/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21936016]

You are sentenced to life in prison and are allowed 5 books and no others, until the day you die. What are your 5 books?

[Anonymous No.21936023]

5 of the heaviest tomes good sir, I need to go beyond mere bodyweight exercises.

[Anonymous No.21936024]

The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Short Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, The Bible, Don Quixote.

[Anonymousn No.21936032]

"Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!", by Robert Kiyosaki

"Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future", by Peter Thiel

"The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses", by Eric Ries

"Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant", by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

"Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies", by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

[Anonymous No.21936050]

>>21936016
The Bible x2
The Art of The Deal x3

>>21936032
You forgot The Art of The Deal big Daddy Trump.

[Anonymous No.21936052]

Big books on chess and drawing, so I can excersise my mind and not go crazy. If I take 5 novels that would be like 2 weeks worth of reading and how many times can I read the same shit for the next several decades?

[Anonymous No.21936059]

>>21936052
>If I take 5 novels that would be like 2 weeks worth of reading and how many times can I read the same shit for the next several decades?
The idea is that you'd select 5 books of eternal enjoyment and endless rumination. The most complex books in spiritual and intellectual terms.

[Anonymous No.21936063]

>>21936059
My 5 Books would be:
Mein Kampf
The Bible
The Bhagavad Gita
The Decline of the Roman Empire
The French Revolution by Carlyle

[Anonymous No.21936067]

>>21936016
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
Plato: Complete Works
The Riverside Chaucer
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

[Anonymous No.21936083]

>The Recognitions, William Gaddis
>Bottom's Dream, Arno Schmidt
>My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard (It's one book split into six volumes sue me)
>In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust (See above)
>The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Switching out any one of these for some erotica may be a good idea though

[Anonymous No.21936092]

>>21936050
Took the smile right off my face

[Anonymous No.21936096]

>>21936083
>(It's one book split into six volumes sue me)
I will allow it.

[Anonymous No.21936097]

>>21936016
Plato’s Republic
Aristotle’s Politics
The Bible
Hegels Philosophy Of Right
Von Mises Human Action

[Anonymous No.21936099]

>>21936063
I hope I never meet you irl

[Anonymous No.21936113]

>>21936016
The Bible
Ulysses
Complete works of Shakespeare
The Once and Future King
Complete collection of Calvin&Hobbes, the comic by Bill Watterson

[Anonymous No.21936117]

ISoLT
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Blood Meridian
Infinite Jest

IJ isn't very good but it is funny and entertaining

[Anonymous No.21936122]

>>21936016
When Umberto Eco was asked this he said he'd bring a phonebook because he can use the names in it to make infinite stories.

[Anonymous No.21936124]

>>21936016
quran
mahabharata
the complete platonic dialogues
a dollar store x rated romance novel (man gotta fap)
and last of course "the way of kings" by sandon branderson

[Anonymous No.21936138]

Arno Schmidt - Zettel's Traum
Hans Henny Jahnn - River Without Banks
Walter Moers - The City of Dreaming Books
Jurij Brezan - Krabat or the Metamorphosis of the World
World Atlas of Jellyfish

[Anonymous No.21936183]

>>21936016
War and Peace
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Portable Emerson
The hobbit

[Anonymous No.21936226]

Complete Shakespeare
Bible
Every pornographic manga currently available compiled into 3 medieval manuscript-sized tomes that I will comission before my incarceration.

[Anonymous No.21936257]

>All the people in this thread saying they want a book of ancient Jewish laws and myths
kek

[Anonymous No.21936259]

The Complete Crumb Comics Vols. 3–7

[Anonymous No.21936267]

>>21936063
>The French Revolution by Carlyle
can someone explain why this book is always talked about here? Are you all just very interested in the French Revolution, or is it very well written?

[Anonymous No.21936286]

>>21936099
>I hope I never meet you irl
Why? Genuinely curious. I’m the OP btw

[Anonymous No.21936289]

>>21936267
>can someone explain why this book is always talked about here? Are you all just very interested in the French Revolution, or is it very well written?
It’s very well written.

[Anonymous No.21936299]

>>21936016
the bible
moby dick
in search of lost time
complete works of plato
complete works of shakespeare
man without qualities

[Anonymous No.21936300]

>>21936016
5 copies of Call of the Crocodile

[Anonymous No.21936335]

>>21936300
Go back to bed, Gardner.

[Anonymous No.21936346]

>>21936032

Based

Whats the longest work ever written? I think its an ongoing fanfic about a japanese dragon written by an autistic man.

Dragon fanfic, bible, finnegans wake, in search of lost time, gravitys rainbow

[Anonymous No.21936351]

>>21936299
i'm counting six (6) books here

[Anonymous No.21936368]

>>21936289
Have you read The French Revolution by Nesta Webster? (I have.)
How do the two compare?

[Anonymous No.21936381]

1)How to Break out of Prison for Idiots

[Anonymous No.21936403]

>>21936368
>How do the two compare?
I wouldn’t know. But Carlyle said of his work “I think it is the most radical book written in these past centuries.”
It throws the reader head-first into the rough and tumble of that particular event. The prose is like an unending torrent of religious fervour, a molten discourse of passion, fury, bias and action. Carlyle is never neutral, he calls the king’s mistress a scarlet whore which genuinely made me lol.
It’s unlike anything ever written

[Anonymous No.21936414]

Bible
Maharabata
Complete Plato
Complete Shakespeare
Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.21936419]

I'm good with these.

[Anonymous No.21936436]

>>21936257
>huh why does anyone want to read the foundation of civilization???
Why come here if you're illiterate?

