ITT: books no one else here has read

[Anonymous No.15819287]

[Anonymous No.15819426]

I read The Magus last year at the recommendation of another anon on this board. Was quite good.

[Anonymous No.15819430]

>>15819287
Literally on some chart and some light shilling which led me to read it a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.15819534]

[Anonymous No.15819844]

[Anonymous No.15819848]

>>15819287
haha i just finished it today

[Anonymous No.15819850]

>>15819534
I read Portnoy's complaint. I've read better stories about incestuous self-hating Jews. Is this better?

[Anonymous No.15819852]

>>15819850
No, it's his worst book.

[Anonymous No.15819853]

[Anonymous No.15819873]

>>15819287
The Interrogation by Le Clezio
Not good anyways

[Anonymous No.15819896]

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold - Waugh
En Route - Huysmans
A Sportsman's Sketches - Turgenev

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[Anonymous No.15820050]

>>15819287

[Anonymous No.15820052]

>>15819426
>>15819430
I never heard of it, but I just searched it up and it seems kinda fascinating. I’ve been on a mysticism tilt lately, would it be a good piece of fiction to incorporate those ideas? I’m reading Ulysses atm and I’m kinda shocked by the blatant references Joyce puts in to that sort of stuff

[Anonymous No.15820058]

>>15819426
I think that was me who recommended it. Very based of past me. Haven't found a book anywhere near as good since btw. That has remained since that time the last book I thoroughly enjoyed in that way. I'm worried it will be my pinnacle.

[Anonymous No.15820060]

>>15820050
wrong, I've read it

[Anonymous No.15820063]

>>15820060
What are your thoughts on it?

[Anonymous No.15820073]

>>15820063
It's excellent and I have no praise for it that hasn't already been heaped upon it for the past 50 years

[Anonymous No.15820082]

>>15820073
Fair enough. I found it to be very influential in encouraging me to pursue a career in ecology.

[Anonymous No.15820093]

>>15820082
as did I, though my "career in ecology" has turned out to be writing formulas in excel or snippets of vba code, mostly

[Anonymous No.15820095]

>>15820050
This is like the most popular book on environmentalism of the past 100 years lol

[Anonymous No.15820099]

>>15819426
I've also read the Magus, ask me anything

>That one scene with the film gave me goosies

[Anonymous No.15820103]

>>15820093
Eh, I also spend far more time writing R code than I do doing actual field work. However, I still get to develop original research on biodiversity conservation, so it's not all bad.

[Anonymous No.15820105]

Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra. A short novel by the best Chilean author since Bolano’s death

[Anonymous No.15820106]

>>15819287
People on here don't read, anon.

[Anonymous No.15820109]

>>15820095
I know this, but I haven't really encountered an actual conversation about it on /lit/ before, despite posting it multiple times.

[Anonymous No.15820155]

>>15820052
It has some cool mystic references, Nazis make believe (some poltards complained about a couple of black people on it), beautiful Greek landscapes and a romance plot driving the story. Let's just say the twist is more Freudian than Mystic though.

[Anonymous No.15820158]

You guys memed me into reading this a few years ago but I know you never read it.

[Anonymous No.15820225]

>>15820155
Sounds interesting, thanks!

[Anonymous No.15820235]

>>15819287
looks like trump on the right lol

[Anonymous No.15820253]

>>15819534
i read this one. blew me away.

[Anonymous No.15820364]

>>15820058
BASED good book recommender

[Anonymous No.15820395]

>>15819287
The proooooose

[Anonymous No.15820531]

>>15820106
have you read the innamorato first?

[Anonymous No.15820539]

>>15819287
>>15819426
>>15820052
>>15819430
>>15820099
I read "The Magus" and it sucked.

