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>>8591651
I thought it was surprisingly good, much better than I thought it'd be. I like how it treats Hitler as a person and not an insane monster like how (((some))) would have you believe. Vernes clearly did his research, the speeches in the book really sound like something Hitler would actually say. I especially enjoyed the speech on responsibility he gives to the TV executives

>>8591651
We've had threads on this book a couple of times and from where I am the general consensus seems to be
>Hitler is well written character, very funny, and what he has to say about pop culture is spot on
>the side characters are meh, most are definitely passable but the German alt chick is especially annoying, maybe partly because she speaks an imitation of the Berliner dialect in the German book, not sure how this translates
>ending is meh, kind of out of nowhere
It actually shows a lot of parallels to the film because Hitler is also the most interesting character here, everyone else is meh, and the ending is fucking flat. Other than that, I feared they'd skew the original contents of the book and make it about left-right party politics, but actually far less political than that and is a reminder that WWII happened for a reason and if you don't think you have just a little bit of Hitler/'Hitlerdeutschland' in you then you're a fucking hypocrite.

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>>8592517
Hitler is a*
but actually it's*
shit
but you get the point, and tl;dr: it is the funniest bestseller normalfag meme I ever picked up

>>8591575
maimonides

>>8591575
"The world will be a great place when all religion is gone" - Roth.

Most overrated writer maybe in history

kafka

I may have a really cool opinion to share, but I'd rather hear what OP has to say.

>>8591561
Imagine saying that publicly about your friend. Franzen for many obvious reasons is a terrible person

Hard to know, but after reading a lot of him and about him, my feeling is that, no, he killed himself because he was intolerably depressed, but he was too smart *not* to realize how the literary world would react. He may have even fantasized about it. A depressed person finds relief in the idea of suicide but also satisfaction in imagining how people will grieve for him.

>>8591519
Pro-tip all mysteries are good for the build-up first like 100 pages and the rest awful.

>>8591519
>Sweden
Nty

>>8591543
I liked the setting, but coming from a sheltered Canadian that might not count for much. Reminded me of home

>>8591468
Take your time reading isn't a race. However if you want to read it fast and then a second time slower it would help.

I prefer to go slowly the first time, even if it means re-reading it bit by bit, rather than read it all over a second time.

>>8591468

I read non-fiction slowly, taking notes as I go. I also try to read the forewords and introductions as often as I can (though some are too long and dry) as an understanding of the author's life and perspectives adds context to what you're reading that can help you better understand it.

>>8591453
Critical of Jews, that is

inb4 someone posts Pound, he later recanted his antisemitism.

>>8591481
...Not

>>8591444
Life is very long

Just drop it and exchange it for a famous book you like more.

>>8591479
damn...

>>8591405
Finish it.

>>8591405
Find something good

>>8591405

Definitely finish it, and pick up a copy of Mein Kampf or The Art of War when you're done if you haven't read either of those yet.

You need to start with plebbier shit then. I started reading at the age of 17 (I mean actually buying books rather than reading because the book happened to be there) and animal farm was one of the first I read and really enjoyed it.

just go beat off to underage starlets' feet like everyone else on here does.

>>8591396
struggling is good.

a person who first gets into weight-lifting struggles. many quit and remain bony little bitches. others continuously struggle until that struggle becomes easier and easier to bear.

it's hard work, anon. but, still, it should be something you enjoy. if /lit/ isn't for you, that's fine. it's all about finding what moves and motivates you.

>NSA tricks to win our hearts and minds
daaaaw

>>8591375
They don't care about insults, threats on the other hand can get you vanned

Simply browsing this site is enough to get you on a watchlist.

>>8591327
the names are on the covers

>>8591330
yes, please read them for me.

>>8591330
I can't read all of them, some are in bad quality.

>>8591323
one time I heard my friend speak arabic and it was fucking gorgeous. it sounded like elven, t b h

Although Spanish is my mother tongue and I consider it a very beautiful lanuage, I think Italian is more beautifully sounding. Japanese is also very beautiful, in sound, in writing, and in meaning.

PIE

Give the choice between the two of you I take the crocodile whose name I can't spell

Mmmmm... Almost done with Kavalier and Clay.

Both are merely good, but I'd say Franzen.

Enjoyed Freedom. K&C is good, but way too shallow for its length of over 600 pages.

Is anyone else peculiarly annoyed by Jewy pseudo-Americans who act as if Jewy schizoid death-drive whinging is "American?"

Like, I don't mind if you're the son of a lawyer and a lawyer and you publish your 16th book about Jewy Jew Jewish lawyer Jew shit growing up Jew in Jewland, and how much Jewish ennui you have and how you can only see death and the subtle decay and grime behind everything, and then you do Jewish post-rococoberg pastiche art that's really a subversion of the (mostly Jewish) corporate hell of modern society, from the perspective of a Jew, Son of Jews. But don't pretend that's "America." They act like authentic Americans just elected to let Jews be their brain, while they keep functioning as the body. All American "thoughts" are now Jewthoughts, processed through the great Jew mind. Have you seen Woody Allen's five hundredth fucking movie about the shallowness of the consumerist suburbia his people foisted on their host society?

You ever think Jews are like an actual "geist-parasite?" America is their most successful Frankenstein.

Franzenstein is a WASP shabbos.

Not even close to the book I'm writing about it.

This book actually made a big impression on me, haven't read it, but I saw it in the book store, and I picked it up and took a look at it, said it was translated from French, and it hit me all at once that there is literally no reason to learn another language because everything good gets translated into English anyway. It's like a filter. If it doesn't get translated into English, then it's probably not that good. Anything good that comes out, first thing they do is translate it into English, so that foreign books in English make up a kind of Criterion Collection of World Literature. Anyway, that's my experience with this book, made me realize something profound.

>>8591230
actually the author is an american

I appreciated it more for its portrayal of the narrator's/author's mental illness. Like you said, the philosophy is pretty pseudy, but it's an interesting way of getting the reader to sympathize with Phaedrus.

I like how desperately the narrator tries to present his philosophy in a sensible, detached way, as if he's struggling to hide his ego-mania.

>>8591250
yes so true, its fucking interesting how even in his most stable chapters there are undertones of the facade slipping away

>>8591166
>interpretation of zeitgeist

care to summarize?