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Anonymous Mon Sep 24 10:23:56 2018 No.11834692 [Reply] [Original]

Which book has met or surpassed all your expectations?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 11:30:33 2018 No.11834885 The Gulag Archipelago. I thought it would be meme shit but it was actually really captivating and quite profound. Solzhenitsyn is a great writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 11:32:16 2018 No.11834894 >>11834692 Gravity’s Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 12:22:39 2018 No.11835078 >>11834692 Lolita. Heard about a million times and how great it was. I was still blown away by the writing. It hurts to know I will never be good enough to write even one sentence as good a Nabokov.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 12:22:45 2018 No.11835079 >>11834692 Against the Day

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 13:15:29 2018 No.11835286 >>11835078 Yeah I'll second this. Wasn't expecting to like it half as much as I did. Truly worthy of the praise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 13:24:33 2018 No.11835320 File: 41 KB, 314x499, 51melNweBAL._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11834692 blocks my path

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 13:57:30 2018 No.11835448 >>11835078 This. Ada is just as good though, go read it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 14:01:15 2018 No.11835467 >>11834692 Mason & Dixon Seems to be a lot of Pynchon in this thread, huh. Guy doesn't disappoint.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 14:01:43 2018 No.11835469 The Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 18:12:05 2018 No.11836568 Moby-Dick.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 18:16:09 2018 No.11836585 >>11834692 bible

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 18:18:18 2018 No.11836596 Czarne oceany - Jacek Dukaj. I heard it's a great sci-fi book but it's literally the best sci-fi book ever (and i read literally hundreds of them). >>11836568 gay as hell

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:20:25 2018 No.11836812 >>11834885 Retard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:22:00 2018 No.11836823 >>11836596 >genre fiction brainlet cant appreciate Moby Dick Color me surprised

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:30:38 2018 No.11836869 >>11834692 Blood Meridian

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:31:30 2018 No.11836878 Finnegans Wake

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:32:01 2018 No.11836882 Godel Escher Bach, 110%

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:48:40 2018 No.11836977 Crime and punishment

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:50:50 2018 No.11836993 >>11834885 based Jordan Memerson poster

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:54:05 2018 No.11837008 File: 17 KB, 265x225, 1535443851033.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11836812 >>11836993 back to your cuckshed trapo cucks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:03:49 2018 No.11837049 Anna Karenina. I knew Tolstoy was meant to be the greatest author ever to live and this was his best novel. It was even better than I could originally conceive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 21:45:44 2018 No.11837478 >>11837049 Seconded, I knew Tolstoy was famous for a reason but Anna still surprised me with how much I enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 21:46:39 2018 No.11837483 Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:57:25 2018 No.11837757 >>11836977 Second this - for the last 3rd of the book there were multiple times where I had to put it down because I was so blown away Will also add The Possessed for based Dosto

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:58:32 2018 No.11837761 >>11834692 Unironically Behead All Satans.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 00:05:28 2018 No.11838081 >>11837761 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 00:06:02 2018 No.11838084 GR.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 00:44:44 2018 No.11838209 >>11837049 Thirded. He goes into such intricate detail into the minds of essentially all character. There's even a couple of paragraphs that highlight a hunting scene from the dog's frame of mind without missing out on detail