Good books that don't get often discussed on /lit/

My diary desu

>I browsed nyrb and picked a book at random and now I have obscure tastes

>>7562558
Considering /lit/ discusses the same 20 novels over and over, you dont quite have to delve into scholarly quarterlies to get decent books that arent discussed here.

The last two years have been huge in contemporary /lit/, and no one talks about it or has read them

dont read hungarians they are racist

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>>7562405

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Arno Schmidt
>obscure German-James-Joyce-Core

>>7562587
Good on you for finding "obscure" works. Now if only you could find threads in the catalog.
>>7561695

>>7562604
>Remains of the Day, by the author of Remains of the Day

Wew didn't know I only had to write one book to get infinite writing credits

>>7562620
I'm not OP faggot. Also, calling a book obscure because it isnt circle-jerked around on this board is idiotic.

>>7562587
>The last two years have been huge in contemporary /lit/
In what way?

>>7563242
He's full of shit. He just walked into Strands and saw this on one of their tables and thinks it's good.

>>7562558
lol this was the NYT book of the year you tard

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Insatiability by Witkiewicz
Pornography by Gombrowicz
Autodafe by Canetti
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Saramago
Nazarin by Galdos
Lost Steps by Carpentier
The Moon and the Bonfires by Pavese
Les Faux-Monnayeurs by Gide
Hourglass by Kis
Moskat Family by Isaac

>>7562558
>implying that's not a fun way to find new books

Get outta here pseud

>>7562405
weird, i just bought this last week

>>7562616
you're right though, it always gets mentioned but no-one ever talks about the book itself

>>7562587

What are these huge contemporary lit books of the last 2 years? Not trolling, just want to hear what you have to say.

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Literally (no meme-ing) one of the finest and most beautiful pieces of prose-poetry ever written. It is the finest example of how magical realism -should- be done and yet people still stroke off Murakami. Baricco is who Kundera secretly wants to be, and he writes achingly beautiful prose and something that makes you want to cry L I T E R A L L Y every 5 paragraphs. I defy -anyone- to name a book with more beautiful writing than this. (You can't -- sidenote, there's a reason it's rated so highly on GoodReads).

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>>7564317

Seconded, completely underrated. Emmaus is also spectacular.

>>7564317
fuck it i will give it a go and shitpost it endlessly if it turns out i like it

>>7564351

You'll love it man.

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Better than Lovecraft by far.

>>7564317
gonna check it out despite dumb title

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>>7564368
How similar you will say that is to the King in Yellow?
Also this one.

>>7564317
I liked Castelli di rabbia better (no idea of what the English title is), but Oceano mare wasn't bad either.

>>7564317
>sidenote, there's a reason it's rated so highly on GoodReads
So is The Martian. Goodreads scores hardly mean anything these days.

>>7564317
anyone have a pdf? can't find this on any of the usual book torrent sites.

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>>7564317

>>7564739

Got you a copy from what, it's in epub but you can use Calibre to make it any format you want.

http://www110.zippyshare.com/v/HwIeGtPk/file.html

>>7564616

Yeah it had a super limited release in the U.K called Lands of Glass, I got a copy and it's excellent -- not as good as Ocean Sea imo though. It was his first novel so it felt really ambitious.

>>7564786
thanks f.a.m.

>>7564786
>Got you a copy from what, it's in epub but you can use Calibre to make it any format you want.

where the fuck did you find that? google and slsk did turned up nothing

>>7564684
The Martian is pretty good, for genre fiction at least.

>>7564795

https://www.whatinterviewprep.com/

Go interview it's not as difficult as people make it seem (^:

>>7564802
you are a living breathing meme.

>>7564804
nah, i dont seed, so it'll just be a waste of everybody's time

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SPOILER: he writes better than horgey lorgey borgey

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gorgeous writing

>>7564863
>I know because i read translations XD

>>7564875

hey man post a book and move along shitter

>>7564863
He is Borges

>>7564886

they were friends but he wasnt a hetronym, he even has his own wikipedia page

>>7564892
they were lovers

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Musil should probably be talked about more.

>>7564863
He's written very little that's notable, though. His short stories aren't bad by any means, but aside from Morel they're at best comparable to Borges' most standard efforts.

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>>7564317

Anyone know any other lyrical prose writers like Baricco besides Celine?

>>7564892
They were each other

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Anyone got any good depressing /lit/? Thinking along the lines of Stoner

god i really just want this fucking thread to work so i can wake up tomorrow to a bunch of good recommendations

>>7564972
>isabel allende
momcore

>>7564870
Probably my favourite prose of any book

>>7565150
That book is actually pretty good from what i remember. Eva Luna was shit though. Her opinions would embarrass her uncle.
Venceremos Allende!

