Let's have a /lit/ version of sharethreads. Post a quick summary and maybe some genres/tags for the book, then link to an ebook of it you've uploaded. Excerpts instead of summaries are cool too, and it's be nice to include a picture of the cover. It doesn't have to be a book you've personally bought, but that is especially excellent.The idea is to find new and interesting books, so avoid posting things like The Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Lolita, etc.>Berlin Stories by Robert Walser"In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity.">http://www.mediafire.com/?wpa1pdb56f69289
>The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky "The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described “conceivers” who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor of conceptions?) The logic of the club is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday, members meet in a firelit room filled with empty black bookshelves where they strive to top one another by developing ever unlikelier, ever more perfect conceptions: a rehearsal of Hamlet hijacked by an actor who vanishes with the role; the double life of a merry medieval cleric derailed by a costume change; a machine-run world that imprisons men’s minds while conscripting their bodies; a dead Roman scribe stranded this side of the River Acheron. But in this book set in an ominous Soviet Moscow of the 1920s, the members of the club are strangely mistrustful of one another, while all are under the spell of its despotic President, and there is no telling, in the end, just how lethal the purely conceptual—or, for that matter, letters—may be.">http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4x2zbcfaq47q5on
>Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval"Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism, this parable of menstruation is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood. Drawing on de Sade's Justine, and Nosferatu and the language of pulp serials, this a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involves a vampire with a taste for chicken blood, changelings, lecherous priests, with an androgynous merging of brother and sister. An exploration of the grotesque, a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death.">http://www.mediafire.com/?7oem976o7757zu6
>Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy"Budai finds himself in a strange city where he can’t understand a word anyone says. One claustrophobic day blurs into another as he desperately struggles to survive in this vastly overpopulated metropolis where there are as many languages as there are people. Metropole is a suspenseful and haunting Hungarian classic, and a vision of hell unlike any previously imagined.">http://www.mediafire.com/?cogcaccg4g0kacd
>The White Ship by Chingiz Aitmatov"What enraged the critics most was Chingiz Aitmatov's courage in revealing - in microcosm - some of the brutality, corruption, indifference, frustration, and suffering that still exist in Soviet Russia, as, indeed they do throughout the human world. In Communist Russia, the cry went up, such things cannot exist.And yet, The White Ship - written chiefly from the view-point of a lonely, imaginative child - reveals precisely these evils. It also reveals nobility of spirit, love, kindness, and selfless dedication. The White Ship, a moving and absorbing novel, is rich on many levels beyond the story itself. Aitmatov raises in it fundamental questions of good and evil, of ethics - in the relations between man and man, man and nature, man and his past (tradition, religion, legend - all that gives a national group its own unique character). He also examines the problem of power and its effect both on those who have it and those who don't.Although Aitmatov avoids generalizations, his book can also be read as a parable. Orozkul, the forest overseer and head of the tiny forest post where the story unfolds, is, in a sense, the carrier of evil. The good and innocent are helpless against him. The brutal will of the powerful prevails and destroys both the good and the innocent." >http://www.mediafire.com/?dcdwaw6889bwv8f
> this thread> all of my praiseGreat selection, don't stop.
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Ranpo"Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination contains nine bloodcurdling tales by the man widely regarded as the father of Japanese mystery writing. These tales include the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; and the morbid confessions of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders. Lucid and packed with suspense, the stories of Edogawa Rampo have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century.">http://www.mediafire.com/?o1r0y14wx6fd701
>The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald"In August 1992, W.G. Sebald set off on a walking tour of Suffolk, one of England's least populated and most striking counties. A long project--presumably The Emigrants, his great anatomy of exile, loss, and identity--had left him spent. Initially his tour was a carefree one. Soon, however, Sebald was to happen upon "traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past," in a series of encounters so intense that a year later he found himself in a state of collapse in a Norwich hospital.The Rings of Saturn is his record of these travels, a phantasmagoria of fragments and memories, fraught with dizzying knowledge and desperation and shadowed by mortality. As in The Emigrants, past and present intermingle: the living come to seem like supernatural apparitions while the dead are vividly present. Exemplary sufferers such as Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement people the author's solitude along with various eccentrics and even an occasional friend.">http://www.mediafire.com/?ah8b89hc0c9jis5(thanks to the work of a /lit/ anon!)
>>2823210Is this as similar to Kafka as I imagine it is?>can't contribute to thread as I only read paper books
>The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards"Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island.">http://www.mediafire.com/?kddyt275w5azczt
>>2823242It gets called "kafkaesque" pretty often, so I'm guessing so. >>2823222thank you sammiches
>Severin's Journey into the Dark by Paul Leppin"First published in 1914, this acclaimed novel is set in Prague, a city of darkened walls and strange decay which forms the backdrop of Severin's erotic adventures and fateful encounters – a world of femmes fatales, Russian anarchists, dabblers in the occult and denizens of decadent salons. Prognosis called it, ". . . a gem, a beautifully spun tale," and The Prague Post stated: "This novel would have been perfect material for a 1920s German Expressionist film, with shots of shadowy alleys dripping with menace and cadaverous black-eyed bar girls.">http://www.mediafire.com/?n04kcji24ywl1ah
>Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig"A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbours. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling himself as a boy. Mesmerizing and haunting stories about loss of identity in the modern world.">http://www.mediafire.com/?o5l287q413bwxu5
>>2823240I just got this in physical form. It's fucking great. I'm going to chase down all of Sebald's stuff.
