/lit/ - Literature

Decision Points by George Dubya, Self Matters by Dr. PHil, Oprah Magazine by Oprah, and the Bible by God

>>3638095

Marry me in a civil ceremony

Name of the Rose - Eco
The Plague - Camus
A history of the English Speaking Peoples Vol 1 - Churchill
Mote in God's Eye - Niven

The Moon and Sixpence
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
Kokoro
Rendezvous with Rama

In no order

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Moby Dick
The Third Policeman
The Mayor of Casterbridge

this fluctuates greatly with time and with whatever book i can think of currently, but anyway

sirens of titan
catcher in the rye
watership down
one hundred years of solitude

1984 by George Orwell,
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,
5150 Rue Des Orme by Patrick Senecal,
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Though I also love other books by these authors (Animal Farm, The Martian chronicles, Le passager, Doors of Perception) and many many more!

lol! toasting in another epic sunhock bread! archive quick!

Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Then, 3 tied:
Molloy, by Samuel Beckett
Candide, by Voltaire
The Stream of Life, by Clarice Lispector

1. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace.
That book was a fucking game changer, seriously. Probably the crispest piece of prose I have ever read - every word fit perfectly in its respective place. I also loved how he worked with the people who were watching the movie.

2. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
While it is insanely long, it didn't feel long or exhausting while reading it - not at all. I really, really enjoyed that one.

3. Écrits - Jacques Lacan
Not an easy read, had to do a lot of thinking during many parts, but it was absolutely worth it. I agree with most of his concepts/ideas.

4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
I loved the basic idea (the knight trying to re-establish morals, still has some relevance today), and his writing style was gorgeous.

V. - Thomas Pynchon
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Magus -John Fowles
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard

>>3638374
I just started Malone Dies, and I've started Malloy before but never finished (I got too fed up with it). Can you offer me some insight as to what you like about Malloy? I really want to push my boundaries as a reader and I know Beckett's work will definitely do that, so, if you could, convince me why I should love that novel.

>>3638059

why franzen negro? you trolling?

fictions - J.L.B
brief interviews with hideous men - dfw
death with interruptions - José Saramago
One Hundred Years of Solitude - ggM

Alice's adventures in wonderland

>>3638460
>Don Quixote
>I loved the basic idea (the knight trying to re-establish morals

no.

the idea of chivalry exists purely in the intellectual realms like philosophy or as you say morality. but even in the time of the story knight errants were long out of style and don quixote becomes a knight errant from reading a lot. the point is a mix up fantasy of reality where obsession, even if the intention is good (which is why sancho follows him) can lead to madness. that's why don quickoates is generally laughed at or thought mad whenever he meets new minor characters.

The Beautiful and the Damned - Fitzgerald
Don Juan - Lord Byron
The Magus - John Fowles
Candide - Voltaire

Mother Night
Blood Meridian
The Castle
The Book of Disquiet

Probably in that order.

>>3639240
Thanks a lot, mate. You said what I was too lazy to write down at that moment. In retrospect, my sentence looks like I completely missed the point.

>>3638374

>The Stream of Life, by Clarice Lispector

You. I like you.

This is a good thread.

1- Mémoires d'Hadrien - Marguerite Yourcenar
2- Shalimar the clown - Salman Rushdie
3- Les misérables - Victor Hugo
4- Antigone - Jean Anouilh

In no order
The Hobbit
Beowulf
The scarlet letter
Anthem
A Game Of Thrones

No particular order:
-Dante's complete work (from the Vita Nuova to the Comedy)
-Baudelaire's Flower of Evil
And, currently (cause it depends on the moment):
-Critic of Pure Reason
-Lampedusa's the Cheetah

First two being among my all-time favorites, second two my favorites among those I read this year.

1. John Updikes harry angstrom series.
2.Gr8 gatsby
3. Keats complete works
4.will self - umbrella

The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
Ceremony -Silko
Meditations-Marcus Aurileus
The Road-Cormac McCarthy

The Brothers Karamazov
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

>>3638059
Yo where the fuck doefs she live? That wall is sick asf uck

>>3638519
>The Man in the High Castle

mynigga.jpg

A Tale of Two Cities
A Clockwork Orange
1984
Catch-22


Bite my shiny metal ass.

