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Evening, /lit/errati.

What are we reading tonight?

>> No.2829602
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inherent vice

>> No.2829611
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I bought the ebook because it was significantly cheaper than the actual book plus the international shipping fee. Reading on the computer is alright, but sometimes I feel remorse of not buying the actual thing.

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Fuck off, wench. Wait, what's that? You're a dude? Then why are behaving like such a feminine, validation-seeking faggot?

>> No.2829619

>>2829616
I don't believe my face was obscuring the book. In fact, it seems the book is obscuring my beautiful face.

>> No.2829620

Birthday Stories by Haruki Murakami et al (including David Foster Wallace!)

>> No.2829630

>>2829616
Stop being a faggot, he didn't even show his face

>> No.2829634

>>2829616

>what the fuck did you just say about me, you little bitch.mobi

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>> No.2829651
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This. Don't know it's English title or if it's maybe just a local issue of the German publisher; it's a collection of Robert Sheckley's short stories. Pretty amusing so far.

>> No.2829655

>>2829651
> it's title
Sorry for being a stupid foreigner.

>> No.2829657

>>2829616
lel'd hard at image

>> No.2829709

>Frost: A Novel by Thomas Bernhard
>In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

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>>2829597
Amazing, disturbing

>> No.2829717

>>2829715
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

>> No.2829719
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Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov

>> No.2829722

>>2829719
What do you think of it?

>> No.2829725

>>2829717
It's a great memoir of a recovering crack addict/alchoholic.

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I'm going to give this a shot.

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>>2829722
I'm enjoying it thus far. I only just started it today.
The margin sizes of the pages are oddly large, pic related.
The actual content of the book is quite enjoyable, though.

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This coming directly after finishing the Bible.

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This

>> No.2829753

>>2829739
I am interested. short summary?

>> No.2829779

>>2829753

Well, I'm only a few chapters in, but it's a science fiction novel about a man named Edward Temple who has an accident with a supercomputer (futuristic stuff, artificial intelligence revolution, etc.) which causes the computer's brain to meld with his own. The summary on Amazon says this (explains more than I can, haha):

200 years in the future Edward Temple, a "uniquely ordinary person" becomes caught up in a zany world where self-aware super-computers are as argumentative, egotistical, demanding, and emotionally needy as the humans they serve. Everything is fair game as Edward navigates befuddled governments, psychotic software, greedy corporations, overly attentive robots, and romance. And of course jelly donuts find their way into the story.

Hope that helps, I find the story intriguing so far :)

>> No.2829790

>>2829779
thanks /lit/anon

>> No.2829797

>>2829790

My pleasure!

>> No.2829799
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I love it. I think I haven't read a travel novel before. It feels like this might be my favorite type of literature. The funny thing is I never really wanted to travel. Maybe this will change; as I'm growing up, I'm getting more interested in the world outside in general.

>> No.2829806

>>2829715
Look at him, look at him and laugh.

>> No.2829808

>>2829799
Dude, I'm halfway through that, love it too. If you know how to torrent, go to demonoid.me and look for travel books, whole folder of them.

>> No.2829810

The Haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson.

It's like, chick lit gothic horror but, really fucking good.

>> No.2829815

>>2829806

whats wrong with the book?

>> No.2829829

>>2829799
some more things you might enjoy:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?feou1u15owprtua
>http://www.mediafire.com/?c4auyn40xrzd964
>http://www.mediafire.com/?ohhx91d7dhbhbad

>> No.2829857

>>2829829
>>2829808
Thank you, beautiful anons.

>> No.2829866

20 pages into The Recognitions. Brilliant opening - a lot of things have made me laugh out loud so far. I hope it stays as good as this. This is so much more enjoyable than Carpenter's Gothic.

>> No.2829920

The Once and Future King. $3.15 at a used book store.

>> No.2829932

>>2829920
I had (have?) that somewhere. Couldn't get into it. I don't even remember any of it I did read.

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I am thinking about which book to read now. I was thinking about either The BeetleLeg by John Hawkes, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon or Satantango by Laslzo Krasznahorkai

>> No.2829953

>>2829949
I think you should read Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai because he has a very complicated name.

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>>2829932
Pick it up again. I promise you it's worth it.

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Mildred is really getting on my nerves.

>> No.2830019

Finally got around to finishing the last 50 pages of The Crippled God by Steven Erikson tonight, very good read.

>> No.2830025

À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

>> No.2830030

I'm reading "fuck you I've got a fever and it feels like someone punched me in the throat oh god why can't I just die".

