What are you reading? (Literature)

[Uncle Kenny]

I'm currently reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, The Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World since 1953 by various authors.~

And yes, that's the actual title. I saw someone mention that they were reading Lolita earlier on in the thread but didn't bother to comment; it's a pretty controversial book but the writing style is incredible and worth checking out. My friend actually recommended it to me as a means of studying other writing styles, which I'm pretty much doing with both of these titles.

Fun stuff, all crazy.~

[Prismeru]

The Naked lunch.

[DarkFalcon]

"Achaja" by Andrzej Ziemiański. I'm currently near the end of second volume.

[No Maam]

The Phantom of the Opera

Spoiler:

Pretty good, except for the heroine immediately thinking of suicide should the phantom "stop acting like a gentleman", instead of, you know, trying to kill him. Also I dunno if I should love or hate the fact that the whole "rescue" at the end, aka the last 80 something pages were completely pointless.

[Nolus]

The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Damn, I love Lovecraft.

[No Maam]

The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Damn, I love Lovecraft.

..........

Are you actively trying to make me love you even more ? Because damn it you're doing a good job.

[Nolus]

..........

Are you actively trying to make me love you even more ? Because damn it you're doing a good job.

I'm just reading some great stories by H.P. Lovecraft

[No Maam]

I'm just reading some great stories by H.P. Lovecraft

Yeah, and Lovecraft actualy writes compeling, three dimensional female characters

[DarkFalcon]

Yeah, and Lovecraft actualy writes compeling, three dimensional female characters

He does? Maybe I should give it a try.

[The Beast]

He does? Maybe I should give it a try.

It's a joke. His stories exceedingly so feature no women

[DarkFalcon]

It's a joke. His stories exceedingly so feature no women

<sigh> I guess I fell for it. <sigh> Many authors do that.

[andre]

I picked up a Confederacy of Dunces about a week ago and am reading it whenever I work for small periods of time. So I'll probably finish next weekend.

[loneassassin]

Hacksaw: The Jim Duggan Story. the autobiography of, who else, Hacksaw Jim Duggan during his time in wrestling. Tremendous book for any wrestling fan.

[No Maam]

It's a joke. His stories exceedingly so feature no women

Actualy they do, it's just they're all inherently evil abominations.

[Nex]

Yeah, Lovecraft was very much so a sexist and racist. He was definitely a product of his times.

But he was still a fantastic writer.

[CaptainKid]

One Piece (it's literature with pictures, don't tell me it's not it has all the same type of allusions, foreshadowing, plot elements, ect and it's better than most of the "books" out there)

-If you really need convincing reading Doflamingo's speech

Other than that I can't remember atm the last "book" I read

[Nex]

One Piece (it's literature with pictures, don't tell me it's not it has all the same type of allusions, foreshadowing, plot elements, ect and it's better than most of the "books" out there)

-If you really need convincing reading Doflamingo's speech

Other than that I can't remember atm the last "book" I read

There's a huge difference, and you know it. Literature is by definition a written work. Manga and Comics, though written, do not fall into that category, as they are a primarily visual medium. That's why, even if you don't understand the writing in a comic, you can usually figure out what's going just by looking at the pictures.

If we go by your qualifiers, then television shows, movies, and old school radio drama are literature too. After all, they all started written down. But that's not the way we classify them. Why? Because the written word is not the primary tool for conveying the story.

[Chicken]

One Piece (it's literature with pictures, don't tell me it's not it has all the same type of allusions, foreshadowing, plot elements, ect and it's better than most of the "books" out there)

-If you really need convincing reading Doflamingo's speech

No.

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I just finished The Mongoliad: Book One. I expected it to be awesome because Neal Stephenson was one of its writers. It was shitty.

I am now reading Dark Integers and Other Stories by Greg Egan.

[CaptainKid]

No.

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I just finished The Mongoliad: Book One. I expected it to be awesome because Neal Stephenson was one of its writers. It was shitty.

I am now reading Dark Integers and Other Stories by Greg Egan.

Alex, I'll take EPIC FAIL for $2000

[Fishke]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I really like it.