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What's the best book you read last year?

>> No.21576374
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This book opened my eyes to a whole new way to organize and arrange society. This was the embarkation point for me. I hope others do too.

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One of those books I keep reading over and over and I'm still not sure if I was able to fully understand it

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>> No.21576842

The holy mountain

>> No.21576846

>>21576842
*magic

>> No.21577188

de jouvenel's On Power

>> No.21578094

>>21576352
Catcher in the Rye. Not going to lie, but its surprisingly deep for a YA book.

>> No.21578685

>>21576352
Lonesome Dove
Little Women

Honorable mentions:
The Broken Sword
A Book of Dreams
Crime & Punishment
Giovanni's Room
Universal Baseball Association
Blind Voices

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It’s very short obviously, but I really connected with Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. That’s why I intend to read The Trial very soon. I also wanna read more Sci-Fi this year as well.

>> No.21579032

Beautiful Star

>> No.21579075
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This book is a gem because it offers a clear window into the world of a class of people who are typically illiterate.

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great

>> No.21579765

Can’t decide between
Tom McCarthy - Remainder
Salinger - 9 Stories
Zola - Germinal

Wasn’t a great year overall. I tried reading more contemporary stuff and I didn’t like it all that much.

>>21576352
Great book. I reread it every couple of years

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>>21576352
Mainly read genre fiction, and read a bunch of the classics last year, but Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury stood out the most.

It's semi-autobiographical coming of age for a boy turning 12 in 1920's Illinois.

It was comfy, and sad, and funny, and oddly nostalgic.

>> No.21579824

>>21576374
Fpbp

>> No.21579842

The remains of the day

>> No.21579919

Lonesome Dove or The Tartar Steppe
Honourable mentions
Mysteries
Sent i november
Moment Of Freedom

>> No.21580149

>>21578094
whats deep about being a moody cunt?

Everyone had to read this in school. You might as well just watch something like Trainspotting. Has just as much depth

>> No.21580190

>>21576352
I've read mostly classics last year, so it's a bit hard to choose.
But I loved Don Quixote the most

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These

>> No.21580210

>>21578094
Jesus Christ what a self-report

>> No.21580217

The Erl-King(French:Le Roi des aulnes)Michel Tournier
fucking good book

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>>21576352

>> No.21580714

>>21579029
Dune, you're welcome anon

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>> No.21581377

>>21581354
What's the book on the table?

>> No.21581384

2666

>> No.21581391

>>21580533
I literally just finished reading this like 5 min ago. What made you think it was so good? I liked it overall but I did feel like it was very rambly and I wouldn't put it anywhere near the top of my favorites

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The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Very cozy, very emotional

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>>21576352
Read it January of 2022 and it completely changed the trajectory of where the whole year was going for me

>> No.21581516

>>21579102
>the part where the dude randomly fires his MG from a passing motorcycle
I don't believe that ever hapened.

>> No.21581566

>>21581504
>quote about the book on the cover
Yikes and cringe

>> No.21581578

>>21576352
Death of Ivan Ilyich

>> No.21581596

>>21579765
Which was your favorite Salinger of the collection, for me it's Esme

>>21578094
Every time I see a post calling out Catcher in the Rye, behind it I know lies only a seething anon who never got over their high school years, and lashes out at Holden as a sort of self flagellation.

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>> No.21581726

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

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>>21576352
Compulsory reading for all /lit/zens

>> No.21582057

>>21581377
Brothers Karamazov

>> No.21582266

>>21576352
Germinal/The Passenger

>> No.21582422

>>21581504
I just downloaded it. I'm currently living in a rut, inside a bubble, inside a larger, deeper rut.

>> No.21582758

>>21576352
War & Peace

>> No.21582971

>>21582422
I hope you get out of it anon enjoy the read

>> No.21583045

>>21576352
The Illiad

>> No.21583060

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea

>> No.21583386

>>21576352
Down and Out in London and Paris by Orwell
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

I finished both early in the year and they basically directed my reading for the rest of it.

