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>>7751556
No he's Bartleby did you even read the book

>>7751564
10/10

I'd prefer not to say

he's only one of the greatest essayists in history so you should probably aim a little lower

montaigne's essays are pretty horrible classical quote + gossip-tier shit

>>7751440
Yeah, but it still hurts, you know.
Also:
>You will never read Harry Potter and Tintenherz again for the first time
>You can´t read every book in the world
>You speak neither french nor russian nor italian nor that much spanish, so you have to read every classic translated

Feels really bad, man.

old editions are always nicer than folio garbage. capitalists are literally laughing their asses off that you'll drop dough on a "nice" edition of a public domain work that you can find an actually nice edition of for a buck.

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doesnt matter to me. those books are made to serve as decoration for aesthetes who value form over function, which is the opposite of what literature should be.

the nicest book i own is a quran i found in a box next to a dumpster. i like it and because of the antiquity and reverence of the text deserves some stage dressing. moby dick, however, does not.

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>>7751452
Aww, man! Folios are my favorite! I guess I'm just a sucker. I only buy them second-hand, so I guess I'm still managing to outjew the capitalists, to some extent. I buy 90% of my books at Half Price Books, and the other 10% at local secondhand shops around the area.

The things I really like about Folios are both the paper quality and learning about the type that was used (This book was set in Polybius, etc...).

I don't know why I like that so much, but I do.

Someday I'll own a book printed on vellum, dammit.

>But yeah, $63.95

>>7751384

For a forum about writing, I'd think that there would be more responses being, well, written.

It's possible that we don't know or the word doesn't exist.

>>7751384
I don't think there is a word, nor does there need to be. On a slightly unrelated note, my favorite example of this is from Lolita:

>Dolores Haze
>dolorous haze

>>7751373

git gud

>meaningless

>>7752548
>meaning/unmeaning dichotomy

>>7751363
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Trillion_Dollar_War
http://bookzz.org/book/767770/ba5cca

Seems to be what you are looking for, reputable authors a plus.

Also
http://edmoise.sites.clemson.edu/redirect.html#2war

Bibliography for works on that war

Why does it have to be "opinionated that shows the authors viewpoint"? Is a non fiction book not supposed to do this? Is this a high school english critical analysis class where you critique authors for for letting their beliefs get in the way?
Why is it opinionated to oppose the 2003 Iraq War?

Anyway, something by Chomsky
Rogue States maybe

I think he meant (just a guess), "goodnight, moon"

Sicker than your average nigger killer.

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>>7752358

Underrated.

pretty bad stuff you got there desu, master and margarita most of all

>>7751305
Try life and fate by Grossman

>>7751316
noted, thanks for the recommendation

but what are the best translations of the ones I listed? is the Nabokov one of A Hero of Our Time approved?

who?

Because the pages are 15"+ tall so the book requires less pages

>>7751321
I mean the aspect is weird. Not that they have few pages. They seem so slender compared to regular books. Feels like I'm reading a pamphlet.

>concept
>not Concept (Konzept)

Please explain explain to me first OP.

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>>7751158
2

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>>7751160
3

>>7750990
Nah

>>7751053
YES.
>Don't mind other people, they'll die and change, you can't devote your life to them, choose your temple carefully
>You need to dedicate your life to something greater, like your NATION, LIKE YOUR COUNTRY
>DIE FOR YOUR NATION, DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY
>JOIN THE ARMY HAL

Nobody?

Who is this demon?

>>7750989
Shestov is a hack.

fuck u, John K. don't worry about novels and go finish Cans Without Labels

If you just want attention do standup

>>7751049
lol'd