Post your favorite book, others say if they would punch you or not.

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Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:01:33 2014 No.4980728 [Reply] [Original]

Post your favorite book, others say if they would punch you or not.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:08:29 2014 No.4980748 Ender's Game I wouldn't suggest punching me, as I would be forced to end the conflict... PERMANENTLY.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:12:21 2014 No.4980760 >>4980728 You're bredy gud OP, though in my opinion, Ulysses is significantly better. Also, my favorite book is The Waves

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:14:03 2014 No.4980766 >>4980728 The Old Man and the Sea. The book is like doing a shot of willpower and determination.

Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:15:17 2014 No.4980771
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>>4980728
I would punch you on the shoulder whilst suppressing my throbbing erection.
>>4980748
I would punch you in the face and it is highly unlikely that you would survive.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:16:35 2014 No.4980774 >>4980766 I would punch your arm jokingly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:16:53 2014 No.4980775 >>4980748 I would pull a gun.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:24:06 2014 No.4980801 >>4980766 Would share a beer with. My favourite book is Invisible Cities.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:26:32 2014 No.4980810 No Longer Human

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:26:55 2014 No.4980812 The Bible because I'm devoutly religious.

>>	no refunds Fri Jun 6 19:27:04 2014 No.4980814 >>4980765 i would be your friend.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:27:40 2014 No.4980815 File: 11 KB, 180x279, download (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728 inb4 punchfest

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:28:08 2014 No.4980817 A Clash of Kings

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:30:11 2014 No.4980822 File: 56 KB, 531x531, 1401991438697.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Count of Monte Cristo.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:30:19 2014 No.4980824 >>4980812 I would go out with you Faust

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:30:40 2014 No.4980826 Needful Things.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:30:49 2014 No.4980828 Don Quixote

>>	no refunds Fri Jun 6 19:32:37 2014 No.4980833 >>4980815 good book. i feel like a lot of people that hate it haven't finished it. i'd hang out with you

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:32:55 2014 No.4980834 >>4980815 So hard, in the face. I would then give you a wedgie and call you a need nerd.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:39:24 2014 No.4980852 >>4980815 I'd punch you softly

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:40:28 2014 No.4980854 >>4980835 I'd form an egoist union with you.

Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:41:29 2014 No.4980860

>>4980771
any time i read faulknerian dialogue, all i can imagine is a one-too-many-drinks-in faulkner standing up at the dinner table, convinced that everyone has been waiting the whole evening to hear his retarded boy and negro impersonations, which he proceeds to offer with a hideous combination of bathos and utter lack of comedic subtlety. in such a situation, somebodies getting one in the face.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:44:38 2014 No.4980863 >>4980860 Well I'm not guilty of being white so I don't have that problem.

Anonymous Fri Jun 6 19:56:18 2014 No.4980888

James Socrates Stonecypher tightly gripped Courtney's soft buttock with his right hand and aimed his L2300 Satan Beam at Jesus with his left.
"You got a nice girl here, Jesus," said Stonecypher, as legions of his Truth Mercenaries surrounded Jesus' Angel Droids, "But it'd be a shame if Earth found out about that their savior was actually a total liar and didn't believe a single word of the bullshit he was spewing."

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 20:04:42 2014 No.4980904 File: 50 KB, 363x400, how-rocket-learned-to-read.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Don't be too hard on me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 20:15:46 2014 No.4980923 >>4980888 This is really weird. I wrote this literally like three months ago in that best opening lines thread; why are you reposting this here and now?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 20:24:31 2014 No.4980941 File: 237 KB, 1000x1383, fear_and_loathing_campaign[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >non-fiction >HST Yeah, I know I know. But I seriously love this book a lot, in part for how he tears apart Nixon and just generally doesn't give a fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 20:33:07 2014 No.4980958 Siddhartha Or Blood Meridian. I don't know. I am drunk and alone and the only thing keeping me from killing myself is writing and reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 20:34:03 2014 No.4980961 >>4980958 >he doesn't indulge in the privilege of wanting to kill himself lol!