>>3638543
Honestly, if you want to push your boundaries, I can only recommend that you read it. Thematically, it's an absurdist and postmodern work: it makes fun from concepts like duty and pursuit, and it tries to disestablish the reliability of the narrative - not Molloy's narrative alone; the narrative of fiction overall. It's a kind of psychological extinction-process to our habit of falsely imbuing authors, and their diction, with finality; of believing that works of art are 'complete'. In the conclusion, after rambling through these ambiguously defined, or too scarcely defined, landscapes, the narrator makes a point (mostly symbolical) about the absence of underlying truth; in histories as well as philosophies and psychologies. If you start recognizing the point of some scenes, and can accept them as Non Finito, you'll find there's a lot of beauty you mightn't have noticed. There's a mathematical pleasure to it, as well: reference to theoretical concepts like the meeting of parallel lines fills the work out with some more 'musical' - less straightforward - commentary. That is, it's entertaining as well as being an important complement to your 'psycho-literary' toolbox. (Note: it is a book written for writers - Beckett was a literary critic, so much of its appeal is to those who either know what it is to exist under this lens of criticism, or are at least casual critics themselves.) I hope you're convinced. :)

1. The Stranger-Camus
2. Essais-Montaigne
3. The Wasteland-T.S. Eliot
4. Candide-Voltaire

1. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
2. A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul
3. Memórias Postumas de Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (I know)
2. Cannery Row
3. The Savage Detectives
4. Ada, or Ardor

1. - 3. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Hardcover
4. 50 years of the Playboy bunny

i like pictures

>>3640334

Let's be friends.

I am not very well read but here it goes

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
City of Thieves - David Benioff
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad.

the old man and the sea - hemingway
heart of darkness - joseph conrad
on the road - jack kerouac
all quiet on the western front - remarque

No order:

Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Hemingway's Sun Also Rises
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Smith's White Teeth

1. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
2. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Frederic Jameson
3. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
4. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

The Brothers Karamazov
Moby Dick
East of Eden
The Great Gatsby

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>>3638337
>>3638374
>>3638490
>>3638519
Shit taste. Kill yourselves, faggots.

1. Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

2. Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde

3. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami

4. Paradise Lost, John Milton

>>3640283
>Naipaul

1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
2. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
3. Tideland - Mitch Cullin
4. Snowflower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
5. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Old Man and the Sea
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Hobbit Tolkien got me into reading as a child I feel like I owe him that much

You have some kind of spiritual phimosis if Freedom is your third favorite book of all time. I'm not a knee-jerk modern lit fic superstar hater, either...I barely remember Oscar Wao but I give it a pass just because it was legitimately funny

>>3638059
Your #2 was a direct fucking rip off Hemingway, kill yourself you uncultured pleb.

Great books ITT

C&P - Dostoevsky
Harry Potter - Rowling
1984 - Orwell
Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald

How can anyone like McCarthy's The Road?

I spit on it. I was in constant "meh" the whole time.

Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fourth is a hard choice but I'll probably go with Dead Souls

>>3638059
>>3640779
Anon is right, he pretty much took Hemingway's story and added a bunch of filler. He also ripped off the title too which is pathetic.

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and Hemingway's title "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".

>>3640806
Dead Souls is a game

>>3640819
No, you're thinking of the games Demon's Souls and Dark Souls

>>3638059
Fuck you ugly bug eyed plad wearing hipster. You probably think you're cute. You're not. You're a whore.

>>3638059
Pale bony freckle face loser

>>3640840
i want to literally eat her freckles. not in a sexual way, they just look delicious

>>3639814
>A Game of Thrones
>>>/9fag/
>>>/facebook/

all those kafka books and that lolita one and dune

>>3640850
But it's fucking EPIC, bro!

>>3640850

Learn to 'de gustibus non est disputandum', snob.

>>3638095
>Decision Points

This is a brilliant review: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n01/eliot-weinberger/damn-right-i-said

>>3639250
>The Book of Disquiet
gg

1. Lolita
2. Donkey O'tee
3. The Name of the Rose
4. Fear and Loathing

Franz Kafka- The Trial
Martin Amis- London Fields
George Orwell- Down and Out in Paris and London
Virginia Woolf- To The Lighthouse

Everytime I look at the girl in OP I think of this other girl I know who looks like her

wat do

>>3640429
>>3641387
>to the lighthouse

my niggas

Journey to the End of the Night
Maldoror
Story of the Eye
Mason & Dixon

>>3641394
Buy her a brown paper bag and cut out eye-holes.

>>3641406
>Story of the Eye
lel

100 years of solitude -GGM
Lord Jim -Joseph Conrad
On the road -Kerouac
Do androids dream of electric sheep? -Phillip K Dick

wow, you fags are so fucking pretentious.

Most of these are not real lists of favourite books, they are lists of 'classic' books, I guess so that the other edgy faggot will like you.

Do you seriously enjoy reading Don Quixote? And come on, "the complete works of Dante"? One hundred years of solitude mentioned like 5 times, Dostoevsky as well..., Voltaire, Camus, Kant for fucks sake, Elliot, Orwell...

Sure, these are important books and they have to be read at least once, but most of them are not by any means pleasurable to read.

>The Fault in our Stars - John Green
>Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
>A Song of Fire and Ice - G.R.R.Martin
>Spectrum - Sergey Lukyanenko

>>3638350
>1984
>Farenheit 451
>Brave new world
>Animal Farm
Dystopia fag detected. I love the too though, I read them all one after another.
Shall I suggest The iron heel and watch the movie "brazil"

>>3641428
>Do you seriously enjoy reading Don Quixote?
>One hundred years of solitude mentioned like 5 times, Dostoevsky as well..., Voltaire, Camus

>not by any means pleasurable to read.

