/lit/ - Literature

You've read every book evare written so you can decide the 5 best of these books? that's cool .

>>2031228

You're right, I should have said the five greatest books you've ever read. My bad.

>>2031229
I WAS GOING TO SAY

OTHERWISE YOUR LIST WOULD'VE MADE ME LAUGH. I MEAN, THREE OUT OF FROM SOUTH AMERICA?

DELETE THIS THREAD AND REMAKE IT WITH ADJUSTMENTS TO ORIGINAL POST.

>>2031236

Not really necessary to make another thread, I think most people will understand what I meant.

>Game of Thrones
>Clash of Kings
>Storm of Swords
>Feast for Crows
>Dance with Dragons

>>2031243

>this is what /lit/ actually believes

Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Hadji Murad - Tolstoy
Death of Ivan Illych - Tolstoy
How Much Land Does a Man Need - Tolstoy
The Gospel in Brief - Tolsoy

No spoilers, I'm serious.

>>2031253

Derp

IN NO ORDER AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, MAY NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF CAPSGUY

1. LIFE AND FATE - GROSSMAN
2. DEMONS/THE IDIOT - DOSTOEVSKY
3. HADJI MURAD/WAR AND PEACE - TOLSTOY
4. GERMINAL - ZOLA
5. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION - FLAUBERT

bumpam

>>2031271

The Idiot is pretty bad.

>>2031285
THAT'S COOL AS MAN

Oh is this thread again. Ok,

The Sound and the Fury - WF
Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
The Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

No particular order.

>>2031292


I was planning a trip to the library tomorrow, is Tropic of Cancer really as good as everybody says it is?

>>2031299

Yes.

>>2031285
You are pretty bad.

>>2031318
No, man. YOU are pretty bad.

>>2031325
>>2031318

Ohh, snap!

Well from what I have read so far...

1. Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

rest in no order:

Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
Kafka - The Trial
Orwell - 1984
Dante - Inferno

>>2031330

Could you be any more underage?

In no particular order:

>David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
>Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
>Greek Mythology
>The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
>One Hundred Years of Solitude - G. G. Marques

THANKS FOR BACKING ME UP GUYS

>>2031253
This is probably a troll list but it's the best and most accurate so far if we're saying 5 books that everyone should read.

Why? Because Tolstoy is insanely readable and accessible. Have fun getting people to read The Sound and the Fury or anything by Kafka and coming away with anything, not that they're bad.

Anna Karenina might be long, but the rest are very short and deeply moving.

>>2031342

Oh well... I just started reading classic literature a year ago and have read maybe 10 to 15 novels so far. These are the ones I thought were the best and are better then the other books I have read before.

So yeah maybe the list is pretty 'standard' or 'underage' or whatever, but I just haven't read all the books I want to read yet. But I think its way better than actually put these books in here, then some others that are somehow 'exotic' or not 'well read' just to be 'cool'.

>>2031358

Don't bother with him, your list is fine. All those books are amazing, despite being rather entry level.

>>2031358
Great Gatsby is a great book, despite having the High School stigma. The downfalls of the American Dream, it's definitely a must read.

>>2031358
Of course somebody like you would think well read people are simply trying to look cool. You need them to do that to validate yourself and hide your faggoty insecurities. Get raped.

>>2031373

How about you go choke on a dick and accept that everyone has to start somewhere.

>>2031373

Oh boy, I would love to see what are your five favorite books.

>>2031373
IF YOU WERE TRYING TO LOOK COOL, SAYING THAT YOU'VE READ 'X' AND 'X' ISN'T GOING TO HELP.

I THINK YOU'RE JUST A DICKHEAD

bump for more lists!

>>2031358
Makin /lit safe for the teenagers, kudos

>>2031373
>Doesn't post his favourite books
>Insults another poster who did

Fucking cancer.

>>2031373

Ok man you probably didn't really get my argument there. What I want to say is not that people that are well read are trying to be cool...
What I wanted to say is, that I am not going to put up a fake list of books that are special or hard or whatever just to make the impression to be well read.
I know that I am reading entry level literature right now, so my list consists on entry level literature. I am not ashamed that I haven't read Ulysses or other 'harder' books yet. I am planning to. But as it is now, this is my list. And yeah maybe I am not well read right now, but it takes time. You can't expect someone who just got into classics to have read hundreths of books.

Bumpam! There is much to read, but so little time! Post your bests!

this new wave of tripfags really suck

>>2031402
The first book I ever read was a thesaurus.

I can take anything you dish out.
I am twice the man you will ever be.

>>2031397

>mfw I'm 23 and still haven't read Gatsby, Dante's Inferno or finished The Trial

My top 5 that I've actually read;

Winters Tale
Othello
The Theban Plays
Streetcar named desire
King Lear

Fuck bitches, read plays.

>>2031433

Swap out Lear for The Stranger, actually.

books that everyone should read, i dunno. i really liked brother's karamazov, but 700 pages of hysterical russians is not for everyone.

>>2031417
>that feel when you finally meet an old fat guy that at least let you cum too before kicking you out of his car and have to walk 39 mins to the station then home late
i... i think im in love... im so touched.

or maybe just drunk. >.<< but i think this one is a sticker

>>2031429

Oh now you start with the grammer insults. For your information, not everyone here is a native English speaker, so people make typos.
Also if you are twice the man I will ever be, be happy about it. So you are better than an anonymous poster on the internet? I congratulate you sir. Well done!

Hopefully this time you are able to see the irony in this...

>>2031456
Stop replying to the tripfuck.

>>2031224
>>2031292

>The Sound and the Fury

read this recently. why do you like it so much?

