fucking wiki you pleb
>>7685069
I don't know anything about a wiki.
It should go without saying, but eat a dick.
>>7685066
Either Justine or Juliette by D.A.F De Sade.
They contain a lot of rape and violence.
Alright, /lit/, we're going to find out what our favorite book is. Come answer this poll. I started it off with the /lit/ starter kit and a few meme books, but you can add your own to the list. Vote!
http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=3f5ced6828191ad38
fuck off with polls
kill yourself
that list needs help
>>7685022
Not sure what psychological issues bother you so much about polls, but I'm going to go ahead and see what the rest of /lit/ thinks.
Post literature heavyweights
He used to be, at least ;_;
>>7684995
RIP
>>7684987
OH SHIT I GET IT. Kinda like the lit version of pic related.
>Let us cultivate our garden
Why do people celebrate Camus and his purported absurdism when Voltaire got there first 200 years earlier, and basically did it as a joke?
>Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
>“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
>I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?
I really enjoyed Candide.
He actually had a wicked sense of humor.
>>7685098
>tfw you're Martin
>but no Cacambo exists to prove you wrong
>write a true story about my silent love for my creative writing professor
>read it aloud to the class
>>7684811
Reported :^)
Was it for Sarah?
>>7684874
Matthew, is that you?
How do I come up with some dank and original ideas to write about?
lsd, dmt, salvia...
>>7684793
dude weed lmao
>>7684796
this
Hi, I've been learning german in the past few months, I don't have easy access to these kind of books, can someone share me a site where I can dd some. Thanks.
>>7684756
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autor/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-253
the german gutenberg
Stop appropriating my culture, Amerifat
About to start it, my buddy claims it's the best Pynchon.
I've only read lot 49 & a failed attempt to trudge through GR (but i enjoyed the former). Is this a viable next step? What can I expect? Is it really dense?
>>7684727
It's not quite as dense or intense as Gravity's Rainbow, but it's one of his best books for sure. You don't sound like a particularly experienced reader so you might be put off by the grammar and vocabulary since it's written in a stylized reconstruction of 18th Century English.
superior
Yes, it is his best. It isn't a novel though senpai, it's an epic poem
hated this book in high school
recently read it again
still hate it
what does /lit/ think
i thinks its unfairly maligned and a masterpiece.
>>7684686
It wasn't as good as I expected it to be, but I don't hate it.
>Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass
>Tanya Grotter has an unusual birthmark on her nose, magical powers, an upbringing by "Lopukhoid" relatives after her parents were killed by an evil sorceress Chuma-del-Tort, and goes to study at the Tibidokhs (Tибидoхc) School for Behaviorally-Challenged Young Witches and Wizards. Tanya's foster-family, the Durnevs, live in an urban apartment block, and Tanya is forced to sleep in the apartment's loggia.
>in Tanya Grotter and the Golden Leech, Tanya finds herself pitted against "Hurry Pooper" in the World Dragonball Championship. While trying to reach the ball, they crash, creating a new timeline in which Chuma-del-Tort has won, good and evil being reversed, and all the characters are speaking a Russian equivalent of Orwellian Newspeak. To restore normality, Tanya must defeat the Golden Leech. Mark Hooker, an independent academic at Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute, has interpreted the Golden Leech as capitalism
translation when???
>this isn't copypasta
Wot
>not posting the cover
Does /lit/ write in a cipher?
I journal and take notes in regular English but will switch it up with Greek when I'm writing something sensitive in public to disguise any choice words that a passerby might latch onto for a chuckle.
Also, what is your favorite writing system?
I want to learn Spanish and then French. I suppose I would write my diary in French. Anyone know any good Audio CD's, the only stump in my plan is finding an affordable yet decent one. There are plenty I have bookmarked, but I want to ask around for at least a week before I lay down the money for them.
>>7684537
Good for you, Spanish is a fairly decent language. Just a tip: Spanish, as spoken in Spain, is fucking retarded. Spaniards are the laughingstock of the rest of us because of their retarded accent, so avoid it like the plague.
>>7684525
I'm not autistic and I don't keep journals other than my diary desu: the novel, so no.
Hello, /lit/
I am an unbiased, ignorant pleb when it comes to politics. I have somehow been able to ignore all the branding propaganda in the media with Trump and shit, but I just want to start from the beginning. Can you guys recommend good political readings like Marx and such? Possibility even documentaries.
Art of the deal
Other people here may give you more classic texts, but it can't hurt to start with something like this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary-Political-Philosophy-An-Introduction/dp/0198782748
I'd advise making a thread on /his/ too, we'll be more likely to give you left wing writers, whereas /his/ will lean to more right wing writers. Should give you a nice balance. Always maintain your undogmatic attitude though. Never get sucked into bullshit /pol/ memes like Trump, he is scum.
>>7684357
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America - George Packer
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama
Where can I buy the last kingdom book set? I don't want the stupid netflix covered ones. I almost peiced the set together on amazon but the 3rd book says it ships in three months..
fuck
Need them for my fiancee's birthday coming up.
>>7684216
just get him some real literature
aesthetic book covers
the diamond necklace was sooo shit
>>7684143
pleb
Does this book have some sort of literary merit, even if only on a pop level?
I know it's a fucking pickup book, but something about this really gripped me when I first read it. I don't know what it was exactly. But it really had that 'page turner' quality. I just wanted to read more and more.
The way he describes his moral dilemmas, his hopeless search for self esteem through sex, is interesting. It's also interesting reading about him getting pulled over by crooked cops in Eastern Europe. The whole 'project Hollywood' thing is portrayed really glamorously.
I dunno.
There's just something about this book...
Anyone here think there's something to this, or am I just deluded by being a pussy-starved beta who will hang on any word that promises me a cure to inceldom?
It's a genuinely interesting story and Neil Strauss is a competent writer. Don't worry, it's okay to like this book
