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If someone decides he's going to read one book in his life, what would you recommend him to read?

>> No.14434183

>>14434180
An encyclopedia

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>>14434180

>> No.14434200

>>14434180
The Aeneid

>> No.14434204

The Divine Comedy

>> No.14434242

Something with a lot of replay value like Borges' complete short stories or Greek stuff.

>> No.14434254

>>14434197

Invaluable

>> No.14434318

magic mountain

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>>14434180

>> No.14435177

Iliad

>> No.14435183

the book in which he has always lied

>> No.14435205

Whatever book on Buddhism is considered the authority.

>> No.14435210

>>14435177
Why?

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>>14434180
Hogg

>> No.14435222

>>14435205
Zen and the art of motorcycles

>> No.14435233

>>14434180
The complete western canon, in one volume

>> No.14435249

>>14435233
Based

>> No.14435341

>>14434197
definitely this

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>>14434180
How would he have learned to read in the first place?

>> No.14436099

>>14435399
By home tutor

>> No.14437455

>>14434180
Demian

>> No.14437496

>>14434197
is this, dare i say it lads, part of the australian canon?

>> No.14437505

My diary.