This book is really boring. I'm on page 35. No spoilers please.
>>8316133
It's pretty great but at the endBruce Willis is a dead people
>>8316133
Dumbledore dies.
I finished it about a week ago. If you're not enjoying it now you probably won't, its style is consistent throughout.
Dear /lit/
Been reading that piece, but havent found it very interesting.
Am I missing something?
>>8316130
>that piece
what piece?
this piece?
>>8316141
piece = book
try the joke instead
Am I a plebeius for not feeling this?
The dialogue is unbearable and the prose, while descriptive, is just not enough to keep me engaged,but that may be the translation memeing me.
Also, the whole pan myth, and the cycles of love and nature inseparable from the people is too obvious and l can't find anything deeper in it.
Hunger was better.
Your thoughts?
Idk, but I thought Growth of the Soil was overrated too. Hunger was the only other book I've read by him and I enjoyed that, but he doesn't really seem that important to me. But I've also only read him in English.
Shameless bump.
>>8316198
I'm starting to believe that I'd need to read the book in some Norwegian forest to feel what he wants to convey.
Are there any decent books that discuss fascism?
I'm just waiting for the first guy to post the cover of Mein Kampf. I'm pretty sure that joke hasn't been made before on /lit/.
Manifesto del Futurismo
>>8316109
Not a book, but I really enjoyed this old article from Umberto Eco in the New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
Why is Moby Dick considered the 'Great American Novel'?
I agree it is the best book written by an American, but very little in the book has anything to do with America, or being an American. If anything it should be called the 'Great Oceanic Novel'.
And what makes a book a 'Great (Insert Nation) Novel'? Is it the greatest book to be written by someone who lives there, or is it a book that encapsulates the 'spirit' of the place?
I think Moby Dick is the best book to come out of America, and one of the best written books in general, but I don't think it's the great american novel. Maybe Faulkner, Whitman, or Steinbeck. But Faulkner only writes about the south, Whitman only writes about gays, and Steinbeck only writes about grapes.
The Great National Novel seems like a purely USonian meme. Everyone else seems content with just having a national epic.
>>8316038
It's the same kidn of thing, really.
>>8316038
Yeah, I think it's because the USA is too new to have a national epic, so they have to settle for a Great Novel. Although I suppose the colonists might have produced a national epic if they hadn't been such assholes to the native population.
did anyone else love this book as much as I did?
>>8316005
Better than the film.
The film is better
>>8316005
the novel and the film are equally great
Find a flaw.
I don't understand the hype
>>8315864
>quixote instead of quijote
>Spanish
Fuck all Spanish literature ever.
>>8316811
nice b8 m8
Hi, /lit/.
I'd liike to read some poetry in Spanish. What author do you recommend? Lorca? Neruda? Hernandez?
Neruda a shit.
>>8315863
Borges
Vallejo
Paz
Pizarnik
Nicanor Parra if have a sense of humor.
good luck, amigo.
>>8315863
Bequer
Mario Benedetti
A important one is Ruben Dario
Also the Romanceros are so good (the older the better).
Do you guys just base what literature is your favorite off of what books are the most difficult to read?
>>8315851
out of the top 10, only four are difficult to read, and IJ is just a meme
What do you mean by difficult?
Difficult as in, hard to understand what's going on? Or that the themes and meaning of the book is hard to decipher?
Are you suggesting the Hobbit and Fahrenheit 451 are difficult to read?
So I bought the Art of the Deal from the US and noticed that it had a beautiful shiny cover and thin but flexible pages/covers.
I notice a lot of American books seem to be published in this style, particularly older ones. Is there a name for this type of book or the method in which it is published? I really do like the feel and shape of it.
Thanks.
>>8315842
In the words of Trump, the art of the deal is the second greatest book after the bible (but the bible took 11 people to write...)
Enjoy this masterpiece, be prepared to make the greatest deals of your life, and reread, my friend.
>>8315850
All of the humour aside, do you know the name of the publishing style of this type of book?
It's also similar to the Warcraft books.
Do you mean mass market paperback?
I haven't seen Adorno on here since I started shitposting.
Is this book worth my time, or is it just another uninteresting salty Frankfurter?
Reviews seem split between a work of genius, and "just a depressing piece of junk, the greeks are better".
>I haven't seen Adorno on here since I started shitposting.
lurk moren ewfag
>salty
Time to kill yourself.
>>8315823
I enjoy the bump, but I would consider myself well versed in this boards spooks already. I'd enjoy some feedback on this however.
I just finished an essay by Peter Sloterdijk, and he seem'd to reference the frankfurters a lot.
Have you ever read a book and thought, "I should have written that"?
Ask your questions better you stupid cunt.
Flann's so fucking godtier.
Try The Third Policeman if you haven't yet, then be disturbed by the fact he wrote it in 1939 and that atomic theory was too new to be published til 1967, when readers would get it.
>>8315813
>he was dead whole time xDDDD
dogshit
>dfw you realize you will be the next dfw
>>8315777
You'll kill yourself?
Good riddance
What are some books I can read to help deal with my crippling loneliness?
>>8315762
Go meet people, you faggot
No Longer Human
Becoming An Hero by Flimbus Digglewhit.
I'm looking to become a math rock cover band with a few tunes of my own of course. Whats the general success rate I should expect. Also the band name is Mother's Basement