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Anonymous Wed Jul 28 22:37:26 2021 No.18740367 [Reply] [Original]

Post your favorite novel. I wanna read something.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 22:38:57 2021 No.18740376 The Fan Man short, sweet, very fun read

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 22:39:30 2021 No.18740379 the hungry hungry caterpillar

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS Wed Jul 28 22:40:02 2021 No.18740381 >>18740367 Try Vidal

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 22:44:23 2021 No.18740400 >>18740381 eat shit and die

Anonymous Wed Jul 28 22:47:07 2021 No.18740417

>>18740367
>NOVELS
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen R. Bown
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

>SHORT STORIES
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb
The Unnamable By H.P. Lovecraft

Oh yeah, please rate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 22:48:35 2021 No.18740423 >>18740417 >A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. 4/5 >I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison 5/5

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 22:50:14 2021 No.18740428 Naked lunch >>18740379 You are reddit anonified, go back >>18740381 Cut my chest open and piss on my heart i'll die rock solid i dont deserve love butters dont give me sympathy or love give me the pain i thrive on and tell me you hate me while i cry

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:03:33 2021 No.18740474 File: 297 KB, 909x1350, 03375.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18740367

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:07:28 2021 No.18740484 >>18740367 A Sentimental Journey

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:10:30 2021 No.18740499 >>18740367 >I wanna read something. Yeah but you wont because youd rather waste your life here. HAHAHHAHAAHH

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:13:21 2021 No.18740509 >>18740499 I'm rereading IHnMaIMS right now nigger, waiting for you fags to recommend something actually good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:15:18 2021 No.18740517 >>18740509 >IHnMaIMS u wot m8

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:16:24 2021 No.18740519 >>18740517 I have no Mom and I must Shower

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:17:34 2021 No.18740521 >>18740519 get to it then lad

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:25:40 2021 No.18740555 >>18740521 I can't get up from my bed, too fat

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:38:23 2021 No.18740620 >>18740555 (checked) Time to hire a team of dragon and succubus maids.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:45:41 2021 No.18740648 >>18740509 >something actually good Nigger I DID! IN THE FIRST FUCKING POST OF YOUR SHITTY ASS THREAD! FUCK YOU!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:46:39 2021 No.18740656 >>18740367 The man who was Thursday by G.K Chesterton thank me later

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:52:24 2021 No.18740697 Three Men in a Boat

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:52:29 2021 No.18740698 >>18740656 Fag known as OP here. I'll give it a shot anon.

Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:02:10 2021 No.18740729
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>>18740367
My list of favs in goodreads at the moment has

>Novels
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Trial - Kafka
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

>Novellas
Bartleby, The Scrivener - Mellvile
Schoolgirl - Osamu Dazai

>Short stories
Nine stories - J.D. Salinger

>Poetry
Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:02:56 2021 No.18740731 >>18740367 Jurassic Park.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:06:31 2021 No.18740747 One Hundred Years of Solitude Brothers Karamazov East of Eden 2666 Franny & Zooey Pale Fire Short Stories by Borges, Ficciones is a good start >Just a few, in no particular order

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:32:49 2021 No.18740830 >>18740729 >>18740747 These are good recommends. You fags need to be like these anons more.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:40:41 2021 No.18740854 >>18740367 How new are you? Kind of necessary to recommend you something appropriately.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:41:54 2021 No.18740859 >>18740854 Dude, if I wasn't absolutely new I wouldn't be asking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:44:40 2021 No.18740869 >>18740367 Emma by Jane Austen

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:54:11 2021 No.18740903 File: 418 KB, 747x1417, starter kit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18740859 then what you need is our starter kit

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:59:28 2021 No.18740924 >>18740903 I've either read most of those or watched the film adaptations. Also fuck Lolita. I mean fuck Nabokov.

Anonymous Thu Jul 29 01:12:23 2021 No.18740974
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My favorites from just this year:
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
Been Down So Long it Looks like up to Me by Richard Fariña

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 07:24:14 2021 No.18742009 >>18742006 Good choice, this is my 2nd favourite behind COTC

Anonymous Thu Jul 29 08:27:08 2021 No.18742199
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I'm still expanding the book that i read, but if Anon really want a recommendation, is mostly will be an Indonesian book. If Anon don't mind that, here it is:
The Buru Quartet
The Saga of Siti mariah
The Weaverbird
The Dancer :A Trilogy of Novels
and most of Balai Pustaka Book

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 08:44:01 2021 No.18742236 >>18740859 Amanda and the Alien. Seriously.

Anonymous Thu Jul 29 08:48:34 2021 No.18742248

>>18740367
>Novels
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier
The Notebook Trilogy by Ágota Kristóf
>Short stories/short story collections
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
Ficciones by Borges
The Man Who Planted trees by Jean Giono
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
>>18740729
I don't know if I should respect you as a fellow fan of Calvino or deride you for enjoying Dazai.

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>>	soursore !!5HEGfvI0zIR Thu Jul 29 08:52:37 2021 No.18742269 >The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 08:53:11 2021 No.18742274 >>18740367 Maupassant, Pierre and John Not my favorite, necessarily, but blessedly concise and very good indeed. >>18732696

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 09:08:48 2021 No.18742353 Lord of Light by Zelazny Starship Troopers by Heinlein Candide by Voltaire The Incal by Jodorowsky (graphic novel) Short story: Queen of the Black Coast by Robert Howard The Jungle by Charles Beaumont The Hunger Artist by Kafka

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 11:19:41 2021 No.18742952 >>18740367 The latest novels I read that I enjoyed are >Stoner >The Remains of the Day

Anonymous Thu Jul 29 12:05:09 2021 No.18743181

>>18742248
>I don't know if I should respect you as a fellow fan of Calvino or deride you for enjoying Dazai.

You can do both.

Also, you wrote

>The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
It's an interesting choice. I didn't love the book, though I like gothic fiction in general, and I have a general appreciation for it as it spawned the whole of gothic genre in one piece.
You may like Mysterious Mother, a play Walpole wrote.

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