I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I need to load up my ereader with some books. Give me your favorites and I'll put em on there if I haven't read them already.
>>23975670Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. It's a WWII novel, it's a Native American novel, it's a novel about how fucked the US is, it's a novel about soldier PTSD...it rocks.
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>>23975673Don't read this. I had to read it for a class like 15 years ago and I promise you it's mystical fever dream trash.
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
>>23975673> It's a WWII novel, it's a Native American Stopped reading there.
>>23975670Germinal by Zola. One of the best overall novels I've ever read. The characters are excellently drawn, the different perspectives are all fleshed out really well and authentically presented, and it has the kind of "railing against injustice" theme suffused through it like The Grapes of Wrath. Rare does a novel handle so many vastly different aspects as masterfully as Zola does in Germinal. The economic plight of coal miners blends seamlessly into the romance, rivalry, misery, and camaraderie of the cast of characters. The emotional moments hit like a half ton truck while the philosophical jockeying between those vying for leadership of the group are fascinating and thoughtful, and this is all woven together with literary devices crafted to perfection.
>>23975670you shall enjoy every minute in your vacation instead of doing the things you always do.
>>23975670I dare you to read nothing but /wg/ author books
He got me back into reading.His world building and blending of phantastic elements complemented by great prose.>>23975876Have you read anything by the Goncourt brothers? I have never seen them mentioned here.They might be up to your alley( Manette Salomon)
>>23975670Madonna in a fur coat. It's nice.
Sage CAXTON.
>>23975670Mile Zero by Thomas SanchezZeitgeist by Todd WigginsWater Music by T. C. Boyle
>>23976477I haven't heard of them, but I'll check them out, thanks
>>23976477>Goncourt brothersTheir journal was pretty salacious and gossipy. A must read if you are into that era
>>23975670The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.It's not particularly stimulating, but it's extremely entertaining. I couldn't put it down.
>>23975670book of the new sunbutchers crossingthe sun also risesleaves of grass for poetrynorwegian wood
>>23975876>it has the kind of "railing against injustice" theme suffused through it like The Grapes of WrathPass. I shant read any more communist schlock.
>>23977510If you have such little circumspection as to ignore one of the most quintessential aspects of the human condition like the struggle against economic hardship because "communism", you're not fit for literature to begin with. Do you avoid Dickens too because he paints a little too honest a picture of how industry really wants to run the economy? Sad.
>>23977710>how industry really wants to run the economynta, but stfu shithead
>>23975670a vacation read, huh? Maybe the Count of Monte Cristo
>>23978959That book sucks. It's a penny dreadful in the worst way. Nothing happens, it's just twists upon twists to keep 1800s people invested, like a victorian soap opera.
>>23975670The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke.
>>23978924Study history. Robber Barons will always arise in a competitive market and it's only when a group of men with guns threatens to imprison or kill them for mistreating workers do working conditions improve. If you don't know this fact, you are just ignorant.
>>23975670>The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham>Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz>Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer>Treatise On The Origin Of Language by Johann Gottfried Herder>Man Against Mass Society by Gabriel Marcel>Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung>The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y GassetHave at it
>>23975670R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series is fantastic. I've read through the series several times along with listening to the audiobooks. I just can't get enough.
>>23977710>>23979317What Dickens book best encapsulates this? But you're definitely right; when one reads about events like the Ludlowe Massacre or the quote about molding the docile populace into good little workers from Rockerfeller's closest business advisor Frederick Gates it's obvious the people at the top, the industrialists to really view us all as cattle little more than an annoyance to be overcame
>>23975670When in doubt give Tarka a smooch on the snout.Just kidding River otters make bad pets and prone to bite when cornered. But fun to read about thoughbeit
>>23975670I just read The Short-Timers. Vietnam war. It was a hoot. Everything you think about napalm is about to change.
>>23975670続ける力 仕事・勉強に成功する王道This book kicks ass. It was written by a japanese lawyer who helps people pass the japanese law bar exam with astounding success. It helps you succeed in work and at studying.
A Farewell to Arms is bloody fantastic. Read that.
>>23975670>accidentally amazing nazi propagandist>soviet spy>eichmann>black hitler
>>23979425I'd say "Hard Times" for sure. It centers explicitly on how toxic and dehumanizing the drive for profit and production are, both to those who are used in this pursuit, and even to those who become bitter and hateful because they sacrifice all human feeling in favor of this type of cold power. Of course, Dickens was majorly influential in bringing to light this problem in Victorian society, and his novel "Oliver Twist" actually convinced Queen Victoria to implement social reforms because of how shocked she was to read of the plight of children in the city being abused and exploited by criminals or work houses.If this is a topic that interests you, I'd also recommend Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac, it contains an excellent "Ebeneezer Scrooge" type character which I believe actually inspired Dickens to write that character.Do you have any recommendations? I have yet to find a novel as gripping as Germinal by Zola on this topic.
>>23980022>Can't engage in the slightest>Can only respond k-kysAnon, if you come onto a literature board, you should have more to offer than this. Do you actually compose these shoddy little posts and think to yourself "yeah, that'll get him"? Do you understand how sad that is? This is not meant to be purely an insult, I hope to be able to inspire you to actually change how you engage with this board, because frankly, you are shitting it up and I am confident you could actually contribute something even slightly valuable if you tried. I mean, you already took the time to come here, to read the posts, to write out something tawdry and trite, and then fill out the captcha, and then post. You might as well take 5 more seconds and actually make a point.
>>23975670The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is my favorite book I can't recommendRead Moby Dick if you can get through chapter after chapter about whale biology and the whaling industry and you get an amazing story bordering on psychological horror
>>23975896Reads his way through the collected works of Woolston, Nesmer etc, immediately gives up on life.
