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I've been having too much free time lately, and I've been willing to read good books, would you mention a book (and the genre) that you would definitely recommend?
1984, orwell, dystopian science fiction
The crying of lot 49
It is a book about executing of wills and postal intrigue
The Time Machine by H.G Wells.
A Time Traveller in the Victorian era goes something like 800,000 or so years into the future to cause a ruckus.
>>7987777
What do you even like?
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Its a novel where an imaginary Marco Polo describes imaginary cities he had visited to Kublai Khan. Each city gets its own chapter and cities are grouped into philosophical topics that the city descriptions explore.
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death pain and suffering realistically portrayed and relation to chronic mental illness
>>7987777
The Stranger by Camus. It deals with existentialist thought.
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John Green
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Here's a /lit/-core collection I found in the archive:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ynxys7d9apcl2dw/kenosha+kid+how-to.zip
Notes from underground.
It contains thoughts and stories from the perspective of a bitter and an isolated man.
Try reading some Greek Tragedies, they deal with the same sorts of passions and entanglements that we all experience but presented in a purer and more concentrated and extreme form.
Try getting The Complete Greek Tragedies edited by Grene and Lattimore
Then maybe read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
>>7987777
One should never recommend an entire genre.
There are examples of unpolished turds in every conceivable category of human endeavor.
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