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15385347 No.15385347 [Reply] [Original]

What does the spine of your favorite book look like? What is its story?

I read it twice. It's probably 40-50 hours of reading, and I tried to handle it more discretely but it definitely has some charming mileage to it.

>> No.15385354

whooooooooooooooo cares. what is wrong with this board?

>> No.15385402

>>15385354
fpbp

instead of making a thread to discuss joseph and his brothers you decide to make one about the spine of a book. what kind of autistic retard are you?

>> No.15385481

I have this book but I haven’t read it. I have only read Buddenbrooks by Mann. Should I do Joseph und der Bruders next? Or Magic Mountain? I think I’ll save Doctor Faustus for last

>> No.15385494

>>15385402
This the majority of /lit/ has become intellectual posturing. OP is made a thread where we can discuss how good our books look in connection with how many times we have read them. I'm sick of this shit. The only good threads are Lolita threads because that's literally the only book /lit/ users know enough about to have a semblance of a discussion.

>> No.15385623

>>15385354
>>15385402
This

>> No.15385877

>>15385481
JAHB and BB are my favorite Mann works but I hear most people say Magic Mountain is just more accessible. As far as I'm concerned, JAHB does all of Magic Mountains themes and more and with more justice, but I could just be predisposed to the Biblical aesthetic. Many people find Magic Mountain's aesthetic very compelling but I don't know if that's just their NEET speaking. I also feel like JAHB is something of a synthesis of those two previous novels, being a cutting family drama (however in the reverse, from destitution to fortune) with the deeper philosophical and metaphysical contemplations of MM being leveraged to render incredible context in-between the major narrative scenes. It does a powerful job of trying to bridge the gap between our modern psychology with what may perhaps have been closer-to the Hebrew psychology of antiquity. Whether or not Mann was further or closer to the mark in his portrayal is of course indeterminable, and he multiple times endeavors to remind the reader that this may not have been a perfectly factual account but a mere possibility, yet it doesn't impede his ability to try and fill in those blanks with remarkable elegance and recreate in logical, reasonable order a compelling, realistic possibility.

I can't tell you where your interest lies but I'd certainly recommend it.

>> No.15385887

>>15385354
This.

>> No.15385937

???