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>filling out a college course form
>"What are your two favorite books?"

What are they, /lit/?

>> No.2340054

>>2340051
I don't know, what are they, OP?

>> No.2340052

"What are your two favourite books?" and not "Which are your two favourite books?"

Where are you going, Turnpike Tech?

>> No.2340056

>The Bible
>Euclid's "The Elements"
Can't go wrong with those two, OP.

>> No.2340057

>>2340052

Both are grammatically acceptable.

>> No.2340061

>>2340057
You must be American.

>> No.2340065

Invisible Man by Ellison and The Fall by Camus.

entry level.

>> No.2340069

>>2340061

You must be a third-worlder. Both are fine.

>> No.2340078

Judging by the pic, The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>> No.2340081

The Brothers Karamazov
Twilight

>> No.2340082

Ulysses and In Search of Lost Time

>> No.2340083

2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

>> No.2340105

Under the Dust by Jordi Coca

Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow

>> No.2340117

You're just listing titles you fucking cunts with no critical discussion whatsoever. Shit, even /v/ manages to do more than you lot with its own fucking medium in between all their off-topic crap.

Fuck you all.

>> No.2340118

Burmese Days, and As I Lay Dying.

>> No.2340123

>>2340117

posting on a board you don't like is unhealthy behavior

>> No.2340129

>>2340117
HOW DARE THEY LIST BOOKS THEY LIKE WITHOUT HAVING A DEEP PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THEM.
YOU ARE IN NO WAY A PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL DUMBASS.

>> No.2340154

>ctrl+f
>Demian
>no hits
fuck you /lit/

>> No.2340165

Ender's Game
Battlefield Earth

Someone criticize me. I love that shit.

>> No.2340168

say these books:
The Cement Garden
The War Zone

>> No.2340169

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich by Philip K. Dick
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

Both books affected me a lot. You know that book that you sit in a dark room reading fervently and when you finish, you don't want to leave, because it feels like nothing outside of you and that book exist? Yea, that feeling.

>> No.2340178

>Having favorites

Would it kill them to just ask, "What are two books you have enjoyed recently?" Much better question that doesn't call for the artificial stratification of great works of art.

>> No.2340180

society of the spectacle - guy debord
siddhartha - hermann hesse

> college placement unlocked

>> No.2340185

>>2340178
Recently enjoyed Grapes of Wrath and American Psycho. Oddly, Grapes is far more "entry tier" of the two, but American Psycho gets flack for being a pleb book. After all, normally American Psycho scares away the movie fans with its intense descriptions and far more subtle dialogue. Grapes of Wrath was specifically written to be approachable to all levels of education. I loved them equally, however, as I don't like to allow a book's popularity to effect my enjoyment of it.

>> No.2340183

currently:

We Were Soldiers Once.... And Young
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

>> No.2340188

>>2340178
>thinks that the college admissions staff thinks about the question that deeply

It's just something to jumpstart a thoughtful insight into your intellectual personality. Calm down.

>> No.2340189

>>2340183
>Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

I remember reading that shit 10 years ago
>My sides, they're splitting

>> No.2340190

120 Days of Sodom
Incest

>> No.2340191

>>2340180

> implying those books carry great magnitude.

>> No.2340192

>>2340185

Steinbeck is a master of making great literature accessible.

>> No.2340197

eugene onegin
lolita

>> No.2340203

>>2340192
Oh definitely. Steinbeck's descriptions always seem to pick out the right detail and the right color, which immediately paint the rest of the picture in your mind, in sublime detail. It makes me think of photographs and great films, such as Paris Texas and There Will Be Blood. His writing is a fantastic example of the power and immortality of prose.

>> No.2340212

>>2340180
Highly reccomend "Within the Context of No Context" if you liked "Society of the Spectacle". It's like the latter book on steroids.

>> No.2340214

48 Laws of Power
33 Strategies of War

>> No.2340216
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>>2340214

Let me guess, you're an undergrad in a business major.

>> No.2340218

>>2340216
i wish. i'm a /fit/, /fa/, /b/tard with plenty of feels from /r9k/

i admire you guys for your discussions and read about 2 books a month. this society of the spectacle is need. just downloaded the pdf

>> No.2340219

>>2340218
neat* derp-a-lerp

>> No.2340255

The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
The Shadow Over Innsmouth by Lovecraft

>> No.2340262

The Epic of Gilgamesh by anon and The Iliad.

>> No.2340266 [DELETED] 

Lolita and The Sufferings of Young Werthern

>> No.2340274

Lolita and The Sufferings of Young Werther.

>> No.2340275

They're all my favorite, it would be rude to discriminate.

>> No.2340284
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2340284

VALIS by Philip K Dick
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

>filename

>> No.2340317

Commentarii de Bello Gallico: Welsh translation
BtVS 31: Buffy's First Christmas

>> No.2340321

>>2340185
That's because Steinbeck fans tend to be far less annoying than the real edgy guys that go for BEE.