[Anonymous No.15820726]

[Anonymous No.15820757]

>>15819287
I read it, didn't really like it, the ending really pissed me off. But by that metric, it really did frustrate me, which seems to be the whole point. My problem was likely that i was grasping for some sort of plot, and rushed through Conchis' stories, expecting there to be some continuation of some suggestion of a plot in the beginning. Now i realise that it's more of an experience than a journey, but what can I say? It was my first postmodern book, I hadn't really read something maximalist before that. I'll probably read it again for the nuance and the allusions to mythology and psychology, which i remember piquing my interest, despite my rushing through the book.

[Anonymous No.15820786]

>>15820155
There was like one black guy in it I think, initially protrayed as a docile savage and then ooh he's actually just a normal stylish guy, even shakes Urf's hand in the end

[Anonymous No.15820839]

>>15819287
> No one has read 'The Magus'
Anon, it's a normiecore woman book, the kind they read on the subway.

[Anonymous No.15821041]

>>15819844
Why is it always this series?

[Anonymous No.15821953]

>>15820531
Wanted to but I hate unfinished works.
>Yes, I am looking at you, Gogol

[Anonymous No.15821988]

[Anonymous No.15822070]

>>15819287
i own a lot of local history books about my area and other places i've visited, and most of them are about rural southern italy, so i don't think many of you have read those..

[Anonymous No.15822220]

a pretty bad and unscientific book but a good introduction into psychoanalysis I guess

[Anonymous No.15822282]

>>15819287

[Anonymous No.15822365]

>Wine of Satan, L.Gay
>Beautiful Liars, L. Cohen
>Dream of Confucius, J. Levi
>Whiskey River, L. Estleman
>Threats, A. Gray
>Jonah Man, C. Narozny

[Anonymous No.15822369]

>>15819287
Loads of people have read The Magus

[Anonymous No.15822461]

>>15820158
Is it good?

[Anonymous No.15822987]

>>15820058

Maybe Invention of Morel? The Magus seems like the perfect English cousin to it and I was constantly reminded of it when I was reading it

[Anonymous No.15823000]

based niggerfaggot fantasy

[Anonymous No.15823030]

>>15819287
Would be highly surprised if any had read this

[Anonymous No.15823042]

The vast majority of modern novels can be applied here.

[Anonymous No.15823088]

My favorite part is when he calls out alchemists as being pathetic virgins

[Anonymous No.15823092]

>>15822461
Nothing special

[Anonymous No.15823168]

>>15820539

[Anonymous No.15823429]

>>15820052
It's good, but if you're on a mysticism tilt, you shouldn't read it. I was when I read it some months ago, this book ended it. See
>>15820155

[Anonymous No.15823474]

>>15822282
This sounds good, do you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.15824162]

>>15820106
I read a pdf scan of the original John Harington translation of this with all the old woodblock illustrations in it, loved it.

>>15822282
Not read this anon, but I have read his other novel Pure, so I’m interested.

Has anyone here read pic related?

[Anonymous No.15824221]

[Anonymous No.15824752]

>>15823474
I read it 10 years ago and am a bit fuzzy on the particulars, but I remember it being good. One theme of the book I liked is the replacement of mysticism with science during the time period.

[Anonymous No.15824764]

Obligatory my diary desu

[Anonymous No.15824775]

>>15819287
>>15819534
>>15819844
>>15819853
>>15820032
>>15820045
>>15820050
>>15820106
>>15820158
>>15820726
>>15821988
>>15822220
>>15822282
wtf kind of obscure shit is this? I've never even heard of these books.

[Anonymous No.15824838]

>>15824775
Why did you post this dumb shit on the last 3 or 4 similar threads?

[Anonymous No.15824856]

>>15824838
What are you talking about? I did no such thing.

