> almost finished a long chapter in a Dostoevsky novel
> suddenly a man appears!
> chapters ends
DOSTOEVSKYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>1977620
Which makes sense if his novels were initially serialized.

> reading Dostoevsky
> whoa, great psychological insight
> this woman is hysterical
> that woman is a saintly prostitute
> dat christian ending
DOSTOEVSKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

We might have a meme going on in here.

>reading Gravity's Rainbow
>going well, there's something about bananas, then a gangrape bathroom scene
>coprophaglia, nothing too obstruse
>holy fuck. what is this 5-page paragraph I'm wading through?
>reread it four times
>still "wut?"
PYNCHYYYYYYYYYY

>>1977628
> that woman is a saintly prostitute
I do not understand this accusation, unless people think Dostoevsky only wrote Crime and Punishment.

Liza was in no way a saintly prostitute in Notes, just simply a prostitute.

> reading literature
> much to keep track of
DOSTEOVSKYYYYYYYYY

>reading Crime and Punishment
>wow, such a dark novel, he even ends up in Siberia
>get to the last paragraph
>the sun rises and everything looks brighter
>this will now be a man who changes his life for the better
>but that's a story for another time
DOSTOEVSKYYYYY

>reading the possessed
>500 pages in
>still no main character
DOSTOEVSKYYYYYYYYYYY

>Reading Anna Karenina
>900 pages in
>Still introducing characters

TOLSTOYYYYYYYYY

>one character
>goes by 5 different names
DOSTOEVSKYYYYYYY

>reading A Boring Story by Anton Chekhov
>it's actually quite boring
CHEKHOVVVVVVVVV

>>1977654
uh

super bros karamazov?

>>1977675
>reading play by Chekhov
>they talk about weather
>girl starts crying
>men pretend it's not happening, leave room.
>other girl joins, starts crying.
>girls talk about weather
>cry some more
ACTUALLY, GOOD JOB, CHEKHOV.

>buy collection of short stories
>wow this are some great, gripping, suspenful stories
>only a third of all the stories were completed
PUSHKINNNNNNNNNN

>thick books
>forget who is who

DOSTEOVSKYYYYYYYYY

>jumping around in time from paragraph to paragraph
>lots of characters
>very little gentle reminders to help people who can't understand it fully

LLOSAAAAAAA

lol am i doing it right?

>War and Punishment
DOSTEOVSKYYYYYYYYY
TOLSTOOOOOYYYYYYYY

>>1977684
new to books, aren't you?

>reading The Fountainhead
>about 300 pages in
>realize that it is basically a handbook for conservative bigots
RANDDDDDDDDD

>characters

>Reading a story about the sorrowful life of a young girl living in extreme poverty
>two pages to finish it and feel excited
>the book is Netochka Nezvanova
DOSTEOVSKYYYYYYYYY

>>1977680
>Reading The House with the Mezzanine
>hurr i like to paint
>durr social justice
>just kidding this is actually my second favorite chekhov next to the one about the guy on the boat with all the dying people
>narrator marries little girl at the end
CHEKHOVVVVVVV

>>1977704
If you just reject it, you don't realize she's just so pointed you need to come completely clean to even tolerate her point of view. I'm not an Objectivist, but I've formed pretty soothing ideas on existence because of Rand. The Fountainhead is great.

>kissing girls feet
DOSTEOVSKYYYYYYYYY

>>1977719
what is your definition of great?

because the prose sucks balls.

>capitalism
>objectivism

AYAAAAAAAAANNNNNN

>>1977468
>>1977658
>>1977684
>>1977694
>>1977710
>>1977720

>DOSTEOVSKY

> insane amounts of violence
> scalping
> babies getting their brains smashed against large rocks
> trees of dead babies
> kids getting raped and murdered
> cowboy hats
> gnosticism
> everyone talking like pigeons

MCCARTHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>1977737
COPY/PASTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>reading Anna Karenina
>shit this is getting really intense
>"Meanwhile on planet Levin..."

TOLSTOYYYYYYYYYYYY

> reading a pretty good horror story
> old black mystic

STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE!!!!

