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What is the best book ever written?
>inb4 infinite jest, my diary desu, culture of critique
Seriously though.

>> No.10561132

>best

>> No.10561153

Love Finnegans Wake, points out pseuds and hacks instantly for you.

>> No.10561155

I can't state the best book ever written, but the best book I've ever read is:

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

Second Place: A Tale of Two Cities
Third Place: Love, Poverty, and War

>> No.10561278

>>10561155
read moby dick
faggot

>> No.10561300

>>10561128
delet this chart its embarass

>> No.10561306

>>10561128
>Rand
stopped reading the list

>> No.10561307

>>10561128
The best book ever written is the Old Man and the Sea. It is perfect as it is. Nothing in it is wasted; everything serves the book's purpose while remaining entirely accessible.

For the record, my personal favorite book is Borges' Ficciones. Labyrinths contains some extra material which breaks apart the purer collection of fiction present in Ficciones, though I suppose that adds more than it takes away for most.

>> No.10561312

>>10561153
I honestly have never understood all the hate Finnegans Wake and Joyce gets on this website. I guess it's just edgy high schoolers who think 1984 is the pinnacle of literature. Like in every Joyce thread someone thinks they completely discredit him by mentioning farts and fart sniffing. Then someone else will always say he was just a madman dying a syphilis so his writings can hold no meaning.

>> No.10561323

>way of all flesh
>not erewhon
dropped

>> No.10561355

>>10561128
Someone should do a better Patriciancore chart.

>> No.10561425

>>10561355
It's pretty easy to do. So do it yourself.

>> No.10561736

>>10561153
indeed, it's nice and clear when someone hasn't read a work, and yet they still, with such glee at their literary superiority and understanding of what is 'good' and what is 'bad', discredit it

>> No.10562425

>>10561306
not even once man that shit is cancer

>> No.10562436

>>10561128
>Atlas Shrugged

>> No.10562452

Thus Spake Zarathustra
Ulysses
East of Eden
Brave New World
The Republic

5 of the best books Ive ever read, but really, anything by Nietzsche

>> No.10562457

That drawing of Swinburne is creepy as hell.

>> No.10562465

>>10561128
>Rand
>Murakami
>Tao Lin
You think you're a funny guy, don't you?

>> No.10562736

>>10561128
Bisclavret

>> No.10562750

Oedipus the King

>> No.10562765

It's subjective.

>> No.10562781

It's Moby Dick

>> No.10562787

>>10562457
Dude looked weird

>> No.10563048

>>10561128
What a great chart. There's almost nothing missing in it.

>> No.10563059

>>10561128
I'd say Lolita

>> No.10563129
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10563129

>>10562452
>Brave New World

>> No.10564004

>>10561128
Finnegans Wake.

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10565168

>patriciancore
>tao lin

>> No.10566530

Don Quixote

>> No.10566576

>>10566530
correct answer

>> No.10566596

>>10561128
Hunger by Knut Hamsun