Personal 10/10s. Books that feel perfect to you. Who gives a shit if it's a common favourite or a book only you've read? Just come share it with us.

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Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:27:04 2018 No.10904430 [Reply] [Original]

Personal 10/10s. Books that feel perfect to you. Who gives a shit if it's a common favourite or a book only you've read? Just come share it with us.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:29:56 2018 No.10904437 The colour of magic It's the book that started me on reading

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:30:28 2018 No.10904439
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The insanity and intensity of the battle, the constant backstabbing and squabbling between the Gods and which sides they're on, the thematic development of honour and will, Diomedes and Hector are based and the inevitable tragedy that is when Troy fails to win the war and now they just have to wait it out until their city, women and children are fucking wrecked to shit, especially the line from Hector's widow about their child never reaching adulthood. The book genuinely left me feeling a little shaken, it's amazing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:31:31 2018 No.10904442 >>10904432 what did you try and achieve with this post anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:32:35 2018 No.10904443 confusions of youg törless

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:33:10 2018 No.10904445 >>10904439 Ah, listing the Iliad/Odyssey as a fav book. Part of the "I've read 5 books but want to seen like I've read 500 books" kit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:34:16 2018 No.10904448 >>10904445 Kek. Homerposter BTFO'd.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:34:23 2018 No.10904449 >>10904439 >reading Homer for the plot

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Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:38:58 2018 No.10904458

>>10904445
> The Iliad
> not a 10/10
> implying OP isn't asking for people's personal favourites

I'm sure there's something more productive you could be doing with your time than trying to irritate people on the internet, but at the very least you could share the books you enjoy. I chose the Iliad because it's where I started with the Greeks and as I keep reading more and more Greeks, The Iliad still keeps a special place for me because it's what introduced me to them. I don't see any harm in that, anon.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:41:31 2018 No.10904468 >>10904458 1. Doesn't refute my point. 2. Are you gonna cry, dude?

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:43:02 2018 No.10904473 >>10904439 >Lists the Iliad as a favourite but doesn't mention Ἀνάγkη >Probably doesn't even appreciate the catalogue of ships >Probably read a translation plebbit

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:44:18 2018 No.10904478 File: 82 KB, 1000x563, C5fidHUWMAAYFhN.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904473 That's my boy

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:44:40 2018 No.10904480 >>10904474 ST0P WITH THE PETDRSON PICS REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	D Tue Mar 27 06:44:42 2018 No.10904481 File: 81 KB, 480x480, 104867.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430 A little life by Hanya Yanagihara. I just feel that this book captures the dullness of depression and pain, and it affects in people around them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:44:45 2018 No.10904482 Infinite Jest seems perfect to me, despite not being my all-time favourite book. It's just so total and so imaginative and so faithfully rendered.

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>>	D Tue Mar 27 06:46:07 2018 No.10904485 >>10904477 I love that book. The movie didn't fuck up much, so that's a relief.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:48:36 2018 No.10904492 >>10904489 Please. I beg of you..have you no mercy in your heart...

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:48:59 2018 No.10904494
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>>10904430
When I started getting into Akira Kurosawa's films, somebody bought me his autobiography and said I needed to read it. I didn't know much about the guy apart from attempting suicide and kinda getting fucked over by Hollywood, so I read it and it's genuinely fascinating.

He explores his childhood fascination for silent films (he has a complete reference in the book for most of the films he saw as a kid and teenager and they're mostly wonderful films), the tragedy of his older brother who used to be a silent film narrator with theatre expertise but who later committed suicide, Kurosawa's experience with Toho and screenwriting (it's genuinely interesting to see how early japanese film studios used to operate) as well as quirky little stories about how he met his wife on the set of one of his films, how he let one of his colleagues sleep on set by hiding him (i hope i remember that correctly) and a weird fucking story about hearing a child scream, sneaking into the apartment to find the kid tied to a chair and then the kid is swearing at Kurosawa to fuck off. The stuff about the American occupation and Japanese censorship laws is interesting too, I swear it's not as dry as it sounds. He genuinely manages to make this engaging.

