/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3462060]

ITT: 10/10 books

[Anonymous No.3462067]

So damn interesting. Very well written and it's something you want to re-read again and again.

[Anonymous No.3462115]

[Anonymous No.3462123]

(1934)
>Would study again

[Anonymous No.3462141]

>>3462060
Seconding OP's submission.

[sage No.3462143]

>>3462141

Im sure we can put aside the canon for now, we all know that 99,999% of lit has read The Republic, Utopia, and nothing else.

[Anonymous No.3462148]

[Anonymous No.3462363]

>>3462143
"Sorry, Surly."
"Shut up."

[Anonymous No.3462387]

What does it say about me that I genuinely think Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses are the three best books I've ever read?

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[Anonymous No.3462708]

>>3462694

What kind of front cover is that? Wasn't the book set in the early 20th century?

[Anonymous No.3462720]

Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls

[Anonymous No.3462726]

>>3462720
forgot image

[Anonymous No.3462753]

>>3462674
Can anyone else vouch for this? I'm intrigued.

[Anonymous No.3462755]

>>3462060

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[Anonymous No.3462780]

Let's jerk this circle.

[Anonymous No.3462792]

>>3462780
lol

[Anonymous No.3462796]

this was 10/10 to me...

[Anonymous No.3462837]

>>3462708
It also didn't take place at sea.

[Anonymous No.3462876]

>>3462837

They did sail there did they not?

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[Anonymous No.3462909]

>>3462060

[Anonymous No.3462923]

>>3462909

[Anonymous No.3462920]

>>3462876
Yes, but they sure as fuck didn't encounter any castles or whatever is in the background

[Anonymous No.3462964]

>>3462753
>>3462674

I'm interested as well.

[Anonymous No.3462993]

>>3462753
>>3462964

Here's the Book
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/00551h.html

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[Anonymous No.3463022]

http://www.akirarabelais.com/v/bruschulz/august.html

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[Anonymous No.3463364]

Either 10/10 or 0/10, depending on the reader. People either love this book or cut a hole through it so they can hatefuck it. I've seen very few 'meh' responses.

[Anonymous No.3463372]

Macbeth is the only thing I've read that I'd give a full 10 to. A lot of nines though

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[Anonymous No.3463439]

>>3463346
>>3463388
My tribesmen, right here.

[Anonymous No.3463459]

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[Anonymous No.3463500]

try and touch this motherfuckers

[Anonymous No.3463545]

This is a really great thread.

[Anonymous No.3463558]

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[Anonymous No.3463582]

/lit/ doesn't have too bad a taste after all

[Anonymous No.3463584]

You know, I hated reading this book and I still hate it. Thanks to reading it though, my reading comprehension, analytical skills, and vocabulary has substantially increased.

[Anonymous No.3463590]

[Anonymous No.3463592]

>>3463459

[Anonymous No.3463605]

>>3463545
I love that cover.
I accidentally bought the shitty B&N paper classic one. The entire front flap is inverted from reading it now.

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[Anonymous No.3463621]

This is a rare cover of this book, i got it for 3 dollars from a library selling massive amounts of books on ebay.

[Anonymous No.3463635]

Nabokov - Lolita and Despair

[Anonymous No.3463636]

>>3463545
Beat me to it. Not 10/10 if a 10 is perfect, but it's still the powerful work of fiction I've ever encountered.

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[Anonymous No.3463644]

>>3463636
>but it's still the powerful work of fiction I've ever encountered.

[Anonymous No.3463647]

Thirding OP, and here's my contribootion.

[Anonymous No.3463654]

>>3463500
I love it but the prose is fucking shit so I don't give it a ten

[Anonymous No.3463656]

>>3463017
when drunk i tell girls my name is earnest.

[Anonymous No.3463659]

[Anonymous No.3463664]

Come on, where's Vonnegut?

[Anonymous No.3463668]

>>3463659
I forgive you your thumbnail. Awesome book. Smugglers scene! Dickhead dueling! Apathy!

In which vein...

[Anonymous No.3463669]

best book written

[Anonymous No.3463670]

>Hey guys, Shantaram here, don't mind me! I'm just the best book written since the turn of the century!

