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2225928 No.2225928 [Reply] [Original]

NAAAAAAAAME THE BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD OR I'LL EAT YOUR SOULS!!!!

>> No.2225930

Obviously, without a shadow of a doubt, The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas.

>> No.2225940

Dom Quixote

It's the best book, no doubt. It's an epic, it's a parody, it's a tale of madness and alienation, it is beyond fiction, it breaks the form but it's not the main aspect of the book, it's long and 'complete', it's historic, it's ridiculous, it's dramatic, it has metaphors and symbolisms, it's meta, it's everything.

If plays count, then it's Hamlet.

The obvious answers are the right answers.

>> No.2225941

Blindness, by Saramago.

>> No.2225946

>>2225941
It's not even his best.

Not that it's bad though.

>> No.2225947

Hopefully A Memory of Light will be

>> No.2225955

Fight Club.

>> No.2225958
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2225958

Well me and Kyle, we looked at each other,
and we each said... "Okay."

And we showed the first book that came to our heads,
Just so happened to be,
The Best Literature in the World, it was The Best Literature in the Wooooorld!

Look into my eyes and it's easy to see
One and one make two, two and one make three,
It was destiny.
Once every hundred-thousand years or so,
When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow
And the grass doth grow...

Needless to say, the beast was stunned.
Whip-crack went his Whoopy tail,
And the beast was done.
He asked us: "(snort) Be you angels?"
And we said, "Nay. We are but men."
Rock!
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah,
Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh!

This is not The Greatest Literature in the World, no.
This is just a compilation!

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom.

>> No.2225965

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

>> No.2225966
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>>2225958

>> No.2225967

Anything by Cormac McCarthy

>> No.2225968
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>>2225958
Well played.

>> No.2225982

harry potter and the order of the breaking dawn by stephanie rowling

>> No.2225986

>>2225982

surely your not implying that was better than the jurassic code by dan crichton

>> No.2225989

>>2225940
Yeah, it's Don Quixote.
No doubt about it.
I'm having bibliometrics next semester and just today I got the book we'll use.
It opens up with a quote from the preface of Don Quixote. Cervantes even have something relevant to say about bibliometrics.
That book is a small piece of the human experience.

>> No.2225992

>It's the best book, no doubt. It's an epic, it's a parody, it's a tale of madness and alienation, it is beyond fiction, it breaks the form but it's not the main aspect of the book, it's long and 'complete', it's historic, it's ridiculous, it's dramatic, it has metaphors and symbolisms, it's meta, it's everything.
Ulysses, you say?

>> No.2225994

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

It's an epic about the human condition. Enough said.

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>>2225982
>>2225986

>2012
>not reading the shining american gods of green mil by stephen gaiman
>ISHYGDDT

>> No.2226002

One Thousand and One Nights

It's the story of telling stories. It's such a great book it doesn't even have an author. It's absolutely gigantic in every way possible and it's also meta and engaging.

>> No.2226023

The Hollow Files by Jim Harrison

>> No.2226027

>>2225992
Sound's more like Eeeee Eee Eeee to me bro.

>> No.2226061

>>2225940
What about the Divine Comedy? Poems should count, too.

>> No.2226274

A dictionary, since all other books are contained within. Now, wanna play some fiddle?

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2226279

You know it to be true.

>> No.2226280

>>2226274
>implying bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk is in the dictionary
Don't count if you write it in neither.

>> No.2226283

>>2226280
>implying the words 'fall', 'of', and 'babylon' aren't in the dictionary

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>> No.2226289

>>2226280
Obviously you have an outdated or incomplete dictionary. Probably from Earth.

>> No.2226290

>>2226274
>implying the best books were written in the english language

In advance:
>impying you intended to say any dictionary

OP said one book.

>> No.2226291

>>2226283
>implying that's an argument.

>> No.2226293

>>2226290
The complete-unabridged-meta-dictionary.

>> No.2226298

The Castle or The Cruise of The Teddy

>> No.2226301
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>> No.2226304

can't believe no one has mentioned Computational Materials Engineering An Introduction to Microstructure Evolution. Better in it's original Latin.

>> No.2226319

>>2226301
>Camwhoring on /lit/

really?

>> No.2226322

the illiad, duh.

>> No.2226324

>>2226319
>not recognising Ms. Gray

really?

>> No.2226325

>>2226286

One of the funniest authors I've ever read. A lot of people on here seem to prefer The Man Who Was Thursday, but I much prefer this.

>> No.2226328

Yeah, Ulysses.

>> No.2226329

>>2226324
>implying she's worth remembering

>> No.2226330

>>2226319
Easy mistake to make, but that's not anon. That's an adult film actress by the name of Sas­ha Grey. She's known for enjoying literature and philosophy, as well as for her enjoyment of pornographic scenes in which she's spanked, choked, and/or degraded in some way.

She's pretty controversial on /lit/.

She's probably a nice enough person.

>> No.2226332

>>2226319
Not a viewer of pornography, I assume?

>> No.2226334

The heart is a lonely hunter

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2226362

no question

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>> No.2226381

>>2226334
I legit can't think of a better novel by a Young Writer, someone <25

>> No.2226389

All quiet on the western front.
Also the book that I'm writing too!

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2226446

Gene Wolfe's The Knight

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2226448

Jokes on you, Tao Lin has no soul.

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2226461

Come at me.

>> No.2226478

The Power and The Glory
Graham Greene

>> No.2226507

>>2226446
Respect.

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>>2225928
My SOD trumps your /lit/satan.

>> No.2226652

>>2226461
I concur, this is my childhood we're talking about. Solipsistic subjectivity says I pick this book and that's all that matters.

>> No.2226659

Nothing Lasts Forever- Roderick Thorp
58 Minutes- I forgot

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2227336

Isn't it the first rule of an author?

"Know your audience"

>> No.2228232

The Bible.
Hahaha, got you there, devil!

>> No.2228240

This way for the gas ladies and gentleman by Tadeusz Borowski

>> No.2228242

>>2228240
It's spelled Charles Bukowski, dumbfuck.

>> No.2228253

>>2228242
Why must you try and troll me? :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Borowski