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whats your favorite book of all time?

>> No.614741

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

>> No.614742

right now it is Naked Lunch by Burroughs, but I just read that within the last 6 months so I don't know if I can say it's my favorite of "all time".

>> No.614748

The Bible

>> No.614753

Ficciones

>> No.614754

Moby-Dick.

>> No.614758

Don't know...tricky question. I don't think that I have one.

>> No.614760

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

>> No.614765

1948

>> No.614768

Don Quixote

>> No.614773

>>614754
lol

Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

>> No.614798

The non fiction transcript of the Bible because it's really short.

>> No.615978

Crank

>> No.615983

Avatar

>> No.615988

Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut

>> No.616007

Moby Dick

>> No.616010

4chan

I get my fix

>> No.616013

the bibble

>> No.616021

>>615988

Only right answer

>> No.616049
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>> No.616062
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>>616007

>> No.616150

Atlas Shrugged

>> No.616191

John Dies at the End.

John is the best character ever.
Story I could care less about.
Troll me if you must.

>> No.616195

brave new world

>> No.616196
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>> No.616208

>>616196
always a classic

>> No.617302

Dune

>> No.617323

I always hate this question.
I'll go with A Confederacy of Dunces atm.

>> No.617340

The Black Company

>> No.617344

Currently reading snow crash. By the time I finish it it might be my fave

>> No.617368

snow crash - neal stephenson

>> No.617391

Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt.

He was modest about punching a bear, he possessed the midas touch, was morally uncorruptable, and achieved more good than Jesus. Did I mention he PUNCHED A FUCKING BEAR?

>> No.617392

Changes a lot, but right now Grapes of Wrath.

>> No.617393

East Of Eden

>> No.617407

>>616195

>> No.617425

The Winter of Our Discontent

>> No.617427
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617427

sure is Steinbeck around here

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>> No.617432

"angels" by denis johnson ... it's not about angels, fucktards.

>> No.617438

It's hard to chose one, but maybe this book of short stories by Borges, or House of Leaves, or maybe the Twilight Saga.

>> No.617447
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617447

The Great Book of Amber

>> No.617451

The Diary of a Young Girl really hit me. I didn't know what was going to happen at the end. I was fucking depressed.

>> No.617814

>>617447
Hells yeah! I have it in ten separate volumes, lol. Also, team Corwin or team Merlin?

>> No.617823
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>> No.617831

Nietzsche's: Genealogy of Morals

>> No.617833
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>> No.617834

John dies at the end.
House of Leaves comes in close second.

>> No.617888

>>617814
Not the one you're responding to but Corwin >> Merlin.

>> No.617902

Horacio Quiroga's stories.

All of them.

>> No.617910

rum diary orrrrr paul austers new york trilogy

>> No.618252

Maaybe No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July.

For maybe like a year or two after I read East of Eden it was my fav

>> No.618270

>>617344
Cryptonomicon blows Snow Crash out of the fucking water.

>> No.618276

>>617834
>House of Leaves comes in close second.
and yes, I do believe I will hate

>> No.618277

House of Blue Leaves by John Guare none of you fags, none of you

>> No.618278

La Tregua (The Truce) - Mario Benedetti

>> No.618281

>>617834
>John dies at the end.
gb2cracked

>> No.618313

>>618270
The really can't be compared. The tone and pacing are not even remotely similar.

>> No.618332

are there any other pictures in that "set"
that one's boner-inducing

>> No.618363

>>618332
I pray you're not talking about the girl in OP's pic, because those are some ugly ass titties. It doesn't help she's slouching either, or that she looks potentially underage, or that her expression is DERP DERP.

>> No.618370
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618370

The Master and Margarita

>> No.618371

>>618363
that's why i like it
it's so different from ordinary porn that it's awesome

>> No.618382

>>618363

That's what normal people look like bro.

>> No.618407

>>618382
I'm aware of that, as OP looks like me.

>> No.618413

>>617888
I think so too. Raged when he changed the narrator.

Corwin, we hardly knew ya! Also, wincest.

>> No.618415

It's the first book that really got me into reading, so there's some sentimental value. I'll always have a special place in there somewhere for The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

>> No.618420

>>618407
pics? :D

>> No.618426

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is my favorite, best would probably be Blood Meridian.

>> No.618433

Asimov - The end of eternity

>> No.618449

>>618407
>woman
>/lit/
lolno

>> No.618456

>>618449
/lit/ is full of women, silly.

>> No.618465

>>618456
>men who act like women
ftfy

>> No.618469

>>618456
this is the truth

>> No.618477

>>618456
>>618469
prove it

>> No.618494

>>618413
Fuck I furious when Brand pushed/pulled (can't remember) Deirdre over the edge.

>> No.618495

>>618477
Don't have to.

Anyway, let's read some books.

>> No.618513

>>618495
enjoy your penis

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>> No.618521

>>617823
Sweet, that saves me finding the picture myself.

>> No.618552

>>614733
She reminds me of Syndrome from The Incredibles.

Favorite book all time is The Bromeliad Trilogy.

>> No.618660

Brass Man by Neal Asher

>> No.618816

ib4 Shantaram.. can't believe no one has posted it... lol

>> No.618831

>>618816
many books haven't been posted yet, lol

>> No.618843

Catcher in the Rye

>> No.620180

>>618370
this

>> No.620181

Inferno or the Trial.

>> No.620183

>>616196
>>616208

I'm half way through (took a long break because I had to read another book for an English class a few weeks ago)

About to pick it up again. I can sense the tone of the book changing though. Not sure if want.

>> No.620192

>>618433
I went out looking for this yesterdaybut didn't find it, What's it like?

>> No.620317

>>616191
love this book. read it when it was still online, then bought it when it was released in paperback

>> No.620326
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The Sound and the Fury

>> No.620331
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620331

Gotta be Snow Crash. Anathem comes in a very close second.

>> No.620371

>>614765
I wonder how many people think you're trolling.

>> No.620386

I'm apalled at the number of people listing Neal Stephenson titles. Especially when it isn't the Baroque Cycle.

>> No.620390

>>620386
Maybe that's because nobody can get more than 50 pages into Quicksilver because it's densely worded historical bullshit in which people talk about shit that nobody cares about

>> No.620391

The Count of Monte Cristo.

>> No.620392

>>620386
Neal Stephenson is a good writer, despite having his own eccentricities of style. Snow Crash is obviously immature, but Cryptonomicon is a legitimately good novel, and in general I will stan for Neal Stephenson all day.

>> No.620393

>>620390
I had the advantage of reading The Confusion first, which is really the only great part. But there are so many better books than this it hurts to read his name anywhere on /lit/. C'est la vie.

>> No.620396

>>620392
I disagree. I found Cryptonomicon better written but otherwise just as bad (think plot, content--actually it's worse in these departments) as Snow Crash. I'm glad I read the Baroque Cycle first, the depiction of Enoch in Cryptonomicon turned me off to him.

>> No.620500

Frenkenstein

>> No.620502

mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler

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>>618332

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>> No.620528

>>620386
I read Cryptonomicon first; it was long but pretty awesome. The first Baroque Cycle book was kind of a slog, though, and I haven't felt like finishing the cycle. I did read Snow Crash after that, and while it was obviously immature in some ways, it was just bursting with this youthful awesomeness.

>> No.621480

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>>614733

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>> No.621485

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>> No.621496

journey to the end of the night

>> No.621526

Dr. Murke's collected silence

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>> No.621539

needs moar like op