[Anonymous No.3463675]

can someone make a chart of all the books itt? too lazy, hope one of you guys will

pic is one that I've never seen mentioned here, but it's very very good for what it's worth

[Anonymous No.3463676]

>>3463023

[Anonymous No.3463682]

YA, But 10/10 YA

[Anonymous No.3463684]

Maybe it's just nostalgia but hey-ho.

[Anonymous No.3463687]

[Anonymous No.3463689]

not trolling, it was the first book i ever read in one sitting

[Anonymous No.3463693]

someone to do a chart?

not a literary masterpiece, but it's so sincere and true

[Anonymous No.3463697]

[Anonymous No.3463698]

>>3463693
no charts

[Anonymous No.3463702]

>>3462704
Just started reading it, 30% through. Gatsby and the roaring twenties seem nice.

[Anonymous No.3463706]

>>3463439
Second this... I actually cried when Orr disappeared.

While we're at it, the most successful french novel ever, and a damn good read.

[Anonymous No.3463707]

>>3463693
I'm about 3/4 of the way trough this, it's amazing.

[Anonymous No.3463708]

You need only read the title story.

[Anonymous No.3463711]

>>3463621
That's a fantastic Cover! Mine has Republican Soldiers doing the Closed Fist Salute.
An impressive Book, without a doubt

[Anonymous No.3463716]

John Steinbeck - To A God Unknown

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>>3463729
What do you think of "The Old Man And The Sea"?

[Anonymous No.3463735]

>>3462796
We the Living is definitely her magnum opus. Although the protagonist's actions sometimes make no sense, it's the most detailed account of post-revolution Russia I've ever read. It reeks of passion and truth.

Everything else she wrote is rightly derided.

[Anonymous No.3463739]

Read it a long time ago, but i remember really enjoying it

[Anonymous No.3463742]

>>3462067
>>3462909
>>3463017
>>3463439
>>3463459
Love you guys
>>3463644
This is an interesting distinction I think he has made. You can recognized that something is nearly perfectly crafted, but it still doesn't influence your emotions, sort of like how >>3463584 feels about Gravity's Rainbow. I feel like this about Richard Brautigan, I feel like he tells beautiful stories with inventive imagery and I like that a lot but some times the prose can be a little awkward, but I wouldn't change it even if I could because I enjoy the personality of it and it affects me so.

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[Anonymous No.3463770]

>>3463746
Started it (am german)
Aborted it
Whats wrong with that bullshit?

[Anonymous No.3463772]

>>3463689
gah, it's so dull!

[Anonymous No.3463796]

[Anonymous No.3463797]

I made a chart despite barely visiting /lit/, at the very least it should help me pick some books. Added my own pick (The Forever War).

Hope it comes out alright

[Anonymous No.3463811]

>>3463670
it is indeed awesome

but careful son, i'd not say it's the best in the last 13 years

[Anonymous No.3463814]

>>3463797
danke

[Anonymous No.3463822]

>>3463797
Noice. Can't wait to see the finished product. You're going to add more stuff to that, right?

[Anonymous No.3463846]

>>3463742
wait a second. I read the same argument in "Hearts in Atlantis" by Stephen King, and the character's name was Brautigan.
Is it a coincidence? you read this king's book? or great minds blablabla?

[Anonymous No.3463844]

>>3463364
i did hate it, didn't love it. Thought it was interesting but not enough to finish it, stopped prbly 4/5th through

[Anonymous No.3463848]

>>3463822

It's 11:16pm and I have to be up at 7am tommorow. If the thread is still up I'll patch it up, if anyone else wants to do it all you do is open it in paint.net, then post in images and resize them to be about the same as the ones next to it. It's freeware, using standard MS paint won't work though (doesn't auto-readjust images leading to uglyness).

Will check back in about 16 hours, also might add Wait until Spring Bandini

>>3463814

No problem bro

[Anonymous No.3463856]

>>3463846
Which is 10/10 by the way

[noko No.3463864]

>>3463545
Only God can judge man, but God is dead, and we have killed him.

[Anonymous No.3463866]

>>3463770
I (as a german, too) found it very intriguing...

