how special

my biology book
i never opened it because my faith for the almighty God is so strong

best book i read in school: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

it was my go-to book whenever i had to do a book report--toward the end, i didn't even have to read it again before starting the report

Ayn Rand's storytelling sucks, get that out of the way. But the philosophy (though quite childish, LOL RANDROIDS) is somewhat interesting. Though The Fountainhead is just a gimped version of Atlas Shrugged with a crazy bitch as the main character.

Worst book I read:
Catcher in the Rye (200 pages of some whinny emo bitch saying phony and fuck every other word)

Best book I read:
Heart of Darkness

Worst: The House on Mango street.
Best: I don't even know. I guess The Namesake wasn't horrible.

>>41662804
>Catcher in the Rye (200 pages of some whinny emo bitch saying phony and fuck every other word)

Fuck you bitch, that was the best part

Worst book I read in High School: Deadly, Unna? (Australian book, so my Australian school had a boner for it. It's about a wimpy kid who tries to be cool and a town that's racist towards aboriginals, then an aboriginal kid gets shot while he's burgling a house)

Best book I read in High School: 1984

Favourite book series: A Song of Ice and Fire (FUCK I HATE MARTIN SO MUCH FUCK FUCK)

Recently read books: Watchmen, The Complete Hitchiker's Guide, Dune.

Currently Reading: Necronomicon. Something about the way Lovecraft writes... it's just so... classical. There's never a word out of place.

Other annoying books I had to read in High School:
Gift of the Gab
Escape to Kalimantan
Montana 1948
Inheritance
Generals Die in Bed

Decent books/movies I read/watched in High School:
1984
The Kite Runner
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Shawshank Redemption
Midnight Run
Blade Runner
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Schindler's List

A Separate Peace

I don't give a goddamn shit about homoeroticism or Christ-symbolism or homoerotic-Christ-symbolism.

Any other Australians recognise this?

This was a children-teens fantasy novel series. It wasn't complicated or anything like that, but something about it was so fucking compelling that I couldn't put them down. Must have been all the hidden riddles and shit. It was almost like a video game in book form.

The Road is very good. Movie based on the book comes out sometime this month, totally read the book first to give yourself some perspective on the movie before you come into /tv/ with your retarded /v/ shit, fellas. It's a fairly easy read but a warning for those with attention problems, the book has no chapters...so you might not be able to put it down.

NEEDS A FUCKING VIDEO GAME

The worst book I can remember reading is probably The Scarlet Letter. As much as I love the American Renaissance, reading that book was like wading through molasses. Nathaniel Hawthorne is best taken in small doses, like The Minister's Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown.

Though in Senior year, I got to take Environmental Lit and go on nature walks and read cool shit like Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. Good times.

Haha! Yes! Also...

>>41661755
>>41661755
THIS.

>>41662804
im reading HoD now

>>41662804
>Ayn Rand's storytelling sucks, get that out of the way.
ah, but i couldn't

i'd like to get to the philosophy, but god damn, the writing is so bad

>>41663228
GOD DAMMIT I HATED THAT SHIT

>>41663440
>Young Goodman Brown
FUCK YEAH

>>41662603

>>41663251

Australians? Motherfucka', I'm Canadian, I and I have the entire series sitting on my desk right now.

The great gatsby


I understand how it's cool..and I do enjoy the early 1900's before the 60's and all, but......I just did not like that book.

Luckily my love interest did not like the book either. Sad I was too afraid to ask her out, even though every goddamn day she flirted with me in class every single fucking day. Me and her were the talk of the class and the class would stop doing what they were doing just to see us...

goddamn shyness...if you were a person..id stab you to get rid of you

/v/- Literature

>>41663452

1984 was actually one of the worst things i read in school, but it came right after fahrenheit 451 and a whole truckload of similar paranoid short stories

i was just fucking sick of it by then

>>41663452

Oh, stop your bellyaching. Threads like these help to establish some sort of non-vidya commonality among us.

Your negativity is not needed here.

>>41663469
Yeah, I felt the same way. But at the time I was really into the philosophy then later realized how self centered, arrogant, and counter productive her thoughts were. Basically she was an elitist bitch who hated everyone who didn't work like a chinaman held at gunpoint and/or a handsome entrepreneur.

Basically...just read the wikipedia article and read some quality philosophy.

everyone who doesnt like The Phantom Tollbooth is a dirty whore and

>>41663463

I fucking love the Dark Tower series. Anything King writes is good.

>>41663251
I FUCKING LOVED THAT SERIES. They had them in the U.S. too.

