/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2958927]

What is your all-time favorite book ever?
Be honest.

[Anonymous No.2958940]

[Anonymous No.2958949]

Guess i might say this one

[Anonymous No.2958968]

the catcher in the rye

[Anonymous No.2959001]

Perhaps Life and Fate?

[Anonymous No.2959003]

[Anonymous No.2959013]

>dem Cersei cock envy chapters

[Anonymous No.2959016]

A Farewell to Arms

Just...that fucking ending...

[Anonymous No.2959017]

The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.2959024]

>>2958927

inb4 someone shits on me for picking a novel that technically isn't even a novel.

oblivion/tpk represent the very best of dfw's ability plus the most hardhitting themes he ever tackles in his life. It may not be the best novel i've read per se but its my favorite book...to borrow a phrase chris fogle uses in it, i was just primed for it when i read it...it came at a time in my life when i really needed it. dfw is one of the only writers to ever do a modern joycean epiphany that's just as much a revelation for the readers as it is for the character. as the world turns. an amazing book

[Anonymous No.2959027]

>inb4 child

[Anonymous No.2959029]

>>2958940

celine...is he as good as my friends say he is? and if one wants to start reading celine is that what he should start with?

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[Anonymous No.2959053]

Not a great choice, it's non -fiction but I read it a couple of times so I must have liked it.

[Anonymous No.2959068]

The Name of the Rose

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[Anonymous No.2959080]

Gravity's Rainbow is a close second.

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[Anonymous No.2959084]

>>2959016

[Anonymous No.2959126]

God, I know. I cried a little when I finished it.

But my favourite has to be Island by Huxley. Plus a guy I really love sent it to me, it has that added value.

[Anonymous No.2959129]

>>2959016

Ugh I was replying to this.

[Anonymous No.2959151]

Lol how do i berk

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[Anonymous No.2959186]

>>2959024
it makes me almost suicidal to think of how good the book could have been if he finished.

[Anonymous No.2959206]

2666

gave me all kinds of feels

[Anonymous No.2959208]

or maybe gravity's rainbow

[Anonymous No.2959227]

>>2959186

So I have this pretty, um, insensitive and maybe wacky theory about The Pale King and his suicide and how they correlate. Be warned that the following may come across as being reductive towards clinical depression and suicidal ideation...as someone who's been there, I know this is going to sound awful, BUT:

I almost get the feeling that DFW's suicide is the only way that book could have ended.

I know. I know.

Here's why I think this:

If you've ever read that '93 Larry Mcwhatever interview dfw did, he mentioned that to make good fiction you almost "sort of have to die for the reader" (no, keep going, i know he didn't mean literally, that's not my theory).

He was writing IJ around this time...if you've read DT Max's bio of dfw you know IJ came after a huge revelation of his, where he realized he had to write morally replenishing and redeeming fiction, not just critiques and satires. He went to hell and back in his life to learn this, but emerging from the ashes of that horrible period for him came Infinite Jest. What's that book about? For brevity, it's about how entertainment and american culture in general corrodes the souls and serves to make us lonelier, sadder, more addicted to the culture that fucks us over.

But what DFW prided himself most on in the book is that he found a solution. He found a way out. He not only diagnosed a piece of America's problem, he illuminated the treatment as well. That's why he so loved Dostoevsky: they both, as writers, were deeply concerned with moral redemption in fiction, not just for the characters but for the readers.(pt 1/2)

[Anonymous No.2959231]

>>2959186

pt 2

Ok, so flash forward to the writing of The Pale King. Here he's working with an even deeper kind of American sadness: existential boredom, and also choice. Free will as it relates to happiness and morality. This Is Water, the expanded edition.

In Oblivion he beautifully writes the diagnosis: it's one of the saddest books he's ever written. The Pale King was supposed to also illustrate that sadness, but it also had to offer the big solution DFW was so concerned about. In his notes he suggests a rough outline: he writes about a sort of mental calmness and peace that allows you to cherish life, 'bliss in every atom'.

Bliss in every atom. At the time he wrote that line DFW was the unhappiest he'd ever been in his entire life. Sure, some of this was the Nardil thing, but how could DFW tell people how to be content with the absurdities of life even if he couldn't? Because, let's not forget, his goal was to make TPK not just a sad book but also a somewhat happy and triumphant one: he wanted to write a roadmap to happiness.

