What book made you go "oh man this is the best book I've ever read" as you close it? Genuine answers.

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Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:47:39 2018 No.11726036 [Reply] [Original]

What book made you go "oh man this is the best book I've ever read" as you close it? Genuine answers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:49:07 2018 No.11726046 one hundred years of solitude

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:51:30 2018 No.11726056 brothers k

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:55:30 2018 No.11726071 the book of disquiet

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:55:35 2018 No.11726073 The Sound and the Fury, at many points but notably strongly as you read the last couple pages and especially the last sentence.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:57:19 2018 No.11726080 >>11726071 this

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:57:39 2018 No.11726082 >>11726036 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by Joyce. I read it at a young age and felt like it was written by myself. Very strange.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:58:37 2018 No.11726086 /r/ books might be more your speed

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 21:59:03 2018 No.11726088 ficciones

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:00:45 2018 No.11726096 mein kampf, unironically

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:00:49 2018 No.11726097 >>11726086 If it were more "my speed" I'd be asking there and not here, why do you faggots have to be such ironic cunts all the time? What do you gain by this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:01:26 2018 No.11726099 >>11726082 This, and also Dubliners

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:02:08 2018 No.11726103 Leopardi’s Canti

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:02:59 2018 No.11726105 >>11726097 Please leave

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:03:17 2018 No.11726107 Lolita

Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:03:53 2018 No.11726110

Moby Dick.
I've read countless books, both infamous and obscure, yet I have never experienced the sublime that is Moby Dick. It is the beginning and the end, to me. I even know 4 other languages other than English, yet the English prose of the book is the best I've read out of all the languages I know.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:04:22 2018 No.11726111 >>11726105 Please fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:04:35 2018 No.11726113 File: 41 KB, 345x499, F1869682-01C9-4B74-ABE8-AE988BD80501.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11726056 Interesting choice

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:05:26 2018 No.11726121 >>11726113 kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:06:29 2018 No.11726126 How long until school starts again for Amerifags?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:08:03 2018 No.11726131 >>11726036 The Dead as the conclusion to Dubliners. I could not fully believe it was ever written.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:08:07 2018 No.11726132 Have you ever read the first page or two of a book and immediately thought "I'm gonna love this"? What book?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:08:48 2018 No.11726137 >>11726126 Why? Is your boyfriend leaving for school, faggot?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:09:51 2018 No.11726139 >>11726132 Blood Meridian, The Savage Detectives.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:10:27 2018 No.11726143 >>11726132 don quixote underworld

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:11:43 2018 No.11726150 Has any book ever made you angry to have liked it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:12:18 2018 No.11726151 >>11726131 Literally the worst story in Dubliners. Wanted to kill myself reading that bullshit

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:12:45 2018 No.11726152 >>11726150 Perks of being a wallflower

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:13:04 2018 No.11726153 Is there a book you reread on a schedule or when a certain life event happens?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:15:27 2018 No.11726160 Now... how great would a sequel to “The Hunger Games” be?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:16:55 2018 No.11726164 >>11726082 I had the same feeling, very eerie

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:20:23 2018 No.11726174 What moment in a book made you go "fuck this"?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:25:21 2018 No.11726185 >>11726132 You can't go home again by Thomas Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:29:21 2018 No.11726199 Anatomy of Melancholy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:36:11 2018 No.11726222 the catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:37:14 2018 No.11726225 >>11726174 Tom Bombadil

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:37:14 2018 No.11726226 >>11726036 >>11726132 Anna Karenina for both

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:41:25 2018 No.11726236 >>11726036 Stoner

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:42:15 2018 No.11726238 >>11726236 seriously?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:43:06 2018 No.11726240 >>11726132 Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death. I was captured by that one passage. You know the one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:43:19 2018 No.11726241 >>11726073 this

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:45:54 2018 No.11726248 >>11726082 Something very similar happened to me. Joyce had weird powers.

Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:46:04 2018 No.11726251

>>11726238
Id consider Stoner my favorite as well. I have problems with it. Especially with his wife and the middle chapters. I just felt it more strongly than any mthing else ive read. I felt like i as stoner and it showed my whole life stretched out before me

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:47:36 2018 No.11726254 >>11726132 >Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:49:31 2018 No.11726260 File: 168 KB, 813x1265, 71nZtLjXE3L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:51:15 2018 No.11726267

>>11726110
To me, American literature can stand up to any other tradition because of the power of Melville and Faulkner.
>>11726132
Just had this feeling a few moments ago with a collection of Algernon Blackwood stories
>>11726151
Explain yourself faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:51:17 2018 No.11726268 >>11726036 Culture of Critique by Kevin B. MacDonald Barbarians by Lauren Southern Richard Spencer blog entries True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro Stefan Molyneux newest book

Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:52:39 2018 No.11726276
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>>11726036
Probably VALIS by PKD.

