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Which books do you always bring on your travels, /lit/?
Books to read during a subway ride, whilst killing time waiting for your delayed flight at the airport, chilling by the beach on a tropical island or staying the night in a cozy cabin in the desolate mountains.
Books, which storyline you know by heart due to the countless re-reads, but carrying it with you and reading it (wether that be from cover to cover or mindlessly hopscotching between your favourite passages) still gives you a sensation of familiarity and tranquility.
I'm looking for recommendations as I'm going on my first long travel alone and I want a few classics to keep me entertained while I'm gone.
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>>9892561
I bring new books when I travel, not ones I've read before.
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I usually take with me a Poe story collection. The Hobbit is also a comfy read when you're close to nature, along with The Nonexistent Knight by Calvino. Father Sergius by Tolstoy is a good winter read for me. Or, like the other anon said, whatever new book I'm reading at the time.
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Who was in the wrong here? Do you believe that Nabokov was unaware of Kafka before the novel's publication? Cincinnatus C. is definitely more sexually inert than the majority of Kafka's protagonists. Also, my interpretation of the ending is thatCincinnatus was beheaded and the last page or so is a description of the "shadow Cincinnatus" that pops up throughout the novel. Lastly, can anyone tell me the significance of the spider? I'm having a little trouble interpreting it.
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Been some time since I've read this but do know that VN was aware of Kafka when he wrote it. It's in either Field or Boyd. He even has an encounter with Kafka (or thinks he does) on the Berlin metro in the early-mid 20's and tells others in his excitement. I remember this because it put me in mind of Henry James' one face-to-face encounter with Dickens at a party. Neither spoke.
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>>9892516
Kafka fucked a beheaded Nabokov in his excitement over the sexual insertion of a significant spider in the mind of Henry James.
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>read one of the greatest books ever
>it is in french only so you can't shitpost about it on /lit/
What other foreign works are like that ?
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Was thinking recently about Lazarillo de Tormes, maybe that's similar. You could probably get an English version but nobody really does, it's mostly big just in Spanish.
It's not even that deep in terms of theme, but damn if it isn't funny.
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I'm pretty sure that /lit/ would love The Return of Filip Latinovicz (it's about a nihilistic and depressed painter living in miserable and backwards countryside, witnessing social decay and moping around). It's actually available in English...
Also, lyric poetry that isn't English or the most meme French poetry (Rimbaud, Baudelaire).
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Grande Sertão: Veredas by Guimarães Rosa for huehueland
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Where do I start with him?
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The Sound and the Fury
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Light in august gives you a good idea of themes he explores in his novels, and is the most pleb-friendly out of his masterpieces.
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Not The Sound and the Fury. As I Lay Dying or Light in August (may as well read LIA now).
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I would like to thank you guys from /lit/ to helping me rekindle my strengh to start writting.
Now I going to write my YA novel of vampires and college campus.
Tho it wont probably fit in YA category 'cause is less 'bout romance 'n' shiet 'n' moar 'boat art 'n' existencial crisis
...oh yeah, also, vampires
Sorry, is just one of my weaknesses.
Wish me luck anon's
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>>9892444
This book has been written a million times.
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if this is bait, weak bait
if this isn't bait, great bait
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>"Hey anon remember us? You never finished us you know. Are you done watching those TV shows soon? We'll be right here waiting..."
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>>9892395
I only watch ONe telvision show at it's name is
TWIN
PEAKS
BABY!!!!
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>>9892395
I will be finished with all of you by the end of 2018, I promise!
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it's even worse than tv shows, old fellas. what's keeping us separated is a tajik rug collection classifieds section, a well of endless content
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What should I read to best understand the IQ system, its history, what it's truly measuring, and what it can be used to predict?
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Wikipedia
Reddit arguments about racial differences in intelligence
/pol/ infographics
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>>9892388
t. triggered nigger
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Ended up picking up this book and loving it thoroughly but can't help but feel like as far as literature about the DPRK goes, this is going to be considered "Entry Level", regardless of how very well researched it was. Anyone here have suggestions on further reading on the subject? I'm especially fascinated by the Cult of personality surrounding the Kim leaders.
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Read everything you can by both Victor Cha and Gordon Chang in terms of background and geopolitics. Both authors have also written things that give you good insights into the Kim Regime/ Dynasty. In terms of political science/international studies their works seem to be standard entry level stuff. Hopefully other people have some ideas. I know of a few really popularised works by NK defectors that might also be of interest to you.
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>Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the A.M. heat: shattercane, lamb's-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtain, muscadine, spine-cabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek. An arrow of starlings fired from the windbreak's thatch. The glitter of dew that stays where it is and steams all day. A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys. All nodding. Electric sounds of insects at their business. Ale-colored sunshine and pale sky and whorls of cirrus so high they cast no shadow. Insects all business all the time. Quartz and chert and schist and chondrite iron scabs in granite. Very old land. Look around you. The horizon trembling, shapeless. We are all of us brothers.
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http://www.shittybooks.com/2011/08/the-pale-king/
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Who is your favorite Catholic writer?
Mine is probably Shakespeare
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Fuck off, James Tyrone.
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Which books have the best king Arthur portrayals?
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I like The Once and Future King myself.
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>>9892296
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur is the beginning and end of all Arthurian literature. If you're actually interested in Arthur, then start there.
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Is this worth reading? 2017-08-14 08:37:06 Post No.9892290
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Should I read this? What should I expect? One anon told me it made him depressed for a whole week..
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There are few books more essential for white men to read. If you are a white man and haven't read it, you are a dirt pleb-tier.
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>>9892318
I don't want to be more depressed and ful off hanger than I already am, I also don't want to hate the jews
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>>9892408
>I also don't want to hate the jews
You dont have to hate them to see through their tricky tactics.
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I think alot, ok. I mostly think about how if someone thinks of something first they become "special". The other day after dinner, I came to the conclusion that desire is death (abbreviated). I say to myself, wow what a clean idea, next thing you know I find out some faggot named shakesqueer wrote it first in ancient chompersville. That's why i don't read books, men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHDaKtx6bGY
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>read about John Stuart mill's hardcore education
>his "contributions" consist of arbitrary axioms within a set of other arbitrary axioms relating to morality
How could someone trained as a patrician not see the utter pointlesness of this? The axioms are fucking ARBITRARY.
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>>9892278
YOU (OP) ARE FUCKING ARBITRARY!
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Of his contributions, the greatest has been his thoughts on economics and productivity cycles (how money can enter some cycles and never exactly leave or how some cycles are not wasteful)
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What's are some good books for a fan of Seinfeld? 2017-08-14 08:01:57 Post No.9892187
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What's are some good books for a fan of Seinfeld?
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Particularly Larry David's style of weaving storylines together. Confederacy of Dunces comes to mind, what do y'all like?
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crime and punishment
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>>9892187
The Importance of Being Earnest is like a proto-sitcom and bears an uncanny resemblance to a George / Jerry conversation.
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>>9893574
This is a play, not a book.
>inb4 a play can be a book
No.