[Anonymous No.3463906]

>>3463846
Wow that's funny, I'll look into this... I've never read that book or any Stephen King.

[Anonymous No.3463952]

>>3463621
Is it that tiny in real life?

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[Anonymous No.3463998]

am i the only person who finds Steinbeck's writing cumbersome and dull? It was a chore to get through his books. This coming from someone who read Silmarillion cover to cover in rapt fascination.

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[Anonymous No.3464036]

>>3463998
I feel the same way.

[Anonymous No.3464045]

>>3463998
you seem like a major pleb, but, yeah, I find his books pretty dull. I also don't like the settings, not because they're bad for the stories or anything, I just don't like the california central valley. monterey is nice though

[Anonymous No.3464046]

>>3463998
I tried to read grapes of wrath but after however many pages of fields and farmers and nothing at all catching my interest, I stopped reading.

This was like 10 years ago so maybe my tastes have matured since then, but I found what I read wholly unimpressive.

[Anonymous No.3464051]

>>3463998
I can see that to be a valid opinion towards his writing. One thing I noticed is how in depth Steinbeck goes in his descriptions- especially if it's a description of nature. It seems to come down to what you are looking for from his work. I like these types of aesthetic details within a novel. That is the reason why I was slightly disappointed with the works of Hemingway. But, the opposite can certainly apply as well.
I haven't read Silmarillion but I could imagine that Tolkien is arduous in a different sense from aesthetic detail. I could be wrong though.

[Anonymous No.3464057]

Couldn't put this down.

[Anonymous No.3464073]

>>3464051
you are not wrong.
Silmarillion is reading a chronicle of the entire existence of a high fantasy world from beginning to cold, dark, depressing end. I've been told it's long and cumbersome, hard to read through. It's bit of a history textbook at times.

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[Anonymous No.3464234]

>>3464225
I am ashamed to admit it, but I think I actually liked the tv show better than the books.

[Anonymous No.3464243]

>>3464234
I might be in the same boat, they couldn't have gotten more suited actors. And now whenever I read the books it's always Fry and Laurie I imagine.

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[Anonymous No.3464308]

I don't have a pic of it in pdf, but it's available online for free.

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sany_1.PdF

Psychopaths are an interesting topic to begin with. But more interesting is that THIS book brought clinical psychopathy as we understand it today into academic and public acceptance.

Adding to that, Cleckley was an incredibly entertaining writer, and his case studies are rife with unintentional comedy.

[Anonymous No.3464318]

>>3464290

pleb

[Anonymous No.3464386]

>>3462920
aren't the mountains castles covered in ice and snow? been a while since i read it

[Anonymous No.3464398]

>>3463621
for those to lazy to reverse image search its Homage to Catalonia

[Anonymous No.3464399]

>>3463675
check the sticky

[Anonymous No.3464403]

[Anonymous No.3464409]

>>3462060

[Anonymous No.3464415]

Ovid's Metamorphoses

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>>3463742
I believe he was mocking my typo rather than my notion that a 10/10 book can be perfect. However, you pretty much summed up how I felt about TBK. The flaws almost contribute to what makes it so great and so real for me.

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[Anonymous No.3464520]

>>3464518
I genuinely think that's a great cover.

[Anonymous No.3464529]

>>3463664
Reading it now.
Not particularly thrilled.
Not sure why he put himself in his own book.

[Anonymous No.3464535]

>>3464520
in describing the book it is indeed apt.

[Anonymous No.3464537]

>>3464290
I was about to post this

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[Anonymous No.3464578]

>>3463022
yes

[Anonymous No.3464581]

10/10. Easily.

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[Anonymous No.3464623]

>>3464581

Good stuff? I've had my eye on that book for a long time.

[Anonymous No.3464627]

>>3463492
Muh nigga
This book gave me so many feels

[Anonymous No.3464639]

The way he wrote the ending, was just so beautifully sad.

[Anonymous No.3464656]

[Anonymous No.3464671]

I've read this about numerous times, I still love it. Catch-22 is also a 10 for me but it's already been mentioned.

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[Anonymous No.3464786]

>>3463023
There is someone out there!

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>>3464671
Ma nigga. I'm a big fan of Tortilla Flat too.