>>41663463
I just finished reading this series, It's the fucking best. I'm still not sure how to feel about the ending.

>>41663698
thank you

also, if video games are ever going to be art, they will need a literate fanbase, will they not?

Don Quixote is a great book.

I really fucking hate The Great Gatsby.

>>41663384
The Road was fucking terrible. Boring, punctuation-less piece of shit.

>>41663673
I agree. It was all paranoid, Glenn Beck, alarmist, Illuminati bullshit...

Gawd I hate Bradbury...How about reading some Asimov or Dick?

Best thing I read in Highschool:
King Lear, also Collection of Lovecraft tales.

Worst thing I read in Highschool:
Brave New World

>>41663673

I quite liked Fahrenheit 451, but holy shit, 1984? I fucking loved the shit out of that book, especially the ending, I thought I knew what was coming but it threw a fucking curveball. Brave New World had an awesome concept (for the society and whatnot,) and I rally liked Bernard, then they introduced the Savage and the book got shitty.

>>41663791
did anything even happen in that book? all i remember about it was that fitzgerald took the roaring 20s and somehow made them boring

Deus Ex put me onto these books:

Last and First Men, and
Star Maker

by Olaf Stapledon. Two of the best sci-fi/philosophy books I've ever read.

Last and First Men is a fictional "history" of the human race, from the viewpoint of billions of years in the future, starting from modern man as the First Men. Fucking awesome, great philosophy on man's purpose wrapped neatly in a fantastic science fiction story. Viewpoint expands gradually over the course of the book from decades to centuries to millenia and beyond.

Star Maker takes Stapledon's implied "perfect human experience" from the previous book and realizes it through a giant, intergalactic out-of-body experience. Explores the ideas of intelligent alien life, inter-planetary unity, and the superconsciousness. At the end, he can experience all of time and space from one viewpoint, and meets the Star Maker. Fucking awesome read.

>>41663251
I read them.

Also here's some more:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, Blade runner loosely based on this, really great)
1984 and Animal Farm, both great social/political commentary, Orwell was a mad cunt

>>41663806
Enjoy your airport paperbacks, bro.

>>41663866
no, man, i was required to read a literal truckload of paranoid bullshit before that

i was just sick and tired of dystopia, and it forever colored my perception of the book

it sucks, but there isn't much i can do

>>41662804
>Worst book I read:
Catcher in the Rye (200 pages of some whinny emo bitch saying phony and fuck every other word)
He only says "Goddamn" and only said "fuck you" once or twice when reading it on the wall.

2 video related threads on front page
Who Mad?
I Mad

Favorite Class Books So Far: THE MOTHA FUCKIN GIVER, The Odyssey

Least Favorite Class Book So Far: Midwife's Apprentice, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

>>41663864
Fuck yeah another person who thought brave new world was shit.

>>41663251
Canadafag here.

Read those when I was younger. They were pretty fuckwin. I read through them too fast though, so like, I'd be skipping paragraphs and shit for some reason.

I got up to "shadowlands" but then stopped at number two of that series.


I think I had the book of monsters.


I vaguely remember number 5 being really like, anticlimactic. It was like THERE'S THE THING. OOP NOW IT'S DEAD.

this isn't /v/ related

where the fuck are the mods

Did anyone else read The Chrysalids? That was pretty fucking weird.

>>41663463

hile, gunslinger

>>41664064
nofunallowed.jpg

>>41663817
bradbury's okay, if you're not reading F451

i thought the martian chronicles were particularly good, and also his short stories

You guys should count yourselves lucky. It looks to melike you all actually had to read interesting books for school. JANE EYRE I HAD TO FUCKING GRIND THROUGH.

>>41663899 Last and First Men is a fictional "history" of the human race, from the viewpoint of billions of years in the future, starting from modern man as the First Men. Fucking awesome, great philosophy on man's purpose wrapped neatly in a fantastic science fiction story. Viewpoint expands gradually over the course of the book from decades to centuries to millenia and beyond.

I stopped reading very close to the beginning when he predicted that Germany, after WWI, would become an enlightened, peaceful society. If he got such a near section of the future so hilariously ass-backwards, I'm not about to spend several hours listening to him postulate on what's to come billions of years from now.

ITT: 14 year olds who don't know shit about literature.

>>41664076
I read that in Grade 9. I found it boring as sin, but a real mindfuck at the end.

>>41662603
Strangely enough, I liked the Fountainhead. As well as Atlas Shrugged.

