/lit/ - Literature

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The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan
Love Is a Dog from Hell by Bryan Caplan

>>3117769
Oh, never mind then.

>>3117684
I concur. If you want something shorter - but not just some of his short poetry, of which I'm sure you've read some - try Manfred. Good stuff.

I recommend reading this so that you have a better sense of the context in which other stuff you read was written in.

>>3116138
Oh, I'm not arguing against reading it at all. By all means. I was just giving my two cents about Rousseau's character.

>parasite action
>gives life
Not sure what you're getting at. In biology, the opposite of a parasite is a symbiote.

>>3115719
Oh God, is that Fran from Black Books? At first, I thought it was a picture of Tom Cruise.

>>3116093
Rousseau really was a cunt.

>>3116062
In a day? Really? Isn't it pretty dense though?

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
"Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

I think Camus was a better stylist. I like his prose better. Though I haven't read any of Sartre's non-fiction, so I'm talking strictly about their fiction.

>>3112790
I read that book a while ago. How exactly is he a villain?

Does Raskolnikov count? The dude killed somebody, yo.

>>3110840
>I read it almost once a year.
For how many years?

I wouldn't do shit, because infinite money implies infinite inflation.

>>3109696
I fucks with Skins (U. K.) and The Big Bang Theory.

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"A staple of pessimistic rhetoric is to idealize conditions in the more distant past in order to put recent conditions in a negative light."

>>3107829
It is wonderfully crafted and delightfully written. The prose read's almost like a children's book.

W. H. Auden
Louise Glück

The Tractatus

>>3106699
Cool.

>>3106715
Cool. So just a genuinely fucking cool novel then? Sounds like a blast!

Does this book read more like a novel or more like a work of non-fiction simply veiled thinly as fiction?

>>3106578
This is the impression I've generally gotten.