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19054681 No.19054681 [Reply] [Original]

>So you say you love to read? What’s your favorite book?
Am I the only one who cannot answer this question?
How can anyone possibly choose a favorite book?
It feels downright foolish to compare Anna Karenina to The Count of Monte Cristo to Moby Dick to any of the numerous other great novels I have read and tell someone that I prefer one over the other.

>> No.19054729

>Am I the only one who cannot answer this question?
More evidence that reading doesn't make you less of a brainlet.

>> No.19054756

Just say Hamlet and then immediately start reciting the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, very loudly and passionately.
They'll not ask you about anything ever again.

>> No.19054932

Pro tip, the person asking you that doesn't actually care what your answer is. You could literally say anything is your favorite book and the conversation would continue no differently

>> No.19054950

just tell them Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P Lovecraft

>> No.19054963
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>>19054932
This. Just say your favourite is Call of the crocodile.

>> No.19054987

>>19054681
I can answer my favorite book is Industrial Society and Its Future by virtue of how much it impacted my world view.

>> No.19055014

>>19054963
But da arcade is better

>> No.19055038

>>19054681
It's very easy. Bulgakov's M&M.

>> No.19055048

>>19054681
>Having a favourite book

>> No.19055133

>>19054681
>How can anyone possibly choose a favorite book?
Find out which book you like the best. That is your favorite book. Mine is Jurassic Park

>> No.19055169

Just explain yourself jesus
>oh there's too many to name but I really loved anna karenina because blah blah blah oh and moby dick blah blah blah
It's not that hard you fucking autist holy shit

>> No.19055180

>>19054756
Thanks anon I kek'd

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at least it's the one I've read the most