>>21578685
>>21579919
Love Lonesome Dove. I'm looking forward to being middle aged so I can re-read it from that perspective

>>21581354
I got filtered by this one and Gravity's Rainbow this year. As much as I want to like Pynchon I just can't maintain momentum through his books

>> No.21583397

>>21576352
Sketches for me got kinda repetitive after a while

>> No.21583435

>>21578701
Only read one book last year ehh?

>> No.21583443

>>21576352
The bhagavad gita

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>>21576352

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>>21576352

>> No.21583834

>>21576352
Do rereads count?

>> No.21584202

>>21583834
yes

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>>21576352

>> No.21584478

>>21581736
That’s the book Mark Passio has talked about. So it was good eh?

>> No.21584515

blood meridian

>> No.21584560

>>21584515
the best itt

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Better than Gatsby imo.

>> No.21586091

I havnt finished it but so far infinite jest lives up tp the hype

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Prompted me to read a few more Murakamis last year, too, but this was still the best of them.

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>> No.21586613

>>21583792
Wtf? I doubt that Beckett quote is real.

>> No.21586804

>>21576352
The Iliad

>> No.21586838

>>21586613
He was an admirer of Celine, Miller and Camus. Maybe a few more of the existential ramble gang. Tbf he was a bizarro version of them to some degree.

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right in der Feelen

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Very informative

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>> No.21586981

>>21581504
I'm greek and while I liked the book overrall, thinking back to it I really hate everything Zorba stands for because I see the attitude in our people every day.
The unreflective, headlong and care-free way they go about life etc.
Might greatly misremember it however because it's been a very long time since I last read it.

>> No.21588503 [DELETED] 

>>21578094
YA?

>> No.21588516

>>21579102
Have you read Stalingrad by him as well? It just got published last year.

>> No.21588596

>>21586838
It just doesn't sound like something Beckett would have written. And I couldn't find the original source either.

>> No.21589628

>>21588596
It is literally published on the cover of a penguin classic. Do you think they did not do their research? Google says that its publication in France in 1934 was when Beckett praised it as such.

>> No.21589674

>>21589628
>Google says that its publication in France in 1934 was when Beckett praised it as such.
Yeah, but praised it where? What's the actual source? Wouldn't surprise me if some marketing guy copied something from Google that turns out to be apocryphal.

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This book gave me some comfy as fuck july nights. Read it now

>> No.21589687

>>21589674
Probably his letters. Most of his opinion on books is to be found there.

>> No.21589716

>>21589687
I've read some of his letters. He never made such blurb-like statements about books he read, so I doubt it. Also Google didn't indicate any results for his letters.

>> No.21589770

>>21589716
Tropic of Cancer is a based book. Beckett is a based man. Shouldn’t be hard to make the connection

>> No.21589834

>>21581504
>>21586981
Zorba is an interesting character, but ultimately I agree with your summary of him. Also, the most memorable thing about him for me was the story about banging another dude's wife but sneaking away because the woman was so enamored with him and she let him get away. Overall I found the book rather dull and the plot uninteresting. It seemed like the focus of the novel was simply on the character and setting more than anything, which under certain circumstances can carry a novel, but it just didn't work for me with this one.

>> No.21589845

>>21579075
you can't understand that life unless you understand the underworld.

>> No.21589849

Dead Souls
The Count of Monte Cristo
Manufacturing Consent

I can't decide which of these is the best because they are all great for very different reasons.

>> No.21589955

>>21581690
I though hurricane season was over

>> No.21590003

>>21589716
>He never made such blurb-like statements about books he read, so I doubt it.
https://www.openculture.com/2015/03/the-books-samuel-beckett-really-liked.html

>> No.21590981

>>21589849
>Dead Souls
Been eyeing that one for a while now, is it any good?

>> No.21590985

>>21590981
He listed it as one of the best books he has read last year. So, what do you think?

>> No.21591180

>>21590003
This makes my point. Compare these casual remarks with
>A momentous event in the history of modern writing

>> No.21591197

>>21580193
I read the road last year and was unimpressed.

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Not only was it interesting to read a first person perspective of the Freikorps but also showed the thought process of a disillusioned man succumbing to extremism in a disillusioned nation