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Post your top five favorite books

R8, give/receive recommendations

>Demian - Hermann Hesse
>Grendel - John Gardner
>House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
>Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
>Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

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>Industrial Society and it's Future
My only favourite book.

>> No.13745602

>Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
>L Frank Baum - The Wonderful Land of Oz
>Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
>JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
>HP Lovecraft - Complete Fiction

>> No.13745623

Pale Fire is incredible. It made me cry and laugh almost simultaneously.

>> No.13745625

>>13745550
>>Demian - Hermann Hesse
Based. This is the only one I've read from your list, do you recommend the others?

I'll post my list even though I haven't read an extensive amount of books.
Demian
Narcissus and Goldmund
Collection of Kafka's short stories
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
The Young Hitler I Knew

>> No.13745627

>>13745550
stop seeking validation for your consumption preferences

>> No.13745688

>>13745627
woke

>> No.13746193

>>13745625
Damian remains my favorite simply because it changed my life. If you like Hesse read Grendel, The Magic Mountain, and Nausea (and Steppenwolf if you haven't already). For Kafka, read Ficciones and then House of Leaves

>> No.13746226

The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob
The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
Strange Weather in Tokyo/The Briefcase by Kawakami
The Cathedral of Mist by Paul Willems

>> No.13746239

>>13746193
>Damian remains my favorite simply because it changed my life.

how a book of a weak boy, that gets a "super-hero" friend with some lame supernatural powers, that defends him from the school bully changed your life?

>> No.13746423

>>13746239
That's a very superficial reading. Demian's mother, who Sinclair has a hard-on for, is compared to a sort of fate numerous times. And she tells Sinclair he can only have her if he is decisive. And she birthed Demian.

The whole story is allegorical. Demian isn't a real person, hes a representation of what Sinclair could be if he seizes his fate and destroys the old, weaker self of obedience and religious dogma. Notice how Demian never seems to interact with anyone else in the book besides his mother.

At its core, it's a book about striving to be the best version of yourself possible with the hand you've been dealt by lady luck, and rising out of adversity, that destruction must precede creation.

>> No.13746457

>Infinite Jest
>Siddhartha
>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Crying of Lit 49
>Ulysses

I’m a fucking human amalgamation of this board.

>> No.13746466

The Holy Bible
The Quran
The Tao te Ching
The Republic
Metaphysica

Discuss :3

>> No.13746475

>>13746457
Perhaps you should read other books and form your own opinions.

>> No.13746531

>Mason and Dixon
>Valis
>Ulysses
>The Unconsoled
>The Aeneid

>> No.13746586

>Dog of the South - Portis
>A Confederacy of Dunces- Toole
>Don Juan - Byron
>Journey to the End of the Night - Celine
>Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

>> No.13746592

>>13746466
Pseud
>>13746457
Pseud
>>13745625
Pseud
>>13745550
Pseud

None of you are free of sin

>> No.13746607

>>13745550
Mines basic but I appreciate any reccs

Moby-Dick (I’ve read Billy Budd and Bartleby)
The Castle (I’ve read all Kafka except Amerika)
El Aleph (read most of Borges)
Lolita (I’ve read Pale Fire)
Any Tolstoy

>>13746457
Read Oblivion if you haven’t yet

>> No.13746643

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

>> No.13746751

Moby Dick
East of Eden
Blood Meridian
Lonesome Dove
The Sea Wolf

>> No.13746844

>>13746592
You either don't understand what "pseud" means or you're projecting. I read books because I enjoy them, dummy.

>> No.13746882

>>13745550
In no particular order:

Disciplin and Punish, Foucault
Maldoror, Lautreamont
Complete works, Rimbaud
Idea of Phenomenology, Husserl
Society of the Spectacle, Debord

>> No.13746962

>>13746844
stay mad pseud

>> No.13747019

>>13746962
>>13746592

You pseud really go ahead and kill yourself partner!

>> No.13747021

>>13746962
You aren't much more intelligent than the children who were droning about in 2013 repeating "U MAD BRO?" believing that this made them a skilled troll.

