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Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:00:44 2018 No.12002516 [Reply] [Original]

You have to pick only 5 books to read and reread for the rest of your life. What do?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:02:51 2018 No.12002518 >>12002516 This is a completely unrealistic situation

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:05:43 2018 No.12002521 Pliny the Elder's Natural History Plato's Republic The Epic of Gilgamesh The Tale of Genji The Mahabharata

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:06:56 2018 No.12002523 >>12002516 Infinite Jest The Recognitions Moby Dick Ulysses Iliad/Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:08:08 2018 No.12002527 >>12002518 ur smart

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:09:16 2018 No.12002529 all five volumes of my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:10:27 2018 No.12002532 Shakespeare's Othello Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare's The Tempest

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:10:35 2018 No.12002535 >>12002523 The Iliad and odyssey are two different books

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:18:54 2018 No.12002553 >>12002516 The complete works of Shakespeare The complete works of Aristotle (I'd be furious if I never was able to finish it) King James Bible (May as well) The old man and the sea Dead Souls

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:21:29 2018 No.12002562 >>12002516 Collected Fictions The Bible The First Folio A selection of works by the Romantic poets The Divine Comedy

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:21:55 2018 No.12002565 >>12002553 >Bible >May as well Honestly my attitude. I want to see what all the fuss is about.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:32:15 2018 No.12002588 Five randomly chosen (to increase enjoyment) choose-your-own-adventure Goosebumps books

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:37:56 2018 No.12002599 >>12002588 Reserve a slot for Invaders from the Big Screen.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 28 23:45:29 2018 No.12002622 >>12002527 indeed he is

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:02:04 2018 No.12002676

>>12002516
assuming I can't read the books in digital form:
Oxford English Dictionary
Collected Works of Shakespeare (Penguin)
Zhuangzi (Ziporyn)
Complete Grimm's fairy tales (not sure about translations)
War and Peace (Maude)

>>12002565
already read it with a full analysis in high school (catholic prep alumnus who took scripture classes for both old and new testament); you're not missing much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:08:23 2018 No.12002697 >>12002529 >not the 29th anniversary compilation edition with the author's sepcial foreward Pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:11:59 2018 No.12002710 >>12002523 nice

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:23:37 2018 No.12002739

Based on my experience, it's much more common to see anime and VNs that encompass all aspects of life (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, Clannad, Azumanga Daioh, even Higurashi and KareKano) than it is to see novels that attempt to do this.
I've heard many people say that works like The Divine Comedy, 100 Years of Solitude, and the Odyssey encompass all of Mankind's greatness, but I feel like they don't represent any of its mundane beauty. Works that do great drama will rarely ever play around with humor or vice-versa. Epic works will never tell you anything about buying clothes or going on dates. Is it because serious authors more often than not expect to be treated as unique and not "one of the bunch"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:33:22 2018 No.12002761 Moby Dick The collected works of shakespeare the collected works of homer The collected works of Plato The collectd works of Aristotle

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:38:16 2018 No.12002772 File: 86 KB, 680x521, IMG_7643.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12002518 Good point, fren.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:42:02 2018 No.12002779 >collected works >selection of works >complete collection Anyone saying anything like this is clearly in breach of the rules

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:50:50 2018 No.12002798 >>12002779 OP here I agree that it's gay but I didn't specify in the rules to be fair. Oh well

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:53:26 2018 No.12002808 >>12002516 i pick only cozy books

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:54:59 2018 No.12002815 >>12002798 >5 books A collection, or otherwise similar, is not a book (singular). It's clear in the OP what you were meaning. These fuckers are cheating and taking the piss, strike their answers from the record! Maintain the integrity of the thread!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:55:09 2018 No.12002816 Not a single person picked Don Quixote. Disgusting

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 00:56:11 2018 No.12002819 >>12002816 I might, haven't decided yet

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 01:03:49 2018 No.12002854 >>12002816 Not enough existential dread or epic drama, I'd say.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 01:20:00 2018 No.12002903 >>12002516 What 5 books would make the most interesting high quality author? >Plutarch’s Lives >Shakespeare’s Works >Don Quixote >Complete Plato >something with less influence today like The Arabian Nights maybe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 01:23:37 2018 No.12002910 >>12002903 What if you had to pick something that was under 200 pages long?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 01:24:54 2018 No.12002914 >>12002903 >mom says you can have one thing out of the fridge >"the fridge!" literally you

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 29 01:30:10 2018 No.12002933 >>12002553 >>12002562 >>12002676 >>12002761 >>12002903 see >>12002779

Anonymous Mon Oct 29 01:55:14 2018 No.12002995

>>12002516
Shahname, Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Dao De Jing...not sure on the last. King Lear, maybe.
>>12002588
based tbqh
>>12002739
>Is it because serious authors more often than not expect to be treated as unique and not "one of the bunch"?
there's a long rhetorical tradition that low vernacular and comedy are for depicting the common person and that prestige language and tragedy are for depicting the heroic. but that's a tradition that is almost entirely discarded by the classic works you mention. Dante is using the vernacular of his native Tuscan to write a dry satire that nevertheless describes the path to God, which by the rhetorical tradition is a subject that should be done in Latin, and Marquez is writing about the very human and funny Buendias as a way to show the day-year-century-long struggles of the many unnamed people of his home country.
Even the Odyssey, the work that seemingly adheres most to the idea that 'serious' work is separate from mundane or humorous writing, in its austerely external description contains the extremely human moments. A son seeks after his father on the merest of rumours, a wife holds on to all hope beyond reason that her husband is alive after 20 years, a man comes home to be recognized only by his faithful hound—etc. These aren't the epic clashes of gods and heroes, but they tie the work together and allow immense emotion. The struggle against Poseidon's curse is pointless if Odysseus arrives home without these smaller marvels.

>>	R Y S S C A N D V S !KNDYYIIins Mon Oct 29 02:06:24 2018 No.12003028 — "ESCRITOS DIVERSOS" DE AGUSTÍN DE ITURBIDE. — "PISTIS SOPHIA". — THE NAG HAMMADI BIBLE. — "FRAGMENTS" OF HERAKLITOS. — "KINDER UND HAUSMÄRCHEN".

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