/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17265042]

Good books lit never mentions thread

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[Anonymous No.17265081]

They talk a lot about other Hemingway books but I never see anybody talking about A Farewell to Arms.

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[Anonymous No.17265257]

>>17265081
>books that /lit/ never mentions
>three posts in
>hemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmingway

[Anonymous No.17265584]

>>17265257
Why are you on /lit/ if you're too illiterate to read a short post?

[Anonymous No.17266052]

>>17265042

[Anonymous No.17266120]

>>17265057
Is there any similar books to that one? Attar is insane

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[Anonymous No.17266294]

>>17265057
Enlighten me on this please.

[Anonymous No.17266333]

Beautiful prose about a mysterious erotic love triangle taking place in a castle in Brittany, high use of symbolism. A very grim ambiance that always let place to aesthetic pleasure. The woods that only appear finite when they are replaced by the sea or when they give in to the sky, the tentation of drowning, sex, secrets, Hegel, murder, old castle. Not Gracq's masterpiece, but a very kino read nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.17266467]

>>17266294
the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their sovereign, as they have none. The hoopoe, the wisest of them all, suggests that they should find the legendary Simorgh. The hoopoe leads the birds, each of whom represents a human fault which prevents human kind from attaining enlightenment.

[Anonymous No.17266477]

>>17266052
Literally who the fuck reads books like this?

[Anonymous No.17266498]

stoner seemed to overshadow this one but I loved all the different voices through the epistolary narrative

[Anonymous No.17266841]

bump

[Anonymous No.17266921]

Why is it that /lit/ completely ignores 2/3 of the English canon? You hardly ever see 19th century writers referenced here; only occasionally Austen and the Brontës, and Tedfags memeing Emerson and Thoreau. No Dickens, Hardy, Thackeray, Stevenson, Eliot, Trollope,
Also according to /lit/ there were no English books produced between Beowulf and Tristram Shandy.
Also all poetry is completely ignored.

[Anonymous No.17267122]

>>17266921
bc /lit/ is an echo chamber

[Anonymous No.17267123]

>>17266921
suggest a book, you anglophone dimwit

[Anonymous No.17267153]

>>17266921
suggest a book you anglophone dimwit

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>>17265081
lol

[Anonymous No.17267671]

>>17265042
Bump

[Anonymous No.17267835]

>>17266477
midwit women who reads 6 books a year

[Anonymous No.17267879]

>>17265042
This or anything Dagerman really. The man seems to be not so much underrated as virtually unknown, and not only on /lit/. A real pity.

[Anonymous No.17269136]

>>17267879
But he is famous sweden author, it's just lit being illiterate basically about anything outside memecharts

[Anonymous No.17269168]

Paul Auster

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[Anonymous No.17269788]

Good book, decently popular in real life but never seen it mentioned on /lit/

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>>17270036
this is nicely written, but the prophet has some retarded ideas

[Anonymous No.17270055]

>>17269136
I'm glad to hear it, but even my country (France), which is pretty big on foreign literature, I've never heard of him, just stumbled upon his works by pure chance. Guess all countries are provincial to a large extent, no matter how hard they try to pretend otherwise.

[Anonymous No.17270081]

>>17270055
europe is provincial

[Anonymous No.17270087]

>>17269168
>postmodernism
No thanks.

[Anonymous No.17270099]

I don't think I ever saw Claudel mentioned here except when grouped with other French catholic writers

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[Anonymous No.17270176]

>>17265042
Based Fin de siècle exposer of degeneracy.

[Anonymous No.17270348]

The Dwarf by Pan Lagerkvist

[Anonymous No.17270433]

>>17270348
dwarf gets brought up regularly on /lit/ i think, at least enough for me to put in my lsit of shit i wanna read

[Anonymous No.17270667]

>>17270348
Barabbas is much better

[Anonymous No.17270678]

>>17267879
Bränt barn is kino

[Anonymous No.17270703]

>>17266052
reading a book by a black tranny very progressive

[Anonymous No.17270708]

>>17266921
Literature from that period is pretty shitty, that’s why. English lit from then, anyway.

[Anonymous No.17271309]

We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson.

