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Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:26:39 2017 No.10361369 [Reply] [Original]

Let's suppose you were to be stranded on a desert island and you could only take five books with you. Show/tell us your five, /lit/ I'll list mine since my phone camera is shit:

1. Homer--Odyssey (trans. Fitzgerald)
2. Haruki Murakami--Kafka on the Shore
3. Donald Keene--Anthology of Japanese Literature
4. M.L. West--Lyric Greek poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
5. T.S. Eliot--Four Quartets

Also, feel free to tell us why you picked what you picked.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:28:21 2017 No.10361371 I would bring only my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:29:24 2017 No.10361374 My Diary My Diary (Part 2: Desu) My Diary (Part 3: Revenge of My Diary) My Diary (Part 4: My Diary Returns) My Diary (Part 5: The Epic Conclusion of Memetic Proportions)

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:30:55 2017 No.10361376 >>10361369 George Eliot - Middlemarch H.D. - Trilogy Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun Ovid - Metamorphoses (Mandelbaum) Homer - Iliad (Fagles)

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:31:27 2017 No.10361380 >>10361376 Gay

Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:31:29 2017 No.10361381

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan's Curse
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympian

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:31:58 2017 No.10361383 >>10361380 ur face

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:32:39 2017 No.10361387 >>10361376 This, this, this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:37:10 2017 No.10361396 >>10361387 Gay

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:39:33 2017 No.10361400 >Phenomenology of Spirit >Dead Souls >Petersburg >Being and Time >KJV Bible Please let me take Swann's Way too

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 00:45:08 2017 No.10361409 >>10361369 Moby-Dick Brothers Karamazov Don Quixote Tristram Shandy Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

>>	Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 Wed Dec 6 00:56:50 2017 No.10361441 File: 2.41 MB, 4032x3024, IMG_1188.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 01:13:03 2017 No.10361462 File: 657 KB, 1000x1600, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10361371 >>10361374

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 01:13:10 2017 No.10361463 >>10361441 Niiiiiice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 01:14:13 2017 No.10361465 >>10361441 this guy gets it

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 01:33:34 2017 No.10361490 File: 957 KB, 2560x1440, IMG_20171206_022550[268].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Should keep me occupied for a good while.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 01:44:26 2017 No.10361510 >>10361490 Niiiiice

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 01:46:19 2017 No.10361511 >>10361441 KJV, disgusting.

>>	Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 Wed Dec 6 01:48:01 2017 No.10361517 >>10361511 It's the most important English translation of the Bible even if it isn't the most accurate. It's worth reading if you care about the Anglo literary tradition

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 01:54:18 2017 No.10361531 File: 13 KB, 211x300, vulgate.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10361517 Only real answer for Catholics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 02:00:39 2017 No.10361541 >>10361381 underrated

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 02:19:03 2017 No.10361581 Gravity's Rainbow Paradise Lost Swann's Way Moby Dick Invisible Cities

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 02:50:16 2017 No.10361647 >>10361369 1.Rudolf Erich Raspe - Baron Munchausen 2.Lúcia Machado - O Escaravelho do Diabo ( it's national ) 3.Homer - Odyssey 4.Dune 5.Milk and Vine

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 03:44:42 2017 No.10361727 To those who have read swanns way, are the other volumes very important to read after that? Thanks I appreciate the help

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 03:47:26 2017 No.10361736 >>10361380 >>10361396 At one post alone, not a chuckle. But with this kind of follow through, I chortled.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:09:55 2017 No.10361770 File: 300 KB, 864x1312, 176 - k3sXkXW.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10361381 kek'd

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:11:48 2017 No.10361775 The Odyssey was waste of time, tbqh. Call me a pleb, I really don't care.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:14:33 2017 No.10361781 The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Emery Manual of Zen Buddhism, Suzuki Don Quixote, Cervantes The Feynman Lectures On Physics Principia Mathematica, Whitehead/Russell

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:35:17 2017 No.10361827 >>10361400 What an awful taste. Kys.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:48:16 2017 No.10361854 >>10361400 good taste

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:55:46 2017 No.10361873 Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy The Lesser Key of Solomon Crowley's Book of the Law The Picatrix Grimorium Verum Give me a few weeks study and whoosh! Back home in a flash, as if by magic.

Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:57:05 2017 No.10361875

>US Army Survival Manual, OR , SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea
>Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes
>Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
>Survival Medicine
>The Man Without Qualities, OR, Parallel Lives by Plutarch

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 04:59:09 2017 No.10361880 >>10361875 Wouldn't there be at least one text that would tell you how to make tents with some literary value? The Torah teaches you how to make loans.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 05:00:07 2017 No.10361882 >>10361880 >The Torah teaches you how to make loans. citation needed

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 05:03:08 2017 No.10361886 >>10361880 hmmm maybe Robinson Crusoe?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 05:59:36 2017 No.10361975 File: 596 KB, 1920x1280, Island.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Complete essays - Montaigne À la recherche du temps perdu The man without qualities My diary You tell me

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:05:06 2017 No.10361982 >>10361369 Five books about how to survive on an island.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:07:08 2017 No.10361986 File: 1.28 MB, 892x806, Screen Shot 2017-12-06 at 9.06.53 pm.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Bible Complete Shakespeare Complete Plato Plutarch - Lives Thomas Aquinas - Summa

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:09:52 2017 No.10361993 >>10361986 Do you think the summa would be interesting for a non-believer/agnostic/non religious person? Is it a universal work?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:10:04 2017 No.10361995 Surely you must take Robinson Crusoe?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:10:50 2017 No.10361998 >>10361975 Add the bible and one copy of playboy magazine and you got my vote.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:15:59 2017 No.10362007 >>10361998 Why the need of the playboy magazine when I can just imagine or just fuck some random animals on the island

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:24:07 2017 No.10362024 >>10362007 After a few months with no porn on an island seeing some bimbo in a magazine probably feels like Christmas. Porn ruined our imagination. im just being practical here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 06:26:51 2017 No.10362028 >>10362024 Yea, maybe you're right. It's been a week or so since I decided to stop looking at porn. So far I don't have regrets. It's not difficult nor anything. I'm feeling good. Masturbation is always a good thing, though

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 07:08:05 2017 No.10362090 >>10361995 Only if you are interested in philosophy. Most analytic philosophers don't mind reading him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 09:16:09 2017 No.10362417 >>10361882 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loans_and_interest_in_Judaism Literally use google.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 16:06:41 2017 No.10363904 >>10361995 Why would you want to be reminded of your situation?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 16:07:03 2017 No.10363906 >>10361371 Casanova, is that you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 16:10:51 2017 No.10363919 >>10362417 wtf I hate Jews now!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 16:15:08 2017 No.10363930 File: 47 KB, 600x827, 1124.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10361376 >Fagles

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 16:21:57 2017 No.10363951 1. Collected works of H.P Lovecraft 2. On War, by Clausewitz 3. The Odyssey 4. The Book of Five Rings 5. The Bible Just of the top of my head, feel like these will keep me goin.

Anonymous Wed Dec 6 16:33:41 2017 No.10364000
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>>10363951
Lolita - Nabokov
Under the North Star - Linna
Brothers Karamazov - Dostojevskij
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared - Jonasson

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 19:47:59 2017 No.10364780 >>10361975 Add The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Not to read it of course but to rip the pages and make paper boats when you get tired of reading.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 20:00:25 2017 No.10364832 >>10361517 you forget douay-rheims for english

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 20:02:36 2017 No.10364839 The complete works of Shakespeare The Metamorphoses (mandelbaum) The Collector Borges fiction Maybe the Bible

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 20:16:14 2017 No.10364908 > The KJV Bible > Don Quijote de la Mancha > Complete Works of Shakespeare > The Divine Comedy > The Iliad/Odyssey (Lattimore translations, pretending that an edition exists with both texts)

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 20:55:22 2017 No.10365083 >>10364908 Just a further comment: I'd leave all philosophy in the dirt, except maybe Plato/Aristotle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 21:49:09 2017 No.10365265 >>10361441 >Not volume 2 of ISOLT for its evocations of childhood

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 6 22:30:23 2017 No.10365397 >complete Plato >KJV >Summa >Divine Comedy >On The Tartar Steppe

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 7 04:48:21 2017 No.10366236 >>10364780 kek why would I be tired though

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 7 05:34:51 2017 No.10366323 Complete Plato Complete Shakespeare The Hobbit The Oxford History of Britain Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook >>10361781 >Principia Mathematica, Whitehead/Russell As if you can understand that, lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 7 11:09:14 2017 No.10367121 >>10361511 Stop pretending to be a sectarian you stupid child, you dont live in Derry in 1970, and if you did you wouldnt make that comment with a triple digit IQ. Stop it with the fake emotion, its not contrarian you're just a retard. No offense.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 7 11:10:29 2017 No.10367125 well what are the five longest books,,,?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 7 17:00:43 2017 No.10368393 The Magic Mountain Collected Poems by Heine An intensive Anne Frank biography

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 7 17:06:21 2017 No.10368412 >>10361369 The Bible Compete works of Augustine The Crusades (by Thomas Asbridge) Dungeon, Fire, and Sword Complete Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 7 17:14:05 2017 No.10368439 >>10364832 Douey-Rheims has had zero impact on the English language, it's been 400 years, get over it.

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