What’s your favorite book that was published prior to 1930?
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The Brothers KaramazovI am enjoying reading the complete Moby Dick (my dumb ass accidentally brought a "pocket edition" years ago with a tiny adapted text and thought this was it), but as I have not finished it yet, I will not put it in first place.
>>25335057Is it good?I wanted to read it, but after reading Faust (especially the second part) I was terrified of another book "too smart for me".
>>25335050Paradife Loft
>>25335057What a fucking disgusting tattoo. Women have completely raped their innate sense of aesthetics.
>>25335050Blood Meridian
>>25335128women have a sense of aesthetics?
What a pointless thread.
>>25335132Yes, they even distinguish more colors than we do. But most of them have middling taste and their natural talent has been COMPLETELY RAPED by the autocoprophagic sensibilities of contemporary anglo-global "girl culture". Women were made/evolved to be home and community makers which requires aesthetic judgement and a will for art.I weep for those who grew up without a grandmother born before 1920.
>>25335128Instagram tattoos are somehow uglier than what teenagers do when they are bored at home.
>>25335063Another anon here. Sorrows of young Werther is an easier read. You won't have any trouble following it. I liked it very much too. It is not as heavy on the philosophy side compared to Faust.
>>25335173By far.
Athelstan Riley's 'Athos or the Mountain of the Monks'. It is a travelogue of a wealthy englishman. It opens with him and an anglican bishop friend working their way through eastern europe in a competitive scamming contest before being defeated by Bulgarians. Then he arrives on Mount Athos where he proceeds to be the worst possible guest and general human being ever. It is fantastic. The casual mention of his 'blue mass' stocks (anti syphilis mercury treatments), demands for better treatment by the monks and luxuries that don't exist, his hate of the food, the special silver pressed opium pills he keeps around to drug locals who bother him, his casual torment of those around him - it all comes together to really sell the idea that the devil doesn't really need to work with Athelstan on the job. Then as soon as he enters the secular world again he bribes his way past the Turks, spits on them and leaves the country. The even funnier part is checking his later life. His wife hated the nuns he sponsored, calling them 'Black Beetles'. He would buy properties and renovate them in such a way as to annoy locals. It was absurd.10/10. Beautiful book. On internet archive.
>>25335050Count of Monte Cristo or 3 Musketeers.
The Sound and The Fury or Heart of Darkness.
>>25335144And yet you replied?
A Tale Of Two Cities, one of the few books I had to read for school that I actually finished reading and later reread.
>>25335050does this count books written and published in their original language before 1930, but translated after 1930?
Brothers K or Sound & FuryDon’t make me choose one because I shan’t.
>>25338131Yeah. I don't see why not.
idk if the book of disquiet counts since it wasnt published til decades after pessoa's death so ill say the secret commonwealth of elves fauns and fairies.