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Anonymous Fri Jun 6 20:59:21 2014 No.4981019
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>>4980728
same OP, I'd punch your fist in a friendly way while you punched mine.

Just read it actually. I thought it got progressively better throughout and I was really sad when to finish it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 21:13:40 2014 No.4981068 >>4980986 Nice bro, mine too

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 21:14:00 2014 No.4981070 >>4980766 Mine too. Every single page is a pleasure to read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 21:18:06 2014 No.4981079 >>4980766 >tfw I still have to read FWTBT before I let myself read the Old Man and the Sea

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 21:20:25 2014 No.4981085 >>4981079 why? are you a masochist?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 21:27:47 2014 No.4981109 >>4980845 >being this edgy

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 22:07:17 2014 No.4981249 >>4980728 how the fuck is Portrait of the Artist your favorite book your favorite book of all time what the actual fuck get some taste

Anonymous Fri Jun 6 22:34:09 2014 No.4981336

>>4981249
A favorite book, despite the implication of timeless, says more about the reader's life experience and particular stage of life than the possible objective superiority of the book itself. It's for a similar reason that I rarely listen to my favorite music. Typically a piece of music I loved at some point of my life time to the point of considering a favorite becomes so bound up with the feelings and experience of that particular time that as I move on as a person, I become somewhat estranged from the music as I do my past self. In a discourse such as this, the judgment of validity tends towards the kind of good taste that is well defended. This paradoxically selects works the meanings of which go across boundaries of particularity, where individuals tend to select the most partcular works. Thus the drive toward patricianhood is really a form of self denial, in which the reader hopes to overcome the limitation of one's own life as the necessary mediator of meaning in literature. This hypothesis would support the trend of young readers being especially interested in being patrician as this limitation is more severe the more young one is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 22:40:08 2014 No.4981360 >>4981249 "Get some taste" means "grow a little older." "Newfags need to lurk moar" and somehow 4chan becomes a catalyst for authentic personal maturation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 22:43:49 2014 No.4981377 >>4981336 pasta or not, I'm glad I came across this today

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 23:04:18 2014 No.4981453 >>4981336 autism

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 00:13:12 2014 No.4981720 >>4980728 stoner I can't see a book being any better. It's pure

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 00:33:04 2014 No.4981784 >>4980860 10/10 post

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 02:38:36 2014 No.4982135 >>4980815 >can't think >can't write >no discernible talent

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 02:47:19 2014 No.4982156 >>4981453 Nah, you got fucking rekt m8.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 03:00:20 2014 No.4982194 Of Human Bondage. Doesn't get much love on /lit for some reason. I'd punch me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 03:26:01 2014 No.4982253 Europe Central

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 04:26:07 2014 No.4982356 I would not punch anyone as I am a non-violent being.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 04:28:28 2014 No.4982361 >>4982356 So if I raped your mother and then slit her throat you wouldn't punch me?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 04:36:55 2014 No.4982375 >>4982361 If anything I would thank you.

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 04:37:28 2014 No.4982378

>>4982194
I like his essays, been meaning to read that one though. Maugham doesn't get much love in reality, but he's got plenty of writings. 65 Short Stories, A Writer's Notebook, Great Novelists and Their Authors. I've only read the latter but it's classic despite its modest title, the biographical information he reveals about folks like Tolstoy and Stendhal appearing in works by Hemingway and Enrique Vila-Matas. Doubtless, Maugham was an enthousiastic reader, although his voice has always sounded more or less outdated, to explain the lack of recognition for his works. I may hazard to guess he's a writer's writer, if only I had already read enough of his works to be confident in taking that risk.

Why are you hitting yourself? :)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 04:42:28 2014 No.4982391 I've never derived as much pleasure and perplexity from any other volume than my complete works of Shakespeare. But also a subtle understanding of literature on the whole and, to an immeasurable extent, life.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 05:07:47 2014 No.4982439 >>4980728 Damn good, and this book crushes Ulysses in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 05:10:41 2014 No.4982444 >>4980815 bunch you in the arm then buy you a berr

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 05:36:02 2014 No.4982476

>>4980728
i could consider punching someone who liked portrait in the same way that i would want to punch a 15 year old who empathized with the edgy side of catcher in the rye, the whole holden has it right and shoot lennon shit. not that i would punch a 15 year old but yeah op id reserve judgement upon meeting you. also the book in a vacuum isnt that good imo it only makes sense when you consider the author joyce as a character.

