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17036696 No.17036696 [Reply] [Original]

>go to wikipedia
>click random article until you reach a book
>you now have to read it
Remember to post your findings! Please also post other interesting articles, it'll make the thread more lively!

>> No.17036777
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17036777

>>17036696
Coulrophobia & Fata Morgana - Jacob M. Appel

>> No.17036804
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I got this one

>> No.17036876

>>17036696
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE BROS

>> No.17036893
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>>17036696
huh

>> No.17036920

Why not just use https://www.goodreads.com/book/random?

>> No.17036933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban:_Militant_Islam,_Oil_and_Fundamentalism_in_Central_Asia

>> No.17036942
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>> No.17036958

>>17036696
Oh no now I have to read Marx's capital

>> No.17036991
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>>17036696
I got this.

Also
>twink peeks
Fuck off

>> No.17037058
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17037058

>>17036696
what am I in for, lads

>> No.17037065

>Gringo Viejo
Redpill me on Fuente tacofrens

>> No.17037070

>>17036696
bro this is taking too long i've clicked through a hundred random articles and still no books

>> No.17037212
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17037212

honestly based, link goes to gallica

>> No.17037300

>>17036777
I know this guy personally from NYC lit circles. He has a great accessible book about medical ethics, the name of which escapes me. Haven't read his fiction.

>> No.17037303

>>17036920
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/random?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27775583-so-rough?random=true
>Nope

>> No.17037318
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17037318

>Bye-Bye is the first novel by Jane Ransom, for which she won the 1996 New York University Press Prize for Fiction. It was published by the New York University Press.

>Plot
>The bisexual, nameless narrator decides to abandon her life with her husband, changing her name and her appearance. The story follows her obsession with Andorgenie, a mysterious performance artist, and her relationships with different men and women, none of whom she really likes.

I think I'll pass, OP.

>> No.17037352
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17037352

Do I have to?

>> No.17037384
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17037384

>>17036920
Pass.

>> No.17037427

>>17036696

> in French : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Ma%C3%AEtres_chanteurs
> in English : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dixon_Jr..
not the "rules" for the english one but can't be bothered and he did wrote some stuff

>> No.17037525

>>17036696
went through 30 or so articles without finding a book
>also post other interesting articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esui
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malecot%27s_method_of_coancestry

Also why are Wikipedia and Archive.org trying so hard to grift me when half of archive.org's youtube videos don't work and wikipedia is so biased an unreliable?

>> No.17037537

>>17037058
>watch a woman whip
>now watch her nay nay

>> No.17037592
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17037592

Sounds good.

>> No.17037617

>>17036696
it just keeps giving me athletes, sporting events, and criminals sprinkled with towns/cities/rivers. I've looked through hundreds, no books

>> No.17037625
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>>17036920
wtf

>> No.17037632

>>17037300
I was reading about him on wikipedia, and he seems incredibly based but also like he's in incredible need of meds.
>wants incest decriminalized

>> No.17037656

How much money are you donating to Wikipedia this year?

>> No.17037676

>>17036696
>Deshbandhu Para (random)
>West Bengal
>Mahabharata
That was quick.

>> No.17037678

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Leaf_in_the_Storm
>A Leaf in the Storm, a Novel of War-Swept China is a novel written in English by Lin Yutang, published in 1941 by John Day Company. Set in Beiping (Beijing) when it was controlled by the Japanese, the novel describes the years of the Second Sino-Japanese War before the American entrance in 1941. It is a sequel to Lin's Moment in Peking.[1] [2]
Hmm

>> No.17037708

>>17036920
What are the odds of that? I got not only a real book, but an extremely famous one!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54094454-the-elements-of-style?random=true

>> No.17037732

>>17036696
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_(2013_book)

Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America
Known colloquially as Balance is a non-fiction economic history text written by former US intelligence officer and economist Captain Tim Kane and economist Glenn Hubbard.

>> No.17037758
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last two digits how many pages I read today

>> No.17037796

>>17036920
I got some mlp fanfiction shit

>> No.17037818

>>17037656
I’ve donated around $30-40.

>> No.17037828

>>17037058
sounds tantalizing

>> No.17037836

>>17037384
Looks based

>> No.17037856
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>>17036920
>FAO Fisheries Techical Paper #169
Wish me luck niggaz

>> No.17037968

>>17037300
Is he a trust fund kid?

>> No.17037985

>>17037656
$0

>> No.17037990

>>17037656
I donate $10 every year.

>> No.17038095
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17038095

>The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)
does anyone know anything about this?

>> No.17038161

>>17036696
Found this unknown guy. I tried to read a translation of one of his stories and the website didn't load.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Surendran

>> No.17038190

>>17036920
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18519592-the-man-who-laughs?random=true

Think I got a good one?

>> No.17038256

>>17036696
There are way too many articles for shitty no-name athletes

>> No.17038268

>>17037968
I have no idea how Jacob funded all of his degrees, but his hometown, Scarsdale, is a very affluent place. Based on Wiki his parents seem well-to-do, but not extremely wealthy.