>> No.2340323

Stoner ~ John Williams
House of Leaves ~ Mark Danielewski

The former is the most tragically beautiful love story I've ever read, and the latter is endlessly entertaining.

>> No.2340330

The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman - Angela Carter
Dracula - Stoker

>> No.2340338 [DELETED] 

Life of Pi

Detox Diets For Dummies (A Reference For The Rest Of Us!)
beat that niggers

>> No.2340340

American Gods-Gaiman
The Once and Future King-White
Nothing wrong with going with two modern ones...

>> No.2340339

>filling out a college course form
>"What are your two favorite books?"
NO DAD, WHAT ARE YOUR TWO FAVORITE BOOKS?

>> No.2340402

East of Eden - Steinbeck
2666 - Roberto Bolano

captcha
atecox glass.

>> No.2340409

The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables

>> No.2340445

Sometimes a Great Notion
All Quiet on the Western Front

>> No.2340470

>William S Burroughs, Junky
>Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

>> No.2340482

Leaves of Grass
A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.2340484

David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Frank Herbert, Dune.

>> No.2340510

>>2340482
I can tell yr edgy because you saged a post related to literature

Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
(if I had to pick!!)

>> No.2340517

>>2340051
Moby-Dick
How to Avoid Huge Ships

>> No.2340570

The Rachel Papers
Catcher in the Rye

Two books about how everyone else isn't as smart as the narrator and they're essentially the same book. But if you're looking to impress--these aren't it. Honestly, if it were me reading your form, I'd assume these were the only books you'd read and that's why you listed them. That's what I usually assume when someone tells me they're their favorite novels.

>> No.2340581

>>2340051

Dune
Moby Dick

>> No.2340591

Johnathan Livingston Seagull
Stranger in a Strange Land

>> No.2340594

>>2340117
>what are they, /lit/?
not "why the ones you pick" so fuck you.

>> No.2340596
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2340596

Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Tess of D'urbervilles by Hardy

I win

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>>2340484
My Dune brother.

>> No.2340601

Crime and Punishment
Revenge of the Lawn

>> No.2340602 [DELETED] 

>>2340051
Palo Alto~James Franco
War and Peace and Franco~James Franco
Franco and Franco and Franco~Franco Franco Franco Does France~Francisco Franco

>> No.2340603
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2340603

Lem, "Observation on the spot".
Dostoyevski, "The Gambler".

ITT: everyone expects their post to be seen, but reads no other posts.

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2340605

>>2340051
Palo Alto~James Franco
War and Peace and Franco~James Franco
Franco and Franco and Franco~Franco Franco
Franco Does France~Francisco Franco

>> No.2340611

>>2340051
!984 - Orwell (Sparknotes edition)
Twilight New Moon - Mayer.

>> No.2340613

The Judge and his Hangman - Dürrenmatt
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - Watterson

>> No.2340614

>>2340605
have you read Franco of Wrath?
or
Ham on Franco?

very francoesque, very francoawesome but still enjoyable.

>> No.2340615

for college entry?

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. College Hipsters are of course against Sci-Fi, but Vonnegut has somehow eluded that ghetto and become an easy way to say you're cultured without resorting to too-obvious-try-hard-/lit/ boring doorstops like Lolita and Russian authors from a hundred years ago.

Then just pick an Indian Diaspora author such as Ghosh, Ali or Rushdie and you're all set.

>> No.2340619

>>2340603
I read every post before I posted.

>> No.2340622

>Reality
The Great Gatsby
On the Road
>Answer i'd give
Anna Karenina
Ulysses

Never be honest with these things, just project the image you think they want.

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>>2340619
As did I.

The Stand - Stephen King
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

>> No.2340624

The Count of Monte Cristo for the story
Ada or Ardour for the writing.

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>>2340622
Aw shit. It's too late, I was already honest.

>> No.2340630

1. The Call of Cthulhu and other weird tales
2. Dubliners

>> No.2340639

The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Bell Jar

>> No.2340650

Neuromancer
Blood Meridian

>> No.2340652
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2340652

>Game Of Thrones
>Atlas Shrugged

>> No.2340667

The lost salt gift of blood
Invisible cities

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2340677

zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Gilead
On the road
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
7 years in tibet.
Lolita.
to kill a mockingbird.

Not very patrician, but fuck it, these are some of my favorite books. I'd pick whichever two looked best for the course.

>> No.2340680

The Plague
Eugene Onegin

>> No.2340688

The stranger

Invisible monsters

>> No.2340707

A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
Forever War

Cue hate.

>> No.2340712

>The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G.K. Chesterton
>Something Happened - Joseph Heller


>>2340183
>Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

I like you.

>> No.2340717

>>2340707
Actually, I like you, because I've just bought 'A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again' and now I'm even more excited to crack it open. Any particular reason you selected it above DFW's other works?

>> No.2340720

>Crime and Punishment
>The Catcher in the Rye

Entry level, but true.

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2340727

So hard...

The Collected Poems by Frank O'Hara
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski