ITT: favourite short reads Obvious choice is obvious

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>>8946721

This'n nach heer

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>>8946721
Technically a short story and a novella put together but whatever

>>8946721

brother, can you spare some oats?

>>8947383
>tfw big black oats fill you up

orwell is trash

>>8947415

Order Of The Dark Oats

>>8946721
Notes from Underground

>>8946721
the fall by camus left a real impression on me.

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>pseuds will try to score imaginary points on /lit/ by disparaging this

>>8947720
i thought it was so beautiful for almost the whole book, and then it felt like she dropped half of her worldview that she'd been saving in the last couple paragraphs which i pretty fully disagreed with.

loved it otherwise though.

>>8947720
Nobody gets rewarded for pointing out a toddler's fingerpainting as mediocre

>>8946721
Honestly the worst thing Orwell ever wrote, and I say that as someone who is a big fan of his journalism and essays. I got as much from this book as from reading the blurb.
>Stalin is a pig! Would you believe that?

>>8946721
the metamorphosis

Siddhartha

>>8946721
Shooting an Elephant is better

Invisible Cities

>>8947760
I mean its used to teach 8th graders the concept of allegory while also indoctrinating them against totalitarianism cum communism

it still gets the point across

>>8946721
White Nights by Dostoievski
Ivan Ilich's Death by Tolstoi
Saint Port's Plaza by Luisa Josefina Hernández

>>8946740
Imo, that's not a short read. The only short read plays are those one act plays, like Strindberg ones.

>>8946721
Hamlet

>>8949495
That's not a fuckin' short read, it's a 5 hours play.

Candide.

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This and a dream of a ridiculous man

>>8949486
>Using the shit spelling of TolSTOY and DostoEVSKY.

Kys.

What are some /oatcore/ books?

>>8949835
of mice and men
>also my answer for OP

>>8949947
This book hits home extra hard if you have a good, loyal friend who is also a bit of a simpleton

>I love you brah

>>8947720
was gonna post this too

>>8947471
Your opinion is trash, pleb.

>The Death of Ivan Illyich
>The Sorrows of Young Werther
>Greek plays

>>8949486
>Ivan Ilich's Death
>maiming the title so bad
Actually it's "The Demise of Ivan, the Son of Ilya", you pleb.

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>>8946721
I love this man.

Fraternal Gains

>>8946721
Pan and Victoria by Knut Hamsun, Una Novelita Lumpen and By Night in Chile by Bolaño, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Calvino if we're talking novellas
If we're talking short stories
>Carta a una Señorita en París
>Autopista Sur
>Un lugar llamado Kindberg
All by Cortázar
>The Kiss by Chekhov
>All of Dubliners really, but specially Araby, A Painful Case and The Dead
>The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemmmingway

Idk there's definetly more but these are the ones that come to mind

>>8947720
I loved that book

>>8949830
>not Dostoyevsky
They only spell it without the y since the Russian letter looks like an e- even though it makes the sound ye. It's ridiculous.

Vonnegut is goo for short reads. Then again you may as well get kids books

>>8950422
>Greek plays of 3 hours long plagged of symbolism.
>short reads

I don't think so.

The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien
Waiting for Godot by Beckett

A good amount of Kafka, my favorite is A Message From the Emperor

The Stone Bridal Bed by Harry Mulisch

>>8947720
You don't have to be an intellectual to recognize burning trash.

>tfw waiting for the eventual comeback

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My favorite short read.

Kipling's Just So Stories
Steinbeck's The Red Pony
Carver's What We Talk About

>>8954377
What are you, some kind of a comedian?

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>>8946721
fraternal grains

histoire de loeil - bataille

>>8952518
Are you me?

>>8947714
how did you find it? i read it recently but feel i missed the significance of some moments. i think i shouldve spent more time thinking and digesting it

>>8954377
I guess it's a short if you stop reading after good half of the book.

>>8954732
That's still like 500+ pages, you retard.

The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. Would have finished it in one sitting if I had a comfier chair.

>>8949484
Yeah and they fail to mention Orwell's commitment to socialism and Homage to Catalonia. Pure ideology