/lit/ - Literature

>reading degenerate contemporary "literature" instead of classics and folk tales from all throughout the world
Absolutely haram.

>>11775461
>reading Japanese short stories
>Coates (western-born but you know what i mean)
>Arabian Nights
What are you on about?

>>11775429
*snap* We wuz stack readerz and shitz

I can only really read one book at a time. Call me a brainlet but that's the best way I can remember plots and stuff without getting all jumbled up.
Currently reading Roadside Picnic by Arkadey Strugatskey. I was a little put off by the chapter size, as I typically read around 1 or 2 "normal" sized chapters a night before bed, but I tried to find a decent stopping point but the breakneck pace makes that kind of hard. I don't mid the pacing, though. I like books that don't waste your time with meandering bullshit.

>>11775429
Whats a stack? Im newfag on this board.

>>11776897
>Call me a brainlet but that's the best way I can remember plots and stuff without getting all jumbled up.
Same. It’s only about 30 seconds of confusion and reconnecting the dots but I’m also sure there are several details I’m forgetting that would make the story more meaningful, if even subconsciously.

What’s a “normal” sized chapter to you? 10-15 pages?

>>11777326
physical representation of a backlog, usually built through impulse purchases

pls no bully

Which one

Got these this week. Going to start with 'The palm-wine drinkard'.

>>11777982
dust off the dost, my friend

Oh, no, /lit/bros! Looks like I got pynched!

>>11777862
>What’s a “normal” sized chapter to you? 10-15 pages?
Around there.

>>11778297

>Dost
>friend

Kek

100 pages from finishing Cancer Ward.

>>11779050
Dunces seems to stick out

>>11779308
No, I made sure to line the spine up with the others

>>11779323
very funny

>>11779351
what?

>>11779391
don't pretend you don't know what is going on.

>>11775506
Coates is nigger-tier

>>11779050
Fucking reddit. You're pathetic.

>>11779393
;)

Working through dogtor jivaquo right now. I highly recommend it.

>>11777972
Rape/poo

>>11780261
Looks like you got pynched!

>>11780151
rude

>>11777972
May I ask why you want to read a book by Christine Nöstlinger?

>>11781022
s
Oh, I just bought a book of children's stories when I was in Mexico. Figured the Spanish would be simple enough for me to understand.

>>11779050
Can you upload a photo of that Storm of Steel cover? Looks nice.

>>11779410
Right, he’s black.

>>11781091
yeah, it's the allen lane edition

it's not censored like a lot of the other releases

>>11778272
Best stack so far, Puig is amazing, but what is that old book between Tutuola and The Iliad?

>>11778272
what kinda dumbass jew language is this? speak english
Iliaden? IT'S CALLED THE BIBLE YOU PIG

>>11782612
It's Swedishstani.

>>11782507
It's just a collection of famous russian writers, from Pushkin to Chekhov etc.

>>11782499
Have you ever had sex without paying for it?

>>11782725
ye

Reading Dubliners and The Republic, halfway through Dubliners and I'm enjoying it a lot. Haven't read much of the Republic yet, thinking maybe I should The History of the Peloponnesian War first.

>>11775429
What books qualify to be in "the stack"? All your owned books or only the ones you've read so far?

>>11783173
>assuming people actually read on this board

kek

>>11783180
So, you're telling me that all they do is compare their intellectual dicks, measured by the amount of the books they've read?

>>11783173
It's either books that have recently been purchased, or books that are in your current to-read backlog.

UwU

>>11783199
A stack is just a stack of books you have lying around. You don’t ever see any complications in the makers of these threads do you?

Don’t make it harder than it has to be

>>11782499
It's a kino cover indeed. Thanks for the upload.

>>11784070
That's a really nice one. The Opposing Shore, if the translation is good, will cast a spell on you

>>11784070
Cool stack. What are you reading now?

How about a stack of pdfs

>>11775429

>>11784127
I am looking forward to all the Gracq - I've read five of his other translated books and I have not felt disappointed yet. Supposedly The Opposing Shore is his best, so I think I am going to read the two short novellas first and then read it.

>>11784859
Out of those stacks, I am currently reading the Tales of Henry James, Portrait of a Lady by James, Moment of Freedom by Bjorneboe, and The Mysteries of Udolpho. Really enjoying everything except the Bjornboe - it is a fine book but I think it was "hyped" up for me and it so far has not met those expectations.

>>11778272
Which Iliad translation is that, anon?

