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Anonymous Mon Mar 27 02:58:11 2017 No.9298515 [Reply] [Original]

What is the most "you have to own this" book? Regardless of how much you liked it or how good it is, just how essential it is to have.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 02:58:57 2017 No.9298516 Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 02:59:37 2017 No.9298519 The bible

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:00:13 2017 No.9298521 the bible

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:01:35 2017 No.9298524 >>9298519 Yeah has to be said. I was going to say that so I guess I will say the Koran.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:10:23 2017 No.9298538 File: 2 KB, 103x125, george costanza.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9298519 >>9298521

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:15:34 2017 No.9298549 >>9298515 >>9298516 >>9298519 >>9298521 >>9298524 >>9298538 MY MOTHER FUCKING DIARY, DESU

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:18:35 2017 No.9298558 File: 55 KB, 291x224, 118300_original.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9298549 Must have Item. Only one copy in the world. really makes you ponder the futility of life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:20:46 2017 No.9298565 >>9298515 bibble

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:22:46 2017 No.9298568 File: 47 KB, 305x328, 1490507088563.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9298565 Such a kinetically pleasant word to say. Compete works of Shakespeare, can cut out tempest though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:31:54 2017 No.9298585 Complete Works of Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:34:11 2017 No.9298589 >>9298519 Should I put down east of eden and read this first?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:37:53 2017 No.9298597 >>9298589 nah finish what you are on

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:38:38 2017 No.9298598 File: 266 KB, 972x1161, IMG_3882.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9298568

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:40:04 2017 No.9298599 >>9298597 So I won't be missing much depth on the Cain and Abel story from just 2nd hand.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:42:26 2017 No.9298606 >>9298599 Just spend a minute or two on wikipedia its a pretty short section of the bible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 03:49:43 2017 No.9298622 >>9298598 Yeah ok to be fair it isn't the worst, would probably put it above two gentlemen, cymbeline and Timon of athens.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 04:11:54 2017 No.9298662 File: 17 KB, 240x240, 9781785655135.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9298515

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 04:18:41 2017 No.9298674 >>9298515 How can a book be "essential to own"? Essential to read, maybe, but why would would something be crucial to own, and what's more, regardless if you like it or not?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 04:21:59 2017 No.9298680 >>9298674 Way to be pedantic dude, its obvious what he meant.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 05:54:51 2017 No.9298874 >>9298680 Maybe he doesn't want to read books, just to have them on his shelf. Maybe he needs books with nice spines.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 05:59:24 2017 No.9298881 >>9298589 You don't need to read the Bible, just own it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 06:13:37 2017 No.9298900 File: 156 KB, 294x400, the-lorax-cover2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The classics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 06:25:55 2017 No.9298920 The Bible, for the sake of your soul.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 06:59:12 2017 No.9299002 >>9298674 shut the fuck up

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 08:03:06 2017 No.9299155 >>9298515 Das capital?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 09:23:28 2017 No.9299453 >>9298515 The KJV, the JPS, Frame's Complete Montaigne are the first three that come to mind. But also a koine NT, and single v. Homer in Homeric! Choosing one would pit the first against the last. Still deciding....

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 09:27:54 2017 No.9299482 >>9298515 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 13:01:47 2017 No.9300250 >>9298515 Communist Manifesto

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 13:03:01 2017 No.9300256 Nibelungenlied pure history and culture

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 13:05:24 2017 No.9300268 >>9298515 Among urban kids atm the answer to this is unironically Infinite Jest.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 13:05:53 2017 No.9300270 File: 81 KB, 600x969, c289_pocket_ref_4th_ed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Mar 27 15:17:02 2017 No.9300826

>>9298515
The Bible is by far the most important. The rest of these are up there for a good, well-rounded English-language library:

Iliad/Odyssey
Plato/Aristotle
Sophocles
Aeneid
Divine Comedy
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Ulysses
Moby-Dick

In no particular order.

Anonymous Mon Mar 27 15:21:36 2017 No.9300850

>>9298549
There it is, every thread, some inane child posts this "my diary desu" meme. I bet you don't even keep one, you pathetic whelp. Do you think you're funny, with your diary memes? All you're doing is wasting everyone's time. Fuck off to /pol/ or /v/, you're not welcome on a serious discussion forum.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 15:34:17 2017 No.9300910 >>9298874 Sounds like most of /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 16:20:54 2017 No.9301131 Isn't it obvious? The dictionary!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 16:22:36 2017 No.9301137 >>9300826 muh greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 16:28:07 2017 No.9301159 >>9301137 >impying ancient geek greeks weren't apex humans

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 16:28:13 2017 No.9301160 >>9300826 >>Complete Works of Shakespeare >Ulysses Other than those good list

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 16:35:37 2017 No.9301189 >>9300850 fuck man I try to have a one but it's taking too much effort so I just make some analyses on book chapters I've read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 18:51:40 2017 No.9301840 File: 10 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9301160 >goodness

Anonymous Mon Mar 27 18:59:48 2017 No.9301865

>>9300850
"my diary desu" is actually the greatest meme ever created. there's nothing that satisfactory and fair as shitposting and mocking those retards who can only name ad infinitum the same two or three books (being Ulysses, the Bible, Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow among them). I could repeat "my diary desu" a trillion times just to bait them

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 19:03:21 2017 No.9301876 File: 21 KB, 480x360, 1490503184214.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9298519 >>9298521 this

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 19:04:42 2017 No.9301880 File: 132 KB, 389x270, 1490314682695.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9300850 cry harder

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 19:23:10 2017 No.9301957 >>9298920 cringe

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 20:11:04 2017 No.9302174 >>9300850 >a serious discussion forum >anime board did you think this was a university?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 20:13:21 2017 No.9302190 File: 29 KB, 323x499, 41EHZhquMoL._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 21:28:54 2017 No.9302506 File: 131 KB, 638x963, we.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9298515 Mы

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