[Anonymous No.17271339]

>>17269576
>Moresco
gigabased

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>>17271309
should i read this instead of hauntin on hill hause?

[Anonymous No.17272176]

anything by PKD or vonnegut

[Anonymous No.17272200]

>>17271790
*Haunting of Hill House
sorry lol

[Anonymous No.17272765]

>>17271790
You should read both but I would recommend reading we have always lived in the castle first. It's truly her best work.

[Anonymous No.17274296]

bump

[Anonymous No.17274351]

Read this two days ago. It's beautiful.
It's more akin to a poetical autobiography than to a novel, it's pretty unclassifiable. Christian Bobin lives and always lived in Le Creuzot, a very shitty ancient industrial town in the middle of nowhere. This book focuses on how he found beauty in this life, the title "prisoner at birth" seems very pessimistic but it is because Bobin finds beauty and love despite all the shitty things. He has a very childish sense of wonder and a very personal conception of Christianity. He talks about the exploration of Le Creuzot, Dickinson, his childhood, his crazy grandma, the workers, etc.
I recommend it! I don't think it was translated into English but it's short and easy to read if can speak a little French.

[Anonymous No.17274391]

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[Anonymous No.17274401]

>>17266333
>Not Gracq's masterpiece
which one do you consider to be his best book?

[Anonymous No.17274590]

>>17272765
ok thank you

[Anonymous No.17274597]

>>17272176
>vonnegut
mentioned all the time but rightfully shit on

[Anonymous No.17274721]

>>17274401
I haven't read everything by him (yet) but I'd say The Opposing shore, it's also the consensus. He also wrote some very comfy and personal literary essays in Préférences that I liked a lot.

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[Anonymous No.17276018]

>>17266477
I have a couple relations, types who slipped up into the lower middle class later in life, who exclusively read autobiographies with the occasional deviation for some sensationalised fiction like the handmaid's tale

[Anonymous No.17276033]

>>17266921
Trollope is good stuff

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>>17265042
Büchner is supremely based.

[Anonymous No.17276926]

>>17265230
The GOOD Murakami.

[Anonymous No.17276936]

>>17266052
Negroitic in appearance and demeanor.

[Anonymous No.17276945]

>>17267171
his second best book
mysterious stranger is #1

[Anonymous No.17276954]

Gorgeous and tragic book by a fascinating and largely forgotten 20th century presence.

[Anonymous No.17276994]

>>17276954
might read this

[Anonymous No.17277006]

>>17276335
fuck off

[Anonymous No.17277016]

>>17276335
This is just because this board is filled with failed writers, who are bitter that F. Gardner is succeeding where they failed. Books are honestly pretty good.

[Anonymous No.17277068]

>>17276926
exactly

[Anonymous No.17277088]

>>17276994
Highly recommended. Brilliantly translated as well.

[Anonymous No.17277093]

Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
Very strange book.

[Anonymous No.17277105]

infinite circle = line

[Anonymous No.17277149]

>>17277088
I won't have to need a translation, but I've never heard of the book before. Thank you for the recommendation, it sounds interesting

[Anonymous No.17277162]

>>17277149
Great. Then I recommend her Der Mann im Jasmin as well.

[Anonymous No.17277171]

>>17277093
One of my very favorites. Impressions of Africa is brilliant as well.

[Anonymous No.17277175]

>>17277105
Based! Cusa has been in my reading list for a very long time, was dedicating myself to be acquainted with later platonic philosophy and christian mystics that predated and influenced him before getting into him. What does infinite circle = line convey precisely?

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>>17277068
Piercing is good as well. Coin Locker is his best, though.

[Anonymous No.17277195]

>>17277093
Based
>>17277171
And based.

[Anonymous No.17277555]

>>17265042
This one and ivanhoe, maybe I have niche tastes or maybe just shit taste, but I think these two are excellent.

[Anonymous No.17277592]

>>17277555
trips of truth

[Anonymous No.17277689]

>>17276954
Read this around 5-6 years ago after finding it on /lit/, it was good but I can't remember what I liked about it

[Anonymous No.17278279]

>>17266498
>Augustus
The start was excellent but I really had to slog my way through this one. Was relieved when I finally finished. Big fan of Stoner and Butcher's Crossing. Debating whether I should read Nothing but the Night.