[Anonymous No.15825074]

I don't read that much but these are the most unknown ones I've read

>The Driver (1922)
Supposedly had some minor influence on Atlas Shrugged. Was a pretty normal book, not particularly good or bad.
>the 2 sequels to Colossus
Very yikes and bizarre. As punishment for Forbin trying to help sabotage Colossus, Colossus has his wife raped for months by some huge Balkan brute in an Emotional Study Center (used by Colossus to research, quantize and understand human emotions). The woman then falls in love with the brute. Aliens (who are the 2 moons of Mars, literally) help topple Colossus, then come to Earth to exploit it for resources, so the gang switches Colossus back on. The end.

[Anonymous No.15825164]

>>15824775
That's the point of this thread, are you illiterate?

[Anonymous No.15825181]

>>15824221
Was it good?

[Anonymous No.15825200]

>>15824856
If it's not you, then there's some other retard going around missing the whole point of the thread, quoting a dozen other posts and marveling at how he doesn't know the literal millions of books published throughout history.

[Anonymous No.15825208]

>>15824752
Nice, thanks. Just picked up the pdf

[Anonymous No.15825242]

[Anonymous No.15825245]

>>15825200
Great minds think alike.

[Anonymous No.15825276]

>>15819287
I read it in primary school tho

[Anonymous No.15825319]

>>15824764
kek

[Anonymous No.15825396]

>>15823000
is this any good? I dont usually read c*ntemporary literature

[Anonymous No.15825440]

>>15825396
"The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe"-NYTimes

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[Anonymous No.15825462]

>>15825447
neat cover, is it any good?

[Anonymous No.15825492]

>>15825462
I remember it being good, I read it 6 years ago though.

[Anonymous No.15825519]

>>15825440
oh god

[Anonymous No.15825589]

>>15819850
really people are reading books by the barstool guy now? this board is pathetic

[Anonymous No.15825646]

>>15825492
Thanks. I wonder if I can find it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.15825863]

>>15825646
I found it in a random used book shop in Canada. I think there will be copies online.

[Anonymous No.15825882]

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[Anonymous No.15825930]

>>15825902
What's it about?

[Anonymous No.15825967]

>>15825882
rare cover

[Anonymous No.15825987]

>>15825589
dude liver lmao

[Anonymous No.15826070]

I love this book

[Anonymous No.15826108]

The Magus is great except for the BLACKED scene. That was hard to read

[Anonymous No.15826138]

>>15819287
I'd say plenty of people here have read the revised version of The Magus as that's all that's been in print since the 1970s. Has anyone read the original version though?

[Anonymous No.15826152]

>>15825181
Haha! yeah!

[Anonymous No.15826154]

>>15819287
i grew up in south jersey and wanted to learn more about it. best thing i think we have other than the now dead casino town was seabrook farms, helped a lot of japs back then. got the book when the grandparents died and nobody wanted the old books. this was one and then there was one specific to south new jersey

[Anonymous No.15826300]

>>15824162
I think I read part of that in college?

Pic related is the novel Shakespeare adapted into As You Like It, but it seems like despite that claim to fame virtually nobody reads it today. While Shakespeare's play is better overall, I think the novel's plot structure is more sound. Especially w/r/t Oliver/Saladyne's sudden change of heart.

[Anonymous No.15826483]

[Anonymous No.15826505]

>>15826483
Give me a quick rundown, the title is neat

[Anonymous No.15826528]

>>15826505
>Set in a fantastical version of medieval Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish follows a young boy, Leemet, who lives with his hunter-gatherer family in the forest and is the last speaker of the ancient tongue of snakish, a language that allows its speakers to command all animals. But the forest is gradually emptying as more and more people leave to settle in villages, where they break their backs tilling the land to grow wheat for their “bread” (which Leemet has been told tastes horrible) and where they pray to a god very different from the spirits worshipped in the forest’s sacred grove. With lothario bears who wordlessly seduce women, a giant louse with a penchant for swimming, a legendary flying frog, and a young charismatic viper named Ints, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a totally inventive novel for readers of David Mitchell, Sjón, and Terry Pratchett.

[Anonymous No.15826536]

>>15825242
Is it good?

