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4604535 No.4604535 [Reply] [Original]

What are some manly books?

>> No.4604538

Homage to Catelonia.

>> No.4604659

>>4604535
did Hemingway believe that or was he being ironic?

>> No.4604674

Cities of the Red Night

>> No.4604696
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4604696

>>4604535
Misopogon
MANLIEST.

>> No.4604989

Searunners.

>> No.4605014

>>4604659
i imagine that is a quote by the title figure of the old man and the sea and therefore not reflective of hemingway's mindset

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Fixed

>> No.4605053

Jack Vance

>>4605052
my brother

>> No.4605070

Reading cormac mccarthy kinda feels manly I guess. like the words pass through your brain like sandpaper.

>> No.4605074

The things they carried
TheThree Musketeers
Red Harvest
Farewell my Sweet
The Sound of Waves
LA Confidential
Homicide: Life on the Streets

>> No.4605096

The count of Monte Cristo. Edmond is manly as fuck.

>> No.4605100

The Iliad
Ian Fleming's 007 series.
Beowulf


James. M Cain
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett

>>4604538
this

>> No.4605103

>>4605070
Or ashes. If you get what I mean.

>> No.4605120

>>4604535
Ayn Rand
/thread

>> No.4605535

Le Carre

>> No.4605534

White Fang by Jack London is quite manly in my opinion.

>> No.4605538

Robert E Howard
Fritz Leiber

>> No.4605554

>>4605096
>>4604538
those

also moby dick
papillon
Some epics like Martin fierro, the illiad, the oddisey , the aeneid

And anything by Cormac McCarthy. He writes with testosterone instead of ink.

>> No.4605559

>>4605554
>he writes with testosterone instead of ink
truest statement on /lit/

>> No.4605704

>>4605554
>That spelling and capitalization
I don't think you deserve to read epics, and yes having proper English on 4chan is serious business.

>> No.4605709

>>4605704
>I don't think you deserve to read epics

I'll ask your permission next time .

>and yes having proper English on 4chan is serious business.

okay, send the cops.

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>>4604535
The only people writing books about manliness are effete arseholes.

>> No.4605768

>Manly books

"I have a small dick and am looking to compensate" by You

Get your gendered shit out of here, neckbeard.

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4605792

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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I'm reading this right now and the testosterone levels are off the scales.

>> No.4605805

>>4605768
tumblr pls go

>> No.4605809

>>4604659
That's a good quote from a good book you daft fool

>> No.4605823

The Odyssey
Deliverance
The Sea Wolf

>> No.4605830

>>4605768
>Get your gendered shit out of here
>>>> /tumblr/