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Do you attend college? If yes, name one book you've read while there.

>> No.10997579

>>10997531

Don't attend now, but some of the books I read in college were:

Hard Times
Disgrace
The Great Gatsby (high school as well)
North and South
The Awakening
Death in Venice

>> No.10997589

Most interesting? Non-fiction would be Phenomenology of Spirit.

>> No.10997607

>>10997531
Fathers and Sons

>> No.10997626

>>10997531
Yes, Maps of Meaning

>> No.10997688

Read 10 this semester keep up collegefags

>> No.10997694

>>10997531
Beloved

>> No.10997746

>>10997531
I did for 3 years. Crime and Punishment.
I plan to go back once I can afford it.

>> No.10997755

Tess of the dUbervilles

>> No.10997803

College cucks could learn more from independent reading than trying to get a piece of paper.

In fact, taking a Creative Writing class will probably turn you into a bad writer.

>> No.10997840

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with The Sea

>> No.10997846

>>10997803
t. STEM brainlet

>> No.10997849

>>10997531
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Aeneid
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Prometheus Bound
Plato - Dialogues
Euthyphro
The Trial and Death of Socrates
Apology
Something by Sartre that I don't remember

>> No.10997883

>>10997531
In 2nd semester
>This Side of Paradise
>The Crossing
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Dubliners
>Heart of Darkness
>The Old Man and the Sea
>Under the Volcano
>A Moveable Feast

>> No.10997963

>>10997883
This Side of Paradise got me through my first break-up my freshman year in college, need to give it a reread. One of my favorites.

>> No.10997972

>>10997803
accurate

>> No.10998463
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10998463

thanks /lit/

>> No.10998506

>>10997531
about to graduate in a few weeks. best thing i've read throughout all four years was blue of noon

>> No.10999284

>>10997846
>STEM
>brainlets
Pick
One

>> No.10999310

>>10997531
My textbooks desu

>> No.10999320

reading Badiou right now and enjoying it so far. Probably wouldn't have even heard of him if not for uni. Makes me want to read Hegel which I certainly never would have done.

>> No.10999422

>>10999284
brainlets, like u

>> No.10999749

>>10997531
I took a class on the Canterbury Tales, learned the proper pronunciation, a lot of critical analysis too, the professor was passionate about it. Lots of fun.

>> No.10999756

Nope and i regret it

>> No.10999789

>>10997531
Hamlet
Frankenstein
Pastoralia
Lincoln in the Bardo
Fun Home (2x)
Odyssey, Iliad, Aeneid, Civil War
Moby Dick
Oscar Wao
goon squad

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11000254

>>10999310
name one
>>10999749
sounds nice

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11000273

I have read every book y'all have and then some.

>> No.11000762

>>10997531
While I was in college I read a bunch of Stephen King and a bunch of Terry Pratchett, and the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War, and the Count of Monte Cristo.

>> No.11000766

your mom's diary

>> No.11000780

>>10997531
Being & Time

>> No.11000790

>>10997963
In what ways did it help you? Can you give some examples from the book?

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>>10997846
>>10999422
>>11000273
>>11000766

>> No.11002224

C.S. Lewis The Four Loves

>> No.11002407

Possibility of an Island and Faust recently
>>10997626
>>10997846
This fucking board man
>>10997607
>>10997840
>>11000780
nice
>>10997589
I bet you're annoying

>> No.11002569

>>10997531
>tfw you realize They even slide threads in /lit/ of all places
nice datamining you go there faggot