(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best european literature books

It is a very awesome of you to gift these games to one lucky redditor. I have never played the Alien Breed games so I would appreciate it if you would consider picking me. I don't have room in my budget for any new games right now so I would definitely play them.

I would like to share my favorite sci-fi novel with reddit. Zig Zag by Jose Carlos Somoza. I don't want to spoil it if anyone does decide to read it but it is a sci-fi horror/thriller/mystery novel about time travel. It is an amazing book and I do not think it is very well known.

Stoner is great as is Pale Fire. Cannot go wrong with any of them.

I am not sure I can think of many authors at the same level than Nabokov. He's one of the best stylists I've read. I am thinking Joyce is at least as good in certain sections of Ulysses (the last chapter is gold) but not as consistently as Nabokov.

Another book that might have similar style is Palinuro de México. Great prose and erudition although I stopped reading around the end of the first half (not the book's fault though). I read it in Spanish but there's a translation by the Dalkey Archive Press: https://www.amazon.com/Palinuro-Mexico-World-Literature-Fernando/dp/1564780953.

One similar book (at least in style) in my to-read list is The Death of Virgil. The prose is great but the book is huge so I have been putting it off.

I'd also love more recommendations if anyone have them.

This isn't anime, but I thought I'd suggest it anyway since this theme is so specific. If you like the idea of an immortal MC, you should check out the novel "All Men Are Mortal" by Simone De Beauvoir. It's about a man who is cursed to live forever and an actress who becomes obsessed with him for a variety of reasons.

A good deal of the book explains his history (he's been around since the late 13th century), but the first 70 pages or so, where you meet this guy, and you see how he handles eternity and how this actress reacts to him, I can't explain why but there's just something magical about it. I wish I could read it for the first time again.

You can read some snippets of the first part of the book in the link, and if you're interested in reading the whole thing you can pick up a used copy on amazon for dirt cheap. Also your local library will probably have a copy.

Ernesto Sábato's The Tunnel is absolutely amazing. It's about a painter who starts obsessing about this chick, and goes progressively crazier and crazier and crazier. The book ends at four in the morning, when you realize you read it through to the end 'cause you couldn't put it down. It's nice and short and separated into little chapters - perfect for the easily-bored reader.

Unfortunately, it's kinda hard to find in English, but absolutely worth the search (or if you can read Spanish, clicky.)

I always liked Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, too, which is in a kinda-but-not-really similar vein as 1984. It's considered a classic and it's much easier to find than The Tunnel - but Huxley's writing, as great as it is, just isn't even in the same league as Sábato's.

Hey man, sorry for not getting back to you yesterday. Here are some recommendations.

https://www.amazon.com/Maldoror-Complete-Works-Comte-Lautréamont/dp/187897212X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2UG7IORZO7MOG&keywords=maldoror+english&qid=1563734129&s=gateway&sprefix=malodor%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-3

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https://www.amazon.com/Exploits-Opinions-Dr-Faustroll-Pataphysician/dp/1878972073/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FIN94ANSVCSJ&keywords=exploits+and+opinions+of+dr.+faustroll%2C+pataphysician&qid=1563734228&s=gateway&sprefix=dr+faustroll+%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1

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https://www.amazon.com/Valerie-Week-Wonders-Vitezslav-Nezval/dp/808626419X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MVWRWT2G7RYS&keywords=valerie+and+her+week+of+wonders+book&qid=1563734389&s=gateway&sprefix=valerie+and+her+wee%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-1

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https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Analogue-Non-Euclidean-Symbolically-Mountaineering/dp/1585673420/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_pd_crcd__20?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1585673420&pd_rd_r=885af56e-246c-4203-b69a-3ada3d549cad&pd_rd_w=nBgvG&pd_rd_wg=D0uLp&pf_rd_p=d17c2de0-cc1d-4b09-aad8-987099a21717&pf_rd_r=MPT3RGNB79T8MX0H41BF&psc=1&refRID=MPT3RGNB79T8MX0H41BF

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the first two are not surrealism in the sense of the authors being part of the actual movement but they were precursors for it as well as being hugely influential to all who took part within the movement; the first one specifically, was said to be, by the surrealists themselves, their bible and holy grail. Surrealism can be quite difficult to read and hard to understand if one is not acquainted with the time period and the history of their epoch but if you stick with it it will pay off in time. You may have to do a little research into the back-stories of each author but this will only benefit you in the end: the last two will be much simpler to read on their own as they are more or less, linear straight-forward fictions. Good Luck!

