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A simple thread Anonymous Sat Oct 20 13:58:45 2012 No.3074101 [Reply] [Original]

What is your favorite book?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:01:45 2012 No.3074107 Probably Neuromancer, or the Quixote

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:02:44 2012 No.3074111 File: 82 KB, 320x456, tumblr_lzzojkmT421qaxt4go1_400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:14:46 2012 No.3074149 Anthropology and 100 other stories by Dan Rhodes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:15:46 2012 No.3074152 Richard Yates

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:16:26 2012 No.3074157 The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:32:32 2012 No.3074192 The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov The Plague is probably second on my list

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:35:33 2012 No.3074199 yea i might put master and margarita as number one too. though i also love a hundred years of solitude. and platform is my fav. huellebecq book. good choices here. love you guys !

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:36:32 2012 No.3074201 Swedish books, but then again i'm a swede.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:37:32 2012 No.3074206 Infinite jest.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:37:33 2012 No.3074208 V for Vendetta

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:41:33 2012 No.3074215 Kafka's Amerika

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:44:33 2012 No.3074219 >>3074206 This.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:47:33 2012 No.3074225 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:51:33 2012 No.3074237 File: 345 KB, 1024x764, 1339337434001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3074201

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:52:33 2012 No.3074238 >>3074225 Seeing somebody answer this question with this book makes me incredibly happy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:54:35 2012 No.3074245 Blood Meridian

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:55:35 2012 No.3074251 The Road Cormac McCarthy I havent read some of the books listed in this thread. So now I'm accumulating a bigger list.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:57:35 2012 No.3074256 >>3074208 >What is your favorite book? >V for Vendetta

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:59:35 2012 No.3074258 File: 1.70 MB, 1536x2048, cimg6194.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <---

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:59:35 2012 No.3074260 >>3074258 MAH NIGGA

>>	βPictoris !NLqByHLcRc Sat Oct 20 15:04:35 2012 No.3074273 >>3074238 Is it that much better than Hitchhiker's?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 15:05:35 2012 No.3074274 File: 211 KB, 750x650, 2q3b4tu.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 15:07:35 2012 No.3074280 >>3074273 I personally don't think it's better, but I still like it, and I was happy to see somebody mention it.

>>	βPictoris !NLqByHLcRc Sat Oct 20 15:08:35 2012 No.3074284 Notes on the Collection of Transfers, by William James Sidis. I can't have a single favorite book, but I'm thinking Beckett or Pynchon for favorite authors, I'll be more (or maybe less) decisive when I read more.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 15:15:57 2012 No.3074299 The Book of Disquiet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 15:41:01 2012 No.3074342 File: 22 KB, 300x463, tomislav_sunic-against_democracy_and_equality_the_european_new_right.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] always under my pillow

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 15:57:57 2012 No.3074377 >>3074157 YOU WHAT ELSE DO YOU LIKE HOLY SHIT YOU BETTER STILL BE IN THIS THREAD

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 15:58:57 2012 No.3074380 Das Kapital

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 15:59:57 2012 No.3074382 File: 213 KB, 418x674, fragilethingscover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:00:57 2012 No.3074384 Proust's Recherche

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:02:57 2012 No.3074385 >>3074377 not him, but check out some le clezio

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:10:57 2012 No.3074401 >>3074385 anything specific?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:12:59 2012 No.3074406 >>3074382 You are a 16 year old girl.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:27:55 2012 No.3074448 >>3074382 >He is indeed a national treasure - Washington Post Book World But, isn't Neil Gaiman English?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:45:57 2012 No.3074492 >>3074401 the flood

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:49:57 2012 No.3074502 >>3074448 >Washington Post-Book World This is from the future where there are no books only short stories, and only one nation: Washington

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:03:59 2012 No.3074521 >>3074448 Gaiman's English but he lives in the US now. Not a bad trade really, we got T.S. Eliot, America gets Gaiman

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:23:16 2012 No.3074562 Either To The Lighthouse or The Sound and The Fury.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:28:16 2012 No.3074574 Candide by Voltaire

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:35:19 2012 No.3074590 The Stranger

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:03:38 2012 No.3074656 >>3074521 oh god my american jimmies

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 00:56:30 2012 No.3075527 Stoner by John Williams. For as shitty as /lit/ can be, I'm very grateful that you guys introduced that book to me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 00:57:30 2012 No.3075534 >>3075527 /lit/ may be shitty at times, but they have given me some of the best books I've read which I never would've known about and have increased my to-read list to 70+

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 01:34:34 2012 No.3075583 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater The ending was terrible, though.

>>	SadCat Sun Oct 21 01:43:39 2012 No.3075597 File: 44 KB, 300x453, iamacat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't even think it's the BEST book I've read. But it appeals me in lovely ways.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 01:44:39 2012 No.3075598 File: 31 KB, 343x429, Littleprince.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 01:58:36 2012 No.3075633 File: 23 KB, 300x300, bloodlines.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3074101

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 01:59:36 2012 No.3075637 >>3075560 so good

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 02:00:36 2012 No.3075638 Cat's Cradle or Mother Night. >>3075583 It really was.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 02:15:41 2012 No.3075672 File: 36 KB, 309x475, coadf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3075598 and <<

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 02:31:40 2012 No.3075686 >>3075633 any downloads for that? been meaning to read it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 02:41:42 2012 No.3075694 File: 65 KB, 462x681, l.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This of course.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 02:53:45 2012 No.3075705 >>3075628 If I remember correctly that book brought me to tears as a young man

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 03:19:45 2012 No.3075718 Webster's New World Dictionary, third college edition

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 03:37:45 2012 No.3075744 >>3075697 That's a really boring list

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 03:38:45 2012 No.3075749 >>3075744 Not a single one of those books is boring.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 03:42:45 2012 No.3075756 >>3075749 The choices are what make it dull, not the books themselves. I'm with him, it's a boring list.

Anonymous Sun Oct 21 03:43:45 2012 No.3075757

>>3075749
Not in that sense, in that it's highly generic, Mother Night is the only real indication of any individuality, everything else is a standard best book list topper bar the Seuss which is a really obvious kids book that is also enjoyed by adults

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 03:43:45 2012 No.3075759 >>3075756 I figured, just clarifying. Most are safe choices as I've yet to read a wide swath of diverse shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 03:52:45 2012 No.3075767 >>3075756 I do understand that the books in the list are all safe choices, what exactly would an interesting list be like?

Anonymous Sun Oct 21 04:05:19 2012 No.3075778

>>3075767
I don't know. I probably have a boring list to someone else:

Will Self, My Idea of Fun
Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights
E.E. Cummings, The Enormous Room
Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
John Fowles, The Magus
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Death on the Installment Plan
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn

... that's all that's coming to me off the top of my head for favorite novels.

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