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16 Lovers Lane
October by China Mieville. Discovered this after being really impressed with his Chapo interview. Superbly written and suspenseful for non-fiction, even if that's just as much a testament to the sheer craziness of the Russian Revolution as it is his writing. Still wonderful all the same, and I made sure to take a picture of the "October can be ours, and it need not end in twilight" epilogue before I returned it. I'd really like to start reading his fiction but I'm not quite sure where to start. | | 2 |  | Agalloch
Ashes Against the Grain
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. I feel like I've lost a lot of my ability to stomach bleak literature/music lately, but it still made for a great read. It's definitely interesting how much Kundera has his characters down to a science, basically. In a way it's kind of numbing how liberal he is about dissecting them since they're ultimately all doomed by their own impulses and weaknesses. I didn't try to reread it before returning it, but I probably should at some point. | | 3 |  | The Wrens
Secaucus
Writings on the Wall by Kareem Abdul-Jabar & Raymon Obstfeld. This was for school and I wasn't in love with it. Abdul-Jabar's clearly a smart guy but I just don't like the tone he went for, just kind of struck me as patronizing. His takes on foreign policy & the media, and his choice to make the class struggle chapter the shortest one didn't really do much to win me over either. | | 4 |  | Have a Nice Life
Deathconsciousness
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I'd give anything to be able to read the first two books for the first time again. At the beginning of the third, but I'm getting the feeling that it's just diminishing returns from here on out. | | 5 |  | Dead Prez
Let's Get Free
Watchmen by Alan Moore. Wanted to read this for years because I'm a sucker for any story centered entirely around shitty people, so I finally ordered it. Can't wait | |
Papa Universe
08.15.17 | 1, 2, 4 are damn fantastic. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Are you looking for literature recs? Cause give me a second and I'll throw a dozen at you. | cowboydan89
08.15.17 | Going to school soon, so I'm kind of limited time-wise, but why the hell not? | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
-A spectacular bittersweet novel about a kid in a mental hospital in the 50s.
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
-Writer's block and how much it can affect someone.
Stefan Zweig - The Royal Game
-Of affects of isolation and psychological damage of imprisonment.
Ladislav Fuks - The Cremator
-Of a change of one man through the state of his surrounding, be it regime or the familial situation.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Visit
-Absurd play about a rich lady and a dubious ploy.
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Wall
-A bunch of stories, all cynical and cold.
Božena Němcová - Babička
-A village life in Bohemia in the simpler times with simpler people.
Boris Vian - L'Écume des jours
-Imo, one of the best surrealist works of all time.
Pierre Boulle - The Bridge Over the River Kwai
-The film is fantastic, but the book is often unceremoniously dismissed.
Wole Soyinka - A Dance of the Forests
-A political drama from Nigeria. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Some of these are probably on your required literature list, depending on where you go to school. | Mort.
08.15.17 | I finished A pale view of hills by Kazuo ishiguro today. Would highly reccomend it | cowboydan89
08.15.17 | Awesome, thanks so much!
| Winesburgohio
08.15.17 | 2 is so good!!!! | Taxt
08.15.17 | Agreed on 4, reading that for the first time was amazing | Dewinged
08.15.17 | 4 and 5 are among my favorite readings man, nice. Be sure to check Alan Moore's From Hell. | Papa Universe
08.16.17 | Oh also,
Joseph Joffo - A Bag of Marbles
-Of a Jewish kid escaping Nazis. | Flugmorph
08.16.17 | read "the longest way" | dbizzles
08.16.17 | Watchmen is great- enjoy.
Be sure to check Alan Moore's From Hell.[2]
@Dewi I loved that book but there was a long section that bored me to death with Gull and Nettley touring the town. I just recently understood what that was all about though lol, been reading Moore's Jerusalem and it deals with similar themes that were just going over my head at the time. Artwork in From Hell is top notch b&w. Eddie Campbell and Moore together is an absolute monstrosity.
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