>>11784882
>pdfs
eww

Don't know why Infinite Jest gets shilled so hard here, it's pretty average so far

>>11785902
anon say it gets good after the first 100 pages or so I've heard

>>11785902
Is 2666 actually good or does it just have the most kino cover of all time?

>>11784070
Pretty patrician, m(4+2+2)

Recent book fair haul very cheap
1/3

2/3

3/3

>>11787061
>>11787066
>Plotinus
>Protagoras
>Pelican City of God
Quite good

>>11775461
literally one of those 4 are contemporary. are you fucken illiterate?

>>11780261
not a good novel. nabokov was right when he said pasternak was a poet who wrote a novel at the right time

>>11787078
>Poliius

Nah it's Platonis, the Latin genitive of Plato. It's Plato's republic in Greek with but a Latin title and introduction. Was stoked when i found it.

>>11787124
>Plotinus*

>>11787061
>>11787066
>>11787073
very nice

>>11787215
Shit. I apologize for the broken necks.

>>11785184
Swedish one by Erland Lagerlöf. Another anon here recommended that version.

>>11784073
I'm just posting my own thoughts on the matter. Yours aren't canon.

>>11785971
the descriptions of the murders are really good but other than that, it's nothing special

kino art though

>post your epic nerd bookstack so you can fellate your ego to the spectacle of strangers online

>>11778796
pseud bells ring-ing

ding a ling a ding
ding a ling a ding

>>11787799
Some people enjoy looking at stacks of books and other people enjoy posting them

>>11787799
I like stack threads because I've found many good books to read through these.

>>11787900
Oh, my! How come? I've read two of them!

>>11787799
Or you can see something you like or looks intriguing, or an author you're familiar with already so you can discover another one. I read and fell in love with Anna Kavan's paranoid writing because of a stack thread. Keep bitching, though, maggot. You surely got my attention with this pathetic spectacle.

None of these books are ever going to get read.

Tell me what to read next

I was reading quite a bit earlier in the year, but in the past three weeks I lost all motivation to do so.

I spend a significant portion of my salary on meme books. I have posted in every stack thread of the last 2 years.

>>11788639
3 weeks isn't bad at all, I've gone years without reading in my spare time.

>>11788666
Hi, Satan.

And I get what you’re saying. I’m trying to make up for years where I didn’t read at all, and desu I’m having trouble concentrating for longer than 20 minutes. Hopefully it all comes together.

>>11788639
The Wealth of Nations isn't going to bring that motivation back. What a snooze.

>>11788550
Celine

>>11787061
The Hooker's exquisite; I read the same edition without the jackets.

>>11785971
Both.

>>11789155
>I’m having trouble concentrating for longer than 20 minutes
Read something which interests you, not some meme canon. Michael Bay of literature kinda books. After not really reading for years I pretty much inhaled Dumas Mount of Monte Christo and afterwards just stick to several 20 minutes daily. I usually read before leaving bed, before going off work/ on the way, in my lunchtime, after dinner and at last before bed time - combined I read 100 minutes daily. No one says you need to read it at once and it also gives you time to digest the more complex works or at leat think about what just happend.

>>11784882
Good luck being blind by 50

>>11778272
source of the tan/red spine? I've been hunting the complete set.

>>11788550
Another meme

>>11788550
Drop the Murafaggot.

>>11788550
Kafka and Kafka on the Shore

That Kafka Complete looks very slim though, how long is it?

>>11791661
I have the same copy, it's a collection of his short stories, no novels. Under 500 pages.

Currently undertaking a study of HRE. Reading a general history, followed by bibliographies and related literature. Recs?

>>11792053
harry potter - the prisoner of azkaban

>>11779050
I'm glad you're reading Cancer Ward, everyone else seems to ignore it.

Most textbooks I got for cheap and were used for older classes.

Currently Reading:
>Complex Analysis, Serge Lang
>Comples Variables and their Applications, Brown and Churchill
>ODEs by Tennenbaum
>The Autobiography of Mark Twain
>Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Next on the list
>Linear Algebra and it's Applications, Gilbert String
>An Introduction to Applied Mathematics, Gilbert Strang

>>11792146
omg lolz forgot the picture

>>11792108
It's seriously good. Very glad I picked it up.

>>11791163
Second-hand online. I think Faber&Faber has a complete (abridged) version of the Alexandria quartet.

