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ITT: post your favourite book
For me, it's Anthony Burgess' masterwork of literature; A Clockwork Orange

>> No.14495061
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>>14495057
Unironically.

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Maybe it just hit at the right time in my life or something, but this has to be my #1.

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This specific translation.

>> No.14495145

>>14495141
>Yeats' version of Oedipus Rex
Fuck, I HAVE to read this.

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>>14495145
There is also a movie of that version which is extremely good.

>> No.14495165

>>14495163
Thanks for the info. I've been getting into Yeats lately and I'm liking everything he wrote. I still have to get to his plays, though.

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I read it only recently and its become my favourite work of fiction.

>> No.14495326

more like a clockwork cringe lmoaaaaaaa

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Not sure why. There are other books with better stories and written better. This one just struck me as amazing when I first read it.