Favourite Book Thread

[Anonymous No.15182743]

In this thread, you post your favourite book -- if you have one -- or one of the books you believe to be amongst your favourites; say a few words about the book: why you love it and why it could interest someone else.

In this thread, we are 100% positive and do not talk of other people's choices unless we second them.

In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway, is his best book in my opinion and a true classic because it both established a new way and abolished it at the same time. The Iceberg Theory is best suited to short stories and that book is the best example of that. The important part is hidden, but you will guess if you can connect the dots and have any kind of emotional depth and intelligence to yourself. The vignettes are pungent as well. All around magnificent volume.

Your turn.

PS: post Easton Press pictures and Pléïades and Library of America and Loeb pictures.

[Anonymous No.15182766]

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, because this is a good book.

P.S: OP is a fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.15182771]

Never has a book made me experience such pure joy

[Anonymous No.15182779]

>>15182743
I like eragon

It’s amazing a young teenager was able to write that and sell so many copies, every kid in America seemed to have bought it at scholastic book fairs me included. I didn’t read it until I had a free period in HS and was bored enough to bring it in and see what I missed out on. I loved it, read it twice back to back. The imagery I got from the book was great daydream material, I spent some time re reading specific passages because i liked to play a movie about it in my head
Of course at this time I was heavily influenced by game of thrones, which had just started. I thought of eragon as got-lite
Now I’d like to read lord of the rings to have a three-tier fantasy stack, eragon, lotr, asoiaf

[Anonymous No.15182794]

Steppenwolf

It isn't among the best I've read by far, but was the first piece of literary fiction I picked up on my own and it showed me the things good fiction can do to you.

[Anonymous No.15182819]

Made me laugh every page. Ignatius's pretentious grandiosity in his letters despite being a NEET reminded me of when I was a teenager writing for my HS paper. I thought I was so great, I'm nothing. Reminded me of my city as well.

[Anonymous No.15182833]

>>15182743
Candide by Voltaire

[Anonymous No.15183113]

>>15182779
11/10
Based as fuck.

[Anonymous No.15183120]

>>15182819
That's depressing as fuck, man.

[Anonymous No.15183128]

It just gives off that childhood magic feeling and nostalgia whenever I read it.

[Anonymous No.15183148]

>>15183128
This is great. Read it in French, always pinches the heart.

[Anonymous No.15183162]

>>15183120
You sound fragile, must not have had challenges in life. Good for you

[Anonymous No.15183165]

[Anonymous No.15183181]

>>15183162
You tell me:

>father and mother raped me every night for 7 years
>father got upset when I defended myself and saw my hand off and cauterised it with a blowtorch
>cops raided my home after I went to school with a missing hand
>foster homes for many years
>molested in every one of them
>orphanage
>gangraped by other orphans
>only one hand to defend myself
>not even the good hand

I find that people who like depressing stuff usually have enough goodness in life to want some bad stuff. That said, the depressing part is about you coming to the realisation that you're nothing, a neet, and that it makes you laugh because you'd rather laugh than cry.

I was the exact opposite, I thought I was worthless, but then life proved I was wrong. Now I accumulate prizes and awards and money.

You sound fragile, you must not have had challenges in life. Good for you.

[Anonymous No.15183186]

I had never read japanese literature before, and I got this recommendation from /lit/. After months of searching, found an old edition overseas. Had to travel by train and bus to the edge of Buenos Aires, but it was dirt cheap.

I absolutely adored it. Had never read characters like that, scenes both erotic and disturbing, a main character that was evil, insane, stupid. It was too much. A beautiful ending, too. Read Mishima's biography afterwards and holy fuck.

My only regret was lending my copy to my gf. She left me a couple months later and never gave it back, now she lives in another city.

[Anonymous No.15183187]

>>15183165
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Awakes
The Winnington mentioned in this article was my professor. Pure legend.

[Anonymous No.15183195]

>>15183162
>gets told his life is depressing
>reacts by attacking the person who expressed empathy
Every time.

>muh why am I alone and nobody likes me!
>muh I'm so misunderstood!
OP asked for a positive thread, nobody asked you to come whining you fucking snowflake.

[Anonymous No.15183313]

>help me support the first years of university

[Anonymous No.15183336]

>>15183195
Still fragile, don't project loneliness onto others. It's an angsty feeling I can remember from when I was younger, but having a family, money and a life now it doesn't resonate. Keep trying.

[Anonymous No.15183350]

>>15183181
There's an award for most rapeable?

[Anonymous No.15183359]

he's literally me

[Anonymous No.15183530]

>>15182833
faggot

[Anonymous No.15183817]

City of Dreams
Really enjoyed the fact that the book spanned multiple generations, it was a good and maybe also cheap way of making a character's actions seem impactful when people 3 generations down still fight because of them

[Anonymous No.15183852]

I still haven't read that many books, but two that managed to snatch my soul into reading marathons were "No Longer Human" and "Norwegian Wood".