[Anonymous No.17278300]

>>17266477
My mum

[Anonymous No.17278519]

Sordello by Robert Browning. Testimonies:

Ezra Pound (in a letter to his father):
It is probably the greatest poem in English. Certainly the best long poem in English since Chaucer. You'll have to read it sometime as my big long endless poem that I am now struggling with, starts off with a barrel full of allusions to “Sordello”- which will intrigue you if you haven’t read the other.

I began to get it on about the 6th reading - though individual passages come up all right on the first reading

Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
“Sordello's story,” (The Sphinx yawned and said,)
“Who would has heard.” Is this enough? Who could,
('Twere not amiss to add,) has understood,—
Who understood, perhaps has profited.
For my part, I might tell a tale, instead,
Of one who, dreaming of no likelihood
Even that the Book was going to stop for good,
Turned the last leaf—and lo! the book was read.
Now shame on thee, weak soul of mine! With hand
10Guarding thy gathered brows, thou peerest at
A perfect Image built into the sun,
And say'st, “'Tis small and dim.” Nay, 'tis too grand
With heighth and sunshine: and because of that,
Fools scoff. But wilt thou too be such an one?

Oscar Wilde:
Oft have we trod the vales of Castaly
And heard sweet notes of sylvan music blown
From antique reeds to common folk unknown:
And often launched our bark upon that sea
Which the nine Muses hold in empery,
And ploughed free furrows through the wave and foam,
Nor spread reluctant sail for more safe home
Till we had freighted well our argosy.
Of which despoiled treasures these remain,
Sordello’s passion, and the honeyed line
Of young Endymion, lordly Tamburlaine
Driving his pampered jades, and more than these,
The seven-fold vision of the Florentine,
And grave-browed Milton’s solemn harmonies.

[Anonymous No.17279025]

>>17270127
Can you tell me anything about this?

[Anonymous No.17279236]

>>17277186
I've only read coin locker babies so far but his other works are on my list

[Anonymous No.17279307]

>>17277175
>>17277176
It about infinite geometries and their relation to one another in creating the trinity

[Anonymous No.17279338]

i am literally the only person in the english speaking world trying to meme this book

[Anonymous No.17279485]

>>17266477
my brothers gf and neoliberals

[Anonymous No.17280447]

>>17266921
because fuck *nglos

[Anonymous No.17280454]

>>17277016
fuck off shill

[Anonymous No.17280543]

>>17265042

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>>17281591
Wonderful book, also an antidote to a lot of the narcissism and stupidity online.

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>>17281698
Mmmm. I find that his works are consistently uplifting and I read them when I feel down.

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>>17279338
Whats so good about it?

[Anonymous No.17281854]

Kenko is such a captivating figure

[Anonymous No.17282207]

>>17276335
>>17277016
Tell me the story about this book and /lit/.

[Anonymous No.17282229]

>>17282207
Poorly written, someone is shilling it. You're called 'jealous' if you say something negative about it. The black /lit/ with camp covers is unironically better, I forgot the name, the one about cockroaches.

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>>17279338
nigga won a nobel u aint special

[Anonymous No.17282366]

I've recently been getting into literature more and more and I'd love to find some nice comfy books about adventure that would take place in the middle ages, but would have no supernatural elements. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.17282730]

>>17282366
maybe try Simplicissimus, it's a german picaresque novel

[Anonymous No.17282740]

>>17269788
had to read this for school in australia lol

[Anonymous No.17282797]

>>17282730
Hey, that sounds exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot, anon.

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>>17282366
GA Henty was the comfiest adventure writer I ever found, filled my childhood reading his stuff. Esp the Jim Weiss audiobooks are great. Not high lit but oh well, it's fun

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>>17282366
Letter for the King was fun when I was young.
It takes place in a fictional kingdom, but there is no magic or anything

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[Anonymous No.17285890]

>>17269168
This used to be talked about every day here.