>>1977752
>reading Anna Karenin
>Lenin and Stephen hanging out
>Intense character development
>Advancing the plot
>brb let me teach you how i farm

TOLSTOYYYYYY

>>1977733
Its not "balls". Its someone who doesn't understand conversational speech who's work benefits from it. Study philosophy and come back better for it.

>walking into a room
>Danny's there

LISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>1977766

>Tolstoy
>discussing farming in any way, shape or form

TOLSTOYYYYYYY

No rage for War and Peace? Or did nobody here manage to get through it?

>introduce character
>name changes 3 times by the end

DOSTEOVSKYYYYYYYYY

>>1977795
> amazing characterization
> natural and at once epic prose
> BUT THE REGIMENT BLAH BLAH BLAH
> oh shi- Natasha Rostov what are you doing? No!!!!111
> GUESS WHAT? NAPOLEON SUCKS
> LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HISTORY

>>1977684
>>1977684
this!

>>1977770
>come home
>hear that damn saxamaphone

LISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>a king A imprisons king B in a labyrinth of walls
>king B survives
>a king B imprisons king A in a labyrinth without walls and roof
>king B dies

BORGEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

>>1977806

Let me fix that for you

>introduce character
>name changes 3 times by the end

RUSSIAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>1977825
(king A dies, sorry)

>mustaches and facial hair
>mustaches everywhere
GOGOLLLLL

>Finish part 1 of sons and lovers
>gay love triangle romance shit for the rest of the book until the last couple of chapters

LAWREEENCEEEEE

>>1977769
She could be socrates for all I care, that doesn't make her prose any good.

>starts good, but goes downhill quickly
MOOREEEEEEEEE

>>1977740
Reading that now, don't forget the
>buying two puppies just to throw them off a bridge into a river and shooting them

>vampires
>money

MEEEYEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

>read a charms story
CHAAAAARMS

>got banned for a fortnight, then vacation for three weeks
>come back to /lit/ - this halfhearted meme is the best you can come up with.

/LIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT/

>love and scandals
>peak dramatick
>and the end
>suddenly a big fkin dialogue on what all was about
IBSEEEEEN

>>1977793
I laughed harder than I expected.

>amazing discussions
>nice plotting
>the only likable characters goes mad/dead/exiled
FYOOODOR MIKHAAAAILOWITSCH

>>1977766
Let's go into the details of hunting
TOLSTOYYYYYYYYY

>slog dutifully through infinite jest mostly on the strength of its memorable characters
>book ends with each main storyline at a critical point just before actual resolution
>left to guess

DFWWWWW

>Alright this story is pretty sweet
>Cool Characters bro
>Jesus jesus jesus jesus
>WTF is this shit?
>Jesus, morals, jesus, moral, christ

DOSTEOVSKYYYY or TOLSTOOOYYYYYY!!!!

NOT ONE MENTION OF TURGENEV YET YOU ALL BITCH ABOUT HUNTING ETC

FUCK YOU ALL

>reading about the plight of foreign workers in the meatpacking district
>focus shifts entirely to a single character
>suddenly all about socialism

SINCLAAAAAIIIIR

>reading any Dostoevsky
>characters converse until someone breaks into tears and/or hysterics
>character sprints to next location
>converse until someone faints
>sprint to next location
>meet random drunk/prostitute that now dictates course of his existence
>sprint to next location
>parable. only 10 pages worth reading in the whole book
>return to step 1

i've finally learned to stay away from
DOSTOEVSKYYYYYYYYY

>Same fucking love story every time.

TURGENEEEVVVVVV

>>1978016

I'm at like page 760. Fuck.

>Harry and his friends spends the last quarter of the saga moving around England and fighting each other.

J. K. ROWLINGGGGGGGG

>just starting to get into nightmarishly surreal setting
>beginning to understand protagonist's bravado as near-terror
>begin to both empathize with and loathe protagonist
>see current society in story's society
>suddenly, 35 page secondhand story about some random ass character's experience

KAFKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>1977766

Fucking this.

