I’m going to the bookstore tomorrow

[Anonymous No.18107650]

What should I pick up?

[Anonymous No.18107657]

Those aren't a thing anymore, where are you really going anon?

[Anonymous No.18107658]

A qt

[Anonymous No.18107663]

Have you ever read anything by Hauk?

[Anonymous No.18107664]

>>18107657
Waterstones

[Anonymous No.18107668]

>>18107650
Nothing, if you have to ask then reading isn't for you.

[Anonymous No.18107670]

>>18107664
Which Waterstones anon? I'm gonna phone in and warn them about a grubby wee bastard coming in passing by all the cooking and lifestyle books and jigsaw puzzles and shit, and heading straight for the two shelves of adult books

[Anonymous No.18107673]

>>18107668
I’ve got some ideas of what I want to read. Just want some recs for what good books my fellow anons have been reading.

[Anonymous No.18107683]

>>18107673
sorry anon my last post was a bit rude

I'd recommend 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez if you haven't read it (has been on /lit/ top 100 for ages), read it last month and loved it, great bizarre and touching novel about this Colombian family through several generations, comfy read all the way

[Anonymous No.18107684]

>>18107670
Well I’m going to two bookstores, one is a Waterstones. The other is identifiable, and I don’t want you faggots knowing where I’m from.

[Anonymous No.18107685]

>>18107650
Sum bitches on yo dicc

[Anonymous No.18107705]

>>18107683
Thanks anon, if it’s there I might give it a bit of read and buy it

[Anonymous No.18107724]

Anyone read Wind, Sand and Stars?

[Anonymous No.18107732]

Just finished reading the Myth of Sisyphus. Also read The Stranger by Camus. Albert mentioned Franz Kafka, Ive seen him mentioned a few times. So I’m gonna buy one of his books, which one should I get?

[Anonymous No.18107740]

I once asked the clerc to recommend a book for me, he told me to get a book by Daniel Silva. I knew it would be trash, but it was a second hand store, and who doesn't like some trash from time to time?

[Anonymous No.18107767]

>>18107740
Imagine reading something contemporary

[Anonymous No.18107773]

>>18107724
Yes, only in English, but it was great.

[Anonymous No.18107781]

>>18107732
The Trial
The Complete Stories

start with these. both published by shocken.

Go to Complete Stories. Read A Hunger Artist. Love that one. Was Kafka criticizing the hunger artist for his pride or was he criticizing the audience for being so entertained and then so not obviously caring for the human being that is the artist?

He also has another short story, it's not even a page long, that is hilarious of Poseidon, THE King of the Oceans Poseidon getting bogged down in paperwork, never able to enjoy the beauty that is the ocean and sea at large, ha.

Also, If you like both Camus and Kafka, from there, read Vonnegut, although I recommend not starting with Slaughterhouse-Five and reading Cat's Cradle instead, which is absolutely brilliant. Vonnegut loved Kafka.

[Anonymous No.18107795]

OP. What type of books do you like? What was the last good book you've read? Name three titles you like or sumn, bruh

[Anonymous No.18107890]

>>18107795
>What type of books do you like?
Anything that interests me, and is considered classic lit, I’m not averse to fiction.
> What was the last good book you've read?
Last book I read was Post Office by Bukowski.
> Name three titles you like
3 fav books of top of head
1. On the Road Jack Kerouac
2. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
3. Trainspotting Irvine Welsh

[Anonymous No.18107907]

John dos passos's usa trilogy. Fantastic books, fantastic style.

[Anonymous No.18107972]

>>18107773
What did you take away from it?
>>18107781
Will start with The Trial
> Vonnegut
Haven’t heard of him, I’ll look into him after I’ve read some Kafka

[Anonymous No.18108031]

>>18107890
Try some thomas pynchon, he was pretty influenced by the beat gen writers. Its a little more complex but if you start in the right place you can get into it better. Start with inherent vice - its pretty great, druggy and easy.
Or try a brautigan book like trout fishing in america. Huge influence from hemingway but much more postmodern, funny, kinda nonsensical, less plot, and he was seen as in league with the beats a little bit, even though they thought he was goofy. I like him more than kerouac.

[Anonymous No.18108114]

>>18108031
Thanks for these recommendations, they look great, I will read Thomas Pynchon. Richard Brautigan looks great as well.

[Anonymous No.18108165]

>>18108114
Hope u find some heat

[Anonymous No.18108216]

>>18107890
>2. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
>>18103563

[Anonymous No.18108228]

something happy and uplifting

[Anonymous No.18108246]

>>18107664
Be prepared to see shelf after shelf of anti racist garbage.

[Anonymous No.18108296]

>>18107972
The St Ex? My favourite passages are about the difference between witnessing nature in living in/from it. He talks about tribes and how they understand the desert and relate to water, and how his reliance on weather for survival when flying sharpens his senses. Although he died flying in the war, the sheer dangerousness of his earlier flying brings to mind a sense of the death-wish.

[Anonymous No.18108331]

Symbolic Exchange and Death.

[Anonymous No.18108339]

>>18107650
Covid19

[Anonymous No.18108414]

>>18108246
Yeah I’ll avoid all that shit, don’t worry, that’s every bookstore today, your comment reminds me of this video I was watching yesterday
https://youtu.be/Tf7mOV2svIA

[Anonymous No.18108419]

>>18107650
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

[Anonymous No.18108423]

>>18108339
hmm hmm

[Anonymous No.18108457]

>>18108414
Yeah, very accurate video.

[Anonymous No.18108546]

>>18108339
Shut up pussy
>COVID-19
How scary, a disease that kills 0.005% of people that contract it. The majority of which are over 65. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.18108550]

My diary desu

[Anonymous No.18108573]

>>18108339
Go back to >>>/r/eddit you faggot.

[Anonymous No.18108624]

>>18108546

[Anonymous No.18108773]

>>18108624
Bullshit stats

[Anonymous No.18108783]

>>18108573

[Anonymous No.18108798]

>>18108419
Looks gay