[Anonymous No.17286045]

obvious one

[Anonymous No.17286751]

>>17280609
>Pedro Bathrooms

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>>17266467
Sounds pretty cool, actually. Reminds me of Watership Down

[Anonymous No.17287077]

>>17277016
>shilling your book 24/7 on /lit/
>people buy out of sheer curiosity
>success
Listen, I'm not going to say you're not doing well, but try not to attack other posters for not having your same level of autism and shamelessness

[Anonymous No.17287096]

>>17276018
holy crap my mother

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[Anonymous No.17287780]

>>17275795
This would be talked about if you could find a copy more easily. That’s generally one of the biggest barriers with some of these novels.

[Anonymous No.17287918]

This book. I see threads everyday about Crocodile and Arcade. I read all of Horror's Call this past week and Call of the Cradle was the best of the bunch.

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>>17274351
going to read that fr. thanks

[Anonymous No.17288047]

>>17282229
>"I forgot the name, the one about cockroaches."

Call of the Cockroach by F. Gardner.

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>>17274351
Would you like to translate this into English? I work as a translator, but I have fairly good French ability. We could work together as co-translators.

[Anonymous No.17288269]

Astonishing book. Strong Dr Zhivago vibes. Cannot recommend it enough.

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>>17288013
Nice! Let me know what you thought in one of these threads or in a /frog/ thread if one pops up.
>>17288235
Have you read it? Honestly, why not. But it's late here so I'll sleep on it and let you know tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.17289397]

>>17282282
>copies go for 10k+ apiece
wonder why

[Anonymous No.17289405]

>>17282366
The Kingbridge Series might fit well for you

[Anonymous No.17289718]

>>17282207
this is truly one of those things where i can't tell if people actually like it. i've seen screenshots of passages and the usage of commas was terrible

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>>17274351
Is there any other of his books you'd recommend? I don't find a copy of that one specifically but I do of some of his other books.

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[Anonymous No.17289891]

This one never gets talked about and I don't understand why.

[Anonymous No.17289965]

>>17289891
>Book written in America post-1950s
I sleep.

[Anonymous No.17290940]

>>17289965
>Book written in America

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[Anonymous No.17290970]

There are a lot of lesser classics of Russian literature that don't get the attention they deserve here. It's a shame that bookstores have fifty million copies of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and then it's just a very small handful from a couple of other authors

[Anonymous No.17290987]

>>17265135
quick rundown??
how many pages??
how do you describe the language easy hard ambiguous academic ???

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>>17289891
I bet lady macbeth is your favorite tv show too and you have a toothless chihuahua ..fkn single celled organism

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>>17290940
Idk for some reason I kinda like American novelists from the 1910s and 20s like Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis (not talking about the wannabe Parisians like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, fuck them) mainly because of how scathing their takedowns of American society were. Later writers like Faulkner or the pomo rabble could never because they were too focused on muh experimentation, when they should have just given up because no one could match Joyce anyways

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>>17291069
Can you tell me exactly what the fuck you mean? Revolutionary Road has a very similar style and premise as The Great Gatsby which is consistently in the top 100 lists. Oh but I guess this book doesn't have a film adaptation starring your beloved Leonardo diCaprio you fucking cuckold. Back to plebbit with thee.

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>>17291147
hhhhhh kiewwww

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>>17291158
fuck off retard

[Anonymous No.17291227]

>>17290987
The book essentially critiques Aldous Huxley's doors of perception in the beginning by pointing out how not all mystical experiences are one and the same. The rest of the book takes a look into the various states of mystical experiences experienced by others, whether induced by nature, mania, or religious ascension, I found this part much more interesting and absorbing. The page count for the pdf I found on archive is 276 pages, though about the last forty or so pages is a recounting of the authors own experiences with mescaline which i skipped. I found the language easy and not dry or academic at all.

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>>17291227
Sounds interesting thanks a lot anon.

[Anonymous No.17291287]

>>17291227
archive and ol are godsends. I've found so many good books there. ripping them to store on my devices is piss easy too.

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>>17290970
is smoke good? bought it on a whim way back

[Anonymous No.17291329]

A true gem right here. It's unfortunate how much I find it relatable.

[Anonymous No.17291828]

>>17289879
Sorry it's the only one I read by him. La plus que vive is supposedly very good though, and it's on b-ok.org.

