ITT: 10/10 books

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Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:10:00 2013 No.3678568 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: 10/10 books

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:11:59 2013 No.3678573 the sound and the furry

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:13:00 2013 No.3678578 File: 12 KB, 198x300, a_Tomb_for_Boris_Davidovich.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:13:00 2013 No.3678581 Ok, post the other nine and I'll post mine.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:13:00 2013 No.3678582 File: 54 KB, 500x732, Austerlitz.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:14:00 2013 No.3678583 File: 29 KB, 191x300, Black_Lamb_and_Grey_Falcoln.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:15:00 2013 No.3678585 File: 21 KB, 258x200, sdPSB5r.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:15:00 2013 No.3678587 File: 67 KB, 314x475, Darconville's_Cat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:16:00 2013 No.3678588 File: 15 KB, 175x300, Death_and_the_Dervish.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:17:59 2013 No.3678592 File: 92 KB, 260x400, the-brothers-karamazov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:17:59 2013 No.3678594 File: 24 KB, 198x300, In_Patagonia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:18:59 2013 No.3678596 File: 34 KB, 266x413, Leopoldina's_Dream.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:20:59 2013 No.3678598 File: 19 KB, 196x300, Scarecrow_&_Other_Anomalies.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:23:59 2013 No.3678603 pale fire

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:23:59 2013 No.3678604 File: 28 KB, 193x300, the_Rings_of_Saturn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:23:59 2013 No.3678608 >>3678603 this. literally, and epically, this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:39:59 2013 No.3678639 File: 27 KB, 247x400, Cover - The Old Man and The Sea.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 08:48:59 2013 No.3678659 >>3678608 >literally, and epically, this. What?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:20:00 2013 No.3678724 File: 27 KB, 312x475, 4981.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:21:00 2013 No.3678725 >>3678724 cat's cradle is more 10/10 than S5 IMHO

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:22:00 2013 No.3678727 File: 22 KB, 200x292, 200px-KoolAid_1stUSEd_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:27:59 2013 No.3678741
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>>3678725
Yeah I knew someone was going to say something like this but I couldn't be bothered to inb4.

IMHO no way in hell is cat's cradle even close, Slaughterhouse's writing style alone is so much more vivid. The other three I've read by Vonnegut are Breakfast of Champion, Mothernight and Timequake which are not close at all to laughterhouse-Five IMO.

>>	Kekkafuza !IDCVJudge6 Sun Apr 21 09:28:59 2013 No.3678743 File: 124 KB, 1000x1341, 61boR4mjGHL._SL1341_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678588 ma nigga

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:29:59 2013 No.3678744 File: 11 KB, 152x224, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:31:59 2013 No.3678749 >>3678744 Seconded

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:33:59 2013 No.3678753 File: 7 KB, 190x265, images (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:35:59 2013 No.3678761 File: 32 KB, 308x475, 890.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:49:00 2013 No.3678782 >>3678753 shameless political propaganda =/= good literature The book wasn't even an accurate allegory. Just a simplistic play on emotions.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:54:59 2013 No.3678797 You beat me to it. >A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 09:56:00 2013 No.3678800 >>3678639 >A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 10:12:00 2013 No.3678835 File: 20 KB, 289x475, 20949440z.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maybe not that significant but it's unbelievably beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 10:19:59 2013 No.3678855 File: 17 KB, 200x290, TheWaves (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 10:45:59 2013 No.3678887 >>3678782 I see what you mean but I kind of ignore Orwell's hypocrisy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 10:52:59 2013 No.3678892 File: 92 KB, 300x447, johnstamos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678583 mein nigga

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 11:40:59 2013 No.3678995 >>3678835 indeed loved the threesome

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 11:47:00 2013 No.3679022 File: 327 KB, 1024x1586, 36587c9f07d8011f95dc3d9a459dd5d1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 11:50:00 2013 No.3679030 >>3679022 agree

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:13:05 2013 No.3679097 File: 89 KB, 562x695, iliad odyssey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:15:59 2013 No.3679102 >>3678639 Best book of the 20th century.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:24:59 2013 No.3679123 >>3678741 >laughterhouse-five Lol'd

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:34:59 2013 No.3679132 >>3679097 That's a good looking book

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:35:59 2013 No.3679136 >>3678753 its just facile trash though

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:40:59 2013 No.3679150 File: 34 KB, 400x617, the-price-for-peace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:41:59 2013 No.3679158 >>3679102 haw haw haw

>>	Yaкui Sun Apr 21 12:49:00 2013 No.3679184 File: 8 KB, 200x307, 200px-TheScar(1stEd).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678835 I like Demian better