[Anonymous No.3464834]

>>3464786
>>3463023
This book literally made me depressed in middle school. And not in a good, learn-something-from-it way. In a way that makes me never want to see or hear of that mound of filth ever again.

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[Anonymous No.3464869]

>>3463689
The best book I've ever read.

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[Anonymous No.3464881]

>>3463998

Fuck man, the Silmarillion is the most boring book I've ever read, and I love Steinbeck. Different Strokes I guess.

[Anonymous No.3464909]

>>3462060

how does HST get mentioned before this?

[Anonymous No.3464925]

>>3463684
>>3463684
>>3463684


Dats wutsup dawg!

[Anonymous No.3464932]

>>3463647
nice

[Anonymous No.3464937]

>>3463708
my man. that emotional fishing story

[Anonymous No.3464939]

My reading list is so long now.

[Anonymous No.3464943]

[Anonymous No.3464946]

>>3463708

USFS 1919 is worth reading for the following quote alone: "Life every now and then becomes literature - not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened."

[Anonymous No.3464951]

>>3464688
I could never understand why this was so favourited by Murakami readers... I read Norwegian Wood first and loved it. But Windup Bird Chronicle seemed to share far too many traits with his other novels.

[Anonymous No.3464956]

>>3464684
Reading this right now for the first time, and, while at times I find myself laughing, I can't help but become slightly depressed. This is the only book I've enjoyed where I don't like a single one of the characters.

[Anonymous No.3464964]

Merely because each book would be only ok, 8/10 or 9/10 on their own, but when read together they're easily 10/10 as each sequel compliments the previous book so well. I went into this expecting generic dark fantasy, what I got was an excellent story, defying my genre savvy expectations. I almost gave up on Fantasy as a genre entirely until reading this book.

[Anonymous No.3464968]

Who knew the French could be funny

[Anonymous No.3464985]

1/2

Marquez is the best prose write in existence

[Anonymous No.3464988]

2/2

mostly because vonnegut expresses so many great speculative fiction ideas in this book and everything is resolved so nicely

that's my input, great thread btw, carry on

[Anonymous No.3464998]

>>3463968
about to read this after i finish the odysee, is it really as depressing as everybody makes it out to be?

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[Anonymous No.3465027]

>>3464998
I found it quite depressing. But it's not nearly as cynic and misanthropic as say Journey by Celine.

[Anonymous No.3465035]

>>3465001
Wasn't impressed, Gideon's corpse was better, but it still doesn't capture the glory of the early pendergast stuff.

[Anonymous No.3465040]

>>3463968
Seconding Stoner.

[Anonymous No.3465041]

>>3465035
I was kinda kidding.
To be honest, I loved almost everything about this book, except for the last 3 chapters, which were even more generic, I was posting it because I thought /lit/ hated it.
And I haven't read Gideon's Corpse yet, but I'm eager to do it.
Is it good?

[Anonymous No.3465048]

>>3465041
its better, by far, but I still don't really feel the character, he is a bit cheesy for my taste. you get a bit more of his backstory though, which is nice, and it just feels more epic and story-worthy then the first one.

That being said, if you haven't read their pendergast books or their stand alones those are a way better use of time.

I would recommend "riptide" and "Still life with crows" most of all of their work.

[Anonymous No.3465050]

>ctrl+f
>Augustine
>Confessions
>0 results

He's arguably the founder of existentialism 1600 years before existentialism was founded.

[Anonymous No.3465052]

>>3465048
Sweet.
I found Sword good, if Corpse is any good, I will read the rest of their shit.

[Anonymous No.3465053]

>>3463742
>Richard Brautigan
I just finished In Watermelon Sugar last night and it felt nice and calming. Did you read Trout Fishing in America? How was it?

[Anonymous No.3465055]

>>3462757
I agree.

[Anonymous No.3465056]

>>3464057
I feel yah. I loved that book. Dat ending

[Anonymous No.3465060]

>>3465052
they are probably some of the best techno-thriller writers working today. If you enjoy that kind of story then you will like there other books. If you want some character overlap and backstory on EEF and Eli Glinn then check out "the ice limit" he was the main character of that one

[Anonymous No.3465206]

>>3464656
>'Well...' You zip up your coat. Through the window the neon doughnut sign shines in at you, the door of doors, the gateway to everything beyond, today and yesterday and the day before, all the times and people you have ever loved. 'Maybe it's my lucky day,' you say.