>>4980828
would punch you when you aren't looking just to see if you would call me out or search for any alternative hypothesis no matter how implausible

>>4982391
i feel this. characters are just people, empathy is universal.
>>4981336
very good post. not sure if i entirely agree with the last two lines though; i guess that would depend on whether the word patrician is used in the (ironic?) dichotomic assertion of pretention and superiority or as an attempt to accumulate and appraise "culture" or knowledge. obviously i would only take issue with the latter
capcha related: projecting acivng

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 05:46:34 2014 No.4982497 >>4980728 I would walk up behind you with a lock in two thick wool socks and then beat your skull in, until I could smell your blood in the air.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 06:09:09 2014 No.4982542 >>4980845 I would punch that book out of your hand with a copy of The Rage Against God.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 06:18:19 2014 No.4982566 File: 26 KB, 302x500, The_Sea_John_Banville.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I deserve a punch either way

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 06:27:00 2014 No.4982590 >>4982430 why has this cover got a minecraft zombie and diamonds on it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 07:16:24 2014 No.4982715 >>4980728 Would not punch >>4980766 ...punch >>4980815 ...punch >>4980822 ...punch >>4980828 ...LOVE >>4980958 ...punch >>4980765 ...not punch

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 09:24:53 2014 No.4983090 03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 09:26:08 2014 No.4983094 >>4982566 Great book! No punch >>4981019 Think I'll read that next.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 09:59:00 2014 No.4983169 File: 120 KB, 200x288, The_egyptian_finnish.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728 The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. It saddens be this book isn't more well known. It's just incredible.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 13:47:52 2014 No.4983850 >>4982378 That's an interesting assessment. I've only read that and Razor's Edge which I also really enjoyed, though it's a much simpler work. So no one but myself could judge my favorite :-)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 13:58:26 2014 No.4983890 >>4983169 LOL you recommend this book weekly. Is it, like, the only book in Finnish worth reading, or what?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:21:36 2014 No.4984514 File: 175 KB, 498x400, MUSIL, RObert_ The Man Without Qualities.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Musil GOAT by margin.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:40:25 2014 No.4984581 >>4984568 I liked Spiders better, but it is great. Too bad the movie sucked.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:45:26 2014 No.4984592 >>4984514 >implying you have actually read it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:55:37 2014 No.4984609 >>4984581 The movie changed so much it's easier to think of it as an entirely separate entity.

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:56:56 2014 No.4984611
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>>4984592

Not that anon, but I've read it.
Worth the time m8.

Pic related is my favourite book atm. God tier. Has the same erudition and colloquial wisdom of Don Quixote. Any anon looking for quality should try it. It's unbelievably good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:57:31 2014 No.4984612 >>4984592 Read and reread. Only in swedish translation though, sadly my german's not good enough. It's not a hard read, Musil's got humor and is very entertaining throughout in a dry sort of way.

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:58:52 2014 No.4984617
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>>4982194
>>4982378
Writer's writer is a fair summation. I've been flacking Ashenden on a few threads because it's literary espionage about the non-trench fight for World War I, and is far more important than Riddle of the Sands which became a sub-genre of invasion paranoia, and more relevant than The Secret Agent, which is more cautionary tale about personality disorders; Ash is a sweeping survey of pre-fascist nationalism in Europe and Maugh deserves some cred for it.

Pic is my fave. Do what you wish. I have already won my independence from the tyranny of youth.

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 17:18:02 2014 No.4984660
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>>4980863
not really the point. it's the same thing as someone doing a shitty english accent--if it's done poorly, it's just irritating. that said, faulkner does plenty of other ok things, and frankly i'm sure he's used to getting punched in the face. he'd certainly have you believe so.

