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/lit/, What is Your favorite book of all time ?

>> No.15948571

New York Trilogy

>> No.15948582
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15948582

>Don Quixote of course.

>> No.15948584

>>15948558
Pillars of the Earth

>> No.15948589

>>15948558
The Brothers Karamazov overall, but I have a bit more sentimental attachment to A Tale of Two Cities.

>> No.15948593

Jude the Obscure

>> No.15948596

Zarathustra
Fanged Noumena
The space oracle

>> No.15948621

>>15948558
The Idiot or Jakob von Gunten

>> No.15948625

>>15948558
The Count of Monte Cristo.
This is a book that let me know the joy of reading.

>> No.15948642

>>15948558
I can't decide.

>> No.15948652

>>15948625
Came here to post this. Wonderful.

>> No.15948656

have too much in my backlog, get back to me in a year

>> No.15948692

>>15948558
>11 comments
>No one mentions the Bible

>> No.15948695

>>15948558
Master and Margarita

>> No.15948709

>>15948558
It may sound like a meme answer but you niggers recommended me Book of the New Sun a few years ago and it became my n°1 after my second reading

>> No.15948714

>>15948625
Great one, everyone who thinks they dislike reading should give that one a try.
>>15948692
Come on, that's a collection. At least pick a book of the Bible.

>> No.15948725

>>15948692
Because it is a boring read and only fascinates if you are a believer.

>> No.15948732

Brothers K or Moby Dick

>> No.15948735

>>15948725
You can find the bible fascinating for the way it shaped morality of the masses in history and the historical significance of it. Don't have to be a believer

>> No.15948776

>>15948735
I'm an atheist and I can confirm, there are lot of interesting things in it. I wouldn't call ity favourite reading tho.

>> No.15948857

>>15948558
lotr

>> No.15948966

>>15948582
this

>> No.15948991

Studies in Pessimism or Moby-Dick

>> No.15948993
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>>15948558
It's a three way tie between Ulysses by James Joyce, Waterland by Graham Swift, and Possession: A Romance by A.S Byatt

>> No.15948997

>>15948582
Based

>> No.15949025

>>15948558
The Bhagavad Gita

>> No.15949033

Moby-Dick

>> No.15949044

>>15948558
The Sun Also Rises

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>>15948558

>> No.15949408

>>15948558
The Bible

>> No.15949448

>>15948558
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

>> No.15949544

Does Beckett's Trilogy count as one book? If not, then Sound and the Fury

>> No.15949651

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. The first thing I did after finishing it was to begin reading it again. Every page was loaded with profound wisdom and humor, it almost seems impossible to believe that it was written by a human being. The way the structure of the book serves to reinforce the overall concept of Catch-22 is amazing: you can't understand the first half of the book until you've read the second half, and you can't understand the second half until you've read the first. Almost every single major character in the book is written as both a realistic human being and a minor deity representing a core emotion of the human condition and how these emotions are warped by contact with war. Some of these are plainly obvious, like Milo Minderbinder's depiction as a representation of greed (it's made incredibly blatant by the passage which states that tribes deep in Africa literally worship Milo as a god), but some are more subtle.

My personal favorite is Chaplain Tappman, who is the walking personification of the human conscience. He is the angel on your shoulder telling you to make good choices: don't kill, don't steal, treat others with kindness. The fact that he is an Anabapist (which literally means "not a baptist") is supremely clever and reinforces the notion that, like many people, his entire conception of morality is based around not doing something bad as opposed to actually doing something good. He starts off as incredibly moral and upright, but also frail, timid, and easily bullied into submission by people like Colonel Cathcart. His role in the war is a catch-22: he is an agent of kindness, peace, and compassion who is serving a cause which inflicts pain and suffering on the evil and innocent alike. He begins to change when he forms a friendship with Yossarian (the only "real person" in the book). He begins to indulge in minor vices like smoking and drinking. His simplistic conception of morality based around abstinence is challenged, because he cannot bear to stand idly by and let people like Yossarian and Nately die to serve the purposes of someone like Colonel Cathcart. So he begins to take minor actions to help them, by speaking out against the decisions of military command, but he finds himself easily talked out of his beliefs (Colonel Cathcart says that it's unfair for Yossarian to be sent home while the other men have to keep flying missions). By the end of the novel, he realizes that some evils can't be reasoned with, the only way to stop them from doing greater evil is with violence. Truly brilliant stuff.

>> No.15949716

>>15948558
The Rings of Saturn

>> No.15949825
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>>15948558
Simultaneously hilarious, touching, disturbing, and frustrating, it is what I consider to be the perfect novel. The wonderful cast of characters all have a role to play, and although many seem superficial when first introduced, they become real, relatable characters that truly make the story what it is. It is the quintessential “enjoy the journey, to hell with the destination” sort of outlook on life that will always stick with me. And Kafka’s prose is both simple, brilliant, and profound, describing scenes with just the right amount of detail without going overboard. It was even better the second time I read it. But it’s a travesty that it was never finished. It feels like it was only about 1/3 complete, so it would have been a true masterpiece had Kafka lived to finish it.

