Thoughts on reading fiction? What are some good fiction books?
>>541430712Nub pseudes (only) think nonfiction is somehow "smarter." In fact, the opposite. Fiction is many times more complicated and less straightforward. Good fiction?Here:Delphi completehttps://thehiddenbay.com/torrent/20381749/Delphi_Complete_Works_[126_ebooks][EPUB_MOBI]_-_HYPATIABooks, mixed politics (because unlike asshole Democrats, I think you should be able to make up your own mind?)https://thehiddenbay.com/user/workerbee/
Also...Here's a library built around clear-eyed contempt for cant, crowds, and power — writers who, like Hugo in that passage, distrust both the tyrant and the mob that flatters him once he's safely dead. The misanthropes and moralists1. Montaigne — Essays2. La Rochefoucauld — Maxims3. Pascal — Pensées4. Swift — Gulliver's Travels5. Voltaire — Candide6. Samuel Johnson — Rasselas7. Schopenhauer — Essays and Aphorisms8. Nietzsche — Twilight of the Idols9. Ambrose Bierce — The Devil's Dictionary10. Cioran — The Trouble with Being Born Power unmasked11. Machiavelli — The Prince12. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War13. Tacitus — The Annals14. Suetonius — The Twelve Caesars15. Shakespeare — Julius Caesar16. Shakespeare — Coriolanus17. Dostoevsky — The Grand Inquisitor (in Brothers Karamazov, but worth a standalone edition)18. Orwell — Animal Farm19. Koestler — Darkness at Noon20. Conrad — Nostromo The mob and its idols21. Gustave Le Bon — The Crowd22. Ibsen — An Enemy of the People23. Sinclair Lewis — Babbitt24. Mark Twain — The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg25. Twain — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court26. Zola — Germinal27. Balzac — Lost Illusions28. Flaubert — Bouvard et Pécuchet29. Molière — Tartuffe30. Ben Jonson — Volpone Doomed idealists and disillusioned romantics31. Cervantes — Don Quixote32. Stendhal — The Red and the Black33. Turgenev — Fathers and Sons34. Chekhov — Selected Stories35. Flaubert — Sentimental Education36. Melville — The Confidence-Man37. Melville — Bartleby, the Scrivener (pair with a Kafka volume, below)38. Kafka — The Trial39. Camus — The Fall40. Céline — Journey to the End of the Night
>>541430712> Ten Novels That Are Deeper Than Philosophy https://youtu.be/WWzmG9Ad9kE
>>541430855Bitter wit and dark comedy41. Jonathan Swift — A Modest Proposal (pair with Gulliver, or find a satires-collected edition)42. Alexander Pope — The Dunciad43. Evelyn Waugh — A Handful of Dust44. Waugh — Scoop45. Thackeray — Vanity Fair46. Gogol — Dead Souls47. Saltykov-Shchedrin — The Golovlyov Family48. Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray49. Bierce — Tales of Soldiers and Civilians50. Hugo — Les Misérables itself, to close the loop — the one write-up in this pile that still believes something's worth saving, which after 49 volumes of contempt might land as the most radical book on the shelf.
>>541430712the stranger is one of my favorite books. i have nothing to contribute to this thread.
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>>541431345he's just joking around you self-important faggot
>>541431594More boring, repetitive, stupid ass ""jokes"".Suck the rancid farts from dead birds, you stupid fucking nigger.
>>541430712Nineteen Eighty-Four - https://files.catbox.moe/8xbe02.pdfAnimal Farm - https://files.catbox.moe/uhbr4e.pdfHarrison Bergeron - https://files.catbox.moe/5fhnnw.pdfBrave New World - https://files.catbox.moe/7c9nib.pdfDracula - https://files.catbox.moe/g7zawz.pdfThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - https://files.catbox.moe/ljzafw.pdfThe HobbitThe Lord of the Rings
>>541431775>Harrison BergeronGood. Oh, i forgot:Try also, George Saunders.Civilwarland in Bad Decline. Etc
Foundation series by AsimovCulture series by BanksExpanse series by CoreyMeetings with Remarkable MenSiddhartha by Hesse (in ur photo)Chronicles of Narnia (for real)LOTR originals Anathem by StephensonThe Martian by Weir (slop but fun)Count of Monte Cristo (unabriged a must)Im sure ill think of more
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Ulysses is awesome
Thus Spoke Tharathustra is Nietzsche's best
Sartor Resartus - Carlyle, half fiction? still good
Dostoevsky - The Dream of a Ridiculous Manhttps://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/3368
Heinlein is awesome, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Door into Summer, etc.
