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>Infinite Jest? Yeah, I’ve heard of her
What are the best big books?

>> No.12561879
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>>12561865
>pic related
is the best big book around

>> No.12561914
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can't talk about big books without mentioning clarissa.

>> No.12561953
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>>12561865
>Zettels Traum
Not that. Your brain is as small as that book is big.

Subversive trash written by KPD degenerate and Wehrmacht traitor Arno Schmidt. Popularized to undermine German culture and morality.
Pseuds like it because "it's a big book".

You guys want to know what it is about? Sexual depravity.

When I am Führer, all copies will be burned.
Reminder what the GOAT said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNbd_DuKiTo

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you call that a knife m8?

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>elephant is the best food because it's the biggerest

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>>12561865
taschen "sumo" sized books are so big they come with their own table

>> No.12561978
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got this 55 dollar book for 20 bucks

>> No.12561994

>>12561970
>was made by people who ddnt ownb the means of production
lmfao

>> No.12562011

>>12561973
>$20,000
what the actual fuck

>> No.12562039
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>>12562011
and that edition is sold out
fortunately they do a more affordable edition which is £100/$130 which is still big enough to come with its own stand
it's worth it, i think. i have some big taschen books and they're great

>> No.12562056

Should I read War and Peace? Is it worth it?

>> No.12562091

>>12562056
yeah it's so good
once it's over you'll be sad there's none left and will wonder what to do with yourself

>> No.12562120
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>why yes, I own big books full of substance like SUMO publikations, bottoms dream, and of course, the tamud. How could you tell?
>it's worth it, i think. i have some big taschen books and they're great

>> No.12562139

>>12562120
poorfag detected
also learn to reply properly

>> No.12562140

>>12562120
I have never received any joy out of any of the photography books I've bought. There was one time I bought a photography book by the great director Abbas Kiarostami and felt consoled by the fact that even though his films were great, his photography was just OK.

>> No.12562150

>>12562056
War and Peace is amazing and the other anon is correct in saying that you'll be sad that there isn't more. I hope you enjoy it a lot if you read it, anon.

>> No.12562155

>>12562011
They have a Hockney one for a similar price. If it sells at that amount, more power to them. I wish I could drop $20k on a book though.

>> No.12562162

There are some Complete Works of Shakespeare that run nearly 5000 pages long.

>> No.12562169

>>12562155
if it was a bound book of silver gelatin prints then it would definitely be worth it, but if they're just digital scans I don't get the price tag.

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>>12561865
I just went and checked my book shelf for the densest, thiccest book. 2,930 pages, what do you think, lit?

>> No.12562194

>>12562169
Just checked, it's $2,000. For $3,000 you can start bidding on an actual original Hockney at Sotheby's. I know where I'd put my money

>> No.12562211

>>12562139
Stop kvetching. I was not going to give you a get. Poor fag is not an argument. I wouldn't want that book if you gave it to me.

>> No.12562224

>>12562194
>start
yeah there's the key word anon
hockney holds the auction record for a living artist

>>12562211
>I wouldn't want that book if you gave it to me.
course you wouldn't anon
i mean you might spill one of your piss bottles on it

>> No.12562237

>>12562224
Yeah, but it's just a sketch. I know how auctions work, but you're also not exactly bidding on A Bigger Splash or Pear Blossom Highway

>> No.12562316

>>12562224
>hockney holds the auction record for a living artist
you would know that, because Modern Art is used to facilitate money laundering.
>i mean you might spill one of your piss bottles on it
Oh wow, you sure showed me.
real reason: It is decadent and has no value. just a big book filled with bad pictures to pretend you are well cultured. you're not.

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>>12561978
based rivvy saucer

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I just finished this and it was nice, blown away by how many retards misinterpret the part about the crimes as unnecessary and even torture porn

>> No.12562482

>>12562471
My favorite book

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>>12561865

>> No.12562944
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>>12561865
>What are the best big books?
manuscripts

>> No.12562963

>>12561914
Damn she thicc

>> No.12562978

>>12562471
Great book, I was blown away when I finished. It’s been 2.5 years and I still think about it

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

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>>12562991
Ferraris on the shoulders of highways.

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>>12562995
I watched chrome beams glitter in the dark of my mother's basement.

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>>12563003
All those moments will be lost in time.

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>>12563004
Like gas in an engine.

>> No.12563009

>>12561953
being a nazi is fucking gay dude

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>>12563008
It's time to die.

>> No.12563077

>>12562471
What was your interpretation of that section? I was shocked by how desensitized I was to the murders by the end of it. It seemed like the city was becoming desensitized to them too to the point that they had become commonplace. Still think about this all the time

>> No.12563114

>>12561973
>hairy armpits
nice

>> No.12563181

>>12563077
i agree that desensitization is pretty much the point

bolano creates a rhythm in which the reader is exposed to an overwhelming amount of brutally clinical crime scene descriptions that are buffered by segues into the lives of characters peripheral to the murders, causing an effect where the murder descriptions become essentially background noise to what the reader considers the more 'human aspects' of the chapter. the reader can get to a point where they either consciously or unconsciously just want to skip the murder paragraphs and see what the journalist/lalo cura/the psychic lady/etc are up to instead, reflecting how the detectives and public at large are effectively handling the situation anyways

>> No.12563224

>>12561865

Has a single anon ever actually read Bottom's Dream? I know plenty of anons have read Capital V.I, and three or four have actually been through the Wake, but I can't remember a single anon ever claiming to have read the Dream.

