Do you have friends who read? What do they read? Do you discuss books with them?
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yes one normie friend and one alcoholic bipolar friend
normie and I discuss more contemporary writers - Cormac, Philip Roth, Delillo, Vargas Llosa, Denis Johnson
alchy madman and I discuss more 19th century stuff. Though he does like Cioran and Beckett's novels particularly the Trilogy
He's a big Dostoevsky fan. Notes from Underground and White Nights in particular
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A few, but their reading-orientation is largely political, with a smattering of conteporary fiction tossed in.
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One, but he's apparently been reading The Brothers Karamazov for the last 6 months, so I'm not sure if he actually reads or not.
Yes, a handful of friends, all online, and only one of them I have a somewhat close connection with
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One guy who's actually smart--likes Kafka and Murukami. But there are so many people I know who've read THREE BOOKS and think they're smart shit
>Lord of the Flies
>The Stranger
>Slaughterhouse-Five
like cmon, branch out, make an effort!
one of my closest friends likes to read, mostly literary fiction with splashes of classic sci-fi. he likes vonnegut and marquez a lot. we often recommend one another books.
have another friend who's just starting to get into literature. doesn't have a defined taste yet, but i lent him some flannery o'connor.
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I just started a Divine Comedy read together thing with some friends. One friend has not read any of it yet and the other is reading a whole different part of the book I think. Kind of disappointing.
I have two friends who read.
the first reads everything under the sun: Sci-fi to Catholic spiritual literature. He's a historian so he has a shelf dedicated to all the history books he's bought.
The Second is training to be a historian/professor and reads mostly history and sci-fi books.
we both recommend and share books with each other, as we all are some form of historian.
I had one friend who read, but it was mostly vampire YA. Last time I saw her it was Milk & Honey.