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Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:06:23 2013 No.3383697 [Reply] [Original]

Heya, /lit/, what's you favorite book? No judgement here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:10:22 2013 No.3383714 Mother Night, I think. I can never settle on just one book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:10:22 2013 No.3383712 Heya, /lit/, >Heya, /lit/: what's you favorite book? >What are your favorite books? (We all don't have one collective favorite book.) No judgement here. >No judgment here. 3/10 = 30%, F See me after class, please.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:19:22 2013 No.3383746 >>3383712 That is all beside the point, but I apologize for my improper use of the English language.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:21:22 2013 No.3383753 File: 59 KB, 626x792, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Infinite Jest or Gravity's Rainbow or Against the Day or As I Lay Dying or Light in August or The Long Goodbye or The Tunnel or Finnegans Wake It's definitely one of those...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:22:22 2013 No.3383755 >>3383753 I've heard bad things about "As I Dying", which encouraged me to look into it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. What is it about?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:28:20 2013 No.3383778 >>3383755 A family crossing the country to bury the wife/mother. Fucked up families. All that good stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:32:23 2013 No.3383793 File: 33 KB, 200x307, Confederacy_of_dunces.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:34:22 2013 No.3383800 WHO DO WE NEED TWO CATCHER IN THE RYE THREADS ON THE FIRST PAGE

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:36:22 2013 No.3383804 >>3383800 Sorry mane I just used it because it's my favorite book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:38:22 2013 No.3383807 >>3383800 I'd take a whole first page of Catcher In The Rye threads over two Nietzsche threads on the first page.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:40:23 2013 No.3383812 >>3383793 Mah nigga

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:45:22 2013 No.3383817
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It is the complete amalgamation of Melville's ideas. There has never been a more complete representation of every facet of human psychology in a work of fiction. It's brilliant, and you should read it right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:46:22 2013 No.3383821 Catch-22.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:46:22 2013 No.3383823 Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:49:23 2013 No.3383828 File: 16 KB, 200x293, 200px-Fortresssolitudecvr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3383800 This isn't a thread about the book, cunt muffin, this is about other people's favorite books. Catcher just happened to be OP's. Anyways, pic related.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:49:23 2013 No.3383829 File: 148 KB, 802x1253, holes-summary-each-chapter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] of all time.

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:50:23 2013 No.3383833
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

It just really hits home with me, it's got everything I would ever want in a book, i read it at least once every year.

Come at me bro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:52:22 2013 No.3383839 Cat's Cradle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:53:22 2013 No.3383840 >>3383833 Wouldn't dream of it. I've heard that it's a great book.

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Anonymous Mon Jan 21 21:57:22 2013 No.3383861

>>3383840
You should read it, really.

Captain Nemo is a real interesting character and its full of memorable moments and peril, shit just doesn't let up.

The only thing that turns people off of it is long descriptions of fish and stuff. But i like it, i studied biology in college and my favorite part of it was taxonomy, so yeah.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:00:22 2013 No.3383874 >>3383861 On a scale of 1-10, how lengthy are the descriptions?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:01:22 2013 No.3383878 File: 121 KB, 990x1600, clock-work-orange-book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm sorry...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:02:22 2013 No.3383885 >>3383878 You don't have to be. It's phenomenal. The film did it better, but it's still an unquestionable classic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:04:23 2013 No.3383891 File: 37 KB, 332x500, Hunger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm a sad bastard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:04:23 2013 No.3383892 File: 41 KB, 320x240, 1338615354630.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably Danielewski's House of Leaves. Or maybe Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. I'm 22, so I guess there are many more books to read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:07:22 2013 No.3383907 >>3383874 they can take up an entire page, and quite frequent in the beginning, but it dies down. 8 in the first half like 3 in the second

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:08:22 2013 No.3383911 >>3383892 What was your favorite story from that Carver collection?

>>	Standard Toaster !TOAST5/GiQ Mon Jan 21 22:10:22 2013 No.3383917 It's a tie between Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:12:22 2013 No.3383921
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>>3383907
plus the protagonist is a scientist so it makes sense, he just marvels at the variety of life in the ocean.

It's fucking awesome, really.