>>4980828
>>4984514
bredy ok fellows

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 17:21:43 2014 No.4984666 File: 56 KB, 331x500, hhgg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] come at me

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 17:22:05 2014 No.4984667 >>4980766 >>4981070 >>4980801 You guys share your favorite book with Saddam Hussain.

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 17:24:09 2014 No.4984669

>>4984617
Cheers. Now I just wanna read some Maugham!

As for youth and my favourite book, I'm afraid my young age and little reading have given me few books to prefer over reading other books. But among those that have left a deep impression on me, I'd list: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry and The Fall by Camus.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 17:42:33 2014 No.4984718 >>4981720 this. pure is the right word. refined to a point of purity. I would chose Stoner or 2666.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 17:43:51 2014 No.4984720 File: 314 KB, 700x1012, 0156.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728 Preparing for punch.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 17:54:25 2014 No.4984761 Light Fantastic

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:11:21 2014 No.4984791 File: 48 KB, 330x500, Sologub- The Petty Demon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Closely followed by Bely's Petersburg.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:20:10 2014 No.4984818 Logan's Run captcha: frequently entlatz

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:24:29 2014 No.4984824 >>4980728 Codex Seriphinianus

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:26:24 2014 No.4984828 >>4984807 would punch I read that book when I was a kid and I didn't like it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:27:38 2014 No.4984830 File: 467 KB, 458x696, kafka.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Would you punch me /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:27:39 2014 No.4984831 File: 11 KB, 184x274, download (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4984828

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:29:23 2014 No.4984836 File: 117 KB, 448x539, 1392399576211.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4984807 >>4984831

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:29:54 2014 No.4984837 >>4984831 I read that too. If my memory is correct I liked it even less.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:32:15 2014 No.4984851 >>4984845 Now that book was a complete piece of shit, I didn't even make it all the way through. I have no idea why I even started

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:32:33 2014 No.4984853 >>4984830 Is that cover an Evangelion reference?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:34:11 2014 No.4984861 File: 10 KB, 182x276, images (3).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4984851

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:34:44 2014 No.4984864 >>4984853 Now that you think about it...

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:37:18 2014 No.4984874

>>4984861
He tried to write more books? lmao

>Bartimaeus can look like anything he wants! But I won't bother describing what he looks!
Bartimeaus was Eragon tier faggotry. I remember that one kid in school who would read Eragon all the time and everyone called him a faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:38:32 2014 No.4984880 >>4984836 lyl

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:40:28 2014 No.4984890 File: 7 KB, 259x194, images (5).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4984874 He's a genius and I love him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:49:22 2014 No.4984917 >>4984830 Would condemn you to being punched and never delivar.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:49:48 2014 No.4984918 Er>>4982566 First time I've seen Banville discussed here, probably the best living Irish writer

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:51:53 2014 No.4984925

>>4984890
>>4984874
Yeah Bartimaeous is objectively superior YA fiction. Stroud managed to write a non-linear plot that my 9 year old brain could comprehend. I don't know what this faggot is talking about, he didn't even have the attention span to finish it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 18:55:01 2014 No.4984933 >>4982542 >Christopher's younger, dumber brother desperately trying to ride Chris' coat tails Take your scarf off, hipster.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 19:36:01 2014 No.4985057 >>4984851 >>4984837 >>4984828 >Implying the Bartimaeus trilogy isn't one of the finest pieces of kids fantasy books out there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 19:45:42 2014 No.4985083 >>4984666 I'd punch you back to reddit

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 19:54:09 2014 No.4985109 >>4984667 I bet you are one of those people who tries to nail people to the wall with pleasant sounding Hitler quotes.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 20:06:14 2014 No.4985141 Blood Meridian

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 20:08:00 2014 No.4985145 >>4984791 I'd punch you just to see if you have any peripheral neural system response. I suppose you think Oblomov is /not/ the greatest troll of all time.

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Anonymous Sat Jun 7 20:57:54 2014 No.4985270

>>4980941
No punch, I love that book. Saying it's non-fiction would be a little off though; I think most of it was more or less true but some of it very clearly wasn't (the part about Muskie and Ibogaine for instance). I love the fairly justified righteous anger of it and and how absurd it is without being while still being meaningful.