>The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa"Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of human frailty imbue The Leopard with its particular melancholy beauty and power, and place it among the greatest historical novels of our time.">http://www.mediafire.com/?yedyfac001wy4qy
>Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi"It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives.Now Skylark is going away, for one week only, it’s true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old friends, attending the theater. And this is just a prelude to Father’s night out at the Panther Club, about which the less said the better. Drunk, in the light of dawn Father surprises himself and Mother with his true, buried, unspeakable feelings about Skylark.Then, Skylark is back. Is there a world beyond the daily grind and life's creeping disappointments? Kosztolányi’s crystalline prose, perfect comic timing, and profound human sympathy conjure up a tantalizing beauty that lies on the far side of the irredeemably ordinary. To that extent, Skylark is nothing less than a magical book.">http://www.mediafire.com/?62tq8gk1grdd631
>Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda"First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu.The title Ugetsu monogatari (literally "rain-moon tales") alludes to the belief that mysterious beings appear on cloudy, rainy nights and in mornings with a lingering moon. In "Shiramine," the vengeful ghost of the former emperor Sutoku reassumes the role of king; in "The Chrysanthemum Vow," a faithful revenant fulfills a promise; "The Kibitsu Cauldron" tells a tale of spirit possession; and in "The Carp of My Dreams," a man straddles the boundaries between human and animal and between the waking world and the world of dreams. The remaining stories feature demons, fiends, goblins, strange dreams, and other manifestations beyond all logic and common sense.">http://www.mediafire.com/?oyodziyywxoqokw
exit-level as fuck.
you happen to have Satantango by Krasznahorkai?
>>2823291No, but I'll buy it if someone makes sure it isn't on bibliotik or wherever. I checked on #bookz and it wasn't there.
>>2823303>>2823291Have the reviews been pretty positive for Satantango? I remember a poster here once saying that Melancholy of Resistance is a better novel.
>>2823320I read it a few months ago and thought it was fantastic. I haven't read the Melancholy of Resistance, though.
I don't like the way /lit/ is becoming more and more like /mu/ in terms of people trying to outdo one another with Patrician or "exit-level" taste. Can't we just recommend books we enjoy rather then trying to post only lolsorandom and wacky books.
>>2823320I think it's usually agreed that Melancholy of Resistance is Krasznahorkai's best work out in English so far. But there's no ebook of it available to buy yet, that I've seen.
Wow. Thanks, so much, OP.
>>2823320>>2823291>>2823326He is being interviewed by Micheal Silverblatt from bookworm today actually. The book seems really interesting. Bleak books are always interesting
>>2823329Feel free to post some books you've enjoyed. My own tastes tend towards surreal/absurd/weird shit, so that's whats been posted.
>>2823329No one in here is using the words pleb or patrician.Bye.
>>2823329>"lolsorandom">"wacky"wtf, these books are neither of those things. they're just slightly less renowned (although not exactly obscure) classics, usually from countries that don't get as much attention as they should. i think it's a great thing that some people on /lit/ are starting to look beyond the same old high school classics we've been stuck on for the last 12 months and are bringing some fresh content to the board.
>>2823331tbf satantango was only translated in fenruary, so it probably hasn't had time to properly sink in yet. george szirtes is a hero, btw.
>>2823339> My own tastes tend towards surreal/absurd/weird shitI like your style, my friend. Got any more recommendations? You don't need to share, just some of your favourites. I'm more of a physical book person and I don't mind wasting lots of money on books.
>Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai"The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere. Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai’s meat. “At the center of Satantango,” George Szirtes has said, “is the eponymous drunken dance, referred to here sometimes as a tango and sometimes as a csardas. It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk. . . . Their world is rough and ready, lost somewhere between the comic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”“You know,” Mrs. Schmidt, a pivotal character, tipsily confides, “dance is my one weakness.”">http://www.mediafire.com/?8sr6xh2d1k3eku8
>>2823358No cats harmed in the production of this book.
>>2823358Awesome. I hope some of you lurkers go and read this, because I'd really like to discuss it with you. Especially that last chapter.
>>2823353We're friends on Goodreads! But I don't think you go on there much (I'm Sriq/Raven there). I'm more of a physical book person too, but it feels like these kinds of threads could be better overall than the wishlist threads we used to have for introducing as many people as possible to more books. Maybe. But some of my favorites:Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine by Stanley CrawfordOn the Marble Cliffs by Ernst JungerScarecrow & Other Anomalies by Oliverio Girondo (I would buy this one and share, but I really feel bad for the publisher and it's only $5 guys)The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonKornel Esti by Dezso KosztolanyiOnce and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
OP can you buy any WG Sebald?not Campo Santo, that was bought by anon last sunday (will post the link if someone is interested)thanks for all the books anyway
The Diary of Geza Csath"Angelusz & Gold announces the publication of The Diary of Geza Csath. (1887-1919), with an introduction by Arthur Phillips. An acclaimed neurologist widely viewed as Hungary's first contemporary author, Csath was also a morphine addict who shot and killed his wife before doing away with himself. The Diary begins as a clinically graphic depiction of Csath's conquest of dozens of women from chambermaids to aristocrats during his tenure as a doctor at a Slovakian health spa in 1912. All the while, he is engaged to Olga Jonas, a Jewish girl he places above all other women in sensuality but considers "entirely without moral taste". Csath regularly injects morphine and opium to increase his enjoyment of certain events and lessen the discomfort of others. The second half of the diary is his harrowing descent into hopeless narcotic addiction. The effect is heightened by Csath's unsparing honesty and acute powers of self-observation. The Diary of Geza! Csath is introduced by Arthur Phillips and includes an essay by Dezso Kosztolanyi, summarizing Csath's strange, unfinished life.">http://www.mediafire.com/?6kz0cndnokaby2i
>>2823398Sorry anon, I'm the one that bought Campo Santo. I'll make sure to buy another Sebald next week though! Might as well:>Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald"This final collection of essays by W. G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work–the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts. Some of these pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present, examining, among other things, the island’s formative effect on its most famous citizen, Napoleon. In others, Sebald examines how the works of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll reveal “the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives” of postwar Germans; how Kafka echoes Sebald’s own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings; and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world. Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, Campo Santo confirms Sebald’s status as one of the great modern writers who divined and expressed the invisible connections that determine our lives.">http://www.mediafire.com/?scrn8h3d8unn7sn
Great thread! Don't have an eReader, but picking up plenty of recommendations regardless.