[Anonymous No.21936465]

>>21936436
>the foundation of civilization
Shalom rabbi

[Anonymous No.21936497]

>>21936016
>The Bible
>The Quran
>Confucian canon
>The Vedas
>The Dharmapadas

[Anonymous No.21936514]

>>21936016
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse
The Complete Oxford Shakespeare
The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola
The Consolation of Philosophy

[Anonymous No.21936518]

>>21936016
i need only one
how to get out of prison for dummies

[Anonymous No.21936528]

>>21936436
>the foundation of civilization
You mean the Greeks?

[Anonymous No.21936538]

>>21936528
You need to start earlier

[Anonymous No.21936544]

>>21936538
Nuh uh bro the Greeks invented everything there is to invent in the history of invention

[Anonymous No.21936548]

Plato - Gorgias
Spinoza - Ethica
Nietzsche - Untimely Meditations
Heidegger - Collected Works Vol. 7
Foucault - Le Mots
Pretty sure saying complete works of any author is cheating unless the texts are actually withing a single book

[Anonymous No.21936570]

>>21936016
>Complete Shakespeare
I've read enough to know even the ones I have already read are infinitely rereadable and there's so many I haven't
>War and Peace
Haven't read it yet but I love Tolstoy so it gives me something new to enjoy for a long time
>Tolkein
I don't know if there exists a time that includes Hobbit, LotR, and Silmarillion but that's what I would want. Unfinished Tales too if I could get away with it. I know that I can reread these near infinitely
>Lonesome Dove
Greatly enjoyed this and would probably enjoy going back again and again, plus it's got scenes I can beat off to. Ideally I could include the whole series which I haven't read yet.
>Complete Montaigne
I've only read a handful but it was good and seems like it would give me lots to think about. Maybe a complete Plutarch would be better though..

[Anonymous No.21936574]

>>21936419
>Anon deals pornography in prison

[Anonymous No.21936598]

>>21936436
>reading about civilization when you have been cut off from civilization by a life sentence
Cringe. A life sentence is the time to read the greatest schizo philosophy and detach from civilization like never before.

[Anonymous No.21936599]

>5 books
>complete work
I was told /lit/ was smart board

[Anonymous No.21936701]

>>21936538
You prove my point, the original anon is infinitely buffoonish to think the bible is the foundation of civilization

[Anonymous No.21936707]

>>21936599
I have a book on my shelf entitled "the complete works of Shakespeare". It is a single book. Therefore it meets the criteria stated. Quit trying to be smarter than you are.

[Anonymous No.21936714]

You have the option to take with you two complete sets of an author
For the purposes of this question the Bible counts as having one author
Which two authors do you pick?

[Anonymous No.21936719]

>>21936714
Karl May and August Lafontaine
Reading each one will occupy me for several years.

[Anonymous No.21936723]

>>21936016
The Bible
The Terror
The Servants of Twilight
Peaceable Kingdom
The Traveling Vampire Show

[Anonymous No.21936767]

>>21936016
Yes, The Bible
If it counts, a collection of Romantic poetry
The Hobbit
Catch-22
Moby Dick
If the poetry collection doesn't count, Don Quixote.

[Anonymous No.21936770]

>>21936052
Chess is memorisation more than intelligence, but it's one of the best for memory.

[Anonymous No.21936773]

The Complete Works of Aristotle
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Holy Bible (KJV)
Critique of Pure Reason
Culture of Critique

[Anonymous No.21937119]

>>21936050

A true patrician choice.

[Anonymous No.21937312]

>>21936016
>Plato, œuvre
>Spinoza, Ethics
>Kant, CPR first edition
>Schopenhauer, WWR Vol I
>Deleuze, Difference & Repetition

[Anonymous No.21937343]

>nine stories- Salinger
>Pale King - dfw
>complete stories of Flannery O'Connor
>Mason and Dixon - Pynchon
>Blood Meridian - McCarthy

[Anonymous No.21937421]

>>21936267
I don't lurk enough to know what internet culture thinks of it. Its sometimes an irate tirade that bellows with fury at events and people, sometimes muses in its Calvinistic way about the pointlessness of it all, and is also sometimes a sympathetic exoneration of people involved. Its more sermon than history. You're mileage may very if you don't already have background info regarding the timeline, factions, major players, broader economic/religious/population changes ect.
quack

>>21936570
War and Peace is great, but I don't know if you're going to want to reread it

[Anonymous No.21937430]

KJV Bible
Complete works of William Blake
Complete works of Milton
Brothers Karamazov
Complete Tolstoy short stories

[Anonymous No.21937461]

>>21936016
The Bible
Augustine, Confessions
(GMH), The Complete Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Soren Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
Soren Kierkegaard, Repetition and Philisophical Crumbs

[Anonymous No.21937467]

>>21936257
It's a very fun read, specifically the old testament.

[Anonymous No.21937481]

>>21936016
How to escape from prison by Paul Wood

[Anonymous No.21937482]

>>21936598
>the greatest schizo philosophy
But that's the Bible

[Anonymous No.21937542]

>>21936016
The Bible
Iliad
Odyssey
100 Years of Solitude
Don Quixote

Unfortunate that I want both the Iliad and the Odyssey. If I could pick another it would be like The Lord of The Rings

[Anonymous No.21938930]

Some of you gonna get beaten to death and eaten alive in there.
That's your fault for tryna sharpen you mind with a book whetstone boi, should be pumpin' mad reps instead so you don't eat a shank for breakfast.