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FAVORITE BOOK
NOW

>> No.17627447
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The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.17627453

>>17627441
Don't have one. But I really liked the Oresteia by Aeschylus

>> No.17627456

Bel ami.

I'm a sucker for rags to riches stories.

>> No.17627487

>>17627441
napoleon's death by Simon Leys

>> No.17627514

Moby-Dick

>> No.17627520

Under the Volcano

>> No.17627522
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>>17627441
uhhh The Aeneid, complete works of Vergil if I could choose that

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>>17627441

>> No.17627542

Marcus Aurelius's meditations

>> No.17627544
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the unconsoled

>> No.17627550

Gravitys Rainbow

>> No.17627559

Kafka on the shore or stoner

>> No.17627563
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bibble

>> No.17627575
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I can’t tell if most of the posts so far are sincere or meme answers.

>> No.17627580

>>17627575
Mins was sincere

>> No.17627603

>>17627441
Your diary desu :3

>> No.17627690

Slaughterhouse-Five

>> No.17627711

IDK hard to choose

Moby D
TBK
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Odyssey
The Sirens of Titan
Count of Monte Cristo
Dune
Blood Meridian
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

>> No.17627716

>>17627711
What is tbk , friend?

>> No.17627728

>>17627716
The Big Kock

>> No.17627737

>>17627728
By whom?

>> No.17627744

>>17627716
the brothers Karamazov

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>>17627441
Heisman's suicide note

>> No.17627753

>>17627744
Okay, thanks.

>> No.17627770

>>17627753
You're welcome.

>> No.17627777

>>17627749
please stop posting this schizo ramblings

>> No.17627790

>>17627441
2666 and/or The sound and the fury

>> No.17627792

>>17627711
No offense but I don’t understand the value of Androids. I loved it in high school but having re-read it now a couple times it doesn’t hold up compared to Valis or High castle. Would like to hear your thoughts since Moby Dick and BM are both on my list.

>> No.17627814

>>17627792
i'm not him but holy fuck you sound insufferable. wow how can someone like the book i don't, so confusing

>> No.17627827

Hamlet

>> No.17627830

The sun also rises

>> No.17627836

>>17627737
Black hand anon

>> No.17627840

>>17627830
Moon does too

>> No.17627844

>>17627737
Fyodick Cocktoychevy

>> No.17627849

Infinite jest

>> No.17627861

>>17627792
Yeah, I thought that one might raise some eyebrows. I also read it at a pretty young age and was just really fascinated by the sci-fi concepts that were new to me. It made me think about what it means to be a human, what a soul is, what consciousness is. It turned me on to a lot of other sci-fi and just helped foster an interest in reading so I kept it on the list. Basically, I just think it's cool.

>> No.17627862

>>17627777
Wasted quads

>> No.17627863

Ovids metamorphosis

>> No.17627865
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A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.17627872

Naked Lunch

>> No.17627880

Right now The Stranger, but I just read it, so that could change. I really loved American Psycho and the Naked Lunch because you can flip to any page and within a few paragraphs be totally engrossed/disgusted.

>> No.17627879

>>17627441
three little niggers

>> No.17627907

>>17627861
valid
>>17627814
come here and watch me rape your ass faggot i know youd like that

>> No.17627912

>>17627872
Nice

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>>17627441
Maldoror

>> No.17627919

the idiot

>> No.17628024

'The Stars My Destination' by Alfred Bester

>> No.17628192

>>17627487
Elaborate

>> No.17628223

a river runs through it

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>>17627441

>> No.17628236

>>17628024
you
i like you

>> No.17628243

Is it cheating to say Riverside Shakespeare?

>> No.17628270

I don't really have favorites. I have favorite parts of different books and such but I never really have favorite books or films etc. Is this weird or am I right in that it's just some arbitrary bullshit like favorite color?

>> No.17628276

>>17627441
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

>> No.17628293

>>17627447
The first line was enough to filter me. Did you have a notepad by your side when you read it or are you one of those guys with more than two brain cells.

>> No.17628330

Faust

>> No.17628371

American Psycho

>> No.17628374

>>17627441
Mein Kampf, very unironically.

>> No.17628438

>>17627453
Based

>> No.17628451

>>17627441
>Dont have a favorite book

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>>17628374
>sit down to write jermin lit phd thesis
>due tomorrow
>choose mein kampf
>refer to it as "the magnificent crescendo in german literature"
>submit it without revising
>fly to antarctica
>kill myself

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Bible
Other than that, this book. Dont know if its been translated

>> No.17629363

Sickness unto death

>> No.17629382

>>17627849
me too :)

>> No.17629419

>>17627441
i literally cannot choose right now my life is mush

>> No.17629444

Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist - the only book that communicates faith and the divine such that I, a heathen, can understand and even be drawn to it

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I am a simple man.

>> No.17629529

>>17627441
Frankenstein

>> No.17629617
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The Bible
Favourite novel is TBK

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>>17627441
unironically The Great Gatsby

>> No.17629700

>>17629693
he's okay

>> No.17629768

>>17627522
>Aeneid
lol

>> No.17630216

a rebours

>> No.17630224

my dairy

>> No.17630255

Seveneves

>> No.17630316

>>17628293
I had to read it for my ethics class and I ended up really liking it.

>> No.17630387

Les Deux Etendards

>> No.17630388

Lord Jim

>> No.17630406
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>>17627441
My War Gone by, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd. An incredible true story about a novice journalist's first-hand, gonzo account of the war in Bosnia and all the tragedy that came with it, as well as a telling of Loyd's odd sense of satisfaction and completeness war and conflict brings him.
A few of my other all-time favourites are Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1960 version, haven't read the 1929 edition yet), A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, House of Leaves by MZD, The Hobbit by Tolkien, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch & several other books by Philip K. Dick, On the Road & The Dharma Bums as well as Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac...

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>>17628227

>> No.17630715

>>17630406
That book sounds fascinating anon. Do you have any other recs about the recent wars in Eastern Europe?

>> No.17630740

>>17630387
Based

>> No.17630762

walden

>> No.17630885

>>17630715
No, I honestly don't, but I'd like to know of some, especially post-2010 about Russia and Ukraine.

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>> No.17630971

>>17629347
Lampaansyöjät on kanssa hyvä, mikäli sikäli et ole vielä lukenut.

>> No.17630979

>>17630901
>genre fiction
>whodunnit
Literally the lowest form of literature.

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I don't classify books with descriptors like "favorite" but I find myself thinking of A Scanner Darkly on a daily basis almost.

>> No.17631180

>>17627441
Moby Dick

>> No.17631183

I couldn’t tell you. I haven’t been able to genuinely like things for quite some time.

>> No.17631236

2001
>t. Shameless Clarkesucker

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>>17627441
Fantômas

>> No.17631451

the strange case of dr Jekyll and Mr hyde

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>>17630762
based

>> No.17632588
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homestuck

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>> No.17632994

>>17629507
>Based except for that godawful ending like every NS book
>>17630255
>2/3 of the story is lead up to big event with a lot of handwavey science
>last 1/3 is time skip with poor resolution
It could have been a lot better. Why is it your favorite vs all of his other works?

>> No.17633004

Watership Down. Maybe I’m a brainlet, IDGAF

>> No.17633024

>>17633004
based and bunnypilled

>> No.17633115

Wake in fright

>> No.17633212

>>17632994
Tbh i haven't read any of his other stuff, the first third of the book really carried it for me. The hopelessness of it all, the pettiness of the politics, idk it was really gripping to me.

>> No.17633347

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>> No.17633356

>>17627441
Kafka on the shore

>tfw no hot reverse trap qt gf or hot mommy gf

>> No.17633387

>>17627520
Under the Volcano is also my favourite book.

>> No.17633484

>>17627441
Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima

>> No.17633519

Paradise Lost

>> No.17634307

>>17627441
The Darkness that Comes Before by R Scott Baker

>> No.17634310

TREASURE ISLAND

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>>17627441
Beckett's Trilogy

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Nobody really talks about it here but picrel is the book that got me into reading seriously and is also why I’m autistically obsessed with books written in specific or made up dialects

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>>17627441

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>>17629768
>he doesn't know good poetry

>> No.17635309

>>17627441
Thud! is a strong contender.

>> No.17635334

>>17633212
I like his stuff but read one you've read all, down to the mandatory rape/non-con/dub-con sex scene with the spunky female supporting character.

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A darkness at Sethanon

i read it as a child and honestly cant remember any of the plot, i just remember loving it

>> No.17635744

Lord of the goddamn rings, sue me

>> No.17635774

>>17627441
I like the Odyssey. When the dog he raised from a pup died as he tactically ignored him and walked by, I cried :^(

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>>17627441
Crime and Punishment.

>> No.17635899

>>17627441
idk, Animal Farm

>> No.17636944

Hogg

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>>17627441

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>>17627441
BLOOD MERIDIAN

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>>17627814
he said no offense and then asked the poster for his thoughts, you fucking goon. mf is just trying to have a discussion.

>> No.17637490

Temple of the golden pavilion

>> No.17637921

I served the king of england is the last book i finished i remember really really liking so that. Highly Reccomend

Also Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

>> No.17638230

>>17629507
I reread Snow Crash recently and I suddenly realized how horny Stephenson is. He wanted to fuck YT so badly. Almost every passage about her described her body or the way she moved her body, he describes how horny she gets more than once, and of course when she actually gets fucked toward the end of the book. Stephenson is a dirty dog!

>> No.17638474

>>17627919
Based.

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>>17627441
Fiction Watership Down
Nonfiction. Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

>> No.17638606

Mode One, Mode One Hardcore, and Oh Say it Again by Alan Roger Currie. They're basically three parts of the same book.

>> No.17638681

>>17637338
Somebody update this image pls. The Judge is in tattered clothes and the retard is with him. Put a squinting Apu on the leash somebody.

>> No.17638699

>>17627441
a canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.17638714

>>17627441
Williams' Stoner

>> No.17639135

>>17631093
Just read this for the 1st time and it rocked my cock. Definitely up there for me. When Bob's with Donna for the last time... good gravy

>> No.17639146

>>17627441
The Rings of Saturn

>> No.17639154

Crime and punishment

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>> No.17639159

Fight club
Also this is my first /lit/ post.

>> No.17639286

>>17639159
is it better than the movie? I heard a bunch of mixed things about it

>> No.17639306

>>17639286
Not him but it's good, better than Choke.

>> No.17639552

>>17638699
Anything similar to this

>> No.17639561

Blindness

>> No.17640624

>>17627542
go back

>> No.17640772

>>17628227
Based and book-pilled

>> No.17640990

>>17627544
Ishiguro is really good, haven't read this one yet tho

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The Trial

>>17634315
>>17627559
My fags

>> No.17641057

Don segundo sombra
I don't know if it has been translated to english really, but is a fucking masterpiece

>> No.17641095

>>17627441
Starship Troopers by Richard A. Heinlein.

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>>17633004
>>17638501
Is Watership Down actually that good? What puts a kid's book in your favorites?

>> No.17641147

>>17630406
not a bad book, but as a balkaner could not stabd his anglo takes.

>> No.17641186

Tartar Steppe by Buzzati

>> No.17641986

>>17627441
my diary desu