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Which book is your "the one"? Which one made you fall in love with literature?

>> No.12849534

>>12849531
Wuthering Heights. It was the first classic I read outside of school, and I loved it

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>>12849531
<<This guy.

>> No.12849536

To the lighthouse

>> No.12849576

>>12849531
waiting for godot

>> No.12849591

>>12849531
inferno john cirardi

>> No.12849640

>>12849531
I don't really read I just hang out here because there is a comfy board culture

>> No.12849755

>>12849531
just finished circe and boy u hope Bloom grows past his cucky passive cowardly mindset and becomes a true based individual
maybe it'll inspire me to do the same

>> No.12849763

Lolita, although I also loved Catch-22 and Gulliver's Travels before

>> No.12849764

runaway horses by Yukio Mishima

>> No.12849806

Montaigne’s Essais or Lolita

The first confirmed my love the second started it in earnest

>> No.12849818

>>12849531
probably moby-dick, read a lot before that but something about this great work just inspired me

>“STRAIGHT UP, LEAPS THY APOTHEOSIS!”
irrevocably based tbqf

>> No.12849823

>>12849531
Pewdiepie

>> No.12851182

alice in wonderland

>> No.12851192

>>12849531
Bolaño's oeuvre.
Mostly his non-fiction stuff.

>> No.12851208

>>12849531
Same desu. Reading Joyce was what made me reconsider what I wanted to take at Uni (from Film to Engish) and truly made me fall in love with literature. Without Joyce, I really do think i'd be in a totally different, and much worse, path of life, and for that I'll always hold a special place in my heart for that Irishman.

>> No.12851283

>>12851182
You consider it "the one" for you and you don't even know the actual title of it?
That's a bit strange to me.

>> No.12851317

>>12851283
I know what the books are called. Do you know that autistic vermin such as yourself should commit suicide?

>> No.12851386

>>12851208
I can barely read it. I'm currently at chapter where some rednecks tease Bloom and talk about WE WUZ whatever Ireland. It's my second time reading it, I must admit, I detest it. It kills my love for lit.

>> No.12851488

>>12851386
>It's my second time reading it
so you've finished it completely once and still there's difficulty getting thru it? whys that? are you not enjoying it?

the biggest thing for me the first time was the intimidation and confidence

>> No.12851553

Since I've read this one, I'm always reading at least 2 books.

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Oops

>> No.12851626

>>12849531
the divine comedy.
but I'm always thinking about ulysses, gravity's rainbow, finnegans wake, the gospels...

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>> No.12851638

>>12849531
Fear and loathing in las vegas or the call of cthulu

>> No.12851662

>>12849531
>>12849531
None. I was raised in a literature-loving family and loved literature from the start.

Unless you consider reading a children's book version of the Wizard Apprentice to be falling in love with literature, in which case, that one.

>> No.12851686

>>12849531
A-animal farm. Why?

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What should be read before Ulysses in order to enhance the experience of reading Ulysses and understand its references? Presumably the Odyssey, anything else?

>> No.12851760

>>12851686
>I remember little or nothing of these lectures. I cannot have understood a great deal. But I seem to have retained certain descriptions, in spite of myself. They gave me courses on love, on intelligence, most precious, most precious. They also taught me to count, and even to reason. Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.

>> No.12851776

moby dick. when I read "moby" "dick" I was like, "WOAH..."

>> No.12851779

The Sound and the Fury

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>>12851625
Does the rest of the book read like this? I've read this extract, pic related and the one with the moving buildings that people use to compare it and NGE and they all unironically have fantastic prose. Haven't read any Pynch, should I read Lot 49?

>> No.12851898

>>12851756
Hamlet, also read Dubliners and Portrait first.

>> No.12851918

>>12851756
Be irish

>> No.12851925

>>12851756
Definitely the Odyssey, and maybe read up on late 19th-early 20th century Irish history on Wikipedia. There are so many historical and literary allusions the in Ulysses that it would take a lifetime to fully "prepare" for it. Still, the book's plenty enjoyable even if you don't pick up on every detail your first go around.

