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Post five books.

Other anons choose what you read next because you're retarded.

>> No.10700534

homer's odyssey
akutagawa's rashomon and 17 other stories
orwell's down and out in paris and london
thoreau's walden
freud's the unconscious

>> No.10700558

>>10700532
>hurr vote for bernie, don't u want free college and free healthcare and free immigration and open borders?
>trump is evil! evil I say!
lol that guy is so funny (aka stupid).

>> No.10700577

>>10700558
just a reaction pic bro

>> No.10700596
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Isherwood - A Single Man
Gibson - Neuromancer
Kafka - The Trial
F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night
Lindsay - A Voyage To Arcturus

>> No.10700610

Moby Dick
Heart of Darkness
Crime and Punishment
Blood Meridian
Slayers vol 5: The Silver Beast

>> No.10700620
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The catcher in the Rye
Siddharta
As I lay dying
The death of Ivan Ilyich
The Trial

>> No.10700633

>>10700610
For you I recommend

H G Wells - The Island of Dr Moreau

>> No.10700642

>>10700534
Odyssey (read iliad first if you haven't)

>> No.10700651

>>10700532
>post 5 books
That we have already red or that we are planning to read ?

>> No.10700658

>>10700620
As I Lay Dying

>> No.10700661

>>10700642
i have read it first, really enjoyed it

>>10700651
think it's obvious when the next sentence mentions one of the books will be the next book you read, dude

>> No.10700662

Plotinus' Enneads
Mishima's Golden Pavilion
Joyce's Dubliners
Lacan's Ecrits
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

>> No.10700667

>>10700661
No it's not.

>> No.10700668

>>10700662
Dubliners

>> No.10700669

>>10700532
madame bovary
doctrine of awakening
oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (the art of worldly wisdom)
a discourse upon the origin and the foundation of the inequality
reign of quantity

>> No.10700673

The Children of Men, P. D. James
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Phillip K. Dick
Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Sellout, Paul Beatty

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>>10700668
Im reading that atm so thanks

>> No.10700719

>>10700669
Moby Dick
>>10700673
Moby Dick
>>10700662
Moby Dick

>> No.10700724

The Red and the black
Nana
El Aleph
Canto
One, no one and one hundred thousand

>> No.10700731

>>10700719
don't care about techno pop djs' sexual life

>> No.10700741

>>10700673
Babel-17 by Delany

>> No.10700757

>>10700731
fun fact: moby is literally related to herman melville

>> No.10700771

>>10700673
Slaughterhouse-5

>> No.10700780

>>10700757
No way

>> No.10700784

>>10700780
>Moby was born Richard Melville Hall on September 11, 1965, in New York City, and raised in the suburb of Darien, Connecticut. His nickname, which he has had since he was a baby, is based on the novel Moby Dick, written by his great-great-great uncle, Herman Melville.

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>>10700784
Awesome

>> No.10700890

>>10700558
The latest JRE with him was great. I thought he was cool.

>> No.10700904

>>10700532
Is that Christian Slater

>> No.10701254

>>10700532
any 5 books? okay
The Magus-Fowles
Odyssey-Homer
The Sound and The Fury-Faulkner
Portrait of the artist as a young man-Joyce
Don Quixote-Cervantes
all of em in order plez

>> No.10701260

>>10700558
Trump is ebil doh

>> No.10701274

The Recognitions
Dubliners
Les Miserables
Anna Karenina
Faust (Goethe)

>> No.10701278

Anton Chekhov - The Duel
Vilhelm Moberg - The Emigrants (book 2)
Kafka - The Castle
Orwell - 1984
Hemingway - Death in the Afternoon

>> No.10701286

>>10701254
Read in chronological order

>> No.10701349

>>10700724
Republic - Plato.

>> No.10701353

>>10701274
Rules for radicals.

>> No.10701357

>>10701349
Already read that

>> No.10701359

>>10701278
Camasutra

>> No.10701367

>>10701357
Then this -----> >>10701359

>> No.10701409

>>10700532
Book of the new sun
Brave New World
Dune
Rats in the walls (lovecraft short stories)
Old Testament

>> No.10701416

>>10701353
no

>> No.10701546

>>10700741
>sapir-whorf
You have me intrigued, thanks for the only good suggestion in this thread.

