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Search for the ISBN of the version that you want.

I really don't pay it that much attention.

>>9765771
how do i know which version to want

The english Picador edition is quite neat and articulate

>>9765702
Of 2666 i mean

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>>9765697
I say this as an avid Bolano enthusiast, go to The Savage Detectives or some of his shorter works (Nazi Literature, Last Evenings...). while I have not read his poetry collections, his poetry does translate into his fiction and SD is sort of a parody of his poetic ventures. Though I have no doubt that his poetry is just as blissful as his writing, I think his fiction will be more of a welcome to you.


Fuck it, Bolano thread!

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>>9765616
Reading sucks don't try it. Pic related is me, reading.

>>9765616

If you have to try to convince them in the first place, it's best not to bother. Either you like books or you don't. You can recommend something you think they'll like, but if they're an ADD pleb who keeps complaining about not being able to focus, there's really no changing that.

>>9765616
4chan helped ruin my life.

Please...

>>9765603
I'd also be interested in this

Crime and Punishment is the first thing that comes to mind.

>>9765528
>Any preferences or recommendations or requests you habe for my little project?
Watch Kubrick do it far better than you could

>>9765528
the main issue with the tv show adaptation would probably be the unreliable narrator. hard to distort facts the way Humbert is supposed to when what is actually happening is occurring before your eyes. part of the genius of the book is the fact that we truly don't know what happened precisely because we *didn't* see it with our own eyes, and making it into a tv show would make interpretation more difficult

>>9765541
Kubrick was a hack that made doloras rught off the bat a little vagarious slut

Les Miserables, some of the dialogues there seem very forced and not something one person would say to another.

Pretty much every book? Real life conversations are generally asinine.

I love how the children speak and act more maturely than the narrator.

>>9765495
You don't

>>9765523
Pleb

>>9765495
His Master's Voice and Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

>>9765495
What part did u like more, OP?
>humor
Star diaries, Pirx the pilot or the Cyberiad

>depressive drama
Memories in a bathtub or Fiasco

>Mix of both
Futurological congress

>I'm so much better writer than all the american scifi trash, so I'm going to copy Borges
Perfect vacuum or Golem XIV

>>9765463
I used to be, but I'm fixing it slowly by surely. Don't lose hope, you can do it if you want it bad enough.

i can't get through even a single paragraphed 4chan post without at least 3 existential crises

>>9765463
Stay away from pc/tv... for a while
It might fix ya

You need to read it out loud, otherwise I think you'll do fine
Good luck!

If u want, u can use these pages:

http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Infinite_Jest_Page_by_Page

I like it.

>>9765388
highjacking this thread to ask IJ related question;
I got IJ as epub - is it possible to get the "full" reading experience reading it on an ebook?because I heard it got a lot of end-/footnotes?

My BOI Tolstoy

Is War & Peace good, senpais?

writers are gay, books are for fags

>>9765371
Tolstoy
Nietzsche
Hemingway (read Sun Also Rises for an English class in college but that's all)
Borges
Alan Watts
Kierkegaard
Lao Tzu
Milton
Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde and poetry in general
Chekhov

Read the actual children's classics like Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, The Hobbit, Narnia, Madeline, Alice in Wonderland etc.

As an example this is a page from a book for the age group that I am aiming for.
It mostly consists of 4-5 phrases per page with an illustration

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>>9765386
Fuck here's the image

I've always had a soft spot for The Cask of Amontillado and The Telltale Heart. I like the way The Murders in the Rue Morgue is written but the reveal is fucking stupid. The Fall of the House of Usher is a must too.

I think Lovecraft's Mythos stuff is overrated but his Dream Cycle stories are actually really good early sci-fi.

What's his dream cycle? Agreeing about Telltale Heart and House of Usher, should read Amantillado soon.

>>9765597
Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and other stories set in the 'Dreamlands'

Shit basically.

Shakespeare

rich jew telling you what to like

2 and a half is great.

I read only about 20 minutes before bed before I fall asleep. Used to read a lot longer but I accidentally conditioned myself to associate reading with dozing off.

>>9765217
Yeah that was my problem as well but I think it helped not reading at all for about half a year and then starting to read in the morning on my couch with a cup of coffee. I couldn't fall asleep if I wanted to.

Depends on the day. If I work all day I'm lucky to have the energy to read 30 minutes. On weekends I usually read about 8 hours, but this is spread across a few books I read concurrently to not get bored/overloaded.

>>9765178
(You)

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>>9765178
Who the fuck reads contemporary poetry?

>>9765415
This.

Poetry is still a thing in this century?