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ITT: You post your favorite book of all time.

Mine is acompendium of Lewis Carrol's works.

A series is fine too.

>> No.1461337
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Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate

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Dianetics

>> No.1461651 [DELETED] 

It's a fascinating, rapidly developing, ongoing series. Been going strong for aboooouut

4000 years?

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It's a fascinating, rapidly developing, ongoing series. Been going strong for aboooouut

4000 years?

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>> No.1461721

>>1461662
>American Heritage
>4000 years

wat

>> No.1461727

>>1461662
American Heritage Dictionary for 4000 years? Either you're seriously confused about something, or just successfully trolled me.

>> No.1461751

>>1461727
>>1461721
I mean the dictionary in general you silly twatfucks.

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>>1461727
>>1461721

>> No.1461820

>>1461662

>American
>4000 years
NOPE.jpg

>> No.1461825

Probably The Great Gatsby for me. Bust that book out once a year or so.

>> No.1461841

>>1461820

But America invented the world.

>> No.1461846

>>1461662
The english language isn't even 4000 years old

>> No.1461977

>>1461846
But dictionaries are.

Jesus fuck, when did /lit/ become so /mu/?

>> No.1461997

>>1461671
Why's that?

>> No.1462032

>>1461977
>Dictionaries are 4000 years old
NOPE

>> No.1462037

>>1462032
>The oldest known dictionaries were Akkadian empire cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian–Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated roughly 2300 bce
Just over 4000 years old. The guy is right.

>> No.1462041

>>1462037
That's a bilingual lexicon, not a dictionary in the sense of the American Heritage dictionary.

>> No.1462046

>>1462041
I stand corrected. I assumed it meant a dictionary that also contained the meaning in two languages, but the source of it says that it consisted only of the translations.

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The Bible. It's the only book I can rest assured having an unwavering faith in.

>> No.1463605

>>1463601
>trollface.jpg

>> No.1463607

Harry Potter, the Order of the Phoenix

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hell yeah disillusionment!