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Anonymous Sat Sep 18 08:45:37 2010 No.1137386 [Reply] [Original]

What're your top 3, /lit/?

1. Invisible Monster, Chuck Palahniuk
2. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
3. Transition, Iain Banks

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 09:01:37 2010 No.1137400 File: 11 KB, 264x281, tom_waits_holding_a_tiny_briefcase.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Chuck Palahniuk

>>	Strikedynamo, Not Tim Sale Sat Sep 18 10:09:37 2010 No.1137456 1. The Abortion by Richard Brautigan 2. Syrup by Max Barry 3. V. by Thomas Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 10:19:37 2010 No.1137466 >>1137386 >Palahniuk >Bradbury >Banks Wow, sure is low brow literature in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 10:26:37 2010 No.1137471 >>1137466 I thought Bradbury is a really nice cross-section of thoughtful literature and accessibility. It's weird to see people consider him lowbrow.

Anonymous Sat Sep 18 10:29:37 2010 No.1137474

Have a top five instead. Too hard to pick out just three.

That's a hard one... here, have a top five instead.

1. Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
2. U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
3. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
4. Man in the High Castle by Philip Dick
5. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 10:58:37 2010 No.1137511 >>1137471 Yeah, I don't even... geez. Bradbury is a great goddamn writer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 10:59:37 2010 No.1137513 The Age of Innocence All Quiet on the Western Front Winesburg, Ohio

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 11:06:37 2010 No.1137524 File: 29 KB, 640x480, chinaman1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1137511 He is nothing special

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 11:11:37 2010 No.1137536 Sometimes a Great Notion Catch 22 All the Kings Men

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 11:21:37 2010 No.1137544 >>1137386 You must be new here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 11:38:37 2010 No.1137553 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 11:54:37 2010 No.1137567 File: 4 KB, 92x132, images-2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1137513 my nigga!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 11:55:37 2010 No.1137568 Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein Brave New World, Aldous Huxley The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 12:15:37 2010 No.1137579 1. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 12:22:37 2010 No.1137594 File: 86 KB, 720x540, 34876_629228244668_27701372_36235938_6815260_n - Copy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1. Infinite Jest 2. Finnegans Wake 3. Ulysses pic related -- this is me not giving a fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 12:32:37 2010 No.1137605 >>1137511 I wouldn't agree. While I enjoy the stories he comes up with, I don't really enjoy the way he writes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 15:36:37 2010 No.1138080 >>1137466 literally just leave this thread. Can't someone enjoy reading what the hell they like?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 15:40:37 2010 No.1138089 In no particular order: Thus Spoke Zarathustra Finnegans Wake Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 15:44:37 2010 No.1138095 Haters gonna hate but Invisible Monsters and especially Rant are actually not bad books. My top: 1. Naked Lunch 2. VALIS 3. Youth in Revolt

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 15:48:37 2010 No.1138112 1. Crime and Punishment 2. Blood Meridian 3. Walden

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:00:37 2010 No.1138147 >>1138112 Holy shit. I like all 3, though only C&P would be in my top 5. Brofist.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:03:37 2010 No.1138160 House of Leaves Beyond Good and Evil The Stranger

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:12:37 2010 No.1138176 The Corrections, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Pride and Prejudice

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:16:37 2010 No.1138185 File: 145 KB, 500x375, 1278276444090.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Catcher In The Rye Perfume - Story Of A Murderer Crime and Punishment Yeah I do kind of suck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:19:37 2010 No.1138194 Candide, Voltaire L'Argent, Zola The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Christie

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:20:37 2010 No.1138198 1 - trainspotting 2 - 1984 3 - i dunno lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:22:37 2010 No.1138202 Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner David Copperfield You Shall Know Our Velocity

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:26:37 2010 No.1138209 >>1138147 Please tell us what is your top 5. This thread was created for this purpose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:30:37 2010 No.1138219 >>1138209 1. The Brothers K 2. Crime and Punishment 3. Anathem 4. Heart of Darkness 5. Red Dragon (I know, I know)

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:32:37 2010 No.1138223 1.picture of d. gray 2.middlemarch 3.a science/math book

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:37:37 2010 No.1138234 1. The Count of Monte Cristo 2. David Copperfield 3. Ubik

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 18 16:52:37 2010 No.1138268 Bump for pleasant thread actually about reading

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