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>>15401914
that book looks intradastin, thanks for the rec

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>>15401914
LA ROUCHEFOUCALD - MAXIMS

I'll play

>>15404076
You know I've only ever read The Stranger. Obviously you like The Plague. How are his other books?

Judging on the vibes of the synopsis alone

>>15404082
Who was changed and who was dead

>>15402964
Pale Fire

>>15401914
in Search of Lost Time

>>15402842
Caves of Steel

>>15404204
a high wind in jamaica

Are there any western authors that touch on the same topics as Mishima? I really loved this book.

>>15404076
Faggots will say this is a reach but a neurologist who writes like a goddamn poet dives deep into the aftermath of a non-fictional 1917 pandemic.

>They would be conscious and aware – yet not fully awake; they would sit motionless and speechless all day in their chairs, totally lacking energy, impetus, initiative, motive, appetite, affect or desire; they registered what went on about them without active attention, and with profound indifference. They neither conveyed nor felt the feeling of life; they were as insubstantial as ghosts, and as passive as zombies: von Economo compared them to extinct volcanoes. Such patients, in neurological parlance, showed 'negative' disorders of behaviour, i.e. no behaviour at all. They were ontologically dead, or suspended, or 'asleep' - awaiting an awakening which came (for the tiny fraction who survived) fifty years later.

>>15404383
the best fit is just more mishima. dazai is closest

id like a book with only competent, level headed characters who don't let themselves get drawn into stupid squabbles. i didnt find it in clarke's other work. i read pushing ice too and it was close but svetlana ruined it.

I basically just want something amusing to read before bed each night

>>15405970
havent read your book if you want a peep into life in england from a long time ago with generous helpings of british humor then jerome k jerome's "idle thoughts of an idle fellow" answers exactly.

This is the last book I read that I really thought was great. Other than presumably more Stendhal, what/who should I read. I think the most similar I've read so far is maybe David Copperfield which I also thought was good, although very long winded, especially during the first quarter or so.

>>15406098
Prosper Mérimée.

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>>15406150
>It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out .jpg

still reading - and its rly nice read imo

>>15402964
>titties on the cover
Aw hell yeah!

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>>15406098
Have you read The Charterhouse of Parma?

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>>15406296
Maybe James Clavell's Shogun?

>>15405956
It's funny, that's exactly how I described Rendezvous with Rama to someone once. I said I loved reading something where everybody was just doing their fucking job and operating at more or less peak ability, without having token emotional drama for the sake of drama.

It might not be what you're looking for but I enjoyed Colin Wilson's two books, The Mind Parasites and The Philosopher's Stone, for similar reasons. There's some more squishy humanity in there (one of the characters goes into suicidal despair at one point and overcomes it), but overall the tone of the books is that these mentally gifted people rise to the occasion of an esoteric awakening and explore it methodically. It had a great pace because of that, for me.

I also like Lovecraft stories for the same reason, oddly. People confront the otherworldly and supernatural like Victorian gentleman and amateur scientists, without having to take a detour to reminisce about their fucking dead wife or whatever.

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>>15407840
No not yet mate, although I definitely plan to in the near future. Do you know what his other stuffs like tho? I think he did some travel writing or summat but I'm not sure if it's actually any good

>>15407909
guenon

>>15401914
this was pretty mediocre. idg the hype for pavese desu

>>15406296
Taiko (same writer)

>>15406343
I remember this book but it wasn't available as epub some years ago. I'm going to make one.

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>>15404091
most of his works are pretty based

Surprisingly readable

>>15410150
thank you

>>15409792
link?

>>15404481
Bump. I'm also looking for recs based off this. Sacks is brilliant. Read An Anthropologist on Mars if you haven't yet. If you have try anything by Primo Levi (Periodic Table or The Truce)

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>>15412478
Check >>15413003

>>15407869
Heliopolis

>>15405970
The Histories of Herodotus. There are *some* boring parts, but holy shit it’s also a goldmine of amusing tangents.

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>>15404076
The Fall

>>15404383
Finish everything by Mishima

>>15406098
Les Mis

>>15406343
Mouchette

I really enjoyed the atmosphere of this book.

>>15406098
A Hero of Our Time- Lermontov
>>15413571
Gynecocracy- Robinson
>>15413547
Walden- Theoreau

>>15417000
nice trips

>>15417000
steppenwolf