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3021698 No.3021698 [Reply] [Original]

What are you reading?

Post pictures.

Bet no one else here has read this.

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I'm reading Middlemarch currently, and by reading I mean looking at the book for a few moments because I've somehow lost my motivation to read books this week.

Also I definitely have not read that. And I happen to find exposed teeth / gumlines like that to be rather unnerving.

>> No.3021711

>>3021706
NYRB Classics create the best covers.

Fact.

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I need to finish this. I've been procrastinating when it comes to reading this book. and I don't quite know why because it is fucking fantastic.

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Half way through with it, not as good as the other two collections of short sotires I've read by him (Bestiário and Secret Weapons), but still great.

>> No.3021735

>>3021723
I've had that book in my backlog for the longest time. I've been kind of scared of it, I think? How much background information and information from outside sources do you need to fully appreciate all the goings-on of that novel?

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>>3021715
>CS Lewis

>> No.3021742

>>3021736
I don't get it?

>> No.3021744

>>3021735
>?
>unnecessary question marks?

>> No.3021749

Invisible Man, The Metamorphosis, and Crime and Punishment

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>> No.3021758

>>3021756
Bet that's a riveting read.

>> No.3021789

>>3021698
I have. Excellent book.

>> No.3021819

>>3021789
Have you read the sequel?

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This book has been mentioned in several books other I've read and I figured it was time to finally read it. Just started it and it is very different. I normally don't read books this old.

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Let the hate messages begin.

if it's any consolation, I'm re-reading it mainly for the nostalgic effect because I read it a while ago[/spolier]

>> No.3021958

>>3021937
No need for your excuses.

>> No.3021971

Le Guin's prose is goddamn amazing and occasionally sends shivers down my spine, but I'm still not a fan of the whole utopia/dystopia genre. I seems like a pretty obvious Soviet/USA metaphor as well, which is ok, I just prefer my books without blatant politics. It's not a bad book, and the first two chapters were brilliant, I'm just taking a long time to finish it. Not nearly as good as The Left Hand of Darkness.

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>>3021971
I was supposed to post this image.

>> No.3021980

>>3021937

get out

>> No.3022022

>>3021980
Not that faggot (I am OP), but what are you reading?

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>>3022022

taking a break from fiction. last fiction i read was Heart of Darkness and other short stories.

>> No.3022046

>>3022027
Nothing to criticise there.

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This. Diggin' it so far.

>> No.3022076

>>3022069
I have no interest in literature dealing with the blacks.

I also have considerably less interest in novels that use titles of previous works in totality or partially.

Is this common?

>> No.3022080

>>3022076
fascist scum go home

>>>/pol/
>>>/reddit/

>> No.3022082

>>3022076

i actually refused to read A Streetcar Named Desire because i thought it was about niggers, seeing as the author's name was tenesse williams.

i don't know why i thought it was about niggers, but eh. i know where you're coming from

>> No.3022094

>>3022076
It's not uncommon at all, assuming you're an uneducated Southerner from the early 1900s

>> No.3022108

>>3022094
>>3022080
I just have no interest in it at all. Like how I got sick of reading novels about painters and authors (especially ones who are working in poverty) and the Holocaust.

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loving it. intentionally archaic/anachronistic? check. plays with epic/poetic conventions? check. genuinely entertaining? check.

>> No.3022134

>>3021698
Ooh, at least someone who mentions Curzio Malaparte. I've read it and I'm reading Sodom and Gomorrah at the moment.
Great author, and I like his sense of humor.

>> No.3022135

>>3022080
>>raciss=fascist

Communist scum go home

>>3022082
>>3022094
>>3022108

Anything that's *about* niggers is probly going to be about mundane, working class people in a modern setting - who are black, dealing with black problems. If I dont want to read about mundane, working class people in a modern setting, why would their being black suddenly change my mind? not that i have any interest in blacks or black problems either.

>>3022094

Or if you are an educated northern from the late 1950s. In public. In private, an educated northern from the late 1970s, or an educated southern from today. You live in a bubble of leftist academia, son.

>> No.3022662

>>3022135
I like this guy.

>> No.3022667

>>3022094
>not having a particular interest in things relating to black people
>racist implications

I better go take that course on Navajo beadfucking before I get arrested for hatecrime.

>> No.3022669

>>3022135
>Communist scum go home

I agree with this guy, I'm a fascist, and not racist. A black man with merit of worth is better than a white man with none.

>> No.3022670

We have to love the blacks and breed with them, or we're racist and keeping the man down.

>> No.3022701

>>3022669
Requesting fascist literature for beginners, both fiction and non-fiction.

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>> No.3022709

>>3022701
He won't know any.

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>>3022705
Awesome man.

I'm currently reading Tropic of Cancer.