[Anonymous No.15826537]

>>15826528
This sounds pretty neat actually, did you enjoy it?

[Anonymous No.15826554]

>>15826300
I’m >>15824162

Will have to check this out, I love As You Like It. I think some day I’ll have to tackle Sidney’s Arcadia, which looks in a similar vein to this.

[Anonymous No.15826594]

>>15826537
I did, because i got to read it in it’s original language. Not sure how good the english translation is

[Anonymous No.15826872]

buuump

[Anonymous No.15826876]

>>15821041
They republish old/obscure stuff and the covers are aesthetic

[Anonymous No.15826979]

>>15826536
Yes. Good style and Caillois at his most reactionary.

[Anonymous No.15827084]

>>15819287

[Anonymous No.15827129]

>>15827084
looks cool - any good?

[Anonymous No.15827135]

[Anonymous No.15827176]

>>15826070
My dad is a huge mystery fan, he has a bunch of judge dee books

[Anonymous No.15827209]

>>15827176
This one in particular is the a translation by Van Gulik, the others are original inventions by him, attempts to write a detective novel in the style of the Chinese, outlined in Celebrated Cases.
I want to read those again, I read a couple when I was really young and came to this prime work more recently.
Your dad is based, you should engage with those books and talk to him

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[Anonymous No.15827219]

>>15827129
its about psychoanalysis. I think. I read it before i was old enough to really understand it. I felt it was good even without understanding, so yes, give it a try. Its the second book in a trilogy, first one is more accessible.

[Anonymous No.15827234]

>>15827219
Neat, thanks

[Anonymous No.15827237]

Judging by the posts on this fucking board

[Anonymous No.15827252]

[Anonymous No.15827269]

>>15827237
come on lol

[Anonymous No.15827286]

I think I’m the only guy who read this.

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[Anonymous No.15827394]

>>15827135
Looks interesting..and uncomfy

[Anonymous No.15827398]

>>15827294
Looks based

[Anonymous No.15827673]

>>15827237
Retard book
>you can't criticize any aspect of muh oriental societies cause that's orientalist mmmkay check your privileges you fucking white male

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[Anonymous No.15828001]

>>15827961
/fa/core

[Anonymous No.15828256]

Bumping for interest, though I have already contributed my own obscure books

[Anonymous No.15828283]

not one person

[Anonymous No.15828285]

>>15820158
Read few of his books, this one not that good as Glorious Nemesis, very good author

[Anonymous No.15828298]

>>15823088
Boyle sucks, why even bother with reading him, i prefer Sendivogius

[Anonymous No.15828345]

>>15828283
Kek

[Anonymous No.15828362]

>>15827394
It's a costumbrist novel of Colombia. Basically it narrates the opening of a transandean highway. But that's just the first part of the book. The second part consists in the protagonist going around talking to chicks and killing some dude. The final part is he trying to help farmers in midst of a plague and win some love of a girl.

Interesting? Kind of if you want to understand the andean region. Uncomfy? Not so much.

Not worth reading if you are a gringo. I'm pretty sure there's no translation, even.

[Anonymous No.15828532]

I cannot recommend pic related for bedtime reading purposes, but I guarantee that none of you have ever read it.
>>15827237
Come on, everyone in the humanities has read that by now. An important book, but he's just as reductionist as the culture he critiques.
>>15827810
I thought his Cod book was fun, but Kurlansky isn't really obscure.

[Anonymous No.15828573]

>>15828532
Any Yugoslav anons out there? Here's a somewhat obscure book that I genuinely enjoyed. It was a punch in the gut though, especially for someone in academia.

[Anonymous No.15828589]

>>15828573
Finally this one hardly counts as obscure given Oshii's film, but the books are hard to find in English.

[Anonymous No.15828694]

>>15827252
I came here to post this, I'm amazed somebody else posted it first.