How does someone who wants desperately to be dead write a roadmap to happiness? He saw the hypocrisy, gave up on his hopes of writing any sort of moral redemption, and finally resigned to the fact that there is no hope for escape or endurance in this life. Accepting this fact about his novel, and accepting the depression that always plagued his life, he ended both the only way he knew how.

[Anonymous No.2959258]

sophies choice

[Anonymous No.2959269]

It changes for me.
Its this right now. before it was breakfast of champions

[Anonymous No.2959282]

Earth Abides

[Anonymous No.2959284]

>>2959231

are you fifteen?

every time an author's suicide leaves a work unfinished, people say some romantic shit like "it's the only way it could have ended."

[Anonymous No.2959292]

>>2959284

>implying dfw didn't at all consider the implications of his suicide in literary terms.

come on, i know that shit is usually overly romantic, but dfw was a very, very self concious and recursively thinking guy. it certainly crossed his mind.

i mean i usually hate to turn a writers life into part of literary theory....but dfw himself was a huge literary theorist.

[Anonymous No.2959309]

>>2959231
I think he died because he was too much of a perfectionist and The Pale King was too hard to get right. He realised he couldn't make the book work.

[Anonymous No.2959329]

Perhaps it's unfashionable to speculate over an author's, or anyone's, suicide, but I sincerely believe antidepressants were a major factor in DFW's. I think in a few decades when pharmaceutical agencies are revealed to be frauds and psychotropic medication are recognized for their soul sucking properties, DFW's decision won't seem so mysterious.

[Anonymous No.2959348]

>>2959329

this possibility frightens me even more than any existential dread type situation...that death and depression can lie in the control of our biology/the way we treat that biology...it feels very fatalist to me, like we can try our best but bald reality can still fuck us over. makes me really sad.

[Anonymous No.2959355]

>>2959309
>he was too much of a perfectionist

I don't think he was a perfectionist so much that his opinion of himself was greater than his opinion of his actual work. He was arrogant as fuck. Have you read the new bio?

[Anonymous No.2959370]

>>2959348
>When he experienced severe side effects from the medication, Wallace attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant, phenelzine. On his doctor's advice, Wallace stopped taking the medication in June 2007, and the depression returned. Wallace received other treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy. When he returned to phenelzine, he found it had lost its effectiveness. In the months before his death, his depression became severe.
>electroconvulsive therapy.

I've spent a lot of my life on antidepressants. They can make it hard to find even subjective meaning in reality, objectivity, biology, neuroscience notwithstanding. When you come off of them, you find yourself split in two, and you have to reconstruct personal meaning and your identity while trying to make amends with the actions you made while on the drug.

I made so many mistakes while on antidepressants, but they didn't allow me to care. I became a total loose canon socially, put myself in relationships I never would have otherwise, and ended up hurting a lot of people in the process. When I got off of them, I was more prone to making desperate, rash decisions, like dropping out of school and admitting myself to a mental hospital.

I understand they may help some people, but if you've been raised as a more introspective leaning person, they can have severe detrimental effects.

[Anonymous No.2959376]

I've come to the conclusion that I don't think I am qualified to like anything.

We talk about mastering texts and coming under teacher for this very reason. I am neither a teacher nor have I mastered any texts. And being in such a state, I can't like any works without commodifying them and for me, that could only be done with a bad conscience (conscience in the medieval; not post-Kantian sense.)

[Anonymous No.2959379]

>>2959329
> I think in a few decades when pharmaceutical agencies are revealed to be frauds and psychotropic medication are recognized for their soul sucking properties
>existence of a soul implied
>not substantiated

lel forever

Although, the anti-depressant's could have negatively affected him. It's very statistically unlikely, but, it's shit when it happens.

[Anonymous No.2959380]

>>2959379
>the anti-depressants

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>>2959379
>Taking any metaphysical reference literally

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>>2959379
It's statistically likely enough that most advertisements are required to list suicidal thoughts as a side effect.

