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You're going away for awhile, and you can take the complete bibliographies of any five authors. Which five do you choose?

inb4 hurr durr e-reader durr hurr hard drive

>> No.3309631

hurr durr e-reader durr hurr hard drive

>> No.3309652

Beckett
Kafka
Shakespeare
Proust
Balzac

That'd keep me busy as fuck

>> No.3309656

How long a while?

Marcel Proust
Cao Xueqin
Victor Hugo
Shakespeare
and probably Dosto

answer could change based on how long we're talking here

>> No.3309664

>>3309652

Replace Kafka with Borges and you're onto something.

>> No.3309669

Homer
Shakespeare
Proust
Chesterton
Calvino

>> No.3309671

Shakespeare
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Twain
Sartre

>> No.3309683

>>3309664

Yes. Because why go with the master when the student's at hand?

>> No.3309689

First off, fuck Shakespeare.

Now then:
Kafka
Hugo
Salinger (PURELY for Nine Stories)
Orson Scott Card (no judgement pls)
Brothers Grimm OR Orwell (not automatically Orwell because he hasn't written much)

>> No.3309693

>>3309689
>First off, fuck Shakespeare.
>Salinger (PURELY for Nine Stories)
>Orson Scott Card (no judgement pls)

Nah, fuck you.

>> No.3309709

>>3309683

Ouch, what a dynamite fanboyism.

I could almost picture you victoriously doffing your fedora to your pimple-faced reflection in the glare of your computer screen.

>> No.3309720

Shakespeare
Donne
Shelley
Byron
Nabokov

>> No.3309726

>>3309709

I'm one of the beautiful people, actually.

Online we're all the same. It makes it easier on both of us.

>> No.3309733

>>3309726

>I'm one of the beautiful people, actually.

This is some of the saddest saving face lines I've ever seen.

So what if I just tore you a new asshole?
I'm sure the extra utility will come in handy for a faggot like you.

>> No.3309736

>>3309733

I don't need to save face, pretty boy. I'm telling the truth.

I wouldn't mind an extra hole to take a dick through. Neither would you.

>> No.3309745 [DELETED] 
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3309745

1. JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

2. AYN RAND.

3. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

4. LEWIS CARROLL.

5. OSAMU DAZAI.

>> No.3309746

>>3309720
>Shelley
>Byron
Why not choose one and diversify?

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>>3309736

>I wouldn't mind an extra hole to take a dick through.

u wot

>> No.3309751

>>3309745

>ZHKND 'OCCUPYING' THE SAME SPACETIME AS A RANDROID
>BEING 'SURPRISED'

>> No.3309767

>>3309748

Don't act like you're not at least part faggot.

>> No.3309770

Shake-a-speare
Thomas Hardy (Bane)
Henry James, an American Author in London
Anthony "Trollop" Trollope
Honore de "all dese bitches on my" Balzac (#swag)

>> No.3309771

>>3309745
>Ayn Rand
Just GTFO, seriously. Objectivism is so fucking stupid, you immature fuck.

>> No.3309799

>>3309619
ug, all of these guys are horrible and have no imagination, just regurgitating the same things in every thread.

Keep your five authors and their collected works, OP, give me a lifetime of paper and pens, I'll write my own masterpieces.

>> No.3309874

Terry Pratchett
Jim Butcher
Lovecraft
Tolkien
Dickens

>> No.3309889

Dosty
Vonny
Nietchy
Borgey
Shakey

Do I get a complimentary bible to?

>> No.3309890

>>3309746
I'll nix Shelley and take Woolf or Hesiod (by whom I have read nothing, but he interests me).

>> No.3309917

Tolstoy
Mieville
Clavell
Dostoyevsky
Mishima

>> No.3309922

Proust
John Irving
Dostoevsky
Vonnegut
Mann

>> No.3309941

>Stephen King
>George R. R. Martin
>Stephanie Meyer (love her; probably my fave)
>Dan Brown
>James Patterson

>> No.3309944

>>3309941
Hot Topic teen detected.

>> No.3309986

Shakespeare
Mishima
Bolano
Atwood
and Stephen King, not so much to read but to form a rope or boat to escape wherever I've been put.

>> No.3309993

Albert Camus, Neil Gaiman, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, Franz Kafka.

>> No.3309994

Dostoevsky
Nabokov (Why no one else like Nab?)
Goethe
Walt Whitman
Bertrand Russell

>> No.3310007

vonnegut
cornwell
dost-bro
hugo
wilde

>> No.3310011

>>3309993

I've never read any plays but am a big fan of Camus big 3 novels, The Myth Of Sisyphus, and his short stories in Exile an the Kingdom.

Do you think I'd enjoy his plays?

>> No.3310029

Beckett
Saramago
Shakespeare
Borges
Nabokov

>> No.3310041

1. Thomas Pynchon
2. William Faulkner
3. Kurt Vonnegutt
4. Wallace Stevens

Can I take a complete volume of encyclopedias with me as my 5th choice?

>> No.3310064

>>3310011

Please respond

>> No.3310086

>>3309619
Fuck she's cute.