>> No.2830070

>>2830025
fuck yes dude, go all the way up to Le Temps Retrouve, you wont regret it.

>> No.2830072

Just finished Alice in Wonderland, about to go on to Looking Glass

>> No.2830088

>>2829709
How are you liking In Patagonia?

>> No.2830103

>>2830088
It's a really fast read, but very entertaining. For me it's specially interesting 'cause I'm argentinian and I'm finding out a lot of things I didn't know about my country.

Basically, the narrator travels around the patagonia chasing stories about (mostly) immigrants from the early 20th century. Cool stuff.

>> No.2830104

Just started The Red Badge of Courage tonight.

>> No.2830111

Initially, finishing the last third of Irvine Welsh's (Ecstasy)
Then, finishing either Hunger by Knut Hamsun or starting Dead Irish by John Lescroart

>> No.2830122

'Funny, you remind me of Bobby Dawes. Young Englishman, same as yourself, wandering about Patagonia. One day he walks up to an estancia and says to the owner:"If you give me work, you're a saint, and your wife's a saint' and your childre are angels' and that dog's the best dog in the world." But the owner says, "There is no work." "In which case," Bobby says, "you're the son of a whore, your wife is a whore, your children are monkeys, and if I catch that dof, I'll kick its arse till its nose bleeds."'
Milton laughed a lot as he told this story. Then he told another he once heard from the Cooper sheep-dip man. The second story was about a cure for scab. The punch line was 'Put a lump of sugar in the sheep's mouth and suck its arse till it tastes sweet.' He repeated the story twice to make sure I'd get the point. I lied. I couldn't face it a third time.

From In Patagonia

It's so funny cause we still say things like that nowadays. You see a hot girl and to show off to your friends you say "I'd like to shove an orange down her throat and suck her pussy till orange juice comes out."

>> No.2830146

The Dick is a Lonely Hunter?

Great choice, man.

>> No.2830276

>>2830104
I generally try to stay away from blatant propaganda. Try All Quiet on the Western Front or The Things They Carried.

>> No.2830282

>>2830146
Eh?

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Pretty good so far.

>> No.2830313
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Finally getting around to it?

Was it good, /lit/?

>> No.2830315

>>2830300
>not haldeman's book of the same name

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The Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier

> The most important book nobody ever told you about.

>> No.2830332

looking through the thread:

A Million Little Pieces is a great piece of fiction. Disregard all the memoir Oprah shit, that's for your mom to gossip about. Frey is an excellent writer, and a pretty cool guy.

>> No.2830329

I'm reading the Godfather as I've owned it since I was 13 and I've decided to finally read it. Puzo is far too obsessed with genitalia for my liking but I'll let it go because he establishes a clear theme through it's use.

>> No.2830333

>>2830315
I do not enjoy science fiction.

>> No.2830335

>>2830326

how's that tinfoil hat treating you?

>> No.2830339

>>2830333

how edgy of you. your standards inspire us all.

>> No.2830364

>>2830300
Downloading that now. Hope it's good!

>> No.2830368
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The Last Wish by Andpzej Sapkowski

>> No.2830405

>>2830339
Yes because everyone must enjoy the same things you do, right?

>hurr stop liking other things durr so edgy
Go back to /b/

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Never read his work before. What am I in for?

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>>2830435
It's his best work.

>> No.2830494
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Only about 50 pages in, but it's not impressing me nearly as much as anything I've read by him

>> No.2830509

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. Wonderful prose, but sometimes I just have to stop and ask what the fuck I'm reading.

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>>2830282

Read Christopher Hitchen's autobiography.

>> No.2831201

>>2830326
guffaw

>> No.2831211

Started reading Conrad's Lord Jim on a planetrip, but got a bit lost in it because I got disturbed the fuck up. Thinking of either restarting or reading The 39 Steps instead. Just saw the a comedy production of it in London and I felt like reading it. Have had it on my shelf for a while.

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Just finished

>> No.2831221

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

I read that it was criticised for verboseness but so far I'm finding the style palatable.

>> No.2831223

>>2831217
Did you like it? I thought it was shit.

>> No.2831233

>>2831217
>>2831223

There was a discussion on here a few nights ago on this. I had enjoyed most of his other stuff and left this for near last. I was impressed... don't know why there's such a split on this one.

>> No.2831238

Under the Volcano

Yeah, I haven`t gotten around to it yet!

>> No.2831414

>>2831180
My next in line. Going through Dune at the moment.