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About to start reading this. What do I need to know/research going in?

>> No.17798966

Don't read it on an empty stomach

>> No.17798972

God I hate this board

>> No.17799046

>>17798896
The game is better

>> No.17799308

>>17799046
I wanted to come up with something funny for this shit thread but you just killed it, hats off

>> No.17799329

>>17798896
>What do I need to know
It is unfinished

>> No.17799347

Nothing

>> No.17799432

>>17799308
Not gonna lie I've had that joke on reserve for years

>> No.17799451

after I am finished with Kafka on the Shore i will read this.
apparently favourite book of ian curtis.

>> No.17799463

>>17798896
you'll need to open it then read it

>> No.17799959

I read this last week. So yourself a favor, stop at the end of part 1. Just pretend it ends there. You'll remember it as being a great novel. If you read Part 2 it's going to leave such a bad taste in your mouth you'll wish you hadn't read it

>> No.17799963

Read some of his short stories first because they are better

>> No.17800029

>>17798896
Remember that when they are talking about souls they are referring to serfs who served as the people who worked the land in Russia sometime between the first and second millennium

>> No.17800058

>>17798896
Don't read P&V translations

>> No.17800261

>>17799959
this

>> No.17801061

>>17799451
lol I could see it

>> No.17802755

>>17799959
Kinda agree, I don't regret reading part 2, but part 1 was just better in every way possible.

>> No.17802798

>>17799046
The song is better then both
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKWHa65cmns

>> No.17802799

>>17802755
>>17799959
>>17800261
Would it work okay to read part 2, then part 1?

>> No.17802834

>>17802799
no

>> No.17802974

>>17802834
Is that because of how bad it is, or because of plot stuff?

>> No.17802986

>>17802974
Google intended this to be a three-part story, his "Divine Comedy" of sorts, but at some point he was stricken by some madness and burned a bunch of his manuscripts. The only part that remains in whole is the first part, the second part is ridiculously fragmented, and the third part basically doesn't exist.

>> No.17803053

>>17802986
damn. what a tragedy.

>> No.17803142
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17803142

just do yourself a favor and read the government inspector instead, much more lively and works well both as a play and as a text

>> No.17803161

>>17798896
Dead souls.