I wouldn't attempt it without before reading a good amount of Poe.

>> No.12563256

>>12563224
I own it and I have read it cover to cover.

>> No.12563258

>>12563256

What's it all about, anon?

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>>12563258
Shit I don't know.

>> No.12563389

>>12563265
NEVER SAY NEVER

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>>12563265

I don't think that's your room. I think this is an old 4chan meme picture-the odd juxtaposition of the Justin Bieber low-culture movies and a "heavy" high-culture thick book is the very stuff of classic 4chan memes. I don't believe that you've read the book at all!

I don't think you could even describe some of the stuff that happens in the book.

>> No.12563403

>>12563394
it does look suspicious, but hey, never say never

>> No.12563468

>>12563403

:^)

>> No.12563600

>>12563394
It is a meme and I was the one that first posted it. I literally bought a stack of those blu-rays for the photo then returned them. Note that they're still in their plastic wrapping.

The book is EXTREMELY incomprehensible because of the (bare minimum) double meaning of every sentence. In fact words are stacked on top of each other so that the sentence has an either/or logic gate in it, plus body motions you're supposed to perform according to punctuation marks.

Overall it was extremely difficult to read but I'll give it a 6.5/10. It wasn't quite as good as The Stranger.

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>> No.12563620

That's a big book for you.

>> No.12563796

>>125618 The Stand

>> No.12563818

>>12561994
technically Engels owned some means of production

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>>12561865
Any of you madmen ever get a turn on this?

>> No.12564416

>>12564394

It's sitting on my desk atm. I was in a bookstore the other day and I realized that he did a smaller volume and now I'm like oh god damnit I have to get that one too now.

>> No.12564625

Biggest book I have is the Taschen Leonardo da Vinci Complete Paintings and Drawings.

It's fucking gigantic.

>> No.12564628

>>12561865
I just bought that, what am I in for?

>> No.12564632

>>12564628
gains

>> No.12564685

>>12564394
Pretty good stuff

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>>12563009
You bein' a homophobe there buddy?

>> No.12565369

>>12564628
I don’t know. My copy just arrived today and I opened it and couldn’t read a damn thing

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well, here's a 2500-page MLP fanfic

>> No.12565537

>>12562056
yes.

>> No.12565551

>>12564690
Wtf I love Assad now

>> No.12565591

>>12562471
My favorite book, goddamn

>> No.12565735

>>12562442
i see not much has changed for england in the intervening half millenium

>> No.12565738

>>12563077
For me, I felt nothing. The way he describes it is all so clinical and detached. I don’t know if maybe his intention was to show how insignificant one person is? And that no one really cares to do anything unless it affects them personally?

>> No.12565791

>>12563265
>justin beeber
>zettels traum
fitting. same kind of people who think its cultured
>>12564628
see >>12561953

>> No.12565834

>>12565470
You are like a little baby https://fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The-Subspace-Emissary-s-Worlds-Conquest

>> No.12565856

>>12565834
nah, it's not printed. I know there are much longer fanfics, but we're talking big physical books here, no?

>> No.12565857

>>12563009
Not a Nazi. I am a German, and this book is a disgrace to my country.

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>>12561865
Just finished the audio version because reading it the first time wasn't enough.

>> No.12565899

>>12565875
The word count of all of those books is only 100k more than the super smash bros fanfic lmao

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>ctrl+F
>no Aristotle
brainlets itt

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>>12565899
i-is it good?

>> No.12566054

The Man Without Qualities

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>>12563265
WHO DID THIS!!??

>> No.12566326

>>12565857
Faggot. Sieg Heil Hitler.

>> No.12566425

>>12566326
Hitler was not a Nazi.

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>>12565470
What is that, Fallout: Equestria? Jesus Christ it's been a long time since I read that whole thing. 2014, I want to go back.

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books good

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>>12567038
it's Murky Number Seven, set in the same universe. it's much longer than FoE, too

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>>12567070
Where did you get that from? I've barely read any of the spin-offs, I got half-way through project-horizons and had to put it down because it just got shit and I couldn't find the other chapters online, and I began the first few chapters of heroes, pink eyes and murky number sevenback in like 2015 but never got round to reading the rest of them. Are they really that worthwhile?

>> No.12567184

>>12567042
>barth
>not a dalkey edition of sot weed

cmon!

>> No.12567202

>>12567163
those are not my books, it's from Absolutely Everything, they did multiple FoE printings and just recently MNS. I haven't read any of them myself, started FoE once but never really got into it. I'm more fascinated by the quality and, uh, ambition of these printings

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>>12567184
i got you bro

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>tfw poor

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yeah yeah they're all big but have y'all even seen brazil's entire tax legislation in a book?

7500kg (16,500lbs), 2,10m (6'10") tall, all written in arial font in 22.

>> No.12567585

>>12567244
looks like the villain from The Wailing.

>> No.12567611

>>12567253
>What are the best big books?
I doubt any Brazilian legislation qualifies as even good, let alone "the best"

>> No.12568260

>>12566050
It's actually fantastic

>> No.12568604

>>12567253
But why

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>>12567253
>arial font

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Any other combo problem solvers?
This one's a triple-threat.

>> No.12569230

>>12567042
which of those books good?

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>thank you for letting me borrow your big book, anon, it will fit nicely in my big backpack. ;)

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They sure aren't thick, but my Giger Necronomicons are the BROADEST books I own. something on the order of 24" x 18" or so, I can't be fucked to check atm