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15630075 No.15630075 [Reply] [Original]

Post books only you've read, I'll start

>> No.15630079

>>15630075
Based book Ted Kaczynski was obsessed with it as a kid

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Hometown

>> No.15630380

>>15630075
everything in my shelf

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>> No.15634025

>>15633747
Does that mean that you're the only guy that's been recommending this one here? I see it mentioned favorably every now and then.

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>> No.15634087

>>15634025
Yeah, more or less, as far as I can tell I'm the only person posting it. I've been shilling it for a few years and will continue shilling it until people stop nutting over the Magic Mountain _exclusively_.

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>> No.15634317

>>15634032
I've only heard about this woman on Opie & Anthony of all places. To be sure she sounds like an unfunny cunt.

>> No.15634330

Is it good OP? I want to read more Conrad but don't know which to check out next.

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>> No.15634511

>>15634330
Just finished it, the payoff at the end is fantastic. Would recommend

>> No.15635811

>>15632026
Wrong, I have read it. In fact, it is the only book I have ever read and I plan on reading no other books and i will never reread that one.

>> No.15636103

>>15635811
You mean to turn into some kind of infinite jest?

>> No.15636118

>>15634087
what do you think of doctor faustus

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Obviously not the only person who's read this, but for how fuckin good this shit is you almost never see it brought up here or anywhere else.

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>>15630075
Lol not even close. Great novel, but anyone whose taken a modern literature course has read it, or was at least meant to. I'll wager one bitcoin, however, that I'm the only person on /Lit/ to have read pic related. I got obsessed with Conrad and read his full bibliography, chronologically. This is one of two novels he cowrote with Ford Madox Ford.

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>>15630075
I can’t imagine anyone else has read pic related, and I’ve read it twice so far. It’s a really funny book.

>> No.15636161

>>15634330
Not OP but what have you read already?

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Borrowed it to a friend 5 years ago, he still hasn’t read it

>> No.15636210

>>15630075
WhatI love about Conrad is that he demands you read each novel twice. When Stevie is first introduced, he is described thus:
>For he was difficult to dispose of, that boy.
>But as errand-boy he did not turn out a great success.
It is impossible to get the dark humour at work here until you know what happens to Stevie, which you shouldn't know till the end of the book.

>> No.15636227

>>15636181
To be fair, it is rather long, and better suited to dipping in and out of before bed. But it is fabulous.

>> No.15636300

>>15630075
No? I got paranoid of comiting a crime after the wife kills him

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>> No.15636436

>>15636138
I read this earlier this year. Possibly at your instigation if you’ve been recommending it for a while. Loved the whole section in Mexico.

>> No.15637138

>>15636158
What's it about ? Only read his Clockwork Orange

>> No.15637143

>>15636436
Well I'm glad you liked it mate. I doubt it was me who persuaded you to read it, though I have shilled it a couple times before so maybe.

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>> No.15637183

>>15630079
Do you speak of the domestic terrorist Unabomber? I wouldn't want to read anything he ever read.

>> No.15638306

>>15636118
I can't say I'm studied enough (or even at all) in music to be able to appreciate it. I can only but like Goethe's Faust more because so much of the prose about the qualities of the music in Doctor Faustus was just completely outside of my comprehension.

>> No.15638313

>>15630380
post shelf

>> No.15638326

>>15634386
I started it

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I guarantee you haven't read this.

>> No.15638562

>>15634087
you sold me o. It a while ago, hopefully get to it in the fall

>> No.15638861

>>15636300
ah fuck an actual spoiler

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>> No.15640057

>>15630075
You're such a faggot

>> No.15640080

>>15636138
On the list. Loved Herzog.

>> No.15640204

>>15640080
Come on my son.

>> No.15641415

A travel diary from 1830, it's so forgotten that there is no page about it on the wikipedia or anything like this. The only way to get the book is to buy directly from the state-owned publishing house.

>> No.15641436

I used to download and read just about anything off Gutenberg to my first gen Kindle when I was an adolescent. I don't remember most of it, but one was a mostly exaggerated journal of a woman locked in an asylum in the 1800s.

>> No.15641486

>>15636142
Very interesting. Any hidden gems in his bibliography? How are his novels with Ford?

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>>15634317
Paula Poundstone was way funnier before the NPR-crowd started blowing her. Her live shows the last few years have sucked but she his hilarious back when Letterman was the most popular guy on TV.

>>15634025
Love it.

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>>15630075
It was okay.

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These books are in the Ethiopian Old Testament but you cannot find them anywhere, not even collected translations of other para-biblical writings which include obscure and late stuff. They're never mentioned in academic discussion of biblical pseudepigrapha and seem to have received basically no notice in academia (there are a handful of journal articles if you really dig). This is a self published translation by a random Ethiopian guy.

Their existence is really interesting, it seems the narrative portions were composed to fill a gap in the Ethiopian canon which didn't include the Greek books of the Maccabees. They remind me of Judith, the setting is a garbled Biblical past and the theme is standing up to tyrannical, idol-worshipping kings. That's only about 1/3rd of the material though, the rest is a load of preaching about how to be pious and is a bit tedious.