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what's the best book that /lit/ put you on?

>> No.22269709

>>22269577
i have never got a good literature recommendation on this board

>> No.22269717

>>22269577
midwit Nietzsche thread was a cherry on top

>> No.22269724

>>22269577
Confederacy of dunces
Stoner
Book of Disquiet
Oblomov
City of God

>> No.22269730

>>22269577
The Bible.

>> No.22269755

>>22269709
The Turner Diaries
There you go

>> No.22269804

>>22269577
Herodotus

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>>22269577
/lit/ recommendations are trash. Picrel was tolerable, but still very bad.

>> No.22269880

>>22269577
V.

>> No.22270082

Solenoid, although I bought it before I saw it on lit, but some lit anon convinced me to read it in a 2666 thread

>> No.22270208

>>22269709
Unironically this

>> No.22270340

>>22269709
You have to actually read the books to find out

>> No.22270449

>>22269577
Stoner, but I haven't been around for long enough to catch a few more. And I wasn't able to read in english well enought untill like the last few years.

>> No.22270568

>>22269577
All of the "classic" meme recs from /lit/ have been shit in my experience.

>> No.22270677

>>22270568
What books do you like then, retard?

>> No.22270870

>>22270568
iliad and odyssey are good if you like the way greeks write. same with the anabasis/xenophon's works.
l'etranger/the stranger is good
the sickness unto death is a good philosophy book
the ancien regime and the revolution by alexis de toqueville is the best historical analysis i've ever read
napoleon by andrew roberts is often recomended here and is good
richard m. nixon by conrad black I read last week and is good, but it is 1000+ pages so don't buy unless you want to read about nixon

>> No.22271025

Solenoid by Mircea Cartarescu

>> No.22271492

>>22269577
En Route and Captain Francasse. I haven't heard of the two anywhere else. Come to think of it, I need to reread Captain.

>> No.22271499

>>22271492
I need to add that I absolutely abhor all lit charts.

>> No.22271584

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
The Peregrine
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Big Sur
Snow Country
Storm of Steel

>> No.22271590

>>22269577
For the first time in a long time I’ve taken a rec from here- The Book of Disquiet. I obviously knew about it before but having it personally recommended to me made me take a chance. I will be coming in a couple days

>> No.22272054

>>22269577
I remember that night. nobody really gave it the accolades it deserved

>> No.22272622

>>22269577
Fucking nothing. You're all a bunch of midwits masquerading as intellectuals too busy shitposting over books to read any.

>> No.22272824

>>22271584
Recommend Big Sur: what did you like about it? Have you ever read Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion?

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>>22269709
I've just changed that.
Enjoy

>> No.22272900

>>22272824
I’m seconding Sometimes a Great Notion. I’m pretty well read and I think it is one of the greatest books ever written

>> No.22272905

>>22269577
Lolita

>> No.22272972

Mishima, IJ, Dosto