Worst was "To The Lighthouse."

>>41664076
Shit was ridiculously weird. Not necessarily good, but I didn't really hate it, either. I guess it was okay, just the parts I wished were more developed were left ambiguous. But I suppose that was for the best.

oh god, i had suppressed the memory of it

this book, right here, was the absolute worst piece of shit i was ever required to read in all of my schooling

i don't know what the teacher was thinking, except maybe "what will i do? 99% of my class is illiterate"

>>41664196
>had to read
>had
>Implying you're 14 and only read when forced to get an A+ by your dad to get a new bike from Santa for Christmas.

Fucking faggot.

>>41664196


Try being forced to read A Separate Peace THREE TIMES. THREE MOTHERFUCKING TIMES they made me read it. One of them was even an audio tape they played during class, and then we watched the goddamn movie after that.

My school sucked so hard they didn't even know what we had already read the previous year.

Worst books I've ever had the displeasure to read: Ishmael, The Communist Manifesto and Animal Farm.

Best books by far: Lolita, All The Pretty Horses, The Brothers Karamazov, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World .

Atlas Shrugged is the Libertarian Manifesto.

Ayn Rand's writing is superior to that of Carl Marx

I had to do a book report on Dune one year. I'm all for science fiction or fantasy, but I just found Dune to be unbearably dull.

>>41664482
ask me how many times they told me about columbus in history class

1492, YEAR OF THE YEAR, EVERY FUCKING YEAR

>>41664403
>>41664505
You guys haven't read Anthem?
I think it's the best of all her work.

dont mind me, just being god tier

>>41664505
Meh

>>41664505
For a second I thought you meant you had to read these in High School, and started thinking "holy shit"

It made me think of Freaks and Geeks where the teacher doles out Crime and Punishment to a bunch of 13 year olds.

>>41663139
Blade runner isn't a book asshole. It's based on a short story called do androids dream of electric sheep.

>>41664039
>Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

I hated that book, My 7th grade teacher separated our grade into "yellows"and "reds"

Yellows were discriminated one week (ate last, denied things, separate shit etc) reds the next. Was gay as shit.

TO TEACH US RACISM IS BAD

>>41664618

But I DID read those in High School.

I'm reading Catch 22 and Atlas Shrugged at the moment.

Fuck yeah, Yossarian.

>>41664648
>Decent books/movies I read/watched in High School:
read that one more time, and try to comprehend it

I don't remember the worst book I read in highschool, but the worst book I've ever read was Buffalo Afternoon. Holy shit, women should not write war stories.

>>41664357
>implying they're over 12

/v/ should really combine with /lit/
I'm mean really.

>>41664443
>Assuming assumptions and implying implications based on them

Jesus christ who's the real faggot

>>41664787

>/lit/

>>41663251
Goddamn i remember when those came out here in the U.S. i read the fuck out of those books. Then i got all excited when i heard they were turning them into an anime but the subs came out slow as a glacier so i lost interest.

My favorite book in high school was The Canterbury Tales. There was just something about the stories man.

>find 2 lit threads
>read one to end
>go to other thread and reach its end
>refresh first and read

etc etc etc feels good man

>>41664742
Scratch that, I remember now. Pride and Prejudice. Holy fuck.

i must cut off headmeat for our great allah snack barrrrrs!

>>41664882
there is /book/ in the text boards

also

Someone said something about A Separate Piece?

That book was fucking lame.

Now Catcher in the Rye. That's a good book.

one book that i refused to read: a christmas carol

GEE, I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE, THANKS FOR ASSIGNING IT AND BROADENING MY HORIZONS SO

also, fuck dickens

fuck him right in the ear

>>41664994
I loved this when I was younger, but fuck me they got annoying towards the end.

Everytime sunny spoke "WHICH MEANT SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF"

Or a large word appears "WHICH MEANS"

Who here read the glass castle?

great autobiography if anyones interested

the dad is a true bro

>>41662603
Weird, I just got back from buying that book.

Slightly off-topic, as this is the worst book I read in college, not high school.

So there are these wastoid Jappo kids living near an American military base and their apartment is a shithole with bugs and rotting fruit and shit everywhere and these kids do nothing all day and go to parties at night where everybody's doing drugs and fucking each other and all the Jappo kids crush up these pills and snort them while fucking each other's mouths and then the niggers from the army base show up and they start fucking everybody with their gigantic nigger dicks and one of them dresses the main character up as a girl and fucks his mouth and then the main character and his love interest break into an airport while high and fuck on top of an oil slick and then his friend slits his wrist but survives and the doctor laughs at him and the main character goes crazy and decides that the entire city is a dickbutt and he jams a blue piece of glass into his arm and passes out and when he wakes up he decides that he wants to be like the piece of glass in his arm and then the end.