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>> No.12852038

>>12851636
Does it only portrays normies?

>> No.12852052

>>12852038
There are no "normies" in a novel written about Russian aristocrats. But Tolstoy has an appreciation for the "normies" of his time.

>> No.12852072

>>12852038
Absolutely not. I think you will like Pierre.

>> No.12852084

>>12852052
I mean i have hard time relating to mentally normal people.
>>12852072
oh okay, i'll check it out.

>> No.12852229

>>12851890
Lot49 is definitely worth a read before GR

>> No.12852235

Madame Bovary, all the way.

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>>12849531

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>> No.12852664

>>12849531
>pic related
>movie was merely half as good

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>>12852664
>pic related

>> No.12852685

Budenbrooks. What can I say, I like books with characters that I can empathize with.

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>>12849531

>> No.12852840

1984

>> No.12852886

>>12849531
Mrs. Dalloway was my first "holy shit" novel

>> No.12853500

>>12849755
Lol nope

>> No.12853577

>>12851636
Same. The Magic Mountain too.

>> No.12853598

Nabokov's Ada

I never understood how prose could be fun before I read that book

>> No.12853729

Dr Zhivago I guess. That or Lolita

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inb4 muh filler and muh pretension

>> No.12854497

>>12849576
Lol

>> No.12854528

>>12849531
I didn't fall in love with literature, but I did fall in love with Joyce, after reading that. Literautre is a medium, the way movies are. Most of it really sucks.

>> No.12855358

>>12849535
>be me
>weather not all that great but go hiking anyways
>take the well maintained mountain path because why not
>kinda stuffy in my coat so i take it off
>path takes me all sorta ways through the mountains
>walk past a river and past some rails
>for a second wonder if the mountains think of me on the mountain path the same way they think of the water in the river and the train on its rails
>still cloudy
>run into a normie and walk away before he can trick me into some small talk bullshit
>run into two more normies, blaring some normie music
>reach some village and walk through it
>get home
>tfw actually go outside but still dont meet any girls
>tfw no gf
why live bros?

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>>12849531
Sawkon Mai - Dick

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>>12849531
The rock, my darling, my font of unerring conceptual integration and source of aesthetic romantic realism.
The first-time actually correct science of aesthetics. I love you.

>> No.12855797

East of Eden

>> No.12855864
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1984 by George Orwell
So deep and scary that he predicted Trump’s America

>> No.12855870

>>12855864
Wtf orange man... good?

>> No.12856131

Absalom, Absalom! made me drop vidya and movies and spend all my time reading. Maybe that counts. But then the Bacchae convinced me to major in Classics and learn Latin and Greek, which propelled me through "western canon."

Teaching is a comfy life, bros, but sometimes I wish I had some money

>> No.12856164

BR literature classes are largely shit, but one of my teachers told the kids to read Frankenstein, and that was probably the first "real" book I enjoyed.

>> No.12856345

>>12853500
motherfucker, why do you have to shit on my dreams of redemption

>> No.12856354

>>12849531
None, as any book as made me feel things as deep as classical music has made to me

>> No.12856371

>>12855797
Same

>> No.12856836

The Trial by Kafka

>> No.12856846

the masterpiece novel snippets anon posted here a while back where 1/3 of the book was the n word

>> No.12856858

>>12856836
Same here! The Trial was my first 'holy shit' book, followed by Nineteen Eighty-Four and One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.12856859

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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>>12856859
Also had an english teacher that let me read the boondocks comics for our "at the start of class read the newspaper and talk about it" thing

>> No.12856875

>>12856870
>>12856859
Didnt mean to (you) you whoops

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>>12856164
There's something weird about BR literature classes. Nobody likes Machado de Assis at school, everybody loves him later on life.

>> No.12858164

>>12857070
What is BR?

>> No.12858295

>>12858164
Brazil/Brazilian

>> No.12858424

Unironcally fear and loathing and 1984 in high school

>> No.12858945

>>12857070
As one of BRs I can tell that there´s something fucked up with us