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 12:51:59 2013 No.3679192 >>3679150 just going to post it 100/10

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 14:04:59 2013 No.3679361 File: 11 KB, 160x230, Waltari.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 14:30:44 2013 No.3679471 File: 60 KB, 400x605, catch22_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 18:28:59 2013 No.3680439 >>3679022 Fuck off

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 18:33:00 2013 No.3680465 File: 295 KB, 1200x1600, unfff.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J Sun Apr 21 18:34:00 2013 No.3680474 File: 83 KB, 400x661, exil et le royaume.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 21:29:59 2013 No.3680956 File: 14 KB, 242x208, moon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Look into your heart /lit/, you know it to be true.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 21:34:59 2013 No.3680970 File: 4 KB, 290x174, proustforeplay.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3680474 I found L'Envers et l'endroit / Les Noces much more moving than L'exil et le royaume.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 21:35:59 2013 No.3680971 Lord of the Flies.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 21:45:00 2013 No.3680984 File: 20 KB, 200x306, 200px-CormacMcCarthy_BloodMeridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 21:47:00 2013 No.3680990 File: 62 KB, 600x726, 1343378000044.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I really do feel bad for people who've not had the joy of reading this book, and I feel even worse for those who've read it and were unable to comprehend the brilliance.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 21 21:49:00 2013 No.3680995 >>3680465 Seriously? I've tried and found it simply inscrutable. Any tips for cracking The Cantos?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 04:40:59 2013 No.3681901 >>3679123 Haha oops.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 04:40:59 2013 No.3681902 >>3679136 It's just your opinion which means fuck all though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 04:53:59 2013 No.3681923 >>3680439 he's right though

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 04:56:59 2013 No.3681925 >>3680990 fountainhead was better

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 10:39:00 2013 No.3682465 File: 62 KB, 334x386, modernism.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What does /lit/ think about Modernism being an art of the city? Through texts such as Ulysses and To The Waste Land

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 11:08:00 2013 No.3682512 some people shit: a deconstruction of everybody poops

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 11:18:00 2013 No.3682534 File: 79 KB, 331x500, 12-fight-club-book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pretty much anything by him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 11:34:00 2013 No.3682566 File: 14 KB, 300x300, stoner2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 11:45:00 2013 No.3682578 >>3682534 Invisible Monsters was absolutely retarded. What a disappointment

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 11:47:00 2013 No.3682582 File: 55 KB, 566x859, 1339624067267.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 12:00:00 2013 No.3682596 >>3678568 I read that this book is hard, I really want to read Ulysses but I'm afraid of it, what you guys have to say?

>>	risky cat !EyoS5AWf4c Mon Apr 22 12:03:00 2013 No.3682603 >>3682596 you'll have to read some jovian or martian literature before getting into this earth book

Anonymous Mon Apr 22 12:04:00 2013 No.3682606

>>3682596
I tried to read it, under mocking recommendation of my mother, when I was around thirteen. It put me off attempting to read anything deemed 'intellectual' ever since. I'm afraid to try reading it again in case my reading comprehension hasn't improved in adulthood.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 12:47:00 2013 No.3682712 >>3682606 It's not as hard as you think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 12:57:00 2013 No.3682739 >>3680984 Oh yes. Transcendent/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 12:58:00 2013 No.3682746 >>3682606 :( your mother sounds mean...try again, it's quite good

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 13:06:31 2013 No.3682765 >>3680990 Ayn Rand is incredibly bland and straightforward in her intentions so it's not a matter of comprehension. She was batshit traumatized by a shit country with a thousand problems which she blamed entirely on communism. Pretty childish stuff.

Anonymous Mon Apr 22 17:14:05 2013 No.3683358

>>3682534
His first three books Fight Club, Survivor, and Choke had more shock value than literary content, not that I didn't like them. However, they seemed to follow a similar formula.

I found Lullaby to be most enjoyable though because it broke this mold for the most part, plus the parallel narratives were done nicely.

Anonymous Mon Apr 22 17:22:04 2013 No.3683371

>>3680984
just buyed, i'm going to read it after i finish the book i'm reading right now, ZeroZeroZero (it's by an italian author who tell the story of the origin of the cocaine, the wars caused by it e and the thousands of lives destroyed by it, and the economy morphed by it.)

