/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23337657]

Post the best book you've ever read.

[Anonymous No.23337663]

>>23337657
idiot by dostoy

[Anonymous No.23337664]

>>23337657
Obligatory

[Anonymous No.23337683]

>>23337664

Is there anything in there about a village named Tijar where the people all rioted and went crazy, parading through the streets wasting/breaking things and so on? Tiqqun ascribed such an anecdote to the book, but I've actually flipped through one or two copies and not been able to find it quickly.

[Anonymous No.23337687]

>>23337657
The Holy Bible
The Republic

Nothing else comes close.

[Anonymous No.23337699]

>>23337687
zzzzzzzzz

[Anonymous No.23337703]

>>23337699
Predictable. Those two books have filtered billions of men, and will continue to do so.

[Anonymous No.23337708]

>>23337703
Literally two of the most popular books in history lol the Bible being the most popular

[Anonymous No.23337730]

>>23337708
Yes, and they've still filtered billions.

[Anonymous No.23337734]

>>23337663
fpbp

[Anonymous No.23337865]

>>23337657

[Anonymous No.23337882]

>>23337657
I can't pick one, but I can pick two, so it's either
>Rousseau's Confessions
Or
>Goethe's Faust in both parts

[Anonymous No.23338400]

>>23337657
Paradise Lost
Meditations

[Anonymous No.23338403]

>>23337657
The Gospel of John

[Anonymous No.23338414]

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

[Anonymous No.23338421]

This as well as the sequel.

[Anonymous No.23338428]

>>23338414
Must be the only book you've ever read.

[Anonymous No.23338434]

>>23338421
>Gosh dern'it! Conflagration! Member doz days when'err we're shootin' dem fellers? I's miss dems...

[Anonymous No.23338454]

>>23337657
It's between this and The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

[Anonymous No.23338513]

Hard to pick a single one. What is the metric?
>the book that you enjoyed most thoroughly while reading it
Either The Brothers Karamazov or The Count of Monte Cristo or Sometimes a Great Notion
>the book that "landed" the heaviest
Probably The Elementary Particles, Serotonin, or Crime and Punishment
>the book that inspired you to write and think the most
Love, Poverty, and War by Hitch
The Call of the Wild by London
Lives of Girls and Women by Munro
Rabbit Run
>the most artful, intellectual, or subtle masterpiece you've read
The Map and the Territory
Crime and Punishment
Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters
Dead Souls
The Collected Stories of Nikolai Gogol
Notes from Underground
The Elementary Particles

[Anonymous No.23338518]

as i lay dying

[Anonymous No.23338523]

>>23337657
The Whale

[Anonymous No.23338546]

>>23337657

[Anonymous No.23338569]

>>23338513
lmao i had the same taste as you when i was like 16... i guess going on /lit/ cna be good for expanding your intellectual horizons.
hitchens is a faggot though

not sure if i have a favourite book... Yeats collected plays, yeats collected poems, dowson collected poems, russell history of western philosophy, lady chatley by dh lawrence, journey to the end of the night, the golem, the magic mountain, the art of memory, they're a basically random list of pretty good ones, but i dont think i could pick one favourite...

[Anonymous No.23338585]

>>23337657
Definitely this, modern day travel writers wouldn't dare deliberately use anachronistic King James era English unironically or even ironically

[Anonymous No.23338634]

>>23338569
>Yeats
I hope you're not a Christian. Yeats will break your heart in the end.

[Anonymous No.23338644]

Lotta pseuds proving they haven't read Moby Dick or Ulysses since no one is posting either and they're the indisputable heavyweights of best books ever

[Anonymous No.23338740]

>>23337657
Best book I’ve ever read has got to be this post from /tv/

[Anonymous No.23338754]

A Canticle for Leibowitz

[Anonymous No.23338755]

>>23338569
Based on you calling Hitch a faggor in response to someone recommending Love, Poverty, and War, ai can say with some confidence that you're triggered/mindbroken/butthurt over.one of the following two things:
-his support for the second Gulf war
-his hatred for Christianity
I will bet a lot of money that it's the second one, and I will bet even more money that you haven't read Love, Poverty, and War. You just hate atheists and atheism.

[Anonymous No.23338760]

>>23338755
To guess he's a Christian with the list of authors he wrote...odd choice.