10/10, unique feels.

[Anonymous No.3465243]

>>3462060
best book ever red, no doubt

[Anonymous No.3465257]

shantaram

[Anonymous No.3465270]

The Crying of Lot 49

It was the first book I read that wasn't Stephen King or Tom Clancy, and not required for school in some way. I read it incredibly slowly and let it all sink in, and it's still one of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.3465276]

>>3465270
If you haven't, I recommend reading more Pynchon. That's one of his weaker works.

[Anonymous No.3465278]

>>3465276
I've gotten all of his books over the past few months as gifts or just for myself, and I've been putting off getting into them because reasons...

[Anonymous No.3465312]

And I absolutely plain did not like The Road.

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[Anonymous No.3465687]

>>3463797
Anyone going to continue the chart??
I'd appreciate it :D

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[Anonymous No.3465765]

step up, nigga

[Anonymous No.3465774]

>>3463702
when you are done go back and read the first few pages again. you will feel a feel only feelers feel.

[Anonymous No.3465775]

couldn't decide whether i like Demian or Narcissus more

[Anonymous No.3465778]

>>3465745
I finished this 4 days ago but didn't really like it. It was 2edgy4me. I love Siddhartha however.

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[Anonymous No.3465783]

>today, op was not a faggot

[Anonymous No.3465793]

>>3465781
A fellow Portubro? Why I never...

[Anonymous No.3465804]

>>3465793
There ain't no Neo-Realist Literature like Portuguese Neo-Realist Literature

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[Anonymous No.3465810]

>>3465804
Portuguese Cover.

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[Anonymous No.3465867]

>>3463459

Mah niggah.

<-- My pick.

[Anonymous No.3465877]

It is so refreshing to see some books that I haven't seen posted here a million times already.

[Anonymous No.3465898]

>>3463848 / >>3463797

Here, finished the 2.0 version of the image. Again hopefully it comes out looking ok

[Anonymous No.3465910]

>>3463689
McCarthy is such a master of symbolism and imagery. His books, especially the road, are a such a great example of modern literature outlining our own world of almost inexplicable darkness - The Road was hard to read not because it was poorly written, but the world he painted was so dark and ashen that it really made you feel that you were in a world devoid of humanity or light

[Anonymous No.3465920]

>>3463664
Reading it now. The flagrant anti-capitalism makes the book massively dated.

[Anonymous No.3465925]

>>3465898
Why did you add Mein Kampf? It was a troll
(good job by the way!)

[Anonymous No.3465932]

>>3465920
>The flagrant anti-capitalism makes the book massively dated

I'd say it looks just almost as pertinent today as it did then.

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[Anonymous No.3465943]

Completely Forgotten by most.
One of the Best Books ever written.

[Anonymous No.3465945]

>>3465932
The narrators interpretation of history is borderline retarded. Unless the post contemporary segments are supposed to place it in some alternate world.
There's a segment where he sums up Communism as some benign ideology where everyone shares to contrast with America. Surely every idiot in the 70s realised Communism has almost always been a tool for expansionism fueled by an uneducated overzealous working class.

[Anonymous No.3465955]

Also Blood Meridian, The Metamorphosis, and "A Clean Well Lighted Place" and "My Appearance" (dfw)

[Anonymous No.3465958]

>>3465324

Good to see Grass in this thread. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

[Anonymous No.3465977]

>>3465925

Just ended up adding everything, speaking of which I've tweaked it around a bit. Added a few books, changed images of some to make them easier to read (Street of Crocodiles I couldn't read at all with the old cover).

Deleting the old pic

[Anonymous No.3466003]

>>3465955
Seconding Well Lighted Place and The Metamorphosis. Two of the best short stories I've ever read.

Shout out to Ohio.

[Anonymous No.3466007]

>>3465977
Good work. It's much better than all those repetitive /lit/core pastas.