I love the ocean.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:12:22 2013 No.3383923 >>3383911 probably the eponymous one. Dat last line. You?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:13:23 2013 No.3383927 >>3383923 The one about those two boring married bros who pick up those teen girls and then...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:15:22 2013 No.3383935 >>3383861 I'm surprised that Cpt. Nemo doesn't get more love here on /lit/. A crazy hermit that builds a submarine so he can escape other humans? Yep.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:16:22 2013 No.3383936 >>3383927 gross!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:17:22 2013 No.3383941 >>3383697 Winesburg, Ohio

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:27:23 2013 No.3383985 >>3383941 don't hear that mentioned here often, good choice

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:28:23 2013 No.3383993 >>3383712 >judgement >e 1/10 = 10%, F See me after class, please.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:30:23 2013 No.3384001 Lord of the Flies

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:40:22 2013 No.3384048 File: 299 KB, 506x386, le browns face.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3383985 It's a fantastic book but I feel a special kinship to it given that reading it lead to a formative period in my life and that I, like Anderson, am from NE Ohio.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:42:22 2013 No.3384056 >>3383993 Judgement is English Judgment is American

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:43:23 2013 No.3384066 File: 19 KB, 200x300, 200px-White_Noise.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:45:23 2013 No.3384079 >>3384066 The books biggest flaw is that the first half only resonates with corny white suburbanites.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:45:23 2013 No.3384080 File: 29 KB, 308x475, Remains-of-the-Day-Cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I get feels just thinking about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:47:23 2013 No.3384086 >>3383917 >Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce I tried reading that once, couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on, had to stop fifty pages in. Was I missing something.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:49:22 2013 No.3384094 >>3384086 Yes you were probably missing something. The book made perfect sense and was generally straightforward.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:50:22 2013 No.3384099 >>3384079 interestingly enough i'm not white nor did i grow up in the suburbs but i still enjoyed it a lot i really liked how he examines media even if it might be far fetched i would say the biggest flaw is lack of individual characterization really

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:53:23 2013 No.3384117 >>3384056 Yes. Both are correct, so the original spelling didn't need to be corrected. I'm calling out the pompous dick on his pompous dickery. Yes, 'dickery', big whoop, wanna fight about it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:55:37 2013 No.3384128 File: 196 KB, 500x491, i'm freaking out man.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3384080 I just watched Never Let Me Go today and I've still got feels. I'm thinking of picking it instead of Player Piano for my next fiction read. >decisions

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 22:58:22 2013 No.3384142 Fever Pitch I'm a pretty sad person. If you read that book you'd know more about me than I'd like you to.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 23:07:23 2013 No.3384170 File: 53 KB, 309x480, historyoflove.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Beautiful storytelling.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 23:09:23 2013 No.3384180 File: 257 KB, 605x1027, les-mis-book-cover[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish I could learn French well enough to read it in its original language, but alas

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 23:28:23 2013 No.3384236 >>3384142 supporting Arsenal is painful. ikft,b

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 04:01:22 2013 No.3384823 Salman Rushdie- Midnight's Children OR Nabokov - Lolita

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 04:13:23 2013 No.3384842 >>3383885 really? I always thought the book was nicer. then again I probably missed the point. care to run it past me?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 04:16:22 2013 No.3384848 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy Come at me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 04:35:23 2013 No.3384885 >>3383697 I've never read a book, that is fag shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 04:45:23 2013 No.3384896 >>3384848 tried to start that the other day for a quick easy read, and because it's so popular. i thought it was really, really bad childish bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 04:51:22 2013 No.3384904 The Sound and the Fury Waiting for Godot V.

Anonymous Tue Jan 22 05:11:22 2013 No.3384924

>>3384180
agreed, and i love the book as well (though my target with learning french is proust), but dont you ever find it a bit too overblown to hit home? at times i felt it just needed a lighter touch, a bit more tact, that it was ruined by its own sentimentality. the only thing i felt it had against this was its meandering length (something which the movie removes thus killing any chance of it being good)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 22 06:45:22 2013 No.3385077 File: 1.54 MB, 833x1388, tarzan-of-the-apes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >inb4 pleb

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