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Are there any pieces of literature that you truly believe every person should read?

>> No.3850888

Every person? No. Every literature enthusiast should read Ulysses, though.

>> No.3850913

>>3850883
>German Village

rich snob thinks she's too good for electronic crossword puzzles; figures.

>> No.3850916

>>3850883
>1984
Every person in the U.S basically ordered it though in the last few days.
Still, I think many people should read 1984.

>> No.3850919

discipline and punish

>> No.3850926

Thousand Plateaus. If only because it completely destroys the conventional western conception of the book.

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>> No.3850948

>>3850883
No, most people shouldn't read at all.

>> No.3850968

>>3850916
They did?

>> No.3850969

Woyzeck, still.

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I'd say some 99 percent should read the funniest joke in the world.

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>>3850948

Why? You want people to stew in ignorance?

>> No.3851035

>>3851016
>people
>stewing in ignorance
>????????
>book burning profits

>> No.3851039

Dinderfinite Jest

>> No.3851043

>>3850969
Kinski was brilliant in that

>> No.3851045

>>3850916
You're a funny guy. But I suppose they did.

>> No.3851049

>>3851043

Name one movie he wasn't brilliant in.

>> No.3851053

>people naming any book other than the Bible

burn in hell heathens

>> No.3851055

>>3850926

Destroying a conception of a book in a traditional book. LAME. McLuhan did more than Deleuze on that front. For reference, see the Medium is the Massage.

I think everyone should read The Grapes of Wrath. Or As I Lay Dying.

>> No.3851333

>>3851016
Most do anyway, some books will confuse them at best.

I'd rather live in a world where reading is the privilege of a few edgy ones who live on islands and such.

>> No.3851345

>>3851053
>thinks everyone should read the Bible
>doesn't know that only scholars and priests should read the Bible
>doesn't know that everyone should read the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Lel, prodplebs.

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There's quite a few books I could mention, but I thought I'd mention something I read recently. I read this earlier this year and now I recommend it every time I'm given a chance.

>> No.3851400

100 Years of Solitude

>> No.3851424

>>3851395

Wonderful cover. What's the book about?

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>> No.3851474

>>3851395

You should mention more.

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>> No.3851485

>>3851424
Every time I explain the plot, I'm met with dumbfounded looks, like they can't understand what was so great about it. But I'll try again. It is about a farmer who settles in northern Norway and the community that rises around his farm and the issues he and his family face. It touches on so many issues, like aging, death, money, et cetera, but the main thing it is about is the relation between man and the earth. Hamsun believed agriculture to be the future of mankind, and I agree, much more than I did before I read this book. It one the Nobel Prize in 1920 or 1921. Not that that necessarily means anything. I read a translation, but the prose was very good and from what I've read about it, very true to Hamsun's style. I feel like I'm not making much sense, but it was such a simple novel with so much depth, which is really all I'm trying to say.

>> No.3851503

>>3851485
>it one the nobel prize
but, seriously, recommend some more broseidon

>> No.3851505

>>3851395
Looks prety good, why was it so good in your opinion?

>> No.3851506

>>3851424
You can't judge a book by its cover, faggot.

>> No.3851552

>>3851474
>>3851503
>It one the Nobel Prize
Yeah, sorry. Going on a small amount of sleep.
Books of this caliber are few and far between. I've mostly read nonfiction this year. Last year, probably the only novel I read that I felt was close to being of that high a standard was Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote, a modern retelling of Don Quixote. Don Quixote should, of course, be on this list, but Monsignor Quixote fantastical and fantastic novel about the purpose of our lives and what we've done with them. Again, it is a simple story, but I think most of the best ones are. The year before that, I read Jude the Obscure, which is probably the most artistically sound novel I've ever read.

>> No.3851563

>>3851505
I refer you to >>3851485.

>> No.3851585

>>3851506
Is that what you tell yourself when you sit down to read those Harlequin romances?

>> No.3851592

>>3851585

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my master-at-arm's class, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on the Targaryens, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in knightly warfare and I’m the top warrior in the entire Seven Kingdoms You are nothing to me but just another skull to crush. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before since I smashed in Rhaegar's chest with one blow, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over a rave? Think again, fucker. As we speak Varys is contacting his secret network of little birds across the Westeros for me and your raven is being traced back to you right now so you better prepare for the stormlords, maggot. The stormlors that wipe out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, Targ. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my warhammer. Not only am I extensively trained in hammer combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of House Baratheon and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of Westeros, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your “clever” little comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you because ours is the fury. You’re fucking dead, Targaryen supporter.

>> No.3852048

Everyone should read the Iliad.

The story of the wrath of Achilles is still something everyone can enjoy and learn from.

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Too bad it hasn't been translated in any other language than French, and the French translation is awful

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>> No.3852680

>>3850968
I heard this somewhere else too. Apparently sales of it spiked when that stuff about the NSA dragnet leaked.

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>>3852093
you're onto something.

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Murder of a Gentle Land
The Gulag Archipelago
The Age of Revelation

>> No.3852708

Ferdydurke

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