One last bump before bed -- if you have a book you like that isn't discussed much please post it.

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Mrs. Bridge by Evan S.Connell

also Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

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Walser never gets enough talk.

>>7564908
Is this worth reading if I loved the movie?

>>7565442
Yes. I'd say it's nearly on par with the movie.

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Not the best prose in the world, but still a nice piece of historical fiction, especially if you like reading about serial killers. Also heard they're making a movie out of it with DiCaprio.

>>7564584
The Invention of Morel owns.

>>7564213
Wow I almost picked up Auto da fe today and didn't.
I'm kinda bummed now is it worth reading?

>>7564992

^

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>>7562405
Loved it

>>7564802
That's a fucking insult to genre fiction

>>7565442
honestly i think i like krasznahorkai's books even more than the tarr movies

>>7566906
It's not that bad.

>>7565536
nearly on par with the movie? back to rateyourmusic

>>7562512
Yes, it is very good as a psychological study on what drives a man to self-destruction

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Anyone have any non-meme suggestions for good/underappreciated novels?

>>7562448

Any Saramago is underrepresented on /lit/, really.

>>7564901

Is there a Volume 1? I got Volume Two in a sharethread last week but can't find Volume 1.

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where my bernheads at?

>>7565416

A Schoolboy's Diary is sublime. One of the best books I read last year.

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Uglier cover, but the superior translation. Why does /lit/ hate Pessoa?

>>7567064
Yes, you retard. You seem too dumb to be reading him.

>>7567157

Because he's a sullen fuck who says the same thing some 500 times.

It's because they relate too much, likely due to schizoid personality disorder.

Personally, I adored it, although it was quite repetitive.

>>7567218
>>7567157
It's mostly for tumblrinas.
They identify with it so much. It's one Pessoa's worst works

>>7567157
I dont get it as well...

>>7567222

>It's one Pessoa's worst works

Come on shitposter, you can do better than that.

Anatomy of Melancholy > Book of Disquiet

>>7567227
>hasn't read anarchist banker
Okay pleb

>>7567157
/lit/ hates Pessoa now?

When I came here a few years ago he was a /lit/ favorite. I suppose the older users have left the board.

>>7567351
Book of disquiet is just overrated

>>7567218
>>7567222
>>7567224


What's a better Pessoa work (that's been translated into English) than the Book of Disquet then?

>>7562405

Good read

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Popular but I never see it talked about on /lit/

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Lolita is good and all but this is the best thing vladdy nabz has ever written. (ada isn't good btw stop fooling yourselves)

>>7567413
Pale Fire mo'fucker.

>>7567474
pretentious trash

Poesia Completa de Alberto Caeiro > Livro do Desassossego.

t. Alberto Barbosa

>>7562604
I'm from Somerset and even I find this too English

Essential chinese cuck-core

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You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

>>7567400
Not much to talk about really.

>>7562604
Wait, what is going on?

The Remains of the Day
>by the author of The Remains of the Day

Am I missing something?

>>7562604
>>7568147
You see, since all Japanese books are essentially the same, there's no real difference whether Ishiguro wrote TRotD once or twice or three times. Only the circumstances, the year and one or two words may have changed.

>>7568189

try reading soseki

>>7562634

great book

>>7567536
^

>>7568189
>ishiguro
>japanese

>>7569159

He was of the same ancestry

>>7567072
Yeah bro. But not the Loser. Lime Works. Correction. Concrete.

>>7562405
The Tunnel by Gass

>>7565442
His books are literally all better than the movies. Good movie, but the book is much more rich in philosophy.

>>7567222
>It's mostly for tumblrinas.
>They identify with it so much.
It's literally /r9k/: the book. I don't see how your average tumblrina could identify with it.

Saramago is shit-tier. You guys are fucking plebs for thinking otherwise.

>>7569640
tumblrinas are /r9k/ on the other side of the horseshoe my man

the Citadel by AJ Cronin

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Jude the Obscure by Hardy

>>7564302
IDK who that anon was talking about, but the biggest authors of the past few years are probably Knausgaard, Houellebecq, Ferrante (all of whom had major works of theirs published in English in the past few years) and maybe some others. Each of those authors has had several threads about them btw

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>>7569628
ya I read those 3 and Extinction in the last month or so.

Maybe you can lend some insight on something that confused me in Correction. I've never seen anything like the phrase 'so [Roithamer]' (in all its many forms). I understood how it marked the things the narrator read as Roithamer's, but a more literal/grammatical (?) meaning eludes me.

thoughts/ideas/memes????