>>2823272Seconded.Fucking amazing.
>Unto This Last and Other Writings by John Ruskin"The most influential art theorist and critic of his age, an outstanding man of letters, a sensitive painter and draughtsman, Ruskin's social criticism shocked and angered the establishment and many of his admirers.First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin's work, and in an illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin's words, 'There is no Wealth but Life.'
Some of these summaries sound a bit dull, but I'll check a few of these out, thank you very much!Polite sage for no contribution.
>Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio GramsciThis selection from Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks" contains his most important work written during his imprisonment from the italian fascist regime. It includes "the Intellectuals", texts on Education, Notes on Italian History, "The modern Prince", "State and Civil Society", "Americanism and Fordism" and notes on the philosophy of praxis, together with a very informative introduction on the italian Communist Movement in the first decades of the 20th century. In this collection Gramsci's theory of "hegemony" in class societies is fully presented, together with his intepretation of Marxism both in philosophy and in the analysis of the modern world.Gramsci was on of the foremost leaders of the Italian Communist Party; in his trial in 1927 the fascist Public Prosecutor proclaimed that his brain must be stopped from functioning for twenty years. Fortunately, Gramsci proved to be a devoted fighter in prison and his Notebooks furthered -in many points- the analysis of Marx and Lenin of how capitalism functions and how it could be overthrown.
>My Life by Benvenuto Cellini"Men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law."--Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist Benvenuto Cellini was beloved in Renaissance Florence. A renowned sculptor and goldsmith whose works include the famous salt-cellar made for the King of France, and the statue of Perseus with the head of the Medusa, Cellini's life was as vivid and enthralling as his creations. A man of action as well as an artist, he took part in the Sack of Rome in 1527; he was temperamental, passionate, and conceited, capable of committing criminal acts ranging from brawling and sodomy to theft and murder. He numbered among his patrons popes and kings and members of the Medici family, and his autobiography is a fascinating account of sixteenth-century Italy and France written with all the verve of a novel.
>>2823490>>2823485>>2823460Are these that old kind of renamed-to-jpgs? And if so, what's the real file format?
>>2823208This made a good movie. Gonna download it right now.
Does anybody here have Petesburg by Bely? I can't find it anywhere
>>2823490>>2823485>>2823460>no links
thanks
Anyone have any Bernhard in original German?
Cees Nooteboom - Rituals Inni Wintrop is a fairly well-to-do man middle aged man in Amsterdam, a bourgeois who surrounds himself with quirky people, he is an amateur art and stock trader, and writes horoscopes for a newspaper, he inherited money, he likes women, he likes a drink, and generally tries to get by in life without thinking too much about it. Until he breaks up with his girlfriend, tries to kill himself, and fails. The story goes on to tell about his encounters with two men, Arnold and his unrecognized son Phillip Taads, one whom he met before his attempted suicide and one after, whose lifestyles have contrasted heavily to Inni's own. It is a very quiet book and revolves around religion, choices, and life.
>>2823722Cool link bro.
awesome, thanks
>>2823521>>2823723I think they were making recs for people like >>2823444 and >>2823353, who don't mind buying physical books.
bamp
>Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu"Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to Oba-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Taro (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious.In spite of the "gloom and doom" atmosphere always cited in reviews of The Setting Sun and the later No Longer Human, though, Dazai's cutting wit and rich humor are evident in the entire body of his work. His literature depicts the human condition in painfully blunt and realistic terms, but, like life itself, is often accompanied by a smile.">http://www.mediafire.com/?acketga8asz4g9e
>Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel"'Not merely lyrical and strange, but also deadpan funny'--Miranda July. A centipede in a shoe, revelations in a shoebox, nosebleeds, exploding women, and a dead mouse named Miraculous populate this collection of thirty-five short stories from one of India's most original young writers. Kuzhali Manickavel was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, lived in various places around Canada, and moved to Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India when she was thirteen years old. Contrary to popular belief, she is not very much fond of insects">http://www.mediafire.com/?i0kb3rs5z7c8zay
>A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes"Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood.">http://www.mediafire.com/?yhk8lpm449nl99jalso my bad haiku summary on it from a thread I wish would've taken off:Pirates kidnappingSociopathic children;Sober tragedies.
>Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz"Cosmos is a metaphysical noir thriller narrated by Witold, a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns. On his way to a relaxing vacation he meets the despondent Fuks. As they set off together for a family-run pension in the Carpathian Mountains they discover a dead bird hanging from a string. Is this a strange but meaningless occurrence or is it the beginning of a string of bizarre events? As the young men become embroiled in the Chekhovian travails of the family running the pension, Grombrowicz creates a gripping narrative where the reader questions who is sane and who is safe?">http://www.mediafire.com/?8wq869mchpeg42c
>The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf by Victor Pelevin"Part science fiction and part Anaïs Nin erotica, with a hint of Bridget Jones’s Diary and a whole lot of allegory, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is the tale of A Hu-Li, a 2,000-year-old Taoist werefox who plies her trade as a prostitute in modern day Moscow. By hypnotizing johns with her magical tail, A Hu-li makes men believe they are having sex with her, earns a living, and maintains her virginity. That is until she encounters and falls in love with Alexander, a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer and—not so coincidentally—a werewolf. As he has done in his earlier works, Pelevin uses satire as a lens through which to view life in the post-Soviet era while at the same time casting new light on Russia’s classic writing and writers—Nabokov, Gogol, and even Russian fairy tales."http://www.mediafire.com/?ssunkrd21plf314
>>2824498brilliant choice. pelevin has some concepts there, and some nice ideas.