One of my favourite stories from the book is about how Kurosawa and one of his friends were seen as "slow" in school, but one of their teachers saw their potential and encouraged their creativity in art classes. Eventually Kurosawa and his buddy became screenwriters and invited their teacher - now an old man - to the screening of one of their films and their teacher just cried with how happy he was they succeeded. That genuinely made me feel quite emotional as I could relate to similar experiences in school and that there were definitely teachers who encouraged me.

It's a pretty short read, you could probably get through it on a weekend, but if you like Kurosawa or early cinema (he details his films up to the early 1950s), then it's great.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:50:17 2018 No.10904496 >>10904485 It didn't fuck up at all imho. All the changes were either necessary to have less details (like combining Collins and Westerby) or for more aesthetics (Budapest instead of Czech forest, Esterhase's interrogation). Even Bane was decent.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:50:45 2018 No.10904499 >>10904468 I don't see why it doesn't, anon. It's a personal favourite of mine and I've explained why. It's much better than just trying to derail a thread with Peterson pictures.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:51:48 2018 No.10904502 ok now i see why most of /lit/ hates Peterson posters

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>>10904494
>and a weird fucking story about hearing a child scream, sneaking into the apartment to find the kid tied to a chair and then the kid is swearing at Kurosawa to fuck off

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:57:12 2018 No.10904518 > all this samefagging

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 06:59:51 2018 No.10904528 >>10904512 yeah man, there's not much info about it, like he didn't ask what was going on later, he just thought he heard a kid in distress and sort of got more than he expected, it's really fucking odd

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:00:12 2018 No.10904530 >>10904517 Wait a minute...but she's considered a bad writer here...b- oh I see. Well done. Bravo.

>>	D Tue Mar 27 07:00:16 2018 No.10904531 >>10904517 Would you like a one-way ticket to Auschwitz?

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Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:01:28 2018 No.10904536

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A reminder that some people on here genuinely have autism and require assistance.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:05:28 2018 No.10904546 File: 339 KB, 1518x2325, 1510019010307.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A great collection of stories by who I think is an underrated (when it comes to how often he's talked about on /lit/) weird fiction writer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:05:55 2018 No.10904548 >>10904536 at least the book is giving them some

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:28:10 2018 No.10904603 File: 121 KB, 200x307, Crimeandpunishmentcover.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430 Crime and Punishment Is my favorite book. I loved the story and all of the characters. The ending and the epilogue hit me hard in my heart.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:32:46 2018 No.10904616 File: 312 KB, 783x642, meditations.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430 It's so simple and yet so beautiful.

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Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:54:07 2018 No.10904674

the Third Policeman.

it reflects that surreal element of dreams so well alongside a hilarious psuedophilosophical examination of a fake thinker. it's written so well, still makes me laugh (even though my reread count must be into the twenties) and just couldn't recommend it enough, even without knowing exactly how to describe what I'm recommending.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 07:55:14 2018 No.10904678 >>10904430 A brief life

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 08:04:04 2018 No.10904706 >>10904445 Does it make you feel better about your shitty existence to make posts like this? because it shouldn't

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:30:54 2018 No.10905378 File: 86 KB, 720x608, swerve.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430 From what I've read so far, which isn't much: Moby-Dick, Don Quixote pt. 2, Wuthering Heights.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:33:15 2018 No.10905388 File: 36 KB, 475x475, 97411._UY475_SS475_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904616 umm try again sweetie...

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:34:39 2018 No.10905573 The Old Man and the Sea. Takes me back to fishing for halibut with my old man >we'll never fish together again

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:45:02 2018 No.10906607 >>10904616 Is there anything I need to have read before reading this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 21:43:34 2018 No.10907932 >>10904546 Thats one of the worst covers from a major publisher that I've ever seen.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 21:53:27 2018 No.10907969 >>10907944 Fuck I had a copy of the book with that cover.