>>7562448
prose was fuckin awful couldn't read
>translation

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The movie is probably more popular but I found it enjoyable.

>>7569735

Jude the Obscure is phenomenal, I'll check out the others

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can we get some more modern writers in here? pic related. (nothing wrong with the oldies though)

>>7571159
pleb

>>7572422

Can we stop with the shitposting and just post some books jeez

>>7562614
Mein Freund der Etyme

>>7567207

Wow, what perfectly necessary aggression. You seem emotionally balanced.

>>7572904

Never heard of this, just gonna pick this one at random and read it. Thanks m8

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Does this count?

>>7567946
>tfw Wolfe went from slightly overrated to massively underrated

>>7572967
He's always been overrated to me

post more books

>>7564901
Just downloaded this book. Only ten pages in and I'm already blown away, like I instantly developed a whole new appreciation for the written word

>>7564972
Pleb.

>>7574345

Are you serious? That's awesome, I love Musil.

>>7564317
just gonna go ahead and repeat that this is en exceptionally good book and you can grab it here

>>7564786

shit you dont even need to download it you can flip through the pages and decide if you like it right on ZS

>>7567056
Just read Reddit anon ;)
It has all the best memes

>>7562604

Outstanding book. Hilarious, incredibly sad, and profoundly moving. One of the few books that has had a very real and immediate effect on the way I live; reading it caused me to reevaluate my life. Everything else Ishiguro has written pales in comparison (An Artist of the Floating World is his next best book, and it's quite good, but it's nowhere near Remains of the Day; the rest of his works range from poor to mediocre).

>>7575187

Is the movie any good?

>>7564317
His prose is lighter and smoother then diarrhea.

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Nostromo/Heart of Darkness/Lord Jim

>>7576874
How does his prose cause diarrhea?

>>7562405
Look Homeward, Angel by Wolfe
Piteously underrepresented here.

I don't hear particularly much about Mr Vénus by Rachilde.

Might as well make this a NYRB thread since that perfectly fits the description of the OP's thread.

GOAT publisher

>>7576874

apt description, but the diarrhea is the most pleasant you'll ever experience

>>7575187
>implying the unconsoled isn't his masterpiece

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>>7564317
>I defy -anyone- to name a book with more beautiful writing than this
>>7564916

pic related

>>7577904
Gracq is shit, m8. Completely uninteresting and mediocre writer. I would have been impressed if you said Paul Morand, but you just revealed your plebbiness.

>>7576670
The actors carry a very mediocre film.

>>7567021
kek

>>7577914

I doubt that you have read that book because if you had you wouldn't have wrote what you did

>>7578024
Nice insecurity, m8. Accept that people don't find your purportedly incredibly obscure writer not very good. Maybe if you got better taste, or weren't insecure in your taste, you would not be as easily offended. Read more, schoolboy.

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>>7578028

>Nice insecurity, m8. Accept that people don't find your purportedly incredibly obscure writer not very good. Maybe if you got better taste, or weren't insecure in your taste, you would not be as easily offended. Read more, schoolboy.

Nowhere in either of my posts did I write anything that would cause anyone to infer that I was either insecure or that I believe Gracq is incredibly obscure.

All I did was post that I thought Gracq had better prose and more beautiful writing and then when you disagreed I expressed suprise and posted that I doubted you had read the book because I found it surprising that someone could have read it and thought it was uninteresting or mediocre.

Nothing about any of that suggests insecurity and nowhere did I write or suggest that Gracq was obscure. Nothing I did even suggests that I was offended.

You really shouldn't try to be so aggressive when talking about books and carelessly throwing around insults at people for no reason because it just makes you look silly. I'm sorry if you are having a bad day for whatever reason but you don't need to try to take it out on random people on /lit/. I would recommend being less careless with your use of language.

>>7577914

Nobody cares Anon.

>>7578061
Damn. Nice damage control.
>I doubt that you have read that book
lel topkek m8
> I found it surprising that someone could have read it and thought it was uninteresting or mediocre.
I doubt you've read his essay on Breton or Château d'Argol .
Book is still mediocre and you should be embarrassed for getting riled up about someone not liking it. Like I said, read more and you will find out that Gracq isn't that good.

>>7564302
Submission
City on Fire

and,yup,thatsaboutit

>>7578083

>Damn. Nice damage control.

I'm not doing any sort of damage control as I haven't done anything wrong. I'm just surprised because everyone else I've talked to who has read it was really impressed and basically everything online I've seen describing him has praised his prose and in particular the prose in that book.

>you should be embarrassed for getting riled up

I'm not riled up at all, its just that I think you have lost sight of the fact that you are acting silly by trying to insult me and by accusing me of being insecure or upset merely for recommending a book you apparently dislike and then doubting you had read it.

