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>>8969110
I'd like to read it but the libgen versions all have crappy covers.

>>8970120
>judging a book by its cover

>>8969110
Yeah, that cover truly is embarrassing. Someone sees it and you're on a watch list.

Awesome novel though. Clearly shows fanaticism for what it is. Ignored and obscured by fascists when it was printed, later by communists, and now by conservatives. The last are the dumbest of the bunch, since they don't even know that it was written by one of them.

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>>8969076

Have nothing to write about mate

>>8969076
Thank you for reminding me. Unfortunately I have to wait til the maintenance guy fixing my apartment windows leaves. He's very suspicious guy, very shady, I gotta watch him.

Gravity's Rainbow, Milkbottle H, and Second Skin my man

only let him read wallace and the pynch-man.

>>8968976

I would just follow Professor Bloom's advice on what kids should read, make sure my kid grows up to be a real patrician.

http://www.mrbauld.com/bloomjr.html

>>8968967
Try this awful book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011AZCGAK

Note: it is awful. I know, I wrote it.

I have a kindle which I stole and have access to any ebook I want through piracy.

I watch my wife get fucked by our african american neighbor every night and you're still a bigger cuck than I am.

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RESTOCK WHEN

>speak
russian (native), english (fluent in all the memes), french (can read), latin (can read with a dictionary)
>languages you would like to speak/currently learning
better latin, better french, wish I could find motivation to study korean, it's a beautiful language but spoken by the most irrelevant chinks and their evil totalitarian clones
>your favorite language
Dunno, you grow to like anything you've spent years on studying
>the shittiest language
Mandarin easily

>Speak
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate)
>Would like to speak/learning
Learning German in college now, probably going to try to learn weebanese and russian at some point
>your favorite language
English
>the shittiest language
French

>languages you can speak
Native english speaker, speak good French and Spanish and shitty Russian
>languages you would like to speak/currently learning
Aside from getting better at the above, I have no immediate plans. I like the idea of knowing Irish to satisfy some vague cultural longing but I'd probably struggle to follow through with something that has so little practical purpose.
>your favorite language
Probably spanish, it's just pleasant to speak it and hear it (con distinción por supuesto)
>the shittiest language
Welsh

>>8968923
That's what I was thinking. Either the book sucked or that translation was especially bad. I just left feeling like the feelings that guy was expressing weren't realistic. I didn't even finish the first chapter.

>>8968923

Yes.

Read Kawabata if you want subdued characters in Japanese settings. Snow Country is particularly good.

I had a difficult time relating to it, even when I was moodier and more isolated as a teenager when I read it. Honestly, this thing was one of the weird disappointments of my reading career so far... I haven't had a book fall so limply as No Longer Human did for me.

It was well written though it seems.

Me too.

>>8968909
Currently reading. Not glad yet.

>>8969568
pleb

>>8968860
of mice and men

>>8968868
Will there be rabbits, George?

Watership Down.

Shit will wreck your life though.

Because schools generally teach you to think what they want you to think, rather than to think well.

>>8968769
>reading fictional kike propaganda

>>8968769
Because part of a school's job is to show students how disciplines are interconnected. Night makes a great showcase of how literature, politics, and history combine. Really literary books are great, bit not relevant to a basic high school education.

As far as "narratives" go, the holocaust-was-fucked-up narrative is a pretty easy one to get behind. Unless you're a dumbass from /pol/ who thinks there's an actual jewish conspiracy.

>>8968750
Poetry is shit desu. Emperor's clothes.

>>8968750
Eww. This autistic meme guy needs to keep his clothes on.

>>8968750
These are troll threads, right?

Mary Kinzie's A Poets Guide to Poetry is pretty good.

Go to your library's catalog (or amazon) and search for "prosody".

>>8968720
Bump, wondering what's the recommended Spanish translation for Odyssey

OP here, bumping my own thread.

Really it's curiosity that makes me ask this. I'm fluent in Spanish and French, but I've always considered translations to be more geared towards an English-speaking and -reading public since there's a larger market (?) for it; but I'd never considered to read the classics in a language other than English. I did try to read Kafka in French a couple of years ago, but apparently the standard Kafka translation is mired in editing and copyright problems, and the one other translation I read made Kafka sound like Hemingway with its "simple and terse" rendering.

Then again, as another anon argued a couple of weeks ago, the great 20th Century writers who were influenced by the Russian masters most likely read Garnett's translations, so it would behoove anyone interested in them to read hers (at least the reedited versions) for at least a couple of texts.

>>8969196
Found this discussion about a Dostoïevski's French translator if you're interested :
http://www.etudes-litteraires.com/forum/topic18516-quelle-traduction-pour-dostoievski.html

>>8968694
why are you in love with harker is the more pertinent question i think

Its got great imagery like Arthur hammering a pitchfork into his screaming vampire wife. The "And he was such a noble man" shit does get sort of tiring though.

bruh, the fear of technology and sexualized stuff

You're allowed to read a book more than once, OP

>>8968660
I feel you OP. I wish there were more like it. Have you read Savage Detectives?

>>8968660
Is it worth brushing up on my Spanish to read this?

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>>8968653
Waking Up podcast, my man.

>>8968653
Check out the Peter Grant novels by Ben Aaronovitch, starting with 'Rivers of London'.

They are light, urban fantasy about a London in which the paranormal is real. A young police officer becomes the first new initiate in the forces' magical enforcement department in a century.

They are brilliant audio books (I think award winning), read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

Hope you enjoy!

>>8968653
I wish I had some good picks for you, but my audio book experience is limited.

I do recommend Podcasts too though. Radiolab is a great one!

>>8968583
Why the fuck is DQpart2electricboogaloo so much fucking better than part 1?

I get he was ~ten years more experienced, but he went from interesting period piece to GOAT.

>>8968601
i liked the first one better desu

>>8968612
No you didn't.