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What are you currently reading? I'm reading picrelated.

>> No.18488851

Heart of Darkness. honestly underrated

>> No.18488859

Mason and dixon by pynchon, the atlas by vollmann, and alternating poetry between dylan thomas's collected poems, an english haiku collection, and gerard manley hopkins.
Who wants to chat bout any of those?

>> No.18489498

Bump

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Really sick of being a fat fuck

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>>18488841
Collected Novels of Carson McCullers.

>>18488859
I love the clocks and the ocean.

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>> No.18489759

Yuz Aleshkovsky's Kangaroo. It's really fucking good. Similar in spirit to Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog, which may just be one of the most underrated novellas in history.

>> No.18489765

>>18488859
>dylan thomas's collected poems
I want to chat about this one. What's your favorite poem?

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>>18488859
which one is the one to get?

>> No.18489809

>>18489804
I forgot to add.
The Poems of Dylan Thomas: 512 pages
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition: 240 pages

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>> No.18491036

I'm in a limbo state at present with various books on the go - Finnegan's Wake is read aloud when I'm having a shit, Gargantua & Pantagruel is my reading in public book (it's the smallest of the three) and The Complete Father Brown Stories is by my bed for pre-sleep reading.

>> No.18491042

>>18488841
is Humiliated and Insulted any good? what other Dosto novel is it close to?

reading Barabbas right now, Pär Lagerkvist

>> No.18491168

>>18491042
>what other Dosto novel is it close to?
Very similar to the idiot

>> No.18491171

The brothers Karamazov and consider the lobster

>> No.18491172

>>18488841
Non-finite funny.

>> No.18491195

>>18489727
This is not a good book to follow if your goal is to lose body fat. This book teaches you how to build basic strenght that can later be transferred into a strongman or sports program. If you want to get physically stronger then keep going but if you want to lose fat then proper dieting and a cardio focused program would suit you better.

>> No.18491200

>>18491195
FUD.
Keep reading it GP, I got jacked just from starting strength.

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Wanted to start with DoA before reading the Neapolitan Quartet. It's actually terrific, but /lit/ will never read it because the author is (ostensibly) female.

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I like Eustacia.

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I can confirm it is based.

>> No.18491245

>>18491205
Definitely not female

>> No.18491251

>>18491195
what if I want to gain weight?
t. skelly
>>18491200
what's fud and gp?

>> No.18491260

>>18491245
Only a female would so obsessively write about this love dodecahedron meandering bullshit.

>> No.18491320

>>18488841
Faust. Only got the last two acts of part two to go, so I'll probably finish it today.

>> No.18491384

>>18491245
Who do you think? The Italian journalist guy?

>> No.18491436

>>18489765
My fav is fern hill, but i absolutely love the seed at zero and ceremony after a fire raid. Once dylan starts using syllabic verse his writing opens up and becomes much more fluid and musical. Fucking stunning.
>>18489804
>>18489809
I say the collected poems of thomas. He actually prefaces them saying that he collected all the ones he hoped would live on after his death. If you already like thomas then maybe the poems though.

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>>18491205
This is the only contemporary female writer I like. Really comfy prose. Reminds me of Knausgaard crossed with Javier Marias

>> No.18491929

>>18491042
I have a 'complete works' of Dostoevsky and started reading them chronologically, I read some of his major works but that was more than 15 years ago. Humiliated and Insulted has autobiographical elements and it is his first work after returning to Petersburg from Siberia. I would say it is similar to Poor Folk and Notes from Underground

>> No.18492018

>>18491929
how could you possibly fit his complete works on one spine?

>> No.18492072

>>18492018
It is a 2 tome Spanish edition from 1946. 2200 pages each, the pages are split in 2 with very tiny letters (like bibles) and judging by the time it takes me to read 1 page I would say they are like 4 pages from modern editions. I paid 40 euro about 15 years ago but only started reading them few weeks ago.

>> No.18492096

>>18492018
>>18492072
I decided to compare, Crime and Punishment is 320 pages in my edition, they sell the same translation in modern editions and it has 750 pages.

>> No.18492917

>>18491216
Hot

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>>18488841
I got confused when I heard "start with the Greeks" I thought it meant Greek mythology. Not even a larp I'm just stupid