what was the last 'excellent' book you read?
What was the last 'excellent' book you read?
>*good
>ftfy
montesquieu "spirit of the laws", when I realized that this is the cause of the division of the 3 powers:
"constant experience shews us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say, that virtue itself has need of limits?
To prevent this abuse, it is necessary, from the very nature of things, power should be a check to power. "
F: Charles Portis, True Grit.
NF: Georges Gusdorf, La Parole.
Both in December of last year.
The Magic Mountain
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Your favorite book.
Le Rouge et le Noir
SHE DIED HUGGING HER CHILDREN
i feel sorry for you. excellent. my god.
Turgenev's Sportsman Sketches. Even Joyce found them to be his best.
The Sport of Kings - C.E Morgan
prometheus bound was excellent, but the real one will always be ulysses. when I finished it I knew I would never read something as good
The Opposing Shore by Gracq
Absolutely blew my mind. Easily the best prose I've read in a long time
>ulysses
how can I hope to ever understand this, I've read about a dozen literary theory books
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
talk about this one user, i've been meaning to read this
The Fountainhead
ready player one
Stranger in a Strange Land
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, finished it a few hours ago. Before that it was The Loser by Thomas Bernhard which I finished about a week ago.
Yeah its pretty fuckin great
if im reading this correctly, he's off-base
Moldbug sez: it is not absolute power that corrupts, but shared power. A return to traditional intl law and its balance-of-power approach will keep the odd megalomaniac in check.
Finnegans Wake
My brother. Why is Naphta so perfect?
Hamlet, because it is the only excellent work to exist
Fuck god we're gay
Naphtha?
Fuck this is on my list but there are so many other things I want to read
A farewell to arms
Dream Story
Red Laughter by Andreev.
Stoner
>das scharf dünstende dunkel der achselhöhlen
Mann gave me an armpit fetish
The Old Man and The Sea gave me deep feelings
The Making of the Indebted Man
My mind initially read F and NF as "Frat" and "Not Frat" and was very confused.
Ulysses. I finished it 3 months ago and nothing has matched up since. I'm reading The Recognitions right now, though, and it might just join those ranks.
join the club. i feel so empty now.
Satan's Diary by Leonid Andreyev.
physical copy?
The winter of our discontent, still iffy about the very last scene but loved it overall.
Never really seen it talked about here on Lit. What did you guys think of it?
East of Eden or grapes of wrath next?
Well, I just finished Winesburg, Ohio about an hour ago. That book is definitely a masterpiece. I recommend everyone here read it if they have not already.
KEK ya lets all smoke pipes drink scotch and wear eyepatches xDDD LMAO
above poster is a gay loser
Yes, in Spanish btw.
Fuck yes