[Anonymous No.15828730]

>>15819426
>>15820155
>>15819430
>>15820052
Well sheeit, I'm bout to order it myself then too. Will look forward to discussing it here in couple weeks time when more people have read it.

[Anonymous No.15828743]

What's the difference between regular Magus and "Revised Edition"?

[Anonymous No.15828757]

Read it forever ago because I thought the title and cover were cool. Found it in some random used book store and I remember not really enjoying it. Looking up it's Goodreads rating it doesn't seem bad, maybe I was too young.

[Anonymous No.15829079]

>>15828743
The original version of The Magus is from 1965 and the revised version is from 1977; the revised version is the one still in print. The changes are extensive throughout the book. Some of the changes are just single words altered, while in other cases he rewrote entire sections.

[Anonymous No.15829084]

>>15829079
For example, here's a section from the original 1965 edition:
>"You're the most deliciously pretty girl I've ever seen."
>"Am I?"
>I had meant it; and I had also meant to embarrass her. But she simply widened her smile and stared back at me, and I was the one who eventually looked down.
>"Do we still have to... keep to the rules?"
>"If you want me to sit with you."
>"Who's the other girl?"
>"What other girl?"
>Her innocence was charming; no natural and so false; an irresistible invitation to take nothing seriously.
>"When am I going to meet your brother?"
>Her prettily lashed eyes flickered modestly down and sideways. "I hope you did not venture to think he was really my brother?"
>"I ventured to think all sorts of things."
>She sought my meaning, for a moment held my eyes, then bit her lips. For no reason at all I began to feel less jealous.
>"Wouldn't you like to bathe?"
>"No. I cannot swim."
>"I could teach you. It's very easy."
>"Thank you. I do not like sea water."
>Silence. She shifted a pebble with her shoe. It was a pretty buttoned shoe of gray kid over a white silk stocking, but very old-fashioned. The hem of her dress came within three of four inches of her ankles. Her hair blew forward, clouding her face a little. I wanted to brush it back.
>"You speak like a Scandinavian sometimes."
>"Yes?"
>"'I cannot swim.' 'I do not like.'"
>"What should I say?"
>"I can't swim. I don't like."
>She made a little pout, then put on a very creditable foreign accent. "Does it mattair eef I am not Eenglish?"
>Then she smiled like the Cheshire Cat; disappearing behind her humor.
>"Does it matter if you tell me who you really are?"
>"Give me your hand. I will read your fortune. You may sit a little closer, but you must not wet my dress."

[Anonymous No.15829089]

>>15829084
This is the same section in the revised 1977 version:
>‘You’re the most deliciously pretty ghost I’ve ever seen.’
>‘Am I?’
>I had meant it; and I had also meant to embarrass her. But she simply widened her smile.
>‘Who are the other girls?’
>‘Which other girls?’
>‘Come on. A joke’s a joke.’
>‘Then pray do not spoil it.’
>‘At least you admit it is a joke?’
>‘I admit nothing.’
>She was avoiding my eyes – and also biting her lips. I took a breath. She was so patently waiting to parry whatever next thrust I made. She shifted a pebble with the tip of her shoe. It was elegant, buttoned, of grey kid, over a white silk stocking with little open clocks, tiny petals of bare skin that ran up her ankles and disappeared under the hem of the dress some four inches higher. I had a feeling the foot was held out so that I should not miss this charming period detail. Her hair blew forward, clouding her face a little. I wanted to brush it back, or to shake her hard; I wasn’t quite sure which. In the end I stared out to sea, a little on the same principle as Ulysses when he tied himself to the mast.
>‘You keep suggesting you’re playing this pretend game to please the old man. If you want me to join in, I think you’d better explain why. Especially why I should believe that he doesn’t know exactly what’s going on.’
>She hesitated, and for a moment I thought I had broken through.
>‘Give me your hand. I will read your fortune. You may sit a little nearer, but you must not wet my dress.’

