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What are you reading today?

>> No.13980388

No theologies of murder

>> No.13980400
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>>13980386
I'm going to Lisbon soon, so I'm starting this guy

>> No.13980405

The Idiot. Never read it b4 but I have a friend who says it is his fave, so I thought I would try it.

>> No.13980419

>>13980405
Pretty good. Started my foray into Dostoevsky with the Idiot. Definitely made me understand the insanity of a few of the girls in my circle of friends.

>> No.13980425

>>13980388
Aren't you a communist?

>> No.13980427

>>13980386
Butcher's Crossing

>> No.13980435
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Grande Sertão: Veredas. It's an odissey of murder, ressurection and love set in the brazilian cangaço. It's narrated trough the eyes of a surviving cangaceiro, a type of outlaw that permeates brazilian folklore who for the deep love he cultivated to one of his mates goes to hell and back to avenge the death of it's father.

There's a lot more to it, and the main theme of the book can be summed to "What if God doesn't exist, but Satan does?" which is explored trough the terrors the protagonist endures amidst bloodshed and treason. It's all written in the dialetic that was used in the cangaço (brazilian badlands), so, it takes some time to go trough the pages. It's essentialy the only thing Brazil produced that can be compared to Ulysses.

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>>13980405
Rogozhin murders Nastasya at the end of the book

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>>13980425
No, an anarchist.

Reading several things at once, so it’s always hard to answer these questions. Here’s one. I should finish the Shakespeare I started a while ago

>> No.13980446

>>13980440
Lol you're an ancap?

>> No.13980447
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Starting book V of the Histories by Herodotus.
Also just started Oku no Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō.

>> No.13980448

>>13980400
Shit edition

>> No.13980454

>>13980447
>anakin skywalker
This image gets more based every time I see it.

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>>13980446
No, an anarchist. “Ancaps” are liberal.

>> No.13980463

>>13980458
What kind of anarchist, butt-und-fly?

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>>13980440
>rape is bad

>> No.13980467

>>13980458
So a communist

>> No.13980495

>>13980435

Brazil's best book, imo. It's a shame it'll probably never get any recognition out of the country, being such a hard book to translate and all. Truly fantastic stuff, though.

>> No.13980526

>>13980495
Yeah, pretty much there's no way to translate the book without ruining one of it's strongest points. Have you read it all the way trough?

>> No.13981635

Tropic of Cancer. I did just fall asleep listening to an audiobook of The Secret History, though.

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Its good

>> No.13983343

>>13980435
Are you referring to the Odyssey or that tired Mick trifle about how poetic the Irish are?

>> No.13983392

The magic mountain. Comfy book, makes me wish I could die of tuberculosis in the Swiss alps.

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>>13980386
Beautiful beautiful book.

>> No.13983510

>>13980436
Fuck you

>> No.13983515

>>13980386
The King In Yellow (the version without the stupid stories) and the Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James

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>>13980386

The parts where Lavey goes full edgelord and turns caps lock on are the most unintentionally funny thing I've seen in a while

>> No.13983580

Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy. Its just incredible, I can't tell if it's Deleuze or Nietzsche that's more of the genius