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>Start reading The Master and Margarita.
>Second sentence

>One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald, and carried his respectable fedora hat in his hand.

>respectable fedora

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Fucking meme books

>> No.6948529

>>6948528
>One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald, and carried his respectable fedora hat in his hand.
ew, pevear

>> No.6948532

>>6948528
>le ebin fedora maymay guise

>> No.6948549

>>6948528
>start listening to 11/22/63
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1aKWzeNhz2x
D R O P P E D
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>> No.6948554

>>6948549
Thank you for that. Going to be my Stephen King reply from now on.

>> No.6948557
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6948557

>>6948528
>no reading the superior translation

>> No.6949054

I'm about 50 pages in and I'm quite enjoying it on the whole, but my favourite section by far was the scene between Jesus and Pilate. It felt like the opening chapter to a really great historical novel that I kind of wished I was reading instead. Can anyone tell me if that narrative gets carried on later in the book?

>> No.6949059

>>6949054
>Can anyone tell me if that narrative gets carried on later in the book?

It switches between the two plotlines.

>> No.6949070
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6949070

>not posting the wordsworth cover

>> No.6949071

>>6949054
those were my favourite bits too, and yeah there are more of them

>> No.6949101

>>6949059
>>6949071
Thanks, that's great to hear.

>> No.6949102

>>6948528
You created an entire thread just to display your pathetic ignorance? Shut the fuck up and read the great book, you unworthy ass. The symbolism in the Pilate chapters alone is so dense and intricate it'll fuck your brain.

>> No.6949180

>>6949054
Just wait for the second half...

>> No.6949186

>>6949070
Fucking kek what were they thinking?

>> No.6949190

>>6949186
its their best cover IMO

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6949221

>>6949190
I like this, more subdued version.

>> No.6949263

>>6948528
I still don't get all the hype about it. It's kind of funny in places. The religious commentary is... sort of interesting? It's just mildly OK.

>> No.6949320

>>6948557
yep, this is the english edition you want to read

the coupla pages that got censored don't even matter, in all truth

>> No.6949344
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6949344

>tfw I have worst cover

>> No.6949351

>>6948528
>not reading it in russian

>>6949263
what do you dislike about it?

>> No.6949356

>>6949344
see>>6949070

>> No.6949368

>>6949344
It's not the WORST but it is kind of surprising for a penguin.

>> No.6949442

>>6949356
wow, I hadn't expanded the thumbnail

that's, wow

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6949947

>>6949070
>think this is an edit or something
>google covers
>it's real

>> No.6949968

>>6949070

This is fucking badass, I don't know what you faggots are talking about

>> No.6950141

>>6949054
In that case I recommed Overburdened with Evil by the Strugatskys

>> No.6950223

>>6949344
That's not Wordsworth Classics. I have that cover, though, and the bigger problem is that it's P+V. Great book (as far as I can tell), awful translation.

>> No.6950229

>>6950223
Do you speak russian?

>> No.6950246

>>6948528
Ginsburg will save you from the fedora:
>One, about forty, in a gray summer suit, was short, plump, dark-haired and partly bald. He carried his respectable pancake-shaped hat in his hand, and his clean-shaven face was adorned by a pair of supernaturally large eyeglasses in a black frame.

>> No.6950252

>>6950229
No, I just found P+V's translation really hard to read. Felt like there was a great book struggling to get out. I dunno, though, it's possible the original is full of awkward, ugly dialogue I guess.

>> No.6950254

>>6950252
I read P&V as well and felt the same way. Awkward as fuck.

>> No.6950261

>>6950246
So will Glenny, for that matter:
>The first of them - aged about forty, dressed in a greyish summer suit - was short, dark-haired, well-fed and bald. He carried his decorous pork-pie hat by the brim and his neatly shaven face was embellished by black horn-rimmed specatcles of preternatural dimensions.

>> No.6950275

>>6948528
I've been genuinely having this problem with Steppenwolf. It's hard to read without imagining him tipping his fedora every time he mentions being half wolf, hating jazz, or looking down on the bourgeoisie.

Although I suppose there are intentionally comic elements there, so it's not that unfitting.

>> No.6950278

>>6950275
I was the same with Clockwork Orange.

>I only listen to Ludwig van

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