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>>10904494
>One of my favourite stories from the book is about how Kurosawa and one of his friends were seen as "slow" in school, but one of their teachers saw their potential and encouraged their creativity in art classes. Eventually Kurosawa and his buddy became screenwriters and invited their teacher - now an old man - to the screening of one of their films and their teacher just cried with how happy he was they succeeded. That genuinely made me feel quite emotional as I could relate to similar experiences in school and that there were definitely teachers who encouraged me

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 22:15:03 2018 No.10908068 >>10907944 Hell yeah I had that VHS

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 22:19:52 2018 No.10908085 >>10904536 What the fuck happened here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 22:27:08 2018 No.10908108 File: 20 KB, 306x306, 1520890822512.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904439 You're supposed to keep reading after the Greeks anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 22:33:00 2018 No.10908131 Moby Dick or The Dick as I like to call it

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:03:50 2018 No.10908269 >>10904445 What books are the >I've actually read 500 books list I've been reading pretty intensely the past couple months and I've been struggling between a desire to read books I have interest in and a desire to read intellectually enriching books

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:12:09 2018 No.10908304 Ulysses Suttree Gravity's Rainbow The Sot-Weed Factor Solaris One Hundred Years of Solitude To the Lighthouse In Search of Lost Time Buddenbrooks Blindness Leaves of Grass Probably some book of poetry by Rilke or Pessoa Tao Te Ching

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:13:03 2018 No.10908309 >>10904430 Journey to the End of Night The Elementary Particles Notes from the Underground all of them left me drained

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:21:44 2018 No.10908332 The Player Of Games - Iain Banks

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:29:23 2018 No.10908359 File: 35 KB, 328x499, 51QKm9ZwUNL._SX326_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] any recs to help me cope with the rampant nihilism of your early 20s?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:34:45 2018 No.10908382 >>10908359 Fuck I did love this book. I need recs like this

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:35:08 2018 No.10908385 >>10904477 Love this and the Oldman movie. need to watch the Alec Guinness mini series soon >>10904481 I sorta wanna read this, but I feel hard justifying reading something that long when I could read something else Hard it's just misery porn

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:36:56 2018 No.10908394 The divine comedy but the version where it actually rhymes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:39:04 2018 No.10908403 >>10908382 I know Imperial Bedrooms was such shit too, I'm debating throwing my copy away

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:41:43 2018 No.10908414 >>10904439 >baby's first book

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:51:46 2018 No.10908449 White Noise Candide and yes, Stoner

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 00:28:43 2018 No.10908563

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>>10908385
>Hard it's just misery porn
It is. To provide a contrasting opinion, I read this book on a glowing recommendation and hated it. Misery porn mixed with lifestyle tourism (the main characters are like NYC hipsters and one of them is a REALLY famous actor, one is a REALLY famous artist, one is a REALLY successful lawyer, etc. You get the idea. Drags on way too long and the tragedy piles on pointlessly. Won't spoil anything in case you decide to read it but its hard for me to discuss what specifically I have a problem with without doing so.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 00:35:32 2018 No.10908587 I liked The Brothers Karamazov, especially the very last chapter of the epilogue

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 00:41:25 2018 No.10908604 File: 20 KB, 302x475, 9915.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10908359 >>10908382 love this book tooo and this cover as well!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:03:19 2018 No.10908658 >>10908604 ahhh that's the cover I have semapi, it's so comfy it just screams "Disappear Here"

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:07:13 2018 No.10908665 >>10904603 I haven't finished it. This was the first fiction book that I read in a while, was absolutely flying through it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:08:15 2018 No.10908671 >>10904616 I liked this as well!

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:48:44 2018 No.10908805 >>10906607 Not really, you can read other Stoic works before or after this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:50:08 2018 No.10908809 File: 48 KB, 313x500, sene.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430 Im in love with Seneca

>>	blue eyes ruby Wed Mar 28 02:14:53 2018 No.10908883 Don Quixote Gargantua and pantagruel The dead and other short stories by James Joyce East of Eden Moon and six pence Lady Chatterleys lover 100 years of solitude is a must read but not a favorite as other titles mentioned here