I am so thankful for this. There are some books here that I've wanted for quite a while. Thank you.
Zeno's Conscience would fit in nicely with these books. It's on #bookz i think
Oh, NOW people want to recommend books. Thanks, shitfaces.
Thanks, OP. You should upload these to #bookz too or a torrent if you haven't already. Then more people can enjoy them.
>>2825525>complaining>in a fucking sharethreadCould there actually be a bigger douche than you?
>>2825525>>2825528i dare say there could be. for instance, the people that wouldn't help earlier.
>>2825531Because you were being such a fucking douche. Go home.
>>2825535lrn2differentiateanonsthat dude wasn't being a douche. all he did was repeatedly- repeatedly!- beg for some fucking recommendations.
>>2825531>waaaa waaaa people weren't impressed with the books i bought waaaaGrow up, retard. You need to learn the art of presentation. People are more likely to give you what you want if you are humble about it, and not such a tremendous faggot with this air of entitlement, like strangers on the internet owe you something, even "recommendations."
I wish the iBooks app doesn't extract the epubs so I could upload them.Great thread.
>>2825525I bet you're that colossal fucking autist who was whining in that one share thread that got deleted about "how dare OP ask for books on MY /lit/"
I'm new to this whole ebooks thing. . . what program can I use to read these MOBI and EPUB files?And for people experienced in reading on portable devices and computers, is there any noticeable increase in eye strain/fatigue as a result?This was a great thread, btw OP, some of these books I'd already had on lists for future purposes, thanks for sharing.
>>2825709Try Calibre to read those filesAlso thanks for the amazing thread OP, you have good taste.
>>2823411Please buy The Emigrants, all of /lit/ will thank you for it!
>>2825846There's no ebook of it available to buy, that I can see. It's just On the Natural History of Destruction, Austerlitz, Across the Land and the Water: Poems, After Nature and Campo Santo.
>>2825709>I'm new to this whole ebooks thing. . . what program can I use to read these MOBI and EPUB files?BFreader is good. Calibre is the ultimate manager/converter. If you want, just make txts out of them in Calibre.>And for people experienced in reading on portable devices and computers, is there any noticeable increase in eye strain/fatigue as a result?No. Eyestrain is definitely there and it's great - reading is always bad for your eyes, no way around that. But at least it's lower than reading from paper, even on a shitty screen.Screen size doesn't really matter. In all modern readers you can set font size. The smaller the screen, the smaller the pages, but the letters can be any size. On an old cellphone it could be a dozen three-word lines per page, but it's very much readable, more so than paper. Do you have a smartphone? For iOS, the best reader is STANZA. For Android, ALDIKO. Both are free and great.
another e-reader newbie, considering getting one as my list of to-read books is growing way too fast.I hope I won't derail the thread, just a quick question - is there some sort of place I can review the available e-readers and choose one that fits me best? the amount is a bit overwhelming, and I'm not looking for anything too flashy with wifi or anything, so.
>>2825898http://www.mobileread.com/http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_MatrixMight help.
>>2825899perfect, just what I was looking for! thanks.
This thread wins, OP. Thank you for all the interesting new books.
>>2823210I got about 25% through this before I had to stop. It seems like the same scene repeated constantly. Dull. I'm disappointed, I was excited to read this. It would be better as a short story.Thanks again, OP.
Top shelf OP, are these scans you've done yourself?
Raven, sorry I haven`t shared more for Jap /lit/ folder. Maybe once I move there in September I can start scanning etc.
>>2827390No, only >>2823218 was one I scanned myself. I think the only other full novel I've done was Naomi by Tanizaki. I did buy and strip the DRM off of several of them here, but for others I just got them off #bookz.I've been thinking of doing Sun and Steel by Mishima sometime soon, since it doesn't seem like they'll be putting an ebook out of it and it's fairly short.
>>2827395Permamoving capsbro?
>>2827395No worries! I've actually been finding lots more Japanese lit put up on #bookz since Tuttle released so many - the Ranpo, for instance. The new version so far is going to have that, I Am a Cat and Dazai's Otogizoshi and No Longer Human.
>>2827404Well, not sure yet. Depends on how I like the country and whatnot. Also, when I first go to Japan I am going to see if I can get my Japanese friends who are in universities to see if I can go with them to their campuses and borrow translated Japanese literature. Then, if I can find somewhere where I can scan without getting into trouble, I`ll try to scan them in.Never scanned stuff before on this scale though.Should we be updating Jap /lit/ folder soon? Maybe once you`ve done Sun&Steel?I was thinking of adding authors like Lafcadio Hearn into it. I believe he was the Head of Department of English Literature for the Imperial University (and then Waseda) before Natsume Soseki.He wrote a lot on Japanese customs and folklore, and even wrote stories based on some of them.I think most of his stuff can be found on Gutenberg.
ContSince this is a share thread, here goes;Glimpses of Unfamiliar JapanThis book introduces a world that few early Western visitors to Japan ever saw. This is the world of unusual customs, bizarre superstitions, and enchanting scenery. Included in this classic volume are Hearn's well-known essays on gardens, festivals, the household shrine, and other aspects of Japanese daily life.http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8130In Ghostly JapanIn Ghostly Japan collects twelve stories from celebrated author Lafcadio Hearn. Some of these stories are ghostly and ghastly, while others are wonderfully benign. Whether he's telling a ghost story or explaining a Buddhist proverb, Hearn's writings are never less than enthralling.http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8128Kwaidan"Kwaidan" translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting stories.This collection of supernatural tales includes a musician called upon to perform for the dead, man-eating goblins, and insects who uncannily mimic human behavior. A perfect treat for fans of the strange and otherworldly.http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1210I have read In Ghostly Japan and Kwaidan, and am about to read the massive tome Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. I highly recommend the first two.