It impressed me because it was written by someone who was clearly going through a mental break - but was somehow able to partition that part of his brain and write cogently about it.

I haven't encountered that before or since, and I think it's something unique to PKD, but I'm definitely open to be proven wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 22:53:32 2018 No.11726278 >>11726046 fpbp

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 23:01:10 2018 No.11726308 >>11726036 For Whom the Bell Tolls... I felt like I really fucked that girl and died myself

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>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 23:02:56 2018 No.11726317 >>11726276 >last name is dick kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 23:13:56 2018 No.11726358 >>11726151 But...the snow...and Michael...and all over Ireland...and the bog of Allen, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 23:14:03 2018 No.11726360 >>11726317 it allegedly means fat in German.

Anonymous Sun Sep 2 23:17:47 2018 No.11726368

>>11726360
I'm not going to lie, I didn't understand that he was speaking as both characters for most of my first read - since the voices in the novel were significantly distinct from one another.

To me that's just more of a testament to just how unique a narrator PKD plays. I haven't read Exegenisis yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 23:39:27 2018 No.11726430 >>11726096 based and redpilled

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 23:52:23 2018 No.11726465 >>11726312 >>11726268 Samefag

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Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:13:04 2018 No.11726530

>>11726096
I have not finished yet. I am so overwhelmed by the content being so different from what everyone had previously told me. I slowed my pace so I can compare his observations to modern events. He definitely names the Jew but it is not the ignorant rant that I was told to expect.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:22:38 2018 No.11726569 ulysses

Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:24:47 2018 No.11726575

>>11726360
dicker = thicker
fett = fat
There is a surname of "Dickermann" which I assume means "fatman" but I am not used to hearing it except in a song from the early 80s. "Fett" is used on /int/ with reference to the various German eagles in political symbology. You can determine the political regime based on how fat they make the eagle. they call the fat one "fett Huhn".

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:26:19 2018 No.11726582 >>11726036 The myth of sissyphus

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:27:14 2018 No.11726584 >>11726113 we bros now, K?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:30:05 2018 No.11726594 >>11726036 Dune Messiah

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:38:03 2018 No.11726621 >>11726132 Yeah, Charterhouse of Parma. Boy, was I wrong.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:38:34 2018 No.11726624 >>11726584 The Brothers /k/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:42:01 2018 No.11726634 >>11726150 That's a good thread question. For me it's definitely Jane Eyre, I can't believe I got pulled in by a romance novel!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:48:01 2018 No.11726656 >>11726036 Unironically, Stealing the Network. It has some shitty spots but I really enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:49:47 2018 No.11726661 Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:50:56 2018 No.11726665 >>11726036 >last year The Recognitions >this year Berlin Alexanderplatz. What a satisfying and intimate read

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:51:27 2018 No.11726667 >>11726056 came here to post this

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:51:45 2018 No.11726669 >>11726036 Culture of Critique

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:53:40 2018 No.11726680 >>11726669 This is currently in my pile of unread books. Any pointers for reading preparation?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:55:55 2018 No.11726693 >>11726132 Melancholy of Resistance

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:56:00 2018 No.11726694 >>11726097 Interacting with people is too painful and so the persona of devil-may-care sarcasm is used to protect the ego.

Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:58:18 2018 No.11726706
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Blood meridian. The lack of direction in the book is kinda annoying but the imagery is just so fucking sexy, i can just smell the dust kicking up and the sulfur from the gunpowder. Gives me a boner just reading it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 00:59:40 2018 No.11726710 >>11726680 You need to be a fag for starters lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 01:03:26 2018 No.11726717 >>11726680 You need to be based and redpilled for starters lmao

Anonymous Mon Sep 3 01:18:09 2018 No.11726753

>>11726225
This.

I would later listen to LotR on audiobook while I was unwell and had nothing better to do but lie in bed and feel miserable, but I sure as heck wasn't going to read that passage with my own eyes.

