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ITT: Best book you've ever fucking read.

>> No.1186158

harry potter

>> No.1186162

catch-22

>> No.1186164
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1186164

Probably this, I read it in High School final year and it was the most beautiful, sad, happiest novel I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

What about you OP, what is yours?

>> No.1186166

Fountainhead

>> No.1186168

Twilight. Having a penis sucks.

>> No.1186170

OP, here. I'm not really well read, but I would like to be. I made this thread in hope getting a good idea of some great books to read.

>> No.1186173

Norwegian Wood.

Yeah, I haven't read that much books yet.

>> No.1186180

>>1186170
This thread isn't going to work, sorry, but too many immature kids thinking saying Fountain'ead, Twilight, and 'arry Potter etc is funny.

>> No.1186184

>>1186170
Albert Camus - The Stranger, Anything by Kafka, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck are really good books that are easily accessable for people who aren't "well read"

>> No.1186185

>>1186162
Same here.

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Oh yes.

>> No.1186208

the rebel

>> No.1186214

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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OP, read this. Do not read the summary of the plot. Sooo much better than it sounds.

It's somewhat long but it isn't hard to read unless you can't pay attention for any length of time.

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>>1186237
Not op but I'm going to listen to this sir.

>> No.1187298

Dorian Gray

>> No.1187300
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>> No.1187386
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The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Best motherfucking series I've read.

>> No.1187391

The Wheel Of Time series!

>> No.1187399

The Painted Bird. Due to the extremely graphic nature of the book though I say read at your own risk.

>> No.1187419

The world according to Garp

>> No.1187422

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Legit, it's a tie. I'm in the middle of reading Nabokov's Lolita right now, and I have a feeling that once I finish it it'll be a threeway tie.

>> No.1187437

The Chronicles of Amber

>> No.1187454

Shit I guess I have to jump on the Camus bandwagon. The Plague.

>> No.1187461

>>1186164
You wouldn't happen to be from Australia, would you?

>> No.1187505

Fiction
Robert A Heinlein- A Stranger In A Strange Land

Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein -Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Non-Fiction
Isaac Newton - Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

>> No.1187513

albert camus - plague

>> No.1187667

for some reason the first books I've read I always think of as the best I've read.

a tie between Scarcraft Liberty's crusade and Dragonlance Test of the Twins

some other good reads
Dragons of winter nights
Dragons of Summer Flame
the war of soul trilogy
Amber and Ash
and Forgotten Realms Avater Trilogy

>> No.1187755

Heights.

>> No.1187766

The Sot-Weed Factor looks like it's going to be a book about a pretentious idiot who'll never amount to anything, but it turns out to actually be about twincest. It's also hilarious, horrifying, and kind of touching, and it scared me a little bit how much of myself I saw in the protagonist. I have yet to find a book that I like as much as it, but I've only been looking for about 5 years.

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1187785

The Hogfather

haters gonn' hate but it's the first book i was given by my father when i was nine. he used to love Pratchett. he died later that year and so i still have that beaten old book sat in the middle of my bookcase.

Readan it Err' christmas.

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I wouldn't call it life changing, but it was definitely amazing, beautiful, and alternately hysterical and creepy as fuck-- but in an extremely subtle way. The first time I read it I wasn't thrilled with it but the second time it destroyed me. You definitely have to read it more than once for everything in the first 2/3 of the book to really make sense, but once you do it's just an incredible read. I reread it frequently. Yes, it's about 1000 pages. Yes, it's fucking fantastic. Of course if you don't like fiction, history, or very dry writing you're going to hate it, fair warning.s

>> No.1187833

Lolita. No competition. No. Fuckin. Competition.

>> No.1187852

The Dharma Bums, I've backpacked through South East Asia, I'm targetting south America next. Thanks, Kerouac !

>> No.1187857

>>1187852
Your favorite book is a pretentious piece of shit. Enjoy

>> No.1187859

>>1187857
/lit/ - we love all literature, just not yours

>> No.1187882

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is a very poetic war-related novel. It's also the most beautiful writing I've read in my opinion. Surprisingly, the war aspect of the book is very slim, which is a good thing.

>> No.1187888

>>1187785

<3

>> No.1187896

>>1186237
Pickles, is that you?!

>> No.1187901

>>1187852
I bet you're French.

>> No.1187905

>>1187852
I tried reading that book, and about 50 pages in i had to stop. Book is fucking boring.

>> No.1187912

>>1187785
I Daww'd

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even after 10 years

>> No.1187933

Gone with the Wind had me hallucinating I was in the Civil war. Granted I was also dressing like that at the time...

>> No.1188264

>>1186143

Picture of Dorian Gray
& No longer Human

I think. It changes, but these two are at the core of the list of best books I've "ever fucking read".

>> No.1188266

The Sound and The Fury

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1188280

>ITT: nostalgia

>> No.1188297

I'll have to go with Journey to the End of the Night by Céline

>> No.1188298

>>1188266
Quentin's section is literary gold.

>> No.1188299

The Passage by Justin Cronin.
REAL Vampires, none of that sparkling shit. Post apocalyptic books FTW.