>>2827443Yeah, I'd been thinking about whether we should put Hearn in for a while. I haven't read a complete book of his yet, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to include his Japan-related writings in it! If I don't get Sun and Steel done before next Friday, I'll probably be buying another piece of Japanese lit for it anyway. But yeah, with Hearn + the other stuff and whatever else I buy, it'll probably be good to go ahead and update. I'll be sure to make a thread for it.
>The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo by Kido Okamoto"'That year, quite a shocking incident occurred....' So reminisces old Hanshichi in a story from one of Japan's most beloved works of popular literature, Hanshichi torimonochō . Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kidō 's best-known work inaugurated the historical detective genre in Japan, spawning stage, radio, movie, and television adaptations as well as countless imitations. This selection of fourteen stories, translated into English for the first time, provides a fascinating glimpse of life in feudal Edo (later Tokyo) and rare insight into the development of the fledgling Japanese crime novel. Once viewed as an exclusively modern genre derivative of Western fiction, crime fiction and its place in the Japanese popular imagination were forever changed by Kidō 's "unsung Sherlock Holmes." These stories--still widely read today--are crucial to our understanding of modern Japan and its aspirations toward a literature that steps outside the shadow of the West to stand on its own.">http://www.mediafire.com/?dv3i4142ns8w3mfI actually just found this one and am very pleased about it. More stuff for the Japanese /lit/ folder and more detective stories, which I've been liking lately. (and it's pre-1950s, caps!)
>>2827453Well, he was living in Japan at the time and most people who are into Japanese literature are into their customs and whatnot. Especially when many of his pieces have direct connections to Japanese literature.Perhaps, we add him, and have a .txt. file in his folder disclaiming that he wrote in English, but because of the subject matter and his relative importance to literature in Japan, he was decided to be incorporated into the folder?
>>2827465Holy shit, this is fucking sick. Never heard of this before.You found it on #bookz?
>>2827475Yep! I think I'm about to go through my long list of Japanese authors and search for them all on #bookz, like I should have done forever ago. I've just found Kafu Nagai's American Stories on there too, though I'm way down the queue and can't upload it yet. I'll be sure to drop a .txt in Hearn's folder like you mentioned also.
>>2827486Thank God for #bookz, there is nothing betterPity we cannot give to the bots...Wonder if any of the books I bought made their way there?
>>2827509We can! I finally got a response in their chat channel from one of the guys - magicmaj. I gave him all the ones you and I have bought/scanned. They should be showing up in the @mnew file, though he seems to be down right now. I'm really wishing Ebrarian would get back up - I have like five files I've been waiting to get from him.
>>2827519Yeah, him and Vera and Padi seem to have the most
I meant VadiAnyways, if any of the books you found are held by Vadi, he has no waiting list at the moment
Bump
>>2824409>>2823399>>2823263>>2823210>>2823208Oh wow, I'd heard of these and added them to my to-read list but had no idea there were ebook versions available. Even though smaller publishers deserve our support, I almost wish that more of their books made it onto library genesis or similar filesharing networks.
>American Stories by Kafu Nagai"Like de Tocqueville a century before, Kafu casts a fresh, keen eye on vibrant and varied America -- world fairs, concert halls, and college campuses; saloons, the immigrant underclass, and red-light districts. Many of his vignettes involve encounters with fellow Japanese or Chinese immigrants, some of whom are poorly paid laborers facing daily discrimination. The stories paint a broad landscape of the challenges of American life for the poor, the foreign born, and the disaffected, peopled with crisp individual portraits that reveal the daily disappointments and occasional euphorias of modern life.Kafu plays with the contradictions and complexities of early twentieth-century America, revealing the tawdry, poor, and mundane underside of New York's glamour in "Ladies of the Night" while celebrating the ingenuity, cosmopolitanism, and freedom of the American city in "Two Days in Chicago." At once sensitive and witty, elegant and gritty, these stories provide a nuanced outsider's view of the United States and a perfect entrance into modern Japanese literature.">http://www.mediafire.com/?9ykyjyoaheowvac
>>2827973I vomited a little in my mouth. What's it about? Eating fast-food and being stupid?
>>2827973Many, many thanks.There is such an abundance of Japanese literature.
>>2827998Sounds like you have some emotional issues, lol..
>>2827998Did fast food even exist in the first decade of the twentieth century?
do you have a mediafire folder? all of these seem nice.
>>2828078Ah yeah, that probably would be more convenient. Here you go:http://www.mediafire.com/?1f3hc8uqp1qt3
>>2828085Great. Thank!
have you got anything by Bohumil Hrabal?
>>2828117Sure!>Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal"It tells the story of an eclectic and dimwitted old man who works as a paper crusher in Prague, using his job to save and amass astounding numbers of rare and banned books, he is an obsessive collector of knowledge. Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word.">http://www.mediafire.com/?prr2h09tbgf0zvy
>I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal"First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel," telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps confiscated from the Jews, he reaches the heights of his ambition, building a hotel. He becomes a millionaire, but with the institution of communism, he loses everything and is sent to inspect mountain roads. Living in dreary circumstances, Ditie comes to terms with the inevitability of his death, and with his place in history.">http://www.mediafire.com/?m027z10v2mtol8f
I propose we keep this thread constant. For this to be successful, we will need more than one person contributing though.Even if you guys personally did not buy/scan the book, why not put it forth in this thread with a download link or whatever, explaining a bit about the book and why you`d want more to check it out.
>>2828131>>2828128>>2828117thaaanks. you're the best ever, bro.where did you get those? what about putting them all in your mediafire folder?
Pretty awesome thread. We should have these weekly and have themes sometimes.
>>2828143Why not add your own recommendations etc?
>>2828139Both the Hrabal ones were on #bookz. I added them to the folder I made in >>2828085.>>2828143I'd be down for that. What sort of themes were you thinking of?
>>2828152Is /lit/ big enough for themes? In this thread it pretty much just been you posting.
