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>>7366378
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Wouldn't recommend it but if you're really into the premise...

>>7366378
whats the point u cant even understand whats going on lol

>>7366456
There are translations, silly frog.

No. Read the Qur'an with full tafseer

>>7366365
Depends on how you feel about toilets.

>>7366365
Yes.

However that translation is a Hare Krishna hackjob.

>>7366341
You got it :^)

You might be the single most obnoxious person on this board

>>7366407
No, that title belongs to me.

I've actually never read anything from him, but I was thinking of checking out a Christmas carol for the holiday season

>>7366213

Dickens is great. Maybe he gets slighted around here because of how prolific a writer he was and how wordy (as opposed to dense, subtle, etc.) his writing is. He was a master at creating characters, and of giving them memorable names. He was also influential in influencing real-world concerns (i.e., the terrible child-labor conditions he experienced). And his writing is as cozy as anything around.

>>7366213
Tale of Two Cities has an extremely powerful last 100 pages, the rest are filler.

Christmas Carol is a masterpiece.

Oliver Twist became an excellent musical.

His sympathy for the working class is admirable.

Otherwise he is a typical sentimentalist victorian author getting paid by the word, who absolutely does not deserve to be pushed on hs students as part of the canon. Youd be better off reading Walter Scott.

>>7366200
I'd say just keep sniffing books and it'll come to you, but what sorts of writing mistakes do you make?

>>7366224
I tend to "Dutchify" my sentences by putting them into Dutch grammatical order and sometimes even make the mistake of directly translating a Dutch saying into English. They aren't major mistakes and often English people read over it, but it annoys me once I find out. Oh and I tend to make my sentences way too long by using commas, but I am working on it.

>>7366200
>Got any tips
You're not Beckett; write in your first language.

In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology from the Pali Canon - Bhikku Bodhi
The Kybalion - Three Initiates
Phaedo - Plato
On the Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin
Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe

The Kingdom of God is Within You - Tolstoy

The Book: On the Taboo of Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts

Why do you want to read Pynchon and Kafka?

>Do I really need to read philosophy before starting with the classics and more popular books such as Infinite Jest and Pynchon? It was once suggested to me that I should read philosophy to get the most out of these books

What kind of retard told you that?

>>7366202
I did. Want to fight about it.

I found Demons pretty funny at times. Can't remember TBK, need to reread it.

I laughed numerous times while reading McDuff's translation of Karamazov.

Constance Gardner's dry shit.

why? i liked it.

>>7366137

I'm not saying I didn't like it, it's more that the book evoked.... very real, angry emotions in me. It wasn't cathartic anger but Coetzee's writing (which I like, Youth is a very good read) to create such a scenario, characters and settings evoked a very strong reaction in me.

>>7366164
If anything, I felt frustrated occasionally by the increasing impotence embodied by the narrator, which didn't really feel earned. I can't think of any specific examples, but it seemed like Coetzee had him do things that didn't make any sense just to move the plot along, which in being so plainly allegorical felt more like an argument than a story for me to get emotionally involved in. But ultimately there was just so much going on figuratively and there's so much suspense throughout that I was almost giddy after reading it.

>>7366019
I will if you use the word please.

>>7366054
Please! It would really be appreciated.

>>7366019
If it was at all /lit/ related, I would.

SUNSET FOUND HER SQUATTING

I thought The Rules of Attraction was a lot of fun when it came to its pov juggling.

I did not hit her I did naht...

Oh hai mahk

>>7365879
What is Camel's philosophy even?

Kierkegaard

>>7365879
Camus wasn't an existentialist. Existentialism is basically a synonym for Satreanism, and it's a shit tier philosophy for adolescents. Read Heidegger's Letter on Humanism.

>starting a book where literally everybody dies.
Me. That's why I don't read GoT.

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>it's a Lenz chapter

>>7365835
Then you shouldn't be reading your diary either, it turns out the same way in the end

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This one is very good. Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I think it's a must have.

The more recently the book has been published the easier will it be to read. German probably changed more over the last few centuries than English did. There are some german books of the 19th century for example that I, as a native speaker, find easier to read in a (current) English translation than in the original.

>>7365757
this

>>7365651
Bleeding Edge

>>7365651
Chandler's books are probably the best example. He likely got closer than anyone else in pushing the boundary of genre fiction into the realm of literary fiction.

>>7365651
The Savage Detectives
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