Other than the moby dick guy of course, bless you

>> No.10701583

>>10700558
mods are asleep
post cucks

>> No.10701619

>>10700534
How's akutagawa and thoreau?

>> No.10701819

>>10700558
Whats his name? I used to watch his show it was really funny.

>> No.10701829

>>10701409
Book of the New Sun

>> No.10701837

>>10700532
>The Sorrows of Young Werther
>Twilight of the Idols
>The Stranger
>The Odyssey
>The brothers Karamazov

>> No.10702124

>>10700532
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Trial
The Inspector general (Peвизop)
The Great Gatsby
1984

>> No.10702134

>>10700596
Adolfo Casares - The Invention of Morel

>> No.10702157

Last 5 I read:
The picture of dorian gray
Crime and punishment
The brothers Karamazov
The trial
Labyrinths by Borges

>> No.10702165

Tale of Genji
Lusiads
1001 Nights
Oryx and Crake
Iliad

>> No.10702341

>>10702134
Looked it up on amazon, it sounds like exactly the kind of novel I'd enjoy

>Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

And I'm a massive Borges fan

Thanks anon, I'm going to buy this soon

>> No.10702363

These are the last 5 novels I've read for pleasure and completed

Young Henry of Navarre - Heinrich Mann
Narcissus and Goldmund - Hesse
Crime & Punishment - Dostoevsky
Brothers Karamazov - Ibid.
Infinite Jest - DFW

>> No.10702475

>>10701619
idk dude its why i asked what to read my man

>> No.10702527

>>10702475
You're meant to post 5 books that you've read

>> No.10702552

Last 5 books I've read:
Fahrenheit 451
Hyperion
How to Read and Why - Bloom
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Catch 22

>> No.10702584

Atlas shrugged
The divine comedy (the first part - the one with Dante's inferno)
Mein Kampf
Some gunsmith manual I found in the back of my couch
Neuromancer

>> No.10702597

>>10702527
No, OP asked for five books because others tell you what to read from those five

>> No.10702606

>>10700532
Iain M Banks Use of Weapons
William Gibson Neuromancer
Martin Amis Money
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Jack London Martin Eden

>> No.10702691

>>10702597
Yeah, the people in this thread are fucking idiots. That is completely obvious, yet the majority of these posters are responding with random books, or posting lists that they have already read.

>> No.10702726

>>10702527
dude did you even read OPs post

>> No.10702780
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>>10700532
Iliad and Odyssey
Virgil's Aeneid
Plato's Symposion
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival

Also, you might want to add Vatsyayana Mallanaga's Kamasutram.

>> No.10702788

>>10702780
>Iliad and Odyssey
Start with the Greeks.

>> No.10702796

>>10702780
Odissey

>> No.10702871

>>10700532
Arrian - Alexander the Great
Aristotle - On the Soul
Shakespeare - The Tempest
Sophocles Collection
Hemingway - Sun Also Rises

>> No.10702879

>>10702584
>The divine comedy
This one.

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>>10702597
>>10702726
>>10702691
I prefer my interpretation of OP's post. It's much more interesting to get a recommendation which is a new discovery (based on books you like) rather than have someone make a random choice out of 5 that you chose.

>> No.10702956

Shakespeare - Hamlet
DFW - The Broom of the System
Gaddis - The Recognitions
Williams - Butcher's Crossing
Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream

>> No.10702973

>>10702956
>Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream
Now do me >>10702871

>> No.10703011
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Hunger - Hamsun
Austerlitz - Sebald
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - Gass
The Flying Inn or Orthodoxy - Chesterton
Underground - Murakami

>> No.10703075

1. The Dying Earth
2. Anglo-American Encyclopedia
3. Plague on Wheels
4. In The Realms of the Unreal
5. Mein Kampf

>> No.10703214

>Norse Myths (Neil Gaiman)
>Merchant of Venice
>Richard II
>Huckleberry Finn
>In Cold Blood
Zero shame.

