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ITT books you reread every few years

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>>19059918
actually same, I've read it at least twice both in Italian and English

>> No.19060861

>>19060469
I wish i could read the italian version, i've had english and french ones so far.

>> No.19060967

Ficciones

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>>19059918
That's low tier Borges

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>>19060971
Apples and oranges imo, it'd be like comparing either of them to Marquez.

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I think of this novel every day not even lying

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>>19059918
thats not even his best

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>>19061833
>>19059918
I never understood why pic related is not a meme here. It is literally about /lit/ personified.

>> No.19061986

Dubliners and Underworld. I'm overdue on my fourth read of Dubliners tho.
>>19061385
nice

>> No.19062492

I read infinite kest twice a year

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>>19059897
>Japanese book good

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skylark
the stars my destination
the ice palace
the unconsoled
the lord of the rings trilogy

it's hard to say why exactly but these books give me so much pleasure every time

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very fun, relaxing, and sweet book in some parts. definitely reread it

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Read it for the first time last year, read a different translation a few weeks ago

>> No.19062881

The divine comedy. At least once a year, usually twice.
Dubliners.
The Iliad.
Genesis.
I re-read quite a lot but these are the ones that I've re-read with some consistency over the last years.
Ulysses I'd re-read every year up until 2019 or so, did it for some 5 years.

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>> No.19063271

>>19059897
english translated?

>> No.19063474

Collected works of Osamu Dazai
A man asleep by Georges Perec
Tractacus by Wittgenstein
The idiot by Dostoevsky
Certain sections of The pale king by DFW and Infinite Jest and Oblivion and the story "Here and there"
The sun also rises by Hemingway
Certain short stories by Ligotti


Let's me keep my life and indulgence in check.