>>11726036
You know, I know there was one but I'm better at remembering books I despised than I am at books I enjoyed, so if there was a book that did that I would've put it on the shelf in my room with my other favoured books and not out on one of the main shelves in the living room. I cannot remember what it was for the life of me because I haven't unpacked after moving houses four years ago, since I was going to move again two years later and did.

Recently I thought Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron was good, but that's the best I've got.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 01:21:01 2018 No.11726761 >>11726036 Hopscotch >>11726132 The Magic Mountain

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 01:26:01 2018 No.11726778 >>11726132 my struggle volume 1, that opening part about death is amazing

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 01:29:30 2018 No.11726783 >>11726710 >You need to be a fag for starters lmao It is comments like this that unironically drew me towards it. If it upsets people so much then it must, for better or for worse, deserve a read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 02:17:24 2018 No.11726879 >>11726199 Patrician

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 02:50:07 2018 No.11726948 >>11726036 Rendezvous with Rama

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 02:56:49 2018 No.11726967 Titus Groan, The Brigade, Wizard's Bane, the Leviathan Trilogy, the Monster Hunter International and Grimnoir series'

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 03:03:50 2018 No.11726990 Blood Meridian. Read both on portuguese and english, and it's just perfect

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 03:05:43 2018 No.11726993 File: 21 KB, 318x475, 41S5Q3AE70L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 03:06:58 2018 No.11726996 >this thread boring, banal, burger isn't summer ending? why does this thread exist?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 03:23:27 2018 No.11727040 >>11726036 The Conference of the Birds

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 03:39:10 2018 No.11727075 File: 41 KB, 314x499, 51melNweBAL._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11726036 masters my path

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 06:41:02 2018 No.11727480 >>11726225 >>11726753 You got plebfiltered. Good on Tolkien for throwing the net early on.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 06:43:41 2018 No.11727491 War & Peace

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 06:45:18 2018 No.11727494 File: 69 KB, 353x538, options-20.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Options" by Robert Sheckley

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 06:46:52 2018 No.11727498 >>11726110 >4 other languages which ones?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 06:53:06 2018 No.11727509 File: 16 KB, 300x300, savannah10.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Truth About Keeping Secrets

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:39:24 2018 No.11727962 >>11726530 cringe

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:40:26 2018 No.11727967 >>11726783 or it's just garbo and /lit/ is full of people who know better

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:41:25 2018 No.11727975 The tin drum

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:45:54 2018 No.11727990 >>11726036 first with stoner, and then again with butchers crossing. maybe im just a sucker for anything williams writes

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:47:20 2018 No.11727996 >>11727990 I guess you don't read a lot of books

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:49:01 2018 No.11728008 >>11726036 The Stars My Destination

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:49:59 2018 No.11728010 >>11727498 Latin, Dutch, Spanish, and Russian

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:50:40 2018 No.11728013 >>11726132 The Shadow of The Toruturer

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:50:58 2018 No.11728017 >>11727996 did you not enjoy stoner?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:51:02 2018 No.11728018 Ulysses, but only after rereading it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:52:38 2018 No.11728023 >>11726267 The Dead was just shitty. Some stupid party I didn’t care about followed by some stupid whinging bitch I didn’t care about and her cuck husband I didn’t care about. I only finished it for pseud cred

Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:52:38 2018 No.11728024

>>11726073
Agreed. Gravity’s Rainbow, in all honesty, is, after reading it the first time, the only book I thought was perfectly done. I mean, after reading on my own for many years and well before finding this place and learning of its meme status here I had a very vague sense of what the perfect novel should be. GR knocked my socks off so to speak because it was such the right book for me at the right time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:52:50 2018 No.11728027 File: 1.12 MB, 1274x628, Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 5.51.54 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11728017 I'm just messing with you bro

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 09:59:32 2018 No.11728057 >>11726036 To the Lighthouse or Pan >>11726132 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:00:28 2018 No.11728064 File: 813 KB, 1877x2560, 91eBfAyQRHL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11726036

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:01:39 2018 No.11728070 >>11728057 Pan is pretty good. Much better than L'Età Sottile.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:05:19 2018 No.11728086 >>11728010 wtf? what a weird combination.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:17:53 2018 No.11728129 >>11728023 Read it when you’re older, worked for me. Seriously, not belittling you friend. It’s a masterpiece, rightfully so. Strong undercurrents in it and so on. If you’re into poetry and reading out loud I highly recommend reading The Dead out loud.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:19:39 2018 No.11728137 slaughterhouse 5 (genuinely)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:37:47 2018 No.11728186 >>11726153 Nothing as a dramatic as a life event but by season - Cheever’s The Swimmer every summer, a short story. Roger and Jessica going to church at Christmas time in Gravity’s Rainbow - tender, heart wrenching writing bout Christ and man and war.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:42:54 2018 No.11728204 >>11728186 Book 1 is kino reading on long family Christmas vacations

