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What is the perfect book in your eyes? And why do you like it?

Recommendations based other anons 10/10s are welcome too.

>> No.10602937

>>10602910
The Baron in the trees or An Invincible memory
Both show many aspects of life in a territory, they explore it, the characters are always moving somewhere and I liek this.
But I haven't read half of what other people here have read and I have middle class conventional tastes.

>> No.10602951

Paradise lost

>> No.10602966

the uncle laurence poetry collection (rip)

>> No.10603004

>>10602937
>But I haven't read half of what other people here have read
That's perfectly fine though, at least itt.
>The Baron in the trees
Did you read the other two volumes too? Is it necessary to read The Cloven Viscount first?

>> No.10603011

>>10602910

Suttree

>> No.10603019
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>> No.10603032
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>>10602910
>Hour of the Dragon
>Inb4: you pleb, be patrician and blow some work that's already getting sucked off
Sure, its not some deep philosophical thing, but Conan loses his throne after his army loses in battle because he is paralyzed and cant lead them
Then he has to cross essentially the entire world Howard has created in his other conan stories in order to get his kingdom back.
Its sword and sorcery kino

>> No.10603035

An empty diary

>> No.10603077

>>10603019
What is this book about? What are saying? What
REALLY is deterritorialization?

>> No.10603089

>>10603004
I read The Cloven Viscount. I haven't read the non-existent knight. I don't think it is necessary, unless there is some hidden meaning I didn't notice.

>> No.10603094

might be a pleb choice but for me it’s Anna Karenina, I get chills just remembering sone parts

>> No.10603096

>>10603077
basically it presents humans on the point of view of capital, so merely as machines and their productive use, and, once they stop functioning, to let go of one's self, to get crazy and experiment and try to find new functions the objects (humans) can have

>> No.10603156

>>10603096
Finally some sense. Thank you very much, clear and to the point. Is this why the books are connected to the left.

Is there some introductory books to reading it. I tried. Once.

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not even joking

>> No.10603164

>>10602910
Meditations

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>> No.10603218

I really like East of Eden for its emotional punch, relatability, and breadth of topics. You can genuinely feel the characters' pains and triumphs since many of their experiences are universal (or nearly so). Similarly, a lot of the topics are intriguing since they are usually questions of basic morality, which are the most fundamental and interesting.

>> No.10603236

>>10603163
I watched de Youtube video.

What obscure symbolism is this book about?

>> No.10603268

>>10603218
This. Cried multiple times reading it, absolute 10/10 for me, can anyone recommend similar books or books that you think I would enjoy if i liked East of Eden?

>> No.10603350

>>10603268
Some of the moments in The Grapes of Wrath recaptured the magic for me, but on the whole it wasn't nearly as impactful.

>> No.10603360

The Stranger is likely one of the best books I have and ever will read.

It is accessible but beautiful, thoughtful but common

>> No.10603414

Beckett's Complete Dramatic Works.

>> No.10603483

If I can cheat and include plays, I'd say Hamlet.


Otherwise, I'll say Don Quixote.

>> No.10603506

>>10603089
Good, will look into it. If on a Winter's Night... and Invisible Cities have been on my shelve for months, probably gonna read them first.

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>“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined with our silver sails, our demon-haunted sails, our hundred-league masts as fine as threads, as fine as silver needles sewing the threads of starlight, embroidering the stars on black velvet, wet with the winds of Time that go racing by. The bone in her teeth! The spume, the flying spume of Time, cast up on these beaches where old sailors can no longer keep their bones from the restless, the unwearied universe. Where has she gone? My lady, the mate of my soul? Gone across the running tides of Aquarius, of Pisces, of Aries. Gone. Gone in her little boat, her nipples pressed against the black velvet lid, gone, sailing away forever from the star-washed shores, the dry shoals of the habitable worlds. She is her own ship, she is the figurehead of her own ship, and the captain. Bosun, Bosun, put out the launch! Sailmaker, make a sail! She has left us behind. We have left her behind. She is in the past we never knew and the future we will not see. Put out more sail, Captain for the universe is leaving us behind…”

>> No.10603578

IJ

>> No.10603586
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The Count of Monte Cristo.

>> No.10603591

>>10603565
holy shit those covers are unreal

>> No.10603600

>>10603236
Obviously the beginning of it is some direct allegory to the plagues in Exodus. The little about about the mixing of the ingredients could use some looking into as well, but I can't be assed. Jam could be the blood of pagan sacrifices but I doubt it, nothing is ever as allegorical as it seems

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>>10603565
I have no idea what this passage might possibly describe, but it sounds rad and I'm looking forward to reading BotNS in translation.
>>10603591
http://www.brucepennington.co.uk/covers.htm

>> No.10603751

>>10603674
That passage is just the rambling of one the book's secondary characters who is crazy. The majority of the book is not written in that style, but nevertheless the prose is excellent throughout, and what I quoted is just an example of what Gene Wolfe can do off-hand.

The best, most quotable passages of BotNS are best read in context of the narrative so I'll let you discover it for yourself.

>> No.10603937

>>10603751
Well that's even better. Have you read other stuff by Wolfe?

>> No.10603945

>>10603565
I'm sold