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Anonymous Mon Mar 18 11:52:27 2019 No.12784271 [Reply] [Original]

What books are the longest and most badass, that people only read to impress others?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 11:53:41 2019 No.12784277 >>12784271 The Bible

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 11:54:24 2019 No.12784281 >>12784271 Nowadays, people don't pretend they have read literature in order to impress others. I think it is more common to pretend to have read A Brief History Of Time and Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 11:56:40 2019 No.12784292 >>127842711 of the 18th century I have only read sorrow of young werther,and it wasn't long at all,or very hard

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 12:07:06 2019 No.12784341 >>12784271 A Brief History of Time

Anonymous Mon Mar 18 12:11:52 2019 No.12784363

Werther is sentimental trash. What is wrong with you? Why not a French novel? And why do you insert a poem in a list of novels? By that measure, the whole list should be composed of poems, since great poetry holds more aesthetic merit than great prose.

And how are IJ and GR above Proust and Svevo?

Americans are a joke!

>>	TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. Mon Mar 18 12:14:46 2019 No.12784377 File: 16 KB, 375x281, 1552626012622.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12784363 >Americans are a joke! You're a joke

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 12:20:03 2019 No.12784406 >>12784377 DFW was a monolingual brainlet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 13:52:33 2019 No.12784909 >>12784271 What is the benefit of reading the meme trilogies? Are they actually worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 16:51:27 2019 No.12785895 >>12784281 or that homosapiens book. Mostly just popsci stuff

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 16:52:23 2019 No.12785905 >>12784909 nah

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 16:53:55 2019 No.12785914 >>12784271 Who decided this? The Portrait of a Lady and The Prelude never get memed on /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 16:57:39 2019 No.12785933 >>12784271 Ulysses, The Man Without Qualities and In Search of Lost Time are the essential works of the 20th and they are all long as fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 16:59:55 2019 No.12785954 >>12784909 nope, none of those books are worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 17:42:11 2019 No.12786253 >>12784909 Tristram Shandy is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 21:45:29 2019 No.12787309 >>12784271 Is the Carlyle translation of The Sorrows of Young Werther worth reading over any other translations?

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