[Anonymous No.23338761]

>>23338644
I don't care about Faggot Sea Journeys nor Pervert Town Antics, sorry.

[Anonymous No.23338767]

>>23338760
I guarantee it. No one who enjoys literature and writing hates Hitchens for any other reason than the two I named.

[Anonymous No.23338772]

>>23338767
Pseud post. Way to prove only midwits like Hitchens.

[Anonymous No.23338774]

>>23337657
https://t.me/intelslava/58555

Russian White cockroach kill them all

[Anonymous No.23338788]

>>23338772
Are you willing to denounce Christ, our Lord and Saviour, with timestamp to prove me wrong?

[Anonymous No.23338793]

>>23338788
I never said I wasn't a Christian. I am one. I said I doubt he is. His list of authors are nearly entirely opponents of Christianity.

[Anonymous No.23338796]

>>23338793
I guarantee he is a Christian. That you are too is both incidental and inevitable. No one who gives a shit about literature, history, or politics dislikes Hitchens except for the two reasons I named. No exceptions.

[Anonymous No.23338801]

>>23338796
And that you believe that nonsense is what outs you as a pseud.

[Anonymous No.23338812]

>>23338801
No. It's from many dozens of Hitch threads over 12+ years, thousands of unique posters, ZERO exceptions to the rule. So help me understand: where are all these non-Christian, non-Muslim, non-anti-Iraq war posters who recognize and acknowledge Hitchens's excellent contributions to political, social, historical, and literary commentary/criticism?

[Anonymous No.23338816]

On the Road influenced my life more than any other book.

[Anonymous No.23338824]

>>23338513
>liking Houellebecq
I remember being 20

[Anonymous No.23338840]

>>23337657
probably either infinite jest or anna karenina which i read back to back my senior year of high school

[Anonymous No.23338849]

>>23338812
Who fail* to recognize and acknowledge you mean. Oh, they exist. But obviously there's none to point you to as we're speaking in a sparsely inhabited thread which you seem to have forgotten. Anyway, I don't care about your fanboying. It is inconsequential to me. Even more so now, as you've made it perfectly clear you're more of an emotional man than a rational one.

[Anonymous No.23338994]

>>23338755
>>23338760
>>23338767
No I'm not a Christian, I just think Hitchens was a stupid faggot. If he was born 20 years later he would have been an eceleb owning the libs on college campuses. He was a polemicist and an entertainer, and he constantly gets the facts wrong in his angry rants against christianity. In one of his debates he even confused the vulgate and the king james bible lmao. When hitchens does try and address serious topics his arguments are confused and equivocal, and his dilletantism is obvious after you do a few hours research into the topic. (like his fumbling over david irvings trial and reputation, for example)

Try Russell, in particular his History of Western Philosophy, if you want some interesting and thoughtful secular humanist writing. Most of Hitchens' interesting points are just plagarized from Russell anyway.

[Anonymous No.23339002]

>>23338634
>Yeats will break your heart in the end.
What do you mean by this? I've been noticing all these little warnings throughout his work lately, where he tells you not to look too long or too deeply into the vision he discloses...
>If any should look on our rushing band
>we come between him and the deed of his hand
>we come between him and the hope of his heart

>there is no truth
>saving in thine own heart....
>then later in the same poem he tells you not to hunger fiercely after truth

>We should be dazed and terror-struck,
>If we but saw in dreams that room,
>Those wine-drenched eyes, and curse our luck
>That emptied all our days to come.

I love yeats so much man... and no i'm not a christian.

>>23338644
Can you explain to me why ulysses is so full of mean spirited gossip? Lady gregory is a spiteful old harridan, ae smells bad and kisses william blake's ass all day, bloom is a femboy who likes getting stomped on by dominatrixes .etc.

[Anonymous No.23339007]

Also sprach Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.23339361]

>>23337730
Neither of those books are literature

[Anonymous No.23339407]

>>23339361
To pseuds, no. To every intelligent mind on the planet, of course they are. Just be silent, tranny.

