Does this book pass the /lit/mus test for a good book?
how many scatological passages does it contain?
>>8063561
Don't you realize that we hate all books here?
>>8063561
One of my all time favorite books!
It has beautiful prose, but /lit/ probably dislikes its message about vilifying a down-to-earthhedonisticlifestyle.
>>8063561
Stupid book. It's unknown around here, but that doesn't mean it's good. The main message is that reading is for suckers and if you don't fuck multiple women everyday you're a faggot.
>>8065362
You obviously don't mean vilify.
>>8065400
I can only hope I get trips, because this post is fucking wrong. Zorba the Greek isn't Shakespeare by any measure, but it's quality and only a deeply superficial reading would say it condemns reading outright in favor of blind hedonism. The central ambiguity is the narrator's struggle with the question of why read at all when the point is merely to re-create a life that could just as easily be lead in creation absent any prefixes. As a reader, the reader is meant to identify with the narrator and work through those questions with him. It's significant that after leaving Zorba, he gets a letter of invitation from Zorba to see an emerald and the narrator refuses, but that he instead chooses to write down his memory of Zorba.
Good read, worthy of genuine contemplation, easy-breath-beautiful (can be read in a few hours). But no, not one to take up long-term space on the shelf.