>> No.13747043

>>13747021
are you upset that all your favorite books are ones that pseuds say they like? maybe you can use this to reflect on why you seem like a pseud

>> No.13747245

>>13747021
>>13747043
Cant we just have a friendly thread where we talk about books?

>> No.13747290

>>13747043
I'm surprised you managed to put together a sentence this time. Have you ever thought that worrying about what books you are allowed to like makes you a pseudointellectual? Call me a casual but I'm not going to dislike a book with the intent of making myself appear more intelligent by being artificially cynical to it.

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13747322

>>13747245
know that feel anon

>> No.13747331

I wish i'd be native english, so many books are beyond my comprehension.

>> No.13747405

>>13746423
good, thanks for your insight.

Even if it makes sense, I still feel is a shitty book.

>> No.13747430

>>13747405
That's okay. Hermann Hesse isn't a great wordsmith, though I wish I could read his work in German.

>> No.13747447

>kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled
>virginia woolf - the waves
>dezso kosztolanyi - skylark
>ivan turgenev - father & sons
>alfred bester - the stars my destination

>> No.13747453

>>13747447
>>ivan turgenev - father & sons
whats so good about it?

>> No.13747500

>>13746607
Nice taste anon, I feel the same about Borges and Kafka

>>13745550
>The Castle - Franz Kafka
>Hunger - Knud Hamsun
>Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
>The Stranger - Albert Camus
>The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years - Chinghiz Aitmatov

>> No.13747519

>>13746592
>None of you are free of sin

Who is?

Why don't you list your 5 favorites for us.

I'll go mine:

Tao Te Ching
Catch-22
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stranger in a Strange Land
Opening the Dragon Gate

>> No.13747611

>>13747453
it's warm and compassionate and captures life from lots of different perspectives in an interesting way to me. i find it a fluid, easy read that rings true multiple times about how people are in general and also really captures that phase of life when you've gone to uni and your relationships with your parents gets weird and awkward as you think you know everything and they're proud and indulgent but also you're now an adult who may not agree with them
anyway i like it

>> No.13747649

>>13747611
alright i'll give it a try. thanks for rec

>> No.13749036

Demian by Hermann Hesse

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G Ballard

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Ironweed by William Kennedy

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

>> No.13749078

>Lolita - Nabokov
>Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
>Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
>A Personal Matter - Oe
>The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe

>> No.13749091

>>13747519
Shit bait

>> No.13749146

>>13745550
>Cosmicomics
My nigga
More Calvino, if you haven't read The Non-Existant Knight do check it out

Top 5
>Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
>Of Heroes and Tombs - Ernesto Sabato
>Tragedies - Aeschylus
>The Trilogy of Expectation - Antonio Di Benedetto
>Radetzky March - Joseph Roth

>> No.13750561

Infinite Jest
The Divine Comedy (Sayers trans.)
Gravity's Rainbow
The Tunnel
Ulysses

>> No.13750628

>>13750561
Is /lit/ just one big ironic shitpost or does everyone really read the same few books and circlejerk them to death this hard?

>> No.13750675

>The Wind in the Willows-Kenneth Grahame
>A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
>Blood Meridian-Cormac McCarthy
>100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>The Illustrated Man-Ray Bradbury

>> No.13750752

>>13745550
>Moby Dick
>Gulliver's Travels
>Heinrich von Ofterdingen
>Being and Time
>The Complete Poetry of John Keats

>> No.13750769

>>13746882
>Maldoror, Lautreamont
based. read les fleurs du mal if you havent already. and of course rimbaud too

>> No.13750991

The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
Mysteries - Knut Hamsun
Autumn Of The Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch
Celine - Journey to the Edge of Night

Could also pick War and Peace, Invisible Cities, Berlin Alexanderplatz or My Struggle depending on the day.

>> No.13751034

>Journey to the End of the Night
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Journey to the End of the Night

>> No.13752264

>>13750991
>The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
any good?

>> No.13752411

>The Holy Bible
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Odyssey
>Fear and Trembling
>Dune