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10053900 No.10053900 [Reply] [Original]

Post last book you read, the one below yours you read next.

>> No.10053925

I just read that book too. Looks like you're re-reading it OP

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>>10053900
Rolling for something good.

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>>10053900
Keeping up the kafka

>> No.10053959

>>10053925
I actually read it twice because I had no other book to read. So I'm counting that.

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boi

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This was good if you like weird ficition

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>> No.10054108

>>10053959
Nah mate, that's not how your game works

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I've been memed

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Rosemadder by Steven king

>> No.10054220

>>10054216
fuck my life

>> No.10054222

>>10054196
>Was literally gonna buy it online right away
>cheapest copy is £13
>Budget is tight as fuck at the moment

Maybe after payday

>> No.10054227

>>10053952

Really wish he finished this one. It's great.

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>>10054220
Lol if you want you can chase this series instead

>> No.10054284

>>10054222
Found the paperback version in a box of shitty cowboy pulp novels. Written in period-accurate language circa 1790-1800, so trees are called "butts" for some reason. Not genre-y at all.

>>10054212
>already read it
that means I don't have to again, r-right

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Have a blast, aboveanon

>> No.10054543

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

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Short and fun.

>> No.10054991

>>10054931
Read that not too long ago, I thought it was ok, but in comparison to his best stuff it was pretty shite

>> No.10055019

My last book was "The Master and Margarita". I liked it quite a bit to be honest, senpai.

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>> No.10055149

>>10055022
>Manhattan Transfer
Thanks anon. Looks interesting, I'll give it a spin.

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>>10053900
It's called "where the air is clear" in english, for my fellow gringos.

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>> No.10055221

>>10055220
i've been meaning to read a comedy for awhile now, thanks

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Above trump memer might be too stupid for this though

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>> No.10055262

>>10054227
It's weird that I find his novels to benefit somehow from being unfinished, and at the same time I feel they do reach a conclusion either way.

>> No.10055266

>>10054931
Monsignor Quixote for comfy stuff.

>> No.10055267

>>10055185
Read it, was a piece of shit. The most overrated Mexican writer, should be relegated to oblivion.

>> No.10055346

>>10055262
There is an aspect of the fact that they are unfinished which almost adds more depth to the works, however, at the same time I feel that Kafka is almost cheated as his works are so critically analyzed without his concluding inputs

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>> No.10055791

>>10054284
>Not genre-y at all.
Honestly would have been okay with it if it was, I enjoy a palette cleanser every now and then. But this is good too.

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>>10053900

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>> No.10056436

>>10056415
ayy lmao ayyy lmao lmao

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Well someone got off easy you can read this in a weekend.

>> No.10056443

>>10056441
I've already read it

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>>10056443
Well I only have one chapter to go in this so I can pretend I finished it already.

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Please don't be something by a Jew

>> No.10056459

>>10056448
Despite hating this shit I have to read it eventually for school anyway so I accept.

>> No.10056475

>>10056451
This really, really, sounds like pop science shit.

>>10056459
It's short and fun.
If you're reading it for school you should build some sort of family tree and take notes. I should have done that.

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>>10053900

>> No.10056484

>>10056475
It's the epitome of pop science which is why I greatly enjoyed it. It's like reading the first paragraph of thousands of wikipedia articles. Not supposed to make you an expert of anything but explains the basics of nearly everything figured out in the last 300 years and focuses more on how we know what we do including plenty of failed scientific experiements and theories and the discussions and opposition of the time.

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>>10056495
Nooooooooooooo I don't want to read this you can't make me I won't do it!

>> No.10056513

>>10056498
why is that girl?

>> No.10056514

>>10056513
MUMMY NATALIA

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>> No.10056540

>>10056498
Only a pretentious tryhard (who reads Machiavelli I might add) wouldn't love pop science.

>> No.10056616

>>10055791
>palette cleanser

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sorry for posting something so typical, but it is what it is.

>pls next poster, be something in german

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>> No.10056902

>>10055803
I'm from Grosse Pointe. Everyone there has read this and loves it. I used to ride my bike past a weird modern house on middlesex road all the time that could be the house described.

Strangely, I learned more Detroit history from this novel than I ever did in school or college.

>> No.10056910

>>10056885
>>10056889
thanks, was thinking of reading that for fun, too bad she's not german...

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>>10056885
also just finished that, was great.

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>> No.10057713

>>10057695
wtf is that cover?

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>>10057713
art

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>> No.10057957

>>10056853
Was it good?

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Nice thread idea, OP

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if you don't get it just ask any monkey

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I dig it.

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I chose the shitty meme cover but it is a good book.

>> No.10058846

>>10054305
is this actually readable or is it mostly nonsense like The Legacy of Totalitarianism in the Tundra?

>> No.10058894

>>10058845
he's pointing at us....

>> No.10058940

>>10058894
He's actually only pointing at you but he's looking at me.

>> No.10059038

I last finished The Sound and the Fury, my first Faulkner.

and now I am re-reading Gravity's Rainbow.

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Enjoy faggot, I sure did.

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>>10058845
That fucking cover.

Read this in a single sitting, only a 130 page novella but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Really dreamy, temporally interesting structure, or lack thereof. Coetzee's translation really works.

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This guy was a top tier genius
I isn't known if he ever read Machiavelli but he was doing exactly what Machiavelli says.

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>> No.10059234

>>10059231
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FUCK OFFF SHILL

give me another one

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>>10059234

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>> No.10059413

>>10059144
Richelieu is one of my favorite figures in the 17th century, he is also a wonderful character witness if you're ever charged with a parking offense

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>>10059529

>> No.10059553

>>10059537
My dad loved that guy, ty.

>> No.10059964

>>10059553
shut up

>> No.10059974

>>10058845
Is that PewDiePie?

>> No.10059975

>>10059537
"Sayings"

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Gotta stretch those français muscles

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Enjoy the sad Norway man, it's a fucking rabbit hole because there's six volumes, don't bitch the fuck out

>> No.10060252

Bird Lives!
Have fun learning about something you don't care about.

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Not sure I liked this. I think I'm too dumb to get symbolism.

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>>10060254
hope you enjoy it

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>> No.10060368

>>10060310
This actually looks pretty good. Never read anything stream-of-consciousness before.

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A good read for entertainment value.

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>> No.10060473

>>10059553
Enjoy. I read it after I'd heard some things about Diogenes and couldn't resist.

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Crazy ending, but that's the Japanese for you.

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Another Kafka

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This was really great. Hope you'll enjoy it too, anon!

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I actually finished Broom of the System last, but I don't recommend it, yet I am gonna finish this one today, and it is actually good.

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>> No.10061673

>>10061671
Thanks, m8, literally been on my bookshelf for too long.

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>> No.10061848

>>10061664
I've been meaning to check out Solzhenitsyn for a while now, so I'm gonna give this a go. Is there a translation you would recommend?

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Hit me hard, future anon

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>> No.10061996

>>10061848
That specific edition is the one I am reading, and it still uses Russian terms, but defines them in footnotes, which is cool.

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