>>	baguette Mon Sep 3 10:46:20 2018 No.11728225 >>11726071 this

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 10:51:56 2018 No.11728244 >>11726174 The moment the the elder fucks his twin daughters in Time enough for love.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 12:03:00 2018 No.11728467 File: 76 KB, 400x300, tumblr_inline_mpdid4j8eO1qz4rgp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11726143 >underworld Nigguh...

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 14:24:38 2018 No.11729158 >>11726132 Stoner for sure, the writing just flows beautifully and that opening passage I adore

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 15:14:49 2018 No.11729439 >>11726036 Le Père Goriot, and I was pretty much surprised. I started reading it thinking, so, Balzac is boring as fuck, but people say this one's a classic... let's give it a chance... >>11726996 it's a good thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 16:20:31 2018 No.11729825 >>11726276 Came here to post this. Would suggest The Exegesis of Philip K Dick and/or both The Divine Invasion and the transmigration of Timothy archer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 16:43:12 2018 No.11729930 My Work is Not Yet Done

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 16:47:54 2018 No.11729958 >>11726308 Just finished reading it a few days ago. Definitely Hemingway's best novel, at least of those I've read so far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 16:49:29 2018 No.11729972 >>11726594 >duuuuude, so like.... my consciousness is so... WOOAH man, I can like.... see everything for all time, all these possibilities..... woooooooah gotta let my wife die though, for... reasons

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 16:50:15 2018 No.11729979 >>11728057 Have you read The Waves?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 16:52:11 2018 No.11729989 >>11729979 >The Waves came here to say this. page for page probably the best I’ve read

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 17:02:19 2018 No.11730043 >>11726153 I reread Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac when I'm going through a fit of depression because it makes me feel good. Extremely comfy book

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 17:06:06 2018 No.11730067 >>11729979 >The Waves came here to say this. page for page probably the best I’ve read

Anonymous Mon Sep 3 17:07:10 2018 No.11730077

>>11726036
Practically every time I’ve picked up Hamlet or the Iliad I’ve thought this, but as for novels specifically, I have a distinct physical memory of finishing the Quentin Compson sections of Sound and the Fury and feeling like I was standing before the sublime or whatever. I was a pretty suicidal romantic at the time and I’m a little repressed southern boy so that probably intensified things.

inb4 corncob or Americucks joke.

Anonymous Mon Sep 3 17:12:29 2018 No.11730107
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>>11726036
Blood Meridian. The rhythm and pace makes it read almost like an epic poem, and the themes are better fleshed out than any other war novel or movie I've seen.

>he never eats, he never sleeps. He says that he will never die.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 17:13:57 2018 No.11730111 >>11730077 I read the Iliad when I was about seventeen and didn't get it at all. Read it again recently and I've got to agree it's one of the best things ever written.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 17:17:01 2018 No.11730128 >>11726036 Republic

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 18:18:10 2018 No.11730387 >>11729989 >>11730067 I tear up after reading a random passage for 5 minutes, and the last passage gets me every time. Beautiful stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 18:29:31 2018 No.11730435 >>11726071 I like how he's literally me

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 19:22:24 2018 No.11730657 File: 497 KB, 3401x3428, film-quelques-jours-de-la-vie-d-oblomov16.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Oblomov.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 19:42:47 2018 No.11730731 File: 16 KB, 298x450, 187816-004-9330460F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This or Dune

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 20:41:51 2018 No.11730961 >>11726132 Seconding "If on a winter's night a traveller...," and I generally dislike meta-fiction gimmickry. Also, the openings of some short stories by Flin-Flan O'Connor just felt like a punch to the gut.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 21:08:28 2018 No.11731080 >>11727480 lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 21:10:00 2018 No.11731087 >>11726071 same..

