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ITT: We post five of our favourite reads (or works we wish to have similar recommendations for) and /lit/ hopefully makes recommendations prior to posting their own 'list'.

I will forego posting my list first, so as to not appear overly greedy. Hope I explained the concept well enough

>> No.3319065

Eh, why not.

Beckett - The Unnamable
Borges - Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Jarry - The Supermale
Abe - Secret Rendezvous
Fernandez - The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)

>> No.3319067

Fucking Lamia. Sitting there, all innocent and sweet, and then pulling her own eyes out for fun and eating babies and shit.

>> No.3319072

The Turner Diaries
Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Blink
American Psycho
The Cave of the Clan Bear

>> No.3319076

>>3319065
Recommending Highly:
Julio Cortázar - Hopscotch
also:
Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Sand
Roberto Bolaño - Savage Detectives
Carlos Fuentes - Where the air is Clear

Mine.
Salvador Dalí - Diary of a Genius
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Psicomagia
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass
Tom Wolfe - Electric Kool-aid Acid Test

>> No.3319100

>>3319065
Have you read any Thomas Bernhard? He feels a bit like an angry version of Beckett sometimes to me. It's not much like The Unnamable though - more his other books.

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Dream Songs - John Berryman
Valis - Philip K. Dick
Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard
Poems - W.B. Yeats

>> No.3319101

Dostoyevsky - Crime & Punishment
Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan
Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (in original poetic form)

>> No.3319103

>>3319072

The Fountainhead
The SCUM Manifesto


Mine:

V.
Absalom, Absalom!
Don Quixote
The Sirens of Titan
Waiting for Godot

>> No.3319107
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3319107

Das Parfum.

>> No.3319133

>>3319103
Since you like Waiting for Godot, you may enjoy Eugene Ionesco. He wrote loads of plays that many people list under the Theater of the Absurd.


Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
The Trial by Franz Kafka
V. by Thomas Pynchon
The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hurbert Selby Jr.

>> No.3319150

Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Mishima - Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World

>> No.3319151

>>3319107
this was just ok
only read it translated though

>> No.3319158

>>3319150
You would like Scorch Atlas if you liked Naked Lunch. I remember reading one reviewer calling Butler the 21st century's Burroughs.

>> No.3319238

>>3319158
never heard of it, probably won't even be available where I live
but thanks

>> No.3319246

>>3319133
Naked Lunch, or American Psycho paired with Lunar Park. I kind of feel one is incomplete without the other.

>> No.3319262

>>3319150
Maybe try some Kobo Abe if you haven't already.

>> No.3319263

>Infinite Jest
>Under the Volcano
>Confessions of a Mask
>The Melancholy of Resistance
>The Third Policeman

>> No.3319266

>>3319151

I don't put it on an objective pedestal, it's not the greatest piece of literature I've ever read or anything. It's just extremely valuable to me on a personal, subjective level.
Though it is not 'just ok'.

>> No.3319272

>>3319266

It's 'just ok' compared to America. That's the greatest country, bitch.

>> No.3319274

>>3319101
You should read Nikolai Gogol's Ukrainian stories. It's Ruski like Dosto, it's funny like Hitchhiker's Guide, it's melodramatic like Conrad, and linguistically pretty like Dante.

The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
The Metamorphosis by Frank Kefka
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard

>> No.3319276

>>3319263

Oh, I see like you like Infinite Jest. I recommend this used, annotated copy of Hamlet I have over at my house. It's missing about twenty pages.

>> No.3319285

>>3319274
>Kefka
I recommend you quit being a faggot

>> No.3319286

>>3319262
I have, The Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another. Both were good, probably liked the first one more because it was an easier read; it suffered from too much similarity to Kafka though. The Face of Another had some brilliance in it but was diluded by getting too essayish at times.

>> No.3319289

>>3319274
do you like Georges Bataille maybe?

>> No.3319333

The Obscene Bird of Night
The Divine Comedy
Candide
Blood Meridian
War and Peace

>> No.3319353

>>3319285
I recommend you have more patience before judging someone because they intentionally misspell Franz Kafka's name.
Or did you have an incident in the past?

>> No.3319367

>>3319353

This is an internet image board. The behaviour displayed here is the only thing they can and will be judged on. Exercising more patience is pointless.

>> No.3319585

>>3319274
>The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
>The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka

Based on those two:
Cortazar - Hopscotch
Kobo Abe - The Woman in the Dunes / The Box Man
Bolaño - Savage Detectives (maybe)

If you are gay (Gide? Kafka? Genet? Those all give a homosexual vibe) I'd definitely recommend Mishima. Not judging btw.

>> No.3319606

>>3319101

Read some Lovecraft...

Mine:

Les Chants de Maldoror
1984
Lovecraft, esp his "dreamtales"
Dante's Divine Comedy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Also, does anyone happen to know of any good literature for someone wishing to study Pythagoras? I am very intrigued by the fragments of his teachings that I have heard of

>> No.3319641

El Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
The Plague - Camus
Kokoro - Soseki
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevski
Journey to the End of the Night - Céline

Please don't mention anything else by these authors as I've already exhausted their bibliographies.

