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Finished La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal recently. A good book, though I often felt like guillotining the aristocratic main characters.
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np19 posted:Everyone owes it to themselves to read Germinal by Emile Zola. I don’t hear enough people talk about it when the matter of “the classics” comes up. That one's next on the list! I can't wait to get my revolutionary strike on.
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Oct 27, 2021 13:16
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:I don't understand, call who "Ishmael"? Me
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Oct 27, 2021 16:00
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It's my gamertag
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Oct 27, 2021 16:01
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Revins posted:I have a bunch of Camus but haven't revisited most of it in like 7 years maybe. Wonder how I'd feel about his stuff today. or kafka, for that matter Camus is good and cool, now and always. Unlike that weird crab-seeing motherfucker Sartre Even though his non-fiction is mostly impenetrable to me, I tried and failed several times to read L'Homme Revolté
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Oct 28, 2021 11:10
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:i likw that one kafka short story where franz or whoever wakes up and he's jeff goldblum but he still has to go to his lovely insurance job or whatever. its total horseshit jeff goldblun was in independence day Die Verwandlung? It's the only Kafka book I ever read along with the obvious one (The Trial), and actually in German this time, albeit painstakingly. Just like the other one it's depressing as poo poo
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Oct 28, 2021 11:14
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Elman posted:It's so loving good. And it's not a difficult read at all once you get past all the Russian names, people just find it intimidating cause it being super long is basically a meme. Most of the 19th-century classics aren't particularly difficult reads, other than the occasionally convoluted sentence structure and outdated references to specific types of horse coaches. The narrative is usually a lot easier to follow than much of the current fiction that's trying to be extra and post-modern. So don't be scared off by that
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Oct 28, 2021 11:17
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From theit hit album, Grapes of Rage
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np19 posted:Everyone owes it to themselves to read Germinal by Emile Zola. I don’t hear enough people talk about it when the matter of “the classics” comes up. I've just about finished this one. Great book, very moving, even though I had to struggle past some of the very specific French mining terminology at the start.
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