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good evening

please list your favorite book and why

I would like to find out which is /lit/'s favorite book

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>> No.1370760

Atlas shrugged

>> No.1370763

>>1370760
honestly?

>> No.1370768

atlas shrugged is my fav book too

>> No.1370767

don quixote.

but ulysses was the book listed for /lit/ last time someone tried to compile a favorite. i disagreed but whateva

>> No.1370778

>>1370767
what are you, 12? don quixote is such shit. it's like the south park of the middle ages. it's not even that good a story, just some faggot and his retarded friend acting like fools. not to mention it's completely out-dated

and bro, you probably didnt understand ulysses if you even finished it

>> No.1370785

+ for Atlas Shrugged

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>> No.1370791

>>1370778
underageb&?

learn to appreciate the classics my friend

and admittedly I've failed to read Ulysses up until this time, does it live up to the hype

>> No.1370793

That's a cointoss.

Either:

1. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
or
2. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.

Tough choice. I love both.

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>>1370790
great novel, thank you

>>1370791
?*

posting my favorite

>> No.1370799

>>1370791
i've read more classics than you.

and yes ulysses is fantastic. it's better if you have a decent background of homer, shakespeare, and joyce under your belt

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so many perspectives and so many side area of the story make it a challenging read but if you can keep it all in mind, it makes for a hell of a story.

>> No.1370810

>>1370799
Perhaps you have, but it really doesn't suit you to be so vehement about things

Thank you for the recommendation

>> No.1370814

>>1370808
sounds cool man, will check it out

>> No.1370815

This Side of Paradise.

>> No.1370817

>>1370808
oh! one of the chinese classics, I need to read that as well!

this thread is really reminding me of all the literature i still haven't come close to, kind of gives one a tingly feeling

>> No.1370825

>>1370778
whoa. you ask me if i'm 12 for recommending don quixote? it was dostoevski's favorite book. was he immature too?

but just so it's broken down for you. its about fantasy and reality and how the two can interchange. this is one of the core issues in the human condition. whether it be philosophy, religion, or any of our inspirations. the line between what is real, what COULD be real, and what simply won't be real regardless of how you try is forever debatable.

tl;dr- you need to step the fuck down before you get smacked the fuck up, son. seriously. get out.

>> No.1370831

>>1370808
i have this but haven't read it yet. i love the games...

>> No.1370836

Joyce was a good short story writer who went mad with vanity. When people say Ulysses is there favorite book all I think is "this person is trying really hard to impress me...and failing" I've read atlas shrugged and liked it more, no messing.
I vote for Titus Groan for my favorite book. Amazingly vivid characters, Steerpike, Mr flay, Swelter. A truly atmospheric setting, and the rest of the trilogy is incredible too. Anyone read it?

>> No.1370839

>>1370836
>When people say Ulysses is there favorite book
>there

>> No.1370840

>>1370825
yeah you proved my point. thanks. it's about fake shit. it's retarded as shit.

doesn't surprise me it was dostoevsky's favorite book, if that's even true. he probably liked the idea of escaping from reality and hiding away rather than face all of his abundant problems. fucking cop-out

also you sound like a total fag.

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>>1370839
>>1370836
>>1370825
please stop dwelling on such things

>> No.1370852

>>1370840
>also you sound like a total fag.
and you don't, right?

here is a quote, dipshit:
"There is nothing in the world more profound or powerful than this work. This is the ultimate and greatest word that human thought has yet produced, it is the bitter irony expressible by man, and if the world were to end and someone were to ask there, somewhere, 'Well, did you understand your life on earth? What conclutions did you reach about it?' one could silently point to Don Quixote: 'Here is my conclusion about life; can you judge me for it?'"
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky


the point is, with a book like quixote, is that ALL reading is potentially escapism. get your head out of your ass.

>> No.1370856

also thread >>1369069 has a hilarious amounts of "didnt finish don quixote" in it

gee i wonder why that is. surely it's because it's a difficult read, right?

>> No.1370860

>>1370852
dude i dont fucking care what some alcoholic crazy racist russian said about it.

>> No.1370861

>>1370856
so the amount of people who finish reading a book is a testament to how good it is? gee, your favourite book must be twilight, critically acclaimed right?