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 17:23:04 2013 No.3683376 >>3683358 I think rant is probably his best book

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 17:24:04 2013 No.3683380 File: 62 KB, 538x831, book-review-life-of-pi-L-vgkVP5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dont know how /lit/ feels about this book, dont browse this board at all. For me, definite 10/10 and deserves a place in the literary canon

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 17:30:05 2013 No.3683400 >>3683380 the book it's actually good, it's a pleasure to read. i've becomed a child every time i did a read session. i don't want to see the film, i don't want to ruin the memory of it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 17:32:04 2013 No.3683412 >>3683400 It wont, i swear. Swore id only watch it after i finished the book. It is the most spot on book-to-movie movie i've ever seen. Only problem is you can't see his thoughts as clearly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 17:42:04 2013 No.3683436 File: 95 KB, 432x628, tumblr_m3gc7kDNeS1rrnekqo1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dat cliffhanger ending

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 18:01:04 2013 No.3683469 >>3683436 nigga wtf are u talking about?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 18:08:04 2013 No.3683491 Shah of Shahs was the best read I've had in a long time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 18:08:04 2013 No.3683492 >>3678727 Not a 10/10 ... Perhaps 7/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 18:09:04 2013 No.3683497 File: 29 KB, 500x375, Henry.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3683469 >his face when someone ripped the end out of his library book

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 20:51:47 2013 No.3683957 File: 59 KB, 485x650, buku-lolita3[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:07:24 2013 No.3684002 File: 26 KB, 326x500, Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lets be honest, this book is masterfully written. Just because it's easy to understand doesn't mean it isn't fantastic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:08:24 2013 No.3684004 >>3684002 This is my favourite book of all time ever

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:09:24 2013 No.3684008 File: 21 KB, 200x280, 200px-OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is fantastic

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:22:24 2013 No.3684052 File: 6 KB, 181x279, The Picture.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678568

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:25:24 2013 No.3684064 >>3683371 >just buyed

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:32:24 2013 No.3684090 >tfw I have to buy or pirate these books because my public library gets mostly young adult fiction and graphic novels In the science fiction corner, we have Stranger in a Strange Land and Dandelion Wine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:34:30 2013 No.3684097 File: 42 KB, 260x400, petersburg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The best idle, cerebral game you will ever read.

>>	so Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:37:24 2013 No.3684103 >>3684052 That's a picture of Franz Liszt. What the fuck, Barnes and Noble?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:37:24 2013 No.3684106 File: 356 KB, 936x938, 1364881422754.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This shit thread makes my backlog grow bigger and bigger every time it appears.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:38:24 2013 No.3684109 >>3678581 ehuehuehuehuehuehue

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:41:24 2013 No.3684118 >>3679471 10/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 22:41:24 2013 No.3684258 File: 109 KB, 328x475, 9782070754922fs.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] his amp went to 11

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 22:46:25 2013 No.3684272 File: 133 KB, 596x568, imjizzing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3684103 But he was so sexy...

>>	Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J Mon Apr 22 22:47:25 2013 No.3684274 File: 40 KB, 857x600, chopin vs liszt.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3684272

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 22:48:25 2013 No.3684277 >>3684274 Put a dildo on that jackhammer and you've about got it.

None !!lZetafI6z8s Mon Apr 22 22:52:29 2013 No.3684284
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hmmm out of everything I have read I'd have to say

>Becalmed by Joris-Karl Huysmans
>A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
>The Ship by Hans Henry Jahnn
>The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub
>Opium and Other Stories by Geza Csath

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 22:53:35 2013 No.3684285 >>3684272 not to mention patrician >>3684008 reminds me of /pol/ and their obsession of THE OPPRESSED MAN

Anonymous Mon Apr 22 22:58:24 2013 No.3684291

>>3684285
Just because those asinine nincompoops endorse an idea doesn't discount it. In general, there has been a gradual feminizing and anesthetizing of the male population in the past 50 years or so. I think part of it is that we're just descending back into more balanced gender identities, after the hellish hyper-masculine of the first half of the 20th century. The masculizing effect of third wave feminism on some women is another complicating factor though...

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 23:00:24 2013 No.3684297 File: 120 KB, 498x428, 1362438254218.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3684291 I refuse to have this conversation.

>>	satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 Mon Apr 22 23:01:24 2013 No.3684298 >>3684284 rather patrish list you got there dude, read csath in the throes of my oxy addiction two years ago liked de Quincey better though...incomparable prose

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 23:03:24 2013 No.3684301 >>3684297 10/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 23:03:24 2013 No.3684302 Slaughterhouse five

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 23:09:25 2013 No.3684316 >>3684284 why Becalmed over Huysman's other works? I loved A rebours and La-bas - I'd put the latter on my own tops list - but just couldn't get much out of that one.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 23:12:24 2013 No.3684326 >>3684284 I've not heard of any of these save 'A Season in Hell'. Where the are you getting your recommendations? Care to elaborate a bit on each? As in why you've chosen these particular works as your 10/10's over many better known books?

