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What are your favorite books than can be read in a single evening?

>> No.11760135

>>11760129
The Hobbit.

>> No.11760148

>>11760129
patriotism by mishima

>> No.11760149

abolition of man by c.s. lewis

>> No.11760150

First thought is one of Plato's dialogues. Phaedo for example.

Or possibly The Fall by Camus. I also think Point Omega was the best thing Delillo has produced in later years.

>> No.11760156
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>> No.11760157

>>11760129
stoner, but for more funs and less misanthropy sphere

>> No.11760178

>>11760129
My testament desu

>> No.11760202

>>11760129
Sleepless by Jon Fosse is just seventy pages or so. I read the English translation on a whim and was pretty amazed that the translator had managed to keep the cadence of the original.

>> No.11760204

The Invention of Morel

>> No.11760663

>>11760148
i was gonna rec this :(

>> No.11760667

>>11760129
metamorphosis

>> No.11761004

>>11760150
Point Fagget is such a fucking drag of a book. Fuck DeLillo.

>> No.11761009

Tao Te Ching

>> No.11761011

Animal farm

>> No.11761016

>>11760129
The Ego and It's Own

>> No.11761018

>>11761004
Really? I thought it did a pretty good job of condensing a lot of the stuff that he has been trying to get at for ages.

>> No.11761110

House on the Borderland

>> No.11761131

>>11760156
>'A magical novel.'
>Björk
I hate when I know I might not like something but I have to read/listen/watch it for her.

>> No.11761146

>>11760129
The Death of Ivan Ilych
White Nights
Demian
Death in Venice
The Invention of Morel
The Metamorphosis

>> No.11761196
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>>11760148
I got u senpai
>pic related how he died

>> No.11761259

Nausea

>> No.11761960

>>11760204
This.

Also:

>A dog's heart
>The palm-wine drinkard

>> No.11762114

Prince

>> No.11762506

Coraline.

>> No.11762515

>>11762506
Carolyn*

>> No.11762520

Can only read about 60-80 pages in a single evening so probably a children's picture book

>> No.11762525

>>11762515
Coraline, her name is Coraline!

>> No.11762536

Lolita

>> No.11762544

>>11762525
Caroline, you mean.

>> No.11762558

>>11762544
No! It's Coraline! Co-ra-line.

>> No.11762704

Heraclitus desu

>> No.11762706

Infinite Jest

>> No.11762712

>>11760129
That short story about the horse by Chehov

>> No.11762719

>>11761131
>I hate when I know I might not like something but I have to read/listen/watch it for her.
>"muh kween"

>> No.11762725

>>11761146
Loved Demian to death. I sometimes entertain my friends by telling the little parable about the drunkard/nightcrawler becoming a saint.

>> No.11762844

Here's a few more:

Pedro Paramo
Invisible cities
The coat

>> No.11762959

>>11760129
The Easter Parade

>> No.11763078

Jesus’ Son
Train Dreams
Steps
A Hero of Our Time
Mother Night
The Story of the Eye

>> No.11763084

>>11763078
Mann's Tonio, love it

>> No.11763094

Metamorphosis by Kafka

>> No.11763118

>>11760129
Ask the dust

>> No.11763143

storm of steel
All quest on Western front
The Alchemist
One hundred views of Mount Fuji

>> No.11763373

>>11762719
It really is like that.

>> No.11763584

>>11760129
War and Peace

>> No.11763647

>>11763118
Somebody recommended me this on /lit/ probably five years ago. I read it and it just broke my heart. I felt like I'd been run through. It helped encourage lasting personal growth.

>> No.11764118
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Super easy read. Don't know if you're interested, though

>> No.11764733

>>11760667
>>11763094
I just finished reading it. What the meaning for it? I imagine it was some sort of metaphor for gregor having fallen lame or sick and then the following callousness of his family. Also how did his family know gregor was the bug; i would have assumed the beast had disposed of gregor.

>> No.11764768

>>11760129
Herbert Mason's Translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh

>> No.11764810

Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters

>> No.11765481

Notes from underground

>> No.11767273
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Anything by the excellent Tanguy Viel. Right now I'm reading "Cinema" which seems to be the description of a crime movie - but it's just a crime novel in disguise - well that's what it seems right now.
If you stumble upon any Tanguy Viel novella translated into your language, it's worth it.

>> No.11768964

>>11762844
Pedro Paramo is just too good.
Also Kholstomer.

>> No.11769163

Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

>> No.11769167

>>11760129
war and bees

>> No.11770169

Enchiridion by Epictetus and On the shortness of life by Seneca are two great little 'self-improvement'-ish philosophy works.

>> No.11770176

Bored of the Rings.

>> No.11770201

Heart of Darkness

>> No.11770217

Bartleby the Scrivener.

The most blackpilled character of all time.

>> No.11770224

>>11764733
don’t worry about it, it’s not a great story. Kafka is still based though

>> No.11770226
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I was rock hard for most of this book i dont know how Zweig does it