[Anonymous No.15829172]

>>15819287
Reading it now, actually it is pretty good...

[Anonymous No.15829194]

>>15826138
Really cute goat.

[Anonymous No.15829205]

>>15826594
You can read snakish?

[Anonymous No.15829232]

>>15828743
>>15829079
If I remember right, according to the foreword in the '77 revision (the one I read), Fowles thought the earlier version was very immature but I don't know what he changed.
The revision came almost a decade after the film btw, which has been hailed as the worst movie of all times.

Reading those quotes that anon posted, I just now remembered how much I enjoyed the dialogues. There's hardly any "she said", "he asked" or any such indications (literally none, iirc), and yet they are perfectly readable and you never miss who's saying what or talking to whom.

[Anonymous No.15829246]

Anything in my native language that's not been translated and is not a bestseller type or a revered classic has a strong chance of maybe not having been read by someone on lit except other Finns, just maybe.

[Anonymous No.15829263]

Non-Dutch/Flemish people will never know the delight of Herman Brusselmans

[Anonymous No.15829306]

Americans don't spell no good

[Anonymous No.15829308]

>>15819287
Fowles' novel Daniel Martin.

Not as well known as his big three novels, but probably the one that he had the loftiest hopes for. Unfortunately after this his remaining novels were minor works (Mantissa, A Maggot).

[Anonymous No.15829324]

[Anonymous No.15829381]

>>15829308

Hah! Read 20 pages

[Anonymous No.15830427]

I keep trying to recc this but nobody ever seems interested.
I guess Depression era gamblers, gangsters and politician machines aren’t everybody’s cuppa

[Anonymous No.15830477]

[Anonymous No.15830494]

>>15827237
The only people who have ever read this garbage are those who were assigned it at college for the sake of tokenism. Read Guenon for a real critique or Orientalism that isn't by a seething brown "person".

[Anonymous No.15830520]

>>15830427
At least recc the 1st book in the series

[Anonymous No.15830729]

>>15825440
>>15825396
that blurb is fucking stupid it has nothing to compare it to that shit franchise. It is very good. the story is compelling and the prose is fuckin' better than any other fantasy novel. the only qualms are that some poltards might be hurt at the fact the protagonist is a gay black man

[Anonymous No.15831013]

>>15819287
I read it, didn't expect an actual interracial cucking scene. Regardless it is a great read

[Anonymous No.15831051]

>>15819287
Lol. The Magus is immensely popular. Many of the people here have read it, including me.

[Anonymous No.15831076]

>>15827673
>didn't read it

It's a literary theory book about the construction of "The East" by Western writers. I only read it after some woke shithead in college said western Asia Studies scholars could never understand The East and it's all in that book. That is not what the book said at all. In fact, I would say thinking "The East" is some inscrutable impossible to understand magical place is exactly the kind of Orientalist mythology Said chronicles. Ironic. Just goes to show you, people who read books will always be smarter than people who don't.

[Anonymous No.15831079]

>>15831051
I saw a blurb that said "Even if you can't read it all in one sitting, still read it!" is this shit like 100 pages or something? No wonder everyone read it.

[Anonymous No.15831090]

I just listened to the sample from the audiobook on Amazon of The Magus.

>I suppose I had a lot of sex for my age. Girls, or at least a certain type of girl, liked me. And I had a car which was unusual for an undergrad my age"

Already hate the narrator. That's gonna be a nah for me.

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[Anonymous No.15831118]

>>15830477
Ooh, I've read this. Highly underrated modernist work. Kinda gave me sherwood anderson "winesburg ohio" vibes if you know what i mean.

[Anonymous No.15831157]

>>15828283
i fucking hate this picture

[Anonymous No.15831184]

>>15829084
>>15829089
more exposition but also more tension in the revision. i think you're meant to keep a critical distance from urfe, to distrust his judgment, rather than assume his perspective in toto.