If you like Journey to the End of the Night, you should like Tropic of Cancer.

Picture related.

>> No.3022772

>>3022709
Was I right?

>> No.3022868

>>3022772
Yes.

Am I same-fagging?

Yes.

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I offer this message under duress, hungry, winded, and dizzy, braving a sound storm of words meant to prevent me, I'm sure, from being a Father of Distinction. For the sake of those persons in the world who expect leadership, clarity, and a levelheaded account of the matterful times that my "family"--to hell with all of them--has witnessed, I will not succumb to the easy distractions of language poison, even if it kills the body that I'm wearing, even if I become just another dead man who once felt things keenly and wished only for the world to see inside his heart and mind. There is light enough for one hour of transcription each day, and it is within this time that I have assembled these remarks, having carefully considered the true nature of what I think and feel during the other twenty-three daily hours, allotted to me as darkness by my captors, a group also known as Everyone I used to Love, Who Would Never Have Survived Without Me.

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don't usually read pulp but i have a huge thing for hellboy

>> No.3023155

>>3021758
Can't tell if sarcasm.

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I won't start anything new in the near future besides some short stories and poems.


Finished this a hour ago, I guess most of you have read it. For anyone who didn't I highly recommend it.

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Pic related.

Pace has picked up once Paul had is little emo moment. i'm weary whether or not I should read the others.

My next choice is golden temple.

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I am reading this, but don't like it. I mean, I *like* it....but I've just read several books I like better, so I think it's suffering from comparison.

>> No.3023461

>>3023231
I'm reading that too. Just got to the Messiah part.

>> No.3023947

>>3023247
That book sucks shit. If there's anyone who deserves to have their Nobel revoked, it's that hack.

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Only started it and read a few pages today, then I had to do a bunch of stuff.


So far, I'm extremely unimpressed.

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Not quite halfway through yet.

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pretty depressive

>> No.3024008

Too lazy to get a picture.

I am reading Snow Crash and I am loving it. I read the first 60 pages when I was still in middle school and thought it was some what funny, but now that I am older this book is probably the most interesting futuristic world I have ever encountered in literature. But then again I haven't read that much science fiction other than some PKD. Really enjoy it so far though. The only thing I really hate about the book is the good and evil dichotomy between Raven and the Hiro.

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For the eighth time. Feels good man.

>> No.3024072

>>3024065
please tell me that's the version you own! looks great mang

>> No.3024078

>>3024072

Aw, no, I have the shitty US one. That's just the first cover I could find on google images, pretty sure it's a UK first edition.

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Not bad so far.

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>> No.3024133

>>3021973

Good choice.

>> No.3024156

>>3024097

God what a shit book. As an IR student Huntington's crap makes me cringe.

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Halfway through, so far so good.

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LW was an interesting guy. I would have liked to have met him, even though he would probably dismiss me as a stupid animal.

>> No.3024229

>>3022877
How is it so far? I've always wanted to read it but never gotten my hands on a copy.

>> No.3024233

>>3021698

>Bet no one else here has read this.
>book has been spammed for months even with download links
>is probably how he got into the book

>> No.3024298

>>3024233
What? Curzio Malaparte is trendy now!?
Not that I dislike it, actually; we need to be more in touch with fascist authors.

>inb4 Malaparte wasn't fascist.
He was, for a little while, then he changed his mind.

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Reading this! I'm sure some other people here have read it. I know there are some Dutch anons on here, and it's on the depressing lit chart.

I actually went into it without ever having read the summary, not knowing what it was about (besides it being Dutch and depressing). I am very pleasantly surprised so far - a "you don't live, you allow yourself to be distracted" main character and the way the whole first sectioned reminded me of a less humorous Hrabal work. The mention in the preface of the second and third sections featuring the tea ceremony as the "dominant ritual" is also fairly exciting.

>> No.3024536

>>3022877
Got a link for this?

>> No.3024550

kaputt: oooh mr prince, is it true that you like horses, i like horses too. i like monarchy. btw hitler couldnt ride horses. have i mentioned that germans are monsters? and that one time i met a high german official, i didnt enjoy the experience. yay royals

>> No.3024901

Ham on Rye. Never read Bukowski before so ain't giving him a shot.

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fuck you pretentious ass niggers it's halloween time for spooky shit

>> No.3025594

bump

>> No.3026538

>>3025003
moar

>> No.3026738

Gray Lensman - E.E. 'doc' Smith.

Say what you like about Smith, he's the first writer in years where I've had to use a dictionary to get the definition of an English word.

Yclept. Fucking yclept. If someone put that on a scrabble board you'd be all up in their grill in under a second.

>> No.3026789

>>3024992
How is that?

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Nabokov's prose is so good at times it makes me choke.