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i'm a beginner. what's a short artsy book i can read?

>> No.20518692

The sailor who fell from grace with the sea

>> No.20518739

>>20518682
Fuck off normie

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>>20518739

>> No.20518750

>>20518682
Who is that man?

>> No.20518763

>>20518682
Why not Peter Sotos, Tool?

>> No.20518775

>>20518682
Ingratitude by Peter Sotos

>> No.20518787

>>20518682
Stranger (or Outsider) by Camus. I always recommend this one, it's plenty short and plenty muh-deep while being rather easy to understand.

>> No.20519234

>>20518682
>i'm newly literate
How old are you?

>> No.20519252

>>20518682
The book Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. . . .might be a bit slow, but power through. It's pretty short.

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>> No.20519310

Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille

>> No.20519685

>>20518682
George Saunders, not Battaille.
Oh and Borges

>> No.20519692

Women and Men, Joseph McElroy

>> No.20519705

the sluts, dennis cooper
i would especially recommend it to you if you're heterosexual and religious

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>>20518682
Spring Rain Thomas Andersson

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>> No.20519994

>>20518682
Slaughterhouse Five. Also read the sticky, there's a good into /lit/ chart there.

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>>20518682

>> No.20520379

Crossways by W.B. Yeats.

>> No.20520416

>>20518787
>>20519994
>>20520005

Good choices.

Go for stuff they teach in high schools, Mice and Men by Steinbeck, Lord of the Flies by Golding or the Great Gatsby.

They teach them in school because they’re easy to digest at face value but are good works of art that you can dive into if you want.

>> No.20520459

>>20518682
You speak English?
The bard; forget the rest. Read Milton if you get board of rereading the first.

>> No.20520631

>>20519287
Anon, did you author this? I bought it on Kindle a while back after seeing it here. If Anon wrote it, I'll move it to next on my queue.

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I want to fuck blondie