[Anonymous No.3466010]

Anna Karenina. Faulkner described it as the best novel ever written.

[Anonymous No.3466011]

>>3466003
Seconding Winesburg

[Anonymous No.3466014]

>>3465977
I hope you have a larger version or one with author+title.

Most of those covers are unreadable.

[Anonymous No.3466020]

>>3463612
My man! This is the one fantasy series that I can confidently say is better than the LoTR trilogy. Not as influential, sure, but definitely better.

[Anonymous No.3466021]

imo... could be wrong

[Anonymous No.3466022]

>>3465818
seriously?

[Anonymous No.3466030]

>>3466014

Use the middle mouse button and click on it to open in a new tab. You can then zoom in further using this image

>>3466007

Cheers big ears

[Anonymous No.3466033]

>>3466022
>implying that's the worst thing in this thread

It's all about personal opinion, don't be a hater.

[Anonymous No.3466038]

>>3466033
Not trying to be a hater, I was kind of looking for a clarification. Not saying that it's a bad book, it has it's charms. But 10/10. I was surprised to see it here.

[Anonymous No.3466040]

>>3466038
its charms. I know i'm illiterate.

[Anonymous No.3466048]

>>3465977
I like the idea, shit people actually read and liked rather than some hive-mind he-said-he-said-he-said shit

[Anonymous No.3466050]

Is Italo Calvino known outside Italy?
This book is a masterpiece, really worth reading

[Anonymous No.3466052]

>>3466050
I'm dumb, I forgot the pic

[Anonymous No.3466067]

>God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked pages; for, unless he should bring to his reading a rigorous logic and a sustained mental effort at least as strong as his distrust, the lethal fumes of this book shall dissolve his soul as water does sugar.

Its unheard of to have good meta-literature written in the gothic style. But here it is, this one is way to unloved for its own good.

[Anonymous No.3466073]

I could see how people have problems with this one, but it's a 10/10 for me.

It's got everything I'd ever want in a novel. I've been reading it at least once a year since middle school. (im 23 now)

[Anonymous No.3466074]

>>3466050
>Is Italo Calvino known outside Italy

Sure, he has quite the following here in Portugal. This is the only book I've read though I also have some Italian folk tale books compiled by him which I really haven't read.

[Anonymous No.3466099]

>>3466073
What about Journey to the Center of the Earth?

[Anonymous No.3466113]

How has Adams not been brought up yet?

[Anonymous No.3466114]

>>3466073
It's good too but I think that one is a bit overrated.

I'm a bit more of a nautical guy anyways. The ocean has always fascinated me. Leauges always seemed like it was tailor-made to my interests.

[Anonymous No.3466116]

>>3466074
Also from Portugal, read the Path to the Nest of Spiders and The Baron In The Trees and enjoyed both immensely, thought the Baron is superior

[Anonymous No.3466124]

>>3466074
I'm glad he has a following outside his homeland, he deserved it :)

[Anonymous No.3466132]

>>3466116
I suggest you to read The Cloven Viscount ( Il visconte dimezzato) and The Nonexistent Knight
( Il cavaliere inesistente) and complete the araldic trilogy

[Anonymous No.3466150]

>>3466067
I'll never understand how Lautréamont could be great friends with Victor Hugo and Baudelaire and remain so unknown outside France.

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[Anonymous No.3466264]

>>3466113
Because he's nowhere fucking close to a 10

[Anonymous No.3466304]

[Anonymous No.3466311]

>>3466264
I agree with this. I love Adams but his work have little to no actual literary merit.

[imafuckingbutt No.3466463]

>>3465867
>>3466052
these two and pic related

/mu/ says hi

[Anonymous No.3466475]

>>3465053
I liked In Watermelon Sugar more than Trout Fishing, but they're different enough and both are brilliant in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.3466482]

American Psycho
Best narration I've read in a long, long time.