Doing my part to help /v/.

Sage.

>>41663251
Fuck yes, Deltora Quest was my favorite series of books. They had some power of attraction over me. I couldn't help but read them. Even when she released The Shadowlands and The Dragons of Deltora. Even those ones were pretty good.

>>41665181
DO WANT

>>41665181
>and one of them dresses the main character up as a girl and fucks his mouth
suddenly, i'm interested

>>41664577
I thought Atlas Shrugged was better, except for the part near the end where everyone suddenly goes Navy SEAL to bust Galt out of derp-prison. It was a really, really retarded scene.

>>41665191
your efforts are futile

>>41664900
The anime was decent, but the subs were really slow.

I started reading Drood, any opinions /v/???

I posted this in the other book thread but what do you all think of this book list, I tried to set it up so I will be reading books that are most likely not that interesting to me then it gradually increase to books I'm actually itching to read.

To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Great Gatsby
1984
Count of Monte Cristo
The Divine Comedy
Ulysses

>>41662987
finally another fan of ice and fire, martin needs to hurry the fuck up with the next one

>>41665194

Yeah the first series was the best. I own the second and third ones though. I honestly didn't see the marriage coming at the end of the series.

I shit a fucking brick when he realigned the gem belt so that the first letter of every gem spelled "Deltora"

>>41665432
READ MONTE CRISTO LAST YOU WON'T REGRET IT

>>41665432
>To Kill a Mocking Bird
watch the movie instead; it's just not the same without gregory peck

>The Great Gatsby
burn it

everything else is fine

>>41665270
Agreed, through that whole part I was just like, what the hell man.

>>41663251

FUCK YEAH NIGGER.

Worst: Into The Wild (I had to read about that FUCKING FAGGOT CHRIS MCANDLESS to pass)

Best: The Giving Tree

Best book ever - Blood Meridian.

>>41665500

That was the thing about Deltora Quest. There were all these hidden riddles and secrets that were hidden right under your nose the whole time and when they finally got revealed you were all like "WHAT THE FUUUCK"

>>41665626

I liked All the Pretty Horses more, honestly

>>41662603
Worst book I read in Highschool: A Seperate Peace

god damn was that awful

The Count of motherfucking Monte Cristo is IMO the best classic literature of all time. Also, the Count is, once again IMO, the most badass character of all time.

>>41665624
>The Giving Tree
i cry like a bitch every time i read that

i'm tearing up just thinking about it

Hawthorne and Dickens.

Bah. BAH I SAY, YOU BORING MOTHER FUCKERS.

>>41664994

>read first few books
>hey, I quite like these!
>get near the end...

Why did that plot have to get so retarded? I mean, it was quite messed up as it was.

Took a writing course in University on College.

Was assigned to read Watchmen.

Never read it before prior to this course.

SO FUCKING CASH.

Has anyone ever read the Swans' War series by Sean Russell?

It was this fantasy novel trilogy consisting of The One Kingdom, The Isle of Battle and The Shadowroad. I remember liking it a lot at the time, but then I got into Ice and Fire and was just blown the fuck away.

>>41665727
if you only read one comic book (oh, sorry, GRAPHIC NOVEL) in your life, it should be that

>>41665675
Amen Brother

remnants was the shit.

>>41665727
SHIT IS SO FUCKING overrated.

>>41664787

There isn't a /lit/. Well, there IS the old text-only board, but those suck and nobody likes them.

There needs to be a LEGITIMATE /lit/.

>>41665780
Agreed.

I was the same way i took a "Comic Books in American Culture" class my freshman year, read Kingdom Come and Watchmen, never read them before.

Mind = Blown.

I really didn't like reading Brave New World.

Probably because I'm an uncultured swine.

I enjoyed the Grapes of Wrath though.

>>41665822
The first book seemed interesting, but I never had the opportunity to read more. Do you know where I could pick up the series?

>>41665657
Haven't read that but did read The Road and that too was mind blowing. Here is hoping they don't cock up the movie adaptations.

