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Russian literature has slowly become my favourite.

Books I've enjoyed:
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Cossacks, and Death of Ivan Illyich
Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov
Gogol - Collected Short Stories (Dead Souls is up next)
Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Goncharov - Oblomov
Nabokov - Lolita and Pale Fire

All have been excellent and I'm looking for more stuff, what do you recommend /lit/?

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Just picked these up for 6$. Faulkner is a first edition.

Anyone else get some new goodies?

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Is it true that the culture, mythology, history, etc. of a place must be understood before looking into and understanding said place's philosophy and how it shaped the individuals from there?
Or can philosophy simply be learned on its own, as the ideas themselves, largely divorced from those things?

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Are there any good books about life in trenches? Both WW1 and 2 interest me.

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Is the best and most accessible refutation of Max Stirner in Western literature?

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Where do I start?

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who was in the wrong here?

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I moved overseas a few years ago, and had to get rid of all my books. I've decided to start a new physical library.

I plan to build a home library that will encourage my kids to learn English and to read the classics, both Western and Eastern. I want to raise readers. I'm going to collect classic children's, young adult, genre, and literary fiction, as well as standout comics and manga. I'm going to read the ones I never got around to. I'm also going to buy books in the local language.

Remembering all those battered paperbacks I got rid of, I know I want to go about things differently this time. I'm going to go with hardcover books mostly. Paperbacks fall apart way too easily and don't look as good.

I know you guys probably think they're gaudy, but I like the designs of most of the Barnes & Noble hardcovers. I think they'd appeal to kids' imaginations. Folio Society books are nice but I'd have to buy those used.

What's the difference between Barnes & Nobles Leatherbound Classics and Collectible Editions?

I'm going to make a room in my house with a fireplace into a study. Luckily we live in the country so our relationship house is pretty big. I'll have the walls all shelves loaded with books. I'll have an executive desk with an offline computer for writing, and some comfortable armchairs with footstools and a couch beside the windows. Basically I can work while the kids read, and we can be all cosy. I talked to the wife and we agreed not to get TV and to limit their video/game time to an hour per day, so they'll mostly have to read or play outside for entertainment.

I'm going to get an eReader or two for portability so weight isn't a concern.

I can invest a couple of hundred dollars per month into the library. I read at about a novel per week so I think that's what I'll buy.

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I read about 60 pages of great expectations in total last night and today. It's really incredibly boring as fuck.

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What does /lit/ think of Roger Scruton?

On an unrelated note, what does /lit/ think of the smooth taste of JapanTobacco™?

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>powerful entity as old as the universe
>can morph into your worst fear
>capable of killing every human
>can read the mind and manipulate people
>his real form is some lovecraftian shit and you lose your mind if you look at it

>can't kill a bunch of children and gets almost killed by them (REALLY killed by them in the future)

explain this.

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what am I in for

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What's the best book on Alexander Hamilton?

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Post the name of the author, his canon novel and a novel that is better then the canon by the same author.
I will start:
>Author
Hunter S. Thompson

>Canon Novel
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>Best Novel
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72