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ITT: your favourite book and why in one sentence.

Shit felt alive man

>> No.4062886

>>4062384
This is on my to-read list, but the new edition has Oprah's seal of approval on it and made me a little sad.

>> No.4062895
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>>4062886
>being upset that "plebs" are being exposed to better literature

>> No.4062900

>>4062384
¿Leístelo en castellano, cabrón?

>> No.4063001

>>4062384
Magnificent choice. Happens to be my favourite as well. I loved the feeling of nostalgia and solitude he conveyed.

>> No.4063034

So it goes.

>> No.4063133
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>>4062384

Why did it have to be like this?

>> No.4063155

Twilight

Edward is dreamy =OwO=

>> No.4063404

>>4062886
Marquez is Oprah-core, no doubt.

>> No.4063536

>>4063404
yeah, that's total bullshit right there and you know it.

>> No.4063537

>>4063404

>-core

Go the fuck back to /mu/ you buzzword idiot.

>> No.4063539

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man

I read it to feel pretentious but I fell in love with the dream like scape of everything in it.

Give Joyce a chance.

>> No.4063542

>>4062886

Oprah exposing great literature to a wider audience can only be a good thing. Pricks like you who think literature should only be accessible to the "worthy" are the reason literature is dead now. Fuck you and your pseudointellectual secret club mentality. Books are for everyone, bitch.

>> No.4063544

>>4062886
I wonder how many housewives picked up Blood Meridian after reading The Road.

>> No.4063547

>>4063544

Definitely a nonzero number. So what's your point?

>> No.4063588 [DELETED] 

Tragedy of Y because the logical solutions to the puzzles are brilliant.

>> No.4063594

>>4062384
How I felt after finishing One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Shit felt bland man

>> No.4063595

Tragedy of Y impresses me with its brilliant logical solution to a puzzling crime scene.

>> No.4063609

>>4062886
Oprah's actually a well-read woman. Watch clips of her program on youtube showing the subject matters she had in the 80s and early 90s, she's sort of well-rounded. It was only after she became totally mainstream and had to pander to white middle class audiences that she started to become insufferable.

>> No.4063616

Through the Looking-Glass.
>Humpty-Dumpty is a boss, kittens, and I'd fuck Alice

>> No.4063620

>>4063595
The Visible Man?

>> No.4063622
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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The amazing prose, the adventures, the memorys!

>> No.4063638

>>4063622
Eh... worthit?

I found his prose style in Bonfire of the Vanities a bit wonky and corny at some bits and bends, which could be mended by a few corrections. I still liked the book.

>> No.4063661

>>4063638
Why would you ask me is it worth it after what I wrote? haha

Yes it's very worth it, it's an amazing book. It's prose alone is worth it but the story and adventures are so interesting, you feel like you are in the 60's and have lived a decade, visiting all these places and meeting all these people.

I tried Bonfire and didn't even bother finishing it. Kool-aid is nothing like Bonfire, the prose are completely different. Kool-aid is non fiction.

To me Kool-aid is Wolfe's one hit wonder but it's so damn good.

>> No.4063667

>>4063661
I see.

I will definitely get this one next time I buy books.

>> No.4063943

>>4062384
Funny shit, that's one of my favorites too.
I also love The Master and Margarita

>> No.4064096

>>4062900

>leístelo

clearly incapable of speaking spanish

>> No.4064100

>>4063594

how's not having a heart working for you man?

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Quentin is more human than I am

>> No.4064182

rings of sebald
gave me a feel

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Every character is incredibly fleshed out and it tells an amazing story

>> No.4064206

>>4064204
Love this book.

It never gets its due attention.

>> No.4064209

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In addition to providing interesting insight on the zeitgeist of the 60s and 70s, shit was hilarious.

>> No.4064214

>>4064206
yeah, I guess it was overshadowed by OFOTCN, which I can't really complain about since thats also a fantastic book, but this is miles ahead of it. It also isn't postmodernist bullshit like everything else in the latter half of the century, so I suppose that might also have something to do with it

>> No.4064219

>>4064204
My favorite too man. Shit's fucking beautiful. It made a huge impression on me when I was a kid. This book made me understand that other people and things are alive and experience life the same way I do. A lesson more people need to learn when they're young

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>>4062384
Hyped

First half is great, one of the most fun reads i had.
Second half was boring as fuck and bad and dragged.
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