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Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:10:32 2022 No.21002150 [Reply] [Original]

Please give me some recommendations for literature that you actually enjoyed reading and that you have read again and again.

I have accumulated surprisingly few over the years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:13:02 2022 No.21002167 File: 24 KB, 263x377, A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz_cover_1st_ed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Another one. This is probably the only one book where I ever felt some sympathy for the catholic church.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:14:26 2022 No.21002174 File: 41 KB, 324x499, 51LaDSxnAVS._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Kubla Khan and the Ancient Mariner

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:17:05 2022 No.21002192 File: 962 KB, 1650x2475, 91wMBGrNBML.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Raven, mainly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:19:19 2022 No.21002204 File: 442 KB, 1526x2341, 817mP7T4kmL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The last one, I can think of at the moment.

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:24:33 2022 No.21002232
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>>21002150
I haven't read that many books that I want to reread things already. But if there is one book I would like to reread it has to be One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Such an amazing book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:52:51 2022 No.21002328 File: 124 KB, 423x720, Cover_The_Light_Fantastic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21002232 Thank you very much. Will try this. Also: Cohen the Barbarian

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:55:50 2022 No.21002340 >>21002150 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa is incredibly funny and helped me overcome a reading dry-spell, so I will forever hold that book in a special place.

>>	Voluntary Fool Sat Sep 17 13:57:10 2022 No.21002347 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:06:36 2022 No.21002385 File: 186 KB, 800x800, edges.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21002347

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:08:37 2022 No.21002390 File: 256 KB, 1526x2400, 71ZfyzgSdpL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21002340 Much appreciated.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:19:51 2022 No.21002424 >>21002390 The darkness which had come from the Mediterranean shrouded the city hated by the Procurator.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:24:15 2022 No.21002444 I would reread the Hobbit and Lolita. That's about it at the moment (:

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:26:10 2022 No.21002453 >>21002444 Also Demian by Hesse

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:45:31 2022 No.21002517
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>>21002444
>>21002453
Thanks a lot.
I have read Lolita enjoyed reading the first two thirds, but I thought that in the last part there was for some reason a very unconvincing break. Exactly at the moment when HH suddenly considers himself to be a pedophile. As if the author suddenly decided or was told by someone, that he had to give HH a bad ending.

I also read a lot of Hesse when I was young but when I started to re-read the Steppenwolf, I noticed that this is not for me anymore.

Liked Hardboiled Wonderland and Sheep Chase but found Murakami very repetitive afterwards.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:47:58 2022 No.21002523 >>21002517 I dropped the Steppenwolf actually, didn't capture my attention like Siddhartha or Demian

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 14:50:54 2022 No.21002531 File: 352 KB, 2327x3554, c02810_da70337bc0594a59b2bb8e859bf3b465_mv2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] last book I read that seemed to actually stimulate more than one of my brain cells

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 15:02:29 2022 No.21002580 File: 46 KB, 585x480, lossy-page1-585px- Candide _av_Voltaire_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_86174.tif.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21002531 This sounds very interesting. Never heard about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 15:07:57 2022 No.21002606 >>21002580 The Baron was one of Westphalia’s most potent aristocrats, since his mansion boasted both a door and windows.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 15:24:55 2022 No.21002674 File: 35 KB, 230x339, The-Martian-Chronicles.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21002232 >>21002340 >>21002453 >>21002531 Thanks for recommendations. Much obliged.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 20:48:48 2022 No.21004115 Of Mice and Men

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 22:48:05 2022 No.21004675 >>21002150 STONER

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 23:19:32 2022 No.21004810 File: 63 KB, 720x720, pepe-crying-on-computer-headphones.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21004675 Once was enough

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 23:22:37 2022 No.21004825 >>21002150 Gravity's Rainbow and lot 49, especially if you liked C22

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 03:23:36 2022 No.21005808 File: 67 KB, 487x732, GodsBookLiterally.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21002150

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 03:25:57 2022 No.21005816 >>21002150 >literature you actually enjoyed This is supposed to be a board for readers, so I would hope everyone would have a long list. Why read something if you don’t like it?

Anonymous Sun Sep 18 11:10:03 2022 No.21006950
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>>21004115
>>21004675
>>21005808
Thank you very much. Read of Mice and Men and Stoner already.
Was never sure if I should start with Gravity's Rainbow and Lot 49. The first impression was that they are just willfully obtuse. Trying again certainly won't hurt.

>>21005816
I have a enough books that I read and didn't particularly enjoy. I read Stoner because I thought it would be very fitting to my life situation but I found the book was just getting tedious at some point.
The last book I read was Beim Haeuten der Zwiebel by Guenter Grass. And I found that it was written by a cowardly old man who needs two paragraphs of twisted German sentences to admit that he was jerking off.
So, for me there are few books that I started but I didn't finish and there are many that I finished but I did not particular enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 11:22:46 2022 No.21006966 File: 93 KB, 720x1134, 11132940069.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21002150 >>21002167 >>21002328 >>21002390 >>21002580 Looking at my previous selections, I guess this is a dark humor thread now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 11:26:44 2022 No.21006971 >>21005808 Sounds fun. I will definitely start this when I am done with the Greeks and Finnegans Wake.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 12:14:05 2022 No.21007055 File: 51 KB, 440x678, 7230e204b1a6488210e7bcc5139619f6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 12:47:25 2022 No.21007126 >>21007055 How does this compare to 2666? Does it have an ending?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 12:50:06 2022 No.21007135 >>21007126 They’re short stories

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 12:52:39 2022 No.21007142 >>21007126 It's a short story collection selected from his two main short story books: Llamadas telefonicas and Putas asesinas. I read this two books several times, not the american edition, actually.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 13:01:21 2022 No.21007165 >>21007135 Cheers. I will try this. Short stories should be very interesting. I found 2666 on /lit/, greatly enjoyed reading it and then felt ever so slightly shortchanged on the non-ending.

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