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ITT: books about obsession

>> No.7825981

inb4 some asshole posts moby dick

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>>7825981
moby dick

>> No.7826314

Any more good books about chess?

>> No.7826319

>>7826314
chess

>> No.7826335

Molloy

>> No.7826360

Jeff noon - vurt

Main character is obsessed with fucking his sister

>> No.7826405

>>7825981
> Implying ahab's monomoniacal pursuit of the whale isn't an obsession

>> No.7826785

>>7826360
No that's Catcher in the Rye

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>>7825980

>> No.7827045

The Collector
The Magus
The French Lieutenant's Woman

>> No.7828418

>>7826314
Chess players, or textbooks about chess?

>> No.7828437

>>7825980
Naomi by Tanizaki
The Silent Cry by Oe
Seventeen by Oe

>>7825983
lmao stupid mishima. but you're right so nice one.

>> No.7828464

>>7825980
well, Lolita.

>> No.7828474

>>7826314
master of go
by Kawabata

not chess ...but go is a superior board game anyways.

>> No.7828493

>>7828474
do i have to know about the game in order to enjoy the book?

>> No.7828495

>>7825983
Which Mishima book isnt desu

>> No.7828500

the tunnel

>> No.7828505

>>7828493
no. I'm a novice go player and I enjoyed the book. there are better places to start for Kawabata though. still, it's the only book close to chess that I can recall atm.

>> No.7828511

El túnel - Ernesto Sabato

>> No.7828529

>>7828500
>>7828511
nigga do you even

>> No.7828534

>>7826314
The Royal Game is a really good novella about chess, though it starts a little slowly.

>> No.7828550

>>7826314
Almost everything written about Bobby Fischer is interesting. Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall is great.

My System by Aron Nimzowitsch is still one of the best chess hyper-modern theory books even though it was written in 1925, but all that just means is its excruciatingly boring and not worth the effort.

You will gain more practical knowledge by using the training section on lichess.org and watching Saint Louis Chess Club videos on YT than you would reading any amount of books.

Chess books are obsolete now until someone discovers something revolutionary, and even then they will probably just make a video.