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Hi, I'm from /v/
So uhh... what books do you guys like?

>> No.5021305
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5021305

I like these books.

>> No.5021308

Fahrenheit 451

>> No.5021312

The book I'm reading is about a guy with a magical penis that attracks rocket-bombs and gay nazis and shitporn

>> No.5021315

>>5021299
We start with the Greeks, then stuff by Ovid and Petrarch (in their original languages), continental German philosophy, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. We're devided on Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and we fucking hate A Song of Ice and Fire GRRM.

And don't start a thread about Nietzsche and God. Just... don't.

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5021317

best fiction series of all times

>> No.5021318

>>5021305
But aren't most of those books actually pretty good?

>> No.5021320
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>>5021299

>implying I like books

>> No.5021321

/sci/ here. Is it true that you guys are basically the philosophy board?

>> No.5021324

>>5021321
Kinda.

>> No.5021329

/lit/ doesn't like books. Nobody on this board reads. Reading is for nerds. We only come here to spout simplistic opinions about philosophy and religion. Our only source of knowledge is a misunderstanding of wikipedia articles.

>> No.5021330
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5021330

This.

>> No.5021331

>>5021321
Yeah, but we don't believe in a posteriori, so probably not.

>> No.5021334

What is the best book based off of a vidya?

>> No.5021337

>>5021321
If that were true, you'd have multiple replies telling you truth itself is purely nominal.

>> No.5021340

>>5021321
If by philosophy you mean "atheism vs religion" and "you can't know nuffin", yeah, it's true.

>> No.5021353

>>5021334
There really isn't any good books based on vidya that I know of. A few good games are actually based on books, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Parasite Eve and the Metro series.

>> No.5021354

>>5021317
Are those the books written by the worlds youngest author?

>> No.5021359

>>5021353
The Halo novels are way better than they have a right to be

>> No.5021362

>>5021353
I guess you could argue bits of Alice in the Resident Evil movie are based on Alice in Wonderland... There has to be Resident Evil books.

>> No.5021367

>>5021354
Yes, she's a remarkable child prodigy. Her philosophical depth and her usage of stylistic devices are very unique. Even the most renowned professors of literature are amazed by the multilayered symbolism, the complex plot and the poetic beauty of her books.

>> No.5021371

>>5021362
Yes and they also far exceed what one would expect. SD Perry.

>> No.5021382

>tfw this thread died after I posted in it on /cgl/.

I guess they didn't like me.

You guys don't like me either, but I like books.

Books are dope.

>> No.5021386

>>5021334
I once read a pretty dope book based on City Of Heroes. Introduced me to the concept of Technocracy when I was like...14.

>> No.5021398

>>5021382
>>5021386
Also, sometimes I say the word "dope".

It's dope.

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5021399

>>5021334

Dante's Inferno

>> No.5021439

>>5021315
asoiaf is good

>> No.5021461

>>5021399
fuck you for being such an idiotic pleb

>> No.5021467

>>5021461
MAYBE he is joking...?

>> No.5021472

>>5021334
>>5021353
Ico: Castle in the Mist ain't bad.

>> No.5021475

>>5021461
shut the fuck up summerfag

>> No.5021544

>>5021299
>implying anybody on this board reads

>> No.5021600

>>5021299

nothing that you'd appreciate neophyte.

That being said, The Last of Us was excellent.

>> No.5021632

>>5021321
History, literature, and philosophy is all pretty much covered by this board.

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5021908

Ever since i first picked this one up 5 years ago i haven't read any thing. Every time I get to the end I'm left with the feeling that the experience was entertaining, but i'm just slightly unsatisfied, so i flip back to the beginning again. I'm partially through my 97th reading and I think I'm starting to get it.

>> No.5021914

I like books by James Joyce, and I'm pretty sure there's some other Joyce fans on here. At this moment I'm reading "Dubliners."

>> No.5021928

>>5021908
you are a God amongat men for doing IT, but at the same time a huge módon too. Miissing out áll the Good stuff Earth is offerimg you. I recommend tó give IT another try maybe go for the 100. Thats Sound like an accomplishment, arcsievement. Get out. Lonely.

>> No.5021975

>>5021600
>Last of Us
>anything but a steaming pile of generic garbage

>> No.5021987

>>5021908
97 read-throughs of Infinite Jest, huh?
that's the most patrician thing I've read all day.
I often think I should take one book or one album and experience it over and over and over and pick apart its every single detail, to fully understand every single device and meaning it has.
but then I think this >>5021928

>> No.5021997

>>5021318
The Hitchens book is kind of pretencious, but they're all bretty good

>> No.5021999

>>5021914
Have you gotten to the political discussion? Am I actually supposed to get anything out of this having zero background in Irish politics?

>> No.5022056

>>5021299
But I've made a thread on every board

>> No.5022198

>>5021999
I just started Dubliners, so I've only read the first few stories, so I haven't gotten to any political discussions yet.

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>>5022198
From that book I've read 'An Encounter', 'A Little Cloud', 'A Painful Case', 'A Mother', and 'Grace'. Pretty good stories but 'A Little Cloud' was my favorite.

>tfw you sympathize with Little Chandler so much it hurts

>> No.5022266

>>5021305
>dawkins
>Harris
>hitchens
Are you still in high school or do you just enjoy pop-science?

>> No.5022269

>>5022255
I really like Araby, I'd recommend that one for sure.

>> No.5022270

>>5021318
no, they aren't. the target demographic is people who want to feel smart without putting any real effort in.

>> No.5022283

>>5022270
>They aren't
Why? Richard Dawkins is a good writer and a good biologist.

>> No.5022292

>>5021315
You forgot Joyce.

>> No.5022301

>>5021331
how can you choose not to believe in a posteriori knowledge? you don't really get to make that decision... are you a strict platonist or something?

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>>5021321
The philosophy started out tolerable but has transformed into this board's biggest cancer. Look at the catalog. How many threads are on actual books or authors? Then how many of them aren't vapid bullshit about rankings or "x is better than y at z?"
How many threads are actually discussing literature on the literature board?

>> No.5022304

>>5022283
>good writter
He's alright, no problem with it anyways
>good biologist
Name a significant contribution of his in the past 2 decades. He abandoned biology for euphoria long ago

>> No.5022309

>>5021315
>implying thus spake zarathustra isn't GOAT

lel christfags

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This is a good one.

>> No.5022329

>>5022269
>>5022255
My niggas. Araby and A Little Cloud are GOAT along with The Dead.

>> No.5022339

>>5021999
Ivy Day in the Committee Room is the only one like this.
Stop bitching, the internet exists. Do your own homework. You think this is hard, wait until you start Portrait.

>> No.5022458

>>5022322
Nabokov is great but he has better books than Lolita
>>5022255
>>5022198
yoo keep reading, The Dead is probably the best one in Dubliners, along with Araby and A Little Cloud