[Anonymous No.23339418]

>>23339002
Lol, if the Yeats thread is yours, you and I are already in conversation. I'm your only poster in that thread. Since you're not a Christian (told ya, ya jabroney >>23338796), he may break your heart in a different way. Maybe yours will grow as weary as his did. He broke mine by ultimately frustrating his own lifelong search for spiritual things and Truth, by ultimately rejecting Christ, and in so doing, rejecting all spiritual things because, for Him, Christianity was the last option. I think he held for awhile to shallow hopes of some Blakean unity of religion, but as those are all nonsense, he saw through it, but he couldn't bring himself to genuine faith, and died a weary hearted man. So far as I can tell from his many works I've read, read, and reread. Save in that final turning away, Yeats was my preconcepted twin. I mourn his passing (if it passed as it seems to have).

[Anonymous No.23339443]

>>23339407
Nope, it's scripture

[Anonymous No.23339472]

>>23339443
It is fully both.

[Anonymous No.23339474]

>>23337657

[Anonymous No.23339483]

>>23337657
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

[Anonymous No.23339509]

>>23339474
>duuuuuude I’m going CRAYYYYZEEEY the book

[Anonymous No.23339715]

>>23338994
Why do you care about his rants against Christianity? I'm talking about his essays on history, literature, and politics, specifically the collection Love, Poverty, and War.
Are you willing to denounce the Lord Jesus Christ?

[Anonymous No.23339724]

>>23339715
>gets fully roasted
>doubles down
Peak midwittery.

[Anonymous No.23339729]

>>23339724
I have been shilling Hitchens's essay collections for like six years, always telling people to ignore his cheap anti-religious stuff. But I learned that people CANNOT ignore his cheap anti-religious stuff. They just can't because they are unwilling to explore the work of an atheist who's hostile to their religion. That is where this comes from.

[Anonymous No.23339802]

>>23339483
>this nigga planting beans, measuring pounds and watching ants battling

[Anonymous No.23339846]

>>23337657
I'm not very well read, but I'm trying as of recent. Were this the best fiction I've ever read thread, Hamlet wins, but I really enjoyed this.
I've started Dostoevsky's The Idiot for something a bit more serious thoughbeit

[Anonymous No.23340889]

>>23337657
Grapes of Wrath

[Anonymous No.23340909]

>>23337687
Cringe

[Anonymous No.23340914]

>>23338513
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

[Anonymous No.23341003]

>>23340914
kek, every time.

[Anonymous No.23341034]

>>23337683
I don’t think so?

Captcha: AMY42

[Anonymous No.23341040]

>>23338546
This isn’t just a bunch of seething about my country is it?

[Anonymous No.23342586]

>>23338824
You're pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.23342823]

>>23337657
Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
Ka - Roberto Calasso

[Anonymous No.23342989]

>>23338816
How so?

[Anonymous No.23343026]

[Anonymous No.23343205]

>>23337657
>the mathematical ordering of the chapters
>the fact that you can read the chapters in reverse order and it still makes sense because the real "ending" is the central chapter
>kinoest type of existentialism

it's too good

[Anonymous No.23343257]

>>23343026
Can you elaborate why you like it so much? I was planning on reading it.

[Anonymous No.23343360]

>>23338403
This. The key text of Christianity.

[Anonymous No.23343384]

>>23337657
In terms of sheer prose, the King James Bible leads the pack.

In terms of impact, The Power of Awareness, by Neville Goddard. Not so much for its content, as for the fact that it's content leads to new angles on Christianity, on Advaita, on Vedanta, on German Idealism, on consciousness and meditation. It's a bomb, and it blew up everything I thought I knew about everything.

[Anonymous No.23343454]

>>23341040
It’s Kafka, so I’d guess he’s praising the HUSTLE and BUSTLE of early 20th America’s progressive and negrified culture.

[Anonymous No.23343676]

>>23337865
this is great

[Anonymous No.23344052]

>>23343454
no, it's the opposite.

[Anonymous No.23344196]

I'm writing it.

[Anonymous No.23344220]

>>23337657
Gravity’s Rainbow but I never finished it and didn’t understand it

[Anonymous No.23344241]

>>23338644
Moby Dick is so incredibly autistic that half the book can be summed up as "They were on a boat".

[Anonymous No.23344282]

>>23343205
I got filtered by this book. I need to read it again.

[Anonymous No.23344942]

>>23344241
Filtered