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 21:35:10 2018 No.11731170 >>11726036 Pickwick Papers

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 21:42:12 2018 No.11731195 >>11726240 Nice

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 3 21:48:41 2018 No.11731213 Confessions by Augustine

Anonymous Mon Sep 3 22:01:25 2018 No.11731266

>>11726132
John Fante's Ask the Dust

>>11726174
In Jose Saramago's Death With Interruptions there is a part where it literally goes something like "Now I can't help but notice that some of my readers, and only those who are smart enough, have been wondering what Death was doing during that time nobody died. Usually this would go without answer, but since I'm the narrator I have the powers to know and to share that information." The novel wasn't very good until that point anyway, but that part was so fucking smug I dropped the book for at least a couple months, then when I picked it back again I just skimmed to the ending.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 00:58:44 2018 No.11731866 >>11728008 took my book for me a book that really lifts you up and pulls you in, then gets all the hackles on your neck up, then just fucking explodes in a shock ending is the best.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 01:00:52 2018 No.11731873 >>11726996 Very constructive criticism. Provide a title or fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 01:27:51 2018 No.11731966 >>11726132 franny and zooey

>>	Robnessロブネス Tue Sep 4 01:29:35 2018 No.11731970 >>11726036 "Beezlebub's tales to his grandson." A masterwork if I've ever read one. By Gurdjieff

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 02:42:51 2018 No.11732152 >>11726036 Hamlet

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 03:12:23 2018 No.11732212 File: 20 KB, 327x499, Holy Book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11726036 Do Quixote. Brothers Karamazov, even if there were some bloated parts. Also picrelated.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 03:51:24 2018 No.11732297 File: 18 KB, 260x311, 48.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11726036 The joy of reading the best book ever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 04:57:34 2018 No.11732414 >>11726132 Pickwick Papers

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 05:20:50 2018 No.11732457 >>11726132 Catch-22. But then he just kept repeating himself and the shtick got really old, really fast.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 05:44:29 2018 No.11732498 >>11726226 Yep.

Anonymous Tue Sep 4 05:53:45 2018 No.11732517

>>11732297
Unironically, probably this, along with the bible.

The escapism both redeeming and grounded in reality is what really hooked me in and gave me unprecedented feels.

I wished my life was similar to what the guys had on the island.

Bonus points for no exaggerated and purposefully educating horror story akind to "Lord of the Flies".

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 06:05:24 2018 No.11732546 >>11726036 On the road definetly

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 13:45:08 2018 No.11733856 File: 37 KB, 313x499, 51VjV1cS1oL._SX311_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Master and Margarita

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 15:31:31 2018 No.11734280 >>11726107 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 15:34:46 2018 No.11734293 >>11726073 The opening of that last chapter, after all the confusion and denseness and being stuck in the head of an unpleasant brute, is a thing of such beauty.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 15:36:22 2018 No.11734302 >>11726110 This. I had a whale of a time

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 15:37:25 2018 No.11734305 >>11726160 >after that run of questions I laughed

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 15:58:20 2018 No.11734369 File: 19 KB, 220x340, 31._Wittgenstein,_1925.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this guy and his books deserve a mention

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 17:05:01 2018 No.11734621 the opposing shore

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 17:16:49 2018 No.11734670 File: 826 KB, 696x478, 1531009082146.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Childen of Hurin switch the names to greek and have it be written in 500AD and it would now be regarded as the greatest of the Greek tragedies

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 17:32:52 2018 No.11734752 >>11726132 Yeah with Tropic of Cancer and then it let me down

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 17:35:09 2018 No.11734761 >>11734621 oh yes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 17:37:10 2018 No.11734775 >>11726036 >The bible >Bros K >War and Peace >Lolita

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 17:37:55 2018 No.11734776 >>11726036 Ken Kesey - Sometimes A Great Notion

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 17:38:36 2018 No.11734780 >>11726278 This one. Before I read that it was Perfume. Recently I had this feeling when I finished Storm of Steel.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 18:00:12 2018 No.11734876 >>11734670 I love Tolkien, and I loved reading Children of Hurin, but the story is more or less identical to that of Kullervo. Tolkien just gave it his own touch.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 21:26:49 2018 No.11735804 >>11728010 and homo

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 23:46:28 2018 No.11736411 The Demon Haunted World.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 23:48:18 2018 No.11736418 Not "a" book but I felt that way as I finished the Sea of Fertility

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 4 23:53:23 2018 No.11736434 >>11726036 The Hobbit

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 01:21:08 2018 No.11736745 >>11726132 >To the worm who first gnawed the cold flesh of my corpse I dedicate these posthumous memoirs as a nostalgic remembrance. Sounds better in the original but I still love it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:29:53 2018 No.11736926 >>11726036 Neuromancer

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:34:51 2018 No.11736933 >>11732457 No it didn't did you finish it????