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None !!lZetafI6z8s Mon Apr 22 23:25:24 2013 No.3684350

>>3684316
See I love A rebours too but La-bas did nothing for me... I'll get back to you in a bit with something more in depth than I feel up to writing right now (I'm completely shitfaced)
>>3684326
As for where I find stuff: Goodreads, interviews with authors, wikipedia, lots of other places... One author usually leads to several others
>>3684298
My post to you disappeared for some reason but I actually still need to get to Confessions, I've been putting it off as my expectations weren't high but I'll get to it sooner now. thanks for the rec/reminder

>>	None !!lZetafI6z8s Mon Apr 22 23:27:24 2013 No.3684354 >>3684326 I'll get back to you too btw

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 23:30:24 2013 No.3684363 edit: ITT 2edgy4u books

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 23:38:24 2013 No.3684377 File: 25 KB, 295x475, The Once and Future King.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:17:26 2013 No.3684435 >>3678573 >furry This sounds like a hilarious fan fic

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:19:26 2013 No.3684437 >>3682465 I'd cite writers like Hemingway or Faulkner as Modernist writers who weren't complete urbanites (although stylistically they're at opposite ends of the Modernism spectrum)

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:19:26 2013 No.3684438 >>3679097 Not a bad translation either

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:20:26 2013 No.3684439 >>3682534 Rant is a real 10/10, additionally I think it best expresses this generation's worldview.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:23:26 2013 No.3684444 >>3679471 so much

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:26:26 2013 No.3684451 File: 30 KB, 329x500, In Watermelon Sugar.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:32:26 2013 No.3684461 >>3684451 I just wiki'ed this. What the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 00:36:26 2013 No.3684470 >>3684451 First time I saw Brautigan posted on /lit/. Impressive - and a good read. But Trout fishing was better, I'd argue.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 01:16:25 2013 No.3684520 >>3678835 Furchtbar. Hermann Hesse is just awful. Boring and pretentious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:59:12 2013 No.3684849 >>3684002 Agreed, very well written which makes lots of his other books seem less good .>>3684470 Brautigan has been posted lots before

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 06:10:11 2013 No.3684864 >>3684451 I'm intrigued. Never heard f it. This is why I come to /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 06:13:11 2013 No.3684867 >>3684864 Personally I loathed the book. Give it a try though.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 13:54:04 2013 No.3685860 >>3684451 Well that's different?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 13:55:04 2013 No.3685869 >>3684849 >Brautigan has been posted lots before I wonder what happened to that one guy who used to post him in every damn thread a couple years back.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 13:56:04 2013 No.3685870 >>3679361 Oh damn, yeah. Also Nuori Johannes and Johannes Angelos, even though they are character studies.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 14:29:04 2013 No.3685943 >>3678568 Isn't James Joyce s book of drivel and incomprehensible writing that the so called "intellectual literature elite" all claim only they can understand? Kind of like the Pollock of literature?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 14:31:04 2013 No.3685947 >>3685943 No, not Ulysses. Finnegans Wake, perhaps.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 16:12:04 2013 No.3686266 >>3678744 Try reading that to you're nine year old when she sleeps.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:13:25 2013 No.3686512 >>3684520 Hesse's short stories are pretty good.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:18:25 2013 No.3686530 >>3685943 pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:24:25 2013 No.3686552 >>3685943 No, it's the book that incompetent and lazy people keep saying that no one can 'understand it' and serves only to 'hipster bragging', so then they can go back to their Xboxes and their TV shows guiltless of their meaningless lives.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:41:26 2013 No.3686633 File: 40 KB, 192x293, 45061169ae414e36f2b56bafb86bd0fb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] #1

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:42:26 2013 No.3686640 File: 337 KB, 504x800, Gombrowicz_Ferdydurke-jubileusz_m_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] and #2

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:47:26 2013 No.3686677 File: 59 KB, 324x500, kafka_on_the_shore_large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Kafka on the Shore

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:48:26 2013 No.3686684 File: 125 KB, 600x840, The_Stranger_Albert_Camus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Go ahead. Laugh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:54:25 2013 No.3686697 >>3678604 I fucking loved this book

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:57:26 2013 No.3686712 File: 13 KB, 200x302, 200px-AmericanPastoral.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678568

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 17:59:26 2013 No.3686717 File: 9 KB, 265x190, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678568 "Book of the New Sun", Wolfe

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:02:25 2013 No.3686729 File: 23 KB, 389x600, bloodmer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678568 captcha: The Flobser

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:12:25 2013 No.3686770 >>3686684 why 10/10 for sure

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:15:25 2013 No.3686780 >>3678583 Are there any books similar to this on Chechnya, or good books on Chechen life, political climate, religious views, etc?