[Anonymous No.2959396]

>What is your all-time favorite book ever?
>everyone starts talking about their depression

[Anonymous No.2959424]

>>2959379

>existence of a soul implied
>not substantiated
>lel forever

Ugh, I can smell the teenage on you.

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[Anonymous No.2959477]

>>2959456

?

[Anonymous No.2959538]

>>2959227
Is it worth spending so much time reading Infinite Jest?

[Anonymous No.2959553]

I absolutely love White Noise. Despite it's slight lack of character depth I really enjoy the main theme of media saturation and I think DeLillo plays with it very well stylistically.

[Anonymous No.2959573]

Has to be The Sun Also Rises for me.

[Anonymous No.2959576]

one time when i was really depressed my friends made me take some high quality LSD and high grade ecstasy at the same time. I had never been so happy in my life.

but my favorite book is the power of myth by joseph campbell

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>>2959576
With Bill Moyers! Aww shit, nigga!

[Anonymous No.2959636]

>>2958927
People who read don't have 'all-time favorite books ever', you pleb.

[Anonymous No.2959639]

Little, Big by John Crowley

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>>2959636

I have one that if I were forced to burn all but one I would save.

[Anonymous No.2959652]

>>2959636

This. If someone asks me that question, I can only think of the last few books I've read.

That said, pic related is still fucking with my head three years after reading it. So, The Stranger, I guess.

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[Anonymous No.2959686]

Every other book I read is my new all-time-favorite.

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>>2958949
This one.

[Anonymous No.2959804]

1984.

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[Anonymous No.2960405]

Hopscotch, probably.

[Anonymous No.2960458]

sorry no English title

[Anonymous No.2960477]

Oh man this book. It has followed me since my childhood, and everytime I read it, it's as awesome as when I was a little kid.

The translated version is titled "The Long Ships" I believe

[Anonymous No.2960500]

>>2960477
Lovely inside cover. Är det första edition? Jag älskar också boken. Top 10 1900tal

[Anonymous No.2960504]

I'm sorry.

[Anonymous No.2960542]

the complete stories of flannery o'connor.

[Anonymous No.2960547]

>>2960405
Wait, Hopscotch as in Rayuela by Julio Cort?zar? or another book with the same title?

[Anonymous No.2960567]

BOTYAY

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>>2960500

Vet inte då jag tog bilden från google. Min utgåva är en sunkig gammal röd jävel som jag hittade hos mina föräldrar...

[Anonymous No.2960617]

>>2960579
Hoppas du köper dina klassiker begagnat.

Första upplagor är skamligt billiga i Sverige.

http://www.bokborsen.se/Bengtsson-Frans-G/R%C3%B6de-Orm-Sj%C3%B6farare-I-V%C3%A4sterled/1467915

240 kr

[Anonymous No.2962277]

>>2960458
My Portuguese is pretty rusty, and I learned in Brazil. Achas que vou poder ler esse livro, ou preciso praticar com algum um pouquinho mais facil?

[Anonymous No.2963683]

terra amata - j.g.m le clezio

[Anonymous No.2963760]

>>2962277

Not the same poster, but...

É português de Portugal; para quem fala (e lê) português brasileiro, costuma soar meio arcaico, e frequentemente difícil. Depende do quão enferrujado está o teu português, eu acho...

[Anonymous No.2963773]

>>2958927
>be honest
>picks GR

Bitchplease.gif
You can admire it, you can envy the writing, you can even like-like it, but to say its your favorite book? Someone said this, and I thought it was true, Catcher in the Rye has been found in the hands of gunmen because it affected them on some deep emotional level, I don't suspect GR will be found in such a way any time soon.

He's not saying that a good novel has to make you want to go out and shoot people (idiot), and I don't think he was saying GR is in any way worse than Rye (because it's better), what he is saying is that some books have the capacity to engage it's reader in a profound, emotional, visceral way, and GR isnt one of them. For all its verbal acrobatics and high minded ideas, I can say I honestly couldn't give a shit about what happened to any character. It's an ideas book, to engage the intellect alone. But the intellect is like, say, the spectrum of visible light compared to the entire EM spectrum--a very small part.

So I think for someone to try to claim GR as their favorite book, is doing so for the wrong reason, to seem a certain way to certain people. You can't have been so moved by GR to call it your favorite, really now.

