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Read any good books lately?

>> No.18440468

i recently read a house and its head by ivy compton-burnett and it was fucking great. absolutely evil edwardian cunts being passive aggressively polite and doing all manner of ill to each other through incredibly curated, witty, acerbic dialogue. a perverse joy if you enjoy brutal fucking power struggles, incest, murder, and general cruelty played deadpan by a bunch of polite members of society

>> No.18440488

>>18440468
Thay sounds up my alley. Thanks, anon

>> No.18440948

>>18440428
Recently finished Lost Horizon by James Hilton, I thought it was fantastic. I also just finished Oblomov the other day which made me want to cry. Starting The Treasure of the Sierra Madre today.

>> No.18442389

>>18440428
been reading Ficino's Platonic theology
very comfy stuff

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I sure did. I now finally understand all the memes.

>> No.18442523

>>18440428
I just finished The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, it was fairly good, entertaining with some great word play. The absurdism wears thin after 200 pages and you find out that he is going to cheat you on the ending quite early on. As I neared the end I was really dreading it and really sick of the endless absurdist gags, but this turned out to be the perfect setup for that trite cheat of a wonderfully written and delivered ending. I don't think I have ever read a book that managed to pull this ending off, but he did it very well. Look forward to reading more by him.

>> No.18444243

>>18440428
/lit/ doesn’t read books

>> No.18444367

>>18440428
I finished the Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S Raymond and it was okay. All the stuff regarding open source financial and market viability was boring and lame. The stuff about fetchmail was cool. And "Revenge of the Hackers" was just some lame self congratulatory crap that isn't interesting to me. It's an okay read if you're interested in software development but otherwise don't bother.

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Been switching off between Nonfiction(The Bourbon Kings of France, Persian Fire) and fiction(alot of 40k, Blood Gorgons, Ciaphas Cain and trash LitRPG) been pretty great.

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I haven't read much since A Glastonbury Romance. Only two Shakespeares: King Lear and Antony & Cleopatra. I've ordered another novel by Powys: Owen Glendower, I'll probably read one or two more Shakespeares before it arrives.

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>>18440428
I had "Madeline" read to me in the voice of the Rev. Louis Farrakhan by Dick Valentine of the band Electric Six a few days ago. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGGCofxZZ2o [That's the "Regular Version." If you want the French version, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozUSV_sxMg].

>> No.18444836

>>18444243
Stop using that joke to cope with the fact you’re retarded

>> No.18444964

>>18440428
I recently read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. Really great read and as far as magic realism goes, Kundera runs laps around Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

>> No.18444969

>>18440948
>I also just finished Oblomov the other day which made me want to cry.
Based and goncharovpilled

>> No.18444988

>>18444964
I read The Inmortality, and i can say that's a good book too

>> No.18445052

>>18440428
I read Holes. It's pretty good.

>> No.18445058

I haven't read a book I disliked in quite a while.

>> No.18445073

>>18445058
Read beartown by frederick backman

>> No.18445078

No, I don’t read

>> No.18445084

>>18445052
I can fix that.

In terms of young adult/teen lit. I read A Separate Peace by Knowles. Great book for teens

>> No.18445090

>>18445084
Currently reading Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch. Hunchback boy in medieval setting on quest for holy relics. Upper middle school to teen read. The writing is not spectacular, but the world and quest is. Worth a give to a young kid who likes medieval or Catholic

>> No.18445559

>>18440428
i read the seducers diary by kierkegaard and it was a blast. im gonna use some of his tricks.

>> No.18446067

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee. A really nuanced novel and it was better than I expected it to be

>> No.18446083

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

>> No.18447105

>>18440428
Reading Catch 22 right now
Both very funny and very sad book. Enjoying the ride.

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>>18440428
The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. I don't know much about the Victorian era or light opera so it's interesting to learn about it through the allusions in G&Ss operettas.