Post 1 out of 5 reviews of your favorite books. Pic related is a review of TBK.
>>7433452
117 pages in 6 months, lol
>>7433452
>>7433452
>>7433501
>I quit after 50 pages
>I would rather eat 4 hashish brownies
0_o
Some people are so into themselves.
Crime and punishment just has people bitching about translations
>>7433452
That review isn't really all that rage-inducing, all things considered. Yes, they didn't finish the book, etc. It's my favorite novel, but the timetable and pressure to produce installment pages probably did contribute to some verbosity in places. Also, the reviewer did touch on the greatness of
>Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
>>7433501
is that gravity's rainbow?
Henry Miller - Sexus
My favourite book doesn't have any 1 star reviews.
>>7433518
I actually kind of want to read this now. Anyone recommend it?
>>7433691
Snow Country
>>7433452
>reads 100 pages in 6 months
>>7433682
What book is this?
>>7433710
It's probably the greatest travel book ever written.
>>7433452
>>7433686
Yes its great. Brief History of Seven Killings
>>7433452
>>7433452
>is there even a plot
God damn it
>>7433818
>With a name like Fyodor Dostoevsky, how can a guy get published?
Hate to tell you this but that's a troll review.
>>7433828
It was published in 1941 and begins with the dedication "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved." West's views aren't modern and she has prejudices but anyone who takes that away from the book is an idiot. She was a socialist (for the time), feminist (for the time) and staunchly anti-authoritarian for her entire life. The book is set in Yugoslavia, but it's about everything: it addresses humanity plainly and from the personal viewpoint of the author, and it doesn't make apologies for doing either of those.
>>7433925
Thank you. Colour me informed.
>>7433988
It really is worth reading, I don't know if I can sell it enough. It's like nothing I've read before or since: as a travelogue it is intimately the author's own viewpoint, but it's also true that the entire world is in Yugoslavia in the book. There's a kind of what I would almost call chiasmus in the descriptions of places: the outside is covered first, then you move into and swirl around the interior before returning to the outside (like a spiral, or a flower). It works well; you take in the novel as a visitor and have a real sense of entering and leaving these places.
AARGH!
>>7434973
three musketeers?
This is a repost, but /lit/ really seems to like Kathy.
>>7434982
yes!
>>7435006
it's like she expected d'artagnan to take a nap and have an apple juice and call it a day.
>>7435000
Sounds like she's reading Salò but I can't be sure. She mentions de Sade and the Libertines but it almost seems too obvious.
>>7435111
put sticky note "file name" next to your screen
>>7434973
Notes from the Underground
>>7435142
Philosophy in the bedrm? I mean it's kind of obvious it's 120 Days in Sodom, but the file name says nothing.
>>7435186
Disregard this. I'm a fucking idiot.
>>7435006
The word 'muskateer' kinda gives it away.
>>7435199
Well, yeah. It was kind of rhetorical. I just didn't want to write out the title. But who am I to judge?
Shitty review, but it's interesting to know that the National Front lists Bonfire of the Vanities as recommended reading.
>>7435230
This one's pretty funny.
>Vulgarity is not an acceptable adjective. The F word is used so many times that the book is an embarrassment.
>As a well-educated, proud Southern Lady, I was offended to have the author feel the need to rewrite in italics a poor impersonation of a Southern accent.
> It should never be acceptable to put others down to build oneself up. That demonstrates weakness of character.
>If he were my student, I wouldn't accept this work. College freshman are on the whole better writers.
>I am too stupid to understand the book
