What are some of the best books you read over the last year or so?
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What are some of the best books you read over the last year or so?
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That looks like a woman giving him a blowjob, no way that was unintentional.
Agreed.
What are you talking about?
The drawing looks like he’s getting a sloppy jalopy
wtf this is what porn does to you, get some meds
Unironically
Now I can't un see what you guys see
WTF
just got psyopped.
I don't see it even when trying, are you all trolling or moronic
No and borderline
But if you don't see it your better for it
Coomers are gonna get the lake.
Who's the cartoonist?
You really can’t see it?
Nice job, Sherlock. That's the whole fricking point. It's a like a Rorschach test. You'll see what your brain has been tuned to imagine, as a result of your habits and mindset.
I see both at once.
its a stupid way to draw a book so it arguably takes more imagination to see the book
what woman?
Child of God.
I actually preferred it as a reading experience to Blood Meridian. I'm not saying in terms of literary significance or quality that it's on that book's level, but as a story, as an experience in page-turning, I think it's better and honestly more powerful. It has a number of cartoonish elements, like Blood Meridian does, but in contrast to that novel it also has a very stable and solid sense of community and place.
From the past 2 years:
>The Bell Jar
>Perfume
>Catch-22
Wolf Hall was a lot better then I'd thought it would be
>She knows braille and he's perfectly silent while having his wiener sucked!
Confederacy of Dunces was quite an enjoyable read for me. I just recently finished it for the first time. I can't believe how many lives Ignatius improved without him knowing.
>I can't believe how many lives Ignatius improved without him knowing.
Definitely adds to the tragedy of Ignatius and the author in general, you can really see how Ig is a self insert.
Sad to know that we will never know what other genius ideas O'Toole might had for future novels. Ignatius was such a great character.
Also frick Irene Reilly. All my homies hate Irene Reilly.
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene. The characters and setting are classic Greene and the plot is better than most of his later works.
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Read it in December going into January, and it's completely changed my attitude towards reading. Because I read it silently, just letting the words fall into my mind and projected by my imagination, the End of the World sections felt like sharing a dream with the main character. This was one of the most immersive experiences I've had with any narrative media because of this. As of the moment, I've allocated the time I'd usually watch anime or films to reading, and have read some other really good books like Roadside Picnic, A Scanner Darkly, and currently The Tartar Steppe, which I'm considering to be a new favorite already.
I read this over a couple of months, and it btfo every other book I've picked up in the past year. Hell of a ride.
>What are some of the best books you read over the last year or so?
My favourite book last year was The Age Of Innocence, it's stayed on me and the final few pages are utterly soul destroying.
I'm about 40% of the way through Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope, a chunky two-volume Victorian bildungsroman, and it's extremely comfy. So far it's been very low-stakes, but in a fun everyday ups-and-downs kind of way.
E.g. Phineas's marriage proposal gets rejected by the woman he loves, and it leaves him very embarrassed and very sulky for a few days, but he's still close friends with her, and anyway he falls in love with another woman soon after.
Or, because of some underhandedness by his friend, he ends up in deep with a debt collector, but all the debt collector does is come round to his lodgings and inconvenient hours and help himself to his tea in a mildly threatening, overfamiliar way.
It almost feels like a visual novel. Partly because the 'MC', Phineas, has no personality other than 'pleasant young chap', and starts the novel as a fresh law graduate who lucks into a position in Parliament, basically out of pure chance - the Liberal party just needed someone to fill the seat - landing him in this world of high-society ladies who all adore him. And partly because of the unhurried structure, going from conversation to conversation in one nice drawing room to another, from one slowly developing subplot to another, speaking to one pretty Victorian love-interest after another, or occasionally to some elder politician who has taken him under his wing.
I'm sure it will heat up, but right now I'm enjoying the gentle pace.
I've really enjoyed this classic by Kenneth Anderson. It's an account of his experience living among the jungle-people of Southern India in the early 1900s, being contracted to hunt down man-eating tigers and a rogue elephant. Some of these graphic accounts are absolutely bone-chilling. The way he puts you inside the scene with his beautiful imagery of mountains, waterfalls and colorful fauna, only to be suddenly shocked with the terror wrought on him and his companions, it feels like you're on the adventure with him.
I can't recommend it enough, it really sucked me in. I haven't enjoyed reading a novel this much in many years.
What does it mean if you saw both interpretations of the image at once?
Cowper's translation of the Iliad.
Some books I’ve read in the last year that I loved:
>Edmund Wilson’s essays and reviews
>William Carlos Williams (especially Spring and All, The Desert Music, and Journey to Love)
>Kenneth Rexroth’s Chinese and Japanese poetry translations, and Classics Revisited, and More Classics Revisited
>Big Sur by Kerouac
>William Blake
>The I Ching
>The March of Literature by Ford Maddox Ford
>The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
>Henry Miller- Lawrence Durrell Letters
>lots of Henry James
>Dickens (GE, ATOTC, BH)
>The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
>The Waste Books by Lichtenberg
>Miss Lonelyhearts by West
>Nightwood by Barnes
>Jung
interesting recs in this thread i do appreciate it. i wish i could read a hundred books a day!