[Anonymous No.3466515]

>>3462060

[Anonymous No.3466518]

>>3463018
great book. i'm not seeing 10/10 worthy though

[Anonymous No.3466594]

[Anonymous No.3466606]

[Anonymous No.3466613]

>>3465027
i've also heard one person say he read it as uplifting because his life sucks ass but he just abides with it, some kind of daoist shit i don't know but i guess i'll figure out myself

[Anonymous No.3466616]

link:
http://www.online-literature.com/csterton/man_thursday/1/

[Anonymous No.3466635]

>>3465778
felt the same way, i liked certain parts like the treatise and the magic theatre but the whole thing seemed too personal to me, like he was writing it for himself more than the reader, either way siddharta is awesome

[Anonymous No.3466656]

Cover to cover, couldn't put it down.

[Anonymous No.3466658]

>>3464909

Beat me to it, my man.

[Anonymous No.3466681]

>>3462060

I'm gonna throw down some 10/10 short story collections. And yes, this is better than final del juego

[Anonymous No.3466683]

>>3466681

This woman is a genius

[Anonymous No.3466685]

>>3466681

Last on the collection front, gotta run

[Anonymous No.3466694]

[Anonymous No.3466702]

>>3466683
>Dat filename
That story is so goddamn good.

[Anonymous No.3466709]

[Anonymous No.3466716]

[Anonymous No.3466753]

>>3463864
0/10

[Anonymous No.3466793]

>>3463689
>>3465910
Ok, you convinced me. I loved the movie for because:
> the world he painted was so dark and ashen that it really made you feel that you were in a world devoid of humanity or light
If book is better, like it is usualy, I'm gonna love the shit out of that one. Next on my list!

[Anonymous No.3466796]

>>3463864
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcq4xzVs
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[That guy with the chart No.3466889]

Updated it one last time for today, added a few books, changed a couple of covers and removed a duplicate of The Brothers Karamazov.

As a note: I am aware the image is small, to make it readable open it in a new tab (Right click + open in new tab OR click using the scroll wheel) and then you can use the magnifying glass to zoom in on that. I can read everything there once this has been done, so you should be able to as well.

Deleting the old image, will update again presuming the thread is still alive and semi-active in about 16 hours.

PS: Had to change the file type to gif to fit under the maximum file size. Will probably make a part 2 in future if this continues, hopefully this won't affect image quality too much

[Anonymous No.3466907]

[Anonymous No.3466967]

In my opinion better than "A Handsmaids Tale".

The secound installment"Year of the Flood" is good too, but Oryx and Crake just takes the cake.

[Anonymous No.3466987]

2666

[Anonymous No.3467002]

>>3462060
I bet more than a few people have tried to post mein kampf without realizing its already there and thats an unoriginal joke.

[Anonymous No.3467007]

>>3467002
Out of all the WWII war leaders, does Hitler have the best-selling biography?

[Anonymous No.3467021]

>>3467007
Thats hard to say.. I doubt Nazi Germany kept accurate (see:Not inflated) records of the fuhrer's book sales abroad.. I remember reading that it did sell very well in Germany and atleast a few occupied countries. I think it was given away eventually if not for most of its time of popularity similar to how churches will give you (or atleast me) a bible.

[Anonymous No.3467024]

[Anonymous No.3467154]

>>3464593
seconding

[Anonymous No.3467407]

>>3466052
I just finished it. I'ts quite playful and dreamy. Not a 10/10 in my book though.

[Anonymous No.3467425]

>>3466613
You probably should. It's a beautiful novel, so you are in for a treat.

[Anonymous No.3467426]

>>3466709
How is Mother? I've wanted to read some Gorky, but I wasn't sure what to go for.

[Anonymous No.3467439]

>>3466635
I felt somewhat the same way. Except that I pretty much liked the story up until the theater. From there on out it became a tad to blurry and dreamy for me.

[Anonymous No.3467449]

>>3466889
Thanks man!

[Anonymous No.3467784]

>>3466967
Mah nigga.

[Anonymous No.3467886]

>>3466594
this looks really interesting. Never heard of it or him. Thanks for the mention.
Also, toasting in a great thread.

[Anonymous No.3467966]

>>3462704

>Dem closing sentences

Muh feels

[Anonymous No.3468010]

>>3463697

Nuggah.

[Anonymous No.3468052]

>>3462753
It's very good, but also very long and sometimes long-winded. You won't know if it's for you until you try reading it, though.