[Anonymous No.17291834]

The greatest work of history

[Anonymous No.17291839]

>>17291314
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Turgenev fits fairly neatly between Russian and French literature which means most of his stuff is really enjoyable

[Anonymous No.17291841]

The most influential novel of the second millennium.

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>>17291329
i agree entirely

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>>17291834
>:
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>>17291147
>Oh but I guess this book doesn't have a film adaptation starring your beloved Leonardo diCaprio
Wait, what?

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>>17292173
neon

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>>17274351
Where can I find it?

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>>17266052
>>17266477
My gfs mother reads like one book every 5 years and she's reading this now. Why the fuck would anyone find that shit interesting? Of all the books in the world they pick an autobiography of a presidents wife that's probably been read by editors 1000 times so she looks as good as she can. I'm not even American

[Anonymous No.17293058]

>>17291841
Way too expensive for what your getting in terms of quality.

[Anonymous No.17293395]

>>17266052
Jealous women

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>>17281854
i have this yet i do not read it, .... why ?

[Anonymous No.17293600]

>>17287780
For sure. You can still get Laura Warholic on amazon, though

[Anonymous No.17294374]

>>17291828
Thank you anon, and thank you for the recommendation.

[Anonymous No.17294542]

The official /lit books, of course.

[Anonymous No.17294575]

The old man and me - Dundy
Chess story - Zweig
All souls, a heart so white, the infatuations - Marias
Austerlitz, Rings of Saturn - Sebald
Peregrine - Baker
Hard rain falling - carpenter

Out of the last few I've read anyway. Completely turned me off the 'anything before nabokov is shit' mindset. There are some incredible works of literary fiction still being put out there which will remain when all the gender politics minority schlock has long passed.

[Anonymous No.17294600]

>>17277186
>>17279236
/lit/ sucks off Ryu all the time, Audition and In the Miso Soup are also good if you haven't read them already.

[Anonymous No.17294611]

>>17292744
Okay we get it you have a gf, jeez.

[Anonymous No.17294643]

>>17278519
read this you fuckers

[Anonymous No.17294654]

>>17294542
FUCK OFF

[Anonymous No.17294676]

>>17276945
I’ll check that out thanks for the tip. How come Mark Twain is so underrated? Like who gives a fuck if he wrote two feel good childhood stories for the masses to pay the 19th century bills. The guy had a fantastic catalog otherwise and actually put some great philosophical insights into his works

[Anonymous No.17294698]

>>17294542
/lit's greatest achievement, whether you like it or not.

[Anonymous No.17294758]

>>17294698
samefag

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>>17266921
mate i read all that stuff in intro classes in uni. there are some genuinely good recs in this thread. i'm interested in non anglo stuff atm.

[Anonymous No.17296124]

>>17292151
Can't seem to find the epub or pdf for this one :( I think I'll have to buy the physical copy. Is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.17296150]

>>17296124
As much as any other physical book is. It's a good read.

[Anonymous No.17296189]

>>17266921
Because everybody's read them, and what can be said about them has been said a hundred times over. Also, because everybody's read them, we can't feel like we're part of some exclusive club, and so we don't get that pleasure from feeling better than people for knowing something they don't.

[Anonymous No.17296504]

>>17294575
>Chess story - Zweig

i read this today. it was disappointing.

[Anonymous No.17297336]

>>17265081
Fuck hemmingway no one ever talks about soroyan

[Anonymous No.17297430]

>>17270036
Yo I was just reading The Voice of the Master, thinking about how he's one of the most underrated american authors from that time period

[Anonymous No.17297487]

>>17290970
Yo sketches from a hunter's album is so so good

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>>17291329
Fuck I thought that book was a shitty kitschy waste of time before I read anything from gardener, so I burned it at a book burning without ever even strating it. I'm a fucking moron

[Anonymous No.17298033]

Philip Larkin - Jill
Janet Frame - Owls Do Cry
Kenzaburo Oe - The Silent Cry
Natsume Soseki - The Gate
Ha Jin - The Crazed
Tim Winton - Breath
Heinrich Boll - Short Stories
Maurice Shadbolt - Summer Fires and Winter Country
Haruki Murakami - Hear the Wind Sing (I actually reckon it's his best)
E. Annie Proulx - Accordion Crimes
Yan Lianke - Three Brothers
Maurice Gee - In My Father's Den
Khushwant Singh - Train to Pakistan

[Anonymous No.17298063]

>>17294575
There was a brief period where Hard Rain Falling was shilled regularly on /lit/. It got me to read it and I am very grateful, it's a good book.