>> No.3319643

The Brothers K, Dosto
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera
Emma, Austen
Journey to the East, Hesse
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Márquez

>> No.3319653

Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Victor Hugo
Dostoevesky
Dickens
Vonnegut
Asimov
Umberto Eco
Tolkien
Conan Doyle

I know, more than five, and authors not reads, but I'm hoping it helps

>> No.3319674

Gravity's Rainbow
The Catcher in the Rye
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
Blood Meridian
Hamlet

Plebby to the max--max pleb.

>> No.3319700

Watership Down - Adams
Abarat (one and two) - Barker
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hugo
Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse in general)

I'm pretty much a baby when it comes to /lit/-tier reading...

>> No.3319739

Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon (Which everyone has read in the first place)
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Kurt Vonnegut - Anything, but my favorite was The Sirens of Titan
William Golding - The Lord of the Flies
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch

All around simple books, but I like simple. There is a certain charisma with the form of these books. Whether it's Charlies god awful handwriting or Burroughs eloquently describing gang violence.

>> No.3321000

>>3319739
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

Now for myself...
The Plague - Camus
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
Cannery Row - Steinbeck
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

>> No.3321010

Comme un Roman - Danniel Pennac
Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick
Zashita Loujina - Nabokov
Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher - Walter Moers (undoubtably the best children's book I've ever read)
The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov

I'm now realizing I read too much science-fiction and children's litterature.

>> No.3321032

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Infinite Jest - DFW
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - HST

>> No.3321061

Eco - The Name of the Rose
Kafka - The Castle
Hugo - Les Misérables
Calvino - Invisible Cities
Plato - The Last Days of Socrates

At the moment I'm reading Blood Meridian and Heart of Darkness, but I would really appreciate some recommendations.

>> No.3321071

>Pedro Paramo
>A Little Larger than the Entire Universe - Fernando Pessoa
>Perfume: Story of a Murderer
>Hebdomeros
>Yeats Mythologies

>> No.3321078

op I really like your waifu.

>> No.3321087

>>3319333
How was the Obscene Bird of Night? I was thinking of reading that one.

>> No.3321099

Demian - Hesse
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Trial - Kafka
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Doyle
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

I'll just pick five out of my list, I don't like having favorites int hings.

>> No.3321118

Metropole
The Trial
Joyce Carol Oates' gothic saga books
Arioflotga
The Melancholy of Resistance

>> No.3321554

Flowers for Algernon
Fahrenheit 451
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Neverending Story
The Hyperion Cantos (it's all one book to me!)

>> No.3321564

>>3319103
If you like Sirens I'd recommend Cat's Cradle

>> No.3321568

>>3319606
If you liked Maldoror you will maybe like Hebdomeros??? Haven't read either but they are supposed to be similar.

>> No.3321589

1984
Dracula
Of Mice and Men
The Phantom of the Opera
The Hobbit

>> No.3321595

ITT: Nobody makes suggestions

>> No.3321603

>>3321589
If you liked the Hobbit (or lord of the rings in general) I'd suggest the first book of The Wheel Of Time, The Eye of the World. Whether or not the entire series is worth reading is its own separate debate, but the first book is pretty damn great.

>Blood Meridian
>The Things They Carried
>Steppenwolf
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>All Quiet on the Western Front

>> No.3321606

>>3321568

Although they are both "surrealist" novels they aren't that similar.
The best parts of Hebdomeros are just the observations of everyday life and his fucking monologues.

>> No.3321632

Faust
1984
Michael Grant - Gone series

>> No.3321652

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Dune - Frank Herbert

>> No.3321703

I am not nearly as well read as a lot of /lit/ but hopefully I can get some recommendations out of my list.

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Book of The New Sun - Gene Wolfe
Hull Zero Three - Greg Bear
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
The Magicians - Lev Grossman

Thanks

>> No.3321714

>>3321703

The Etched City by I forget the broads name but it's good.

>> No.3322109

Easy enough

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Don't come at me with anything that doesn't absolutely devastate you/ bring you to your knees.

>> No.3322128

>>3321714

K.J Bishop

>> No.3322753

Starship Troopers
Catch 22
The Chicken Doesn't Skate
State Of Fear
Cat's Cradle

Not necessarily the best to read, but ones I've spent hours upon hours contemplating since putting down. Well, except #3, that one is just fun.

>> No.3322816

>>3322753
forgot: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
belongs on all your lists.

>> No.3322817

Houllebecq - Elementary Particles
Cortazar - Blow Up and Other stories (fav is 'The gates of heaven')
Woolf - The Waves
Camus - The Fall
Adiga - White Tiger (one of the few books that made me sweat--am Indian, and a cousin of mine works as a driver)

>> No.3322868

>>3321071
Tried Proust yet? Your taste suggests you have, but why is it not on you list?

>> No.3323010

>>3321589
>Dracula
Similar to that would obvi be Frankenstein... Also maybe HG Wells (Island of Dr Moreau in particular).

>> No.3323368

>>3322868
I have not, thank you.

>> No.3324420

aww yes these threads are great for new books

>> No.3324455

1. Dostoevsky's work in general (TBK, C and P and The Idiot being my top 3, The Adolescent was ok and I didn't like The Possessed).
2. The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell
3. The Rebel / The Stranger / The Plague - Albert Camus
4. L'éducation sentimentale - Gustave Flaubert
5. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Six, just because: Lord of the Rings / Tolkien

>> No.3324465

>>3321554
>The Picture of Dorian Gray

not sure if you're still here, but I liked The Neverending Story's seperate stories and they reminded me of Decamerone by Boccaccio