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ITT: Fiction you consider your bible

>> No.10993289

Kerouac's Big Sur

>> No.10993294

War and Peace

>> No.10993432
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I'm a hobo

>> No.10993440

>>10993153
The bible is already fiction. My bible is On the Road or something by Marx.

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>>10993153

The only logical answer.

>> No.10993507

>>10993492
YES KING

>> No.10993534

>>10993153
Finnegans Wake

>> No.10993564

>>10993534
yeah desu

>> No.10993567

>>10993153
Wilhelm Meister or Butcher's Crossing

>> No.10993573
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it helped me embrace how broken i am and contextualize my place in a fucked up advancing society

>> No.10993597

>>10993567
>Wilhelm Meister
this has so many great pieces of wisdom but as a novel i found it to be so dry and flat. its so barebones.

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>> No.10994040

>>10993153
what book is this OP?

my answer is probably finnegans wake or pound's cantos

>> No.10994141

>>10994040
No Longer Human

>> No.10994159

>>10993153
Dennis Cooper's The George Miles Cycle

>> No.10994185

Brother's Karamazov

If there ever was a novel that could unironically and effectively be studied as a religious textbook, that one is definitely it.

>> No.10994207

>>10994141
thanks anon, will look it up

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Still searching for a literary equivalent.

>> No.10994461

>>10994159
Faggot

>> No.10994638

>>10993153
Welcome to the NHK

>> No.10994744

The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The Perennial Philosophy by Huxley

>> No.10994754

>>10993289
what is inspiring about burning out and drinking yourself to death?

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I've started killing young men.

>> No.10994859

The Sound and the Fury
Focault's Pendulum

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>> No.10994888

Petersburg by Bely or Being and Time

>> No.10995505

>>10994185
have you read moby dick? im a big bk fan for similar reasons and moby dick struck all of the same chords for me as dostoevsky did

>> No.10995530

>>10993153
The Trial by Franz Kafka

>> No.10995582

>>10993153
Isn’t the Quran arguably fan fiction of the bible

>> No.10995694

>>10993153
Pickwick Papers. It's got an answer to every question.

>> No.10995964

>>10993153
>considering no longer human your bible and not just the story of your life
kys faggot

>> No.10996021

>>10995582
No

>> No.10996060

>>10994638
Wow, I actually didn't expect to see this on here. I own a hardcopy myself.

>> No.10996205

The greatest fictional work of all time; Hamlet

>> No.10996212

My Bible desu

>> No.10997334

American Psycho

>> No.10997360

Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Fredrich Wilhelm Hegel

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>>10993432
>not the hobo bible

>> No.10998807

>>10997397
have you read it?

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>>10993153

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>> No.10998996

>>10993492

This, The Once and Future King, and Anna Karenina

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