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>> No.14596526

>>14596502

The Man Without Qualities
In Search of Lost Time
The Castle-Kafka

>> No.14596535

the last ones gonna sound silly, but honestly, the Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay

>> No.14596551

>>14596502
Also feel free to add the reasons for choosing your books

>> No.14596583

>>14596526
>In Search of Lost Time
is this the english title of La Recherche ?

>> No.14596835

>>14596583
>>14596583
You already know the answer to this.

>> No.14596846

>>14596835
it's just it sounds strange in english

>> No.14597341

>>14596502
Gospel of John
Acts
Confessions

>> No.14597372

>>14597341
bruh, you gotta at least have romans

>> No.14597373

>>14596502
Iliad
Odyssey
Plato: Complete Works

>> No.14597410

>>14596502
The Bible
Zibaldone
Horcynus Orca

>> No.14597431

>>14597373
>Complete Works
what a post

>> No.14597438

Aristotle's Metaphysics
The Discourses of Epictetus
Montaigne'a Essays

If I had to choose fiction I would go with these:

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables

>> No.14597478

>>14597431
If Complete Works are not allowed I would go with The Republic

>> No.14597498

>>14597478
Good choice. It just feels like a comfy conversation so it’s good for repeat enjoyment.

>> No.14597509

>>14596502
Fanged Noumena
The Crisis of the Modern World
Finnegans Wake

>> No.14597518

>>14597341
Cringe

>> No.14597530

Burton Arabian Nights
Shakespeare Plays
KJV

>> No.14597535

>>14596502
Don Quixote
The Bible
The Complete Works of Shakespeare

>> No.14597555

>>14596502
Complete works of freud
Hiedegger's Basic Writings
Schopenhaur's essays, maybe?

Posting the bible doesn't make you cool or pious you fucks

>> No.14597579

>>14597555
and posting Heidegger (spell it correctly at least) doesn't make you an intellectual, you pseud

>> No.14597590

>>14597518
no

>> No.14597596

>>14596502
I gotta read 3 books??

>> No.14597608

>>14597596
they can have pictures and big letters

>> No.14597609

Complete works of spinoza, the most comprehensive world atlas available and the Oxford English dictionary.

>> No.14597612

Imre Madach's "Tragedy Of Man"
Dave Cohen's "Adventures In Flatland"
Earl Cook's "Man, Energy, Society"

>> No.14597618

>>14597609
>oxford english dictionary
lmao this is the cringest thing I've read today

>> No.14597620

>>14597590
Yes.

>> No.14597625

>>14597618
How come?

>> No.14597641

>>14597625
cause if you were alone with three books and you couldn't read anything else the dictionary wouldn't do you any good

you should instead force yourself to use your memory and recreate your language from zero

>> No.14597657

>>14597641
There is nothing in the prompt that says you are alone and even if you were, the limits of your language are the limits of your world.

>> No.14597661

Encyclopedia Britannica 15th edition
Classic Chinese Novels
Complete Works of the Western Canon

>> No.14597669

>>14596502
the lord of the rings, the hobbit, and the silmarillion.

>> No.14597688

>>14597669
but you're not going to stay a 12yo for the rest of your life anon

>> No.14597702
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Think most of you in this thread need this

>> No.14598019

>>14597657
This is exactly what the eternal anglo would say. Ask yourself why everyone dislikes you.

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>>14596502

>> No.14598468

Joseph and His Brothers
The Bible
Ovid's Metamorphoses

>> No.14598471

>>14597669
I've been very slowly reading the Lord of the Rings over the past week or two. Whenever I get really tired I read a bit of it before falling asleep so Im only half-way through. That bit where they meet the elves in the forest is so ethereal

>> No.14598474

>>14596502
War and peace
Moby dick
Rayuela

>> No.14598479

the bibble, moby-dick and the book of disquiet

>> No.14598526

>The Oxford Book of English Verse
Material for years, and the capacity of poetry to make you think every verse is a plus.

>Dom Quixote
High-quality entertainment.

>The Republic
You always learn something new from every read.

If the first one is cheating I'd change it for the complete works of Shakespeare.

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>>14596502
dao de jing
zhuang-zi inner chapters
zhuang-zi outer chapters

>> No.14599158

>>14597702
(((Schwartz)))

>> No.14599204
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14599204

Best stick to one subject so:
>le ebin alkemii
Corpus Hermeticum
De Occulta Philosophia by Cornelius Agrippa
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae by Heinrich Khunrath

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Philosophy as A Rite of Rebirth
Blumenberg - Work on Myth
Penrose - Road to Reality

>> No.14599286

>>14596502
The Bible
Enneads
Moby Dick

>> No.14599386

>>14597657
You can determine most word meaning from overall context

>> No.14599591

>>14596502
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses

>> No.14599739

>>14597657
>>14599386
Yes in fact dictionaries give some surface definitions and fail to describe a word's nuances and uses. Especiallly if they're new or unrecognised, literally cucking your own internal language to someone's shallow authority. Reading on the other hand provides this, passively too.

>> No.14599835

Wikipedia
nothing else

>> No.14600009

>>14597702
Oy Vey we've got no real creativity and it makes us seethe.

>> No.14600014

>>14598019
Are you Jewish too? You really think you're going to be able to transfer blame onto the Anglos?

>> No.14600060

>>14597535
why not the complete works of the world?
people are so stupid

>> No.14600198

>>14598479
>>14597410
These two posts are so similar. Also, based.

>> No.14600213

>>14600060
Because the complete works of the world doesn't exist, not in one book. Dumby dumb dumb.

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>>14597641
>>14597657
>>14599386
>>14599739
>The greatest authors of all time in each respective culture created their masterpieces when language was not yet formalised by national dictionaries and rules.
from a passage of the Zibaldone