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:45:23 2018 No.11736957 Winnie The Pooh. Name of the rose later

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:48:32 2018 No.11736965 2666

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:53:00 2018 No.11736975

When I read Stephen King's IT I feel like the book really had me by my knickers in the sense that I couldnt really put it down despite it being borderline satanic in that it was some spooky shit that really shook me socks and rocked me jumblies something fierce and had me reaching for the nearest bible in spite of what people sometimes often are saying about this guy Stephen Kings about how he's a spook and hack and achoo bless you scuse me I have a cold anyway hes not very good at writing if you're understanding my lingo and interpretation here but the book really did give me a good jolt and an endearing sense of dread and apprehension that I cant quite seem to recall because seeing as I read it quite some time ago and didnt finish it because I got scared.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:58:27 2018 No.11736980 File: 84 KB, 500x500, 61knjMfxrCL._SL500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:58:50 2018 No.11736982 >>11726088 I just read ficciones recently, and honestly I got the same feeling. I like other books better, but I doubt ficciones will ever be topped when it comes to short stories.

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:04:07 2018 No.11736996

>>11726661
I think if I had read GR in my 20’s i probably would have said this. Like Ulysses, I read it in my late teens so it’s become too much a part of me to measure the impression it has had.
>>11726665
>The Recognitions
I read this for the first time nearly 4 years ago thanks to some random anon’s recommendation and I still consider it to be the most important book I’ve read in terms of the impression and influence it has made. Maybe it was just a case of the right book at the right time, but I still consider it to be one of my favourites.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:12:16 2018 No.11737018 >>11727509 not even out yet

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:12:39 2018 No.11737020 >>11726046 Same. Reread the last page a few times before finally closing it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:14:35 2018 No.11737025 >>11726132 The old man and the sea.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:21:51 2018 No.11737045 >>11728010 Based.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:44:11 2018 No.11737096 File: 114 KB, 600x692, canary.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Stoner White Noise If on a Winter's Night a Traveller but Stoner though. The first page of book of disquiet stunned me when i read it so probably that too

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:47:13 2018 No.11737101 File: 101 KB, 718x960, 25659454_10212040723027516_8814868003639712112_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11726132 Books by Flann O'Brien and David Markson

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 04:56:18 2018 No.11737261 No longe human and The conspiracy against the human race both made me really think (unironically)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 05:18:10 2018 No.11737326 >>11726530 tips

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 05:36:41 2018 No.11737368 >>11726153 The little prince

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 06:46:34 2018 No.11737571 >>11726153 My diary desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 09:48:04 2018 No.11738365 >>11726132 Naked Lunch but boy was I wrong

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 09:49:59 2018 No.11738375 >>11726530 based and jewpilled

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 14:43:23 2018 No.11739488 >>11737368 for what life event, anon?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 15:22:45 2018 No.11739663 >>11726036 Gravity's Rainbow It was the first time the act of reading was as enjoyable as the apprehension of the plot. ie.Babby's first dense book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 15:26:00 2018 No.11739680 >>11726153 I re-read Prometheus rising every time I start to fall into despair. It's better than binging of Benadryl and Acid. (Like I did the first few times)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 15:26:26 2018 No.11739682 2666 and Savage Detectives certainly feel like books that purposefully try to evoke that feeling, and largely succeed in it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 15:26:42 2018 No.11739684 >>11726036 moby...dick

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 15:37:57 2018 No.11739718 >>11726082 oh, you mean you're also an arrogant little shit who thinks he's better than everyone?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 17:55:52 2018 No.11740408 essentially every page of it made me feel this way, but absalom, absalom! absolutely

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 17:59:58 2018 No.11740430 >>11726036 I’m a total pleb and a child, so animal farm and catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 18:02:40 2018 No.11740449 V. ; entirely transformative for me freshman year of uni Pale Fire/Waves both recently applied to >>11726132

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 18:20:34 2018 No.11740516

>>11726132
Knut Hamsun's 'Growth of the Soil' - in fact I was sold on it by the back cover blurb alone. 'Man goes into the wilderness, struggles for self-sufficiency' is an easy sell for me.