>The tin drum by Gunther Grass
The multitude adventures and strange happenings combined with the odd themes and dizzying style make it a nice middle ground between the picaresques and the more off the wall artsy books. I like it quite a lot.

>>7564317
Henry Miller or Rilke are best tbf

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Can't think of anything else at the moment but yeah

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>>7578272

>>7578272

No offense, but the reason this isn't often discussed on /lit/ is probably because its seen as basic high-school literature or even middle-school literature on the same level as "The Giver".

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>>7578242
>>7564317

Could you name some specific titles? I have The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge but would love any other recommendations for work better than Barccio or maybe in the same style

>>7578242
or maybe just list some other authors for me to check out thanks c:

>>7564317
Thank you for an actual recommendation, I'll pick this one up.

>>7569434
but his sensibilities are decidedly not japanese

>>7578319
>>7578334
As far as pure beauty of language?

Tropic of cancer - Miller
Malte Laurids Brigge - Rilke
Dust - Odhiambo
Anything by Oe, though I don't love any of his books.
Also anything by Woolf
And ee Cummings/some Hart crane poetry (especially For the Marriage of Helen and Faustus)

>>7578679

I appreciate it man, gonna check out Tropic of Cancer tonight.

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It's fairly popular, but I never see anyone post about it.

>>7571159
what didn't u like about it

>>7562448

I enjoyed this, but I thought the first half of the book could have been considerably shorter. It was an interesting thought experiment for sure, but I didn't need 120 to get "society would have a very very difficult time adapting to a world without death." Second half of the book was exceptional.

Have you read Blindness?

>>7578999

I loved Blindness, the ending was a bit underwhelming though. Really terrifying stuff. However, the message is a bit shoe-horned in near the end there with the blah blah society will collapse and we're all animals on the inside stuff

>>7567056
>>7567056

Little, Big by Crowley (may be spelling his name wrong).

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by some bitch whose name I eludes me.

Solaris, Stanislaus Lem

Silent Cry, by Kenzaburo Oe.

All of these novels are fantastic. I have never seen the first two on /lit/ and I have only rarely seen the second pair.

Look them up. They are all fairly different.

Silent Cry might make you consider suicide.

>>7562604
just finished this a few hours ago. Amazing book.

>>7579007

Agreed. It's been a while since I last read it, but Saramago made his point very clear.
There is a movie adaptation that was incredible. I know it wasn't in English.

>>7578679
Odhiambo was meant to be Adhiambo

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A lot of things are missing from /lit/. Generically, /lit/ is very narrow in what it reads: poetry and theatre are far too absent from discussion; this board seems to read 90% prose. But even within prose, one of the stranger things about /lit/ is that the 19th century British "staple" novel seems totally lacking -- I mean the George Eliots, Brontes, Austens, Dickenses, Hardys, etc. These writers are all probably too establishment for the /lit/, who prefer their Pynchon/DFW circlejerks, which appeal to their Americentric teenage sensibilities. Really, I'd love to see Austen discussed more on /lit/. Likewise, Henry James is seldom discussed, in spite of being one of the greatest novelists in the language.

>>7579155
and I'll pre-empt the inevitable "Henry James was American" objection; in my view his work to fits better within the British canon. Agree or disagree, he's still underdiscussed.

>>7564287
>implying we ever discuss past a mention

>>7565416

my man.

Beckett's prose doesn't get enough talk. Go read First Love and The End.

>>7579155
/lit/ has problems with female writers generally, r9k leakage.

also those authors aren't american enough to be appreciated here.

>>7579247

I agree, Woolf barely gets talked about.

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also i don't see kraznahorkai get a lot of attention here either

>>7567057
And people try to say /lit/ hasn't gotten any worse. Blindness used to be near meme tier.

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Just wanted to say thanks to OP for the thread idea, a lot of good has come of it. Does anyone else have any book recs? I'll go ahead and post this -- widely known but not discussed that often.

If anyone has any other books that they don't feel get enough discussion please post

>>7579593

Newfriend: the post.

>Just wanted to say thanks to OP for the thread idea
It's a very common thread.

>Voyage au bout de la nuit -- widely known but not discussed that often.
One of /lit/'s favourite books.

>If anyone has any other books that they don't feel get enough discussion please post
Literally the point of the thread.

>>7579610
That's unnecessarily critical, is this just stepped up because of the /soc/ refugees?