[Anonymous No.3468075]

>>3463346
But did you read it in the original French?

[Anonymous No.3468112]

>>3465312
My fucking nigger.
I didn't like the Road either.

[Anonymous No.3468117]

>>3463693
great book, I liked it a lot. really gritty stuff.

[Anonymous No.3468118]

>>3463729
Fuck that's some good shit.

[Anonymous No.3468348]

>>3464057
I agree, my favourite novella.

[Anonymous No.3468750]

>>3463664
10/10 you have got to kidding?
Imagine the book is a meal being judged.
The writing/food is there but it has no taste, no garnish, no spices, it's bland and amateur.

[Anonymous No.3468753]

>>3463682
Yes. Is it strange that this is the only work by Pratchett I've liked? Every other discworld I've tried I've found to be not really written well and not very mature.

Did Pratchett do anything else like Nation?

[Anonymous No.3468762]

>>3465257
Easily

[Anonymous No.3468771]

>>3468762

/lit/ sure has deteriorated. There was a time on here, not too long ago, when that would have been chosen ironically. To each his own, I guess.

[Anonymous No.3468782]

>>3468771
Most definitely to each his own, I'm sure I would "wut" at many of your favorites, it's great that we all like different things.

[Anonymous No.3468803]

>mfw I lived in Monterey, CA
>mfw I won't be back there in a few years

[Anonymous No.3468880]

>>3466889
Thanks for the list. But there are just so many movies, so many video games and so many books I want to watch, play and read. I dont have time for it all.

[Anonymous No.3469164]

How strange. No one spoke of Tolstoy. War and Peace is the greatest novel of all time, and probably is also be the best book of all. Shakespeare, in my view, is greater than Tolstoy, but the wealth of talent are more diffuse, scattered over a large number of statements, speeches and scenes. Shakespeare is, d elonge, the greatest poet of all time, the greatest master of verbal manipulation. I'm with Nabokov when he says: "The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays the plays."

[Anonymous No.3469176]

>>3469164
>Shakespeare is, d elonge, the greatest poet of all time, the greatest master of verbal manipulation.
Says the monolingual dude who only speaks English. Get a grip on yourself, you retard.

[Anonymous No.3469206]

>>3464529
2deep4u

[Anonymous No.3469213]

>>3469164
gtfo Bloom

[Anonymous No.3469334]

>>3468880
Then cut out the video games...
You'll have more time for movies and books :P

[Anonymous No.3469358]

>>3462060
infinite jest

[Anonymous No.3469363]

"Says the monolingual dude who only speaks English. Get a grip on yourself, you retard."

Actually my native language is Portuguese. I also speak Spanish. But to be honest, even though I want that other poets have the same verbal power (and mostly metaphorical power) that Shakespeare, I've searched and searched and never found anything to compare. To get a sense of the grandeur of verbal and imaginative fabric of Shakespeare, I suggest reading the Caroline Spurgeon's book: "Shakespeare's imagery and what i tell it us."

"gtfo Bloom"

I also hate Harold Bloom: he is a critic of literature that makes us hate Shakespeare, rather than admire him. I suggest reading the criticism of Harold Bloom made by Joseph Epstein: It is very funny, and true.

[Anonymous No.3469369]

>>3469363
I sense that you are an obnoxious faggot.

[Anonymous No.3469389]

>>3469164
>War and Peace is the greatest novel of all time
xD

[Anonymous No.3469390]

"I sense that you are an obnoxious faggot."

Well man, this is the internet, Are not we all what you say I am?

I'm just giving an opinion (as we all do here) is nothing scientific. But at least I'm not calling others fagots and stuff.

[Anonymous No.3469402]

>>3469390
This thread has headed in an unusual direction

[Anonymous No.3469642]

>>3469334
I already have. I just spend all my time studying. Well and 4chan and movies.
My internet addiction takes up to much time.

[That guy with the chart No.3470657]

I made a few minor changes to the chart, but it honestly doesn't seem worth posting as the changes are so tiny.

Added a couple, two different covers and enlarged the Gogol collection so that it was easier to read. Deleting the 2.2 version

>>3469642

I gave up on film/TV so that I had enough time for videogames and books.