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▶ Social Realism Anonymous 10/08/18 (Mon) 10:03:07 No.15086 >>15092 >>15095 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

I need to read a novel in the genre of 'social realism' for a school assignment, it's something I've never really touched and need some advice in order to find something decent.

I took a glance over on cuckchan's /lit/ wikia for suggestions but they don't seem to have a sorting system for what I'm looking for, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/sub

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▶ Anonymous 10/08/18 (Mon) 10:05:05 No.15087>>15088

Try "The Losers" by David Eddings

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▶ Anonymous 10/08/18 (Mon) 10:08:50 No.15088

>>15087

Thanks for the quick reply, seems pretty interesting. Putting it on the list for potential books.

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▶ Anonymous 10/08/18 (Mon) 15:16:40 No.15092>>15111 >>15170

>>15086 (OP)

Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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▶ Anonymous 10/08/18 (Mon) 23:28:16 No.15095>>15111

>>15086 (OP)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. Read the one volume abridged version if you don't have time to read the three volumes.

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▶ Anonymous 10/10/18 (Wed) 07:32:34 No.15111>>15201

>>15092

Sounds interesting, especially the time period but I'm not sure if I'll like the format of 'letter exchange'. Might take a closer look.

>>15095

I've been wanting to read and learn a bit more about the horrors of communism, this might be a good one as well.

I will probably not have time to read three volumes, we have about a month of reading time in front of us.

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▶ Anonymous 10/24/18 (Wed) 07:54:59 No.15170

>>15092

Thanks again for the recommendation, I eventually decided on this book as The Loser's was not translated to my language (which was a must for the assignment) and the The Gulag Archipelago did not have its abridged version translated.

I would probably not have chosen Poor Folk otherwise since I'm generally not a fan of romance and the 'letter exchange' used to tell the story didn't really appeal to me.

But I'm happy that I in the end did choose this book, I really enjoyed it and I think it opened my eyes to different kinds of literature than I've previously read.

I'll probably read The Gulag Archipelago unabridged at some point simply because the subject interests me.

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▶ Anonymous 10/30/18 (Tue) 02:16:04 No.15201

>>15111

>politically illiterate American don't know what communism is

sage

also Solzhenitsyn is a big fat liar and a meme of 80s USSR. If you want to know about live in Stalin's GULAGs go read Varlam Shalamov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_Shalamov

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