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 21:10:20 2014 No.4985295
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I don't think I'd punch any of the people here so far. I can understand why the books they've posted are their favourites.

For me it has to be Earthly Powers. It rekindled a dormant love of reading that had been asleep for years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 22:22:32 2014 No.4985566 >>4980728 La Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 22:31:58 2014 No.4985599 This Side of Paradise

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 22:34:22 2014 No.4985605 >>4980860 >not knowing that Faulkner's Nobel speech is the GOAT >i wish i could be like faulkner >mom says no drinking tho

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 22:50:17 2014 No.4985679

>>4980748

I would punch you.

"The only power that matters is to kill and destroy, because if you can't you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one willever save you."

This, sir, is the definition of edgy faggot. I would beat you until you stopped moving and I'd ask you if you wanted me to make it "permanent".

I'd ask how important your power is when it doesn't exist. I'd spit on you, and I'd walk away.

>>4980812

Sarcastic look because bait. Faust is good though.

>>4985083
This

>>4984830
I would tell you that the punch won't come, and know you won't believe because of everything that's telling you it will.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 23:00:13 2014 No.4985713 >>4980728 So far in life, OP's pick is my own favourite.

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 23:02:09 2014 No.4985717

>>4980728
would not
>>4980771
would slap gently
>>4980815
just a slight slap
>>4980822
no punch
>>4980835
would punch and then ask a few questions
>>4980845
would only if you have discussed this book with others
>>4980941
yes
>>4982424
is there a hug option?
>>4982566
would punch only because you asked for it
>>4984666
would only if you admit to reading frequently outside of the scifi genre
>>4984704
no punch
>>4984720
i dont see a reason to punch you
>>4985295
im just glad to see someone else reading burgess' work that isnt clockwork orange. a highly serious author with some powerful stuff. shame the kubrick film sort of magnetized the focus away from his other works. i loved the wanting seed, despite its drawn out moments. cant wait to read the lesser known stuff of his.
you dont know how much this pleases me to see another poster enjoy burgess like me. one of the few european authors that i agree with wholeheartedly

for me (sorry for no pic) i would have to choose johnny got his gun. a strong anti-war theme that i agree with, but its mostly the feels i get from the journey of his recollection. i am grateful for being assigned to read this in my highschool. surprisingly, my school was poor as hell and it was something assigned outside of the curriculum. i will never forget my history teacher. hell, the whole class was amazing, and i want to say that almost because he would play devils advocate to give us the multiple perspective on most american history, especially the kennedy years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 23:02:58 2014 No.4985721 >>4981019 I like the progressive so far as it turns the whole book into an exemplar of his aesthetic theory he expresses later on.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 23:03:13 2014 No.4985722 >>4985717 sorry for any grammar mistakes or misspellings. i've been drinking.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 23:06:50 2014 No.4985738 >>4980845 I'd beat the piss out of you.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 23:10:45 2014 No.4985755 The Ear the Eye and the Arm

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 23:25:00 2014 No.4985801 It's either IT or Dantes inferno.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 00:26:59 2014 No.4986001 Everybody Poops

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 00:37:23 2014 No.4986032 Tie between The Stand/Dante's Divine Comedy/House of Leaves.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 01:24:00 2014 No.4986158 File: 43 KB, 948x1394, beloved_cover140-d890f7e71c667ff7c0478a911c3787f11b8b6b25-s6-c30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728 Not even ashamed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 01:44:37 2014 No.4986213 File: 17 KB, 260x339, minna-san.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4986001 At least get the title right.

Anonymous Sun Jun 8 01:51:07 2014 No.4986231
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I don't think it is the greatest book of all time or anything, but it is my favorite

I read it once a year. It was required reading in high school, and I've always been very impressionable - the narrator's love of Ethan and to a large extent Mattie made me fall in love with them myself

My good friend, maybe best, just gave me a first edition printing that he found in his grandparents' attic. It's the oldest thing I own, from 1911. Best gift I've ever received

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 01:55:04 2014 No.4986240 File: 29 KB, 225x346, 51dy3ESJCQL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 02:35:20 2014 No.4986371 File: 23 KB, 187x269, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm quite pleasant.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 02:48:08 2014 No.4986401 >>4986371 I read that when I was 12 or 13, I remember it being pretty good. >>4986240 Have you read Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World? Haven't read much by Murakami but I thought that was amazing.

