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1212810 No.1212810 [Reply] [Original]

Sup,

I need a book recommended: something for my 27 y.o. sister, she's into journalism and whatnot.

I need a gift for her.

>> No.1212813

Haruki Murakami.
Chicks digg that shit.

>> No.1212823

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Chicks love that shit

>> No.1212826

>>1212823
I've read that actually. Pretty sure she read that as well. One of the most boring books by Dostoyevsky IMO.

>> No.1212836

>>1212823
Yeeeees, definately one of the best books ever, I wanna tattoo with Ivan

>> No.1212838

>>1212826
Whilst I disagree about your opinion I respect your individuality and personal tastes.
Also I am fairly useless at anything that isn't Russian literature.
Has she read a hero of our time by Mikhail Lermantov?

>> No.1212844

lolita,
chicks digg that shit

>> No.1212846

>>1212838
I don't believe she did, neither did I. Thank you.

>> No.1212847

>>1212813

Second. And if she likes journalism, she'd probably like his book about the Tokyo sarin gas attack called Underground.

>> No.1212849

>>1212844
Ok, I forgot to mention that I'm from eastern europe. So I've probably read most of the russian literature that you americans consider 'rare' and 'underground'.

I want something american/western european.

>> No.1213140

Hemingway started off as a journalist, and he was an American, so...A Farewell to Arms?

>> No.1213144

Homage to Catalonia

>> No.1213182

Ten Days that Shook the World-A American (socialist) journalist's account of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Voices from Chernobyl- An account of the Chernobyl incident where the nuclear reactor blew up. (I haven't read this one yet, but its on my to read list and it looks cool.)

>> No.1213898

>>1213144
I agree with this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. The first edition was published in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952. The American edition had a preface written by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation made by Yvonne Davet – with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explicatory notes – in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.

>> No.1213910

Give her some Kapuscinski

>> No.1213916

The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson

>> No.1213919
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1213919

"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote.

It invented a genre, a hybrid of journalism and gripping fiction.

>> No.1213944

The Boys on the Bus

>> No.1213968

>she's into journalism
>thread is not full of everything by Hunter S
I'm flabbergasted /lit/.

Everything by Hunter S Thompson OP

>> No.1213976

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe

>> No.1213989

>she's into journalism

"Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic art; for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way of giving interest to what they write. Herein they are like little dogs; if anything stirs, they immediately set up a shrill bark.

Therefore, let us carefully regulate the attention to be paid to this trumpet of danger, so that it may not disturb our digestion. Let us recognize that a newspaper is at best but a magnifying-glass, and very often merely a shadow on the wall." - Arthur Schopenhauer

how unfortunate for her :(

>> No.1213998

Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, or Truman Capote. All journalists/writers.

>> No.1214001

>>1213989
Oh, D&E. Stop trying to be better than everyone else. I might have to punish you later tonight in the bedroom!!!

>> No.1214005

>>1214001
>Stop trying to be better than everyone else

>implying conscious effort on my part
>implying effort is needed for that on this board

>> No.1214016

>>1214005
Actually it's implying that you have to try, meaning you aren't.

>> No.1214019

>it's implying that you have to try, meaning you aren't
Of course I don't, I don't need to. Nor would I ever on this board.

>> No.1214026

>>1214019
Of course you don't? Wtf man, can't you read? I said you have to try.

Wait, wait
>sy

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1214031

Also OP try "Gomorra" by Roberto Saviano.

It's an excellent journalistic account of the reality of the Naples mafia and it's influence on the life's of every European.

Saviano and his family had to go into armed recluse after writing it.

>> No.1214036

>>1214026
>I said you have to try.
>you have to try, meaning you aren't

i'm not sure what you are s(a)ying to be honest

>> No.1214047

>>1214036
If you have to try at something, that means you aren't already meeting the standard of whatever you're trying to do....

>> No.1214049

>>1214047
As opposed to it coming effortlessly.

>> No.1214058

>>1214047
>If you have to try at something, that means you aren't already meeting the standard of whatever you're trying to do....

But I'm not trying, as you say:

>you have to try, meaning you aren't

>> No.1214070

>>1214058
facepalm.jpg

omg, D&E I don't know how anyone puts up with you. I was implying that you goddamn moron.

I swear I don't understand how the fuck you think you're superior than anyone when you're so goddamn stupid.

>> No.1214072

>>1214070
But wait, I know what you're going to >sy

>didlo

amiright??

LULZ

>> No.1214106

>>1214072
>But wait, I know what you're going to >sy

>he can't greentext lol
or spell dildo XD

>> No.1214114

>>1214106
Mmm. That's right. Suck my cock, you dirty little whore.

>> No.1214123

>>1214114

naw brah suck mine lol

>> No.1214127

Is that the way you like it? I'll tie you up and suck your cock if you want ;) But first you better suck mine good. Now hurry up and finish what you started.

>> No.1214130

You better sy my name right though, okay baby?

>> No.1214135

>>1214130
maybe i'll even spell it properly for you who knows

>> No.1214142

Kinky. Can we take pictures?

>> No.1214146

>>1214142
but bro you already have some and we know you're not shy with em ;)

>> No.1214152

>>1214146
But i want moer :o

>> No.1214175

Hmm journalism, eh? then she'll want something by HL Mencken