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>> No.9582205
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bewbs

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>>9582104

>> No.9582223

>>9582205
klimt knew what he was doing

>> No.9582303

>>9582205
damn thats a good book

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>> No.9582344

>>9582104
Have you got an ebook of this?

>> No.9582359

>>9582344
Sorry, no, you sure it's not on bookzz or bibliotek?

>> No.9582448

>>9582359
Bookzz is down and biblio is giving me 503 error

>> No.9582466 [DELETED] 
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>>9582104
One of the greatest

>> No.9582500

>>9582344
It's available on libgen

>> No.9582527
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Under the volcano - malcolm lowry

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>>9582527
Umbrella - will self

>> No.9582536

>>9582104
Yeah this is great, I have this exact edition

>> No.9582539
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And quiet flows the don - sholokov

>> No.9582544

my diary desu

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The street of crocodiles and other stories - Bruno schulz

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light in august - faulkner

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suttree - cormac mcarthy

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NRSV version is legitimately bewildering

>> No.9582576
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cancer ward - Solzhenitsyn

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atlas shrugged

>> No.9582598
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unironically the Quaran
As-salāmu ʿalaykum

>> No.9582651

>>9582566
Seconded. This book has a pulse.

>> No.9582836

>>9582536
it's really well translated i feel, the language flows beautifully

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anyone looking forward to this?

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>>9582104
Have you seen pic related, OP? How does it compare to the novel? It's one of my favorite films, and you've reminded me that I need to read the book it's based on.

>> No.9583172

>>9582900
I haven't, but i've been meaning to

>> No.9583189

>>9583172
It's brilliant in my opinion, very underrated relative to the rest of Kubrick's filmography and also as a standalone work, critics weren't too impressed with it. Definitely see it.

>> No.9583190

>>9583172
Not that anon but it's pretty gr8. I didn't know it was based on a book, so now it's on my list.

>> No.9583212

>>9582900
>>9583189
at the end of the rainbow

>> No.9583947

>>9582466
>A portrait of a fart

>> No.9583972

>>9583947
>you solved a captcha to post this

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Debate me

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>>9582223
jaja

Huysmans - Against Nature

>> No.9584301

Actually a pretty good thread and shows /lit/ has decent taste, from what books I've read. joking posts here like Quran & Atlas Shrugged aside.

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>>9584301
Also for my own contribution

>> No.9584309

>>9582566
Good book but it makes me feel like total shit.

>> No.9584329

>>9582527
>>9582549
two of my favorites

Moby Dick I would say

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>> No.9584375

>>9584301
schnitzler in OP seems to have intimidated the plebs. this has been noted for future reference

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>>9582527
Damn this book wrecked me.

Pic related as my choice

>> No.9584412 [DELETED] 

>>9584375
"Intimidated the plebs"? You mean the goyim who have no reason to care about jewish filth that was considered little more than pornography and representative of the sick jewish mind when it came out? Are you aware of the sickness that exists within your people?

>> No.9584422

>>9582566
definitely this. the scene where he gets drunk and the prose descends into confused kaleidoscopic rambling is one of the best

>> No.9584445

dubliners
a portrait of the artist as a young man
ulysses
finnegans wake

>> No.9584488

>>9582207
I heard this book was about rape.

Is it?

>> No.9584601
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My all time favorite book, pinnacle of early 20th century Russki lit.

>> No.9584602

>>9584488
Have you considered suicide?

>> No.9584634

>>9584602
Which city is that?

>> No.9584636
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>>9584601
dig this if you like early 20th century Russkies, its probably #2 behind Petersburg for that time and place.

>> No.9584662

>>9584636
Thank you very much! I will certainly read this very soon. I've read some of Bunin's short stories and quite enjoyed them.

>> No.9584753
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Move aside.
The best book ever.

>> No.9584921

>>9582104
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch.

The most complete novel I have ever read. Nothing has come close.

>> No.9584941

>>9584921

>hasn't read Proust

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>>9582104

>> No.9584960

>>9584941
>hasn't read Broch
DoV and The Sleepwalkers are infinity more substantial and produce a greater depth of intensity than that self-indulgent French faggot ever could in all of his seven volumes. Seriously, go fuck with Broch and come back and apologize for being this stupid.

>> No.9584978

>>9584960
>still hasn't read Proust

>> No.9585628

>>9584978
>wastes his time

>> No.9586131

.

>> No.9586147

>>9584921
>The most complete novel I have ever read

isnt it LITERALLY unfinished?

>> No.9586485

>>9586147
Not at all, you're thinking of something else

>> No.9586514

>>9584959
YA

>> No.9586516

Madame Bovary

>> No.9586524

>>9586514
>peddled to children makes it YA
'Tism

>> No.9586527

>>9584602
calvino certainly did

>> No.9586534
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s k y l a r k
k y l a r k
y l a r k
l a r k
a r k
r k
k

>> No.9586632

>>9586524
I agree with Flannery O'Connor on the matter, friend. It's YA level.

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>> No.9586782

>>9582527
Love this book, absolutely devastating

The John Huston movie based on it is great also, really well done

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>>9582574
> I prefer the KJV myself
still >>this

>> No.9587120

>>9584308
Is there another Theroux poster now? What did you make of Laura Warholic?

>> No.9587146

>>9584753
This. No other book even comes close.

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>>9587146
Stop samefagging, Ukip.

>> No.9587473

>>9586632
Still masterpiece YA

>> No.9587634

The Gospel according to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

>> No.9587765

>>9584753
All memes aside, the cover is pretty cool.

>> No.9587779

>>9582527
First book I thought of when I think of masterpiece.

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>>9584601

Downloading of lib gen now. Thanks for the rec.

Also,

>Bulgakov
>Zamyatin
>Solzhenitsyn

>> No.9587947

voss - patrick white

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>>9587947
forgot cover pic

>> No.9587953

>>9584422

A gimmick fit for the tortilla man and his corncob parables.

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>> No.9587972

>>9584422
the best fight scene and best drunk scene in post ww2 literature

>> No.9587989

Musil's Man without Qualities

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>> No.9588207

>>9587791
Don't worry about it dude, just make sure it's either the Elsworth or the McDuff translation because the other English translations use the (in my opinion) inferior, heavily edited versions of the text.

>> No.9588610

>>9588057
It's a republic

>> No.9588690

>>9587169
htat's fucking sexy

>> No.9589124

>>9587069
The structuring for speech and leaner prose tipped it over for me. I was a former KJV man.

>> No.9589198

>>9587947
>>9587950
This is on my reading list. I hear different things about it. Masterpiece. Piece of shit. Mediocre. Boring. Deeply human.

Can you tell me more about it? I will read it, but I'm curious what to expect and what make P. White so monolithic.

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this series is god tier

>> No.9590677

>>9587791
>War and Peace
>Bulgakov
Some of the most overrated shit to come out of Russia