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Anyone into the NYRB Classics collection? Anyone have any good
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:00:43 Post No. 7842788 [Report]
Anyone into the NYRB Classics collection? Anyone have any good recommendations from it?

Going to be reading these next:

Tun-Huang - Inoue
Fatale - Manchette
The Sun King - Mitford
The Siege of Krishnapur - Farrell
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Hogg
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:02:29 Post No.7842791
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:02:29 Post No.7842791 [Report]
the english translation of tun huang is unfortunately quite bland and uninspiring. really belies the quality of the book
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:03:41 Post No.7842794
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:03:41 Post No.7842794 [Report]
skylark
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:04:02 Post No.7842795
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:04:02 Post No.7842795 [Report]
>>7842788
Pick the white heterosexual males from that list and disregard the rest
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:08:26 Post No.7842800
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 15:08:26 Post No.7842800 [Report]
>>7842795
>Pick the white heterosexual males from that list and disregard the rest
If I did that I would have missed out on The Battle for Egypt, which while something of a short novella was really quite good.

>>7842794
ty broski
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 17:45:14 Post No.7843158
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 17:45:14 Post No.7843158 [Report]
>>7842795
>heterosexual
Implying half of the greatest poets weren't gay
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 21:03:39 Post No.7843820
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 21:03:39 Post No.7843820 [Report]
>>7842788
I've read Houses by Borislav Pekic. Was pretty damn good. Read it.
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 21:06:54 Post No.7843829
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 21:06:54 Post No.7843829 [Report]
>>7842788
If you randomly pick any book they publish there is a 100% chance it will be good (statistics based on my experience with 14 of their books)
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