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Anonymous Sat May 14 14:57:15 2022 No.20369286 [Reply] [Original]

This is the first real novel I have picked up in over 20 years. I wanted to stop reading books like Stephen King and Tom Clancy because they just weren't fulfilling anymore. This book has heart, frens. It has heart.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 15:00:21 2022 No.20369300 File: 218 KB, 385x395, 1639693080525.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nice work, Anon. You have rediscovered the magic of reading.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 15:03:05 2022 No.20369307 >>20369286 This was my favorite book for years, then I read East of Eden.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 15:04:50 2022 No.20369312 >>20369300 Do you have any recommendations for a novel with a good story? People have recommended Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle. I haven't started them yet, but I have started A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 15:12:28 2022 No.20369342 >>20369312 What other books would you say bring out similar feels?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 15:13:29 2022 No.20369347 >>20369307 >>20369342 Meant for (you).

Anonymous Sat May 14 15:18:18 2022 No.20369364

>>20369347
>>20369342
Basically everything Steinbeck wrote. I think he's my favorite author, I've never been disappointed in anything I've read of his. So I'd recommend Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, The Long Valley (short stories), The Moon is Down, and The Log From the Sea of Cortez.
Outside of Steinbeck I'd recommend Hemingway's short stories and The Sun Also Rises. I also find Tolstoy and Steinbeck to be very similar. Would also recommend Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen for a bit of a "deepcut."

Anonymous Sat May 14 17:45:48 2022 No.20369915
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>>20369312
Slaughterhouse five is one of the worst fucking books I've ever read. I hated it so much. Read a bullshit post by pseuds that sung it's praises and gave it another go. Hated it even more the second time. Inb4 filtered.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 17:50:46 2022 No.20369934 >>20369286 Then the ending completely ruins it. What the fuck was Steinbeck thinking? Was he suckling on the udders of a cow?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 18:28:05 2022 No.20370066 Communist propaganda.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 18:30:36 2022 No.20370076 >>20369300 fpbp one must imagine OP happy

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 18:45:13 2022 No.20370112 Getting copies of Hemmingway, Steinbeck, and Fitzgerald and reading them made me want to dump every novel produced in the last 70 years that I either own or have considered owning.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 19:12:20 2022 No.20370200 >>20369934 You were just filtered my friend. It makes sense to, you're probably a wimpy little pasteurized boy, leave the real milk to the real men.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 19:13:03 2022 No.20370202 >>20370066 t. I've never read this book or any book in my life but I once heard another anon say this was communist propaganda

>>	Anonymous Sat May 14 19:15:00 2022 No.20370207 >>20369300 Based

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