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Give me your favorite book and I'll read it over the summer.

>> No.3861729

keeper of the light by AJ Sonder

>> No.3861743

>>3861729
Sounds interesting. I can hardly find anything on the book though.

>> No.3861750

Bumping for more books

>> No.3861751

>>3861726
The Sun Also Rises

>> No.3861759

>>3861751
Sounds like an interesting, and challenging read.

>> No.3861768

Any more books? Any at all?

>> No.3861770

>>3861768
A short story. The dandelion girl, by Robert F. Young

>> No.3861773

The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford. Short read.

>> No.3861776

>>3861770
>>3861773
Short reads are wonderful. Thanks

>> No.3861778

>>3861768
The Savage Detectives.
V.

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>>3861726

>> No.3861782

>>3861776
glembay gentlemen
By Krleža. A good read.

>> No.3861786

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

>> No.3861791

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

>> No.3861805

>>3861782
Can't find anything on the book.
>>3861786
Sounds really good, I think I'm gonna read it next.

>> No.3861819

Any more? It was just getting good!

>> No.3861834

>>3861819
Well it's originally a drama on Croatian language not sure if English translation is available.
"Gospoda Glembajevi" by Krleža (original title) is about the fall of the rich family. This book is a good description of Yugoslavian rich layer of populace.

>> No.3861840

>>3861834
Thanks, and I've still been looking but I can't find anything English or otherwise. I'll check out what I can. Any more books?

>> No.3861841

Corpus Hermeticum

>> No.3861844

Infinite Jest by DFW (have fun)

>> No.3861851

>>3861844
I just looked up the book, and I still have no clue what it's about. Just that summary. What?

>> No.3861858

Inzektors 2.0 by Yu-gi-Oh

>> No.3861860

>>3861851
It's a book that covers the thoughts of an academic on tennis, with touches of depression/ drug use.

>> No.3861863

>>3861844
>>3861851
>>3861860
It actually doesn't look half bad. Maybe if I'm feeling brave I'll give it a chance. Thanks!

>> No.3861866

>>3861726
slavery: a world history

you're welcome.

>> No.3861868

>>3861866
Fucking niggers

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>>3861776
It's pretty hard to find, so here's a pdf of it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?uzzjz2jnmy3

I always try to get the people from /lit/ to read it, but to no avail.

>> No.3861881

>>3861877
Is it that good? You really like it?

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I've read this twice since I first found out about it about 12 months ago and I'm actively forcing myself not to read it again so soon. Kind of hard to get into, but if you stick with it you'll know what I mean.

>> No.3861887

>>3861882
That sounds amazing. I'll keep in mind what you said, and definitely read this! Isn't this the same author that wrote The Road too?

>> No.3861891

>>3861887
yeah, if you didn't mind the glacial pacing of the road then you'll be able to get through BM. I sort of struggled to get through it the first time, but once I'd finished it I was sort of blown away and red it again straight away.

>> No.3861901

>>3861891
It sounds great.
Bamp?

>> No.3861904

>>3861881
It's probably not that great. But it's a fun story that always makes me smile.

>> No.3861910

try "pharaoh" part 1 and 2, by Boleslav Pruss, if you can lay your hands on them.

>> No.3861925

One Hunded Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>> No.3861928

>>3861781
Not op but should i read the brothers book first or that one i read white night and loved it

>> No.3861935

>>3861928
It is also good.

>> No.3861937

>>3861791
I second this.
Also The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

>> No.3861950

As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway.

I don't typically care for YA fiction, but this has such a depth of feeling and characterization - in addition to a subtly layered plot - that I keep coming back to it.
/lit/ is likely to dismiss it off hand based on its blurb - which does make it sound rather cliche - but I love it.
Then again, I may be biased; this book made quite a dramatic impact on my life when I first read it at 16 or so.

>> No.3861956

For a nice laugh and a good read: John dies at the end.

>> No.3861966

How about anything a bit more modern? Something you just loved and couldn't put down, and then were sad to have to put it down.

>> No.3861972

>>3861966
The English Monster was pretty good. Not usually what I like, but I interesting and entertaining

>> No.3861986

>>3861966
Jonathan strange and Mr norell

>> No.3862004

Trout Fishing in America
Breakfast of Champions + Bluebeard

>> No.3862016

>>3861877
Thank you for sharing it.
It was really wonderful.

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>> No.3862157

2001: etc

>> No.3862179

>>3862016
No problem, Anon. I'm glad you liked it.

>> No.3862198

>>3861726
City of Thieves by David Benioff

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Favorite novel.

