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Best book you've ever read?

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>> No.1447400

Dant'es Divine Comedy

>> No.1447402

>>1447400
So you've read... one book?

>> No.1447405

Not really a book, but the script for There Will Be Blood.
If you want to go books, Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.1447404

Catch-22

>> No.1447406

Lolita if I had to choose. :x

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>>1447405
>deems a script the best thing he's ever read
How pretentious I mean really?
I clearly said a book.
"not really a book" doesn't even excuse you.
You're just a faggot.

>> No.1447408

>>1447402
Wait, wait, wait, what are you implying here?

>> No.1447411

Lolita.

Alternative choice is A Scanner Darkly.

>> No.1447413

>>1447406

Same. I just read "The Annotated Lolita." I recommend that you read it.

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>>1447405
>deems a script the best thing he's ever read
How pretentious I mean really?
I clearly said a book.
"not really a book" doesn't even excuse you.
You're just a faggot.

>> No.1447416

>>1447414
U MAD?

>> No.1447423

Story of the Eye

>> No.1447424

>>1447408
That Dante's book is 1. Boring trash 2. A way for him to put people he doesn't like in various torturous states 3. ???

>> No.1447426

>>1447424
Kill yourself you uncultured piece of crap

jesus christ, i thought i'd seen everything, but this is... good lord, have you people no shame?

>> No.1447429

>>1447424
Its also absolutely lyrical and beautiful.

>> No.1447438

>>1447426
You like it because it is famous.

>> No.1447474

Great Gatsby is the only book I've read twice.

"The Tombs of Atuan".

One of those children's books that only adults understand, a child see's and enjoys the protagonist helping Ged (whom she has trapped) free because it's The Right Thing. An adult enjoys and sees it as Ged tempting her with freedom from temple life through stories and then controlling these, her only freedom, in a way that makes her trapped causing her to develop Stockholm syndrome and want to help him. Yeah, one of THOSE kids books.

>> No.1447499

>>1447429

I have to agree with this. Even though I don't like the man's politics and I don't agree with his spiritual vision, the opening when he talks about finding himself in the midst of a dark wood is possibly the greatest opening line in any work.

>> No.1447508

Dune

>> No.1447519

Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education

>> No.1447957

>>1447429
>implying you've read it in its original language

>> No.1447960

Aww. Baby's first novel. So cute.

Stag will post this novel in a new thread every 30 minutes until he reads something else.

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>>1447398
>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
That's a good one. I have to reread it.

>>1447404
>Catch-22
Not really my cup of tea. I'd like it better if it were a fourth of the size.

>>1447405
Gravity's Rainbow is not as good as There Will Be Blood? Are you serious?

>>1447406
>Lolita
That's a great one!

>>1447519
>Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
I still need to read that and Madame Bovary.

Personally, I have to go with Siddhartha. I've read it over and over. It never ceases to please me. Absolutely wonderful.

>> No.1447989

Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions.

It changes every day.

>> No.1447999

Breakfast At Tiffany's by Capote

Haven't read that many books so whatever.

>> No.1447998

All the Pretty Horses

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may b america

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The Sun Also Rises
I used to hate Hemingway when I was younger because I couldn't stand his lack of commas and terse style, however after my girlfriend got me to read A Farewell to Arms I became a fan.
The Sun Also Rises just seemed so perfect on so many levels.

>> No.1448068

>>1447398
but why?

>> No.1448074

Man, I couldn't stand Gravity's Rainbow (no offense; just not my cuppa')

I don't know that I have an overall favorite, just my favorite in a genre

>> No.1448081

The Inferno is written very well, but Dante himself seems like an utter sociopath, and some of his attempts to have his cake and eat it too with the Christian tradition and ancient mythology are downright hilarious.

>> No.1448083

>>1448081
look how wrong you are (seriously, how is dante a sociopath? what about his mixture of christian tradition and mythology is hilarious? be more specific with your criticism of one of the standard works of western culture)

>> No.1448092

>>1448083
>how is dante a sociopath

I'll just let you think about this one for a few minutes.

>> No.1448094

Ender's Game

Second is:
Atlas Shrugged

Yeah you can imagine what kind of a person I am...and no not a faggot or any variant of the sort. >:/

>> No.1448097

>>1448092
you do realize one of the most interesting features of inferno is the incredible sympathy he has for the people there, right? how is that sociopathic?

>> No.1448099

>>1448097
you do realize he's the one who invented the punishment and placed the people there in the first place, right? He didn't literally take a trip to Hell.

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>> No.1448111

>>1448099
The idea of punishing people for their sins in hell wasn't his. Do you have any idea what scare-tactics were being preached by the Roman Catholic Church at the time?

>> No.1448116

>>1448111
It's his placing people he personally knew into the punishments of Hell, despite that fact that even his audience at the time wouldn't know of them, that is most troubling, even if none of the punishments were invented by him (Most of them were).

>> No.1448132

I really liked Peter Bieri's Das Handwerk der Freiheit, it was easy to understand, had great reasoning, and was more optimistic than most of the philosophy I've read.

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Not my favorite but certainly the best i've read.

>> No.1448172

In my opinion? Had good moments, but was weighed down by a dry, unoriginal plot, unlikeable characters, being pretentious, and most of all an over-enthusiastic moral and ham-handed metaphor... so no. Not in the slightest, it was not an enjoyable book even if its message were remotely interesting or well dealt with.

>> No.1448174

>>1448094
Alpha as fuck douchebag?

>> No.1448177

>>1448099

Isn't this akin to saying that Nabakov is a child molester because he invented a child and placed her in the hands of a monster?

>>1448116

I'd also say that, if you were correct, it would still make him a sadist rather than a sociopath.

Lolita is my current favourite, to be on topic.

>> No.1448178

>>1448136
Seconded. It blew me away. Ohoho.

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Oscar Wilde was that good.