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3211539 No.3211539 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books that feel like a nice big hug?

>> No.3211554

Never been hugged. Don't know.

>> No.3211562

Unrelated, but you just made me realize that almost all the books I've read are depressing as shit.

Bump.

>> No.3211568

if you care about film, truffaut/hitchcock

>> No.3211600

>>3211539
>that pic
>made me read "nice big bug"

1-0 for you, OP.

>> No.3213356

>>3211600
Wow, you're on a literature board and you can't even fucking read.

>> No.3213373

The Magus

>> No.3213390

Blindsight

>> No.3213394

You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Arnon Grünberg

>> No.3213396

>>3213356
Wow, you're on a literature board and you don't even fucking read.

>> No.3213412

>>3213394
The first time I see someone mentioning a Dutch writer on /lit/ . /lit/ Is so mainstream & anglocentric. Most of them will never know the wonders of reading W.F. Hermans or Couperus. I feel bad for them. Most of them will never even get to read some German novel(la)s in German. All they ever get to see is translations. Can you even call yourself well read when you only read one language fluently and have always read literature of that language?
Grünberg didn't write You Shall..., although you probably know that.

>> No.3213427

>>3213412
Hey man, you're on a board founded by, hosted by, and primarily populated by the infamously monolingual greatest nation on Earth. I don't think I'd agree that one can't be "well read" in one language, but it's certainly a deficit. I've got some French and Russian under my belt, but I don't know if I'll ever read great literature in either language.

If you're Dutch, then you shouldn't judge. You guys are just cheaters when it comes to languages.

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>>3211554

>> No.3213733

>>3213356
kafka - metamorphosis - bug
DYER?

>> No.3213752

>>3213412
>The first time I see someone mentioning a Dutch writer on /lit/

Worthwhile Dutch authors: 1
Worthwhile Anglo-Saxon authors: ∞

Man, I'd better start learning the useless, moribund, and grotesque Dutch language!!

>> No.3213792

Any Hesse, can't help but get warm and fuzzies.

>> No.3213807

>>3213752
Correction, worthwhile Dutch authors:4
Worthwhile Anglo-Saxon authors:<100

I'd like to be able to read Russian on a high level, because I think there are a lot of clever Russian writers. No way that I'll invest that time sink.

>> No.3213814

>>3213752
>useless, moribund, and grotesque

Useless? Maybe, but not to a fair number of people.
Moribund? Wuh?
Grotesque? Wuh?

Why does it make you feel so good to be a needless asshole?

>> No.3213819

Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith
Disregard the title and the cover, it's really good.

>> No.3213824

>>3213814
> Grotesque
Not that guy, but my Dutch friends all say, unprompted, that Dutch is an ugly-sounding language. Personally, I dig it.

>> No.3213862

you don't love met yet - jonatham lethem

>> No.3213928

>>3213814
ah, i think useless, moribund and grotesque is an accurate description of dutch. have you ever tried to learn dutch? have you ever screwed a dutch woman? speaking their language, fucking their women, it's all horridly boring and grotesque.

>> No.3214091

>>3213792
Even Steppenwolf? I mean, I know it changes by the end, but the first half of that book is fucking bleak.

>> No.3214097

>>3211539
>What are some books that feel like a nice big hug?
Generation X

>> No.3214098

>>3214091
to be honest, i preferred the first half. the second half seemed like an imitation of the french surrealists.

>> No.3214140

>>3214097
Yes!

>> No.3216357

Of Human Bondage