Now that the smoke has cleared, what have you read this year

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2016-12-20 07:18:40 Post No. 8863975
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 07:18:40 Post No. 8863975 [Report]

Now that the smoke has cleared, what have you read this year that you'd recommend? What was a disappointment?

Recommend
>Yukio Mishima - Temple of the Golden Pavilion
I can't recommend this enough
>Roberto Bolano - 2666
This is one of those books that's going to be seen in the same stride as Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, The Recognitions, Ulysses, etc. a few decades from now
>William Gass - Middle C
Happiest I've ever been memed

Letdown
>J.M. Coetzee - The Childhood of Jesus
Terrible book, don't waste your time
>Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Expected a lot after all the hype on this board. An OK read, but only because it's so short.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 07:53:48 Post No.8864067
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Recommend
>Nabokov - Pnin
Beautiful prose, hilarious, sad. It really has everything I could want in a novel.

> Dostoevsky - Demons
Slow start but really the last 500 pages (esp last 200-300) are some of the best writing of his. Kept me on the edge of my seat while receiving philosophical enlightenment.
Letdown
> Nabokov - Lolita
I know most of you have already read this and I'm late on the game, but what a piece of horseshit. The prose is overwhelmingly rich, to the point of losing its effect. I get it, H.H. is a pretentious anti-hero...but Nabokov is able to be way more tasteful than this, and without the edgy pedophilia meme.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 07:58:19 Post No.8864081
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 07:58:19 Post No.8864081 [Report]

>>8864067
>filtering your experince of a novel through buzzwords
>implying Humbert's prose ever loses its force
>implying it is Nabokov the one writing the novel

It's ok if you don't like it, but do better criticism next time.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 08:00:55 Post No.8864090
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 08:00:55 Post No.8864090 [Report]

>>8864067
I disagree with you on Lolita.

Will make a proper refute when I'm not drunk and think properly.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 08:08:35 Post No.8864113
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 08:08:35 Post No.8864113 [Report]

>>8864081
Hey dumbshit.

>Sorry I didn't use nice JSTOR words to filter my experience through.
>Try listening to a symphony for once, ever hear of Ludwig van? You don't keep the music full force the whole time, jackass.
>written by Vladimir Nabokov

Try again, good sir. Merry Christmas to you too.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:36:47 Post No.8865058
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 03:36:47 Post No.8865058 [Report]

>>8863975
Now that you've read Middle C read The Tunnel. It's like Middle C on crack.

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