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what are some books you have read that you feel are underappreciated or wrongfully little known. pic related

>> No.11470577 [DELETED] 

>>11470574
The Culture of Critique

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>>11470574
It's a nice introduction to evolution written in a very interesting way

>> No.11471714

>>11470574
i bought it during sale since it was tagged as horror.

>> No.11471725

1984. My favorite hidden gem. Really relevant to our times

>> No.11471752

>>11470577
/pol/tard alert

>> No.11471802

>>11471725
this says alot about our society

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>>11470574
extremely /lit/ book

>> No.11471808

>>11471802
What does Alot say?

>> No.11471810

>>11471725
>>11471802
You mean the can I see your telly license UK, rite?

>> No.11471812

>>11471803
I've heard great things about "The Movie-Goer," which is based on one of my favorite books. How is this one?

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duuuuuuude

>> No.11471824

>>11471812
Its a short wonderful little story about a man who gets sick on the age and spits it out. I couldnt get into the moviegoer

>> No.11471825
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The first 3 Tom Mallin novels. Dodecahedron, Knut & Erowina.

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This was fantastic

>> No.11471846

>>11471752
Hi, how's your first day on /lit/?

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>>11471846
pfft ok kid

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>>11470574

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>>11471752
Nice boogeyman you've constructed there sweetie.

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>>11471863
nice book rec. you've got ;)

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>>11471752
JIDF alert.

>> No.11471875

>>11471828
>2700 pages of upperclass life

Is it really?

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>>11471867
butthurt alert

>> No.11471884

>>11471875
yes, the first, 1.5, and the last were the best. You can read the first as a standalone but it was totally compelling. Also it is extraordinarily critical of the upper class.

>> No.11471905

>>11471878
Whatever you say, you are god's chosen people are after all. ;)

>> No.11471917

>>11471752
>>11471846
>>11471863
>>11471867
>>11471878
>>11471905
Could you faggots post hidden gems while you accomplish nothing

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>>11471905
but I'm not

>> No.11472038

>>11471802
Yeah, we live in one of those, don't we?

>> No.11472046

>>11471878
I unironically think this

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>> No.11472061

>>11472046
we all do

>> No.11472073

>>11472038
not me I've ascended

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>> No.11472166

>>11472152
I'd buy that for a thaler

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>>11472059
care to elaborate ? what did Max Frisch do/think/write ? is "Homo faber" a novel ? is it different from the book you mentioned ?

another widely underappreciated one : Armistead Maupin

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>>11470574

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Henry Green in general is underappreciated imo
One of the best Modernists

>> No.11472227

>>11472073
Woah you rose up? we should all do that

>> No.11472247

>>11472152
>google ben dover
>porn producer
>google title
>doesn't exist
wow tell me more about this

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>> No.11472287

>>11472247
anon...

>> No.11472291

>>11472227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_miCS3HO9w

>> No.11472299

>>11472287
it's a joke but i don't get it

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bumping with this

>> No.11472681

>>11470574
this book is rel well known in germany

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I don’t really hear people talk about O’Neill that much and this book is quite good.

>> No.11472833

pretty much every book that pinecone wrote blurbs for

>> No.11472847

>>11471917
I did, it is called The Culture of Critique but apparently (((they))) don't like when you post wrongthink books around here.

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Here's mine
>>11472847
Truly the cutting edge of le resistance over here

>> No.11472892

>>11472847
People who rail on about Da Joooz are pathetic.

t. Jew

>> No.11472897

>>11471857
cool