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>> No.12138263

House of Leaves, probably

>> No.12138270

Infinite Jest, probably

>> No.12138273

I just read books that I like or don't read the ones I don't like, I never rank them. I don't remember a particulary good book, but when I was a teen I enjoyed reading El Aleph and Ficciones a lot. Those are short story books though, not novels.

>> No.12138869

Can't pretend I've delved too deeply into quality literature, but of what I'd consider good, A Picture of Dorian Gray was probably the most impactful for me. No piece of literature evoked physical emotion for me like that ever before or since

>> No.12139124

The Time Machine. Never fails to capture my imagination.

>> No.12139885

>>12138119
Araby

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>>12138119
FUCK NIGGERS AND FUCK JANNIES

>> No.12139906

>>12138119
Ulysses, but i havent read that much yet

>> No.12139910

Catcher in the Rye

>> No.12140050

Either Moby Dick or The Recognitions

>> No.12140063

Macbeth

>> No.12140079

If Joyce's Dubliners counts as a work in itself, then its top of my list. Narrowing it down to a single story, I would say Grace

>> No.12140097

>>1214005
I'm about 5% of the way through The Recognitions. It's the first time I've felt happy about how long the book and how slow my pace is, simply because it's absolutely glorious.

>> No.12140100

120 days of sodom.

>> No.12140115

Or Nabokov's 'Signs and Symbols'

>> No.12140157 [DELETED] 

>>12139885
>>12140079
These. My favorite is A Little Cloud

>> No.12140192

>>12140157
Love the story but a very uncomfortable read personally; unnervingly close to home haha

>> No.12140198

20,000 leagues under the sea.

>> No.12140206

>>12138119
Ulysses, definitely, though Don Quixote is a close second.
It's insane how rich Ulysses is, it't a truly inexhaustible work, each time I come back to it I find more things to appreciate about it. You have god-tier prose sustained for 700 pages, an incredible sense of experimentation and innovation, some of the most fully realized characters in western literature, a dense and tight web of allusions and themes, and it all amounts to an incredibly empathetic and life affirming novel.

>> No.12140211

Crime and punishment

>> No.12140273 [DELETED] 

>>12140192
That’s why I like it so much. It makes me so uncomfortable and sad and it only took Joyce ~15 pages to masterfully express such emotion

>> No.12140287

>>12138119
Phenomenology of Spirit

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At the Mountains of Madness

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swan song

>> No.12140339

>>12138119
dune but unironically this time

>> No.12140354

The Recognitions

>> No.12141681

>>12139906
>>12140206
I'm so glad /lit/ memed me into reading Ulysses, it really is above and beyond anything else.

>> No.12141708

>>12138119
The Satanic Verses.

>> No.12142357

>>12138119
my fantasy journal desu

>> No.12142480

>>12138119
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.

>> No.12142503

The Bible > The Sound and the Fury > Ulysses

>> No.12142509

>ctrl + f "The Bible"
>1 result
Go fuck yourself

>> No.12142946

Tails Gets Trolled

>> No.12143008

Call of the Wild by Jack London, absolutely flawless.

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MY
DIARY
DESU

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War & Peace

>> No.12144232

>>12138119
Lolita

>> No.12144235

>>12138119
Either The Sun Also Rises or The Great Gatsby.

>> No.12144241 [DELETED] 

God Bless You. Mr. Rosewater!, probably

>> No.12144245

>>12144235
Disgusting, kys pls

>> No.12144312

>>12138119
Even if it isn't necessarily my favourite book, I will always say Samuel Beckett's How It Is. No other work has been as successful for me in stripping away all the extraneous materials from the novel form in order to create a philosophical schematic that is as expansive as it is microscopic. I guarantee you there is no reading experience comparable to it, and is one of the few novels that is better explained through ideas of topological play or the Heisenberg principle than any literary analysis.

This video might not convince you but it is nevertheless a brilliant dramatic reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4B_25sPhdk

>> No.12144725

>>12144232
Excellent taste

>> No.12144743

>>12142509
How very Christian of you.

>> No.12144755

>>12144743
Why don't you go suck a fuck

>> No.12144769

>>12144755
gottem good

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>>12138119
this one has everything.

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I really liked “East of Eden”

>> No.12144890

>>12140206
I thought you were talking about Ulysses, not House of Leaves

>> No.12145002

I am taking "brilliant" to mean dazzling and shiny, otherwise is just means "what is your favourite" and that's boring.

So my answer is Liaozhai Zhiyi/Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Each short story is an exquisite piece of Chinese folklore, or conspiracy theory, or old saying made into a tale, or urban legend, taken by Pu and turned into something of his own. They really are like little shards of polished jade.