/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23441812]

post books you read more than once

[Anonymous No.23441830]

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[Anonymous No.23441934]

[Anonymous No.23441938]

>>23441812
Funnily enough, it's by the same guy

[Anonymous No.23441972]

>>23441938
Very funny lol

[Anonymous No.23441986]

>>23441938
Lmaoooo

[Anonymous No.23441989]

>>23441934
Why would you read this twice? Why would you do that to yourself?

[Anonymous No.23441993]

>>23441938

[Anonymous No.23442088]

>>23441972
>>23441986
???

[Anonymous No.23442230]

>>23441812
As nurturing as rain to my soul

[Anonymous No.23442235]

>>23441812
I don't see this book talked about a lot on here

[Anonymous No.23442471]

>>23441812
I read his Complete Cosmicomics, the first book of three was so fucking electrifying for the mind. Like talking to the old regular at the pub telling tall tales, but he's actually God.

The other two books, eh.

But the whole thing is on my re-read list.

[Anonymous No.23442722]

>>23442230
le petit prince affected me more than i expected, à vrai dire
i should read this too

[Anonymous No.23442749]

>>23441938
that city may be floating but it clearly isn't invisible

[Anonymous No.23442757]

>>23441934
>>23441989

[Anonymous No.23442774]

>>23441938
KEKAROOOOO

[Anonymous No.23442836]

>>23441812
>>23441938
if we could engineer a person with Calvino's love of life and Eco's erudition it would probably be the greatest writer the last 500 years have seen

[Anonymous No.23442856]

>>23441938

[Anonymous No.23442899]

>>23442856
>>23441993
>>23441986
>>23441972
>>23442774
you can stop now

[Anonymous No.23442928]

>>23441812
>>23441938
I was gonna make a Calvino thread... Hmmm...

[Anonymous No.23442933]

>>23442836
>Implying Calvino wasn't the one with greater erudition

[Anonymous No.23442946]

>>23442933
yeah but his erudition focused on the earthy worldy stuff unlike Eco who wanted to push the plot to its limits (without being concerned with the actual "stuffing" that makes a world)
e.g. OP's book has 3 or 4 chapters that merit reading again and again and the rest are meh because the "glue" is not strong enough to bind them together; Eco had prime quality glue, only that the rest was like the mosquito in the amber (glue)
but what do i kno rite?

[Anonymous No.23442957]

>>23441812
There was a time when I read this once a year for 3 or 4 years

[Anonymous No.23442968]

>>23442946
Wut? Calvino is all about the universe and cosmos and sheeeit

[Anonymous No.23443254]

>>23442968
you are right anon, as I always skipped his cosmic stuff
I simply prefer a good plot to commie escapism (and even if not, there is Lem for that...)

[Anonymous No.23443262]

>>23443254
>writes a wall-of-text theorycraft about an author
>hasn't read him
I hate midwits so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.23443268]

>>23441938
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[Anonymous No.23443325]

>>23443262
do you need to drink a whole barrel of soup in order to know how salty it is?

[Anonymous No.23443381]

>>23441989
Because it's the best marvel movie ever made

[Anonymous No.23444131]

>>23443325
>food analogy
I hate midwits so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.23444143]

>>23441812
Alice in Wonderland
I love the rhythm and flow of the language

[Anonymous No.23445688]

really enjoy listening to the audiobook of this while drawing and painting

[Anonymous No.23445974]

It's my comfort book. Still haven't read another Pynchon novel

[Anonymous No.23446032]

>>23443381
Fascinating, captain.

[Anonymous No.23446067]

>>23445974
You're missing out

[Anonymous No.23446289]

Plato's Euthyphro

[Anonymous No.23446360]

>>23443268
bet you're not doing this shit in the psyop threads

[Anonymous No.23446907]

> Franny and Zooey
> The Cyberiad
> The Crab Nebula
> A Series of Unfortunate Events
> If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (funnily enough)

[Anonymous No.23446958]

>>23446360
U mad bro?

[Anonymous No.23447160]

>>23446067
I intend on rectifying this. I've read the first few pages of Rainbow, Lot 49, Mason Dixon, and Bleeding Edge trying to decide which to read next. I'm excited to jump into the next one for sure

[Anonymous No.23447185]

>>23443254
Calvino removed external contexts as much as he could, boiled everything down to what we have in common and used the tools of literature to their full extent to explore that. Eco never boiled anything down, everything is really complex and we don't really matter but there is still a good story in it and it is really complex. Eco requires erudition in what ever he is writing about, Calvino requires erudition in literature and all of its tools and devices.

Both are good and both are probably beyond you.

[Anonymous No.23447195]

>>23445974
In his later works Pynchon never quite managed to reach the narrative verve that he did in V.. GR and AtD come close and at times exceed V. but overall fall short. Youthful folly has its advantages.

[Anonymous No.23447223]

>>23441812
Does reading a translation count as reading the same book?
If so, then Ulysses.

[Anonymous No.23447232]

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[Anonymous No.23447506]

>>23442749
The fact that you cant see it makes it very clearly invisible, ESL-chan

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[Anonymous No.23447580]

>>23441812
Hated it even more on a reread.

[Anonymous No.23447673]

>>23447580
It's on my reading list, why'd you hate it?
And no spoilers please