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Anonymous Mon Jul 25 15:58:25 2011 No.1957952 [Reply] [Original]

I have compiled a list of books I am going to look for today from my own searching and recommendations of friends and coworkers. This is the list as it stands, I have read none of these

Slaughter House 5
Breakfast of Champions
Cats Cradle
Catch 22
Picture of Dorian Gray
The Caves of Steel
Foundation
The Complete Robot
Anansi Boys
House of Leaves
Catcher in the Rye
Infinite Jest
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Scanner Darkly
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Man in the High Tower
1984
A Brave New World
A Salty Piece of Land

Anything you all would like to add? I have Game of Thrones, but have not yet read it. I absolutely love the Ender series, Dune and Fahrenheit 451

I am also going to look for a few comics/graphic novels, I have Cowboys and Aliens, Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader (really hoping to find the volume of this) and Asterios Polyp

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:05:25 2011 No.1957967 Just realized I forgot to put Heinlein on the list +The Moon is a Harsh Mistress +Stranger in a Strange Land And yes, I already poured over /lit/s wikia at the top

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:13:25 2011 No.1957985 I'll just assume you all are crafting very long lists for me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:13:25 2011 No.1957987 This is all either entry-level or pretentous-hipster-level. You need to be looking at pre-Victorian stuff. That'll whack some morality into you. I suggest that you begin with The Canterbury Tales (in translation if you like) and work forwards.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:17:25 2011 No.1957992

Picture of Dorian Gray is boring.
House of Leaves is fuckawesome.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and everything else Hunter S. Thompson wrote) is wonderful.

You should read the Dune series as well. And add Starship Troopers to Heinlein.
And the 2001 series.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:17:25 2011 No.1957993

>>1957952
You should mix in at least one novel from some of the *greatest* writers. If you've never read Vonnegut before you probably have too much of him on there. Choose one book from Hemingway,Faulkner,Fitzgerald,Steinbeck, or Joyce if you are into him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:19:25 2011 No.1958003 >>1957993 >naming a few examples of the 'greatest' writers without leaving the 20th century or even naming the best 20c writers

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:21:25 2011 No.1958009 >>1957993 I've read some Fitzgerald but none of the others. What specifically would you recommend, a work that truly defines the author?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:22:25 2011 No.1958012 >1958003 >Implying a majority of the greatest novelist in history didn't write between 1900-1950 Suck it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:24:25 2011 No.1958016 >>1958012 I was talking about writers, not novelists. Novels suck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:29:25 2011 No.1958029 >>1958016 >Novels Suck >/lit/ >/lit/ >/lit/ Watch yur' tone boy.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:30:25 2011 No.1958036
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If you want your mind blown, read "Letters of Insurgents" written by Fredy Perlman, but under the fictious pen-names of "Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vochek".
830 pages that make you re-evaluate everything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:30:25 2011 No.1958037 >>1958029 Literature includes a lot more than just those paperweights. Poetry and plays (or, even better, both at once) are lightyears ahead.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 25 16:37:25 2011 No.1958050

Hemingway:The Sun Also Rises,Old man and the Sea, A farewell to arms (also a lot of great short stories

Faulkner:Sound and the Fury,As i Lay dying

Fitzgerald:Gatsby,This Side of Paradise

Steinbeck:Grapes of Wrath,East of Eden,Of Mice and Men

Joyce:Portrait of an Artist as a Young man, Dubliners, Ulysses

Pick em'

>>	Insinuates gODS Mon Jul 25 21:57:25 2011 No.1958759 Why not just buy e-reader and pirate it all.

>>	Sammiches Mon Jul 25 22:02:25 2011 No.1958768 >>1958050 I liked As I Lay Dying. also A Prayer for Owen Meany.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 25 22:02:25 2011 No.1958771 Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky Ulysses or Finnegans Wake: James Joyce Les Miserables: Victor Hugo Don Quixote: Miguel de Cervantes A Song of Ice and Fire Series: George RR Martin