[Anonymous No.17298146]

>>17266477
Alcoholic women.

[Anonymous No.17298152]

>>17291329
My depressed high school english teacher was going to have us read this, then she just read it out loud for many days, then we moved on. Quite fitting.

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>>17281854
i liked kenkos
7/10

[Anonymous No.17298389]

>>17279338
>bleak russian farmer story

yeah i pass

[Anonymous No.17298512]

>>17298033
>voluntarily reading Australian lit
Why'd you do it Anon?

[Anonymous No.17298614]

Most offensive book I've read, and probably the funniest.

[Anonymous No.17298654]

>>17266477
Most Americans who are able to read are reading garbage books like this, even the highly educated. gg.

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>>17298033
Great list, anon, do you have any more suggestions?

[Anonymous No.17298934]

>>17265230
I’ve read Audition, Piercing, and In the Miso Soup. How does this one stand alongside those?

[Anonymous No.17298939]

>>17274391
the movie is better unironically

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>>17299071
Currently my favourite novel

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>>17269168
these are great
I've seen these labelled postmodern but really they're just mysterious and at times a bit surreal
also they're short, you could probably read one a day if you put aside the time

[Anonymous No.17299603]

>>17282366
Kristin Lavransdatter
Heinrich von Ofterdingen
The Holy Sinner by Mann

[Anonymous No.17299722]

>>17266052
based

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>>17266921
>Dickens
Oh my God fuck off.

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>>17265248

[Anonymous No.17300080]

I find it weird that expressionistic Writers besides Kafka and Hess (who both aren't even really expressionistis) are never talked about even though they were the biggest critices of the modern during their time and could be seen as idologic forefathers of facism. Same for Futurism. Futurism

[Anonymous No.17300143]

>>17265042
The Day Of The Jackal - Frederick Forsyth

[Anonymous No.17300186]

Fuck yeah i love these threads
Silverberg's Dying Inside have been shilled here recently, but I've only read this by him and it was brilliant for what it is, a "sci-fi" book not aiming to be high literature. Some great phrases here, would please prosefags, and descriptions of characters are very vivid. You rarely see modern books with modern characters this lively
Left me pleasantly surprised at its quality

[Anonymous No.17300207]

>>17300186
I forgot the pic..

[Anonymous No.17300228]

>>17280609
I have the first edition of the book, signed by the author, really good one.

[Anonymous No.17300275]

>>17279025
no, I haven't read it

[Anonymous No.17300440]

>>17298345
BROUWERIJ
'T IJ

[Anonymous No.17300498]

>>17266467
>The hoopoe, the wisest of them all
You mean the biggest asshole of them all. Tereus did everything wrong.

[Anonymous No.17300816]

Anything by Mario Vargas Llosa, Salman Rushdie or Heinrich Böll
Any Gunter Grass besides The Tin Drum
The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch

[Anonymous No.17300896]

>>17300816
>Mario Vargas Llosa
What would you rec by him? Reviews are mixed

[Anonymous No.17300997]

>>17291111
Quads of the Idiot

[Anonymous No.17301014]

>>17294575
That's interesting, I actually found Baker and Sebald through /lit/. The latter was near life-changing

[Anonymous No.17301067]

>>17300896
Conversation in the cathedral, Time of the hero, Green house and Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter are my favourites, I prefer the earlier works in general which had a more interesting style.

[Anonymous No.17301090]

>>17269576
the fuck, people outside of Italy unironically read Moresco?
that is really surprising

[Anonymous No.17301165]

This book is real exciting and has many plot twists.

http://learninghowtothink.net/book

[Anonymous No.17301341]

>>17287780
Here's a link to an ebook of Darconville's Cat

libgen dot is/fiction/?q=darconville%27s+cat

[Anonymous No.17301704]

>>17298934
Better, worse, better imo