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God tier books nobody except you has read

>> No.5401943

The Prince by Machiavelli

>> No.5401945
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>>5401943
lol
here's another one

>> No.5402032
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Pic related. A French book by some scholar of philology about the genealogy of Night in Greek cosmogonies and how it relates to the rise of rationality in Ancient Greece. Quite fascinating and make Oresteia even more sexy.

>> No.5402172
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It's not even in print, despite winning Martinson the Nobel Prize.

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>>5402172
here's another epic poem that nobody has ever head of.

During his life, the author got 3 nominations for the Nobel Prize for it.

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>> No.5402214

>>5402172
>$100 on amazon.com

srsly?

>> No.5402215

Never ever met anyone who read this, even when its much better than foam of the days

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>>5402215

>> No.5402250
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>> No.5402268

>>5402220
lol?

>> No.5402300

>>5402250
I have it. It's faintly intimidating, so I've yet to start reading.

>> No.5402313

>>5402250
that's a good one

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>>5401932
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>> No.5402324

Godel, Escher, Bach

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This is maybe stretching it considering that I know there are some Canadian anons on lit but outside of Canada, pretty obscure.

Canada will be relevant one day, right?

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>>5402207

>I will never have sex with a girl that's that big compared to me

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>>5402172
>>5402214
In case anyone is interested, here's a pdf of Aniara. I'd put it in text but 4chan is being a huge bitch about my formatting.

>> No.5402620

>>5402322
looks like mr. magoo

>> No.5402627

>>5402324
Nice try, college sophomore.

>> No.5402640

>>5402579
>I'd put it in text but 4chan is being a huge bitch about my formatting.
Really? Isn't that thing like 200 pages long?
It doesn't sound credible that you actually considered pasting the text here, but if you are serious about that, there are text-pasting sites like pastebin.com where you could put it. (Though I'm not sure about length restrictions.)

>> No.5402653

>>5402640
I'm saying I would have put the link as text instead of as a picture, so that you could copy paste it, but 4chan was being a bitch about my link and even fiddling with it kept kicking out my post as spam. It's a pdf so pastebin isn't an option.

>> No.5402682

>>5402653
ah, ok.

Well, would it be possible to upload the pdf on scribd?
Sorry, I'm naturally distrustful of downloading rar-files from 4chan.

>> No.5402706

>>5402682
Yeah, it's scribd site /doc/238998252/Aniara

>> No.5402837

>>5402706
thanks!
much appreciated <3

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>mfw Academics hate it because they get #rekt in this and Ferdydurke (hilariously rekt)

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>> No.5402890

>>5402032
That sounds hella interesting, but I assume there's no English translation?

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Probably one of the best books I've ever read and so far I've only seen one other person on /lit/ mention it.

>> No.5402965

>>5402300
It's a pretty fun read. It's basically Eco's take on the Illuminatus! trilogy.

>> No.5403686

>>5402706
Nice.

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don't know anyone else who's even heard of the author this but it's one of the best short story collections I've ever read

>> No.5403803

>>5402706
this looks awesome. much appreciated, anon

>> No.5403992

>>5402849
>reading głąb-rowicz
>buying into cheap structuralism

lel

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Seriously, read this.

>> No.5404010

>>5403801
I've just recently read it! Really cool connections to the history of science, very feels-y stories

>> No.5404019

>>5401932
Looks like just another variation on the Dawkins "memes" stuff, lots of "just so" stories with little proof

>> No.5405411

>>5402196
It's written in Esperanto, which is weird but awesome. My question is, how many people on the Nobel Prize committee can read Esperanto? I'm guessing very few. Does the committee just read everything in translation?

I mean on the few occasions when the political angle results in a tie and they have to actually look at the bodies of work at hand.

>> No.5405417

>>5404010
oh awesome yeah. so cool that someone else has read that. I feel like she "gets" scientists better than a lot of SF writers.

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>> No.5405445

>Thomas Bernhardt: Correction.
I'm sure some of you have read it, but a cool anon helped me track down the title from a vague synopsis and hyped it up. Most of lit would like it.

>> No.5405500

>>5402849
>reading the books of an old paedophile faggot who died of STDs

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>> No.5405986

>>5402367
lold

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>>5402579
thanks bro
>>5402640
pic related

>> No.5405997

>>5405445
I've read everything by Bernhardt that's translated to English or Finnish.

>> No.5406002

>>5403801
Added to list!

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no nobel prizes in store for this writer

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>> No.5407856

>>5402890
Not that I know. I wouldn't be hard to translate but it's already pretty niche in the original. Your best bet would be to either learn French or search for something equivalent written by an English or American author.

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>>5402220
I remember reading it. Fun like Vian can be, but I didn't give me that strong an impression.

>>5405411
Esperanto can be learnt in a few hours if your native language is Western European.

I already made a suggestion, but I add a second one with pic related. Original is in Italian, probably has been translated in English.

>> No.5407924

>>5402947

I've read this. It is really good. Anybody with even a cursory interest in the Greeks should read it.

>> No.5408092

>>5402332
Canada bro here. I've only read Coming Through Slaughter which is damn good. I see Ondaatje pop up in different course syllabi occasionally

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>>5403999
Can't find it anywhere. Any help?

>> No.5408112

>>5402172
I liked the opera.

>> No.5408134

Oxford English dictionary

>> No.5408163
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>Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the 1950s and '60s. Guaranteed permanent relevance by the never-ending presence of the marginally talented--and populated by artists who sold out, would-be artists with little ability, and hopeless hangers-on--this brilliant novel masterfully dissects the art world's culture of corruption and compromise, and in so doing examines the social and political malaise that continues to have a grip on modern America.

It's about artists in New York being terrible hacks, I don't know how /lit/ doesn't love this book.

>> No.5408196

>>5408163

had this way back in my backlog but i've always wanted to check it out

might have to bump it up

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>>5402200
I loved this book

pic related

>> No.5408204

>>5408163
Goddammit can't find a digital version, this thread is torture.

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Fake biography. Very hilarious. At the very beginning it talks about shit and how it relates to art. I think the author is the one responsible for that cover of Fear and Loathing. Can't find the image used for my book without the amazon mark, sorry.
>DooDAAA - Ralph Steadman

>> No.5408267

>>5408106

It's an amazing take-on of analytic psychologist on archetype of religion in human's unconcious. It has Carl Gustav Jung's letter to the author published inside too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0268002258/ref=dp_olp_used_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=used

>> No.5408273

>>5408260
Ralph Steadman IS the guy that did the art for Fear and Loathing, bru
.