In a similar vein, the opening of DH Lawrence's 'The Rainbow' knocked me for six when I first read it. It lost me a little later on, but I still think about that opening passage at least once a week.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:25:14 2018 No.11740824 >>11726132 every book I've read by virginia woolf

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:26:04 2018 No.11740827 >>11739488 My wife's son's birthday

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:28:43 2018 No.11740839 >>11740827 my wife's husband says happy birthday

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:29:35 2018 No.11740842 >>11736933 Anon is kinda right, pages 20-90 drag a lot (you can have some top giggle 2-3 times total), it truly picks up after that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:32:02 2018 No.11740853 >>11726056 Just finished this today. Honestly maybe it just wan't for me but I'd rate it 2/5

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:45:38 2018 No.11740904 >>11740853 It really is nowhere near as good as people say it is. So many anons keep saying that its life-changing, but I just didn't get anything from it.

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:47:39 2018 No.11740911
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Unironically Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs aka SICP. It manages to cover a large swath of computer science whithout feeling shallow. It's been a year since I read it and I'm still learning from it. Probably going to reread chapter 3 soon.

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:51:51 2018 No.11740932

>>11740904
Maybe it's because I don't come from a christian perspective, but the novel basically boiling down to "the atheist did it" was kind of lame and disappointing. It seems like the idea "if there is no god, everything is permitted" is simply axiomatically assumed, and not supported or investigated at all. I was given the impression that there would be a more nuanced and deeper consideration of theocratic concepts...

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:53:38 2018 No.11740940 Help me, I want my perfect book. :( Is there a book about perpetual waiting and ever distancing dreams while fear mounts from behind?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:56:29 2018 No.11740951 >>11740940 Genuinely 'Book of Disquiet'

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:57:32 2018 No.11740956 >>11740932 Yeah I get the feeling sometimes from Dostoyevsky that he's trying to convince himself of these beliefs more than anyone else.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:59:08 2018 No.11740961 >>11726056 What translation?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:00:12 2018 No.11740964 >>11740956 I haven't read any other Dostoyevsky, is something like Crime and Punishment similar? This one has kind of put me off him, but I may try reading another of his books in the future

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:02:58 2018 No.11740975 >>11740964 The Idiot is his best imo, so maybe try that reading that one eventually. But I think you sound similar to me, I just don't think we'll ever "get" Dosto.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:03:44 2018 No.11740977 >>11740975 True enough. Have you read any Tolstoy?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:09:15 2018 No.11741001 >>11740977 Yeah I've read most of his major stuff. I love him, but his moralising again becomes a bit of a problem for me sometimes. He feels so much broader than Dosto does. You?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:15:06 2018 No.11741029 >>11741001 I am very early on in my literary inquest, and have not read any Tolstoy. I have heard that it is common for a person to be either a "Dostoevsky" or a "Tolstoy", so I may soon try Anna Karenina. Is that a good starting point into Tolstoy?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:15:29 2018 No.11741032 >>11726046 Same, almost got hit by a bus while reading the last page because I didn't want to put it down.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:16:51 2018 No.11741040 >>11741029 Yes, Anna Karenina is the best starting point - I just pray to God you realise the beauty of Levin early on. It is not either or with the two. You can love both of them, since they're both fantastic writers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:18:05 2018 No.11741043 >>11741029 You'll probably lean more towards one. I'd actually recommend you read 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' first. Its short yet extremely intense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:19:33 2018 No.11741054 >>11741040 I have quite a few other books I'm meaning to read as well. Do you have a goodreads?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:22:46 2018 No.11741067 >>11740904 >>11740956 >>11740975 >>11741001 >>11741043 (This is all me btw) Nah I don't have goodreads, sorry. What else were you planning on reading?

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:28:35 2018 No.11741091

>>11741054
Yeah I'm not >>11741067 him. However, I do agree with his suggestion of Death of Ivan Ilyich. It is excellent - as he says, incredibly intense. The servant truly embodied the spirit of altruism I remember, and the loneliness in his last days is beyond sad, especially with how Tolstoy depicts it.

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:29:23 2018 No.11741095

>>11741067
my current stack, mostly based on availability
The Trial - Kafka
Frankenstein - Shelley
Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Jung
The Ego and the Id - Freud
On Dreams - Freud
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne
Perelandra - CS Lewis
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Kidnapped - Stevenson

these are all books I own and are planning on reading, although if I find second hand copies there are quite a few I would rather read first

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:31:05 2018 No.11741109 >>11741095 Unless you want to be bored stiff, don't read Kafka.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:32:59 2018 No.11741115 >>11741109 not directly related, but what about Kierkegaard?