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>>3861882

Don't read that, OP, it's shit. Dude can't even spell.

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>>3862200

>dont

Yep, shit-tier author confirmed.

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>>3862201

That's one image commonly posted by try-hards.

I enjoy many books on that list. I'm not trying anything.

>pleb
>entry level

You guys are the cancer of this board.

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Best Hemingway book there ever was. Read slowly, be aware of iceberg theory.

>it's a story about the war
>the war is not in it

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Mine's In Our Time as well, coincidentally.

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>>3862213
>>3862214

You guys, gentlemen and scholars.

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Hemingway's first complete book is a true work of art.

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Pic related. Not sure if it's been mentioned already.

>> No.3862225

>>3862217
*Hemmingway

There's two m's.

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>>3862225

You're nothing but a fucking piece of shit.

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3862233

In Our Time is my favorite book too

Not sure who this Hemmingway guy is though

>> No.3862234

>>3862217
LE INDIAN CAMP FACE LE SOLDIER'S HOME FACE :D

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>>3862233

What a rip off artist.

>> No.3862240

>>3862234

These are great stories. Fucking love Soldier's Home.

>> No.3862285

Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Aeschylus – Oresteia
Dante Alighieri – Divine Comedy
The Arabian Nights
Aristophanes – Plays
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
John Ashbery – Poems
Augustine – Confessions
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac – Pere Goriot
Matsuo Basho – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Samuel Beckett – Plays
The Bible
Jorge Luis Borges – Complete Fiction
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus – The Stranger
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales
Anton Chekhov – Short Stories
Joseph Conrad – Nostromo
Confucius – Analects
Don DeLillo - Underworld
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
Emily Dickinson – Poems
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment
George Eliot – Middlemarch
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Euripides – Plays
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
Ferdowsi - Shahnameh
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
Tu Fu – Poems
William Gaddis – The Recognitions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust
Nikolai Gogol – Dead Souls
Herodotus – Histories
Homer – Iliad
Homer – Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen – Plays
Samuel Johnson - Works
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce – Ulysses
Franz Kafka – The Castle
Franz Kafka – Short Stories
Franz Kafka – The Trial
Kalidasa – Plays
Yasunari Kawabata – Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata – Thousand Cranes
D.H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain
Man'yoshu

>> No.3862286

>>3862285
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
Mencius – Mencius
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Yukio Mishima – The Sea of Fertility
Moliere – Plays
Michel de Montaigne – Essays
Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
Pablo Neruda – Canto General
George Orwell – 1984
Ovid – Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa – Poems
Plato – Dialogues
Li Po – Poems
Edgar Allan Poe – Complete Works
Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time
Thomas Pynchon – Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon – Mason & Dixon
Sima Qian – Records of the Grand Historian
Qu'ran
Fracois Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
Arthur Rimbaud - Poems
William Shakespeare – Complete Works
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poems
Murasaki Shikibu – The Tale of Genji
Sei Shonagon – The Pillow Book
Sophocles – 3 Theban Plays
Natsume Soseki – Kokoro
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy
Wallace Stevens - Poems
Stendhal – The Red and the Black
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver's Travels
Rabindranath Tagore - Poems
Junichiro Tanizaki – The Makioka Sisters
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
Leo Tolstoy – War & Peace
Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn
Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
Valmiki – Ramayana
Virgil – Aeneid
Vyasa – Mahabharata
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
William Wordsworth – Poems
Cao Xueqin – Dream of the Red Chamber
Lu Xun – Complete Fiction

>> No.3862356

>>3862285
>>3862286
All that in a summer? Whatcha gonna do with no time for fishing?

>> No.3863078

>>3862200
>implying McCarthy adheres to your primitive notions of grammar and punctuation

>> No.3863714

>>3861858
The Yu-Gi-Oh card game rule book.

>> No.3863736

>>3863714
read that shit ages ago
next

>> No.3863747

jesus christ what the fuck is wrong with all of you

>> No.3863748

>>3861778

I can vouch for this. It's good, probably really good, but not my favorite. Favorite incoming as soon as I decide.

Also

Everything that starts as comedy ends as a dirge lost in the void.

>> No.3863946

Bumping for more favorite books

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My Favourites:
Shantaram
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Wild:An Elemental Journey
Slaugherhouse-Five
The Castle(Kafka)
Patriotism(Mishima)
Nation(Pratchett)
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Famished Road
V.
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Of Mice and Men
The Stranger
Kafka on the Shore
Scar Tissue(Kiedis)
Animal Farm
The Martian Chronicles

Hope you can find something you like Op.