/lit/ - Literature

>>12633478
If your library is located in Murica, lose all hope in your own country.

>>12633485
It used to have a first edition of it, but I guess it got too worn.

>>12633478
Is there a good audiobook?

>>12633478
It's just okay, not a must read (like everything Roth wrote). Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy are better

>>12633485
>>12633493
Yes, it's in America.

>>12633574
still relevant though, and always worthwhile. I would not call more than a handful of book a must read.

>>12633750
Which books are those?

>>12633485
Why are American libraries so bad? I currently have Mrs Dalloway, The Book Of Disquiet and Don Quixote out from the library, and recently read The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea and Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep from the library, and plan to borrow Mythology and Bryan Magee's The Story Of Philosophy soon. But from what I can tell American libraries just have YA and homeless people.

>>12633766
>Portnoy's complaint
was a hit back then because it's refreshingly honest about life, sex, society, men's psyche.
>American Pastoral
what if the U.S. became nazis? (haven't read it but its relevance is undeniable)
>can't be arsed to get the other title in mind
amusing rants about life

>>12633793
It's not so bad. There are some classics. What country are you from?

>>12633804
>what if the U.S. became nazis? (haven't read it but its relevance is undeniable)
I think you're thinking of The Plot Against America.

>>12633811
exactly. thank you.

>>12633485
>if american building doesn't have american author lose all hope in america
the material is more important than the place in which it is housed

>>12633819
What do you mean?

>>12633478
Why even waste your time reading (((Philip Roth)))?

my library had Siddhartha which is cool

>library has 1st Edition of Women and Men

Just order it.

Libraries don’t ship books in from other locations anymore?

You can't borrow a book a jew wrote, you have to but it. Nice set up.

>>12634089
>At a dinner party, Seymour discovers that his wife Dawn has been having an affair with Princeton-educated architect William Orcutt III, for whom she undergoes a facelift. Seymour then realizes that his wife is planning to leave him for Orcutt. It is revealed that Seymour himself previously had a short-term affair with Merry's speech therapist, Sheila Salzman, and that she and her husband Shelly hid Merry in their home after the post office bombing. Seymour sadly concludes that everyone he knows may have a veneer of respectability, but each engages in subversive behavior and that he cannot understand the truth about anyone based upon the conduct they outwardly display. He is forced to see the truth about the chaos and discord rumbling beneath the "American pastoral", which has brought about profound personal and societal changes he no longer can ignore. Simultaneously, the dinner party underscores the fact that no one ever truly understands the hearts of other people.
of course
>>12633811
of course

>>12633478
>(Calgary) Library doesn't have Thus Spake Zarathustra nor World as Will and Representation

I don't know how they think this is acceptable

>>12634201
I think they might actually do that. I'll check into it.

>>12633478
You dodged a bullet. It’s not that good desu. Roth repeats himself more than an Alzheimer’s patient.