[Anonymous No.2963780]

american psycho

[Anonymous No.2963796]

cat's cradle

[Anonymous No.2963799]

toni morrison

beloved

i have yet to read anything as colorful, vibrant, evocative, haunting. morrison writes for all 5 senses as well as the brain. all at once, too.

[Anonymous No.2963885]

>>2958927
Hero with a thousand faces

[Anonymous No.2963894]

>>2959126

that is my favorite book as well

truly one of the best current templates we have for creating a utopia

[Anonymous No.2963899]

>>2963760
Sou uma outra pessoa que fala português brasileiro, mas aprendi falar e ler ao mesmo tempo, por isso, quero dizer que pode ler Camões pois Pessoa e Vergílio Ferreira. Obrigado por ter escrito esse nome!

[Anonymous No.2963904]

Definitely Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Unbelievable book.

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2963915]

nausea- jean paul sartre

there is something virulent about that book, catching, i read it and things, ordinary inanimate objects, assumed an aura of their own, an almost tangible sickening personality and ego, ivading my thoughts relentlessly. if a book had its own agenda, manifesting itself regardless of the readers will, its nausea. i threw up on some idiotic passed out cunt my dick in her face as she slumbered and id stolen her vicodin and zoloft and still, crawling immanence, being in itself, uncharacterizable pure existance, i ran out that fucking house and never looked back

[Anonymous No.2963925]

>>2963894
I know, right? It sounds amazing and even plausible But the end's a kick in the balls.

[Anonymous No.2963930]

naked lunch

[Anonymous No.2963936]

>>2959258

seconded

[Anonymous No.2963961]

You know what's not original? Me.

But that book changed my way of thinking about ... well most things really. I personally perfer Ray Bradbury's way of writting and Patrick Senecal (Quebec author)'s way of using style figures but Orwell's novel has been waaay too inspiring for me to not be on my top.

[Anonymous No.2963964]

What should i read first?

>infinite jest
or
>gravity's rainbow
??

[Anonymous No.2963968]

[Anonymous No.2963975]

Pantaleón y las visitadoras/Captain Pantoja and the Special Service - Mario Vargas Llosa

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2963976]

>>2963964

depends really
what are your preferences?
IJ comes as a packadge deal: shitty fucking involuted tediouss non sequiturs combined with feeling smart about yourself and of course the fact that he killed himeself.
GR is the same but w less feeling.

[Anonymous No.2964009]

this or chekhov's short stories, i can't help but re-read one or the other every so often.

[Anonymous No.2964044]

>>2959456

So your favorite book is Euclid's Elements?

[Anonymous No.2964061]

In b4 highschool plebeian tier lit.

[Anonymous No.2964102]

I don't know if you'll count a play but it's always been one of my favourites.

[Anonymous No.2964108]

Hua Mulan.

I love it so much. I read it in Chinese, because all the English translations are shit.

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[Anonymous No.2964429]

Great Gatsby

or this >>2964110

[Anonymous No.2964435]

>>2959081
I like you!

Pic related is mine.

[Anonymous No.2964447]

Either this, or Nabokov's Lolita.

[Anonymous No.2964453]

>>2964435
>meditations

My nigger

[Anonymous No.2964455]

>>2964447

>Nabokov's Lolita.

thanks. i thought you might have meant Stephen King's Lolita.

[Anonymous No.2964465]

>>2964447

I'm reading that book right now.

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[Anonymous No.2964499]

>>2964455
No problem. Glad it made it clearer for you.
(Yeah, I'm kinda in the habit of always putting the author's name down.)

[Anonymous No.2964515]

this novel contains everything I ever wanted out of fiction.

[Anonymous No.2964535]

>>2964474
I'm having a hard time understanding this.