[Anonymous No.15831187]

>>15831090
he is barely tolerable, purposely. there is a pay-off of sorts for you.

[Anonymous No.15831209]

>>15820045

I thought i was the only person who ever read this. Incredible book

[Anonymous No.15831244]

>>15829308
Is it worth trying? I love The Magus

[Anonymous No.15831247]

>>15831184
So he edited out the Cheshire Cat reference and replaced with Ulysses? First one is better.

[Anonymous No.15831333]

>>15831247
the original is excellent dialogue, but the revision achieves much more in less space. the simile with ulysses is not as strong as it could be, but it is at least effective--urfe is on guard, knows he is in some sort of danger, but still willing to pursue. this reveals more about him than we get in the dialogue, and again we keep are able to keep our distance from him. like an analyst.

[Anonymous No.15831344]

>>15830520
I didn’t like Legs. And it didn’t really have much to do with the other two. Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game and Ironweed are much more closely related. They’re about son (Billy) and father (Francis the protagonist of Ironweed).

[Anonymous No.15831359]

>>15831333
The revision leaves out the information about her accent though, unless that can be understood from some other part of the book, but didn't read, lol

[Anonymous No.15831460]

>>15827398
Yeah the cover portraits one of the last scenes of the book, where you brain's supposed to connect some dots and you find yourself having to come to terms with an uneasy truth.

Weird oral-tradition-inspired narration makes it hard to get into at first, though.

[Anonymous No.15831472]

>>15831460
This isn't some woke shit where the "uneasy truth" is that you were a racist the whole time and didn't know it right?

[Anonymous No.15831476]

>>15831472
jfc can't leave off can you?

[Anonymous No.15831491]

>>15831476
Wow, nice white fragility, buddy.

[Anonymous No.15831494]

>>15831472
No. Just the slow realization by a hunter that inside him lie the same tendencies that plague his prey.

[Anonymous No.15831508]

>>15831491
just don't like reading off the script of a play i didn't go out for.

[Anonymous No.15831509]

>>15831494
Oh shit, is the greek guy a homo in the end? Based.

[Anonymous No.15831536]

>>15831509
It's about the dormant propensity inside even the most righteous to take pleasure in the aesthetics of evil and death. And how boredom, when it's not healed by wordly distractions, leads to the dark places of the soul.

[Anonymous No.15831581]

[Anonymous No.15831613]

>>15828573
kako je prijatelju/prijateljice
o cemu je ovo - nije valjda cetnicka/ustaska emigracija pa im tesko

[Anonymous No.15831619]

There’s a lot to suggest that I’m not the only one who’s read this, but I’m not sure who else is reading it because nobody ever mentions Weaver and I’ve never met anyone who likes him.

Kind of sad. He articulated a conservative vision predicated on respect for nature, beauty, truth, and humanity at a time when conservatism was in need of an architect, which they found in Bill Buckley.

I’m curious whether Weaver met the same fate as Ayn Rand when National Review began to form and was left on the outside looking in.

Either way, modern conservatism would have horrified Weaver, who despised the excesses of industrial capitalism.

[Anonymous No.15831770]

>>15831619
second rate Christopher Lasch

[Anonymous No.15831791]

>>15820109
not the anon you responded to, but on those "post your favorite books/ authors" threads, I always put this on there. Also, there's tons of book threads on /out/

[Anonymous No.15831808]

>>15831581
had to read it for school

[Anonymous No.15832838]

>>15831613
Basically a semi autobiographical book about the relationship between a Canadian professor and a Bosnian Serb refugee she met in the 1990's.

[Anonymous No.15832857]

>>15820095

>what is Silent Spring

[Anonymous No.15832974]

>>15831581
Read it right around when Handke won the Nobel and they were throwing her name around as the most recent Austrian to win before him.

[Anonymous No.15833214]

im about to go to a couple bookstores.
i have a few books in my i'd like to get, but any books you recommend i should look for?