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22132775 No.22132775 [Reply] [Original]

If you could get someone to read a book of your choosing, what book is it and why?

Shill me a book, under the radar books in particular, but all are welcome

>> No.22132780

Brezan - Krabat or the Metamorphosis of the World

>> No.22132809

A Gothic Soul
by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic

>> No.22132818

weird way to ask for a recommendation but ok: i would recommend skylark by dezso kosztolanyi. it's a hungarian book about this old couple and their ugly spinster daughter who goes away for a week and they get to spend some time by themselves. it sounds pretty mundane but actually it goes to some deep dark places and confronts ugly truths about the world that i don't usually see in literature and it's stuck with me for years. it's funny as fuck as well

>> No.22132823

>>22132780
>>22132809
Why?

>> No.22132840
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22132840

because it will give you an expanded consciousness

>> No.22132842

>>22132818
I’ve always had my eye on that book but always passed it over. Thanks for the input. Sometimes I find the combination of bleakness and comedy to be really disconcerting and unsettling. Not books like Journey to the End of the Night, but books like Unclay by TF Powys, for example. Is Skylark a straight up depressing book?

>> No.22133040

i don't think it's necessarily a depressing book but it does get very dark and if you are in a depressed frame of mind it will certainly have plenty of food for that

>> No.22133112

>>22132775
i'd give everything to hear biden read critique of pure reason

>> No.22133123

>>22132823
Because it is an underappreciated, rare gem of imagination and unique ideas.

>> No.22134167

>>22132775
No longer human by osamu dazai.
While it's definitely not under the radar book,
It's worth reading anon.

>> No.22134331

>>22132840
What does this even mean

>> No.22134341

>>22133112
How is this a recommendation?

>> No.22134374

>>22134341
reccomendations are for faggots there's a big top 100 books on the wiki and i bet you haven't read all of them

>> No.22134389

>>22134374
I’ve read most of them and was hoping for something more than the typical /lit/ list

>> No.22135157

thanks anon for skylark, ur a godsend

i was looking for a book to justify my depression and here it is