[Anonymous No.2964566]

Nothing I've read has ever compared, ever. Gravity's Rainbow? Get that weak shit outta here. Ahab up in this motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.2964781]

>>2959329
dude, no offense, but you have no fucking clue what the shit you are talking about.
i have had severe depressions, and if i hadn't taken antidepressants frankly i would be dead by now.
it is true that some antidepressants can have side-effects, but modern ads - as opposed to early antidepressants - usually don't have. typical side-effects, btw, are agitation, sweaty hands and decreased libido (though i am still able to fuck as i please); it always depends on the person and his or her reaction to it and there are always alternative prescriptions.
i am thankful for the medicine i have received back then (and am still taking today) and i am certain they took a significant role in saving my life.
furthermore you mustn't confuse antidepressants with sedatives/tranquilizers, they are quite different from each other. xanax for example is a well known "purple pill" and has nothing to do with antidepressants.
IF you want to call a type of medicine soul sucking, then it would be those, and not antidepressants.

i am sure that - if there is such a thing - i still have my soul.
i still remember when i used to feel absolutely drained of any happiness or positive sentiment, i felt not sad but empty, hollow, glass-like, you name it - and all of that without taking a single drop of any medicine. after having taken some, though, i feel rescusciated. alive again and well.

in short: antidepressants =/= bad.

just wanted to get that off my chest

[Anonymous No.2964787]

>>2964781
oh, and i agree with you on the pharmaceutical companies being evil. they are evil impersonated.. or representative.

[Anonymous No.2964821]

Either 'The Last Days of Socrates' or 'The Name of the Rose'.

Am I a pleb?

[Anonymous No.2964823]

>>2964515
I second this motion.

When will Mr. Pinecone release another book ;_;

[Anonymous No.2964861]

absolute favorite
>inb4 'sci-fi-isn't-litterature' aspies shit themselves

>>2960394
mah nigga

[Anonymous No.2964871]

>>2964787
evil impersonated.. or representative.

'Incarnate' is the word you are looking for my friend.

[Anonymous No.2964877]

>>2964787
>evil impersonated.. or representative.

'Incarnate' is the word you are looking for my friend.

[Anonymous No.2964880]

>>2958927

[Anonymous No.2964883]

second is "the house of spirits"

[Anonymous No.2964920]

>>2959743
my one, my true, my everything, i finally found you
:3

also pic

[Anonymous No.2964922]

The Stranger

[Anonymous No.2964941]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest or Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.

[Anonymous No.2964953]

[Anonymous No.2964965]

The great gatsby

[Anonymous No.2965001]

Yes I am a pleb who found out about it only through L O S T

[Anonymous No.2965101]

>>2964821
>readable books
Yeah.

[Anonymous No.2965113]

S'get some 'bumps all up in this bitch

[Anonymous No.2965123]

Not fiction, but.........

[Anonymous No.2965128]

In Search of Lost Time. It arouses a pleasure in me so particular, so distinct, that it manifests physically—increased heart rate, butterflies in my stomach, etc..

[Anonymous No.2965142]

>>2959227
>>2959231

I really enjoyed this; thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.2965144]

>strg-f
>no philip k. dick
>no Do Androids dream of electric sheep
>only two mentions of 1984
>only one mentioning of Dostojewsi

What's wrong /lit/?
You used to be cool!

[Anonymous No.2965148]

Honestly?

[An♥nymous No.2965158]

I don't know what to do about it.

[Anonymous No.2965171]

>>2965144
So let's get this straight, you've read Dostoevsky but still consider Philip K. Dick to write top-tier fiction?

I like PKD for sure, but he doesn't hold a candle to most authors mentioned in this thread.

[Anonymous No.2965172]

Absolutely heart-wrenching.

[Anonymous No.2965185]

>>2965144
I didn't really like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't mind blowing. I did really enjoy Ubik and The Man in the High Castle, though.

[Anonymous No.2965190]

The Minds of Billy Milligan

[Anonymous No.2965216]

>>2965185
Try 'The Three Stigmata of Palma Eldritch'.

It's his most incoherent work.

[Anonymous No.2965218]

>>2965101
>The Name of the Rose
>Readable

[Anonymous No.2965223]

>>2965216
That was my first Dick (haha) and I loved it (haha wow). It was a pretty sad book though

[Anonymous No.2965345]

>>2965144
OMG dude, I bought the same edition last week! After I finish A Moveable Feast I'm starting it.

>>2965218
Yeah the constant Latin is quite distracting, even though sometimes I can kinda make out what it means since my mother tongue is Spanish, and they're distantly similar. Great book by the way, filled my head with fuck.

