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22141798 No.22141798 [Reply] [Original]

if you could erase (1) book from your memory so you could get to experience it again which book would you choose

>> No.22141803

>>22141798
I wouldn't the goal is to re-read one book 100 times and see what that does to my brain. I haven't decided which book yet.

>> No.22141919

>>22141798
Rereading is for pussies stuck reminiscing about the past. I look forward to the future.

>> No.22141999

Probably something by Chesterton. Either "The Man Who Was Thursday" or "Orthodoxy", although "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" would be close.

>> No.22142003

>>22141999
just curious, why do you dislike him?

>> No.22142012

>>22142003
I really like Chesterton. OP said "to experience it again", and his books are the ones that gave me the greatest sense of discovery, the sort of "a-ha!" moment when he completes a syllogism or an analogy and it all clicks. Orthodoxy is the first book where I voluntarily took notes in the margins, it intrigued me so much. And I ain't even a Papist.

>> No.22142052

I would erase Fight Club but I wouldn't read it again. I just want it's disgusting imagery out of my memory.

>> No.22142232

>>22141798
Charterhouse of Parma

>> No.22142291

>>22142012
I hate his fat guts. Midwit author for midwits.

>> No.22142463

>>22142052
what was so disgusting? literally nothing in it was disturbing to me.

>> No.22142485

>>22141798
Homer.

>> No.22142575

>>22142291
You were filtered.
I know that’s hard to hear.
Try reading again, but slow and focused this time around.
You can do it, fren!

>> No.22142578

>>22142291
/fitlit/ was a mistake.

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22142583

>>22141798
Without a doubt it would be The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Every line in that book becomes important at some point. Even though it's nearly 400k words everything is meaningful and you'll lose track of "oh, that's what that meant" moments where something even as far back as chapters in the single digits take on new meaning when encountered again in chapters in the triple digits.

Sanderson said it took him 10 years to write book 1 and for each of the other 3 books in the series they took him 1-2 years a piece (all while increasing the word count). It's obvious why book 1 stands alone.

>> No.22142856

>>22142583
Reddit going private has been a disaster for /lit/

>> No.22142863

Iliad

>> No.22142878

>>22142856
How did you know I post on Reddit? I don't post on /r/Stormlight_Archive that much because the spoiler restrictions are too strict though. Nothing wrong with a bit of the ole Sanderson.

>> No.22142883

>>22142485
>>22142863
Lol.

>>22142012
Based.

>> No.22142930

Foundation books by Asimov

>> No.22143024

>>22141798
None. Why the fuck would I do that. I could be reading a new book in the meantime. What I want is to remember the books. To be fair I mostly read philosophy though so maybe this makes more sense with fiction.

>> No.22144269

>>22141798
Pickwick papers.
TFW YWN reread Pickwick papers as anew ever again. Why even live?

>> No.22144293

>>22142583
I read it in 2018 and can barely remember a single character or even the general premise. It felt like a Marvel version of fantasy

>> No.22144321

>>22141798
The Idiot