>> No.10703288

>>10703075
bump someone tell me what to read

>> No.10703313

>>10703075
Childhoods end

>> No.10703341

>>10700532
The Name of the Rose
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Brave New World
The Adventures of Tom Saywer and Huck Finn
Cairo Trilogy

I put series together because I go through them without stopping usually.

>> No.10703349

>>10702165
Genji

I read it, took 3 months but I took a two week break around 40 chapters in. I suggest the Royall Tyler translation.

>> No.10703354

>>10702921
I actually kind of agree. It would be cool if people looked at the 5 you've read and then determined something you might like from your history.

>> No.10703377

Old man and the sea
Brave new world
The grapes of wrath
The catcher in the rye
David copperfield

>> No.10703380

>>10703354
I posted a selected history >>10700596 and got what looks like a great recommendation. Why don't you do the same.

>> No.10703381

>>10703377
Catcher in the rye then brave new world. Might as well hammer out the high school shit asap.

>> No.10703382

>>10703313
from my list please, just as OP intended, thanks

>> No.10703400
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The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda - Noam Chomsky
Ride the Tiger - Evola
The Four Pillars of Investing - William Bernstein
The Republic - Plato
The Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Shea

>> No.10703405

>>10703380
Here's a list of 5 books I've read then.

Antifragile
Tale of Genji
Notes From Underground
Clash of Civilizations
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

>> No.10703415

>>10703400
The Republic is the obvious choice seeing as how it's a seminal work.

>> No.10703537

>>10703341
The Picture of Dorian Gray it won't give you cancer and kill you

>> No.10703552

>>10703537
>it won't give you cancer and kill you

How can you say that and not say more? Now I'm curious.

>> No.10703573

>>10703400
nigel

>> No.10703574
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>>10703552
Name of the Rose will curse you with Sean Connery. Everywhere you go, you'll see him. Around every corner, in every darkened apse or slender penumbra of doorway you'll know he is there.
>Brave New World you will never know or experience what a pneumatic woman is. In a frustrated rage you will try to design your own ending in a rather messy embarrassment and the ruination of one perfectly fine Dyson cordless upright.
Tom and Huck the stolid wit will prematurely gray out your hair and you will constantly go around asking young children if they want to go on adventures in caves. A long jail time follows.
>The Cairo Trilogy - mummies, bro. all they do is curse. Cancer would be a blessing at that point

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Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Red Sphinx by Alexandre Dumas
The Pupil by Henry James
The Sonnets of Shakespeare
Billy Budd by Herman Melville

>> No.10703605

>>10703600

These are the last five books I read btw

>> No.10703639

>>10703573
Are his books worth reading?

>> No.10703937
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History of the Idea of Progress - Robert Nisbet
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche (re-read)
Marxism, Fascism & Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism - A. James Gregor
Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky

>> No.10703945

Mastery-John Greene
Being a Millionaire for Dummies
Stop being Mr Nice Guy
How to make Friends and Influence People
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

Roast me

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>>10703945
stop reading self help books

>> No.10704009

>>10701278
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>>10703288
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol

>> No.10704020

>>10704009
from my list, please

>> No.10704062

What a polarising thread
Will it be remembered in years as a misunderstood classic?

>> No.10704091

>>10704062
not unless someone please picks a book from my list! >>10703075

>> No.10704482

Hitler’s Art Thief
It
Another Shakespeare play
The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
Or Some of Orvid’s poetry, in Latin?

>> No.10704489

>>10703574
noice

>> No.10704512

>>10702973
Arrian

>> No.10704518

>>10703214
Huckleberry Finn

>> No.10704532

>>10703605
Okay, but did you even like them? How can someone recommend you shit if you don’t say which ones you fucking liked? Are you fucking stupid? That’s why that doesn’t work.

