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what's the best book you had to read in school?

>> No.21234019

>>21233851
The Bible.

>> No.21234028
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One of the best novels I've ever read. If you're a fan of Victorian poetry and fantastic prose writing, I recommend this hardcore.

>> No.21234037

>>21233851
Macbeth

>> No.21234330

The perfume as well.
Madame Bovary
Bad vibes, which was a terrible YA novel, but back then teenage me loved it and made me read more and more
Crime and punishment
The stranger

>> No.21234427

>>21234037
nice

>> No.21234441

Any Racine, La Fontaine, Flaubert, Rimbaud, Stendhal

>> No.21234880

Portrait of the Artist, Dubliners and Hamlet. All of these texts completely changed my life. Was unbelievably fortunate to have read these texts so early in my life

Oh alsl 2.

>> No.21235008

>>21233851
The Bible.

>> No.21235068

We read Waiting for Godot in highschool and the guy who sat next to me looked at me at the end of class one day and held it up and said something like "man, this stuff is weird" and made the Jim from the office face and I thought "I will be better than him". Changed my life. Now I'm well-read and a genius.

>> No.21235142

>>21233851
Hunger by Hamsun

>> No.21235419

>>21235142
That’s actually good.

>> No.21235444

>>21233851
To kill a mockingbird

>> No.21235647
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21235647

I don't remember a book, but I remember a short story.
"The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber.
It started a lifelong appreciation of his oddball work.
"The Unicorn In The Garden" and "The Owl Who Was God" are great places to start.

>> No.21235688

>>21234028
thank you anon , saw it in the library but hesitated.Will read it

>> No.21236485

I read this book recently. It was fucking fantastic if you ask me.

>> No.21236579

Homo Faber by Max Frisch

>> No.21236583

Irrungen Wirrungen
alot of Kleist

>>21236579
Based

>> No.21236589

>>21236583
I disliked a lot of the Kleist stuff we read in school, but I did very much enjoy Erdbeben in Chili and Über das Marionettentheater.

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21236592

probably this one

>> No.21236634

>>21236589
>disliking Kleist
How even? What story do you dislike and why?

>> No.21236640

>>21236634
I remember disliking Marquise von O... and Der zerbrochene Krug back then. The former I still find whatever, the latter I haven't read since (this was over a decade ago, mind you).
Since then I read his Amphitryon, which I really liked - though that was mostly a translation of Moliere's play, wasn't it?

>> No.21236662

Probably Nineteen Eighty-four, or To Kill A Mockingbird.

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>>21233851
In English it was The Metamorphosis

In Arabic it was the masterpiece Men in the Sun (رجال في الشمس) by Ghassan Kanafani

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>>21233851
Tangentially related but how many times have you met someone who claims to like reading, only for you to discover that they're talking about that one novel they were forced to read in highschool.
They're totally genuine about it, too. "Yeah I really like reading! I tried it in highschool. Incredible stuff."

>> No.21238150

>>21234019
Fpbp