Anonymous Sun Jun 8 03:48:33 2014 No.4986565
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>>4983890

This was the first time in months I post here.

Anyway, to answer your question, yes, there are other books worth reading.

The Etruscan by Mika Waltari is in some ways similar to the Egyptian, but this time set around Ancient Greece. It has a bit of fantasy to it, but nothing too crazy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 04:04:13 2014 No.4986597 >>4986565 >Etruscan >set in Greece hue

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 04:08:04 2014 No.4986601 >>4986240 definetly would invite you a beer, i really like a lot murakami and this is my favorite book (of him) Mine is Karamazov Brothers and Brave New World (couldnt decide wich one for me is better)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 05:29:14 2014 No.4986754 File: 274 KB, 959x1405, doctor faustus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 05:31:58 2014 No.4986758 >>4986597 I should have said it starts in Greece. It's set around the Mediterranean.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 07:29:56 2014 No.4987000 >>4983169 Read it when I was a kid 10/10 needs more oxen-serpent ancient gods but it's ok

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 07:32:34 2014 No.4987005 >>4980728 slaughterhouse-five

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 07:45:23 2014 No.4987029 >>4986758 Does it feature Etruscan society or is just about a traveling one in foreign lands?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 09:54:55 2014 No.4987264 File: 16 KB, 308x475, 6149.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 11:34:01 2014 No.4987494 >>4986371 >tfw you will never have multi-dimensionally time traveling Meg gf.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 11:48:48 2014 No.4987533 >>4986158 Right in the kisser.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 11:57:12 2014 No.4987551 >>4986240 I prefer kafka but would definitely be friends.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 11:57:28 2014 No.4987552 >>4980766 Top tier book

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:00:12 2014 No.4987559 File: 114 KB, 313x500, 610P-+zrzTL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:00:56 2014 No.4987562 File: 714 KB, 949x1200, 0fbc3aca-c6b1-46d0-9f8d-6d353e808.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's a tie between: "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:03:49 2014 No.4987572 >>4986158 >>4987264 Beloved is a great novel

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:04:53 2014 No.4987573 File: 6 KB, 192x192, Death and chinamen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why isn't there more love for Malraux? He's just a poor mans Camus but with airplanes.

Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:28:15 2014 No.4987635
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The primary ontological foundations of a "favorite" book and Favorites as such must be firmly grounded in the Being of Dasein before attempting to Interpret books in the ontical realm of an equipmental totality of literature, lest the primordial existential meaning of Being be profoundly obscured

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:44:45 2014 No.4987687 File: 39 KB, 559x294, watchmen_comedian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ......Would you punch me /lit/? >>4980728 I wouldn't punch you, but I'd but you a beer and ask you to explain yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:47:54 2014 No.4987696 Isn't talking about books horrible? Surely reading them is much better...

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:50:25 2014 No.4987703 >>4987635 i bought this book at a college yardsale for 50 cents and I can't understand a word of it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:52:25 2014 No.4987712 File: 35 KB, 316x500, the unconsoled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] COME AT ME

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:52:27 2014 No.4987713 >>4985717 >is there a hug option? yes come here, you

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:54:37 2014 No.4987721 honestly i fantasise about punching everybody, even people i like

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 12:58:48 2014 No.4987739 >>4987721 i fantasize about u ;)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 13:13:28 2014 No.4987779 File: 60 KB, 400x605, 9-Catch-22-Joseph-Heller.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hit me with your best shot.

