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Any genre, but they have to be good.

>> No.6934294

Tao Lin's Richard Yates is masterful.

>> No.6934298

>>6934285
god DAMN that fucking BOOTY
I'd fuckinf DESTROY THAT SHIT
AHHHH
TEST
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>> No.6934302

Greene's The Quiet American is pretty good and only about 180 pages

>> No.6934307

ayyy who dat girl in da foto?

>> No.6934314
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The Old Man and the Sea

>> No.6934316

read the fucking sticky

>> No.6934333

>>6934294
go to bed, Tao

>> No.6934360

>>6934316

no no enough with the sticky. I want real time recommendations from shit you've read.

>> No.6934447

>>6934360
read the fucking sticky

>> No.6934574

>>6934447

Fuck the sticky and fuck you

>> No.6934577

>>6934447

What's the point of having a message board, if every question can be answered by "read the sticky!"?

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>>6934285
oh booty my booty

>> No.6934610

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, and, Pastoralia - both by George Saunders

The Trial - Kafka

The Nonexistant Knight, and, Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Carpenter's Gothic - William Gaddis

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>>6934285

DAT ENTIRE ASS

>> No.6934638

>>6934577
To have discussions about the books we read

>> No.6934659

Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Illych
Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher
Vonnegut - God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie
Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

>> No.6934664

Notes from Underground

>> No.6934690

Seize the Day saul bellow

>> No.6934696

>>6934659
One more I meant to include:

Maupassant - Boule de Suif (translated variously as Ball of Fat, Ball of Lard, Butterball, and Dumpling)

>> No.6934749

>>6934690
Of his works, I've only read A Theft, which I really did not like. Have you read that and, if so, can you compare/contrast it with Seize the Day? Despite how much I disliked A Theft, I don't write authors off based on one work, and I've been wondering what to pick up to give him another chance.

Also, to be specific about what my major complaints about A Theft: I found the dialogue often awkward and unrealistic, and I felt like there was a lack of subtlety with his metaphors and symbolism.