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WHAT DO YOU READ FOR RELAX? Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:18:53 2023 No.21692812 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:20:44 2023 No.21692821 Books that i've already read. Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:23:29 2023 No.21692832 >>21692821 Why is that? And what do you usually read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:25:19 2023 No.21692844 Generally humorous fiction or ancient/medieval/unusual history .

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:27:51 2023 No.21692857 >>21692844 Post some examples of both please

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:32:16 2023 No.21692882 Novels written in my mother language. Most often Jose Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Las Batallas en el Desierto is one of my all time favorites.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:33:54 2023 No.21692890 >>21692812 The Tale of Kiều

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:50:22 2023 No.21692966 >>21692857 As for history, I just check something what interests me, lately I am reading books on medieval heresies, Avignon Papacy and beginning of Czech nation

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 00:51:48 2023 No.21692970 >>21692857 for humorous fiction, for example David Sedaris or Tom Holt

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 01:06:30 2023 No.21693021 >>21692812 I read nothing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 01:10:39 2023 No.21693038 >>21692812 I find stoic philosophy very relaxing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 01:43:49 2023 No.21693168 >>21692882 Argentino?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 01:45:08 2023 No.21693170 >>21693168 Sorry but no. Mexican here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 01:45:09 2023 No.21693171 >>21692812 Hello sirs

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 01:46:45 2023 No.21693179 File: 627 KB, 600x600, Good-Morning-Happy-Tuesday-Gif-Image.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21693171

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 02:22:59 2023 No.21693280 >>21693171 Please talk about books. Also, Im not sirs. Im latinx.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 02:24:44 2023 No.21693282 Try Hogg by Samuel Delany.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 05:16:56 2023 No.21693828 >>21693170 Are the translations truly an abortion? Reading 100 years now and I love it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 05:34:26 2023 No.21693864 >>21693828 I don't know, haven't checked any traduction but if you are enjoying I guess it is alright. Maybe I should skim through some epubs later to have a more informed opinion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 09:14:09 2023 No.21694352 >>21692812 Tintin or conan doyle Takes me to a simpler time

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 09:37:43 2023 No.21694398 >>21693179 It's wednesday

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 11:16:22 2023 No.21694647 >>21694352 Tried reading the first tintin. Didnt get the appeal

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 11:22:22 2023 No.21694664 >>21694647 Herge's early ones may not be everyone's cup of tea i guess my favorites are the secret of the unicorn, its sequel and the one where they go to the moon. Also it may be one of those things that you like only when you read it as a kid

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 11:24:27 2023 No.21694667 >>21694664 Ah i understand. Are you belgian in any case?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 11:29:23 2023 No.21694682 >>21692812 I just sleep to relax.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 11:29:55 2023 No.21694684 >>21694667 Nah, Indian. Little me soifaced when reading the one where tintin goes to India.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 11:34:59 2023 No.21694698 File: 65 KB, 300x300, 8Yt_mPYB_400x400.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21694684 This should be an international meme. Like an argentinian basedfacing when watching goku dancing tango.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 22 12:36:51 2023 No.21694820 TTRPG rulebooks are like an opiate in book form.