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very strange novel

i will die for my country Dj Microbe

Intriguing.

Я читаю книгу чи книга читає мене?

Мене бісить (не в негативному плані), що я починаю щось робити, або думати, уявляти і книга про це каже. Так, я влаштовуюсь зручніше і відчуваю запах цигарок на вокзалі, чи уявляю смак їжі, бо поруч з їжею ходять. Що з мене знущається автор, ну підловив, ну так!

and yet i can’t put it down..

42

30

this book pmo it’s so pretentious

"[T]he position in which we had happened to find ourselves favored the encounter of these diversely erogenous zones of ours......The fortuitous or calculated encounter of the different sensitive or hypersensitive terminations, hers and mine, prompted an array of various reactions, whose inventory looked to be extremely laborious for us both."

this is the best way sex has ever been described

Właśnie tak się czuję mając zaczętych 5 różnych książek na zajęcia z najnowszej literatury światowej.

Właśnie tak się czuję mając zaczętych 5 różnych książek na zajęcia z najnowszej literatury światowej.

“Dài, non lasciar cadere la conversazione. Di' qualsiasi cosa, basta che parli.” Relatable king

Ich habe nie eine süßere Szene im Buchladen gelesen.

i was getting somewhat disengaged and then this man wrote the most beautiful piece about lovers and lovemaking and you can’t not love it. beautifully written. i wonder how they translate this to english. there’s a whole thing about the ‘you, Reader’ = male; and the ‘you, Reader’ female.

الرواية التي بسببها قررت اقتناء جميع أعمال الكتاب إيتالو، وجبت منهم مجموعة فعلا. 🌸♥️

valeriano, i cimmeri, la strada scoscesa, un sacco di cose un sacco di storie!!!! bho! piacevole ma non appassionata

Прочитала 30 сторінок. І не розумію що я прочитала. Це так всю книжку буде? Не подобається.

mh

I get that it is kind of the point but the interspersed stories are interrupting my ability to read more fluently; I would prefer a book consisting solely of the philosophical meditations on acts of reading and writing… I will say that this experimental style is like nothing I have seen before, so while I am frustrated with how long this is taking me to read, I’m really enjoying some sections.

i can’t tell if i hate this or kind of like it

I’ve got no clue what’s going on

Es ist aber auch einfach so gut geschrieben.

Ich liebe den Einstieg.

Relatable king

I shared this with a friend, and now a quick update here:
Halfway into the book and I find my interest dwindle - not because it isn’t well-written, (Calvino’s writing still holds that charm), but maybe it gets ‘too inventive’ for me. To the point that I almost want it to get it a bit more simplistic, but it is probably a sort of blasphemy, expecting a Calvino book to be conventionally linear.

Been slow to read lately, but thoroughly enjoying when I can.

wowowow

Sarà il libro dei viaggi in treno. Ora, per esempio, sono a Genova. È quasi l'una di notte e non ci capisco poi molto di ciò che leggo, non so se per il sonno o a causa di Italo stesso. Forse le due cose insieme.

Unlike anything I’ve read before…making me deep the reader’s experience

oh shit estoy INVESTED