>>11787215
pretty patrician, but thats not the latest and best spanish translation of FI by wittguy

>>11792073
Read modern history instead, retarded LARPer.

>>11784882
I tried reading in pdf format, it's just... no.

>>11793454
How is that larping

>The Picture of Dorian Gray -Oscar Wilde
>Worthless: The Indispensable Guide to Choosing the Right Major - Aaron Clarey
>Spunk & Bite - Arthur Plotnik

Very excited for Procopius.

Hard to see one is Training Ground: The Mexican War

>>11792053
>tao lin

>>11787364
That might have been me; I'm a big sucker for it. Good choice, anon.

>>11795501
Read Faulkner. Burn Danielewski.

>>11782499
Damn I want this. How much did you pay?

>>11781041
I'm doing something similar while learning Spanish. Even though I've finally pulled off my nostalgia goggles and gotten over Harry Potter, I figured I'm familiar enough with the context to quicken the process by reading the books in Spanish, with a little bit of help from a dictionary of course.

>>11787092
Nabokov was a fucking pseud to the max. Yes, he was talented, but he was still fucking retarded. Shitting on Dosto, Faulkner, and Henry James... now who could really trust a man's opinion after that?

>>11785902
DFW was a hack, and, yes, it's pretty average compared to the towering works of the greats, but I can't helping loving IJ. It was fun, somewhat enlightening, if a bit long, and moving. There, I said it. Pseud fags can eat my ass.

hello

>>11796815
You're a pseud who's probably a NOI type WOKE
>>11797194
Good luck there, m8.

>>11797310
NOI?

>>11797340
Nation of Islam

>>11795423
If you're the one who posted a comparison between the Björkeson and Lagerlöf translations, then thank you - really helped me decide which version to go for!

PS: hittade båda böckerna på bokbörsen.se för mindre än 80kr tillsammans!

>>11797194
Having read all those books, I second this >>11797310 guy: good luck. That's not exactly a pile of fun you have there.

>>11797818
That angle isn't artistic it just makes it harder to read the titles

>>11798377
based truthposter

>>11797818
>three books by (((yuval)))
>guns, memes, and steel
>reddit's guide to the galaxy

>>11777972
Communist poo..eww! To the laundry and then gulag.

>>11788639
This
>>11789188
I'm new to /lit/ and am amazed at how little fun any of you seem to have. You all seem to be convinced, since smart people read serious books, that reading serious books makes you smart. If you want classics go read some old-school pulp like Sherlock, Conan or Lovecraft (yeah, I know it's a meme, but it's a good one).

>>11797818
Bugman stack

>>11797818
hi leddit

>>11785902
LMFAO with this Bertrand Russel
>>11792053
Fuck off

>>11801916
Oh no, I have fun with it. The thing is some classics which other works are based off of don’t age well, and I’m met with the phrase, “don’t read that, it’s old and boring. Trust what I say about it.” I’d rather put up with the bore to ensure I get the actual message and not what someone might be trying to fool me into thinking.

>>11802210
Well then have fun with it, just remember there's no required reading list in life.

>>11801916
>I’m new to /lit/ but allow me to talk out of my ass and recommend pulp to people who want to study one of the most influential books to economic theory ever.

>>11789155
Read without digital distractions

>>11789314
How many pages a day do you average?

>>11803195
I don't really know, I don't really follow the numbers and more logical breaks in the text. I average 250wpm for an easy book, which is around a full side, so I guess something around 17 pages per sitting and 80 pages a day. But I don't really read fiction or stuff you fly through but mostly educationals in scientific, philosophical or political areas so taking short breaks to order ones thoughts is important and retention more than the speed of going through it. Just ignore the speedreedng autism if you read for knowledge and pleasure.

>>11778272
Based stack, have you started with Durrell's 'Justine' yet? I remember reading and really liking the Alexandria quartet, it's a shame it's so underrated here on /lit/.

>>11803195
And I guess it's important to say that those are the numbers of reading in english, which is my third language. Native would be something around 400wpm for the same difficulty.

>>11803281
wtf you’re pretty based what’s your iq

>>11803461
It's in the high 120s and I wouldn't consider it that much, but than again we're on /posting-about-literature-you-don't-read/.

>>11802961
You're a fucking manchild who fell for multiple memes. But the worst part is that orwell "book". Neck yourself before posting again.

???

>>11803795
>Doppel Hesse
>Loli Lit
>Integrationslektüre
Vorbildlicher Grünen-Wähler Starterpack.