Into the shark tank I go....
In no particular order:

The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
Nausea- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Elegant Universe- Brian Greene
A People's History of the United States- Howard Zinn
The Brothers Karamazoy- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>>2031236

Saramago is not from South America.

>>2031489

Dammit. *Karamazov*
My bad.

>>2031481
I'm not the one you're quoting, but it was one of the most engrossing and entertaining and maddening things I've ever read.

>>2031495

I agree with this guy. The Sound and the Fury painted one of the most insightful pictures of humanity that I've ever come across. Once you wade through Faulkner's manhandling of the English language, the humor, irony, and truth of the situations and characters really shines through. Excellent read. Funny as all hell...in the most depressing way possible.

>>2031417
I can't even tell them apart anymore.

>>2031532

I'm only dropping in tonight from /sp/ because I finished reading a book. I won't be here long.

>>2031489

Which one is better: Brothers Karamazov or Letters from Underground?

>>2031455
Are you for real bro? No one's gonna believe a hoe posts on here get a life.

>>2031543

Both are shit.

>>2031481

I don't really know to be honest. I just hits deep. TSATF is not my favorite by any means, but I think it is one of the most well written books I've read.

The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Metamorphosis
Don Quixote
Sentimental Education
Collected Gogol

>>2031557

Never heard about Sentimental Education before. Is it better than Madame Bouvary?

Dostoevsky is for teenagers only. Not a writer "everyone" should read, that's Tolstoy.

>>2031562
Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust and Woody Allen would tell you yes.

>>2031542
?

Reading this thread I was thinking about getting:

>Sentimental Education
>Madame Bovary
>Nausea
>Candide
>Brothers Karamazov
>Myth of Sisyphus

Any better suggestions? If not, in which other do you think I should read those?

>>2031575
>>2031575
Skip the Nausea and Candide. The rest you'll enjoy a lot.

>>2031575

Read the Nausea and Candide. The rest you'll skip a lot.

>>2031579
>>2031583

Damn.

>>2031579

Fuck you, Candide is amazing.

>>2031589
It's library-tier. As in, borrow it from a library.

Native frenchspeaker here if that helps.

>>2031592

Not sure I understood you. Being library tier is a bad thing?

Bump.

>>2031596
It sounded like you wanted to buy those titles. I say sign it out from the library, after reading/buying the other ones.

They're pretty entry-level choices. I'd say go with the Camus and Dostoevksy first. They're good books to get you to love reading. Flaubert is amazing but he can be an acquired taste.

Invisible Man - Ellison
The Master & Margarita - Bulgakov
Portrait - Joyce
The Fall - Camus
...
.......Franny & Zooey - Salinger

>>2031455
>>2031568

bumpin' an interesting thread and for tybrax! :3

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer

Only 4 are enough. I think everyone should read these 4, understand how pathetic humanity is, and just give up and kill themselves.

>>2031224
>Blindness , Saramago

Oh lord no. Lord forgive this child. I'm fucking dizzy with rage. That book, so shitty. Just plain dumb as fuck. Oh god why would you like that book?

Grapes of Wrath

Just one, read it.

>The Bible
>The Divine Comedy
>The Masnavi
>Gargantua & Pantagruel
>Bravo Two Zero

1) Gravity's Rainbow
2) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
3) Twilight of the Idols
4) Stranger in a Strange Land
5) Lord of the Light

The Grapes of Wrath
On the Road
The Catcher in the Rye
Ham on Rye (I enjoy rye-themed literature)
The Sun Also Rises
(The Good Soldier)

I've read Mrs Dalloway, The Sound and the Fury, and Ulysses, and interesting as they are, they don't excite me.

Alright, I will give my top 5 in no particular order-

1.) Dante - Divine Comedy ( not just the Inferno, damnit; and yes! They all count as one poem).

2.) Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

3.) J.W. von Gothe - The Sorrows of Young Werther

4.) Voltaire - Candide

5.) The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse

>>2032382


# J.W. von Goethe - Sorry, I made a typo.

>>2031579

Anything by Voltaire is amazing. Shut your whore-mouth.

so do mods delete posts instead of threads now or should i be worried someone is HACKING my internet connection?

?

>>2032646
I've had a couple of posts deleted. Specifically the one in which I talked about how I sold weed to the actor who plays Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones.

The Iliad
Don Quixote
Henry V
Sentimental Education
In Search of Lost Time (all 6 volumes as one book, bitches)

>>2032667
thanks. that's kind of weird.

>>2032684

Did you really read Proust? Cause then you should know it's actually 7 volumes, not 6. But whatever...

>>2032736
not that guy but he's right if he means the english translation or at least montcrieff's. prisonniere and fugitive/albertine disparue are presented in a single volume even though they are technically separate works. and what form the final 3 volumes would have taken had proust finished them is up for debate anyway. so quit being a dick.

I've not read enough yet to post anything that decisive but I'll say provisionally:

Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Bovary
DeLillo's Underworld
Moby Dick

Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Hobsbawm - The Age of Capital, Age of Revolution and Age of Empire
Milton - Paradise Lost
Shakespeare - Sonnets
Eliot - Four Quartets

>The Stranger - Camus
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
>A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
>On the Road - Jack Kerouac
>Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Really have to read One Hundred Years of Solitude.

>>2032732
I had a moderately racist Mark Twain post a few weeks back in the /lit/ rap thread that got deleted.

Salt in the wound: someone made an unfunny one afterwards.

Finnegans Wake
Ulysses
2666
Don Quixote
La Commedia

It's not hard.

>>2032870
Nixon?

Death on the installment plan
The Sound and the Fury
Brothers Karamazov
Odyssey
Ullyses

>>2032870
Don't worry, none of them were funny

Shakespeare's tragedies
The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
The Canterbury Tales
Paradise Lost

>>2032684
Really good taste