In Grade 10 I read Mein Kampf out of interest. Every single time I pulled that book out of my backpack everyone in the room would stare at me like I was some Neo-Nazi. For Christ's sake people, it's a book. Just because it was written by Hitler doesn't change the fact that it's literature.

did any of you ever read zelazny?

the amber series is pretty decent--the second series, whatever it was called, was not as decent, but still okay

>>41663899
>DADOES?
Oh man that was really neat. Especially the stuff with Mercer.
May I suggest Neuromancer and/or Virtual Light->Idoru->All Tomorrow's Parties?

Who remembers this fucker right here? I know I do, I started eating BBQ sunflower seeds like a motherfucker after reading it and watching the movie.

>"Worst book thread"
>Ctrl+F
>Jane Eyre
>Only one

You kidding me, /v/? Jane Eyre is fucking terrible.

I should read? Say yes to me? Say no to me?

BEST BOOK:

TWILIGHT.

>>41664482
i feel for you man, I had the audio tape and the movie in my class too, but I only had to read it once

>>41666114

You uncultured fuck. It's a great book.

>Go to /v/

>The top two threads are both book threads part 2

>>41663251
I have almost the whole Deltora Quest series on my bookshelf. only missing two books.
I dont know why, but I find a strange attraction to Haruhi Suzumiya books. I cant explain it lol.

Either everyone on /v/ hasn't read a book since high school or everyone on /v/ is still in high school. Everyone of these threads, even when not specified, ends up being about the tripe they trot out for senior English students.

>>41666114

I like Jane Eyre, and most other Victorian literature. To be honest they really ARE fucking terrible. Hackneyed plot devices everywhere, melodrama for the sake of melodrama, etc. But I'm not going to lie, I love that shit. Great Expectations is the book that really got me into reading.

Some bad books we had to read:
There Will Be Wolves
To Catch a Killer

>>41666079

Oh godamn, I remember that. In 6th grade we watched a play of it at San Francisco.

But I especially remember that song.

DIG IT UP OH OH.

Worst book (play): The Crucible
Best book: probably would have to be Song of Solomon or The Things they Carried

>>41666258
Tend to notice that too.

Should I feel bad that I haven't read 1984?
I plan on purchasing it now; several people from /v/ and IRL wouldn't steer me wrong, would they?

Worst book I've read?

Fucking THIS.

Could he have possibly turned on the Purple Prose meter higher? The whole first chapter was devoted to DESCRIBING A FUCKING HEATH. The storyline sucked too.

I read Slaughterhouse Five for my English class. Fucking great book, Kurt Vonnegut is brilliant.

>>41666398

Haven't read that book in particular, but Thomas Hardy is definitely WORDY. I liked Jude the Obscure.

>>41666128
GODDAMNIT HAS NOBODY READ THIS PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME their opinion of the writing in general and whether you believe the reading of such a novel is worth my time

>>41666318

DIG IT UP OH OH DIG IT.
DIG IT UP OH OH DIG IT.
DIG IT UP OH OH DIG IT.
DIGGIN' THOSE HOLES.

>>41666165

Normally I would >implying that Jane Eyre is not terrible, but this is a lit thread, so I won't. I will respect your opinion.

>>41663924
enjoy your lack of grammar and flow that is just lazy writing

>>41666079

Had to read this for school. Didn't like it.

The Red Badge of Courage

>>41666503

Ulysses = lazy writing

>>41666590
>Ulysses = literary masturbation
Fixed that for you. I mean, I guess it applies more to Wake but whatever

>>41666590
finnegans wake is even lazier

i can't believe it took him 17 years to finish it--it'd take me a weekend at the most

>>41666590
>Ulysses
>lazy writing

>>41666667
Naw. Naw.

Naw it wouldn't.

>>41666728
:D

think i'll try to read it again, brb

>>41666258
read the first post, this is pretty much all about books that we were forced to read in highschool, be it good or bad

>>41666781

Wait what
that was surprisingly level headed
/v/ what have you become

>>41666480
Is that the chick from Paranormal Activity?

>>41666667
>finnegans wake
>lazy

Worst: Great Expectations

>>41666781
>HE THINKS THAT FINNEGANS WAKE IS DECIPHERABLE

It's just Joyce trolling everyone.

not a book but a short story
metamorphosis turns into cock roach and dies

>>41666881
It's not amazing writing, but you have to admire the fucker for structuring and planning his stuff so well, or at least so intricately

Who else is reading this book? Shit is so cash.

>>41666971
Tried to and my brain puked.

Think I'll read V first.

Best: A Hero of Our Time, Starship Troopers

Worst: Anything in ye olde english

>>41666924
Kafka is fucking great. Depressing as all hell though.

Has anyone else read House of Leaves?

>>41666854
Yes.

