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Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:35:29 2011 No.2264872 [Reply] [Original]

What is ONE book that you think that every single person should read. Why?
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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:37:28 2011 No.2264879 PSST. HEY, ASSHOLE! YOU FORGOT TO SAY WHY. DON'T SET UP RULES AND THEN NOT FOLLOW THEM, PRICK.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:37:28 2011 No.2264880 you didn't give us the why

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:39:28 2011 No.2264887 OP here, shit I'm sorry. I feel like it explains the importance of reading shit very well and how intellectualism is kind of dying but shouldn't.

>>	Edward 40hands Sun Dec 18 23:42:28 2011 No.2264895 File: 30 KB, 328x500, slaughterhousefive.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The best book I've ever read, helped me come to terms with truth behind hard determinism/fatalism yet somehow observing a beauty in that truth.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:44:28 2011 No.2264901 File: 39 KB, 344x480, Invitation-to-a-Beheading.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This book because of dicks.

Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:51:29 2011 No.2264916
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>>2264872
earth abides.

Too many people have shit fits when govts prepare for pandemics(H1N1, Swineflu, Sars, etc...) and it turns out they are avoided... as if the millions spend on inoculating most people was somehow wasted because there was no outbreak. NEWSFLASH, its BECAUSE of those shots, that there was no outbreak.

It also talks about how industrlization is having an effect on the environment. Though this was written well before anyone knew about global warming.(Pretty sure they were still dealing with acid rain because of coal plants though, so if anything it was optimistic)

I have read about 20 books in the last year, and listened to 10 audiobooks, and earth abides(which i read about 3 years ago) is still my stand out favorite.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:57:30 2011 No.2264930 can't tell if this is a troll thread or if /lit/ is being overrun by 8th graders

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 23:59:29 2011 No.2264933 None of them are really worthy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:00:29 2011 No.2264935 >>2264933 your posting

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:02:29 2011 No.2264941 >>2264901 Seconded. Always is ignored when people talk Nabokov.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:06:29 2011 No.2264948 On the Beach, by Nevil Shute Amazing book. Truly shows the tenacity of humanity in the face of inevitability, as well as their collective responses to the reality of their situation. READ IT

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