>>7579019
I've talked about Little, Big a few times and it's brilliant

>>7579247
>>7579396
look at these retards who almost never even come here

>>7567359
I dont know about the english translations, but pessoa is generally known at least in Spain for his poetry, which is great. He also has some interesting plays but i doubt these have been translated.

what book should I read if I am seeking to find redemptive value in evil? To explain more, I am expecting to experience political oppression, and potential systematic extermination in a concentration camp, within a year or so. I say this because my studies of environmental science, have informed me that Earth is actually undergoing the 6th mass extinction, and it is undergoing abrupt climate change. The head of Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Peter Wadhams, has said that Arctic methane emissions, are so severe, that consequent absorption of solar radiation, will warm the interiors of large continents in a way that will inflict agricultural yield deficits.

Realistic group conflict theory states that in times of resource scarcity, human populations divide themselves into in-group, and out-group, and exterminate all out-group members to enable in-group members greater levels of consumption of scarce resources.

So I expect to be an out-group member. I am inspired by Saint Maximilian Kolbe's death in Auschwitz. I have just completed a short book written with the intention of decreasing as much fear as possible in as many readers as possible, to decrease the severity of impending extermination of out-group members. The book's main focus is on philosophy and spirituality. My journalist friend is currently giving it a proper editorial start.

So what book should I read in preparing for entering into the darkest of darkness, with my faith in, and love of God still intact? The book that I just wrote, was already all about that, but I'm looking for another example in fiction, something to base my life experience off.

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The Radetzky March is one of the most readable, poignant and superb novels in twentieth-century-German; it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Doblin and Robert Musil' Harold Bloom

>>7562405
Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
It's great.

>>7579593

im not that new.i just wanted people to post more books and bicker less. sorry dude.

>>7564213
>tfw Witkiewicz haven't even considered prose to be art
>his best work is prose

But The Shoemakers is of great value too

>>7562448
The title translation is atrocious
Great book

>>7567072
i liked that novel.

>>7579247
>/lit/ has problems with female writers generally
On the contrary, /lit/ doesn't read them.

>>7579164
you can categorize him in any group you want, but it doesn't change the fact that he was an American author who wrote about European life from the perspective of an outsider. No one in the British canon could have experienced what he had and thus have written what he wrote.

Literally any fucking book other than the meme trilogy and books written by Nietzsche and Shopenhauer. Oh and some of Plato's dialogues.
Other authors are name dropped but no one actually discusses them.

any1 got sum good novls

>>7567342
You fucking contrarian faggot. The anarchist banker is an interesting short story but its prose is miles away from the book of disquiet. Don't be a portuguese shitposter. Please don't be. You're better than that.

>>7569663
Read the Year of the Deat of Ricardo Reis and then try to say the same.

>>7569663
What books have you read by him?

>>7583145
Only Blindness. I'd actually love to read something better by him.

post more books please, like if you got a book that you're thinking about postin but you aren't because you think it's dumb -- hey man, at least ill check it out. c:

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>>7584677
if i think a book is dumb then it's better to actually not post it

>>7565442
as someone reading the book, what is the movie like?

Anything and everything by Thomas De Quincey

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover

>>7562405
the prologue to this when she's having the dream was not enticing at all.

>>7569434
>>7568189

why are there illiterates on a literature board?

>>7585296
why are there weebs on a literature board?

>>7585720
>Why are there weebs on 4chan?
Sure is reddit in here.

>>7585724
>he hurt muh animes
>"y- y- you redditer! Nerd!"

Okay champ. Sick le reddit meme, you really got me in a bind here. I guess I'm gonna go back to /r/books and talk about Neil Gaiman for the next six hours.

Your cartoon child porn and Jap cartoons marketed towards 8 year olds is in >>>/a/ though, you won't find it here.

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>>7579114
seconded. As well as the rest of the Bandini trilogy

and can i get a fuck yeah for the Updike novel that nobody reads (and instead waste their time reading the mediocre Rabbit trilogy)

>>7586852

fuck yeah

>>7585855
>you won't find it here
It's so obvious you're new it's hurting me
This whole website is full of weebs. If you don't like it then go back to reddit.

>>7587403
stop trolling and post some books ya goof (^:

>>7562634
woah, I thought it was pic related for a moment

>>7587403
I've been shitposting on this site for years. But the only "I'm offended and will dismiss your post by sucking my own cock" meme worse than the "le go back to le reddit" is the "you must be new :^)"

You're so insecure and bad at using shitty memes in their proper context that it's hurting me.

You realize this website is so large that these boards aren't just the little subforum branches for weebs to go waste their lives on, but they're actually their own entities and attract their own crowds outside of the website's 2003 audience, right?

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>>7587554
*pic related

>>7564317
Ocean... Sea? it's like, come on dude, make up your mind, am I right? yeesh!