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QUICK! You have 5 seconds to name the most underrated book on /lit/

>> No.16576008

Any good book by a woman or minority.

>> No.16576012

Ayn Rand

>> No.16576081

Anything that isn't maximalist fiction or Christian philosophy circlejerk.

>> No.16576118

Going Solo by Roald Dahl is pure kino.

>> No.16576132
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>>16575996
Add on to the challenge: roll to find out with of these books you have to read.

>> No.16576141

>>16576132
(Whatever your last digit is that's the book you have to read)

>> No.16576164

leibniz
he gets 3-4 threads a year
too high iq for this shithole

>> No.16576200

>>16575996
Fathers and Sons

>> No.16576208

Demons

>> No.16577253

>>16576164

Not memeable

>> No.16577260

The Gathas of course

>> No.16577633

>>16575996
>>16576008
Hunger Games

>> No.16577711
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>> No.16577724

That danish book about gay pedo bdsm and horse stuff that I’ve given up on shilling since there’s no english translation anyway

>> No.16577751

>>16575996
The Manual: What Women Want and How to Give It to Them

>> No.16577808

Kierkegaard's 'The Banquet' from STAGES ON LIFE'S WAY.

>> No.16578097
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>>16575996

>> No.16578147

>>16575996

Giovanni's Room By James Baldwin

>> No.16578164

progress and poverty

>> No.16578178

>>16577751
Is it based on the Mel Gibson movie?

>> No.16578189

>>16575996
>cmd+f infinite jest
>no results
for fuck sakes
INFINITE JEST

>> No.16578193

>>16576132
Oh boy, what piece of shit do I win today?

>> No.16578361

>>16575996
This is a worthless thread unless anons name the book and promote it's merits

>> No.16578394

>>16575996
Science of Logic, it tends to get overshadowed by his more well known work.

>> No.16578463

>>16575996
Harry Potter

>> No.16578484
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(in no order)
OSSIAN poems
The Wallace
The Bruce
David Lindsay Collection
Dunbar Collection

>> No.16578760
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>>16576164
Writes too clearly. No quarrels about "what did he mean by this" that make the majority of discussions. Even in academia, there is little secondary literature compared to his influence, for the same reason.
Not to mention he is right about almost everything which narrows discussion even further. He's basically pic related.

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>> No.16579209

>>16576132
Is this all nick land cancer? Rolling anyways

>> No.16579700

>>16576008
>woman or minority
>good book

Pick one

>> No.16579712

>>16575996
Sex & Character

>> No.16579717

the bible

>> No.16579720

>>16576164
Fantastic chocolate biscuit

>> No.16580265

>>16575996
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

>> No.16580403
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The Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris

>> No.16580548
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>>16579700
I choose both.

>> No.16580569

>>16575996
A Farewell to Arms

>> No.16581242

>>16576132
roll

>> No.16581379

The Bible.

>> No.16582755

Life and Times of Michael K

>> No.16582770

>>16576008
Name one.

I was thinking of picking up a copy of 'Caliban and the Witch'.
From what I've gathered of it, it will probably be one of those books where I disagree with a lot of the author's sentiments and framework, whilst still appreciating some really pertinent points made throughout that prove at least some level of common ground.
A bit like Derrick Jensen's 'Endgame' books.

>> No.16582777

>>16577724
Hvilken bog?

>> No.16582780
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>>16575996
Any Georges Perec book

>> No.16582802

anything by Schiller, probably a lot of more literature thats specifically well known and respected in germany and other languages/countries

>> No.16582830

>>16577724
Navn?

>> No.16582835

>>16575996
My diary desu

>> No.16582844

>>16582780
basé anon, what's your favourite one?

>> No.16582861

>>16576132
rollerino

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>>16582844
>La vie mode d'emploi
And
>l'homme qui dort

>> No.16582902

>>16582891
They are my favourite too with Espèces d'espaces. Have a nice day anon, and an overall good life.

>> No.16582912

>>16582902
Thanks anon, you too

>> No.16583041

The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch. Perhaps the single greatest book of the 20th century along with The Man Without Qualities and yet I have never seen anyone besides myself mention it here.

>> No.16583048

>>16583041
Does that count as a novel?Its like 3 novellas.The Death of Virgil is also good

>> No.16583070

>>16583048

It depends on the version and translation I guess (whether it is published in one part or three parts) but it is absolutely one novel, a thematically complete work that does not work at all as three separate parts.

Death of Virgil is also excellent, but it's at least mentioned sometimes here.

>> No.16583086

Blumenberg Care Crosses the River
THE SEA JUST WANT FIGS

>> No.16583686

>>16575996
Lord of the World by Msg. Benson

>> No.16583723

>>16576132
roll

>> No.16583734

>>16582770
>>16580548

>> No.16583904

>>16576208
all you losers do is read dostoevesky

>> No.16585056

>>16582777
>>16582830
Bjørn Rasmussen, Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele legemet.

>> No.16585797

>>16578760
>>16576164
>muh monads
A doctrine so manifestly wrong that it does not even seem worth engaging with.
But if it is desired, I can make some threads against it when I have more time.

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>> No.16585951

>>16585797
How is it wrong?

>> No.16586007

Underrated authors: John Steinbeck, Herman Hesse.

>> No.16586025

>>16575996
Lives of Girls and Women

>> No.16586212

>>16577711
Checked but that book is ass. You don’t need to repeat “Just live in the moment bro” for 300 pages

>> No.16586420

>>16575996
Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey

>> No.16586429

>>16576132
rolling for Vico's New Science

>> No.16586557

>>16575996
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

>> No.16586615

>>16586007
Steinbeck definitely on /lit/. he’s the quintessential American writer of the 20th and /lit/ doesn’t really like American writers that much

>> No.16586627

>>16586615
>/lit/ doesn’t really like American writers that much
The contemporary writers /lit/ talks about are all American (besides Houellebecq).

>> No.16587998

anything by virginia woolf or sylvia plath. I hate women but I'm not too autistic to make exceptions for great minds trapped in female bodies

>> No.16588175

Siege by James Mason

>> No.16588190

The Stranger by Albert Camus

>> No.16589551

>>16586212
i really liked it, it was a comfy read. It's not only about living in moment but learning to enjoy the tactile lindy moments in life.

>> No.16589561

>>16586615
/lit/ doesn't like literature that is taught in high school for some weird reason. Moby Dick is the only exception and I am somewhat convinced that is because it filters quite a lot of posters.

>> No.16589571

A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.16589603
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This man here. English translation must be fundamentaly incapable of showing his sheer mastery of word but anglos can still enjoy the contents
i will shill russian postmodernists til my last breath

>> No.16590432

The Good Soldier Svejk. It is rarely mentioned, and when it is, only how funny it is is brought up. One of the absolute masterpieces of the 20th century

>> No.16590442

>>16575996
Anything by: Hrabal, Platonov, Kis, Lessing, Mary McCarthy, Paul Celan, George Trakl, Pauline Kael, Arthur Danto, Eliot Weinberger, Catherine Lacey

>> No.16590454

>>16590432
I dropped this a couple hundred pages in around a year ago, I still need to finish it up. I wish these cunts would stop writing unfinished books.

>> No.16590834

>>16576132
Rollin rollin rollin (yeah)

>> No.16591628

>>16585797
>>16585951
So "manifestly" wrong it became a core of Husserl, Bolzano, or Godel's philosophies, and you couldn't answer other anon.
Btw muh monads is from from being Leibniz's take and he realized about it late in life. Only his last book (two if you count the principles that are a variation of it), that was not even made for publication, even dwells on it.

>> No.16592481

>>16582770
Sula by Toni Morrison.