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Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:28:16 2011 No.2003985 [Reply] [Original]

Howdy, /lit/.

So it's my dad's birthday on Sunday & I'm looking for a good, manly book to get him, but I can't think of what. I'm leaning towards something by Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy, or maybe Camus. Can I get some suggestions from all y'all?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:29:16 2011 No.2003988 Hemmingway It's spelled with two m's

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:30:16 2011 No.2003991 You should just get your dad a DVD of Ironman 2.

>>	emoisntdeadiguess Thu Aug 11 18:31:16 2011 No.2003994 Child Of God by Cormac McCarthy. Nothing says happy birthday dad like necrophiliac serial rapists and killers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:32:16 2011 No.2003996 File: 28 KB, 311x311, 1296529541849.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2003988 babby's very first. We're all so proud.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:33:16 2011 No.2003998 >>2003994 I feel like it was a little hard to identify with anyone in that book, though. You never felt for his victims, & you never really felt bad for him, either.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:44:16 2011 No.2004015 Krakauer. Manly shit.

Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:45:16 2011 No.2004017

You say Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I say Dan Brown
You say Leo Tolstoy, I say John Grisham.
You say Nikolai Gogol, I say Jodi Picoult
99% of readers have turned to truly terrible books and authors. If you are part of the 1% that still reads good books, copy and paste this message to five other threads.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:51:16 2011 No.2004023 It's my Dad's 50th this coming Monday. I'd get him No Country for Old Men if you want McCarthy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 18:53:16 2011 No.2004024 Any of Jane Austen's books. It doesn't really matter because they're all the same.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 19:53:16 2011 No.2004109 >>2004023 Yeah, my dad's reading No Country right now and he's enjoying it. I recommend this OP.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 20:10:16 2011 No.2004135 how old are you guys who have stoic hardass manly-man dads? if i was gonna buy my dad a mega-dadly guy book i would get him some npr wiener dude shit by nick hornby or michael chabon

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 20:41:16 2011 No.2004201 >>2003991 For real Since when do dads read

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 11 20:54:16 2011 No.2004232 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway Call of the Wild - Jack London Walden - Thoreau Blood Meridian - McCarthy The Art of War - Sun Tzu The Rough Riders - Roosevelt The Politics - Aristotle The Naked and the Dead - Mailer

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