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>> No.14007440

War & Peace.

>> No.14007449

The Bible (Douay-Rheims Version)

>> No.14007483

Master and Margaret

>> No.14007485

>>14007433
The Horse and His Boy

>> No.14007588
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lolita

>> No.14008048
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>> No.14008067

Candide

>> No.14008069

Um actually it’s uhh umm Infinite Jest by uhhh this guy named David F-Foster Wallace. You might- You might know him maybe, he’s the guy that uhhh killed himself? Haha yeah.

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Moby-Dick

>> No.14009108

>>14008097
I don't think the hyphen is correct

>> No.14009127

>>14007433
pale fire
simple as

>> No.14009134

Discounting Anna Karenina it’s The Sword of Honor by Waugh (counting the three books as one).

>> No.14009139

>>14009127
cross-board memeing
nice la

>> No.14009148

>>14007433

The Poetica Edda

>> No.14009155
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>>14009108

>> No.14009156

Hard to say but probably Notes from Underground

>> No.14009165

>>14009155
I stand corrected

>> No.14009203

>>14007433
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

>> No.14009260

Favorite depends on the day, but one of the following:
2666
Pale Fire
The Waves
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler...
Absalom, Absalom!
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man

>> No.14009269

>>14009260
good stuff, got the waves on my list

>> No.14009303

>>14007433
Les Chants de Maldoror

>> No.14009308

>>14009203
this

>> No.14009455

>>14007433
The Wind in the Willows

>> No.14009613

Go Rin no Sho
by Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

>> No.14009618

Pandora's Star

>> No.14009638

>>14009108
>>14009155
Yeah, hyphen for the name of the book and no hyphen for the name of the whale.

>> No.14009661

Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

>> No.14009691

>>14009661
Uuuuh, who are you as a person?
What do you study/where do you work? What are your hobbies other than reading?

Can't imagine I would put T.S. as my favorite so I'm curious

>> No.14009720

>>14009691
Im an INFP 9w1, 26 y/o male.
I work as a film photographer full time.
Other hobbies are journaling, mediatiating, simple thinking about my life, i jump between all sorts of creative projects but finish none. Im drawn to sad things - thats why i loved Tartar steppe.

Your turn now.

>> No.14009780

>>14009720
Interesting, thanks for the reply.

>your turn now
Well, since you were patient to reply yourself..
20 yo male, introvert (can't classify myself more specifically)
Applied math/CS undergrad student.
Other hobbies are 2d animation, wood carving, reading random sections in study books (anatomy currently) and formerly judo. I'm the >>14007483 poster

>> No.14009920
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Natten til Fandens geburtsdag, by Max Mauser (Jonas Lie) 1934.

>> No.14009976

>>14007433
The Old Man and the Sea

>> No.14010074

Probably still Jane Eyre

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>>14008048
this is the real shit, more of Cirque Du Freak man myself

>> No.14010906

>>14009260
Excellent taste. Those books aren't really similar thematically, I like how much variety you have when it comes to your taste.

>> No.14010945

Paradise Lost

>> No.14010995

>>14007433
The Ego and Its Own
The Fall
The Picture of Dorian Gray (So I can relate to Lord Henry)

>> No.14011057

stoner

>inb4 haha entry level retard
yeah that's right, i just started seriously reading this year!

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>>14007433
He's real...

>> No.14011081

>>14007433
Call me pleb if you wish but it’s No Longer Human.

>> No.14011151
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>>14007433

can't think of the name of it, but it's a Douglas Adams book and I think it has these elephants drinking beer while they explained something

before you post, go look it up
I'm looking it up using un-artificial intelligence

>> No.14011221

I don't know. I can't recall off the top of my head all the books ive read and order them. i like a book called moravagine but i dont know if its my favorite but i thought of it when writing this that i enjoyed it thoroughly

>> No.14011237

The decameron

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Gotta be pic related.

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>>14011250
Lol whoops, although I've probably COOMED to that pic like fifty times.

>> No.14011273

>>14011250
mmmm big titties griffin mmmmmmmmmmm

>> No.14011334

>>14011250
>>14011258
Good bird, good book.

>> No.14011356

>>14011250
HNNNNG GRIFFON TITS

>> No.14011886

Either The Good Soldier Svejk or The Sleepwalkers.

>> No.14012025

The Norron Ordbok. It help translates the Norse poems in a way that helps give better understanding to the deeper meanings and allegories.

>> No.14012333

>>14009780
You and I share the same personality types and age. Been recommended Tartar Steppes before cause it was an "INFP book", but now it's definitely up there on my list.

Good luck to you, whoever you are. May the light of God shine down upon you

>> No.14012457

>>14011250
Based furfaggot

>> No.14012559

>>14012025
based and paganpilled

>> No.14012928

>>14011068
Life imitates art.