>> No.1370863

>>1370856
i'm sure you identify with the average /lit/ user who is 18-24 years old. you didn't need to tell me that.

>> No.1370870

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

It's fucking good, that's why. u got problem w/ that faget?

>> No.1370871

>>1370863
>>1370861
pretty weak arguments losers. what i said still stands. you can go ahead and throw another quote at me. make from tolstoy this time, or someone who wasn't a complete fuck up in life.

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>>1370871

>> No.1370886

>>1370880
except im not. this is all you can do. pretty cool bro

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>>1370886

>> No.1370890

The Invention of Morel

It's got what music calls soul...
but for books.

>> No.1370892

>>1370871
because using another opinion thread on /lit/ is such a better source for an argument, right?

no book will please everyone. i think it's fine that you don't like it. but to say,
>it's like the south park of the middle ages.
just tells me the philosophy behind such a book went over your head.

>> No.1370897

hence the hullabaloo

>> No.1370908

>>1370897
i'm sorry bud. but i have to defend my favorite book. especially on the internet where everything is so serious and important.

>> No.1370907

Gentlemen, we are so far offtrack. Let us all state our favorite books without berating one another.

>> No.1370910

>>1370892
fuck off nigger the philosophy was shit and anyone who thinks otherwise is a dumbfuck

>> No.1370914

>>1370910
hmmm...listen to the many scholors and authors out there who say otherwise or listen to you. which shall i go for?

you'll get don quixote when you're not a child anymore

>> No.1370917

>>1370908
it's no problem i suppose, I dislike it when those around me dislike that which I love as well, i can always remake the thread some other time even, I just wish this board gave me more to work with aha

>> No.1370918

>>1370914
ok now i think you're trolling

>> No.1370924

>>1370914
>scholors

ahhhh oops.

>> No.1370928

John Dies at the End.

>> No.1370932

>>1370918
its a semi troll. i'm obviously saying rude shit. but seriously, you won't change my mind about quixote. there is just no way. you are obviously passionate about your dislike for it. so this convo is useless.

>> No.1370938

>>1370932
i still love you

even if you do like shit books

>> No.1370954

>>1370938
>>1370932

what a charming turn of events

>> No.1370963

the flies by sartre

>> No.1370968

The Sound and the Fury because it has great characters, the story is told in an interesting way, and the story itself is brilliant.

>> No.1370969

American Psycho
and i feel immature..

>> No.1370985
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>mfw according to /lit/ Atlas Shrugged is both its favorite and least favorite book

>> No.1371023

Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things."

It was a perfect read.

>> No.1371029
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1371029

lol i dunno opee

>> No.1371041

Faulkner's Sanctuary.
(Supposedly, the character "Popeye" in the novel is based on one of my relatives. Imagine a /b/tard in 1930)

>> No.1372608

upupu

>> No.1372610

>mfw less than half the people in the thread answer the question "why"

Nice reading comprehension there, /lit/izens.

>> No.1372613

Tie between The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land.

Favorite Series is the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

>> No.1372615

>>1372610

>I don't understand what qualia means

>> No.1372619

>>1372615
>subjectivity of personal experience renders communication insignificant
OR
>people chose to ignore the why question, it's just a choice and not a reflection of their reading capabilities.

Not sure which you're implying. In either case, the important point here is: OP asked why. Shut up.

>> No.1372631

the sun also rises

>> No.1372803

>>1370928
This.

>> No.1372808

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas or Franny and Zooey.

>> No.1372809

>>1372631
a really beautiful book.

>> No.1372822

>>1371023
Indian here, it was set in my state :)

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>>1370778
>tired of /v/ and /a/ bullshit, i come to /lit/
>mfw i forgot this is 4chan, after all.

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1372827

Not enough Maugham fans, he's been forgotten by modern critics when considering at his peak he was more popular than Dickens

>> No.1372834

this thread is useless. only post in these if people are actually taking down stats

The Trial or possibly America.

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The Rules of Attraction because I LOVE how it's written and the character development or Catcher in the Rye because I relate to it more than any other novel I've ever read as cliche as that sounds. Actually the first time I read it I abhorred it and I went back and read it again and it clicked with me.

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I also attribute it to my love of reading and love of Science Fiction, but it always comes back to where it began with Dune.

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I can't fully express my love for this man and TSAR.