>Ayn Rand's storytelling sucks
It's not as much storytelling as it's "LOOK STEREOTYPES AND STRAWMEN LOOK HOW AWESOME MY PSEUDO PHILOSOPHY IS, AND BY MINE I MEAN THE FEW PAGES OF ACTUAL THOUGHT I CRIBBED OFF NIETZSCHE",
>But the philosophy (though quite childish, LOL RANDROIDS) is somewhat interesting.
Better watch out boy. Being anything but what Rand wants you to makes you a looter. Dem children of the light will get you!

>>41666503

Cormac McCarthy's prose is exciting, and beautifully constructed. It's the 21st century, get with the times. Adhering to the rigidity of traditional prose writing is boring.

No one ever read this? Really? Best book I've ever read in Middle School. Fuck Of Mice and Men.

>>41667074
Yeah. Best work of fiction I've read in a /long/ time. Gets flak for being "popular," whatever the hell that means as far as noncommercial literature goes.

The Chosen

about 300 pages of gay Jewish buttsex, boring as fuck.

Drew dicks in my school copy.

>>41667106
Those blatant self-insert mary sues don't help either. Or that 90-page monologue. (Seriously. 90 fucking pages.)

>>41666924
I really liked that short story; it's just depressing.

>>41667074

Read it two months ago. Horribly gimmicky.

Best: 1984. I love Orwell's stuff. 1984 and Animal Farm are up there among my favorites.

Worst: Non-textbook or reading-aide related, I'd go with Heart of Darkness. I hated that book with a passion - I'm not sure how far I made it into the book before I said fuck it and read the SparkNotes.

thought on House of Leaves? I think it's one of the best books I've ever read, how intricate everything is, and even if it wasn't so crazy it'd still be a great read

>>41667202
I'm faking reading through that right now. Shitsux.

>>41666923
there's a passage in finnegans wake that i can't find anymore, just a page or so

i read through it, and it was the most astonishingly obscene and dirty thing i had ever read; i couldn't believe that such a thing had ever been printed

so i read it over again, but for some reason, interpreted it differently

the second time i read the passage, it was one of the most numinous, spiritual, and profound things i had ever read

all this on the same page

i agree that the book is, for the most part, incomprehensible, but if you have ever managed to comprehend part of it, you would know that joyce did not spend seventeen years of his life in order to troll people

>>41667265
So you "read" it.

>>41667310
Seeing as we're on /v/, I think it could be translated into an awesome survival horror game. Maybe not with the same title, but borrowing a lot of elements from the book.

>>41667248
>Or that 90-page monologue. (Seriously. 90 fucking pages.)

Long sections of bullshit you say?

FIFTY-SIX PAGES
NO PUNCTUATION
EIGHT SENTENCES ONLY
FINAL DESTINATION

>>41667347
>the most astonishingly obscene and dirty thing i had ever read
You should look up Joyce's love letters to his wife.

>>41667145
Fuck The Giver.

Most generic false-utopia bullshit ever. I could tell that even when I was in middle school.

In His own Write, Lolita, Catcher in The Rye, A Spaniard in the works, all great books.

>>41667347
What page is it?

>>41665908

If you liked those, check out:

James Robinson's Starman
Miracleman
Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol
Planetary
Sandman Mystery Theatre
100 Bullets
Criminal
Transmetropolitan
The Invisibles

>>41666971
best goddamn book ever

it's got WWII, it's got banana breakfasts, it's got the V2 rocket, it's got more wanton depravity than a stack of hustler magazines *this* high--there's something for everyone, really

>>41666971
It's next on my list. Reading some Murakami right now.

>>41667069
Oh man. "The Penal Colony" is so magnificently disturbing.

>>41667397
Escaping from the Minotaur in a labyrinthine Eldritch horror of a house?

Sounds pretty awesome to me.

>>41667137
you do realize that prose isn't rigid, it simply is. that's what prose is, anything else is poetry, and everyone knows that poems can suck. don't be such an ass

>WORST BOOK I READ IN HIGH SCHOOL:
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Some of my faves from highschool were Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Fifth Business, and Fear & Loathing.

Recently I've read The Road, Dune and right now I'm making my way through the American Classic's H.P. Lovecraft collection. I've also got an Edgar Allen Poe collection for after this.

They were fucking around with the curriculum so much that through Grades 6-10 we had to read The Giver. Every year.

Well actually in Grade 10 we had enough of the bullshit and convinced the teacher to give us Fahrenheit 451 instead, which I thought was alright.

