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Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:04:12 2013 No.4303045 [Reply] [Original]

Best books to read in the winter time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:17:12 2013 No.4303085 File: 42 KB, 318x475, anna-karenina.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not sure why but Anna Karenina felt like a winter book when I read it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:21:11 2013 No.4303103 File: 66 KB, 948x1358, Call of the Wild1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Oh boy. Sun Nov 24 22:22:11 2013 No.4303110 File: 27 KB, 219x350, Ameditatingmarcus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4303045 "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius makes for enjoyable reading in the winter time.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Nov 24 22:23:12 2013 No.4303117 File: 122 KB, 600x742, Wind in the Willows.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4303103 Or most anything of his.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Nov 24 22:26:11 2013 No.4303132 File: 89 KB, 254x375, sagas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:42:11 2013 No.4303169 Is Frankenstein the doctor or the monster?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:44:11 2013 No.4303173 >>4303169 Doctor

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:44:11 2013 No.4303174 >>4303169 The doctor is the 'monster'

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:45:11 2013 No.4303176 >>4303169 doctor you pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:47:11 2013 No.4303183 >>4303174 he's right >>4303176 you're the pleb

>>	Oh boy. Sun Nov 24 22:47:11 2013 No.4303182 File: 178 KB, 435x502, 1367800851810.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4303169

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:52:30 2013 No.4303195 >>4303174 the doctor is hardly the monster. he's not evil in the slightest

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:00:30 2013 No.4303216 >>4303195 10/10

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:02:31 2013 No.4303224 File: 14 KB, 214x235, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:05:31 2013 No.4303227 >>4303216 he's right though, victor wasn't any more evil than any other parent who brings a child into the world against their will also he wasn't a doctor so you're all wrong

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:08:31 2013 No.4303231 >>4303227 humans are inherently evil, so we are all monsters, and that is why we cannot express love properly

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:11:32 2013 No.4303240 >>4303231 the monster was more evil though since he started fucking murdering people after a couple bad experiences I mean life's tough for all of us dude but come on, you don't have to murder children

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:12:34 2013 No.4303242 File: 40 KB, 400x584, simmons_terror.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] THIS!

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:13:32 2013 No.4303248 >>4303240 The monster didnt know better. All he had experienced was hatred.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:15:33 2013 No.4303256 >>4303252 Canit read with a blanket unless its a snuggy. Ive never figured it out

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:15:33 2013 No.4303252 File: 45 KB, 266x400, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not reading The brothers Karamazov all wrapped up in a nice warm blanket by a roaring fireplace with a big cup of hot chocolate

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:16:33 2013 No.4303262 >>4303248 >the monster didn't know better >more well read than half of the united states today yeah ok

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:20:32 2013 No.4303276 File: 43 KB, 314x500, christmas_carol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] well... It hasn't been said yet... but yea. Dickens knows how to paint a snowy lamp-light lit street at night.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:34:32 2013 No.4303315 >>4303252 >not reading TBK over a few months because you have to take day-long pauses to recover from the copious amounts of vodka you down while reading.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:38:32 2013 No.4303324 >>4303103 Just read this for the first time since I was ten last week, it was fantastic. Now I really want a dog.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 23:41:32 2013 No.4303330 >>4303315 >not reading TBK at a rate of one page a day because you are eating every page after finishing it

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 00:21:06 2013 No.4303434 >>4303324 Fuck you

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 13:56:25 2013 No.4304921 >>4303195 He's not evil, but he does suffer from a pretty big hubris. And he wants to fuck his mother/sister

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 13:57:25 2013 No.4304927 >>4303252 Currently reading through The Aeneid, but this is next on my list.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 13:59:24 2013 No.4304935 >>4303262 I'm not sure what your point is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:00:24 2013 No.4304939 >>4303169 Frankenstein is the doctors last name, and the monster is his son. They have the same last name.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:08:24 2013 No.4304964 File: 112 KB, 316x475, 759212.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:08:25 2013 No.4304966 >>4304921 >And he wants to fuck his mother/sister freud pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:11:24 2013 No.4304974 >>4304966 Well, he did marry his step-sister, which is a little fucked up if you've been 'siblings' since you were small Don't need a freudian interpretation to see that

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:19:24 2013 No.4305006 >>4303110 How come?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:25:11 2013 No.4305026 Dickens and Dostoevsky. I've just ordered Bleak House and Demons, as it goes.