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ITT: Post your personal 10/10 favorite books.

>> No.3670346

Another one of these threads?

Snow Crash.

>> No.3670356

The Trial
Sirens of Titan

>> No.3670365

The Pale King

>> No.3670368

To The Lighthouse

>> No.3670383

>>3670346

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>> No.3670384

The Story of an African Farm
Mason & Dixon
Germinal
Jane Eyre
Lord of the Flies (entry-level, sure, but great nonetheless)
Grapes of Wrath
Patterson
Othello
A Midsummer's Night Dream
The Island of Dr. Moreau
GUT Symmetries
Neuromancer
Labyrinths
Kafka's short fiction
Turn of the Screw
The Golden Apples
As I lay Dying
The Atlas

>> No.3670399

"Osman" by Ivan Gundulić from my national literature (one really has to know the language to fully appreciate this magnum opus),
"A Hero of our Time" by Liermontov from world literature.

>> No.3670401

>>3670384
>Neuromancer
You haven't actually read all those books, have you?

>> No.3670405

>>3670401

Yes. Some of them I've read multiple times too. So I love Neuromancer: shoot me.

>> No.3670409

Catch-22

>> No.3670412

>>3670405
So how many books do you read a year?
Do you just so happen to love every single book you read?
That's quite a large list.

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3670419

The Alchemist, I fuckin' loved that book.

>> No.3670430

>>3670419
Ah, also Macbeth, The Machine, The Wolfling, Knight's Heir, and a few others I quite enjoyed.

>> No.3670436
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3670436

It's perfect!


On an unrelated note (I just had to post this somewhere in /lit) I just went /pol/ and tried to have a conversation
never again, hold me

>> No.3670439

Mother night

>> No.3670448

>>3670412

You are underestimating my age. I've read from 500-1000 books. My list is not that long considering.

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>>3670343
I have never given anything a 10/10 in my life.

That being said, I'd say The City of Thieves by David Benioff. I laughed. I cried. I was so wrought by the book, I'm actually afraid to read it again. It sounds weird, but I'm a very emotional person.

>> No.3670456

>>3670448
Ha. We have an 80-year-old on /lit/.

>> No.3670462

>>3670436
My favorite book, man. So many tears were shed reading this even when it wasn't suppose to be sad.

>> No.3670572

>>3670456
>being this stupid
I'm 22 and I've read at least a hundred books in the last five years.

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game of thrones
storm of swords

>> No.3670600

>>3670456
i know you're a shitposting tripfriend and I shouldn't expect anything but shit from you, but do you seriously think 500 is a lot of books to have read? I probably read 12 books a month, and have since highschool. fucking pleb

>> No.3670604

>>3670600
obviously some months I read one or two or sometimes none, and I've reread stuff

>> No.3670611

>>3670591
a flock of seagulls.

>> No.3670613

>>3670456
1000 books is really not so many books that it would take you an entire lifetime.

like, at a casual pace of 10 books a year, you'd be there in 10 years.

>> No.3670616

>>3670613
>like, at a casual pace of 10 books a year, you'd be there in 10 years.
What?

>> No.3670618

>>3670591
milk of magnesia

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>>3670456
>80 years to read 1000 books

>> No.3670625

>>3670613
10x10

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>>3670613
>10 books a year for 10 years equals 1000 books

>> No.3670737

>>3670572
>>3670600
>>3670613
>>3670622
>2013
>being troll'd this easily

Ya'll some morons. My favorite is the guy who says its probably a troll and then goes on and gets troll'd. lel

>> No.3671352

>>3670384

>turn of the screw

Could you please explain what you like so much about it? Since I did not like it at all and would love to hear why one might love it.

>> No.3671359

A Clockwork Orange
The Catcher In The Rye
The Sirens Of Titan
Slaughterhouse-Five
Breakfast Of Champions
Brave New World

>> No.3671387
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>>3670611
>>3670618

>> No.3671390

The Catcher in The Rye
The Neverending Story
Discovery of Heaven

>> No.3671393

Ningen Shikkaku
Siddharta
Demian
Steppenwolfe
La Increible y Triste Historia de la Candida Erendira y su Abuela Desalmada
A Clockwork Orange
The Stranger

>> No.3671440

The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.3671447
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the ego and the own

the book of monelle

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>> No.3671555

>>3671440
Hurr big books are smart

>> No.3671568

>>3671555
>people who like big books make me feel inferior, so obviously that's their design in liking them at all

>> No.3671579

The Moon and Sixpence

>> No.3671628
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Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg.. well all Thomas mann..

>> No.3671632

>>3670436
I've always had a problem with this book. The "Prince" always passes judgement on everyone when he is hopping planets, but he never seems to question why he considers himself a prince. I know its a children's book but it just always bothered me.

>> No.3671636

>>3670401
>not liking Neuromancer

How new are you to /lit/?

>> No.3671641
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A very fine read for all ages.

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3671644

i can't really find one flaw with this.

>> No.3671664

"V." by Pynchon. I've already read it a few times, and I'll probably read it quite a few more.

"Sometimes a Great Notion" by Kesey. Beautiful writing, fascinating characters. Even the title is great. Just a magnificent novel.

No other ones come directly to mind at this moment.

>> No.3671720

Independent People

>> No.3671739

The Great Gatsby

>> No.3671741

>>3671440
>Atlas Shrugged
You have terrible taste

>> No.3671764

>>3671741
And you sir have the smallest penis ever!!!

>> No.3671777

The haunted mask

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fuck was this a long book...

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>> No.3671820

ITT: cock flapping.