Anything by Jerzy Kosinski?
>>2828155Well, yeah. I feel like it would probably be mostly me posting in a themed one too. What I was initially doing was to make one little thread every two weeks with the handful of books I bought for /lit/ that paycheck, but the books weren't getting more than a few downloads that way. This thread was way more successful though. I guess themes probably would narrow it down too much. I was thinking along the lines of short story collections, poetry, contemporary themed ones, which might be broad enough to survive?
>>2828168I`m cool with that.If we go along those lines I may try to shelve my books on Goodreads not only by nationality/language, but also by the type of text.If it`s a novel, I`ll leave it as a be, but create a shelf for poems, short story collections, plays (which I have already done) etc.That way, in recommendation/share threads, if we go along this path, I should be able to participate more.
>>2828164>Steps by Jerzy Kosinski"From the esteemed author of "The Painted Bird" and "Being There" comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which the shape of his life has been woven. In this winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, distinctions are eroded between oppressor and oppressed, perpetrator and victim, narcissism and anonymity.">http://www.mediafire.com/?fpaj3jlyb5bxj13
>>2828164Tyty. You getting all these on #bookz?
>>2828171I don't do it on Goodreads so much, but I keep my account on LibraryThing pretty thoroughly tagged. LT also has a pretty neat feature called the tag mirror, where you can be lazy and just see what tags other people have tagged your books and search that. They also have my favorite feature (which is honestly where I find most of the books I read), the tagmash. You can pretty much mash up any amount of tags and see a list of resulting works that fit them - things tagged Czech literature + surrealism to give you some Czech surrealism, 20th century + chinese literature + mystery for Chinese detective novels from the 1900s, etc. It's ridiculously useful. Is "German-language" too broad a theme? I already promised to buy some Sebald and I'd been meaning to buy some Ungar, but I dunno.
>>2828182I didn't get them all from #bookz, but they should all be available there now. There's lots of other Kosinski stuff there, but the only bot online who has his work is being slow as balls at the moment.
>>2828192Do whatever you like! It`s your money/time.I just won`t be able to appreciate it, due to my self-imposed rules. I`m sure many others would though.
>>2828198Where else do you find them?
>>2828200Google.comSeriouslyThis is what I do (not OP, but read many obscure translated texts)1. Bookz2. Google: Title & `Download` or something like thatIf it comes up on neither, it`s quite unlikely it`s readily available for free onlineYou could try another ebook chat channel, but #bookz is best from my experiences.
>>2828200The ones I didn't get from #bookz were the ones I bought/scanned myself, but >>2828205 is great advice. I am usually just too lazy to look anywhere besides IRC.
Any good .mobi of George Bataille?
>>2828223Just Story of the Eye:>http://www.mediafire.com/?27wf94gb1yrbuq9I have The Impossible and Blue of Noon from him in .pdf, but they're not the types that can be converted to .mobi.
>>2828228Thanks anyhow, brah!
>>2828228Erm ... so post the fucking .pdf thanks!
>>2828261.Mobi was specifically asked for you fucking scum beggar.
We could try look for these titles I found mentioned in American Tales.Silk and Insight - MishimaThe Autobiography of Fukuwaza Yukichi; Labyrinth - ArishimaKonoe Fumimaro, A Political Biography - Yoshitake;Kokoro and Selected Essays - SosekiThe Spirit of Japanese Capitalism - YamamotoTaken Captive: A Prisoner of War`s Diary - OokaAll non-fic though.For some reason I forgot to put on the detective book on my kindle, will do it later.
>>Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem>>http://www.mediafire.com/?86kdgrd635b12b5
Shit, I'm trying to post some books but the system thinks I'm spamming, what am I doing wrong? I'm just posting mediafire links like OP did...
>http://www.mediafire.com/?qvhv6k8tfr5mg
>>2828406Maybe just wait a while?
Anything by Danilo Kis?
awesomez
We need to archive this thread, for the sake of /lit !http://chanarchive.org/request_votesThree more votes are needed. Please help.Thanks.
>>2828597Every thread on /lit/ has been archived since fucking 2010 you goddamn idiot.
>>2828601No need to be so vindicative, fellow. One often learns by making mistakes, often riddled by good intentions, so is the case here.Thanks for the information, I was not acquainted with such news of this archival procedure.
>>2828605http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/
>>2828607Great consideration, good friend. A quality to nurture, that is in this individual instinctive survival spirit we all live in.I appreciate your share.
>>2828426added some more shit here
>>2828657Thanks! I picked up the Kharms, Theroux, Bernhard and O'Neill.
