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Anonymous Sun Jan 10 14:45:37 2021 No.17250882 [Reply] [Original]

If you only had access to 10 books for the rest of your life, which books would you choose?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 14:49:22 2021 No.17250910 >>17250882 The Iliad The Odyssey Aristotle's works, vol. 1 Aristotle's works, vol. 2 The Aeneid The Bible (preferably in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, but I'll take D-R) The Divine Comedy The Canterbury Tales Shakespeare's works Paradise Lost

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 15:03:43 2021 No.17251039 Bump

Anonymous Sun Jan 10 15:07:45 2021 No.17251062

Plato Complete Works
Aristotle Vol 1
Aristotle Vol 2
Kierkegaard Christian Discourses if not allowed his complete works because it’s many volumes
George Berkeley Complete Works
Tolstoy Short stories
Critique of pure reason
Bible
Epictetus’ works
Jung Red Book

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 15:28:53 2021 No.17251230 The Man without Qualities The Castle Ulysses Berlin Alexanderplatz Extinction Gravity's Rainbow Thus spoke Zarathustra Perrudja In search of lost time

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 16:19:09 2021 No.17251607 Shakespeare Bible Iliad Odyssey Oresetia Oedipus Cycle Aristotle Plato Leaves of Grass Book of Common Prayer

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 16:36:25 2021 No.17251751 Epic of Gilgamesh And that’s pretty much it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 16:37:27 2021 No.17251761 >>17250910 >>17251062 >>17251607 hard mode for Bibleposters: the books of the Bible count as individual books for the purposes of this game

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 16:58:19 2021 No.17251960 >>17251761 >>17251062 Takeout the bible and Epictetus and replace with book of job and gospel of john

Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:24:23 2021 No.17252224
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>>17250882
Here OP
>The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
>The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
>The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
>The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
>The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
>Second Part of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha
>Second Part of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha
>Second Part of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha
>Second Part of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha
>Second Part of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha

The only book you will ever truly need

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:27:50 2021 No.17252249 >>17250882 Encyclopedia Brittanica

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:33:58 2021 No.17252289 >>17251062 Heretic >>17251230 Faggot >>17251607 Heretic faggot >>17251751 Larpagan >>17252224 Spic >>17252249 Nerd

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:34:20 2021 No.17252295 >>17252289 gay

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:35:34 2021 No.17252302 >>17250910 >Paradise Lost Cringe >>17251062 >Epictetus’ works Cringe >>17251230 >The Man without Qualities Cringe >>17251607 >Oedipus Cycle Cringe

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:36:59 2021 No.17252318 >>17252302 Tbf I almost took Paradife Loft off in favor of Plato's works

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:38:15 2021 No.17252329 kek i was just thinking about asking this question. what would you put for non-european books in the ten essentials? quran, confucius analects, something indian?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:39:39 2021 No.17252339 File: 102 KB, 2048x1878, 1566139810758.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17250882 >how to read a book >the bible >the god delusion >7 futa on male doujins

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:40:25 2021 No.17252344 >>17252339 for me it's futa on female or futa on femboy

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:40:30 2021 No.17252348 >>17252318 Still cringe for stopping at 16th century

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:41:32 2021 No.17252353 >>17252329 >non-european Not literature.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:41:40 2021 No.17252354 >>17252329 Mahabharata, it's insanely long as well

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:42:23 2021 No.17252358 >>17252329 zhuangzi

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:45:40 2021 No.17252377 Captain Underpants

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:47:39 2021 No.17252387 >>17252289 Explain heretic

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:51:59 2021 No.17252420 >>17250882 >Plato’s dialogues >Aristotle’s works >Seneca’s letters >Epictetus’ discourses >Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations >Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy >Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales >Montaigne’s essays >Shakespeare’s plays >Spinoza’s Ethics

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 17:54:34 2021 No.17252438 >>17252354 >>17252358 thanks. those are good answers

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 18:57:06 2021 No.17252836 >the divine comedy >the recognitions >plotinus' enneads >the aeneid >the world as will and representation >plato's dialogues >hamlet complete works >faust >the iliad >don quijote

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:09:35 2021 No.17252932 >>17252836 the divine comedy is 3 parts and faust is 2 parts try again

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:14:38 2021 No.17252983 Is there any history book worth adding?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:21:37 2021 No.17253047 File: 61 KB, 800x533, Let me login.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jeux et sapiences au Moyen Âge François Rabelais' complete works Francisco Suarez's complete works François Villon's complete works Quran

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:22:42 2021 No.17253059 >>17253047 Epic fail >Jeux et sapiences au Moyen Âge >François Rabelais' complete works >Francisco Suarez's complete works >François Villon's complete works >Quran

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:26:31 2021 No.17253097 Some pretty good lists so far.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:28:16 2021 No.17253116 >>17252932 Just because a book has parts does not mean it counts as multiple books retard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:29:23 2021 No.17253131 >>17252329 I read the koran last week, and it has 0 value as literature (at least in English)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:30:06 2021 No.17253136 >>17252932 Don quijote is also 2 parts, so if you are going to be a little bitch, do it correctly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:32:20 2021 No.17253150 >>17253136 Not to mention Plato and Shakespeare's works

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:32:38 2021 No.17253153 I would choose the ten largest books in history, so that I could survive on their nutritional value

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:34:01 2021 No.17253159 File: 252 KB, 1280x960, roman empire.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17252983

Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:36:39 2021 No.17253183

I'm counting anything as a book which exists as a physical product, a single volume

Complete Homer
Complete Plato
New King James Bible
Arabian Nights
Complete Shakespeare
Complete Milton
The Romantic Poets
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
History of My Life (Casanova)
The Silmarillion

I'm going for maximum value here boys

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 19:40:01 2021 No.17253208 >>17252932 so?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 21:08:44 2021 No.17253885 >>17250882 10 different english translations of mein kampf

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 21:26:56 2021 No.17254001 >>17252224 the only right answer, siege of numantia would be a close second, also by cervantes.

Anonymous Sun Jan 10 21:39:09 2021 No.17254076
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>>17250882
A Dream of Red Mansions
Finnegans Wake
Ulysses
Complete Shakespeare collection
The Bible
Canterbury Tales
Beowulf in Old English
Don Quixote
All 60 volumes of Legend of Tang's Great Twin Dragons
Summa Theologica

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 11 00:27:37 2021 No.17255205 >>17254001 Wasn't even aware of that book's existence. Now I'm intrigued

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 11 00:50:47 2021 No.17255335 >>17252224 Incredibly based

Anonymous Mon Jan 11 01:04:19 2021 No.17255393
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Emma by Jane Austen
Don Quixote
King James Bible
Oxford NRSV + Apocrypha Bible
Leaves of Grass Deathbed Edition by Walt Whitman
In Search of Lost Time by Proust
Confessions by Augustine
The Iliad
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Shakespeare’s Sonnets

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 11 04:21:46 2021 No.17256256 the complete works of F. Gardner

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 11 08:20:15 2021 No.17257291 >>17253159 outdated

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 11 09:00:01 2021 No.17257501 >>17255393 Pretty good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 11 11:51:33 2021 No.17258551 >>17250882 Ten copies of Finnegan’s Wake. I can annotate each copy under a different critical lens.

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