Anonymous Sun Jun 8 13:13:41 2014 No.4987780

>>4985738
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across theUSAand your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” 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 and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 14:27:34 2014 No.4988090 >>4987572 >>4987264 >>4986158 I didn't know housewives browsed /lit/ back to cleaning the house, whore

>>	Jibbles Sun Jun 8 18:57:50 2014 No.4989237 File: 247 KB, 298x467, desertsolitaire.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 18:58:43 2014 No.4989241 If on a winter's night a traveler

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:07:17 2014 No.4989267 File: 433 KB, 417x640, Crimeandpunishmentcover.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:22:04 2014 No.4989300 Youth In Revolt-C.D. Payne. Best book about adolescence ever written, and also the funniest.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:25:48 2014 No.4989307 Atlas Shrugged

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:28:12 2014 No.4989318 >>4989307 u wanna fite bish

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:45:41 2014 No.4989377 >>4985721 Could you explain this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:48:57 2014 No.4989386 File: 2.42 MB, 2736x3648, naked-lunch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728 This book manages to be borderline pornographic and still be a genius work of art. I can already feel /lit/s disapproval.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:52:36 2014 No.4989401 File: 99 KB, 464x737, Watchmen 4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4987687 I didnt really like watchmen, the characters were flushed out but the philosophical references felt too in your face. Where would you like me to punch you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:53:51 2014 No.4989408 >>4987780 >>>/b/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 19:54:49 2014 No.4989414 File: 48 KB, 320x475, thesignofthefour.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	qt !fFaGGOtxMw Sun Jun 8 20:13:02 2014 No.4989494 File: 32 KB, 315x475, crying.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] it's my first day, should i leave forever?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 20:13:25 2014 No.4989495 >>4989386 "I've got a hundred feet of quarter-inch elastic tubing, five gallons of KY, three unfilled prescriptions, and a copy of 'Naked Lunch" by William S Burroughs. I'm lighting my candles and putting on the slow jazz; ain't no stoppin' me now."

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 20:14:28 2014 No.4989503 >>4989401 >flushed out

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 20:22:41 2014 No.4989546 File: 9 KB, 184x274, descarga (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Am I patrician /lit/? would you punch me?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 20:27:56 2014 No.4989567 >>4989494 nah you're good

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 8 20:33:03 2014 No.4989594 >>4981336 This is verbose as fuck, but I agree completely.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:08:17 2014 No.4989768 Catch-22

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:30:36 2014 No.4989798 >>4985728 >maldoror >favorite book confirmed for most punchable faggot itt

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:31:01 2014 No.4989799 File: 31 KB, 343x429, Littleprince.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Come at me /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:34:01 2014 No.4989804 >>4989799 safebet/10 Your post is a wet fart of nostalgia exploitation. But for real though my favorite book is Captain Underpants lol come at me /lit/ I'm such a risk taker.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:39:21 2014 No.4989814 >>4989804 I read that shit when I was 18, I am 19 now. Now I am trying to read some quality stuff, I am reading Fyodor dostoevsky for the time being.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:41:33 2014 No.4989818 File: 43 KB, 400x300, Oblomov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4985145 Oblomov is top tier, but as much as I love the tale of Russia's greatest truNEET, Sologub's portrayal of poshlost is unmatched for comedy in a Russian novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:43:46 2014 No.4989823 File: 20 KB, 256x256, 1391062268008.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4989814 Meh you're too young to really shit on enjoy the reads etc.

Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:55:58 2014 No.4989855
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>>4989799

This actually is the claimed favorite book of a lot of people I know. So I don't know whether or not you're trolling.

Saying that your favorite book is The Little Prince is the best way of conveying that you don't really read a lot but you nevertheless want to maintain the persona of one who connects with books. It also gives this air of childhood naivete and I think a sort of false sincerity. Fuck.

