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what features did you like especially? Similar to 'Catcher in the rye' is quite vague.
Maybe you like Beat literature in general?

>>9930978
>But it's not very challenging.
I bet you did not realise that he was raping Phoebe by yourself

Might be a stretch, but how about Norwegian Wood?

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>he fell for the pynchon/dfw/joyce meme
everyone knows they're all psuedointellectual writers who try too hard to be deep

>>9923861
and have u read them?

>>9923853
dude who gives a shit that's not the important part of the book. call them macguffins or something.

I'm intested in portuguese poetry. There was a fellow that came here with some really good poems, he even published a book. Give me yours. Anyway, I'd appreciate some opinions:

"Abdiquei-me do viver!" diz o miserável,
O homem a quem a alegria tornou-se dor
A quem a mágoa é amiga inseparável,
E única verdade do sepulcral furor.

"Viver é sofrer", exclama entristecido.
Enquanto erra, entre sepulturas
Haurindo lágrimas, desperado
Como homem ao inferno condenado!

E no clamor soturno de seu choro
Vê-se o fulgor da beleza terrena
E o esplendor do divino decoro.

Há na dor de cada sofredor
Uma flor tenaz, bela, rubra
Que arde, tão singular nesse oceano de ardor!

>>9923717
Lattimore.

>>9923717
Pope

Fagles

>>9923709
Read poetry carefully
read about different techniques online and how they're used in both historically and in contemporaries.
At the risk of sending someone to reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ocPoetry/wiki/poetryprimer

>>9923716
>https://www.reddit.com/r/ocPoetry/wiki/poetryprimer
Wow, most of this I've never even heard of, instant bookmarked, thank you.

Baudliere

it has
its not

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>>9923879
Good choice

>>9923926
oc

As far as I'm concerned The Once and Future King is the only Arthurian novel worth reading.

>>9923650
Reread it last summer and was amazed at how well it stood up. Loved it as a boy, love it still as a youngish man.

>>9923602
I'm thinking of buying this.

why is that cover orange my cover is green

>>9923602

Momma's boy Barthes got worked by the French wrestling scene.

Guys?

Yep

I'd recommend if it's the 10th/20th/etc science fiction book you've read. It's middling in it's literary merit, but important in the history of science fiction. If you read it too early you won't appreciate its magnitude, and if you read it too late all of its charms will have been filtered out by superior later works.

>>9923557
Making the same exact stupid thread a day after the other one dies

>>9923436
Bump for interest

Only due to historical significance. As a book on its own terms it's terribly written and intellectually stunted.

>>9923457
I was thinking of reading that and The Communist Manifesto, is it a good idea if I'm a bit interested in politics?

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Its absolutely worth reading, and even if it weren't its hardly a slog of a read. That said, it has some great moments (the story of his rejection of Jeanne D'arc, his sexual obsession with St. Sebastian and its playing out throughout his life, his internal monologues about his inability to reconcile aesthetic and sexual beauty, his monologue about suicide). The Weatherby translation is going to be the most common and reads fine.

>>9923369
Thank you very much anon! :)

>>9923344
Very worth reading. One of my favorite works of his, personally; however, I haven't read Golden Pavilion or the tetralogy.
It's an authentic perspective on the experience of sexual abnormality in a culture that essentially demands normality. Japan's courtship process is stiflingly formal. That said, the book is heartbreaking at times.

what

>>9923350
What book share elements to Zero escape?

>>9923377
none