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In your opinion, what's one book everyone should read before you die?

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>> No.1103964

The Great Gatsby.

Or The Holy Bible.

>> No.1103968

Cancer Ward.

If you can get through the book, it has a great ending.

>> No.1103984

Journey to the End of the Night.

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Bitches need to get on this to understand contemporary American culture.

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>> No.1104025

>>1104017

bro, where'd you manage to find a copy of that.

envy is on my 'to read list' for fall.

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>>1104025

Was the textbook for a course

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>> No.1104508

>>1104025
what do you mean 'where you get it'?
It's like 11 bucks in Amazon.

>> No.1104515

>>1103957
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (seriously, it is an instruction manual for what to do when you die) or Waiting for Godot by Beckett

>> No.1104518

The Sirens of Titan might be the most disappointing book I've ever read. I almost couldn't finish it when I was fourteen and a little Vonnegut fan boy baby faggot retard.

And I don't know what people should read. A lot of it comes down to what culture you grow up on. I doubt many people in this thread have read what would be on any Indians recommended reading pile. With that said I'll throw out;

The Bible
The Lao Tzu
Tha Bhagavad-Gita
The Diary of Anne Frank (in your young adolescence preferably)
The Catcher in the Rye (in your young adolescence preferably)
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.1104534

>>1104518

You were obviously dumber than you believed yourself to be.

Sirens of Titan is among his best.

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This includes the first trilogy if not the entire series.

>> No.1104540

>>1104534
True, but Slapstick, Breakfast of Champions, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater were just as good if not better.
Also, not OP here.

>> No.1104555

>>1104534

Good;

Slaughterhouse V
Galapagos
Breakfast of Champions

Readable -

Mother Night
Bluebeard
Deadeye Dick
Hocus Pocus
God bless you, Dr. Kevorikian

Bad -

All of his short story collections
Jailbird
Cat's Cradle
The Sirens of Titan

Holy fuck unreadable shit -

God Bless you Mr Rosewater

>> No.1104556

>>1104540

Add Slapstick to my list under 'bad' please.

>> No.1104626

>>1104555
Swap SH5 and Cat's Cradle and that list is correct.

>> No.1104655

>>1104626

Don't front bro. Cats Cradle is ass.

>> No.1104668

>>1104626
No, he is right. Cat's Cradle sucks while SH5 is one of his best.

>> No.1104675

>>1104555
>All of his short story collections
Fuck that, I read Look at the Birdie and it was really good.

>> No.1104679

Breakfast of Champions was pretty bad. Why is it listed with his best? I enjoyed Jailbird more than Breakfast of Champions.

>> No.1104682

>>1104679

I read 95% of what Kurt Vonnegut has written when I was fourteen. I've reread a few of his books on plane rides and what not, but that's it. It's possible that some of the stuff on my list sucks more than I remember it sucking.

I remember quite liking Breakfast of Champions so in good tier it remains sir.

>> No.1104688

>>1104682
I still can't take your list seriously for putting Breakfast of Champions above The Sirens of Titan.

>> No.1104708

Breakfast of Champions is shit tier.

>> No.1104709

>>1104688

Fuck you for being a faggot then. SOT is ass. Pure ASS.

But whatever, it's not God Bless you Mr Rosewater or nuthin. I'll be friends if you will man.

>> No.1104718

>>1104555
No.

>> No.1104719

>>1104718

(italics)Yes(italics). (period)

>> No.1104729

>>1104719
Still no.

>> No.1104738

>>1104709
I would never be friends with the likes of you!

>> No.1104743

>>1104738

Oh :(

>> No.1104878

>>1104743
I'll be your friend!

>> No.1106593

>>1104878

Sounds good man. I have a collection of Crazy Bones, the likes of which you've never seen.