Finally managed to buy everything I want (for now) and cram everything in. Frick Naipaul for writing a brick that was giving me fits trying to cram it in somewhere.
The one next to Pirandello is Pessoa
In b4 "spine check" "pristine penguin spines" Yeah yeah I know my buying speed outpaced my reading speed whatever neighbor I'll get to them
Feel free to recommend me books but be warned if the writers last name is between "kun" and "zzz" and its thicker than a starving chinamans prick, any response I type actually means "keep yourself safe"
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Do you have any non-fiction books?
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Every book that isn't a history book is fiction
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3rd image, Mencken chrestomathy
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Clearly just an IKEA premade shelf. 2/10
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There's literally céline to the right of the carlyle
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I considered putting Pound, Celine, Bellow and Kafka right next to each other as a little joke but i went for boring alphabetization instead.
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Very pretentious. This is clearly a man who looked up some kind of "what sorts of books smart people read" list.
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No entry level has heard of Italo Svevo or Sadeq Hedayat, or goes for any Poetry or Theatre lol its Novel or nothing for them.
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Yeah that doesn't sound like something someone trying to appear smarter than he is would say at all.
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Why is it someone trying to appear smarter than you is visually indistinguishable from someone actually smarter than you lol.
I mentioned those two because theres no way you're getting recommended Svevo and Hedayat off a google search.
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Yeah you are getting them from /lit/ which really makes you an intellectual
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Checked out /lit/ maybe twice in my life.
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You got these from some sort of shitty online book recommendations source and you know it. Dodging which one doesn't make you seem like more of an intellectual.
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Stoppard Simmons Laxness Carlyle Hurston Boccaccio Vargas Llosa and Woolf on the same "online book recommendation list" lmao.
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Why do you think it needs to be one list?
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Ok redditor
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what does the r stand for in rdrama
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r-slur
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Dante and Don Quixote are absolute top tier, and Borthers Karamazovs is my favourite Dostoevsky book so I'll give you an upmarsey for those.
Haven't read any of them btw
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Quixote is absolute trash.
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Junky is your only good book but queer is way better. Are you are girl or a guy gay/straight?
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Guy on rdrama
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Oh and Id start with carver chekhov & Dennis Johnson before trying to get into classics. John Gardner on moral fiction and br myers a readers manifesto are good places to start for criticism.
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Thanks
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Haven't read most but really liked Blindness, pretty harrowing read though.
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Do you feel like reading all of this gives you a better perspective in life?
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eh
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Since you already have a Calvino book try Invisible Cities, it actually changed my perspective on life somewhat.
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BasadĂsimo
Tenés que comprar el Aleph
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"Collected fictions"
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El Aleph is another separate book from "Ficciones".
It was published in 1949
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The book to the right is "ficciones", the big one is collected fictions. It's every story Borges ever wrote
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Oh I see that's cool. I saw the Ficciones copy next to it but I thought the larger one was one of his poem collections.
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Poems of the night is there too, next to Labyrinths
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Where's the Meme Trilogy?
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I'm getting Ulysses one day. Never interested in GR no matter what anyone tells me, and IJ seems obviously worse than those two.
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You would have really liked high school in Italy
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I bet you bought scotch and a fancy glass to swill it in while reading Le Intellectual Literature, but can only drink it when it's mixed with diet coke
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I tried reading drunk it doesnt work
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Lmao
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