>> No.17038288
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>>17036696
alright fuck this. i'm gonna keep going

>> No.17038453

>>17036696
First result was a manga called Apocalypse Zero, which I'll probably read.
The first book I got was The Story of Zarak Khan by A.J. Bevan. Actually, I got the movie, but since it's based on a book, I just went with it, since I've been clicking for a full 2 minutes and don't want to anymore.

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>>17036696
>>17038453
holy shit

>> No.17038524
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>>17036920
Alright, I'll fuck with it. Never read Melville.

>> No.17038873

>>17038288
No no, Paul Beatty is unironically a great author – don't skip that one. /lit/ would like him

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>>17036920
alright

>> No.17039293
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Seventh try. Honestly looks pretty interesting, and I always wanted to read Tolstoy eventually anyway.

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>>17036696
idk OP

>> No.17039550
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>>17036920
seems boring and like a waste of time, barely any info about it online.

>$50 on kindle

fucking why

>> No.17039593
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17039593

Damn

>> No.17039604

>>17037625
(((Meyer)))

>> No.17039606
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17039606

The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Churchill, 1898.

It took me almost 10 minutes I got so many species of moth and counties in India

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>>17036920

>> No.17039642
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I'm thinking I should read it

>> No.17039649
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>>17036920
>think it's this big seminal work I haven't discovered yet
>It's just something a guy wrote to get a Master's Degree

>> No.17039662

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Wife

>> No.17039714
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>>17036920
guys, what the hell am I looking at?

>> No.17039747

>>17036991
>getting filtered by twin peaks, a literal soap opera for the postmodern age
fuck off

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Got my hopes up it was a book I already had.

>> No.17039830

>>17037384
Coward

>> No.17040950

>>17037678
Actually nice pick for the author RNGesus, Lin Yutang is legit and not just some average writer and is certainly no CCP shill having gone to Harvard and being able to write fluently in English

>> No.17040956

>>17036696
>wikipedia
Yeah, more like "pedophilia". All wikipedia moderators are pedophiles.

>> No.17040970

>>17037758
Kek sounds heartwarming

I wonder about the poor sod who had to write that article though

>> No.17040981

>>17038095
It’s fucking good, better than even Borges. I mean, it is the first good novel of the title didn’t give it away

>> No.17041026

>>17036920
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25961123-a-novella-length-collection-of-erotic-campus-romance-short-stories---sch?random=true

Which one should I read first bros:

Supreme Sorority Sex Scandals by Kim Wilkerson
Private Tuition by Nellie Cross
A Study Partner’s Dungeon by Odette Haynes
The Professor’s First Time by Linda Wiggins
Meeting the Teacher by Diana Vega
Professor-nal Rivalry by Pauline Orr
Student/Teacher Confidentiality by Inez Eaton
Sleeping with the Professor by Pearl Whitaker

>> No.17041318

>>17036696
Why does he like the coffee so much

>> No.17041401
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>>17036696

>> No.17041421

>>17036696
>Laws of Verse by Sylvester
This is gold. An Irish mathematician on poetry.

>> No.17041435
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>>17036696
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Athous_Dionysiou
>Codex Athous Dionysiou, designated by Ω or 045 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 61 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. The codex is dated palaeographically to the 9th century.[1] It has marginalia.

>> No.17041492
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>>17036696
Papyrus 114
> A papyrus manuscript of The Letter to the Hebrews containing verses 1:7-12 in a fragmentary condition.

Gonna have to pass on this one, OP, sorry I failed you.

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17041522

>>17036696
do i fucking have to

>> No.17041535

>>17036920
>official climate change yadda yadda
hard pass
i'd rather read a north korean newspaper

>> No.17041539

>>17041522
lol, you just lost a game with no rules

>> No.17041559

>Memorabilia (original title in Greek: Ἀπομνημονεύματα, Apomnemoneumata) is a collection of Socratic dialogues by Xenophon, a student of Socrates. The lengthiest and most famous of Xenophon's Socratic writings, the Memorabilia is essentially an apologia (defense) of Socrates, differing from both Xenophon's Apology of Socrates to the Jury and Plato's Apology mainly in that the Apologies present Socrates as defending himself before the jury, whereas the former presents Xenophon's own defense of Socrates, offering edifying examples of Socrates' conversations and activities along with occasional commentary from Xenophon.

Is this considered a book?

>> No.17041570
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>The Snow Queen is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Joan D. Vinge. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981,[1] and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981.[2]

>Based on the 1844 fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen takes place on a mostly oceanic planet called Tiamat. Tiamat's suns orbit a black hole, which facilitates interstellar wormhole travel and connects Tiamat to the rest of the civilized galaxy (the "Hegemony", the remnants of a fallen Galactic Empire).
Anyone from the scifi general familiar with this?

>> No.17041609

>>17036696
I initially got this
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_dei_Liang
but there doesn't seem to be a translation. I tried some more times and look what I got.
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discorsi_del_poema_eroico
Truly glad.
For curiosity, I also tried the English Wikipedia and got the second book of the Witcher series. lol

>> No.17041658

>>17036696
I've realized that if you pick a random article and keep clicking on the first mentioned link, you will eventually be stuck in a loop about science, philosophy, language, Latin, and Greek.

>> No.17041721

>Summa Theologica
i think i'll pass

>> No.17041725

>>17036696
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorologica
i will never read this