>>2828913got 51 downloads on that folder, feels good to share
>Reader's Block by David Markson"In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind—literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities—the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth.Out of these unlikely yet incontestably fascinating materials—including innumerable details about the madness and calamity in many artists' and writers' lives, the eternal critical affronts, the startling bigotry, the countless suicides—David Markson has created a novel of extraordinary intellectual suggestiveness. But while shoring up Reader's ruins with such fragments, Markson has also managed to electrify his novel with an almost unbearable emotional impact. Where Reader ultimately leads us is shattering.">http://www.mediafire.com/?693rr66wek6bn6h
>The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman by Angela Carter"The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide.Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains – or structures – of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to mirages and fantasy, can defeat him. But Desiderio's battle will take him to the very brink of undeniable, irresistible desire.">http://www.mediafire.com/?y4mkkmymqdktxd4
bump
>Utz by Bruce Chatwin"In this slim volume, Chatwin draws a satirical portrait of life in a Socialist stateand concludes that human nature is the same no matter what political winds are blowing. The last descendent of an old Czech family, the eponymous art dealer Kaspar Utz lives in Prague, where the Russian occupiers allow him to keep his priceless Meissen porcelain collection on condition that he bequeath it to the national museum. To the narrator, Utz represents the quintessential adapter, able to tolerate a repressive government as long as his private life is undisturbed. Obsessed with a passion to preserve these remnants of the bygone days of imperial glory, Utz implies that the figurines are more real, enduring and invulnerable than the gray world of Eastern Europe existing behind the Iron Curtain. But on his death a droll mystery is revealed; the fate of the collection is as much a result of the belated awakening of Utz's romantic nature as it is a joke against the political regime he despised. Befitting his narrative, Chatwin's spare, precise prose takes on a surrealist quality appropriate to the theater of the absurd.">http://www.mediafire.com/?o3xc2bgh7g0acpb
>The Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry"Alfred Jarry is best known as the author of the proto-Dada play Ubu Roi, but this anarchic novel of absurdist philosophy is widely regarded as the central work to his oeuvre. Written in 1989 and refused for publication in the author's lifetime, Exploits and Opinion of Dr. Faustroll recounts the adventures of the inventor of "Pataphysics . . . the science of imaginary solutions." Pataphysics has since inspired artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp and the 60s rock band Soft Machine, as well as the mythic literary organization the Collège de Pataphysique.">http://www.mediafire.com/?1jsajmch159vku8
>In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey"Growing up in war-torn Hungary, the narrator András Vajda, discovers that the charms of young girls are lost on him, and seeks out the embraces of older women. From his first disastrous encounter with the formidable Fräulein Mozart at a US army camp to his passion for Maya, a married woman, through to his turbulent affair with a reporter’s wife in Canada, he recounts how his amorous adventures with different middle-aged women have taught him about sex, love and the ways of the world.">http://www.mediafire.com/?osdel921ujgv52g
>>2829349I'm reading In Patagonia by Chatwin right now, enjoying it immensely.
>>2829523I'm actually reading it at the moment too! If you're curious, there's an essay on Chatwin at the end of the collection in >>2823411 that's very good.
>>2829531Holy shit, Campo Santo is on my soon-to-read list, and it's just been bumped up.btw, I'm argentinian and have visited most places chatwin mentions. Reading it right now cause I havent been home in 2 years and this makes me feel closer to my land/people. Also, going to check out Idle Days in Patagonia that Chatwin mentions, you can get it for free since it's old as shit.
Science Fiction/Future BookEdward of Planet Earth"200 years in the future Edward Temple, a "uniquely ordinary person" becomes caught up in a zany world where self-aware super-computers are as argumentative, egotistical, demanding, and emotionally needy as the humans they serve. Everything is fair game as Edward navigates befuddled governments, psychotic software, greedy corporations, overly attentive robots, and romance. And of course jelly donuts find their way into the story."http://www.amazon.com/Edward-of-Planet-Earth-ebook/dp/B004MDLXHA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342297033&sr=8-1&keywords=edward+of+planet+earth
drfg
Goood stuff
this thread restored my faith in /lit/
>>2828426>Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven SolomonFar more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. In Water, Steven Solomon offers the first-ever narrative portrait of the power struggles, personalities, and breakthroughs that have shaped humanity from antiquity's earliest civilizations, the Roman Empire, medieval China, and Islam's golden age to Europe's rise, the steam-powered Industrial Revolution, and America's century. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century's decisive, looming challenges and is driving the new political, economic, and environmental realities across the globe.It's long as shit, but halfway through it now and it blew my mind.
Fuck ye
>http://www.mediafire.com/?96286r4hd90euadded a whole bunch of travel books for ye bitches
>>2824498This anon here.>The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński"In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria. He wrestles a king cobra to the death and suffers through a bout of malaria. What emerges is an extraordinary depiction of Africa--not as a group of nations or geographic locations--but as a vibrant and frequently joyous montage of peoples, cultures, and encounters. Kapuscinski's trenchant observations, wry analysis and overwhelming humanity paint a remarkable portrait of the continent and its people."http://www.mediafire.com/view/?w7umrwu9icbw33p>Fun fact: Kapuściński's works are fiction. In many cases, he writes about things that he only heard about as if it happened to him. Sometimes he just invents people or situations.From an interview:>Question: How do you feel when a reader points out a factual error in your writing?>Kapuściński: A clarification doesn't bother me.>Question: Will you have it corrected in subsequent editions?>Kapuściński: The subsequent editions will be exactly the same.
>>2831210thanks dude. More kapuscinski, anyone? Does anyone have The Snow Leopard to share with us?
>>2831210>Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński"Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life’s work—to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes.The companion on his travels: a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. Whether in China, Poland, Iran, or the Congo, it was the “father of history”—and, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalism—who helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist."http://www.mediafire.com/?yhgxdofh1b7n4mv
fantastic
>>2831226>His Master's Voice by Stanisław Lem"The novel is written as a first-person narrative, the memoir of a mathematician named Peter Hogarth, who becomes involved in a Pentagon-directed project (code-named "His Master's Voice", or HMV for short) in the Nevada desert, where scientists are working to decode what seems to be a message from outer space (specifically, a neutrino signal from the Canis Minor constellation). Throughout the book Hogarth — or rather, Lem himself — exposes the reader to many debates merging cosmology and philosophy: from discussions of epistemology, systems theory, information theory and probability, through the idea of evolutionary biology and the possible form and motives of extraterrestrial intelligence, with digressions about ethics in military-sponsored research, to the limitations of human science constrained by the human nature subconsciously projecting itself into the analysis of any unknown subject."http://www.mediafire.com/view/?1f3wu8j4nzbze2y
>>2831241When was this written?You know who it is.
>>2831242First published in 1968.
