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Hey /lit/ want to talk about books?

>> No.1943905
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1943905

Yes.

>> No.1943915

Currently reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Pretty fucking cool, bro.

>> No.1943952

>>1943915

that's a favorite of mine. In fact I just reread Araby by Joyce. Same main character too.

>>1943905

lol faux

>> No.1943954

>>1943915

Have you ever read any of Thomas Wolfe's novels?

>> No.1943965

i fucking love vagina

>> No.1943972

>>1943952

No shit? I haven't read Portrait, but I read Dubliners and I had no idea that kid reappears in any of Joyce's other work.

>> No.1943998

I just read Steppenwolf and I fucking loved it. Although, it has a kind of indie-romcom thing going on with the nerd and the quirky girl. When I finished it I was kind of struck that the plot of the book (inside the book) can be summed up as "Some geek goes to a party."

I'm reading Down and Out in Paris and London now, I picked it up and didn't even realize it was the same orwell from 1984.

>> No.1944000

>>1943972

Well Stephen is also one of the main characters in Ulysses. In the first three stories of Dubliners the protagonist isn't named but it's generally thought that it's supposed to be him, or a prototype of him.

>> No.1944003

>>1943998
>didn't even realize it was the same orwell from 1984

You thought it was some other Orwell?

>> No.1944004

>>1943972
It's Joyce's fictional representation of himself, I think.

>> No.1944009

>>1943998

Orwell was a cool guy. Ever read Homage to Catalonia?

>> No.1944015

>>1943954

No, I haven't, any of his novels in particular you would suggest?

>> No.1944028

>>1944003
I knew 1984 was by George Orwell, and that Down and Out was by George Orwell... it just never clicked together.

>>1944009
No, should I? I wasn't really into Orwell himself, I just got recommended I read Bukowski and this particular Orwell.

>> No.1944030

I am a huge George Orwell, 1985 was one of my all time favourites.

>> No.1944033

>>1944015

Look Homeward, Angel (but preferably O Lost, the complete manuscript

Of Time and The River, which I'm reading currently.

I've also heard good things about You Can't Go Home Again, which is on my list after some other stuff. He's a really great stylist, and his novels are sort of reminiscent of Proust/Portrait by Joyce, in that they're collectively a huge fictionalized autobiography. Apparently he also wrote a lot of shitty prose as well, but he was in the zone for a while, that's for sure.

>> No.1944040

>>1944015

Look Homeward, Angel (but preferably O Lost, the complete manuscript)

Of Time and The River, which I'm reading currently.

I've also heard good things about You Can't Go Home Again, which is on my list after some other stuff. He's a really great stylist, and his novels are sort of reminiscent of Proust/Portrait by Joyce, in that they're collectively a huge fictionalized autobiography. Apparently he also wrote a lot of shitty prose as well, but he was in the zone for a while, that's for sure.

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>>1944040

>>also as well

>> No.1944799

bump for thomas wolfe.

I thought Look Homeward Angel was fantastic; never read Of Time and the River but I have it here on the bookshelf looking at me.
always wonder about The October Fair, his lost epic.

>> No.1944809

>>1944030
I'm a huge Orson Welles and what is this?

>> No.1944814

books are neat imo

just finished member of the wedding by carson mccullers and i think it's one of my fav books now