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[Anonymous No.2582620]

ITT: Books to read before you die

[Anonymous No.2582636]

one of these days i'm gonna read it

thinking of reading war and peace over summer, would /lit/ recommend it?

[Anonymous No.2582644]

Why don't you read Moby Dick first.

From what I hear War and Peace is a difficult novel to read not just because of its length, but it has a huge cast of characters each with three names at least.

[Anonymous No.2582647]

The Odyssey of course.

[Anonymous No.2582652]

>>2582644
If you've read any Dosteovsky, the three-name concept is nothing difficult.

[Anonymous No.2582676]

all of them.

two that i keep putting off are 'les miserables' and 'in search of lost time'. i will probably tackle them when i'm a bit older. ideally in french.

[Anonymous No.2582708]

The Count of Monte Cristo.

[Anonymous No.2582720]

Damnation of Theron Ware

[Anonymous No.2582773]

>>2582644
>Three names
Only if you're reading a translated, non-russian copy. You see: Russian language allows you to take words and name and then change them based on emotion and situation they are presented in. Let's take my name, Andrey. If someone wants to be friendly or cute with my name, then my name is Andrusha or Andreshka. If someone wants to be questioning or insulting they can use Andruha. They can also call me Andreika to be mean yet playful.

An easier example that an english-speaker would be familiar with would be Alina. Alinka, Lyasha, Lyunka, Aleshka, Aleshinka, Alushka, Alushinka, Alesha. See how it changes? Just about any situation can call for such playing with one's name. It's hard for a non-native speaker to understand and they try to address it in most copies of War and Peace.

[Anonymous No.2582788]

>>2582773
why would i learn to read russian when I could learn to read chinese or something useful like that?

get back to your canal boat you pseudo-patrician

[Anonymous No.2582791]

>Alina. Alinka, Lyasha, Lyunka, Aleshka, Aleshinka, Alushka, Alushinka, Alesha

wait this is all the same person?

[Anonymous No.2582792]

>>2582791
Yes, it's exact same name.

[Anonymous No.2582824]

>>2582636
yes it is the second best book I have read.

[Anonymous No.2582836]

>>2582824
what's the first?

[Anonymous No.2582838]

>>2582836
Deathly Hallows

[Anonymous No.2582843]

>>2582838

[Anonymous No.2582854]

The bible.

give god a fair shot.

[sage No.2582879]

Camus' The Fall
You'll say the plebs gonna pleb, but deep down you enjoyed it, and know that it's a good book - funny, too.
Captcha wills it: Truth! etylise

[Anonymous No.2582884]

>>2582879
Amen. I read "the Fall" just about every year.

I could never tire of it.

[Anonymous No.2582899]

>>2582879
how is it a pleb book?

[sage No.2582934]

>>2582899
Camus' view on absurdism etc. is considered entry-level stuff, which I guess it is, and people apparently perceive Camus-readers as pompous, which I guess they can be, seeing as Camus is very insightful but also very accessible, i.e. "entry-level" - which makes Camus easy to go and "flaunt" about.
A handful of e/lit/ists then started circlejerking hatred of Camus and some people just followed suit and /lit/ was ruined for all eternity damn shame good night.

[Anonymous No.2582992]

>>2582934
>>2582879

New to /lit/, so I thought I should ask, but is there a lot of pretension or pleb hatred here? Is /lit/ full of hipsters?

Also: read Lolita before you die. I was turned off from reading it for a long while because of the subject matter (and from fear of carrying it around it public), but goddamn it if it isn't the most beautifully written piece of work in the English language.

>Still, pedophiles.

[Anonymous No.2583001]

>>2582792

Lol, my name is Elijah, but i believe, since my parents are russian, it`s just an analogue for Ilya. (Both come from Eliyahu) Could you please name all the possible variations of my name?

[Anonymous No.2583011]

>>2582992
>most beautifully written work in the English language
does the word 'shakespeare' mean nothing to you people
in fact, any poetry at all

[Anonymous No.2583036]

>>2582992
>is there pleb hatred on /lit/
Everyone here is a pleb, but that doesn't stop them from hating themselves.

[Anonymous No.2583045]

>>2583011

Er, I should have clarified. Most beautiful prose, I suppose. At least that I have read.

>man were Harold Bloom's jimmies ever rustled

[Anonymous No.2583055]

>>2583036

Thanks for clarifying, anon.

Explains all the namedropping on this board.

[sage No.2583060]

>>2582992
No if you want hipsters, go to /mu/. Worse yet, they're pleb hipsters.
/lit/ welcomes newcomers - /mu/ is an autistic.

[Anonymous No.2583533]

>>2583060

Ok. I will go to /mu/ to determine if this is true and will report my findings at a later time.

[Onyxthebirthstonekid !hPQ7cBk0sE No.2583544]

>>2583060
Hi I'm visiting from /mu/ and I'd just like to say that statement is bullshit because now I don't feel welcome ;_;

[Anonymous No.2583556]

>>2583544
>emoticons
>on /lit/
troll harder faggot

[Anonymous No.2583559]

>>2583060
>>2583060
/lit/ is a hipster shit-fest of the lowest order and we do not appreciate newcomers

[Anonymous No.2583996]

Lolita
then die after enjoying the maximum literary pleasure with the finest erotic and dramatic literature ever written, nevermind it was about a 12 yo girl, just get into the character and let the imagination flows freely in the risky and vicious mood of humbert humbert

[Anonymous No.2584007]

>>2583996
>mfw you aren't reading every glorious work of fiction Nabokov ever wrote before dying

[Anonymous No.2584012]

[Anonymous No.2584039]

>>2582992
i'm not a hipster (my tastes are mostly canon, no obscure shit) but i do hate plebs. they stifle real conversation, think uneducated opinions are just as good as everyone else's because 'common sense', make the same threads over and over (hey guys in what order should i read lovecraft?, hey guys in what order should i read these pile of books?, hey guys the stranger was really something wasn't it), and generally just fill threads with the expected answers and no one but other plebs really get anything from them.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2584055]

>>2584007
I'm skipping him too. I got bigger fish to fry.

Honorable mention pictured

[Pikachu !luvrainbow No.2584099]

LoTR series.
Yup.

[Anonymous No.2584102]

>>2584099
0/10

[Pikachu !luvrainbow No.2584122]

>>2584102
>Except I'm totally serious.

THERE'S JUST SO MUCH ELSE TO READ.
I'll get to it.

[Anonymous No.2584187]

The Count of Monte Cristo

[bloop No.2584220]

hitchikers guide to the galaxy. nuff said.

[bloop No.2584224]

hitchikers guide to the galaxy. nuff said. wait know, 42. now nuff said.

[Anonymous No.2584291]

>>2584224
Are you talking about the whole series or just the first book? Because the book is pretty short. You should just read it now.

[Anonymous No.2584347]

Keep them coming guys

[Anonymous No.2584361]

Goethe - Faust, but in its original German version if possible.

[Anonymous No.2584364]

>>2584361
How does it read? I tried reading Paradise Lost and I just couldn't do it...

[Anonymous No.2584378]

>>2584364

Haven't read Paradise Lost yet. I think Faust is not to hard I think. It is a required reading in school in Germany and even though you might not get anything back then, the poetry is easy to read.

[Anonymous No.2584379]

>>2584378
Is there a prose version?

[Anonymous No.2584388]

>>2584379

I have no idea. I have to admit I am a fan of poetry and Goethe is very good at it.
Unfortunately I have never heard of any prose version of it, but I never searched for it, so you might be lucky. I would still recommand reading it in the poetic version. I think it looses a lot of its impact if it is read as simple prose.