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Daily reminder that 1984 is the best book ever.

>> No.3094759

That's a funny way to spell Clockwork Orange.

>> No.3094760

Those are both funny ways to spell For Whom The Bell Tolls.

>> No.3094761

ITT: Three ways not to spell Silence

>> No.3094762

>>3094757
>>3094759
Cute.

What's next? Brave New World?

>> No.3094766

>best book ever
>not written by Russian

yeahokman

>> No.3094768

>>3094762
That's not how you spell Point Counterpoint.

>> No.3094772

>>3094768
Never in my life have I see 100 Years of Solitude spelt such a way.

>> No.3094778

>>3094766
And by the best Russian work (and thus being the best book ever written) you mean something beginning with P by Bely, right?

>> No.3094782

6 people's in this thread fingers missed the Fahrenheit 451 button thumbs up if u agree

>> No.3094783

>>3094778
O by Solzhenitsyn*

>> No.3094789

>>3094783
Don't kid me.

Petersburg, have you even read it?

>> No.3094793

>>3094789
Was going the way of overpraiaed but agreeably decent authors, man.

>> No.3094794

>>3094793
I was going the way of best book

>> No.3094796

>>3094793
overpraised*

>> No.3094799

What does this book entail? The year 1984 and all of its happenings? One thousand nine hundred and eighty four ants stealing grapes from a picnic? srsly though why would I read it? What are the draws?

>> No.3094807

Meh. I found it kind of dry. The prose was dry too.

>> No.3094817

That's not how you spell Bastard Out Of Carolina

>> No.3094821

Finnegans Wake is the best novel ever written, in that it is the culmination of the very concept.

>> No.3094834

>not 2666

>> No.3094849
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3094849

I've never seen that cover for The Great Gatsby.

>> No.3094850

1984 isn't even his best book, homage to catalonia is much better

>> No.3094982

>>3094778
I actually meant beginning with M by Bulg

>> No.3094991

>>3094821
Really? I'm always interesting to hear learned opinions on Finnegans Wake, can you explain?

>> No.3094995

>>3094991
>interested

>> No.3095054
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3095054

I don't get it.

Why does that cover of The Brothers Karamazov say 1984?