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:17:25 2013 No.3686789 File: 258 KB, 350x552, sotweed.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3678741 >>3678724 What's the best Vonnegut intro for a person with a sort vein for sci-fi? Not me, I'm planning a gift.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:23:25 2013 No.3686809 >>3686789 Probably the Sirens of Titan, though the sci-fi in that is sorta pulpy and not very serious or realistic to any degree.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:28:26 2013 No.3686828 >>3686633 It's pretty fun, but no 10/10

Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:30:25 2013 No.3686838
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>>3686809

that was exactly my thought. she is going through some heinlein and clarke phase so i was thinking in throwing some vonnegut there. and some dick if you catch my drift.

Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:32:25 2013 No.3686849

>>3678744
Remember doing a book report on this about 15 years ago in the 6th grade. Only got to the second chapter before I realized I'd never finish in time and wrote the report based on the synopsis on the dustcover. I got a B, but my teacher treated me like an asshole for the rest of the year.

I only realized later that I had completely left out any mention of racism and was treated like shit because my black teacher thought the only thing I took from the story was "Old Southern lawyers are awesome as shit and shoot dogs and stuff"

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:34:25 2013 No.3686854 >>3678782 Objectivity and neutrality =/= good literature, too

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:40:26 2013 No.3686877 >>3686780 "Hadji Murad" by Tolstoy was good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:45:25 2013 No.3686891 >>3678578 >>3678583 >>3678588 you... seem to be the same person.

Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:46:25 2013 No.3686896

>>3686828
I liked De Sade's philosophical views on nature and religion best and the absurd sex scenes and libertinage perspective is just an icing on the cake. But those strong, some may call "deranged" bits that take up 90% of the book just make his opinions, when he finally takes his cock out of his hand and gets to them, all that much sharper.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:46:25 2013 No.3686897 I feel your pain. Went to find a book on Economics at my local library. All I found was Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, and two other books explaining why Adam Smith was an asshole.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 18:58:25 2013 No.3686956 >>3684298 what does "patrish" mean? thanks

Anonymous Tue Apr 23 19:00:25 2013 No.3686959
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"The judge rises, and the people rise. But not all is silent. The guilty one falls to the floor, crying and sobbing. And there is a woman wailing, and an old man crying. No one calls for silence, though the judge is not quite gone. For who can stop the heart from breaking?"

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 19:00:25 2013 No.3686960 >>3686877 Thanks. Any other Chechen literature worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 19:07:26 2013 No.3686990 File: 117 KB, 476x357, cry.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3686959 >Cry, the beloved country Good film, too.

Anonymous Tue Apr 23 19:14:25 2013 No.3687026

>>3686990

It's a sad book not because of iuts content, but because of its context. It was written before apartheid became institutionalized in South Africa and really took a critical look at the structure of their society. It pretty much predicted apartheid. It also made clear what needed to be done within the society to quell the violence, hate and inequality the blax faced. Unfortunately, as we see today, South Africa did not mend.

>>	The Sound and the Fury !!KlYr/MIPjaz Tue Apr 23 21:44:25 2013 No.3687466 >>3684097 That is one of my most favorite novels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 22:06:55 2013 No.3687526 >>3679150 10/10 for sure

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 04:26:09 2013 No.3688187 >>3683492 the Acid Test is significantly more 10/10 than most books ITT.

Anonymous Wed Apr 24 06:06:08 2013 No.3688315
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>>3685943

The rumors are exaggerated, to be sure. I can attest that The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is perfectly readable, and I've seen some passages from Ulysses to verify that it is not that bad either. Finnegan's Wake is another story altogether, but I can only hold my tongue as I haven't made the attempt to read it yet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 06:20:11 2013 No.3688349 File: 21 KB, 269x320, 8RichardBrautigan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3688187 Agreed wholeheartedly.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 13:03:48 2013 No.3689566 >>3686838 nobody who makes puns has gotten laid. at all. ever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 13:18:48 2013 No.3689624 >>3686702 Nice cover

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 13:23:48 2013 No.3689639 >>3688349 get out of here you fucking hippies

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 24 13:42:48 2013 No.3689698 >>3684312 Was waiting for this. Reading it ATM and really enjoying it this far.

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