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Post THE FIRST BOOK THAT COMES TO YOUR MIND, RIGHT NOW!

>> No.17099643

>>17099641
snow country by Kawabata because I'm reading it.

>> No.17099649

>>17099641
For who the bell tolls

>> No.17099651

ISOLT

>> No.17099652

>>17099641
The Three Musketeers

>> No.17099663

>>17099641
Rings of Saturn

>> No.17099670

>>17099641
Magic tree house

>> No.17099675

Uhhh vision of tundale! I’m thinking about making my own verse translation of it, it’s a beautiful piece about how a warrior who is also a usurer goes to hell and purgatory guided by his guardian angel, it’s older than the divine comedy.

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This is actually the 2nd
Posting the first is a spook

>> No.17099690

Deh eggo und eets ohn

>> No.17099695

><Four more people died that night. In the morning the sun again rose like the blazing furnace of heat that it was, blasting the rooftop and its sad cargo of wrapped bodies. Every rooftop and, looking down at the town, every sidewalk too was now a morgue. The town was a morgue, and it was as hot as ever, maybe hotter. The thermometer now said 42 degrees, humidity 60 percent. Frank looked at the screens dully. He had slept about three hours, in snatches. The generator was still chuntering along in its irregular two-stroke, the A/C box was still vibrating like the bad fan it was. The sound of other generators and air conditioners still filled the air. But it wasn’t going to make any difference.

https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-the-future/

No, its not great writing. But consider the fact that the author has 70 years on a planet and has observed the fact that every single natural world metric has deteriorated over the last 40 years. I can forgive some of the verbiage just because it must be hard to elaborate the horror when, the dystopian science fiction is looking more and more like a mainstream view of contemporary reality and our likely future.

>> No.17099706

>>17099643
Nice, enjoy the imagery, anon.

>>17099641
The savage detectives because I was looking for it in my shelf just a moment ago

>> No.17099713

>>17099641
House of leaves lol

>> No.17099715

>>17099641
Mine Were of Trouble

>> No.17099716
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Unfortunately there has been no innovation in contemporary fiction since the Choose Your Own Adventure concept hit the shelves

>> No.17099733

The Great Gatsby because i have just finished it

>> No.17099743

>>17099641
Crime nad PUnishment

>> No.17099748

The Book of Big Chungus

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>>17099641
pic related
my copy is sitting here on the desk in front of me

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Observers claimed at the time that the CYOA franchise was "written by computers" which were beginning to make their presence felt with the release of desktop publishing packages and personal computers like the IBM PC/AT, as well as dot matrix printers.

Publishing conspired to kill the young industry by pumping out volumes that reduced the concept to a gimmick, weighed down by poor character development and uncompelling plot devices.

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>>17099641
Fantômas

>> No.17099797

>>17099769
Dangerously comfy and based

>> No.17099973

>>17099641
Hyperion

>> No.17099984

French Kiss by Eric Van Lustbader

>> No.17100087

"The March of Folly" by Barbara Tuchman, because my best friend's gf recommended her works and I want my wife to become best friends with the gf.

>> No.17100205

>>17099641
The Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

>> No.17100213

>>17099641
I panicked OP. All I could think of was apple.

>> No.17100216

>>17099641
der proces

>> No.17100219

>>17099641
Exemplary Suicides

Good luck finding an English translation

>> No.17100222

Lord of the Rings

>> No.17100223

>>17099769
>>17099797
obvious samefag is obvious

>> No.17100231

>>17099641
christs samurai by jonothan clements

>> No.17100241

>>17099641
Bell Curve

>> No.17100246

“You are not of the land,” Cnaiür grated, drawing high a scarred fist.

“Scylvendi!” a voice cried out.

He turned, saw the sorcerer’s whore standing on the threshold of an adjoining chamber. For a heartbeat they simply stared at each other, equally dumbfounded.

“You will not!” she suddenly cried, her voice shrill with fury.

She advanced into the nursery, and Cnaiür found himself stepping back from the crib. He did not breathe, but then it seemed he no longer needed to.

“He’s all that remains of Serwë,” she said, her voice more wary, more conciliatory. “All that’s left … Proof that she was. Would you take that from her as well?”

Her proof. Cnaiür stared at Esmenet in horror, then glanced at the child, pink and writhing in blue silk sheets.

“But its name!” he heard someone cry. Surely the voice was too womanish, too weak, to be his.

""Something’s wrong with me … Something’s wrong ...""

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>>17100223
Except not.

>> No.17100300

>>17100223
Don't be jaded, anon, I'm just giving a compliment since it's not often that I hear someone talking about fantomas. You see, my dad was very into those books so I have a great deal of appreciation for them.

>> No.17100301

A Rebours

>> No.17100312

>>17099641
the bible

>> No.17100703

Phenomenology of Spirit

>> No.17101409

>>17099641
Bible
Fear and Trembling
Brother Karamazovs

>> No.17101430

>>17101409
fuck i read it as the first 3 books

>> No.17101434

>>17099641
A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.17101740

>>17099641
Moby dick, probably because I started it years ago and still couldn’t make it halfway through despite skipping whaling chapters.

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>>17099649
> 'who'? But that's the object of the preposition 'for'! So you want the....
> 'err... the accusative!'

>> No.17101841

>>17099641
gravity's infinite learned potrait of the disguise as a young Ulysses

>> No.17102045

plato the republic

the ideal form of the book you might even say

>> No.17102273

>>17099641
Death of the west by Pat Buchanon. Heavy blackpills

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>>17099641
Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Always Vanity Fair.

>> No.17102340

>>17099641
Water Margin by Shi Nai'an

>> No.17103631

>>17099641
Our Town - Thornton Wilder