What on earth are you gibbering about?

>>3641428
>John Green
>Chuck Palahniuk
>G.R.R. Martin
God, you're a parody.

>>3641428
>people can only like things i like :(

>>3641428
>I have learning difficulties, and I can only read simple books for children as a result of this. To makes myself feel better about my flaws, I shall pretend that everyone cleverer than me is simply delusional and are in fact less intelligent than me.
Please leave.

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius.
The Brothers Karmazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams.

>>3641447
Oh god.
>Unironically using the word pseuds

Where have all these people come from?

>>3641428
Maybe you should go.

>>3641428
There is no point admitting to liking someone like Palahniuk. As soon as you do, the pseuds jump out and attack.

>>3641428
lol
2/10 weak troll

Anyway:
Eliot
Proust
Baudelaire
Beckett

>>3641447
>There is no point admitting to liking someone like R.L.Stine. As soon as you do, the pseuds jump out and attack.

See? I can pretend that people who dislike shit books for children are all 'haters' too.

>>3641448
Oh god.
>Unironically using the word Unironically

>>3641498
Nice argument. Doesn't make you any less of a retard.

Albert Camus - The Stranger
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler
Franz Kafka - The Trial

then it's a three-way tie between
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
and
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

am i a basic bitch?

>>3638374
Assuming I'm well-versed in existentialism and Camus in particular (which I am), where do I go after Nausea with Sartre's philosophy? I can see some beginnings of his system of thought in Nausea but he jumps to conclusions through the use of narrative and doesn't really ground his philosophy in the novel. I'm thinking 'Existentialism is a Humanism', then maybe read some of de Beauvoir's work, then maybe more of Sartre's plays.

Is his philosophy really a hack-job of what existentialism could be as some on here have said?

>>3641514
>am i a basic bitch?
>Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler

Nah son, you're aight

>>3641433
I like that picture.

Steinbeck- Grapes of Wrath
Hofsdadter- Godel, Easher, Bach
Trussel- Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
O'Farrel- An utterly Impartial History of Britain

de rerum natura - lucretius
the iliad - homer
confessions - augustine of hippo

>>3641975
>Trussel- Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
>>3641997
>de rerum natura - lucretius

solid

1. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Violent Bear It Away - O'Connor
4. Thousand Cranes - Kawabata

Tolstoy - War & Peace
>No brainer. Arguably the greatest novel ever written.

Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
>Satirical, magical and utterly hilarious. What's not to like?

Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
>One of his most underrated works. Definitely preferred it to C&P.

Milton - Paradise Lost
>One of the most important books in Western literature.

Collected Nathanael West
Street of Crocodiles/Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Marquise of O and other stories
Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust

I like shorter fiction

>>3641433
>that pic
Mind blown

Oh god, it's hard to decide on just four..

In no particular order:

-Metro 2033 by Dmitri Gluchowski
-The Passage by Justin Cronin (I love Cronin's writing style, it's just so fluent)
-1983 by George Orwell, I am reading this one for the first time right now, enjoying it greatly up to this point
-Die Therapie (Therapy is the English title if I'm not mistaken) by Sebastian Fitzek

>>3644565
*1984, I should re-read my posts before I submit them

>Golding - Lord of the Flies
>Kafka - Metamorphosis
>Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
>Shakespeare - Hamlet

I know these are really "pleb" choices, but I really liked all of these. Also, I just realised I need to start reading mdore contemporary lit.

1) Queer by William Burroughs
2) Off Season by Jack Ketchum
3) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
4) Crime and Punishment

Blood Meridian
Island by Aldous Huxley
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Industrial Society and Its Future

>>3644565
>1983
>not by Orson Welles

The Waves - Virginia Woolf
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
If On A Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino

>>3644633
>>3644584

Don't really have favorites, but these are readings i fully enjoyed
Officer Factory
The Confusions of Young Törless
Crime and Punishment
Solaris
Catch-22

eugene onegin
goodbye to berlin
lolita
inherent vice

1984
Master & Margarita
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Les Miserables

in b4 pleb

omon ra
100 years of solitude
il santo nell'ascensore
Eugene Onegin

>>3645330
are you russian.

>>3645333
not quite, but yeah, i've read those two in russian

Speaker for the Dead
Rise of the Iron Moon
The Mote in God's Eye
Judas Unchained

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>>3645377

Gore Vidal - Messiah
Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine

>>3645380

C. Bukowski - Post Office
H.S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
K. Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
J. Abercrombie - The Blade Itself

1. If on a winter's night a traveller, by Italo Calvino
1. (Tied) Wild Punch, by Creston Lea (it's fucking beautiful... read it.)
3. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855 for song of myself. but 1892 for everything else)
4. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

>>3644639

I like you.


but on a serious note, I do love your taste in literature, any other favorites?