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Rec Thread Bordiga Sun Jan 20 19:30:22 2013 No.3378901 [Reply] [Original]

Post what you've read recently and get recommended books.
This week I read The Maids and Deathwatch by Jean Genet, and Hopscotch by Cortazar. I enjoyed them quite a bit.

>>	Bordiga Sun Jan 20 20:05:21 2013 No.3379023 bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 20:07:21 2013 No.3379032 File: 21 KB, 500x503, 1358104769879.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3379023 u must be new here

>>	ƷӜ̵̨̄Ƹ̵̡ Sun Jan 20 20:15:21 2013 No.3379064 File: 125 KB, 900x600, Animal House.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Finished Wollstonecraft and a book review from Hannah Arendt about Rosa Luxemburg... Now I want that book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 20:17:21 2013 No.3379070 I read Novalis - Hymns to the Night and a collection of Maupassant >>3378901 try some Borges and Juan Rulfo for Cortazar, and maybe Burroughs or Sartre or Bataille for Genet

>>	Bordiga Sun Jan 20 20:28:21 2013 No.3379097 >>3379070 I've read all of those besides Ulfo and Bataille, thanks for the suggestions. >>3379064 I love Rosa Luxemburg! What books was it?

>>	ƷӜ̵̨̄Ƹ̵̡ Sun Jan 20 20:48:22 2013 No.3379148 >>3379097 Thar >>3379119 You can apparently read it all on Google books

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 20:55:22 2013 No.3379163 Finished Zadie Smith's On Beauty Reading The New Kings of Nonfiction, due to a rec on /lit/. I had to tear myself away to do my coursework.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 21:35:21 2013 No.3379292 >>3379163 >rec on /lit/ Really? I didn't think it was all that special, as far as Klosterman and Wallace are concerned you're better off reading IV and Consider the Lobster/A Supposedly Fun Thing respectively.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 03:40:22 2013 No.3380395 File: 967 KB, 390x220, tumblr_mgy0opn1Yj1rfqu12o1_400.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3379292 I like longform journalism though, you know, the New Yorker and all that shit. So this is something like liquid crack for me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 04:33:21 2013 No.3380465 I read Neuromancer for the first time. Was pretty neat

>>	demiurge Mon Jan 21 04:35:21 2013 No.3380471 >>3380395 you might like vollman

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