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Germany, Russia and France.

Australia.

Not America, that's for sure.

>>8756020
My diary desu

Là-Bas, Huysmans.

Foucault's Pendulum
It's all nonsense anon
And just an excuse to blame stuff on Jews

>>8755928
He was a Chad and deserved everything he got. Shame about his qt virgin waifu getting raped tho, I almost felt bad for the guy.

We're all victims.

Why did the japanese authors of dazai's generation kill themselves?

>unironically posting here

The recommendation engine is hit and miss.
To me it's best if you find and follow a few active reviewers who post insightful stuff about books you didn't know about before -

some starters:

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4100763-hadrian

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23385697-glenn-russell

(not sure why they both have a similar profile pic)

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/53165-warwick

and of course

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1834894.Manny_Rayner

>>8755755
You can find some great books on there

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23203843-the-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra

bluntness. it gets past the assholes, triggers the naysayers and lands with a true audience.

but, to answer your stupid question, to "write about" a genre or theme would be an essay, which is what you didn't mean at all, when you meant fiction

>>8755759
Can you expand on "bluntness"?

>>8755850
fuck you

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>>8755731
>it have

I can read both danish and norwegian but the cursive is too hardcore tbqh.

>>8755749
Yeah I am having the same problem as well. I can understand some words but cant get the whole story.

>daring to even think about reading Joyce in translation
you have got to be kidding.

I read it in the original language even if I don't know it

>>8755705
This.
>reading translations
is largely just meme, but Joyce can't be translated.
>>8755738
kekkek

>>8755622
not with classics. i also dont wear a pick mickey mouse onsey. alright.

>>8755622
You are the complete object of the performance society. Your self-exploitation leads to your blockade.

Uncuck yourself with philosophy before you return to fiction. I recommend Byung-Chul Han.

>>8755622
>>tfw so many classics to read
Enjoy reading stuff from an age when collective knowledge was still evolving towards the diversity of today.

my diary desu

>I read one fucking Phillip K Dick, followed by a little Vonnegut, now I'm on Cormac, and holy shit I've never enjoyed reading so much in my life. I'm reading all the time.

>I read one fucking Phillip K Dick, followed by a little Vonnegut, now I'm on Cormac, and holy shit I've never enjoyed reading so much in my life. I'm reading all the time.

DROPPED.

I genuinely wonder why Vonnegut and McCarthy are among the first authors people who want to get 'serious' about literature start with. Not berating you OP, just curious why it is so, so common

>>8755397
Messiahnic

With a dictionary you stupid fuck. Or, you know, fucking GOOGLE. Actually don't bother with either, just kill yourself.

Messianic

Come on man the dictionary is a thing

Ever heard of reprints?

>>8755331
So is it actually happening?

>230.

It might as well be never.

At least I can finally buy this massive meme and see if it really is that good.

I'm pretty sure As I Lay Dying was written over the course of two months when Faulkner got back from his job at a steel mill or something

>>8755224
I think someone on lit posted about this story...it might have been Steinbeck writing OMAM...but the story was basically that the novel was destroyed and they got drunk and rewrote the whole thing overnight. Might have been hemingway or conrad? Maybe Twain?

>>8755221
That was Kafka. His manuscripts were partially saved from the flames by his best friend, Max Brot.
>>8755224
Most of his oeuvre was written late at night, after working all day as a fabric salesman and tending for his bedridden father, to whom he was tremendously attached.

You just dive in and read it. Like any other book.

Don't worry too much about making sense of all of it, or you'll never finish it.

>>8754921
you'll end up re-reading it so just enjoy it for the aesthetic the first time around. Basically every hard concept in the book has something to do with entropy or derivative of that in some way so here's your cheat code if you needed one

>>8754947
I was thinking of reading it solo the first time and then rereading it using a guide. Do you think annotations are helpful at all?

Yeah Levin reaches the culmination of the thoughts and feelings that he experiences throughout the book, I felt the same way OP but the ending is satisfying.

>>8754952
Alright that gives me some hope, guess I'll put in the effort.

>Book is called Anna Karenina
>60%+ of it is about Levin

i think todays big problem is exactly that
reading is feeding your soul
entertainment is feeding it with burgers

Civil Procedure (Law School Legends Audio Series CD): Richard Freer

The Malazan Book of the Fallen. The ten books together is nearly 400 hours, so you should be good for years

>>8754908
It's funny to me how people who go on long roadtrips always prepare for things to do underway, but they never actually do it, or half. So not recommending you anything. You ain't gonna listen to shit, son.