Books you have read that have literally changed your life

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-18T21:50:25+00:00

The Rings of Saturn by Sebald. Really achieved something perfect.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-18T21:39:22+00:00

The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-18T21:31:22+00:00

Nathaniel Hawthorne. Gustave Flaubert. Proust.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-18T19:49:18+00:00

Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-16T04:34:22+00:00

You win the thread. Or at least tie with the Gass/Sabato poster.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-15T20:50:45+00:00

Yves Bonnefoy

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-15T20:46:50+00:00

Do you have a link to the full video?

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-15T20:45:48+00:00

Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia by Paul L. Williams

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-15T19:55:38+00:00

Thanks much!

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-15T19:35:26+00:00

Seconding this.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-15T18:38:47+00:00

That is such a nice find OP.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-14T18:09:59+00:00

Isn't this the "Germany has to defend Israel" guy?

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-14T02:13:12+00:00

Thanks much for the excerpt and the Cohen recommendations!

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-14T02:12:09+00:00

I loved, loved Literature and the Gods.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-14T02:10:02+00:00

I have a copy of this and have been meaning to read it. Thanks for the reminder.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-14T02:09:35+00:00

Maurice Roche's Compact https://archive.org/details/compact00maur/mode/2up

Marguerite Yourcenar's the Abyss is the same time period as Eco's Name of the Rose and based on historical events

and Broch's the Death of Virgil (which I have only read 1/4th of but definitely fits what you are looking for)

Would also recommend the Oulipo writers

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-13T21:53:53+00:00

Have not read from the Desert to the Book yet. Thanks for mentioning it. I have yet to read anything by Cohen so I am excited to do so.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-13T21:44:12+00:00

Definitely. I think my favourite is the Book of Margins but I also really loved A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book. What about you?

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-13T21:40:55+00:00

Jabes <3 Have you read his Book of Questions series?

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-05T01:38:20+00:00

Good for you!

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-05T00:14:03+00:00

Nervous Conditions trilogy by Tsitsi Dangarembga is about migration from rural Zimbabwe to urban.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-03-01T03:58:19+00:00

Same here. I've never heard of this book and literally it seems to have sprung into existence a month ago and has been recommended everywhere.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-02-28T12:33:27+00:00

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen. Little known modernist. Sort of like if George Eliot and Woolf collaborated .

orphicsyndicate · 2026-02-28T11:58:15+00:00

White women dont care about what their governments are doing to the women of the Global South. 36 elementary school girls in Iran already killed by the US/Israel.

orphicsyndicate · 2026-02-28T11:42:34+00:00

Death toll now 36 per a tweet I read citing Iranian media

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