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>Strongly recommended
The Iliad, by Homer
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Our Lady of the Flowers, by Jean Genet

>Recommend
The Setting Sun, by Osamu Dazai
The Elementary Particles, by Michel Houellebecq
Augustus, by John Williams
The Melancholy of Resistance, by László Krasznahorkai

>Don't recommend
Imperial Bedrooms, by Bret Easton Ellis
Marthe, by J-K. Huysmans

Nice year. Not very productive, but filled with good literary experiences.

>>8757849
>The Iliad, by Homer

Wow you're a brave one

>>8757745

>Strong Recommend
Virginia Woolf - Orlando
Yukio Mishima - Temple of the Golden Pavilion
William Gass - The Tunnel

>Recommend
Phil Larkin - Jill
Han Kang - The Vegetarian

>Don't Recommend
Michel Houellebecq - The Elementary Particles
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha

>>8757727
Report facts not opinions and analysis like every other journalist out there nowadays. People are savvy on spin and don't like it.

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>>8757731
I do, when reporting. I do think investigative stuff (which I've began to dip my toe into) requires a more polemical tone, or else you fall into the pit of underselling the reality of the situation in the name of 'objectivity.'

>>8757727
Go ask journalists how to get started today, it isn't easy for most journalists right now. Send them messages on social media or at their work email (Americans will be on holiday).

crime and punishment

>>8757675
Dostoyevsky
Woolf
Faulkner

>>8757675
lost generation is good. Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos.

Because the copies that they printed are all the copies there are, because not a lot of people in the world is interested in the book and the ones that are interested are interested enough to pay that and more.

I'm angered myself too, but what can we do against the market?

The amount of time you'll spend reading it will more than justify that price. Unless, of course, you just want it for your shelf.

>>8757635
Thanks for the Econ 101 explanation, I was hoping I could get an answer more substantive than "Supply and Demand" though, because if you ask me the pricing is way too high on the supply curve to be justified considering its demand.

>>8757549
Not faithful in the least but still very enjoyable. I like the fact that Albert is the focus, Franz has a far greater role, and the mystery surrounding the count. Better to watch this before knowing anything about the book.

It's basically not the book. Enjoyable and visually interesting, but not really The Count of Monte Cristo (especially because they kinda fucked up the Count's character and arc).

>>8757736
>I like the fact that Albert is the focus, Franz has a far greater role, and the mystery surrounding the count
Huh, I was just thinking that it would be interesting if the novel started on the Rome part. I'm not OP but I'll probably watch the show just for this

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People here haven't read Updike?

his two books about witches are pretty good

CI NE MA

Every day: they more I study and learn, the more I realise that I don't know a lot and actually know almost nothing. He was quite right though. It is the tragic consequence of learning: the more you do it, the more you realise how less you know.

>>8757195

I know you're a faggot, OP. And that's enough.

Ended the game.

>>8757157
yes

>>8757157
Word for word: Shakespeare

Ideas: Aristotle

>>8757157
Shakespeare.

Aristotle is pure ideology.

>>8756812
he has that typical smug gaze associated with idiotic people who tend to think they're actually smart

seneca is worse

>>8756812
And what have you contributed to philosophy?

it's great
>I've heard some pretty bad things about it
What? Literally a lot of the best novels ever.

>>8756793
>i've heard some pretty bad things about it
I've never heard anything bad about Russian lit

Do you know what? The Russians, they'd only be an eight o'clock breakfast for the Japanese.

Oscar Wilde I guess

Wasn't he influenced by broadway and cabaret stuff?

>>8756661
he reads a lot too. i was wondering which writers are similar to him

Cause Gaddis is not subtle. He wanted you to read the book quickly, at the pace of normal conversation, without stopping to reread passages in an attempt to attribute dialogue to specific characters. He also wanted you to read the book in large chunks, 50-100 pages at a time.

He describe the book as a "Blizzard of noise," and he wants to make sure you see the billboards he cares about through all the snow, so he erects a lot of them.

Hoppin' With Flavor!

>>8756820
>at the pace of normal conversation

pleb

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>>8756465
In his last book he literally apologizes, analyzes his errors, points out that he was being influenced by neo-conservative ideology, and attempts to create an updated world view.

Also Trump and Brexit less so than the failure of Iceland's financial institutions illustrate the failures of that book.

Tribalism and failures of elite institutions will always trump good intentions

>>8756486
The spoilered part is his thesis btw, not my opinion. badly put.

>>8756486

>Tribalism and failures of elite institutions will always trump good intentions

Thank fuck.

>>8756457
mcsweeney's
you prolly won't like it tho

>>8756457

All I know is /lit/ desu

>>8757192
Tried reading a few articles.
That was fucking painful.

cool cover, cool translator. that's my review. you can tell i've read this.

>>8756482
>cool translator
JEW is good?

One of the GOATs