>Read Dostoevsky any Novel
>Someone without fail has Tuberculosis.
DOSTEOVSKYYYYYYYYY

>>1979304
I love Dostoevsky, but this is terribly true. Hell, I'm reading Demons and Pyotr Stepanovich is described as "sprinting to etc etc" and then begins a conversation with x character.

>>1977675
This is more
RUSSIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>1979304

Agreed.
>reading Dostoevsky
>no one says anything
>everyone cries everything

DOSTOEVSKYYYYYYYY

>>1979439
You also forget someone has to die at the very after going through a shitty agonizing last couple weeks alive at the end of an already pretty sad life.

>>1979439
Even still you gotta admit Pyotr is the best character in that book.

>>1979737

Pretty much all of the prominent characters are fascinating in that novel.

Nikolai Stavrogin, Varvara's relationship with Stepan, Kirillov and Shatov all interest me more than Pyotr; but maybe that's because I despise his despicable acumen with the townspeople.

>in russia
>pick up a dostoevsky book
>it's written in russian

DOSTOEVSKYYYYYYY

>reading The Castle
>most of the book is summed up from the completely different perspectives of two characters in a huuuuuge chapter
>things start getting kinda intense, as more options start unfolding for K. than he's had before
>he ends up being dragged away by a minor character and shoved into a room with a strange woman
>'he couldn't quite make out what she was saying at first, but what she said'
>book ends in the middle of this sentence

KAFKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>Be 13 or 14 and read The Inheritance Cycle.
>Notice the blatent Star Wars and LOTR rip offs.

POALINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>1979426
TB was very common back then, and very lethal as well. Heck, it's 2011 and I'm recovering from the disease.

>Whiny Forever-aloner meets some bitch
>Bitch plays around with forever-aloner
>Fiancee of said bitch returns
>Whiny Forever-aloner shoots himself
>huge trend in Germany is started
GOEEEEETHE

>Necronomicon is the rare book of untold evil and unimaginable horror which can only be found in six university libraries.
>Every single peasant and explorer seems to have read it at some point or another.

LOVECRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFT

>Camping is a great idea
>While you're at it investigate that noise

LOOOOOVECRAAAAFT

>'It was horribly indescribable! To describe the thing would drive a man insane! It defied description! To even utter the word, 'describe' in the presence of the horrible thing would bring about the end of the world and it cannot be described at all!'
>Next few paragraphs are adjective-filled description

LOVECRAAAAAAAAFT

>Cat walks across typewriter
>Language of the Elder Gods

LOVECRAAAAAAAFT

I love how many people love Lovecraft on this board

>reading a cool story
>bleak bleak hopeless
>want to die
KAFKAAAAAAAA

>>1980257
THIS

Also
>protagonist is writing about horrible indescribable thing
>horrible indescribable thing is coming to get protagonist
>protagonist is scared shitless but keeps on writing

LOVECRAAAAAAAAAAFT

>pick up book
>several main characters have exactly the same name

MARQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

>>1980265
If by "how many" you mean "about 3," then yeah. Lovecraft gets a lot of (deserved) criticism on here for his self-similarity and ridiculously inconsistent quality.

>>1980275
>Visit lawyer
>he doesn't help me
KAFKAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>1980677
>visit lawyer
>he doesn't help me

REAL LIFEEEEE

>masturbate to bestiality
MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

> chapter about flying over natives
> chapter about mountains
> chapter about flying over attacking natives
> chapter about flying really high up
> chapter about flying over natives

VEEEERRRRRRRRRRNE

>>1977651
>obstruse

the word is "abstruse," son. just stick to "obscure" in the future. If you want to use a grown-folks word, it kinda defeats the purpose if you misspell it.

>Write book in a fictional language
>Finally understand it
>only 20 pages left of the book
BUUUUUURGEEEEESSSSSSS

>>1980801
Excuse me, but what?

>So-called "horror"
>shitty ending

KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

>"epic" fantasy novel
>spends page after page telling you to look at a rock

TOLKEINNNNNNNNN!!