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>> No.15950195

>>15948582
>>15948966
>>15948997
Go back to plebbit

>> No.15950213

>>15948558
Ulysses. To me, it is the peak achievement of the novel.

>> No.15950283

Rings of Saturn
or
The book of Ebeneezer Le Page
Or
Wayfarers

>> No.15950307

>>15948709
Ordered this in the male, can't wait to get started, I've only heard good things.

>> No.15950322

I have to go with The Count of Monte Cristo
It’s not the most high minded novel, but that’s part of why it’s so great. It’s just an amazing plot

>> No.15950402

>>15948558
Les Miserables. If any anons here really enjoyed The Count of Monte Cristo you should read Les Miserables. It's got a lot of the same religious themes and it's a really good story.

>> No.15950410

>>15950322
>>15950402

>> No.15950425

>>15950195
>filtered by a xvith century spaniard

>> No.15950470

>>15950402
>>15950410
Heh
I’m actually 600 pages into Les mis
I kind of took a pause after book ‘Cosette’ this past month because I had too many books going at once but I’m going to start reading it

>> No.15951200

>>15948558
The World as Will and Representation

>> No.15951237

>>15948558
every book I've read is shit

>> No.15951253

The Kingdom of God is Within You

>> No.15951282

The Holy Bible, Authorized Version 1769

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>>15950425
>>filtered by a xvith century spaniard

>> No.15951407

>>15950195
You first.

>> No.15951413

>>15950425
>filtered
not a thing

>> No.15951414
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15951414

Fucking love this book, the atmosphere, the wonder, the characters, the psychology

>> No.15951425

>>15949651
Nice review, I couldn't finish it myself though, it was too repetitive and silly for me

>> No.15951438

>>15950283
>Rings of Saturn
came here to say this :3

>> No.15951483

>>15948558
Middlemarch
based redpilled novel

>> No.15951486

>>15948558
John's Gospel and Crime and Punishment

>> No.15951507

>>15949855
Im on chapter 12 and I'm really enjoying it so far.

>> No.15951557

>>15950402
Les Miserables is way above Count Monte Cristo. CMC is just a great story while Les Miserables is a humanistic piece of art.

>> No.15951588

>>15948558
I have several as everybody, but here is one book that is completely ignored, even though it is better than other book of it's author. It's Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. I use it as balsam for my heart.

>> No.15951605

>>15948625
>>15948695
this

>> No.15951639

>>15950402
It's too long and too boring. There are too many useless stories.

>> No.15952050

>>15951639
God I hate useless side-stories

>> No.15952070

>>15948584
Cringe

>> No.15952247

>>15951639
All of the side stories are about the nature of man, french history, class relations, love, the struggle of the poor, and they all tie into the main story somehow too. How could you hate them, they give the book it's soul.

>> No.15952296

>>15952070
i liked it. wouldnt say its my #1 tho. was comfy.

>> No.15952330

harry potter
& daodejing

>> No.15952363

>>15949855
last time i wept while reading

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Crime and punishment

>> No.15952468

>>15949228
me too :)

>> No.15952753

>>15948582
based
>>15950195
kys

>> No.15953367

>>15948558
Les Misérables
Greatest novel ever written.

>> No.15955274

Right now it's Crime and Punishment, but I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov and I just reached the Grand Inquisitor part. I think by the time I finish TBK it will be my new favorite

>> No.15956245

Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.15956257

Bible

>> No.15956289

>innumerable books have been written
>/lit/ lists the same 10 books in every thread
You people are on fucking tracks.

>> No.15956519

>>15956289
>so many different whiskies
>people consistently rate the same handful of single malts higher than Seagrams and Old Crow
>must be a conspiracy and not a reflection of overall quality decided over time

>> No.15956526

>>15948582
Boring

>> No.15956534

>>15956519
you'd read less than 10 books

>> No.15956542

>>15956534
Are you really this autistic

>> No.15956562
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15956562

>nobody has mentioned The Stranger yet
pic related
anyway that's mine

>> No.15956582

>>15956562
I remember enjoying it when I read it years ago, but it didn't stand out too much. What separates it as your favorite, anon?

>> No.15956598

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
We had to read it aloud in class. Every time we read out the n-word, we would all be laughing teacher and students alike. The one black kid in our class (This was in Vermont) would be in tears by the end of the class. It took us over a month to read in class and the n-word must appear hundreds of times.

>> No.15956599

>>15956519
I don't care what alcoholics think.

>> No.15956628

>>15956598
In tears from laugh-crying or just regular crying? If the latter that's kinda sad lol

>> No.15956641

A feast for crows

>> No.15956658

I’ve never seen it mentioned once here but One flew over the Cuckoos nest. Why is it barely mentioned?

>> No.15956669

>>15949025
Based

>> No.15956743

>>15956658
Maybe It's too famous.