/lit/ - Literature

>>19356437
embarrassing list OP

>>19356437
Cancer ward
First circle
Marat/Sade
Accidental death of an anarchist
The measures taken.

>>19356437
Moby D
TBK
Blood Meridian
Macbeth
The Illiad

Mill On The Floss - George Eliot
Turn Of The Screw - Henry James
Iliad
Dubliners - James Joyce
Growth Of The Soil - Hamsun

Oblomov
Death of Ivan Illyich
Blood Meridian
Don Quixote
Sartor Resartus

>>19356495
>Moby D
Recomend you to KYS

>>19356518
I'm far beyond that kid

>>19356437
>"just suck this cock and you will achieve
the growth mindset:
>you know what, I WILL suck the cock!
>I didn't make it when I refused to suck the cock, but this time I will! No integrity will stand in my path!
>All those whores who sucked so many cocks to succeed must have become really good at it!
>you are right, I was stupid for not sucking the cock! I should have done it a long time ago!
>I think the success story of this talentless whore who sucked a lot of cock is inspiring in its own way! here I gobble!
The fixed mindset:
>I'm not going to suck a cock.

>>19356537
WOW SUCH A CHAD

KSY faggot

>>19356547
huttburt

>>19356437
Darkness at Noon
Walden Two
Breakfast of Champions
Catch 22
Tree of Smoke

>>19356437
We(zamyatin)
>>19356495
Salaambo
>>19356513
Look homeward, angel
>>19356514
Hero of our times

>>19356560
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

>>19356582
Master and Margarita

>>19356595
>Salaambo
damn this looks sick thank you.
>Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt. Flaubert's principal source was Book I of Polybius's Histories.

Tough to only choose only five but

>The Sound And The Fury by Faulkner
>The Trial by Kafka
>The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
>Sentimental Education by Flaubert
>Buddenbrooks by Mann

>>19356608
Death of Virgil
>>19356607
Yeah I think you will like it based on your choices. Very kino book, probably my favorite of Flaubert's

>>19356624
>Death of Virgil
I really wanted to like The Sleepwalkers but it just seems so forgettable to me. That has made me hesitant to try more Broch. I do need to reread it though as it’s been a few years and some of my favorites today were originally hated by me until I came back with a different perspective and a fresh set of eyes

>>19356437
read more

>>19356647
Honestly it's not as good as the books you chose. It's interesting though.

>>19356437
>The Floating Opera
>The Pale King
>Great Jones Street
>2666
>The Black Tulip

Divina Commedia
Crime and Punishment
Notes from the Underground
Count of Monte Cristo
Fischer's M60MG

>>19356672
actually swap the last two for the top 5. Count is kinda filling the fifth slot. Nice, but not extremely so.

>>19356672
actually swap Count for The Idiot.
kindly suggest a second thing if your first one is russian.

>>19356437
Paradise Lost
Hamlet
The Iliad
The Aeneid
The Sorrows of Young Werther

>>19356749
Paradise Regain'd

War & Peace
The Unconsoled
The Red & The Black
Of Human Bondage
The Tree of Man

>>19356767
On the off chance you haven't read Charterhouse definitely do so

>>19356560
Kill self your?

>>19356598
didnt read your pseudolit, faggot
your favorite book y Moby D, JUST KYS goddamint, dont respond me

>>19356791
Call him Ishmael.

>>19356791
To the laugh I mock thee; from comedy's heart I point at thee; for jest’s sake I roar my laughter at thee.

>>19356437
Against the Day.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
The Quiet American.
The Judgement of Paris.
Journey to the End of the Night.

>>19356767
You might enjoy Cakes and Ale, also by Maugham. Maybe also pick up something by Gore Vidal.

>>19356848
I've read most of Maugham (including that one) but Gore Vidal is someone I have been thinking of reading for a long time. I'll give him a go.

>>19356783
I have and enjoyed it immensely.

>>19356437
Homage to Catalonia.I'm pretty sure you'll want to take a look at that one.

>>19356854
>I've read most of Maugham
The Summing Up? Also strongly recommended.

>Gore Vidal is someone I have been thinking of reading
Your list didn't give me a strong feeling for what to recommend. You might want to take A Judgement of Paris for a spin, but Vidal is all over the place. Both in that specific work's philosophy and the as to the subject matter of his many other works. You can probably figure out what appeals by yourself. Don't overlook his essays though.

