/lit/ - Literature

Heart of Darkness

The Grapes of Wrath

>>18363522

>>18363522
Moby-Dick

>>18363522

If I could choose one author's work in a single volume, for example: "Shakespeare's complete works" or "The Complete Fiction of Tolstoy" then it would be one of those. To me these are the greatest writers of all time. Dante deserves to be with them, but I only like a few passages from his work.

On second thought, if I could pick the "complete works in one volume", it would be Shakespeare, no doubt.

>But since the thread is about a single book, by far my favorite book is 100 Years of Solitude.

>>18364069
>100 Years of Solitude
ive tried chronicle of a death foretold and drop it
kind of boring

Favourite novel is The Brothers Karamazov. Favourite book overall is A Thousand Plateaus.

Just recently bought the Ignat Avsey translation of The Idiot, am pretty excited to read it since his translation of TBK is by far the best.

We have always lived in the castle

>>18363522
good choice

Der Zauberberg.

>>18363522
Don Quixote

American Psycho,
admittedly only finished it decently recently however im sure itll stay high on my list for a long time

>>18364004
I hope you're joking, Heart of Darkness is among the worst books I've ever read.

>>18364086

Nothing in Marquez body or work comes even close to 100 years.

Infinite Jest
I want to Kill myself
Why am I such a meme
Why am I so alone

>>18363522
Jerusalem by Alan Moore

>>18364224
Reading this rn. Very funny. Like a 1980s Kafka set in wallstreet

>>18364089
Like a lot of Dosto there are parts in The Idiot that can drag on or need editing but still a great book. The recounting of a prisoner’s execution near the start remains among one of the top scenes I’ve read in literature. Must have been therapeutic writing that given dosto’s own experience

>>18364064
It's really fucking hard to read isn't it. I can't seem to binge it.

>>18363522
Why's that your favourite lad? I literally just finished it yesterday, and while I did like it a fair bit, it's not even close to a favourite book of them all type thing

Candide by Voltaire

>>18364042
based, for me is a close second.
pic related is number 1

>>18364086
I agree with 100 years but I also enjoyed chronicle. I read it first though so that’s probably why. I don’t think I’ll ever read anything again that will compare to 100 years of solitude

>>18363522
The Trial

>>18363522
Les Essais

Emma by Jane Austen!

Fight me.

Ferdydurke

>>18366562
i wanna kiss you, not fight you.

Napoleon by Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle,a Jewish bolshevist.

>>18363522
unironically The Goldfinch

>>18364086
that one wasnt great but I still enjoyed it. but yeah not groundbreaking or anything

>>18363522
Based OP.

Picture of Dorian Gray here

>>18363522
Frankenstein

Mason and Dixon, read at least once a year for the past five

The Recognitions. It's so good I keep re-reading it.

Canterbury Tales

Paradise Lost by Milton

Alternates between The Idiot or Blood Meridian

The Hobbit because it invoked the greatest emotional reaction out of me, as I read it as a child.

I'm reading Walden rn because I like nature but it's so boring that I think I'm going to drop it. Maybe as a non American it's not clicking with me

>>18368903
Is it worth it to keep going /lit/bros or should I drop it?

>>18364004
Cringe
>>18364037
Good
>>18364042
Cringe & pseud
>>18364064
Based
>>18364069
V based
>>18364089
Good
>>18364150
Good
>>18364224
This is a 25+ board, buddy
>>18364501
L.
>>18364512
DUDE MAGICK & CROWLEY, AND SHIT, DUUDEE
>>18365633
Ehhh comme ci comme ca
>>18365668
Cool
>>18365696
Ugh
>>18366562
Cute & probably a woman
>>18366592
How is that? I'm reading the Roberts biography
>>18366603
Thumbs-down
>>18366833
Gay
>>18367148
Based!
>>18367171
Ugh
>>18368124
Eh
>>18368160
Nice
>>18368170
Cool B-)
>>18368245
Pseud
>>18368641
Basado! and comfy
>>18368903
Also based & comfé
>Meanwhile: picrel

>>18368937

>Ehhh
>Ugh
>Cool B-)
>Eh

Stop dilating you fucking transexual, ywnbaw.

>>18364469
thats the problem if you read 100 years of solitude first and then try Marquez other works. They all suck balls in comparison.

The Sound and the Fury is the GAN as far as I'm concerned. It's fucking drenched in raw humanity with prose that's nothing short of literal mastery. Faulkner is the greatest American novelist and The Sound and the Fury is his masterpiece.

>>18364384
filtered

>>18369023
Dilate & seethe, fagnoramous

>>18368937
>DUDE MAGICK & CROWLEY, AND SHIT, DUUDEE
t. has never read Moore

>>18369059
Yes I have.

>>18369062
Why do you like dicks so much?

>>18369056

You're the tranny that uses autistic reddit jargon and hates right-wing works. Literally a deranged transexual. The cleansing will come soon. Get ready.

>>18368937

Also,

>Cute & probably a woman

Omg it's a woman guys !!! Wow I think I might have identified a human of the female gender on an anonymous board !!! I'll say that her book pick is cute (because she's a female and its a correlation, totally not because I simp for every crumb of female presence so I jump at the opportunity to call someone's favorite book "cute", instead of any other suitable adjective).

Tranny simp.

>>18369244
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>>18369318
Take your meds, immediately.

>>18369341

Only if you stop mutilating your body and dressing up as a woman, subhuman tranny.

>>18369341
Meds

>>18363522
The Horse and His Boy hands down, I love that book.

>>18363522
Aplogy - Plato

>>18369651
based

I prefer The Silver Chair myself

Lolita. Probably the book I revisit the most. That may partially be because it isn't too long.

>>18363522
the bible
>what's your favorite section?
all of them

>>18366567
Yes lad

>>18365633
i hope this is a joke. everyone on this board has bad takes

>>18368929
It's a short book isn't it? Just power through it desu just to say you've read it.

>>18366562
no yr right

I'll always love the Hobbit and the Two Tower. I don't care if it's normie as fuck. My grandma would read them to me as a kid and ever since I've been fascinated with living a slow life.

>>18372026
the Two Towers*

>>18363522

Romance "les miserables"
Novel "death of ivan il'ic"
Short Story "the overcoat"
Play "the lady from the sea"
Memoirs "my prisons: memoirs of silvio pellico"

Salammbô

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>>18372033
I love them too. I'd like Fellowship more if pages 100-250 were heavily edited down

Coming up for air from George Orwell. Honestly I related to it the most from anything ive ever read. There's better books out there for sure but this one hits me in the feels.

Blood Meridian. No Country was great as well but BM was fantastic

either skylark by kosztolanyi or the unconsoled by ishiguro.

I just started reading last year but so far Siddhartha has been my favourite. :)

>>18363522
Fathers and Sons. I don't know why but it's always stuck out to me.

Anna Karenina.
Raised in the Deep South where "Society" is still very much a thing including the Debutantes, loved trains as a kid, and am a child of divorce.

Plus Levin is max /comfy/

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>>18369055
I know taste in literature is subjective but Heart of Darkness was trash.

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>>18364150
>>18365668
>>18366833
>>18367148
>>18371674
All based and good choices. Pic related is my number one. Peake is a master.

hamlet

It's hard to choose but Middlemarch is up there for me.

>>18371990
get fucked, bitch.
name one (1) better book

>>18374302
why do you choose this over Gormenghast? both are good I'm just curious

A Single Man by Isherwood

>>18372070
(you)

>>18369651
Based. The best Narn by far.