Pic related is mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 02:58:35 2014 No.4989863 >>4989855 I'd like to clarify that I didn't really mean to generalize, but I felt kind of frustrated and I ended up generalizing.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 03:57:27 2014 No.4989975 >>4989855 I somehow misread the title as Night Just Before The Fuckfest and wondered why Anon was being so lewd.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 17:01:02 2014 No.4991870 File: 118 KB, 595x842, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728 not >>4984666 punch >>4984830 blow >>4987635 not >>4989799 not

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 17:15:33 2014 No.4991915 File: 83 KB, 639x478, Ruh-Adam.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I think many leftists would want to punch me, just because of the author.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 17:17:47 2014 No.4991921 >>4991870 that's a nice cover

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 17:19:20 2014 No.4991928 File: 32 KB, 948x1516, 9781590171998_custom-720959a94dbc1c987522844b06d27e6780e2d61f-s6-c30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Jun 9 17:35:18 2014 No.4991989

>>4989377

At first it starts off as an observance of Stephen as he exists on his (A meek little child with simple impressions reflecting on his situation), the novel then progresses to include those immediately associated with him (His father and uncles fight with Dante over irish nationalism, his experience of religion and life with the Jesuits), and finally how he is received solely by his environment (When he is finishing college and the novel begins including dialogue over varied subjects between very diverse characters (Such as Cranly and Temple)). Like how he explained to Cranly that an object's beauty is fully realized first in the thing itself, then how it affects the artist and some others, and finally how it effects others . (The Lyrical, the Epic, and the Dramatic). Its been a while since I read it, If I mucked it up feel free to correct me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 17:41:37 2014 No.4992005 File: 581 KB, 800x1272, the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-haruki-murakami-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 17:42:51 2014 No.4992008 >>4991915 no one cares about that book even in turkey stop posting it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 18:00:53 2014 No.4992052 >>4992008 Yeah, turkish, can confirm.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 19:46:36 2014 No.4992316 File: 140 KB, 338x500, wishihadthiscover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Wish Norris lived to write the Wolf.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 19:58:39 2014 No.4992348 >>4985133 10/10, I'd appreciate your knowledge of japanes eliterature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 21:11:23 2014 No.4992550 File: 114 KB, 500x383, fuck you.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980835

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 21:15:18 2014 No.4992565 >>4987779 I'd Kid Sampson you in half

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 21:46:34 2014 No.4992639 >>4989855 I wasn't trolling, I really like it. I've been trying to read some other stuff lately

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 21:50:58 2014 No.4992646 File: 20 KB, 200x291, Karl Marx - Capital Vol1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:17:08 2014 No.4992845 >>4991870 this is god-tier, Cortazar is my favorite author. fellow argie?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:18:15 2014 No.4992848 >>4992646 Would hang.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:19:01 2014 No.4992853 File: 219 KB, 300x450, Eragon_book_cover[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:20:07 2014 No.4992857 >>4992853 I hope the book is better than the movie, but otherwise I would punch you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:23:37 2014 No.4992870 >>4992853 Nah man Eldest was the best out of the series Actually Eldest used to be my favorite book, but since I've started going on /lit/ I've decided it's time to start fresh. As of now I currently have no favorite book :^) thx 4 reading my blog

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:31:52 2014 No.4992898 >>4992870 >Eldest used to be my favorite book my sides

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:33:04 2014 No.4992903 File: 236 KB, 307x450, daumal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4980728

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:34:01 2014 No.4992907 >>4992870 Eldest was the fucking worst book of the bunch. Hairless elf groins, elves in general, that fucking poem Ergy made, that "philosophical" training etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 9 23:36:48 2014 No.4992914 >>4989823 Godspeed Anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 10 01:25:54 2014 No.4993223 >>4980810 I think its a great book, but all-time favorite?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 10 01:58:22 2014 No.4993299 >>4992907 >Hairless elf groins Oh man, I remember this. Yeah everything to do with the elves was TERRIBLE, dude basically didn't have any more understanding of his concept of elves than average /lit/ shitposter posting strawmans about Tolkien.

Anonymous Tue Jun 10 02:27:14 2014 No.4993376

>>4992853
I would punch you. And then I would do it again. And again. And again. And I would continue until I broke something serious.

The entire Eragon series is a pile of horseshit full of overused fantasy tropes. Not that a lot of other books aren't, but this is overly true of Eragon. There is literally nothing innovative about the series.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 10 02:56:47 2014 No.4993452 >>4992845 naw, I'm from Lithuania. I also like Borges very much.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 10 03:18:10 2014 No.4993500 remains of the day

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