Also I like Shakespeare. Probably doesn't count as books but that shits awesome. Haters doth hate.

>>41667486
i have no idea--there are like fifty pages on each page, and i read a different one every time it try to read the damn book

>>41667437
http://johnhamilton.us/2/jamesjoyceletters.htm

>>41667397
Silent Hill 4

But seriously I don't think I'd wanna see that happen, kinda for the same reason I wouldn't want a movie -- it just doesn't convey the same messages or feelings.

I'm talking a straight adaption, though, just some elements'd be cash.

>>41667363

What? The book sucked. It's a book that uses a number of gimmicky and obnoxious storytelling devices to seem complex, but thematically, it's incredibly simple. Pretty much the definition of pretentious

Hahaha, oh man, it was so funny when he said "theology and geometry!"

It was even funnier the twenty-second time he said it!

Anyone ever read "The Last Town on Earth"?

Takes place in WWI, and it's got a "Monsters are Due on Maple Street" feel to it.

Good book.

catcher in the rye is absolute garbage

no, im not trying to say that to be edgy. At first, the book was cool, but after finishing it, it is shit

pic related, my face after the ending

I loved most of the stuff I read when I was in school, except for Ethan Frome. I also wasn't too fond of Romeo & Juliet. It's like the Halo of Shakespearean plays.

Right now I'm reading Bonfire of the Vanities. It's a great read, and I recommend it.

Pride and Prejudice is the worst book ever.

If you've ever played a MUD or chatted on a MUSH or developed on a MOO, chatted about chess, programming, and psychology, traded puns and wondered at bizarre mash-ups of mythology, then check out Wyrm by Mark Fabi. Sure you'll shake your head at some of the eccentric, 90s-era speculation on "future technology" but some of the ideas about procedurally-generated content are interesting. And then come back and try to recite Ragnar's full name for me.

>>41667626
awesome, thanks

>>41667626
THERE IS NO REACTION IMAGE FOR WHAT I AM FEELING.

>>41667074
HELL YEA MOTHERFUCKER
I liked that book.

The Scarlett Letter for the worst book. Fucking a.
As for the best, I would have to say Faulkner. It really was a love-hate thing, but he's a really amazing writer. I never realized this until I had written my final dissertation on his works. :'(

Duddy Kravitz is a somewhat boring book about little Jew douchebag that Jews out everyone he ever meets like a little Jew. If memory serves me correctly theres a part where he hires a childhood friend to work for him for less than minimum wage, then that guy gets in an accident and he cuts his pay because of it, and then makes him work more.

He also interrupts sex with his girlfriend out in the field when he realizes the field is for sale.

>>41667401
this makes me feel better about my tendencies towards run-on sentences

>>41667802
Hell yeah, Faulkner. I fucking loved The Sound and The Fury.

oh fucking hell jesus balls
I actually got 1/2 way through the fountainhead

ONLY REASON I READ IT WAS CAUSE A GIRL I KNEW RECOMMENDED IT.

WHAT THE FUCK DID I GET INTO.

>>41667548

>and everyone knows that poems can suck

Yet the reverse also holds true.

Also, there's a traditional mindset of what prose should be like, and deviating from that is not a bad thing unless you're stuck in the 18th century.

FUCK YOU JANE EYRE YOU ARE THE MOST BORING FUCKING BOOK EVER. 20 PAGES OF A CHICK TALKING ABOUT HER FEELINGS THEN SOME INSIGNIFICANT EVENT THEN 20 MORE PAGES OF FEELINGS.

>>41665181

You think THAT Ryu Murakami book is out there? Here's the opening sentence of this one.

>The woman pushed on the baby's stomach and sucked its penis into her mouth; it was thinner than the American menthols she smoked and a bit slimy, like raw fish.

Ryu Murakami is a crazy motherfucker.

>>41667626
Jesus Christ, I can't stop reading these letters. This is... I don't even know. It's beyond morbid curiosity.

>>41667651
>but thematically, it's incredibly simple.

Well, no, if you'd actually done more than look at the words and pretty layouts.

Explain the story to me.

>>41667626
I wish men were still like this.

All the guys I've been with have been white-knighting boyscouts, ugh.

>>41665500
>didn't see the marriage coming at the end of the series.

What? How could you not?

>>41667560
which collection is that? I have two, and I'm reading through one now, we could be reading the same collection

Worst book I've read.
What was my teacher thinking? I didn't even get it at the time!

As boring as I found Ethan Frome to be, the ending was so tragic that I had to like it.

