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finally started Notes From Underground recently really loving Dostoevsky's style already

also picked up Norwegian Wood and The Brothers Karamazov to take with me on my 3 week trip to Finland next week

Norwegian Wood

my first murakami too

Finished Ellroy's The Big Nowhere. Two down in the L.A. Quartet. 50/52 on the year.

Loved TBN. Even better than The Black Dahlia. The character arcs in it had me shook. Wondering if all of Ellroy's books end so exposition heavy. He answers more questions than I even have.

Thinking about closing out the year with my Contending Economic Theories book alongside Dave Eggers' terrible Trump satire novella. Not sure if I hate myself enough.

I'm thinking of reading the bible

Delete this

Wish they would’ve taken it back

Wish they’d take back Obama’s Nobel peace price and try him in The Hague but we can’t always get what we want 😁

Recommend me a book that will help me escape from reality when reading

Stoner - John Williams

thank you!

Just started Timequake by Vonnegut

what cool books are there about revolutionary/underground liberation movements? like the IRA, french, polish ww2 and communist resistance etc. non fiction obv

Stalingrad / Life and fate are both historical novels written as auto fiction about the Second World War from a Russian perspective

not exactly what i was looking for, but thanks

Pretty much every good book

Just read a poetry collection by the Dutch writer Remco Campert released yesterday. The collection is about his upcoming death. He is 90 years old. Such amazing poetry.

Aniimmmalll Pharm !!

Just read diary of an oxygen thief. Pretty cool aisling a whole ass b****

Just got “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous”

im talking lord of the rings green landscape type s***

out

Are you Dutch? I feel poetry loses something whenever it’s translated from its original language

Yeah I'm Dutch. Definitely agree that translated poetry is inferior. I also think this is the case with every translated book/novel. With translated literature you're reading the writer through a translator, you're never reading the 'real' thing. So I mostly read Dutch literature with a few exceptions. Houellebecq for example and Russian Literature. Of course every now and then I read a translated book, but it loses some beauty for me