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3577322 No.3577322 [Reply] [Original]

So this is probably my first post on this section of 4chan well ever...anyways I was going to ask you all a simple question.

What is the best book that you've ever read.

For me it would have to be Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

>> No.3577343

Get out.

>> No.3577353
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3577353

YOU MEAN THE BOOK THAT ONE LIKES THE MOST.

FROM NONCONTEMPORARY LITERATURE:

STYLISTICALLY: "LOLITA".

CONCEPTUALLY: "ATLAS SHRUGGED".

>> No.3577361

1/10 I'm bothering to respond

>> No.3577369

Although I started reading Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes today and honestly it's pretty good but I don't think it's as good as Atlas Shrugged.

>> No.3577375

Wait wait wait...let me guess this is /mu/ but for the "intellectual", or in essence a cess pool for people to gather to inflate there own self instated ego by asking what hidden book on sociology/psychology/the universe that they could spend there time with the hope of saying there life is now complete because they read something no one else has before.

My bad

>> No.3577559
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3577559

>>3577375
a lot of assumptions there.

Pic is my favorite book.

>> No.3577564

>>3577375
Not really man. But after critical evaluation one can determine Atlas Shrugged is not a good book.

Besides, this book gets posted a lot to 'bamboozle' people here.

But if you, as >>3577353 said, mean that you liked it most. Then go ahead.

>> No.3577636
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3577636

This is just so beautiful. I hope Narziß und Goldmund (which I'll probably start in two weeks) is similar to Siddhartha because I really didn't like Steppenwolf.

>> No.3577694

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

>> No.3577696

>>3577636
It is indeed like Siddhartha, same story of a person leaving his familiar surroundings and travelling around an extensive area having sex and learning different trades.
Although I can't understand why you would prefer Siddhartha to Steppenwolf.

>> No.3577703

>>3577636
It's more similar to Siddhartha than Steppenwolf. In fact, when I read Siddhartha after Narcissus and Goldmund it felt an awful lot like a not-as-good version of Narcissus and Goldmund with added Buddhist stuff. Probably like Steppenwolf the most out of the three, though, but it's pretty different so I can see why you wouldn't.

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3577707

One Hundred Years of Solitude

I have never been so emotionally impacted by a book, i was in tears by the end of it. No book has taught me so much about myself.

>> No.3577731

>>3577636
Siddhartha was intended for young men. Steppenwolf was intended for the middle aged, although it was co-opted by the hippies. Maybe come back to it later in life.

>> No.3577872

>>3577696
>>3577703
>>3577731
I liked parts of Steppenwolf as for instance the protagonist's constant struggle with his own self (or the different facets of his self). What I didn't like about Steppenwolf is that in maybe the first two thirds of the book there is almost no character development (which is of course intended). I also disliked the end which was just a bit too surreal for my taste.

All in all, Steppenwolf misses most of the things I liked in Siddhartha.
But it may very well be true that I need to pick it up again in a couple of years even though I feek like I might have been able to enjoy the book more when at age 18 or even younger.

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>>3577707
I've been meaning to read this one. I hear it's quite incredible.

>>3577636
I have this book - a gift from an ex - but I've yet to read it. I wasn't sure exactly what it was, but seeing it mentioned here makes me want to take a look at it. It looks relatively small too.

>>3577322
>pic related