How difficult is it?
>>8222822
Just long
>>8222822
looks good , whats it about?
not hard but long, kinda like my dick
>>8222860
no one asked about your freakish noodle dick
>>8222860
lol this is my Dostoyevsky joke.
>>8222873
excuse me?
GET OUT NYRB SHILL!
>>8222897
What's wrong with NYRB?
>>8222822
Do people on this board really think books are "difficult"?
You read them all the same way, line by line, left to right.
Fucking retards.
>>8223171
>left to right
lol monolingual plebtard
>>8223191
>he thinks writing scripts have anything to do with a language
I read Arabic books from time to time, but written in Latin script. plen.
>>8222873
How is it a dostoevsky joke?
>>8223171
>hmm I will now read Infinite Jest
>let me turn off my brain first, after all this is just entertainment to kill time xD
I haven't even read IJ and I don't think OPs book is difficult at all but this is how much of an imbecile you are.
Bump. So far only seen one anon in a bookshelf thread who owns this, and he had already left the thread by the time I saw his post.
>>8223191
I kek'd hard
>>8223197
Lol retarded if true.
>>8223340
That's exactly what you should do when you read IJ. Really poor example.
It isn't hard. Can I ask why you want it though?
>>8223345
>dostoevsky
>long
>>8222822
It's long and vacuous, kinda like my cunt.
Jesus christ, bumping again in hopes of a single helpful answer.
>>8226788
Download an epub of it so you can read a little bit and figure it out for yourself.
>>8226788
Several people have answered. Not our fault you cant parse an obvious after the fact joke.
>>8226788
Your answers are here faggot:
>>8222828
>>8222860
>>8225680
Why does it even matter if it's difficult? It's a potpouri of timely observations covering culture, economics, relationships, academia, emotions, and all kinds of other shit. What does your question even fucking mean? It's just a big book from the 16th century. It's been edited to have modern English. Sorry that takes away your difficulty points. Guess you'll never get to touch a tit unless you can find one in the original. Not like it's enjoyable or even possible to read this thing straight through. It's more scatterbrained than Montaigne eating buckshot. But hey it's 1000+ pages and I'm sure the people you ride the bus with haven't been impressed in a while, so go ahead and read it and enjoy it you silly vapid cunt.
>>8227554
same
>>8223152
Literally nothing except that their actual Journal includes far too much liberal pandering (searching out books that make their arguments for them and then reviewing said books glowingly).
That tends to be for non-fiction though, they are at their best when they are bringing back some book from the 60s that was translated into English and missed by American audiences from Estonia.
>>8222822
Not difficult whatsoever, takes a long time to read through though.
I don't know why you would think it is difficult. It has a lot of quotes but none of it is hard to understand.
>>8227554
>BIG BOOK MAKE BRAIN HURT HUR DUR
I read it straight through you idiot pleb.
>>8225701
>dostoevsky
>dick
Daily reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stjUUMRDnAs
>>8228567
My dad could beat up ur dad
>>8223152
Nothing but by virtue of what they put out they're the go-to publisher for hipster faggots with a fetish for all things obscure.
>>8228999
>NYRB books
>obscure
how illiterate and parochial are you?
My only issue with NYRB is that they don't put out hardcover versions of their books. Who the fuck wants a 1400 page paperback with a garbage spine?
>>8229031
NYRB spines are fine. idk if it gets sketchier in the 1000+ page count range but i've read a handful of their book sin the 600 - 900 page range and don't see noticeable deterioration of the spine.
>>8229031
It's not bad.
You need to hold it for the first and last 300 pages or so.
When you are in the middle it lays flat on a table even though it's a paperback just because it's so thick.
Also it's not difficult read, OP is memed.
All the latin and greek phrases are immediately translated in brackets in the text, and the pages fly by because your eyes just flick over all the italicized latin, of which there is a lot.
Also there's like 400 pages of notes, and they aren't even the kind of notes you actually read, they're just notes like "this quote is from so and so"
The book is exactly what it's titled - an anatomy of melancholy, a giant compendium of thought pertaining to melancholy. The idea that this could be "difficult" means you are afraid of long/old books and are evidently retarded. Seeing as how you are retarded then for you it might in actuality be difficult. I don't know because I don't have this problem.
>>8223171
Bro, it must take you fucking forever to read a book like that.