The Savage Detectives
The Third Policeman
Gravity's Rainbow
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann's)
Moby Dick


>>19356437
Brave New World, Heart of a Dog, Master and Margarita

>>19356495
Goethe's Faust
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

>>19356514
Against Nature, The Idiot, Candide

>>19356582
A Scanner Darkly, Slaughterhouse 5

>>19356608
The Third Policeman, City of Thieves

>>19356669
Infinite Jest, V., The Name of the Rose

>>19356672
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The Screwtape Letters

Goethe's Faust

Doctor Faustus

Blood Meridian

>>19356829
The Rum Diary, Tropic of Cancer, On the Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Tunnel


Did my best for you guise, probably some shit reccs tho

>>19356801
KEK
trying sooo hard to sound intellectual, yet your fav book is MOBY D
FUCKING LMAOOOOOO

just KYS scumbbag, you dont belong here nor anywhere

>>19356829
recommend you "Lord of the Flies"

>>19356908
Moby Dick literally wins the /lit/ poll year after year. Like a quarter of the board appears to have it as their favorite novel

>>19356900
>Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
sounds pretty based

>>19356908
Moby Dick is god-tier literature, and for very good reasons is held in high regard not only by the collective consciousness but by anyone who braves it to verify its value.

>>19356916
thats very telling, isnt it?
is because this place is infested with pseudo-lit faggots

>>19356923
It is really good and really underrated.

>>19356900
>The Rum Diary,
Very much yes and spot on, but already read.
>Tropic of Cancer, On the Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Tunnel
Will do.

>some shit reccs tho
I doubt that. Your suggestions to me sound pretty solid and appealing, aside from the one preapproved home run which I also recommend for any Thompson fans. Thank you.

>>19356928
As someone who hasn't read Moby Dick, why is it bad?

>>19356927
another faggot detected
im sure you did read Moby D at highschool and NEVER TOUCH AHOTHER BOOK AGAIN
kys plis

>>19356437
Wilhelm Meister
Satyricon
The Magic Mountain
The Man Without Qualities
Don Quixote

>>19356900
>72
quite interesting ones. Most are on my reading list, the first one sounded nice in name, but doesn't seem all that appealing.
I liked Dosto because it was one of the few authors who really got me in there. C&P was just tense and amazing. Notes was gut-wrenching, and i loved the main character.

>>19356943
it isnt. It is just OVERqualified
is like saying The Beatles is the BEST BAND EVER

>>19356943
it isn't

>>19356942
You're welcome, anon.

>>19356954
Private Memoirs... is like a Scottish Faust, a great but very underrated novel, the synopsis that you can find online sets the tone decently and lets you know what you're in for. But for Dosto readers, his best are obviously Brothers K and The Demons, in my opinion.

>>19356900
>The Third Policeman
I actually think this is one of the funniest books I’ve read. I’ll have to check out City Of Thieves.

>>19356912
Thank you. I approve of you recommendation although "done lookied dere; read dat", as it were.

>>19356973
Seriously pondering the long haul to learn and read the ones i've already read and the rest in the original.

>>19356437
Dead Souls-Gogol
The Red and the Black-Stendhal
A Sportsman’s Notebook-Turgenev
Nine Stories-Salinger
The Trial-Kafka

>>19356969
meant to say "overrated"

>>19356969
This is your favorite books, not the best. Books are very personal

Going to post only French books in hopes of French recs

Les faux-monnayeurs - Andre Gide
Le chant du monde - Jean Giono
Le rivage des Syrtes - Julien Gracq
L'amant - Marguerite Duras
Thomas l'obscur - Maurice Blanchot

These are not my favorite novels but I'd greatly appreciate recs for similar types of novels

>>19357097
you got a point.
Its just that looks like every /lit/ user fav book is Moby D and that got annoying over time

>>19357109
It might be overrated for you, but those that have it as a fav probably really liked it and got some bandwagon feelings going. It's not a bad book either.
I'd be annoyed if it was some other trash instead.

>>19357109
I agree. It used to be worse though. Lit tends to go in cycles with flavor of month books. I would bet there were a lot more Pedro Paramo and Moby Dick threads 1-2 years ago. It’s sad to think about, but actual book threads are becoming much more scarce. A lot of new readers find their way to this site, so we get the same 10-20 authors always discussed, though a lot of them are flame wars. Faulkner threads are usually good

>>19357109
Moby Dick is actually that good though. It is by far the most "exciting" reading experience I've ever had. I mean reading a book should not qualify as exciting but it somehow did. It is just such a delirious, beautiful, intense book. Yes I am soifacing over it, I don't care.