>>2831244Sweet.Japanese and Russian works up until around 70 for me
>>2831241>Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanisław Lem"The stories are set somewhere in the XXI-XXII centuries, in a futuristic Occidental world (as opposed to a Communist Utopia where some of Lem's other novels take place) in which Mankind is starting to colonize the Solar System, has some settlements on the Moon and Mars, and is even beginning the exploration of the other solar systems.Pirx is a cadet, a pilot, and finally a captain of a merchant spaceship, and the stories relate his life and various things that happen to him during his travels between the Earth, Moon, and Mars.Pirx stories can be classified as a moderate hard science fiction with some comic elements."http://www.mediafire.com/?jjglgbhhhphqi1w>>2831249Lem's Polish.>inb4 what's the difference anyway
>>2831265>Return from the Stars by Stanisław Lem"The novel tells the story of an astronaut, Hal Bregg, who returns to Earth after a 127 year mission to Arcturus (In original Polish version Fomalhaut). Due to time dilation, the mission has lasted only 10 years for him, but on Earth he faces culture shock, as he finds the society transformed into a utopia, free of wars or violence, or even accidents. For Hal, however, this new world is too comfortable, too safe. Earth is no longer home, it is "another, alien planet"."http://www.mediafire.com/view/?l9toals7ehvoa9n
>>2831279Wait, he`s Polish?Scrap that then
Can I put a request in for The Myth of Sisyphus? I can only find pdf
>>2831241>>2831265>>2831279Nice! Thank you for the Lem. I'd been wanting to try him out for a while.
>>2831279>Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin"Omon Ra, by the gifted Russian writer Victor Pelevin, is a pointed, dead-on-satire of the now-defunct Soviet space program, and a moving account of a cosmonaut's coming-of-age. The story is told in the beguiling voice of its young protagonist, Omon Ra, whose odd name combines a term for the Soviet special forces with the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology. Ever since he was a boy, Omon has dreamed of flying in space. He enrolls in a training program for cosmonauts, only to learn that his first assignment will also be his last. For although the Soviet space program claims to carry out its missions with unmanned rockets, its scientists haven't yet mastered the necessary technology; so Omon is to drive a supposedly unmanned landing vehicle across the moon's surface, put in place a device that will emit the words of Lenin into space, and then remain on the moon, abandoned, until he dies. The voyage that results combines the absurdity of Soviet protocol with the wonder and pathos of space flight."http://www.mediafire.com/view/?qteb5j7sma5g8w5This one's pretty short but very enjoyable.
>>2832326>The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe"Far out from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in the back of the beyond.In The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Wolfe skillfully interweaves three bizarre tales to create a mesmerizing pattern: the harrowing account of the son of a mad genius who discovers his hideous heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; the bizarre chronicle of a scientists' nightmarish imprisonment. Like an intricate, braided knot, the pattern at last unfolds to reveal astonishing truths about this strange and savage alien landscape."http://www.mediafire.com/?jebdn8koci1hqt1>>2832323<3
Thank you for this thread, so much.May I make a request? I realise Knut Hamsun is a huge literary figure but the only digital copies of his I have are quite poor -- old translations, terrible formatting etc -- would anyone happen to have any good copies of his work? And I don't just mean Hunger either. As much of his work as possible please. Thank you.
The people who have been popping the books up are super cool
This thread makes my cock throb.
>tfw no e-reader
best thread
quality, thanks.
Just added this:Knut Hamsun - Wanderer plays on Muted StringsKnut Hamsun - Under the Autumn StarKnut Hamsun - Shallow SoilKnut Hamsun - PanKnut Hamsun - Look back on HappinessKnut Hamsun - HungerKnut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil>Knut Hamsun - 6 Books by Knut Hamsun (Same books as before pretty much, but sometimes the translator is different)>Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son (Haven't read it yet but it's been highly recommended to me)Taking its title from a line in Lou Reed's notorious song "Heroin," this story collection by with-it novelist Johnson focuses on the familiar themes of addiction and recovery. In his novels ( Angels ; Resuscitation of a Hanged Man ) Johnson has shown his ability to transform the commonplace into the extraordinary, but this volume of 11 stories is no better than, and often seems inferior to, the self-destruction/spiritual rehab books currently crowding bookstore shelves. All of the tales, set in the Midwest and West, are told by a single narrator, and while this should provide unity and depth, instead it makes the stories fragmentary and monotonous. Some disturbing moments do recall Johnson at his inventive best, as when a peeping Tom catches sight of a Mennonite man washing his wife's feet after a marital spat in "Beverly Home," or when the narrator 'fesses up to his fright in a confrontation with the boyfriend--"a mean, skinny, intelligent man who I happened to feel inferior to"--of a woman he's fondling in "Two Men." But for the most part the stories are neurasthenic, as though Johnson hopes the shock value of characters fatally overdosing in the presence of lovers and friends will substitute for creativity and hard work from him. Even the dialogue for the most part lacks Johnson's usual energy.>http://www.mediafire.com/myfiles.php#qvhv6k8tfr5mg
>>2834059Link not working.
Awesome thread. Downloading a few of these as I type this.
>>2834100But will any of you contribute?
>>2834059>>2834059Thanks, man. May you be blessed with a glorious life.
>>2833290There's a free kindle app.
>>2834059>>2834071sorry, my mistake>http://www.mediafire.com/?qvhv6k8tfr5mg
>>2834110already am, dude, already am
>>2834118Is Hunger translated by Sverre Lyngstad?
4 of the books I was interested in just arrived in the mail. We by Samjatin JewgenijLord of the flies by William GoldingThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe man in the high castle by Philip K. DickWith which one should I start?
>>2834301You can finish The Stranger in one sitting
>>2834059Thanks a lot dude, I love you.
>>2834301those are good books. i hope you like them. don't worry about the order you read things in, just dip in where your fancy takes you.also, kudos on not making a thread just to ask that one question
>>2834334why the sage?
>>2834458the thread didn't need bumping, my reply had nothing to do with the thread, and by saging I don't add to the post limit which means the thread lasts a tiny bit longer. Or I could be completely misusing sage idk. sage
thank you for this mighty fine reading suply
