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u/blastedastronaut · 21 pointsr/books

The Master and Margarita. I'll never be the same.

u/This-is-Peppermint · 6 pointsr/suggestmeabook

I also think the Master and the Margarita may interest you.

u/ArchonFall4All · 4 pointsr/C_S_T

The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. It's a fantastic story, very humorous, and has lots of occult/gnostic undertones. I recommend this translation

u/MaryOutside · 3 pointsr/books

It's not necessarily sad, but most certainly Russian, and it's The Master and Margarita.

u/sneakynotsneaky · 3 pointsr/books

I've only read this one, but it seemed very well done to me. It flows very much like contemporary prose.

Also you can add my recommendation to your list!

u/passingby · 2 pointsr/books

I believe the one that is most accepted by the community is the "Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor" translation. Linked here: http://amzn.com/0679760806

u/shinew123 · 2 pointsr/books

Have you read any classical Russian satire and comedy, like Nikolai Gogol or Mikhail Bulgakov? Both are absolutely fantastic. Try either a collection of short stories including ones like Diary of a Madman, the Overcoat, and the Nose or Dead Souls by Gogol, and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is absolutely hilarious as well.

u/WhineyThePooh · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

I remember really liking Lies My Teacher Told Me, which debunks common misinformation found in U.S. History text books. Though it might be not be as intellectual as he likes. Check it out, though.

There is another one my father-in-law gave great reviews, but I can't remember the title. I'll ask and edit if I figure it out.

Edit: Guns, Germs, and Steel!!! I haven't read it myself but it sounded interesting.

I also thought of The Master and Margarita, if he hasn't read it already. I bought this version, and a lot of the footnotes go into how the Russian political climate at the time influenced the novel. I thought it was very interesting.

u/Monkeyavelli · 2 pointsr/books

>Should I maybe do a bit of research before reading it? Or do you think someone could appreciate the story without that sort of knowledge?

I read the Burgin-O'Connor translation which, while being considered an excellent translation, also contains detailed annotations by Bulgakov's biographer, Ellendea Proffer.

I'd highly recommend this version because it provides the kind of background and context via the footnotes that you're looking for. Like you, I had no idea about the huge numbers of references and allusions to life in 1920-30s Moscow and the Biblical life of Jesus.

u/YourFairyGodmother · 2 pointsr/gaybros

I have eclectic tastes and always have several things going simultaneously.

Nut Country Right-wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy.


>On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who hated Kennedy and everything he stood for, led by a powerful group of ultraconservatives who would eventually remake the Republican party in their own image.

>In Nut Country, Edward H. Miller tells the story of that transformation, showing how a group of influential far-right businessmen, religious leaders, and political operatives developed a potent mix of hardline anticommunism, biblical literalism, and racism to generate a violent populism—and widespread power. Though those figures were seen as extreme in Texas and elsewhere, mainstream Republicans nonetheless found themselves forced to make alliances, or tack to the right on topics like segregation. As racial resentment came to fuel the national Republican party’s divisive but effective “Southern Strategy,” the power of the extreme conservatives rooted in Texas only grew.

>Drawing direct lines from Dallas to DC, Miller's captivating history offers a fresh understanding of the rise of the new Republican Party and the apocalyptic language, conspiracy theories, and ideological rigidity that remain potent features of our politics today.



After the Saucers Landed

>UFOlogist Harold Flint is heartbroken and depressed that the aliens that have landed on the White House lawn appear to be straight out of an old B movie. They wave to the television cameras in their sequined jumpsuits, form a nonprofit organization offering new age enlightenment, and hover their saucers over the streets of New York looking for converts.

>Harold wants no part of this kitschy invasion until one of the aliens, a beautiful blonde named Asket, begs him to investigate the saucers again and write another UFO book. The aliens and their mission are not as they seem.

>Asket isn’t who she seems either. Tracking down her true personality leads Harold and his cowriter through a maze of identity and body-swapping madness, descending into paranoia as Harold realizes that reality, or at least humanity’s perception of it, may be more flexible than anyone will admit.

>After the Saucers Landed is a deeply unsettling experimental satire, placing author Douglas Lain alongside contemporaries like Jeff VanderMeer and Charles Yu as one of his generation’s most exciting and challenging speculative fiction voices.


The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel

This one's a slog, albeit a fascinating slog. It is NOT written for a general audience so there's like three times per page I have to go to the Intarwebz to look up / research stuff.


The Master and Margarita

Been meaning to get around to this one for quite a while. Finally did, just yesterday.


u/SnakeyesX · 2 pointsr/bestof
u/theadamvine · 2 pointsr/WeirdLit

Not sure if you're interested in self-published work, but you might dig my book Corruption. It's a horror/portal fantasy set in Eastern Europe with giant lice, sexual curses, vodka-guzzling wights, and a solar apocalypse. If that sounds up your alley, give it a shot! If not, then I'd say start with the classics - you really cannot go wrong with The Master and Margarita.

Edit: found a typo and thought of another one - Gene Wolfe's The Land Across was great, too, albeit not an easy read.

u/clwestbr · 1 pointr/books

I ordered this one today.

u/treerex · 1 pointr/books

Pevear and Volokhonsky just edges out Burgin and Tiernan O'Connor for readability. The latter is great, and has a lot of good footnotes and commentary, but P&V is my preference.

As far as I know they are the only two English translations that include the complete text of the novel: Ginsburg and Glenny each used the older version of Bulgakov's text. Of those two, Glenny is significantly better than Ginsburg.

u/Stranger2k · 1 pointr/AskReddit
u/Corund · 1 pointr/ask

As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela

Edit: Oops, just saw you wanted great literature. In that case, try The Master and Margerita A story about love and power set in Moscow, featuring a writer, his lover, some Communist party stooges, Satan, his minions, and a demonic cat named Behemoth.

u/lon3wolfandcub · 1 pointr/argentina

Mirando: termine true detective, viendo house of cards, sigo con vikings y esperando game of thrones. Viendo si me le animo a Treme.

Leyendo: Room, de Emma Donoghue y The Master & Margarita, de Mickhail Bulgakov

Jugando: deje de ser "gamer" hace 10 años, me embola