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:34:33 2018 No.11741120

>>11741095
From your list I'd say definitely prioritise Kafka. He has lots of short stories which are incredible, so look into those as well if you like The Trial. You'll be surprised how funny he can be.

I'm not massively familiar with the other stuff you've named.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:35:33 2018 No.11741123 >>11741109 please back to reddįt

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:38:57 2018 No.11741135

>>11741115

>>11741067
>>11741120
Me

Is this your first foray into philosophy? Kierkegaard can be quite difficult at times. Try Either/Or first and bear in mind that he uses irony a lot to express points. You seem to be interested in a lot of Christian stuff, why is that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:39:19 2018 No.11741138 >>11741115 Haven't read Kierkegaard, so I can't help you unfortunately. >>11741123 Very witty response my friend!!!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:42:47 2018 No.11741153 >>11741135 Family/surrounding culture is primarily christian. Do you have any non-christian philosophical books that be good? got to head to work now but will read replies when the thread gets archived

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:50:40 2018 No.11741183

>>11741153
Schopenhauer was an atheist that had a big influence on Kierkegaard. You might like his essays (On Genius, On Suicide, On Psychology etc.)

Another very important figure, especially for Kierkegaard, was Socrates so read the short dialogues of his that were written by Plato: Crito, Euthyphro, and the Apology (Socrates' death speech). You could also read 'The Republic' which is longer but also very influential.

Seneca's 'Letters to a Stoic' are very famous and enjoyable. Lots of wise advice on general living.

I think you'll probably like those as a good starter. Assuming you don't know them already.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 21:21:13 2018 No.11741347 >>11741183 Read Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Nature' too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 21:41:26 2018 No.11741410 I felt that way after finishing Temple of the Golden Pavilion. After the last sentence, it all jut clicked together.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:20:09 2018 No.11741571 actually a good thread on /lit/ standards

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:34:01 2018 No.11741632 The unique and its property by max stirner

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:35:03 2018 No.11741637 kafka on the shore

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:46:38 2018 No.11741692 East of Eden Timshel

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 23:17:18 2018 No.11741823 Call me a faggot, but it was Roadside Picnic. Perhaps the circumstances under which I read it lent to it, but I had some serious goosebumps when I put it down.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 23:18:33 2018 No.11741831 >>11726036 as god commands

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 00:18:38 2018 No.11742040 >>11726036 Anything by Stanislaw Lem.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 00:36:36 2018 No.11742082 >>11726088 I don't get the love for Ficciones. I felt like maybe 1/3 of the stories were really phenomenal, but the rest just seemed so slight and forgettable.

Anonymous Thu Sep 6 00:51:33 2018 No.11742110

>>11741183
wow, thread is still alive. thanks for your recommendations, I have read "the republic" and I find the stoic philosophy very compelling (having read meditations by Marcus Aurelius).

where can I find physical copies of something like Schopenhauer's essays? those types of things tend to be too esoteric for most second hand book stores to have, and looking online they tend to be on the expensive side

Anonymous Thu Sep 6 00:59:55 2018 No.11742120

>>11726036
Stoner was actually the only book ever to make me cry.
The descent into death and reflection on his life was too real, as if I was the one dying on that bed.
There was something deeply sentimental thinking again to David Masters and Katherine and Edith. Such strong emotions come forth that it's hard to comprehend.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 01:12:14 2018 No.11742143 >>11726036 Are you from Serbia?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 02:19:20 2018 No.11742320 >>11742143 Far from it, why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 03:07:42 2018 No.11742411 >>11726107 yep

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 04:34:52 2018 No.11742569 >>11726036 is that logan paul with a beard?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 04:50:34 2018 No.11742605 File: 25 KB, 315x475, 8454747.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11742110 I really don't know where you could find them IRL unfortunately. On Amazon UK I found pic related for about £6.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 04:53:16 2018 No.11742614 >>11742605 (Used, includes postage)

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 04:58:12 2018 No.11742619 >>11742143 I am, do you wanna date?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 09:41:18 2018 No.11743308 >>11726036 >>11726086 What book made you go "holy.....I want more....." as you close it? Genuine answers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 10:18:09 2018 No.11743441 >>11726126 like 2 weeks ago

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 6 11:49:51 2018 No.11743734 >>11741823 >faggot Why? That’s a good book

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