I actually have a hurr durr e-reader but let's pretend we are talking about copypasting mobis I've gotten off TPB.

>Ryū Murakami (not to be confused with Haruki; and haven't read anything by him yet, but seems interesting)
>Hemingway
>Vonnegut
>Cormac McCarthy (don't like him but I've been meaning to give him a go anyway)
>John Irving (another author I haven't read yet, but been planning to)

>> No.3310099
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3310099

because i'm a pleb:
Shakespeare
J.R.R Tolkien
Frank Herbert
Irvine Welsh
H.P Lovecraft

>> No.3311089

Camus
Steinbeck
Dostoevsky
Orwell
Vonnegut

>> No.3311115

Shakespurs
Doestosky
Fitzgerald
Joyce
Mishima

>> No.3311171

>>3309799
>implying you don't need to read to write

>> No.3312626

>>3309733
I cannot even tell where the irony starts and ends anymore

but shit, man.

>> No.3312635

>>3312626

Beautiful guy here, feel free to ask me anything.

>> No.3312665

Tolstoy (loved what I have read of War and Peace so far)
Pynchon (I have been very interested in his stuff for a while now, so why not start)
Goethe (I am a native german speaker and only read Faust so far...)
Faulkner (another writer on my to read list)
Proust

>> No.3312782

>>3310064
Real late, I know. Yes, give them a try.

>> No.3314042

>>3309941
>not troll-edgy enough since GRRM is actually good.

>> No.3314317

>>3311115
>Doestosky

>> No.3314325

>>3314042

I laughed.

>> No.3314359

Dostoevsky (Have only read four of his novels so there is plenty left. And I'm definitely reading The Brothers Karamazov again.)
Shakespeare (So much left to read, so much to gain from rereading his wonderful plays)
Dickens (He is a wonderful break from heavy literature)
Faulkner (19 novels and a 125 short stories, plenty of great stuff)
Hermann Hesse (Only read two of his novels, and there is a great deal to be learned from his writings).

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Beckett
Hesse
Tolkien
GG Marquez
Proust

>> No.3315531

>>3314325
oh cool. another edge-bro.

>> No.3315656

Authors Mentioned More Than Once In This Thread

Dostoevsky 9
Shakespeare 9
Vonnegut 6
Beckett 4
Proust 4
Balzac 3
Borges 3
Faulkner 3
Hemmingway 3
Hugo 3
Kafka 3
Mishima 3
Nabokov 3
Tolkien 3
Camus 2
Dickens 2
Fitzgerald 2
Goethe 2
Hesse 2
Irving 2
King 2
Lovecraft 2
Orwell 2
Pynchon 2
Salinger 2
Tolstoy 2

>> No.3315663

Proust, Plato, Leo Strauss, Heidegger, Tolkien (just to have something enjoyable as a break for the palate)

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>>3315656
Nice to see Balzac mentioned three times. I don't see much discussion on him here.

>> No.3315837

>>3309745

2/10 too obvious

>> No.3315853

Steinbeck
Shakespeare
Meg Cabot
Stephen King
Vonnegut

Everybody's gonna be mad when they google that third one.

>> No.3315856

>>3315853

you're taste in book sukcs

>> No.3315858

>>3309709
>tells someone to replace one author for another
>that someone says no
>HURR FANBOYISM

>> No.3315881

>>3310041
Maybe you could take the entire bibliography of the editor?

>> No.3315884

>>3315656
>Vonnegut 6
I like him too, people, but really?

>> No.3315896

Nietzsche
Heidegger
Goethe
Joyce
Lautréamont

>> No.3316025

>>3312665
Why would you bring a bunch of shit you haven't read?

James Joyce
Richard Brautigan
Flann O'Brien
Allen Ginsberg
Virginia Woolf

>> No.3316027

>>3316025
oh wait this isn't desert island it's just going away, i take that back

>> No.3316062

Borges
Beckett
Shakespeare
Dostoevsky
Pynchon

>> No.3316113

>>3315896

GROANS AUDIBLY

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Larry Niven
John Le Carre
George Orwell
Albert Camus
Kim Stanley Robinson

only because these are authors i enjoy reading rather than use in an attempt to become erudite.

>> No.3316127

Lovecraft
Tolkien
Livy (Lol)
Sun Tzu
Your mother

>> No.3316128

>>3315858

stoplikingwhatidontlike.jpg

>> No.3316181

What kind of trip?

Prison I would choose completely different authors than a long beach trip.

>> No.3316234

>>3309669
>Chesterton

my nigga

I would do:
Dostoevsky
Chesterton
C.S. Lewis
Meliville
And the last one would be tough.....J.D. Salinger, or Murakami, or Hemingway

>> No.3316665

Is Mishima (Hiraoka) the most coveted of all Japanese authors?

>> No.3316687

Joyce
Shakespeare
Balzac
Proust
Dickens

>> No.3316750

>Shakespeare
>Nietzsche
>Pynchon
>Hemingway
As for non-fiction
>Von Mises, the greatest economist of all time

>> No.3316770

>>3316665
Generally no, on lit maybe

>> No.3316809

Assuming I'm living in another country for a while and thus won't have a chance to procure other texts

Nabakov
Cortazor
Llosa
Pynchon
Proust

I've read a little of all and enjoyed it so I'll be able to take them and expect to enjoy the experience, I've read too much of my favourite writers to take them away.

