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>your favorite sub-100 page book you read this year
>your favorite 100 to 300 page book you read this year
>your favorite 300 - 700 page book you read this year
>and finally your favorite 700+ page book you read this year

post them

>> No.18748594

>Boccaccio - Life of Dante
>Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
>Thoreau - Walden
>Goncharov - The Precipice

>> No.18748613

>Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
>Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
>Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

>>18748594
Based Walden chad. I also read that within the last year. Life of Dante and Remains of the Day are on my list.

>> No.18748694

>>18748582
On Being Blue - Gass
Exercises in Style - Queneau
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers
Have not read any 700+ page books this year but there are a few coming up, The Recognitions, JR and The Tunnel are all on the shelf in wait.

>> No.18749094

>>18748582
Wait, I'm supposed to read the books?

>> No.18749121

Agamben - The church and the kingdom
Willerslev - Soul hunters
Foldenyi - Dostoyevsky reads hegel
dont really read anything else other than anthropology/economic history and these are usually 200-400 pages in length sorry

>> No.18749148

>Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
>Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions
>Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
>Lev Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

>> No.18749205

>>18749094
You can eat them if you prefer to ingest literature that way.

>> No.18749207

>>18748582
>H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
>Clarice Lispector - The Passion According to G.H.
>Don Delillo - White Noise
>James Joyce - Ulysses

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>>18748613
>>Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism

never heard of this guy, seems to be popular, suicide by hanging at age 48, occupational hazard of sociolgical theorists specializing in the theory of boredom

>> No.18749309
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18749309

We've always tolerated these threads but this is just pushing it

>> No.18749332

>>18749309
>there is a difference on the average between blacks and whites in iq test. I would say the difference is...[wheezes]...it's genetic

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18749371

>didn't read any
>the sound and the fury
>either/or part 1
>didn't read any

>> No.18749516

>>18749309
uh are you in the wrong thread?

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>>18749094
no youre suppose to smoke the books

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>>18748582
I wonder if he read Bleeding Edge

>> No.18749642

>>18749553
this made me realize that Kojima could probably adapt Gravity's Rainbow into a video game.

>> No.18749924

>>18748582
>I've never read a sub-100 page book
>I've never read a 100 to 300 page book
>I've never read a 300 - 700 page book
>I've never read a 700+ page book

>> No.18750122

>>18748582
>Götzendämmerung
>Die Geburt der Tragödie
>Being and Time (read it translated sorry)
>Ulysses