I'm looking for a novel or novella which is like lifting intellectual weights. I don't want to waste my time reading just so I can get some shallow story. I want to be intellectually ripped as fuck.
Then don't read novels, read a text book.
>>8203157
FW, pussy.
>>8203157
read the most difficult book in a language you don't know, without any aid aside from a small tourist translation phrasebook.
>>8203157
Read whatever the fuck you want to read, as long is it isn't some self indulgent YA bullshit. Want to know if it is or not? You won't have to ask.
>>8203157
Bernhard.
>>8203164
Dude that does sound like a good idea. Getting some foreign book and getting the dictionary for that language and then reading the book with just the dictionary. Dude I bet I would know the language pretty well by the time I'm done. No kidding I should try that some time.
>>8203159
seconding this
you may give Thomas Mann a try, though
>>8203167
Kek, why do you think so? Basic knowledge on (pre)IIWW era in Austria/Germany is enough. His repetitive and obsessive style is not an understand or not thing but rather a stylistic medium.
>>8203168
Spoken like a person who has never tried to learn a language. A dictionary won't teach you grammar.
>>8203185
that's what makes it difficult. breh
>>8203185
As if you can't decipher that from just putting the words together.
ITT: My intellect is fkn superior !ยบ
>>8203168
wouldn't work, though, inflected words are not in a dictionary.
just imagine you wouldn't know english and you read the word 'is' somewhere in a book, you wouldn't be able to find in a dictionary. and even if you could find the basic form of a word in a dictionary you still wouldn't find the grammatical markers (like for cases and stuff like that) attached to it in a dictionary.
>>8203195
Yea, that's right. Good luck understanding any degree of nuance in anything other than a children's book.
Pro tip: it's really easy to sound confident until you actually do it ;)