>>11803795
Always nice to see Douglas Murray bashing on Tariq Ramadan.

>>11803795
Why is your Lolita so big? (pun)

>>11803795

>>11803874
was going to ask the same thing. is the font size 22?

>>11782499
This is such an amazing cover, why does the german one have to suck so much?

>>11803895
Because it's the gay de-nationalised version. Buy it antoqie from the prior 1930 in Fraktur.

>>11803834
Mein geliebter Bruder, ich darf nicht wählen, mir fehlt der deutsche Pass. Aber warum bringst du Hesse mit den Grünen in Verbindung?

>>11803904
>Muzzie
Well, that explains lolita and the fact that the only hardcover is the kiddie lover book. Hesse is a cuck and has never written anything worth anyones time. I'm actually surprised a muzzie would read him. Are you a gay refugee?

Nearly finished Bataille’s Literature and Evil, please guide me through my resting to-read stacks

>>11803909
Der Steppenwolf gehört sozusagen zum Pozzhahnrei-Starterpack

>>11775429
Romancero Gitano by Lorca
The Art of Colour by Johannes Itten
Kew Gardens and other Stories by Virginia Woolf
The Human Condition by Arendt

>>11787215
Good taste senpai

>>11788550
Kafka's short stories

>>11803917
Daily reminder to not stack your books that way if you cherish them.

Btw How's the "On the Cosmic Myster of Jesus Christ"?

>>11803922
Ich habe es noch nicht gelesen und kann es deswegen nicht so ganz nachvollziehen. Kannst du mir ein bisschen erklären warum?

>>11803874
i don't know desu

>>11803953
well could you find out?

>>11803917
Very nice stack my man. I've been meaning to read Sebald for a while.

>>11803943
an ideally temporary setting while i relocate, that's more of 'what i want at hand' pile
from the little i've parsed i'm lining it up for a really good engrossing read, the introduction is scholarly and lively. looking forward to sitting down with it properly.

Waiting to be read:
>a collection of plato's texts
>positions by derrida

>>11803910
some people on another german board said, der steppenwolf is their favorite, so i picked it up. can you recommend me other german books? i am not gay or a refugee btw, i am an
immigrant.

>>11803975
i think it's because of the epilogue

>>11804004
thank you

>>11803998
Demian/Emil Sinclair's whatever by Hesse.

>>11803998
Well, most germans are cucked beyond believe and Hesse gets memed in schools so it's one of the few books people read when they are lefties.

What kind of immigrant? What are your interests? There aren't too many good german books for beginners which aren't first about politics for which you should have read the classics like Herodot first idealy. If you like archeology I would recommend you Schmidts Göbekli Tepe or Cerams "Götter , Gräber und Gelehrrte", but that's pretty much just german in language. Have you read Goethe? Maybe something about explorers and sciene with "Alexander von Humboldt und die Erfindung der Natur"? The single female author I have in my library.

>>11804018
Go home leftypol.

>>11804018
i mean something worth my time lol

>>11775429
These are what I read from my PC, Phone and Kobo reader.

>>11803998
And of course the classics like Das Niebelungenlid, Parzival, das Rolandslied und die Edda as prose if you're not already absolutly fluent in german.

>>11804025
>>11804032
brainlets

>>11782499
is there a difference between the hardcover & paperback, content/translation/censorship wise?

>>11804051
Just give up, nobody wants to read your Schund anymore.

>>11803998
Jünger if you want to dip into the german mind.

>>11803895
Because this "book" reeks of faggotry, same goes for its readers. This cover showcases this.

>>11804018
>>11804039
i am the son of a so-called "gastarbeiter" (lol) and am here since i am 2, so i'm fluent. i just want to get more into books. thanks for the suggestions.

>>11804068
>>11804051
Maybe that's more to your taste, Kevin-Sören.

>>11804074
Get cancer and rot, mongrel.

>>11804070
The first one ain't me and I wouldn't sugges anything from Hesse or pushed as current great lit on german boards, as it's al mainly faggotry.

You still need to go back but meanwhile get into the classics and western canon start with the greeks) and Catholicism to understand how you got here. Göttliche Komödie, Bibel zum Verständnis, Gods Philosophers, St Augustin and How the catholic church built the western civilization, etc. You can only understand the german mind if you understand their religion and culture. And Hesse was always against what made germany and rather fleed somewhere else like a s*yboi.