I know you said choose two, but I'm gonna go ahead and do three ;)

1 - It's a children's book but my favorite book ever is Mandy by Julie Andrews. It's about a little girl who finds a cottage in a field behind the orphanage where she lives and makes it her own. When I was little I read that book over and over wishing I could find an abandoned cottage somewhere near my house.
2 - Least favorite is hands down, Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. I had to read it my first year of college and while the other books we read were great, that one was just painful to get through. I didn't even get close to finishing it.
3 - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was my favorite book to movie just because the book was so bad but the movie was excellent.

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City of my dreams (the Stockholm series). A pretty unknown book-series abroad. But one of the classic novels of swedish litterature (first book set in Stockholm 1860-1880). A total of 5 novels that follow a family in Stockholm from 1860 - 1968. Especially interesting if you have been to (or living in) Stockholm.

(https://www.amazon.com/City-My-Dreams-Stockholm-Vol/dp/1572160888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549447787&sr=8-1&keywords=City+of+My+Dreams)

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Hello, hello.

I published my first novel - Monsters of Elsewhere - in digital and paperback editions on the 21st December. So far so good, in terms of sales and whatnot.

Here be the blurb:

There is a land – let's call it Elsewhere – that is in no small amount of trouble. Giant wolves are tearing villages apart, a monster king is bringing his army across the sea to capture the legendary Hall of Glass, and the High Lord has completely disappeared.

Henry Whistler was eight when he got lost at a bus station in Hounslow. There his adventure began. For that was when he met the exiled invisible man, the monster swordsman, and the girl with the bright red hair.

Now a grown-up, Henry's childhood adventure is a faded memory... until his fiancée vanishes. Until he is drawn into another world. Until he is pursued by a blind assassin – with only a monster and a dead man for company – across a land that is in no small amount of trouble.

It's available on lots of stores, including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and iTunes for $4.99.

However I have just put up a post in the main Fantasy forum here on Reddit explaining that I'm giving away free copies of the ebook to Redditors. Click here to see that post

There are no strings attached whatsoever. I'm just trying to increase my audience, and offering some free copies to a selected audience seemed like a sensible way to do that.

Hope people are okay with that... I was, after all, trying to follow Rule #1 of this community :)

I yearn for this book.. I read part of it in Granta over a decade ago and I still have that issue. It's all marked up and worn because I re-read that essay often. I won't let anyone else borrow it, not even my ex-husband while we were married and living together! To this day I re-read it and find something still more beautiful in it. I am absolutely ashamed to discover that the essay was compiled in this book years ago and I didn't get a copy of it. What I would do with it is read it, immediately from cover to cover and relish the beauty it contains. And never let anyone borrow it.

congrats on the grades!! :D

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Book: The Life of God (As Told By Himself), Pedro Paramo, the short stories of Doug Lawson, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, A Single Man and a whole lot more.

Music: Francis, Campfire OK, Destroy Nate Allen, Mal Blum and a whole lot more.

Film: I don't watch a lot of movies unfortunately, but I really loved The Last Big Thing.

>Could you elaborate on how a social contract makes following laws an ethical matter?

Not on Reddit, I don't have anywhere near that kind of time.

http://smile.amazon.com/Locke-Treatises-Government-Cambridge-Political/dp/0521357306

http://smile.amazon.com/Social-Contract-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486426920

http://smile.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/0674000781

These three books are a great place to start. Consider me your intro to political philosophy professor.

I don´t know exactly what kind of fiction you are asking about, crime, romance, ect. But a few links might help

http://www.amazon.com/Hitmans-Guide-Housecleaning-Hallgrimur-Helgason-ebook/dp/B005OBS0MU/ref=zg_bs_157106011_13


http://www.amazon.com/Season-Witch-Arni-Thorarinsson-ebook/dp/B006ZNA0EW/ref=zg_bs_157106011_3


http://www.amazon.com/Flatey-Enigma-Viktor-Arnar-Ingolfsson-ebook/dp/B005O3CL50/ref=zg_bs_157106011_15


But my personal choice wolud be something like this;


http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6104721-a-traveler-s-guide-to-icelandic-folk-tales


http://books.google.is/books/about/Icelandic_Folktales_and_Legends.html?id=HY-DCKd6UgUC&redir_esc=y


Hope this helps.

For something contemporary, The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning was published recently.

All Men Are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir is what you're looking for.