[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 87 KB, 976x850, _.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20984832 No.20984832 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favorite book that you've never read?

>> No.20984850

>>20984832
The Bible

>> No.20984857

Atlas Shrugged
Lord of the Rings
Anything by a Russian

>> No.20984859

>>20984832
Pale Fire

>> No.20984942

a picture of dorian gray

>> No.20984952

>>20984832
Infinite Jest. I know it’s probably good, but I can’t get past the seven layers of baked-in yuppie poisoning.

>> No.20984963

>>20984832
American Psycho desu
https://youtu.be/nebnfIpJLhA

>> No.20984997
File: 34 KB, 231x390, 5989711.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20984997

>> No.20985017
File: 99 KB, 553x500, 6C95BC58-1BC3-40C8-8A4C-745E00C748F6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20985017

>>20984850
Come on bro, read it. You’ve really disrespected yourself by not reading it, and I love you too much to let you continue to do so. So go read it

Mine is probably John edwards freedom of the will

>> No.20985026

>>20984832
Civilization and Capitalism vol 1 by fernand braudel

>> No.20985027

>>20985017
I'm familiar with most of it through all the allusions in media. It just seems like a drag to read from front to back

>> No.20985058

>>20985027
you don't have to read the whole thing, just some of the essential books to start with (for example Genesis and one of the gospels, that will be maybe thirty to forty pages each), it's not a novel with a narrative where you need to go through every chapter in order

>> No.20985062

>>20985058
>it's not a novel with a narrative where you need to go through every chapter in order
this is largely why I still haven't read it. Is there a /lit/ infographic or guide on what versions and sections to read?

>> No.20985067

>>20984832
Carl Schmitt - Constitutional Theory

>> No.20985177

>>20984832
Call of the Crocodile

>> No.20985186

>>20984832
Melville's pre Moby-Dick novels.

>> No.20985235

>>20984832
Pedro Paramo maybe. I am still reading it.

>> No.20985256
File: 389 KB, 600x636, 38e.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20985256

>>20984832
The one I have to write.

>> No.20985304

>>20984859
>>20984952
>>20985235
I read these 3 and I LOVE THEM
Please read them, they're amazing books

>> No.20985309

>>20984832
The Brothers Karamazov. It's just so good.

>> No.20985354
File: 31 KB, 329x500, 41bGIcGk04L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20985354

>> No.20985369

>>20985062
>what versions
I think it's good to read two very different versions simultaneously to compare differences in translation and get the spirit rather than the letter (for me it was a modern annotated version in my language and english KJV)
as for infographics I haven't seen any, read the books that have the stories and famous quotes that you've heard about, you may do some research and read them chronologically because Old Testament orders them by genre (first history, then writings and wisdoms and then prophets, when you might want to read each of the prophets next to the conrext of the times when they lived)

>> No.20985371

Das Kapital

>> No.20985482

>>20984832
Treasure Island. I'm only saying this because I'm something like a few sentences in. Hope it's good.

>> No.20986461

>>20984832
Atlas Shrugged
Lord of the Rings

>> No.20986723

>>20984832
stupid frogposter.