>>11804082
I'm actually a proud german, contrary to some Gerstenburschi mit Weibertitten.

>>11804096
I never understood pride in this case, not the autist you're replying to btw. It's not like you achieved anything, you just happen to be the spawn of someone who got dicked in germany.

>>11804096
>Gerstenburschi mit Weibertitten
Pretend that your knife is daddy's dick and choke on it, 'tist. This is an anglosaxon board, barbarian cuck.

>>11804096
Name a single fucking German to be proud of.
I fucking double dog dare you.

Marx, Luther, Merkel, Hitler, Kaiser, Wilhelm, Hegel, Frege, Charlemagne, idiots who sacked rome *ALL CANCER*

ALL.

>>11804123
>I don't understand the concept of having a history, heritage and family to be proud of to step in their footsteps and keep it alive
Yeah, colour me surprised. People which aren' proud of what their acestors did won't keep their deeds alive. Be it wealth or things like democracy.

>>11804132
>anglo saxon
Too late my man, my ancestors literally cucked the bong island out of existance, you're a germanic cum bucket.

>>11804147
>bong spergs about germans
>literally nothing else but the man made breed by the saxons and has a fucking german family as their royals
Bong rage is the sweetest rage.

>>11804162
I'm Mongol, descendant of Ghenkis Khan, stfu.

Name a single German to be proud of

>>11804167
are you that estonian who shitposts in the Krautpol threads?

>>11804167
If you're a turk you are even worse than a bong in terms of genetics. Most of ou larp as Khans while beeing little more than the residue left after every important volk in existance has releaved themselved there and intermixed with the slaves you imported. Look at your genetics, you most likely don't even have a drop of Khan my Roach.

I'm proud of my family and the millenia of german history, be it good or bad, it made it to what we are and we were the peak civilization on this earth. Read Charles Murrays Human Accomplishment and look at his map. Pretty much every single invention was made in the purssian, bong and frence triangle with germany at the heart. Everything that made the world, even the best americans were racially germanics while your race are like the heebs, which can only revision history, lie and steal people and land. Semits gonna semite.

>>11804180
>>11804172
>unable to name a single g'rman to be proud of
so even you know they are white genociders

fucking ww2 itt

>>11804186
Are you retarded? I said pretty all were important. You want great minds? Visit Walhalla with pre 1950s exponats.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhalla

It's always funny how immigrants live for generations in germany just to shittalk her for beeing worse than shit, instead of going back to where they came from - to which they will fight tooth and hair to not have to be deported kek. You're deusional, muttblood.

>>11804132
>"On the other hand, the cheapest form of pride is national pride; for the man affected therewith betrays a want of individual qualities of which he might be proud, since he would not otherwise resort to that which he shares with so many millions. The man who possesses outstanding personal qualities will rather see most clearly the faults of his own nation, for he has them constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool, who has nothing in the world whereof he could be proud, resorts finally to being proud of the very nation to which he belongs. In this he finds compensation and is now ready and thankful to defend, … all the faults and follies peculiar to it."
>Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

Equally applicable to white & coloured trash all around the globe.

>>11805289
>le indellegdual big brain nibba quote
Is there any more yikesshy than people trying to make an argument from (pseudo) authority? Or do you also supscripe to women beeing big children with a mind unevolved beyond instant gratification?

Didnt see there was a stack thread. Ill post the pic again. Got it all today at a goodwill for $25

Not sure where to start.

bump

I want to see more stacks

>>11806537
LOTR
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>>11807551
Is the Silmarillion or w/e good and essential?

>>11807562
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whew stop making me reply..

>>11807573
I was thinking of skipping it honestly. The movie was whack but the books are usually always better

>>11807614
the hobbit is one of the best books ever. none of the tolkien movies are good

Recent purchases, about $20

>>11807614
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>>11807631
>The Triads
>Hong Kong Noir
>10 Billion Days 100 Billion Nights
>The Samurai
>Musashi

I want these

>>11807682
They were hard to find. The other bastard grabbed vol 2-5 and he was desperately looking for vol 1
I had grabbed vol 1 earlier and was desperately looking for vol 2-5.
It was a standoff, guy look like he was about to get physical with me. I pointed out I could read vol 1 and then he can have it later.

>>11807700
vol 2 to 5 of what?

>>11807682
I'm reading The Samurai right now.
It's a nice overview of the history of Samurai that doesn't fellate the mystique they've built up.