Best: The Good Soldier Svejk. Best war story I've ever read, hands down.
Count of Monte-Cristo, Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov (latter two in Russian).

Worst: Dunno lol

>>41668020
>Explain the story to me.
we're talking about house of leaves, right?

here goes: dude finds out his house is larger on the inside than it is on the outside, confirms it with lasers and shit

as if that wasn't creepy enough, a physically impossible black fucking portal to who-fucking-knows-where opens up in his living room

and shit just gets CREEPIER

and there's this johnny motherfucker, ignore him, he doesn't fucking matter

I hated Enders Game

I loved Starship Troopers

>>41667626
>At such moments I feel mad to do it in some filthy way, to feel your hot lecherous lips sucking away at me, to fuck between your two rosy-tipped bubbies, to come on your face and squirt it over your hot cheeks and eyes, to stick it between the cheeks of your rump and bugger you.

>>41668009
Fuck, forgot my image.

>>41668284
Well, yeah, you got it pretty much right (I disagree with the Johnny thing but whatevs). But you got it wrong, too, and that's what I was trying to say.

I mean, that's kind of one of the big points to the book. It doesn't tell you everything so you have to think for yourself. I could say it's a love story, some other anon could say it's a horror story, and we'd both be right. I mean that's example's kinda vague and you could go way deeper but you get the drift.

>>41668284
everyone matters, it's a man name Johnny truant who finds this old man's story about a man who's house is larger on the inside, like he said, shit gets weirder

he puts it into a book in the "unedited format" (weird formats due to not being written on paper and other shit) while telling his own story in the often times absurdly sized liner notes (some of which take up their own pages). the story starts affecting his own life, and there are tons (TONS) of little hidden messages and shit throughout the whole thing, I highly recommend it for it's price

I've lent it to a few friends, and so far not one of them has been able to finish it (it gave one headaches and confused the other, the third still has it but I doubt she'll read it)

>>41668602

>>41668572
i was just in it for the creepy, and it delivered

also, when i went to buy it, the bookstore was silent and empty, and the guy behind the register was a mute, i shit you not

after that, i sat up all night and read it in one sitting

i got my dose of creepy for sure

ITT: faggots with the literary comprehension of a typical 12 year old nigger

>>41667626

what... the...

>>41667626
My god, I don't know if I should be disgusted by his choice of words or aroused by his honesty.

>>41668767
Enjoy having no literary skills.

>>41667626
>My love for you allows me to pray to the spirit of eternal beauty and tenderness mirrored in your eyes
"Oh, that's not so-"

>or fling you down under me on that softy belly of yours and fuck you up behind, like a hog riding a sow, glorying in the very stink and sweat that rises from your arse, glorying in the open shape of your upturned dress and white girlish drawers and in the confusion of your flushed cheeks and tangled hair. It allows me to burst into tears of pity and love at some slight word, to tremble with love for you at the sounding of some chord or cadence of music or to lie heads and tails with you feeling your fingers fondling and tickling my ballocks or stuck up in me behind and your hot lips sucking off my cock while my head is wedged in between your fat thighs

WAT

>>41667626
You know those moments in life where you make a decision and you know that you can never go back to the way things once were? This is one of those moments.

>>41668911
You think that's bad? Wait until he starts talking about her farts.

Did anyone else have to go through the pointless Hell that was the Accelerated Reader (AR) program?

I swear, whoever came up with that should be sodomized with a tire iron.

can someone help me rember the name of a book?

All I recall is:
1. It's written by Tom Clancey
2. It involved subs
3. It was not Red October

>>41668171

Read Martin Esslin's Theatre of the Absurd. If you still don't get it there's no hope for you.

>>41669042
Not even worth the time mang, not even worth the time

>My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole.

>Have I shocked you by the dirty things I wrote to you? You think perhaps that my love is a filthy thing. It is, darling, at some moments.

Aw that was sweet of him

>dream of you in filthy poses sometimes. I imagine things so very dirty that I will not write them until I see how you write yourself. The smallest things give me a great cockstand - a whorish movement of your mouth, a little brown stain on the seat of your white drawers, a sudden dirty word spluttered out by your wet lips, a sudden immodest noise made by you behind and then a bad smell slowly curling up out of your backside. At such moments I feel mad to do it in some filthy way, to feel your hot lecherous lips sucking away at me, to fuck between your two rosy-tipped bubbies, to come on your face and squirt it over your hot cheeks and eyes, to stick it between the cheeks of your rump and bugger you.

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK