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Hi /lit/, was wondering if you could help me out. Im looking for books that have that vague quality of dream and mystery, where something always feels a little off and strange. I guess Kafkaesque is a term that applies although I don't much like it. Examples of books I like that have the quality I'm looking for are Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, Kobo Abe's Woman of the Dunes, Kafka obviously, and Beckett. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Philip K. Dick
>>8034843
Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is, as one would expect, Kafkaesque (I also dislike using the word)
Also Camus' The Stranger. It was written after Camus was studying Kafka and is influenced heavily by his work.
Catcher in the Rye felt pretty dreamy to me
Who is the most original philosopher?
Thales
>>8034786
The first one
>>8034786
Diogenes.
This website is shit
anon is shit
op is shit
Was Mr. Darcy autistic?
Some human being, now dead, smacked Jane Austen lips and pounded that body while listening to moans of an English tone.
Indeed, life is true suffering.
No. Very good book though.
(Spoilers)The conversation after Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have agreed to marry is so stilted and awkward that I now understand why Austen chose not to include such a scene in Mansfield Park
ITT 10/10 historical novels
tell me about the white goddess
>haven't touched a book in months
>still browse /lit/
Fite me.
what's your address you limp dick faggot?
I buy books because I like the smell of books.
u jelly?
>>8034444
Ask your mom.
Is this a hard read, or is it just long?
>>8034411
On a basic level, novice readers will be able to take a lot of enjoyment out of it but I think a lot of the meaning of the work takes a lot to recognize and engage with so its kind of both
I just read it and loved it (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation). It's not too hard to read, but yes it is long.
It's worth reading for sure, I was I read it sooner. I enjoyed it much more than Crime and Punishment.
Any translation that renders the title as "the brothers Karamazov" is a poor translation
>the brothers Warner
What is the saddest book ever written?
>>8034393
your biography
Not that platitudinous heap of boredom.
>>8034395
fukn REKD
Why do people overrate this book so much?
It's like 80 measly pages of some of the least engaging prose I've ever read, with the overall message of "hurrrr colonialism was bad" which isn't even true.
because niggers
>>8034365
>with the overall message of "hurrrr colonialism was bad"
>>8034386
>frogposting
I don't care how retarded OP is. You're even worse.
why isn't it regarded as one of the funniest books of all time?
>>8034287
Because Czech humour is esoteric
t. Czech
>>8034287
Probably cause if a book isn't regarded as a classic it gets forgotten by people.
Doesn't help it was a czech ww1 book. Czechies don't get much attention with their literature.
>>8034296
Not really. It's a great book, a real shame about Hasek.
t. Pole
What does /lit/ think of my tattoo? Can you name the author?
nice John Green tattoo faggot
I sincerely hope you're a woman.
vaping is for faggots and Mandalbaum is the best translation for the metamorphoses
so why haven't you guys read this yet?
>>8034183
But I have, anon--I've read it twice, in fact.
>>8034183
Because you fuckers already memed me this year with The Lime Twig
>>8034230
was The Lime Twig not good?
So I read a shit ton of books, one after another. But I haven't read a novel in YEARS.
I want a book that's an easy read and yet still epic and gripping. These are books that i've heard a good deal about, would any of these fit what i'm looking for? (Not a hard read, gripping and thrilling story)
>>8034139
Only Dune, Blood Meridian and Way of Kings are decent on that list. Forget the others.
Yeah Blood Meridian by McCarthy is pretty comfy, the others might be a bit too terse for what you're looking for, and boring.
>>8034139
As far as gripping, I'd say McCarthy's The Road. I devoured that one pretty quickly, lots of tension and desperation. I empathized pretty heavy with the characters.
>tfw don't want to give up on a book, especially a Dickens book because people will think I'm dumb and a pleb for not reading him
>tfw 150 pages in to Nicholas Nickleby and it's so fucking boring
Just drop it. I don't know why people around here are so determined to finish everything even if they dislike it.
>>8034104
the poor disabled kid is the angry old rich guy's son and the rich guy kills himself at the end when he finds out the poor disabled kid is his son and that his son died.
Everything doesn't have to be fun desu
How to be motivated to read?
>>8033972
I find it hard to be motivated enough to do anything
You have to actually like to read in the first place.
I really want to read but whenever I read on the bus I start to feel really tired. How to amend?
I mean literally falling asleep while reading, waking up and catching the book and my hand from falling limp.
Quick! What type of horror/science fiction book to you reccmond /lit/!
Pic unrelated
>>8033800
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood is a bitching short story.
>>8033800
2001 A Space Odyssey is also quite bitchin' scifi if you like good plot with not so good writing
>>8033816
The White People by Arthur Machen.
The King in Yellow. RW Chambers is better than Lovecraft tee bee queue H.
