/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13621386]

Do you have one book that stands above all the rest to you? One book that you enjoyed so much that it holds a special place in your heart?
For me, it’s The Count of Monte Cristo.

[Anonymous No.13621516]

Titus Groan

[Anonymous No.13621531]

This book holds a special place in my heart because I love how the entire book is zoomers vs boomers.

[Anonymous No.13621640]

>>13621386
What's so good about it? I kinda want to start it but it's damn long

[Anonymous No.13621654]

>>13621640
You get a very nice buildup to the actual tragedy of the story and a satisfying progression

[Anonymous No.13621660]

>>13621516
lol

[Anonymous No.13621863]

>>13621640
It’s just the perfect adventure story. It also doesn’t take very long to read. It is captivating and not a dense novel

[Anonymous No.13622791]

>>13621640
Its a long one b/c Dumas was literally being paid per word for the novel. Read the abridged version.

[Anonymous No.13622800]

>>13622791
>Read the abridged version.
Things plebs say

[Anonymous No.13622862]

>>13622791
The unabridged version is so much better, you will miss out if you don't read it

[Anonymous No.13623078]

>>13621386
For me it's the only book that has left me sobbing. John William's Stoner.

[Anonymous No.13623260]

A Canticle for Leibowtiz

[Anonymous No.13623279]

Frankenstein is the best work of fiction I've ever and probably will ever read.

[Anonymous No.13623301]

>>13623260
I second this, this book is unique and I could never find something that's close to it.

[Anonymous No.13623304]

>>13621386
One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.13623320]

I wouldn't say it has a special place in my heart but I have read Down and Out in Paris and London about five times and always enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.13623425]

Franny and Zooey

[Anonymous No.13624279]

>>13622791
>pay-per-word literature
and people say capitalism doesn't corrupt art.

[Anonymous No.13624285]

>>13621660
why lol?

[Anonymous No.13624471]

This book is so comfy, yet so melancholic. Unforgettable characters. Plus, it was one of my first major red pills about women.

[Anonymous No.13624693]

>this thread with massive potential will get archived immediately while some retard jezebel poster will get 300 replies
it's not fucking fair, bros

[Anonymous No.13624706]

>>13621386
notes from underground

[Anonymous No.13624719]

>>13624693
I know that feel. You just have to be a model poster, and report the low effort threads.

[Anonymous No.13625001]

>>13624693
Don't worry, "whats your favourite book"-threads aren't actually that uncommon.

[Anonymous No.13625152]

>>13621386
Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.13625168]

>>13621386
yeah it's Moby Dick. and it's not even close, if we're talking about just novels. Stands in its own tier for me way higher than the ones close to it, which for me are novels like TBK, Ulysses, La recherche, Chartreuse, the usual candidates you'd expect. I have a couple odd ones out like Salaambo, Hero of our times, Les Faux-monnayeurs, Le Chaos et la nuit, L'amant, Kamouraska, mostly because of their relation to my life and when i read them, but my taste is pretty conventional.

I have never been literally shocked reading a book outside MD. The beauty and inventiveness and delirium and profundity of it had like a physical impact on me. The way it's structured, the crazy ideas he comes up with for passages, the inimitable prose, the themes and characters and settings, the injections of digressions on whaling and the fucking metaphysics of the colour white. I can't even explain all the shit I love about it. I'd have to sit down and write an actual essay and gather my thoughts, and I rarely do that anymore.

[Anonymous No.13625217]

>>13625001
This is pretty distinct from that. Especially when people ITT are sharing why instead of just saying the title of a book like any asshole can do. And don't get me started on datamining threads

[Anonymous No.13625299]

>>13625168
Beautifully put anon

[Anonymous No.13625517]

bump

[Anonymous No.13625535]

Scholastic, We still out here.

[Anonymous No.13625640]

Robinson Crusoe

[Anonymous No.13625688]

>>13622791
>Dumas was literally being paid per word for the novel.
Retarded fucking criticsm. You sound like a high school student complaining about having to read Dickens.

[Anonymous No.13625703]

>>13625168
I was about to write this exact post, thanks for saving me the work, nothing is close to Moby.

[Anonymous No.13625720]

>>13625535
Why did it leave an impact on you?

[Anonymous No.13625722]

>>13625720
becus

[Anonymous No.13625747]

>>13625722
fuckoff

>>13625720
was just my first big book as a kid and kicked off a love of reading that allowed me to escape from reality during a depressing childhood. Holds a special place in my heart. Not for literary merit, just for its enthusiasm and optimism. It's a kids book that never panders or talks down to the kid.

[Anonymous No.13625765]

>>13625747
I totally get that, man. It's like how many of us have a favorite album not because it is perfect, but because we started listening to it during a great period of our life, or maybe it comforted us during trying times.

I hope your life is more wonderful now :)

[Anonymous No.13626362]

bump

[Anonymous No.13626443]

>>13625517
>>13626362
I know you don't want your thread with potential to die, but you're not supposed to bump on /lit/. It's technically in bad taste.
That being said, I'll contribute another since we're on the topic of nostalgic books. Pic related is so good and one of my favorites from childhood. The drawings are so detailed and intricate and are filled with random little slapstick gags. Really interesting, but also informative about the working world to children.

[Anonymous No.13628289]

>>13625168
How the fuck does a whale shock you