>> No.3316854

Dostoevsky, because I haven't read anything by him.
Proust, because I haven't read anything by him.
Nabokov, because I love his prose.
Angela Carter, because I like her shit.
Dickens, because he wrote a shitton and it should help keep me busy.

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>>3310099
Welsh is the man.

>pic related

>> No.3317697

>>3314325
Ironic hipster fag detected.

>> No.3317748

>>3317697

I'm not being ironic. I genuinely thought you were, though.

>> No.3317752

Myself (In case I'm me)
Lewis Carroll (In case I'm a pedophile)
Thoureu (In case I'm in the wild)
Socrates (In case I'm poor)
Plato (In case I need to plagiarize)

>> No.3317783

>>3316854
>tfw you're stuck on the island with untranslated copies of Dostoevsky, Proust, and Nabokov

>> No.3317793

>>3317783

>tfw you figure out how to translate them in some insane fashion after all those years by referencing the others

>> No.3317817

Hemingway
Faulkner
Camus
Pynchon
Joyce

>> No.3317843

George MacDonald Fraser
Dumas
Wodehouse
Hemingway
HG Wells

>> No.3318235

>>3317748
George is a solid writer, however. I guess I still don't get the joke.

>> No.3321204

>>3316122
>Kim Stanley Robinson

mah nigga. Just finished Green Mars, taking a break before I pick up Blue Mars. Have you read 2312 yet? I'm saving it for my reading week, heard very good things about it.

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Richard Dawkins
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
Fernand Braudel
Max Weber

Why? Cause fuck fiction.

>> No.3321234

>>3315884
He's there for a bit of light reading between all of the difficult stuff.

>> No.3321239

Hesse
Vonnegut
Lovecraft
RR Martin
Hemingway

>> No.3321268

Assuming I can bring them back with me, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander

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>>3321226

>Can't tell if serious.jpg
>Richard Dawkins
>Why? Cause fuck fiction.

Look out. This kid is on the attack.

>> No.3321295

Friedrich Nietzsche
H.P. Lovecraft
Mark Twain
Bart Ehrman
John Grisham

>> No.3321316

>>3321295
Ehrman's a total nerd

>> No.3321323
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>>3321226

>> No.3321348

Let's see...

Milton
Dante
Hugo
Shakespeare


Undecided on the last one. Maybe go with "unknown" so I can get the Nordic Sagas and other older texts in. If I can't do that, probably would have Tolstoy.

>> No.3321398

>you can take the complete bibliographies of any five authors.

Shakespeare
>This way, I'd be able to read the two lost plays (Cardenio and Love's Labours Won)
Aeschylus
>This way, I could read the play that follows Prometheus Bound
Sophocles
>He was another badass who wrote lots of stuff we no longer have copies of
Aristotle
>I'd really like to read his dialogues.
John Stillwell
>He's written quite a few excellent books on mathematics, covering a pretty wide selection of topics.

>> No.3321399
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Carlos Fuentes
José Saramago
Octavio Paz
Julio Cortázar
André Breton

>> No.3321406

>>3321399
The tripfag's a tryhard cunt: go figure.

>> No.3321469

Aristotle
James Joyce
Immanuel Kant
Franz Kafka
Dostojevski

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>>3321406

>> No.3321485

>>3321469
This guys got it.
Not sure about the Kafka though

>> No.3321493

>>3321485
Gee, what's the deal with Kafka on this board?

>> No.3321532

>>3321493
Okay, Seinfeld.

>> No.3321536

>>3321532

these uneasy dreams are making me thirsty

>> No.3321717

Nietzsche
Camus
Judy Bloom
Joyce
Juan Rulfo

>> No.3321795

Shakespeare
Faulkner
Aristotle
Pynchon
Joyce

>> No.3321811

>>3321268
Does no one see what I did here

>> No.3321827

Where am I going and for how long?

Assuming the local equivalent of Siberia for five years and my only concern is killing time:
Terry Pratchett
John LeCarre
William Faulkner
Donald Westlake
Bertrand Russell

>> No.3321900

>>3309689
Fuck...Shakespeare?
I don't....
No, fuck you.

>> No.3321906

Stephenie Meyer
Suzzane Collins
Snooki
LJ Smith
EL James

>> No.3321909

>>3310099
Not a pleb.

>> No.3321924

wow lol its like half this thread is pretending. do you even read?

>> No.3323039

>>3321204

Nope, have recently finished Years of Rice and Salt which was pretty great.

>> No.3323046

>>3321348

You know when you read things on the internet and you think "man, this guy is a total tool"...

>> No.3323048

>>3321811

2clevah4us.jpg

>> No.3323081

Proust
Murakami
Steinbeck
Gaddis
Bolano

>> No.3323126

>>3315896
try harder

>> No.3323133

Pff shit is easy

cormac mccarthy
hp lovecraft
william faulkner
hemingway
tolkien