Hong Kong Noir is next afterwards, and it looks super interesting because it's actual crimes committed in Hong Kong/Kowloon such as the Hello Kitty Murders as well as other true stories of the gritty city

>>11807642
You worked hard on this and I want you to know I see you and appreciate you

>>11807723
Musashi. I have the first volume: The way of the Samurai
Book 2 is next: the art of war

>>11807631
Nice! Where do y'all buy your books from? You're getting such good steals. Thrift stores or something?

>>11807745
Thrift stores, there are several thrift stores in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that I pass by. Sometimes I'll stop and buy them up.
These ones all came from the same thrift store. It's a Frenchy's on Mountain Rd, Moncton.
Some guy must have donated them all at once.
After I read the Musashi one, I'm supposed to drop it off at some guy's mail box outside of Moncton. Got his address and all. He says he'll trade it to me for another Japanese sci-fi book he read.

>>11807760
Fuck that guy, you got the book first.

>sharing home addresses with strangers

What the fuck anon

>>11807849
It's the Maritimes of Canada man. It's like... you know those small villages where everyone knows each other and will give strangers rides to the next town? It's that sort of place.
It isn't say a place like Quebec or Ontario. It's a whole different vibe.

>>11807857
So there are no hindu or chinese gangs roaming around along with stinky frogs and baguettes that make you speak their language?

>>11807873
Actually, there are Acadians in the upper north of New Brunswick but they fucking hate Quebecers because for some odd reason every time they agitated for minority language education (ie French in New Brunswick), Quebec would back the side against them. This was out of fear that the minority English would agitate and win similar rights for english language education in Quebec itself.
A case of irony that is truly bizarre, the French in Quebec suppressed any movement of French language rights outside of their province to keep down the English minority they had within Quebec.
You will hear lots of bitching in moaning among French speakers outside of Quebec because of it.

>>11807895
Acadians are the best people on Earth. We need to reform Acadia and get all the Mick's sent back to Newfoundland

>>11793331
What is it then?

>>11796815
if you haven't read them already, i'd recommend SPQR by Mary Beard and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

>>11808065
>feminist marxist trash - rome edition

no thanks

>>11808065
>mary
>female
>writting about rome
I'm a woman myself and I know to never buy any books above childrens lit from the feather of other cunts. Especially not if they get shilled on Amazon and any RL bookshop.

>>11808397
desu I'v only read one book written by a woman in the past 10 years, and it was wonderful (Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian)

>>11808444
I have a copy of the biography of Alexander Bumboldt, which is the only female non kid lit writer on my shelves. It was okay, but exceptions don't make the rule. Mary is pretty well know for her political nature and trying to shittalk the west. She was the one saying after a press conference days after 9/11 that americans had it coming for their imperialism and is strong on importing more immigrants. People with such penetrant attitudes always write shit into their books, and women sadly have far more often such retarded ideas about politics and even if not, rarely any new ideas to bring to the table.

Just take the documentary "DW Secrets of the stoneage" which I saw yesterday from a female producer, pretty much every 15 minutes she claimed that the people were egalitarian, immigration made them great, that we are all tuks and arabs to beginn with and in 2018 still claim we am out of africa and that those early humans were strong on female empowerment and even matriarchal (probably) while lacking anything to base it on.

That's also why I said that anything shilled will most likely be trash and your example is pretty antique and little known in relation.

>>11808397
You could youse a fist in your cunthole, cunt bitch.

>>11808774
Considering how it's mostly womynz getting vulgar on other women online, you're either an effeminate bitchtits owner or a politically illiterate cumbucket. Pick your poison.

>>11808397
That's a very silly mindset to have. There are thousands of novels worth reading written by women.

>>11808919
Nope. There is a reason there are no female writers on any western canon worth its salt. Literature for teenage girl like Brönte and Austin is nothing someone should consider seriously worth reading beyond the like of an anteroom magazine.

Looking for some good fiction recs

>>11809159
All The Pretty Horses

>>11809189
Looks good, gonna add it to my list

So far I've got

>The Opposite Shore
>All The Pretty Horses

more recs welcomed

>>11809211
Catch-22

>>11805384
>Cherrypicking Arthur's chauvinism on a Malaysian hentai-dump populated by incels representing the living embodiment of his thought process

>>11809353
>blames others on cherry picking
>cherry picks in the first place
555-come-on-now

>>11793567
I only read TeX.

>>11805384
>yikes
>leddit