>> No.10704535

>>10704091
The Dying Earth

>> No.10704565

>>10704535
thank you. I can be at peace now

>> No.10704616

>>10703075
The Dying Earth

>>10700532
Pale Fire
To the Lighthouse
The White Goddess
The Sound of Waves
Cat's Cradle

>> No.10704638

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
White fang - Jack London
1984 - Orwell
A bunch of short stories by Poe

>> No.10704690

All Quiet on the Western Front
My Man Jeeves
The Metamorphoses
The Double
Bleeding Edge

>> No.10704694

>>10704638
Blood Meridian.

>> No.10704748
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>>10703075
1. Actually a real book, but a fake one in Hyperion
2. Fake book from Borges, Tlon etc.
3. Fake book. Kilgore Trout wrote this
4. the 1500 page manuscript by crazy person Darger
5. obvious bait
would it have made it easier if I put the Voynich Manuscript in there?

>> No.10704832

The Sound and the Fury
Tender is the Night
The Iceman Cometh
A Rhetoric of Motives
Mason & Dixon

>> No.10704856

Robinson Crusoé
Orange Clockwork
1Q84
Les liaisons dangereuses
The Kingdom of God Is Within You

>> No.10704858

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
It - Stephen King
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
We The Living - Ayn Rand
Mr. Mercedes - StephenKing

>> No.10704859

>>10701286
i started with the magus already
any other order?

>> No.10704870

>>10704859
God damn just choose your own order you child.

>> No.10705000
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>>10700532
Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, by Jordan Peterson
Beyond good and Evil, by Friedrich Neiztche
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins

>> No.10705034

The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche
Either/Or, Kierkegaard
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais
The New Science, Giambattista Vico

>> No.10705095

Mythology
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Inside the Aquarium
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

>> No.10705177

>>10704690
Bleeding edge
>>10704832
The iceman cometh
>>10704856
Clockwork orange
>>10704858
Atlas Shrugged
>>10705000
Gulag Archipelago
>>10705034
The new science
>>10705095
The brothers Karamazov

>> No.10705795

>>10703354
OP: good idea, next time I'll try that instead.

Sorry if my original post wasn't clear

>> No.10705901

>>10705795
Yeah you were kinda vague dude. But it's fine, there's a strange mix of good recommendations and trolling that somehow works I guess.

>> No.10705922

>>10700532
Big Sur, Jack Kerouac
Hamlet, Shakespear
Ghosts of my Life, Mark Fisher
The High Mountains of Portugal, Yann Martel
Flash Boys, Michael Lewis

>> No.10705945

>Archipielago gulag
>Where the air is clear
>LOTR: the two towers
>The brothers Karamazov
>Paradise Lost

So? Pic unrelated

>> No.10705951

>>10705922
Hamlet is my favorite Shakespeare work, go ahead anon

>> No.10706868

>>10705945
Two Towers, might as well finish the trilogy.

>> No.10706978

>>10706868
the three towers?

>> No.10707690

Mastery-John Greene
Being a Millionaire for Dummies
Stop being Mr Nice Guy
How to make Friends and Influence People
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

>> No.10708046

>>10707690
Set all of them on fire, and then yourself.

>> No.10708169

I usually read business books, would like to read some fiction, or sci-fi. Pls recommend me sth!!

>> No.10708697

>>10702606
A Fighting Chance: The Moral Use of Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Martino
Seems like left-field rec, but you'll like it.

>> No.10708706

>>10703341
How was the Cairo trilogy? Have you read other Mahfouz you could compare it to?

>> No.10708773

>>10708169
The City and the Stars- Arthur C Clark

>> No.10709034

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne-Jones
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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>>10700532
Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow. I recently read Stoner, V., The Crying of Lot 49, L'étranger, and Lolita.
Some books on my shelf I've been meaning to get to:
Kafka - The Castle / The Trial
Hill - The Nix
Sōseki - I am a Cat
Davis - Miles, the Autobiography
Ross - The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century

>>10700673
Read Androids. It's cozy and quick.

>> No.10709541

>>10709461
That’s weird, you wrote the Stranger in its native tongue like a pretentious faggot, but the other foreign books you didn’t. Strange.

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>>10705951
Thanks, It's queued up.