/lit/ - Literature

>>12016744
a smart one
brave new world is the most intelligent book ever written in the english language (for whatever that means)

>>12016756
although the first chapter is atrocious and almost made me stop reading

zarathustra -> faust -> rest of nietzsches work -> fyodr dostoyevskis work -> brave new world rest of goethes work -> dante's inferno -> can't be arsed further
to be precise

>>12016744
Someone who stopped reading after high school.

>>12016744
14 year old

>>12016744
Fiction is for women and children

>>12016770
>>12016774
name a better english book

>>12016801
the holy quran in english

>>12016812
now this is epic xD

>>12016744
Someone who posts “>x is my favorite book what type of person do you imagine?” threads on a mongolian mongoose marination enthusiast forum.

>>12016744
someone slightly less obnoxious than the 'my favorite book is 1984' guy

>>12016744
>having a favorite book
wew lad

>>12016744
Some idiot who still did not read 1984

Reminder that Aldous Huxley LOST his sight and CURED HIMSELF. He regained his sight. He is a true visionary. Brave New World is proof of that.

>>12016744
Someone who doesn't read a lot of science fiction.

>>12017889
Name one (3) better sci-fi books

>>12019251
Isolation, Chasm City, Surface Detail

>>12017419
in high school, we had two different english classes - normal english, for the retards with shit grades, and "advanced placement" english for the bigbrains. AP read brave new world while we (retards) read 1984. rly makes u think huh?

>>12016744
Someone who's read Brave New World

>>12019447
hilariously enough, when someone says "X is my favorite book" that is not always the case

>>12016769
are you trolling

I would think the person can identify with Bernard's feeling of beeing different and of not fitting into the mold.

>>12019805
i am not.
care to elaborate on that assumption?

>>12019805
on a second thought i'd probably place BNW > dostoyevksi

>>12020381
>dosto over dante
>nietzsche over dante
>brave new world anywhere NEAR the top

you have some explaining to do mister

>>12020397
i love the writing and themes in brave new world and think it's incredibly relevant today.

imo zarathustra is the perfect book, filled with meaning and wonderful writing (might be harder to get in english and especially other languages as english and german are pretty similar). nietzsche was incredibly intelligent and, like dostoyevski, pretty much predicted the 20th century (same for BNW).

i just don't think dante is that relevant today (and he's still in the list, i really like inferno). note i don't speak more than basic italian so i couldn't read the original text.

>>12020460
>same for BNW
as in predicts our time pretty well

on a sidenote: doors of perception is an intresting read

>>12020460
dante is beyond reproach and his "relevancy" is eternal, in that, he strikes at something so profound in what it means to be a human being. Inferno is also only the first third of his Comedy.

you're just regurgitating Peterson as far as i can tell.

>>12020505
>oh wow someone rated these books sligtly different thani do
>better try to poorly indult him and imply it's not actually his own opinion
bravo /lit/

also if peterson said something similar maybe there's some merit to what i wrote :thinking:

>>12020526
you have irredeemable taste, peterson is a hack and so are you

>>12020658

>>12016801
>Shakespeare, any play.
>Shakespeare, collected poems.
>Dickens, any novel.
>Eliot, Middlemarch
>Joyce, any book.
>Melville, The Piazza Stories and/or Moby Dick
>Whitman, Leaves of Grass
>Dickinson, Complete Poems.
>Salinger, Nine Stories.
The list goes on.

>>12020678
>shakespeare
overrated, the anglos sad attempt to feel like their langugage produced any valuable poetry.
>dickens, joyce
wrote some good books but nothing as significant as BNW imo
>literally who?
haven't read the rest you listed

I read BNW and hope that the future comes to that. But I know too that i'm immature thinking that.

>>12016744
My dumbass friend who told me the same thing

>>12020699
troll

It's my favourite work because of its depiction of the direction of civilisation - hedonic control.

It's also my favourite work because I grew up in the town that inspired BNW.

I strongly emphasise with Huxley's awe yet unease with the industrial-era edifice. Gladstone called my home the mini-Hercules of the Empire; now it's decrepit cooling towers, bare concrete, and the space age coated in pigeon droppings. I can't help marvelling at that moment in time where finally it seemed man was about to emerge as master of the universe, even if I know it to be doomed hubris.

>>12016744
A retard.