[Anonymous No.2965927]

thirded

[Anonymous No.2965995]

i'm partial to nabokov's pale fire, and hemingway's for whom the bell tolls. hadn't thought about it before now, but both novels have endings you know are coming about 4 pages in, instead of the twists so many expect from great lit. but i find them so well written, even if written completely differently, that they're just great reads

[Anonymous No.2966007]

I also really liked Douglas Adam.

[Anonymous No.2966008]

>>2966007
Woops.

[Anonymous No.2966024]

>>2966008
L'etranger... another of my favorites. too bad i, as an american, can only read camus/dostoyevsky/gogol in translation

[Anonymous No.2966043]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412Z9FE2E6L.jpg

[Anonymous No.2966054]

>>2966024
I spend a year of university in Canada, and this joke rang true:
What do you call someone that can speak multiple languages? multilingual
Two languages? bilingual
One language? American

[Anonymous No.2966102]

>>2966054
Unless you live in Quebec, which learning both languages is either the norm or you get shit from either the french snobs or the english community.

[Anonymous No.2966109]

Boris Vian- L'écume des jours
I think, not sure
Otherwise 1984 or Mémoires d'outres tombe

[Anonymous No.2966111]

>>2966102
It was in Montreal, but I lived in a hotel with a lot of international students. My roommate was from china, one of my good friends was of Mexican heritage and lived in Germany, my best friend was from Dubai. I was actually kind of annoyed at how few people spoke french around the university, I spent like $400 of my graduation money on Rosetta Stone. Worst. Investment. Ever.

[Anonymous No.2966126]

Where the Red Fern Grows

;_;

[Anonymous No.2967348]

bumping for later observation

[Anonymous No.2967499]

This... but i'm still making my way through PKD's bibliography. I'm looking forward to The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Any other recommendations?

[Anonymous No.2967520]

This or "Slaughterhouse-Five".

[Anonymous No.2967526]

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

[Anonymous No.2967544]

This book was fantastic

[Anonymous No.2967546]

Name of The Rose

by Eco

[Anonymous No.2967566]

good enough for plebs like me

[Anonymous No.2967569]

>>2959636
Bullshit, there is something wrong with you if you don't have a favorite book.

[Anonymous No.2967577]

I just love non-fiction.

[Anonymous No.2967749]

>>2967577

please anyone else have a favorite non fiction? mines Nothing to Envy but shit- i havent read many outside of technical books and school stuff


thanks a lot !!

[Standard Toaster !TOASTXbkRg No.2967750]

>>2967566
Have you seen the new edition they just released? It's got the first edition cover and it comes with all the potential endings he wrote before coming up with the final one. It's really interesting.

[Anonymous No.2967758]

>>2967750
Did his wife die in every version?

[Standard Toaster !TOASTXbkRg No.2967770]

>>2967758
Yea, it was mostly just different variations of him leaving the hospital at the end and stuff like that. Not really huge things, but they made a big change in the end of the story as a whole.

[Anonymous No.2967799]

>>2963915

Seconded.

Basically, everything he said except for throwing up on a girl and stealing her medicine.

[Anonymous No.2967830]

Der Zauberberg by Thomas Man (magic mountain),

[Anonymous No.2967873]

>>2967770

Wow, that sounds like an interesting edition to have. Any more info on it? I really liked the book, made me cry at the end.

[Standard Toaster !TOASTXbkRg No.2967893]

>>2967873
I loved it as well. It's only $27 you can get it really anywhere. It's the Hemingway Library Edition.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-farewell-to-arms-ernest-hemingway/1110789324?ean=9781451658163

[Anonymous No.2967899]

>>2964515
my niggaaaaaa I just finished that last night. Truly incredibly moving and intellectual at the same time. I cried.

[Anonymous No.2967903]

>>2964515
Also it's laugh out loud funny like nothing I've ever read. Like Laurel and Hardy go to the Enlightenment but then also typical Pynchon mathletics and 2deep4u. Just fucking fantastic.

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[Anonymous No.2967917]

>>2958927
Objectively, by good literary standards, The Old Man and the Sea.
>> That structure. That complete coherent symbolism.

Subjectively, The Bourne series. Oh, and Fight Club.

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[Anonymous No.2967943]

>>2964121

This. This book blew me away.