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20543934 No.20543934 [Reply] [Original]

If you were going to be put in prison for 10 years and could only bring one book, what book would you take?

>> No.20543952

>>20543934
If I only had access to one single book for 10 years I would just end it all

>> No.20543957
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20543957

>>20543934

>> No.20543959

>>20543934
48 laws of power

>> No.20543987

The Bible

>> No.20543994

>>20543934
How to escape a prison by Jim Pong ;)))

>> No.20543996

>>20543934
The biggest fucking journal I could find.
I'll write on it with shit on a stick, with extra easter-eggs written in cum ink.

>> No.20543997

>>20543934
Steppenwolf or Anna Karenina

>> No.20544004

>>20543934
Don quixote of course

>> No.20544020

moby-dick would be pretty comfy
>>20543997
i prefer anna karenina, but i think war & peace would be a better only book for a decade book, just because longer and more characters and stuff

>> No.20544024

>>20544020
You're probably right. It took me nearly a year to finish Anna Karenina so war and peace would easily keep me for 10 years

>> No.20544028

>>20543934
Plotinus' Six Enneads.

>> No.20544030

I'd pick one in a foreign language, like Tale of Genji. Over the ten years I'd be able to work it out and come out of prison fluent in Japanese.

>> No.20544034

>>20543997
>Steppenwolf
Kill yourself. What an unbelievably shitty choice

>> No.20544041

>>20544034
Why

>> No.20544045

>>20543934
Some large as fuck book on meditation.

>> No.20544052

>>20544024
>so war and peace would easily keep me for 10 years
I read War and Peace in three months.

>> No.20544056

>>20544052
Nice, I'm a dumb dumb though

>> No.20544061

The complete works of Shakespeare if I were to cheat. Otherwise, a big one like War and peace or Moby Dick.

>> No.20544096

>>20544041
Because:
-you can read it in one day
-it's pseud garbage (often to the point of being cringe-inducing)
-the story and characters are underwhelming

>> No.20544112

>>20544096
-short book but you it leaves you thinking over the ideas for a long time
-characters are interesting
- how is it pseud inducing or cringe worthy?

>> No.20544187

>>20544112
If you don't have the self-awareness to understand what I'm saying, then I suppose it's best for me to leave you in your happy little bubble

>> No.20544198

>>20543959
lmao shut up fuckhead nerd

>> No.20544202

>>20544187
Literally what is your point? Is it that the book is popular and therefore gets misunderstood? It is that the message is shallow? What about Steppenwolf makes it pseud garbage? >>20544187

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20545439

>>20543934
The Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham

>> No.20545442

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.20545477

>>20543934
something by Marcel Proust. his books are huge and I'd be out by the time I'm done. that or the Bible, the Catholic Study version.