>made up backwards handwriting
>fucked up diagrams of nonexistant things
>mysterious unknown authorship

VOYNICH MANUSCRIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPTTT

Hey, now. I love both Tolkien and Lovecraft, Don't be hatin.

>British Aristocratic Family
>Father hates Catholic Church
>Still gets last rites anyways
WAUUUUGGGGHHHH

> main character trolls Europe and drinks for hundreds of pages
> last three pages of book protagonist's woman dies during child labor
> kid dies too
> "oh well, better go walk home in the rain. whatever. lolololo"

HEMMMMINGGWAYYYYYYYY

>book about a guy who reads some manuscripts
>he finishes the first one and starts on another
>the second one turns out the be the same as the actual novel I'm reading
AUUSTEEEEEEEEER

>protagonist is an artist or average joe inclined to enjoy the simplicity in life
>provides a surprising amount of insight on issues like rationality vs. emotion
>protagonist dies and most likely suffers in the process

MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

URA URA URA URA!!!

>everything's going along nicely
>biting satire
>witty comedy
>not-so-witty comedy
>SUDDENLY: horrifying and really dark passage that makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry
>right back to funny like nothing happened
HELLERRRRRRRRRRR

>fall in love with a female
>female doesn't like me back... yet
>things might go well
>bitter, devastating, lonely ending

TURGENEVVVVVVVVVVVVV

>jesus, there's not long left in this book, I wonder how it's all gonna wrap up?
>book ends

DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK

>wacky love hijinks
>love triangles, pentagrams and what not
>faerie queen falls for dat ass
>puck concludes; it was all a dream

SHAKESPEEEAAARREEE

>Hobbits complain about being hungry
>Hobbits complain about being tired
>Hobbits complain about not being home
TOOOLKIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEN

>Reading Naked Lunch
>250 pages in
>Still another 200+ pages about Jissom

BBBUURRROUGHSSSSSSS

>reading House of Leaves
>interesting story about family finding a dimensional abnormality in their house
>guy interjects with endnotes about hookers sticking their fingers up his prostate and him cumming buckets

DANIELEWSKIIIIIIIII

>>1982185
A Clockwork Orange!
not quite a new language

>>1979737
Pyotr little games really did liven' up the story

>Fuck year Europe!
>Fuck year Alcohol!
>Fuck year punching Jews in the face!
>Bullfights!
>Moar alcolol!
>Blow face off with shotgun
HEMINGWAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

>Everythings fine
>Someone gets jealous/envious of something
>Hatches a plan
>Everyone acts on emotion rather than pausing for one second and reflecting on what might be happening
>Everyone dies
SHAKESPEAAAAAREEEE

>>1985337

implyijng thats not literally the entirei story of human eixstinence

You're not alone. I'm half way through The Brothers Karamazov.

>reading Justine
>not as much rape as people say there is but still a lot of rape
>the characters, even the villains, have these deep philosophical thoughts
>keeping reading
>start noticing a pattern in the speeches of the villains
>each one of them is the page after page speech on why nature allows them to be depraved
>it's always the same speech in a different manner

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE

>sci-fi in-universe slang
>human faction nick-named Spiders
>created in an experiment on Mars
>Spiders from Mars

REYNOLDSSSSSS

>>1985358

>that feel when you only have 300 pages left, but it's been so long since you've picked up the book because you've had to read other things for your classes that you can barely remember what's happened

>>1985394
>That feel when a stranger describes your exact experience with Crime and Punishment.

Took me nearly a year to read that shit.

>I see my hand.. it exists
>With my hand i touch my pants.. i can feel my pants.
>I feel sick, i feel the Naus... WAIT.


SARTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1984638
>yfw the last five pages of The Man in the High Castle are the literary equivalent of the last three minutes of Holy Mountain.

>>1985436
he supposedly intended to write a sequel that one has to hope would've included some manner of conclusion. but the drugs and such ...

>You understand the stream of consciousness bit
>You get all the parallels to Homer
>Who the fuck are all these Irish politicians?
JJJJOOOOYYYYYCCCCCCCCCEEEEE