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Books Only You Like

>> No.2405340

MASH by Richard Hooker.

>> No.2405607

Abarat by Clive Barker

>> No.2405628

Penis.

>> No.2405656

吾輩は猫である
Also known as "I am a cat", though the title should probably be translated as "we are a cat".
1905, Natsume Soseki, Satire, etc.

>> No.2405717

John Dies at the End

>> No.2405729

Cell by Stephen King

>> No.2405733

you don't love me yet

lethem

>> No.2405734

Mujong or Heartless, the first modern Korean novel. I read it for historical/academic interest but actually enjoyed it. Don't know anyone else who's read it.

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>>2405729

Oh gawd...the first ten pages in that book gave me incurable cancer to the teeth...

>> No.2405812

Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan.

After the first 15 pages I thought it was gonna be shit, but it turned out to be a masterpiece.

>> No.2405822

Candid by Voltaire.

>> No.2405824

>>2405717
Nope, I fucking love that book. Came here just to post it, in fact.

>> No.2405827

>>2405822

I actually talked to someone today who really loved Candide. She said it was hilarious.

>> No.2406064

>>2405822
I thought this was a classic.
I downloaded it and have it on my to be read list.

>> No.2406198

>>2405822
>>2405717
>>2405656
All three of these are liked by quite a lot of people, including myself...

>> No.2406200

Based on what I've read on /lit/, it would seem I'm the only one to like the Dragonlance series and the last three books of the Dark Tower series .

>> No.2406208

>>2405656
I read that. It was pretty good -- although "wagahai" is a conceited way of referring to oneself, so it's making fun of scholars and samurai class.

Wraeththu by Storm Constantine is one of my favorites... I've never met another person who's liked it, though.

>> No.2406210

>>2406208
>Wraeththu by Storm Constantine is one of my favorites... I've never met another person who's liked it, though.

:astonishedstare:

>> No.2406222

The Busconductor Hines

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>> No.2406450

great expectations

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>> No.2407444

Anything by Bret Easton Ellis. People round here get butthurt whenever I mention him.

>> No.2407453

On /lit/?
Probably anything by the alt-lit troupe.

In general?
Nothing because all books, even bad ones have fanbase.

>> No.2407536

Ethan Frome

>> No.2407540

>>2407536
Edith Wharton is my favorite female author

>> No.2407542

Doruntine by Ismail Kadare

>> No.2407551

Most of Stephen King's books.
I don't particularly hate Terry Goodkind, either, but I don't love it.

>> No.2407554

>>2407444
Hell no, I read Less Than Zero on Monday and whilst I was a fan of Imperial Bedrooms, LTZ sealed the belief that he is a great author. I think a lot of people judge him solely on American Psycho, I've only read small segments but from what I can tell the extent to which he goes on laboriously about clothes and the depictions of torture and sex just seem masturbatory and in the end just stop being shocking. In Less Than Zero the gruesome scenes are few and far between making them much more emotive in my opinion.

That's my 2 cents, I don't really seem to like any authors that every one else hates, I'm such a sheep.

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Maybe Kornel Esti by Dezso Kosztolanyi, Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk, and Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk. I know there was another Kosztolanyi fan around at one point, but I don't know if he ever read Kornel Esti.

I would say The Hearing Trumpet, but it's been mentioned by a few other anons here. And I know for sure there's at least one other fan of Kenji Miyazawa here, so he wouldn't count.

>> No.2407588

>>2407554
Rules of Attraction is the only good book he has written.

>> No.2407592

hear us o lord from heaven thy dwelling place