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 02:18:53 2018 No.10908897 >>10908085 someone posted a bunch of pictures pf Peterson and they got deleted.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 03:00:32 2018 No.10908980 Mein Kampf, Atlas Shrugged, Madame Bovary, and Fight Club. I am 26 and being this edgy isn’t cute anymore. It has to stop. Also, 48 Laws of Power, 12 Rules for Life, and American Psycho. Pls help.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 03:30:07 2018 No.10909044 >>10905573 :( <3

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 04:17:01 2018 No.10909119 Stoner The Road The Old Man and the Sea Call of the Wild

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 06:00:09 2018 No.10909327 >>10908085 Someone was spamming Peterson pictures even though nobody brought it up >>10908108 I am, anon. I still view The Iliad fondly though. Who says you can't start with The Iliad?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 06:01:12 2018 No.10909330 >>10904445 >>10904449 >>10904473 >>10908108 >>10908414 When did /lit/ suddenly start to hate on Homer?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 06:02:29 2018 No.10909335 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Legend of the ten elemental masters

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 07:24:04 2018 No.10909548 >>10909330 reddit influx

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 13:01:50 2018 No.10910481 >>10908980 Jesus, anon. Read some Steinbeck maybe. You may be beyond hope.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 14:16:28 2018 No.10910724 Last two digits of this post determines which book ITT I start reading

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 18:21:45 2018 No.10911753 >>10909330 It's like saying Bach is your favorite classical composer. You can't argue with it, but It's a boring answer because everyone knows he's amazing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 18:23:54 2018 No.10911758 >>10911753 who the fuck prefers bach to mozart

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 18:24:38 2018 No.10911762 >>10911758 who doesn't mozartfags get out

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 18:25:36 2018 No.10911767 >>10911758 a lot of people. Bach did things Mozart never could have. The converse is also true

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 18:25:43 2018 No.10911769 >>10904603 The book is clearly a 10, but the epilogue is terrible, and almost ruins the whole experience for me. Now I just ignore it, so I can keep loving it

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 21:37:29 2018 No.10912557 >>10904430 Madame Bovary

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 23:06:42 2018 No.10912905 >>10908980 Mein Kampf is trash

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 23:13:42 2018 No.10912929 >>10904430 Candide Las batallas en el desierto Tom Jones Marie Antoinette l'insoumise (niche interest I know, but the best bio of Marie Antoinette of all time and a great history book in general, I've heard the English translation is terrible though)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 23:55:39 2018 No.10913062 File: 48 KB, 300x455, 3BCF5383-BB02-4183-B0C2-99D4C00AF141.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 00:02:35 2018 No.10913087 >>10911769 oh my. someone who agrees with me about that shitshow of an epilogue. wanna go out for a coffee?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 00:04:04 2018 No.10913091 File: 221 KB, 1199x2107, page1-1200px-Pascal_-_Pensées,_édition_de_Port-Royal,_1670.djvu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 00:07:10 2018 No.10913100 >>10904445 >I made people on the internet unhappy now i am not angry about my 3in penis hee hee hee

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 00:11:52 2018 No.10913113 >>10904430 Lolita Pnin The Neverending Story The Case of Comrade Tulayev Lovecraft's stories Clark Ashton Smith's stories Gogol's stories Kiss Kiss Straight is the Way (a hilarious anti-gay book I found while sorting book donations)

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 01:40:39 2018 No.10913353 >>10912929 why las batallas en el desierto I read it for spanish class and found it somewhat unremarkable la muerte y la doncella, por otro lado...

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 01:50:55 2018 No.10913383 File: 4 KB, 150x87, teef.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430 No such thing as a 10/10

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 03:06:25 2018 No.10913658 File: 266 KB, 703x1100, a4c7d34c-4113-4490-9977-57b850a1e0d0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 03:50:23 2018 No.10913772 Being and Time...Once you drink the kool-aid it becomes poetry. There's a comfy Hermeneutic structure to it all

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 03:52:25 2018 No.10913776 Jude the Obscure Perfume That's about all I've read. Perfume is worth a read to anyone but JtO is really classic literature... entire chapters devoted to the environment, etc Whatever you do stay away from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is SO FUCKING BAD

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 03:55:44 2018 No.10913783 File: 1.16 MB, 1525x2342, A1oqhj8hFyL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty much this. I keep a copy by my bed and read random portions before going to sleep. It's a schizoid's soporific.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 04:03:40 2018 No.10913815 File: 204 KB, 1075x1600, Blood Meridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430 Favorite of all time. I will die on this hill

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 05:47:14 2018 No.10914039 >>10911753 OP asked for personal favourites though, so who cares if somebody likes The Iliad just because others also like it? Most autistic bullshit I've seen on 4chan in a while

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 05:55:44 2018 No.10914068 the giver

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 06:00:07 2018 No.10914082 File: 38 KB, 302x499, themyth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the myth of sisyphus and other essays by camus is just sublime

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 10:05:35 2018 No.10914613 >>10904445 congrats on the (you)s

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 10:53:34 2018 No.10914728 >>10907932 the concept is nice, but it looks like it was made by a sophomore graphic design student.

Anonymous Thu Mar 29 10:57:10 2018 No.10914744
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I know it's been memed to hell and back, but for me nothing else comes close. I love all the hype and bringing down and on the fence opinions, the size and scope of it, the vagueness, the unfinished and desperate nature of it. it's imperfect, but I love it because of that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 11:00:35 2018 No.10914753 File: 691 KB, 1600x2560, Homo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] simply sublime

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 11:07:53 2018 No.10914784 lolita, i don't care if it's an obvious pick. it's extraordinary the magic mountain all borges

Anonymous Thu Mar 29 11:29:06 2018 No.10914861
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basic bitch by /lit/ standards but I could probably only read this book for the rest of my life and be ok

everytime I have reread it, the then current state of my life seems to make different parts leap out to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 12:20:44 2018 No.10915082 Catch 22 East of Eden Infinite Jest War and Peace The Idiot I am probably a basic bitch

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>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 16:35:27 2018 No.10916261 File: 70 KB, 850x1169, blood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430

Anonymous Thu Mar 29 19:10:31 2018 No.10916865
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>>10904445
god damn. can i not get cucked for one second on the internet?
homer is legit one of the best authors. ive read probably 1k books?
thats ok ill be raeding like 5k in the next 10 years, and you will still be frogposting on an obscure site where you opinion literally doesn't matter for shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 19:14:25 2018 No.10916876 >>10913658 our greatest literature is so mediocre.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 19:15:43 2018 No.10916885 File: 86 KB, 759x1122, lotr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] yes, sorry but I just love it so

Anonymous Thu Mar 29 19:16:22 2018 No.10916890
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>>10909107
yeah this is a good one, not 10/10 I would say 9/10 though
>>10914744
cut out everything but the part about the murders in the Sonora and I'll consider it

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 20:11:09 2018 No.10917134 Little, Big by John Crowley is a personal favorite.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 20:39:26 2018 No.10917261 Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 20:44:28 2018 No.10917275 Swann's Way gave me goosebumps, Proust is very sensual. Notes from Underground unironically produced me a big feeling of sadness.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 20:54:48 2018 No.10917305 >>10915082 >East of eden and catch 22 my brother

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 22:11:50 2018 No.10917572 >>10916876 Meaning Moby Dick is mediocre? No it isn't.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 22:31:33 2018 No.10917623 >>10904430 LOTR and Grendel One hundred years of solitude comes close after

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 22:47:45 2018 No.10917658 >>10908382 Have you read Informers? I liked it more than Less Than Zero

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 22:56:06 2018 No.10917683 >>10916876 >mediocre Your taste is shit. Moby Dick is amazing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 22:58:14 2018 No.10917689 >>10908705 very nice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 23:25:34 2018 No.10917779 The Confidence-Man - Melville The Idiot - Dostoevsky The Recognitions - Gaddis The Anatomy of Melancholy - Burton History of My Life - Casanova

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 29 23:27:36 2018 No.10917789 >>10904430 Unqualified Reservations is a fun read

Anonymous Thu Mar 29 23:33:13 2018 No.10917804

>>10911767

>one person did something another person couldn't do because they exist as two different entities

>this is something I thought of that other people should know and remember me by

>i eat peanut butter with olives because peanut butter does something that olives can't do and olives do something that peanut butter can't do

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 01:09:44 2018 No.10918172 >>10904439 >Putting spoiler tags on one of the oldest stories of all time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 01:13:27 2018 No.10918182 File: 192 KB, 300x463, 68210.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wouldn't call it perfect, but it is probably my favorite. >>10913815 It's a good choice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 01:25:51 2018 No.10918205 The Fall, Cam-us Notes From Underground, Big D Stoner, Willy My diary desu, yrs trly

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 02:21:27 2018 No.10918349 File: 8 KB, 185x280, download.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] White Noise - Don DeLillo

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 02:22:43 2018 No.10918350 >>10916890 >not 10/10 I would say 9/10 though You wanna fight?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 02:39:43 2018 No.10918387 >>10916876 You can probably imagine what Melville's contemporaries have said about Moby-Dick.

Anonymous Fri Mar 30 02:58:38 2018 No.10918433
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Something about last stands just really get me. The fact that you know they're all going to die at the end seems like it would soften the blow but it really just makes it even more feelsy. It made me wish I had something in my life I'd be willing to die for like the Spartans.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 03:01:14 2018 No.10918439 File: 43 KB, 570x587, 1521697082314.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10916876 >Moby Dick >Mediocre t. brainlet who didn't finish it

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 03:35:09 2018 No.10918511 File: 614 KB, 1342x1708, Kafka_Amerika_1927.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904430

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 04:00:12 2018 No.10918568 File: 142 KB, 611x1023, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, (Jun 1991, Thomas Ligotti, publ. Carroll & Graf, 0-88184-721-6, $4.50, x+275pp, pb, coll).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Fri Mar 30 04:52:27 2018 No.10918698
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>Read this in my medieval lit class
>Get ready to be bored to tears about some french christian fucks and lots of family names I don't give a shit about
>It's an epic, brutal rollercoaster ride about violence, honor and vengeance with incredibly rich detail and a huge roaster of identifiable and memorable characters.

Can't believe this is from the same guy that wrote Hypersphere

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 10:40:25 2018 No.10919750 >>10909107 MY NIGGA

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 11:26:34 2018 No.10919951 Clockwork Orange desu.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 11:28:51 2018 No.10919960 >>10918350 sure I choose the weapons. here are two sausages one is poisoned. pick one to eat

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 11:35:01 2018 No.10919989 >>10918568 I prefer TG and GS

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 16:18:16 2018 No.10921391 File: 43 KB, 358x480, pale-fire-doyle-m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pale Fire blew my mind the first time I read it years ago, and it has had the same effect every time I've read it since.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 16:23:18 2018 No.10921419 >>10908359 that book is fucked

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 17:33:43 2018 No.10921819 File: 39 KB, 339x500, jaynes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10904439

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 17:42:30 2018 No.10921862 File: 18 KB, 260x400, suttree.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Didn't care much for McCarthy until I read Suttree. >>10904477 >>10904494 >>10904674 >>10921391 Great picks.

Anonymous Fri Mar 30 17:48:08 2018 No.10921889

>>10904481
As I was reading this I felt it was a 10/10. I've never read a 700 page novel faster, cried over a novel more, felt more empathy for a character, etc. etc. Within a few weeks of finishing it though, I started reflecting on how the author manipulates you to feel this way and how she keeps piling up on Jude's misery until he just kills himself offscreen, I found myself very put off by it all. I don't regret how much I enjoyed it at first though. I'd say it's probably the best book I never want to read again.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 17:51:14 2018 No.10921901 File: 6 KB, 300x168, distressed_frog.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10918511 >that femdom scene

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 20:44:01 2018 No.10922704 >>10904430 frankenstein

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 23:39:58 2018 No.10923340 >>10917658 I haven't, I became disillusioned with BEE after Imperial Bedrooms The Informers is that good tho?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 23:44:59 2018 No.10923360 >>10904437 Good lad >>10904494 I'm gonna order this book the second I get home because of your post. Based anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 30 23:45:46 2018 No.10923363 >>10922704 Seconding this

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