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>>14007433
probably has to be The Leopard

>>14011250
>

>> No.14012990

The Straw Men.

>>14009613
Good book, weird favorite though.

>> No.14013027

>>14007433
Seems like a swell chap

>> No.14013152

Frankenstein

>>14007485
Best Narn desu.

>> No.14013157

Lonesome Dove

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>>14007433

>> No.14014496

The time traveler's wife

>> No.14015018

>>14009269
>>14010906
>see ma i knew reading all those books would pay off some time
Do you guys have any recommendations for post-2000's /lit/? My favorite more contemporary stuff has been:
2666 (again),
10:04 - Ben Lerner
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt

I can't stand Franzen, no matter how often he gets recommended.

>> No.14015725

>>14007433
The growth of the soil

>> No.14015987

>>14011250
Tits are too big imho

>> No.14015992

>>14007440
Soap Opera
>>14007449
Not suffering through king james 0/10
>>14007485
What are you, christian?
>>14007588
Terrifying. Literally. One of those things you dont understand until you read it
>>14008097
Generic
>>14009203
The story behind the creation is cool
>>14009455
Had to have your old little bedtime story?
>>14009976
JESUS. LITERALLY.
>>14013152
He's only running away from his problems the entire book
Lol I'm kidding love all of these books. My favorite book though is probably Mistborn bc fantasy nerd.
Please dont hurt me it was only a joke.

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>>14012938
>>14012457
>>14011356
>>14011334
>>14011273
>>14011250
Stop COOMING to huge titted catbirds.

>> No.14017765

Musashi by Yoshikawa

>> No.14017807

>>14007433
Hard choice, but probably Arbian Nights
>>14007483
>>14007588
>>14008067
>>14009156
>>14009203
>>14009303
If on a winter night a traveler >>14009260
Good choice

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>book
Fucking poofter the lot of you

>> No.14018111

>>14017882
https://youtu.be/596vi4HLNj4

>> No.14018119

>>14017882
havin' a pint moite?

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>>14018111
Absolute mad lad

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>My favourite book? It's gotta be Dream of the Red Chamber

>> No.14018596

>>14018125
wtf is up with that image

>> No.14018601

Journey to the End of the Night
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Magic Mountain
Introduction to Logic
Ancient Greece

>> No.14019073

>>14015018
White Teeth by zadie smith

came out in 2000 if that counts...

>> No.14019095

>>14018125
Typical for a leeching commie to have zero Photoshop skills.

>> No.14019347

>>14018596
Its snowing obviously.

>> No.14019506

>>14007433
holy shit those are huge fingers

>> No.14020421

>>14019506
Not really...?

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Do you fags even /lit/?

>> No.14021056

>>14020421
dude can't even fit his pinky inside the handle.
>>14020430
your website was funny 17 years ago, now fuck off

>> No.14021060
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The Divine Right of Kings

>> No.14021402

>>14019506
Its those heart issues.

>> No.14021409

>ctrl+f Gulliver
>0 results
son I am disappoint

>> No.14021834

Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa

>> No.14023048

>>14021834
Good post

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>>14011250

>> No.14023497

>>14007433
The Death Mage who doesn't want a fourth time

>> No.14024028

>>14007433
Don Quixote

>> No.14024076

>>14007433
Mein Kampf

>> No.14024248

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. His is the perfection of Latinate English prose writing and I know no other historian who can compare. Thank God it's 8 volumes long because I never want it to end

>> No.14024281

>>14008048
not even the best one

also everything to do with bec is shit

>> No.14024291

>>14007433
Honestly don't have one. I don't really like books, at least not fiction.

>> No.14024311

>>14007433
The Fellowship of the Ring

>> No.14024324

Ferdydurke

>> No.14024369

>>14007433
Ulysses by Joyce

>> No.14024397

>>14007433
Hard to choose one but my five are
1.the silmarillion
2.do androids dream of electric sheep
3. mediations
4. canterbury tales
5.beowulf
Extra
The Iliad
works of Aristotle

>> No.14024398

The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov

or Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky

or Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan

or The Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Mishima

>> No.14024418

>>14009720
>>14009780
queers

>> No.14024464

>>14007433
Crime and punishment. Raskolnikov living in a cupboard, sinning and forgiving himself spoke to me in my youth. I think there's a desperation in all of us that we placate and eventually absolve from self pity.

>> No.14024535

The Good Soldier Svejk

>> No.14024540

Either/Or

>> No.14024579

>>14024540
That's a great book as well as album. I'd reccomend both equally. Kierkegaard is an insightful philosopher and Elliott Smith is one of the greatest composers born in the past 200 years.