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>>7700000

I've been thinking about reading this book recently. Is it good?

Btw fuck your memes, memeboy.

>>7700333
the expressionist style and the prose are very good, better than other books by döblin i've read. really gives you a feeling of the pulsating life of berlin at the times of the weimar republic. franz biberkopf (the mc) is a lumpenproletariat idiot readers are somehow supposed to like/feel sympathetic for.

>>7699987
I enjoyed it enormously, though Wolfe does have something of a fetish for men's muscles and working out.

I remember really liking how he wrote his characters' accents.

What a gilf.

>>7699987
It felt like a really decent old law and order episode

Kiss of The Spider Woman by Manuel Puig.

>>7699955
Don't know if you'd like a film as well, but "Down By Law."

Although, as far as I can remember (unlike Kiss of the Spider Woman), Down By Law is pretty much no homo.

>>7699955

Slightly larger cast, but 'No Exit' by Sartre (whence 'hell is other people')

Have anyone read it? In Le Monde's "100 20'th cetury books" list it's 10'th so I guess it's pretty popular, at least in France. I have watched the film based on it by Michael Gondry and it's great.

>>7699913
It's very good, Vian has a killer way of making the environment fanciful and surreal. It's also a great love story, and if you've got a gf who's this tasteful I'm jealous.

>>7699913
It's playfully surreal and lyrical at times but I found it, I don't know, melodramatic, rather predictable towards the end, too whimsical...those are not the right words and I can't articulate why I didn't like it, especially the second half. I didn't find the satirical parts particularly funny either. You'll love it if you hate Sartre though.

>>7699869
Ready Player One

>>7700121
fuck off

>>7700126
CHILL BRO IT'S JUST A PRANK

>>7699855

Haven't read it, but Lem is a favorite (and the Borges comparison is apt). Let us know what you think of it when you can.

They're very funny and full of neat ideas.
The tone is a lot less sombre than Solaris.

>>7699855
I don't remember details.I read it a long time ago but it was nice.Lem is good.

Invisible Cities is barely a novel. It's a collection of "not-poems" interlaced with some surreal dialogue between Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo. It's pretty great, still. It's probably as good a place to start with any as a lot of his other stuff is fairy tales (still great). In my opinion 'If on a winter's night a traveler' is his best book but it's a pretty even split between that and Invisible Cities. Also I hated Cosmicomics but a lot of other people like it so you could look into some of those stories as well.

>>7699849
Thanks a lot Anon!

>>7699801
I recently finished Invisible Cities and loved it. It's a collection of short descriptions of cities based on interesting concepts (not dissimilar to Borges' short stories). It made me want to read more Calvino, so I'd certainly recommend it.

>>7699793
>brit queen

Honestly, there were probably plenty of people who hated Aurelius in his day

prufrock and hollow men

>>7699768
>bought The Waste Land
>available for free online
>why

>>7699840
This. Ynless it was the Norton Crítica Edition, it's not worth it.

once you get enough life experience and are deep enough you'll hover above life instead of getting emotionally involved in it

>>7699721
bump

>"magic" in the title
>expecting any helpful responses from /lit/

Why do t you just man up and read the book? Then you can advise future anons.

In the Hills, the Cities is GOAT
Dread
Down, Satan
The Midnight Meat Train

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>>7701555
>The Midnight Meat Train

i'd agree with that.

>2000 characters or less

write: n/a

>>7699668
Just be honest.
Write something like "I Knew I'd Got it in Me so Thit settles That, Thonderbalt Captain Smeth and La Belle Sauvage Pocahonteuse, Way for Wet Week Welikin's Douchka Marianne, The Last of the Fingallians, It Was Me Egged Him on to the Stork Exchange and Lent my Dutiful Face to His Customs, Chee Chee Cheels on their China Miction, Pickedmeup Peters, Lumptytumtumpty had a Big Fall, Pimpimp Pimpimp, Measly Ventures of Two Lice and the Fall of Fruit, The Fokes Family Interior, If my Spreadeagles Wasn't so Tight I'd Loosen my Cursits on that Bunch of Maggiestraps, Allolosha Popofetts and Howke Cotchme Eye, Seen Aples and Thin Dyed, i big U to Beleaves from Love and Mother, Fine's Fault was no Felon, Exat Delvin Renter Life, The Flash that Flies from Vuggy's Eyes has Set Me Hair On Fire, His is the House that Malt Made, Divine Views from Back to the Front, Abe to Sare Stood Icyk Neuter till Brahm Taulked Him Common Sex, A Nibble at Eve Will That owal Relieve, Allfor Guineas, ounds and Compliments Libidous, Seven Wives Awake Aweek."

That's what I'd do.

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Here is some inspiration OP.

>>7699638
>book not written by a white heterosexual male

Into the trash

>>7699638
she should stick to showing those titties on mad men

>YA

Get outta here

Yes.

>>7699564
Shit. oh well, my library had two other versions, guess I'll try one of those instead

>patrician
>translation from greek
wat?

the classiest of translations is pope, but you don't know what your own words mean so i don't think you'll understand what a poetic translation is either.

get fagles or at most lattimore, plen