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>>3671820
>tfw cock flapping

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3671829

Favorite Book, perfect in so many ways.

>> No.3671830

>>3671797
And it was worth every goddamn page, wasn't it?

>> No.3671832

Where the Red Fern Grows

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Such a good book.

>> No.3671858

>>3671843
Oh, I've heard good things about this book, perhaps I'll read it next.

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It was my first Murakami.
Being 16 might've had something to do with it, but I loved it immensely at the time.

Never wore off, still love it.

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cry, the beloved country

>> No.3671874

>>3671858
Simple read that can be done in one sittings, but it packs a punch in such a small number of pages.

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>>3670384

Pynchon's Mason & Dixon?

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>>3670611

I walk along the avenue.

>> No.3671890

>>3671874
yee, from what I understand Tim O' Brien pretty much only wrote about his experiences, and about writing about his experiences and as such while his writing may seem limited, it is extremely focused and sharp. have only read things they carried and maybe something else though.

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Saul Bellow doesn't get nearly enough love on /lit/ imo

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>>3670611

I never thought I'd meet a girl like you.

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>>3670611

Meet a girl like you.

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>>3670611

With auburn hair and tawny eyes.

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>>3670611

The kind of eyes that hypnotize me through.

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>>3670611

And I ran.

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>>3670611

I ran so far away.

>> No.3671947

>>3670436
>tfw read this in #based original french
10/10 goat kids book

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>>3670611


I just ran.

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>>3670611

I ran all night and day.

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>>3670611

I couldn't get away.

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>>3670611

A cloud appears above your head.

>> No.3672015
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>>3670611

A beam of light comes shining down on you.

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>>3670611

Shining down on you.

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>>3670611

The cloud is moving nearer still.

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>>3670611

Aurora borealis comes in view

>> No.3672043

I'm sorry but what the fuck is going on

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>>3670611

Aurora comes in view.

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>>3670611

And I ran.

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>>3670611

I ran so far away.

>> No.3672068

>>3671352

I love how ambiguous it is. There are so many possible interpretations for the governess' agitation (unfulfilled romantic inclinations to her patron), the children's odd behavior (some kind of sexual abuse by Quint). Plus I love the irony of the frame story: a gothic horror tale told around the time of Christmas. Plus James' prose is almost unparalleled in its nuances.

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Mm, I just ventured over from another board, but "Island of the World" was a riveting book.

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>>3670611

Reached out a hand to touch your face.

>> No.3672085

>>3671882

Yes! A thousand times over. Shit had me laughing out loud on the subway.

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>>3670611

You're slowly disappearing from my view.

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>>3670611

pearing from my view.

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>>3670611

Reached out a hand to try again.

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>>3670611

I'm floating in a beam of light with you.

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>>3670611

Beam of light with you.

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>>3670611

And I ran.

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>>3670611

I ran so far away.

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>>3670611

And I ran.

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>>3670611

I ran so far away.

>> No.3672276

Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
Kafka on the Shore, Murakami
Paradise Lost, Milton

>> No.3672291

>>3671641

1/10

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>>3671843
I'm about 35 pages in, and this book is the most overdramatized piece of bullshit about war there is. Have you ever actually been in a war, or fought in one? This is so overly dramatic. However, I personally hold a bias against trying to put the inexplicable into such a shitty art form as this. Some things can only be experienced, not read or written.
And I do realize that the author was in the war (or at least pretended to be) but I think he really over dramatizes it.

One of my favorite books has been For Whom the Bell Tolls.

>> No.3672362

The Sun Also Rises
The Sirens of Titan
Portnoy's Complaint
It's kind of embarrassing and unrelated but I will also mention that at this point, Cormac McCarthy could wipe his ass on a thousand pages and I'd buy it.
Also Ulysses can suck a dick.

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>>3672361
and I only write this with what my dad would think if he read it, as he was actually in the Vietnam War.

>> No.3672368

Breakfast of Champions

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>>3672361
>Hates O'Brien
>Publicly enjoys Hemingway
I laud you, sir.

>> No.3672379

Shantaram
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
The Screwtape Letters


I could probably also be persuaded to add either The Silmarillion or The Children of Hurin to that list as well and not feel bad about it.

>> No.3672382

>>3672361
>Some things can only be experienced, not read or written.
Living life fully and bravely and then relaying the experience in truth without grotesque complexity guarantees a full life and great writing, or at least acts as a ward against their antitheses. Finally, another non-meta motherfucker in this ugly post-ironic world who actually gets it.

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Wolfe)
Shantaram (Roberts)
Wild:An Elemental Journey (Griffiths)
Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis)
Of Mice and Men (Steibeck
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut)
The Waste Land(Eliot)
Patriotism (Mishima
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
To Kill a Mocking Bird (Lee)
The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)
Animal Farm (Orwell)

>> No.3672404

>>3670343
Eon and Eona. A 2 book series. Great read man. I got hit with some feels at the end.
Weeping Willow (on the borderline)
To Kill A Mockingbird
Copper Sun
Chains
Forge
Fever

>> No.3672406

>>3672392
Animal Farm was good.
A bit depressing.

>> No.3672420

The Brothers Karamazov
The Great Gatsby

>> No.3672428

>>3672406
I've read it about 6 times and yeah it should be but not as depressing as 1984.

I always think of my grandparents farm when I read Animal Farm so it's kind of a nostalgia thing and I get more than just a book, I get memories too.

>> No.3672431

>>3670368
yep, best book

>> No.3672436

>>3671352
like this guy said
>>3672068
read it for how unreliable/dumb/gullible the narrators are (remember, there are two who in their own ways are equally stupid)