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ITT: Books you strongly love.

>> No.3769956
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I preferred oMaM, GoW didn't incite quite the same level of reaction in me.

Flashman.

>> No.3769965
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3769965

I know that feel.

>> No.3769990
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3769990

>dat prose

>> No.3770002

>>3769990

did you read that penguin edition in particular? Which translation do you recommend?

>> No.3770006

>>3770002
I'm reading it online so I can read the original German and the English translation simultaneously because I want to improve my German, and the translator of the English one is one Thomas Common. The translation is quite good; hard to say without anything to compare it with though. But I have read other Penguin Classics Nietzsche, and they're all translated by R. J. Hollingdale, and all the translations are quite good. Walter Kaufmann's translations are often considered to be the best, though.

>> No.3770256

Gatsby will always have a special place in my heart.

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>strongly love

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>>3769944
Holy shit. Grapes of Wrath ought to be read by every American. There's nothing as powerful as it.
Similarly, Woody Guthrie's autobiography had a deep impact on me.

>> No.3770304

>>3769944
am i the only one that preferred East of Eden?

>> No.3771543
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>>3769944

>> No.3771555

The Old Man and The Sea

>> No.3771563
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Pleb tier, but there is just something about prison escapes that makes me read this book once every year.

>> No.3771578
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Not my favriot book, but up there.
Ill never tell you my favriot book.

>> No.3771582

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>> No.3771626

>>3769944
Giovanni's Room

>> No.3771671

>>3770304
You're not the only one, but the book I really love is Red Alert (is a book from Ecuador)

>> No.3771682
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3771682

Read this once a year. Have both digital and physical copies.

>> No.3771709

>>3771682
I met Robinson a few years ago. She's a kind, but rather creepy, woman.

>> No.3771714

>>3771709
>She's a kind...woman
Well, fuck

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fuck tha haterz

>> No.3771718

>>3771682
Heard great things about this, and my classics professor gave it to me after my father passed. Really excited to read it.

>> No.3771721

>>3770304
No. East of Eden is my favourite. TGoW is second. I didn't like OMaM as much.

>> No.3771728

>>3771709

>da fuq??

You have to tell me why. Her interview by the Paris Review was kind of...airy... on her behalf.

>> No.3771732

>>3771717
2edgy4me

>> No.3771809
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Funniest book I've ever read.

My edition doesn't have his Big Chief tablets on the front though

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War, man.