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5099094 No.5099094 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Books that, when mentioned by someone, immediately make that person your nigga.

>> No.5099119

ITT: low-tier PKD.

>> No.5099124

The quran.

>> No.5099127

>>5099119
The Penultimate Truth

>> No.5099131

I don't so easily give a person the benefit of a doubt that they are my nigga. Enjoy being stabbed in the back by your niggas.

>> No.5099134
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>>5099094
Anything by this guy. Bonus points if not only The Blood of the Lamb, as incredible as that book is.

>> No.5099156

Harry Potter series.

>> No.5099159

rilke
paul celan
non being and time heidegger
kierkegaard

>> No.5099162

Foundation

>> No.5099163

Blood Meridian. I'm not very original ;-;

>> No.5099171

>>5099159
>rilke
>paul celan
>non being and time heidegger
>kierkegaard
People that you instantly recognize as being pretentious

>> No.5099176

anyone who likes Thomas Bernhard is ok in my books

>> No.5099181
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5099181

>>5099176

>> No.5099182

>>5099171
yeah, kinda. pretentious poetry faggots > basement dwellers like you.

>> No.5099186

>>5099182
>mfw I have better taste in poetry than you
stay pleb, pleb

>> No.5099192

>>5099182
>>5099186
you guys are the worst

>> No.5099199

Any Malcom Lowry
Any Koestler
Any Joyce (in a genuine, not poser way of course)

Also if they read Neverending Story as a kid

>> No.5099202
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The Tunnel by Sabato
Death with Interruptions by Saramago
Bros. Karamazov by Fiodor D.
The unending story by Michael Ende

>> No.5099204

>>5099186
>better taste than rilke or celan

literally rolling on the floor laughing

>>5099192
>implying anyone gives a shit about what you think

>> No.5099209

>>5099171
>pretentious
>>5099199
>poser

itt: muh authenticity

pls hang yourselves w/ dfw's belt

>> No.5099213

>>5099202
>>5099199 here

You are my nigga.

>> No.5099219

>>5099094
I don't like people who namedrop. No one who namedrops a book is my nigga. On the other hand, if they start talking about Stirner, I immediately consider them a dangerous fool and likely enemy.

>> No.5099221

>>5099209
Oh come on, it's fair to say they're not your nigga when they namedrop Joyce without even the slightest passing interest in actually reading his stuff.

>> No.5099399

>>5099204
>literally rolling on the floor laughing
look at this damage control

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>>5099399
>look at this damage control

>> No.5099418

Anything by Iain Banks.

>> No.5099420
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>>5099416

>> No.5099422

Any Murakami

>> No.5099428

>white people saying mah nigga
lel. tell me how much you love crap trap

>> No.5099447

>>5099428
>Not realising it's a line from a movie.

>> No.5099559

Olaf Stapledon
Yukio Mishima

>> No.5099574

>>5099094
Anything Walker Percy

>> No.5099575

>>5099559
>Yukio Mishima
mah nigga

>> No.5099601

>>5099094
>Ubik
MY nigga

>> No.5099666

>>5099428

Love what?

>> No.5099855

>>5099666
clap trap

>> No.5099864
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5099864

Neverending story is ok.

If they've read Momo, we bros

>> No.5100170

Dietmar Dath

>>5099864
mein neger.tiff

>> No.5100171

Nausea

>> No.5100183

>>5100170
>Dietmar Dath
Bah, selbtverliebts Spexgeschwafel.

>> No.5100187

Last Exit To Brooklyn. Patrician taste without the namedroppy hivemind pretensions of names like Pynchon and Joyce.
Don't get me wrong, I still dig Pynchon and Joyce and would share a beer with one who does too.

>> No.5100216

Anything by Phillip Roth, anything PKD, anything by Camus, anything by Céline.

>> No.5100223
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>> No.5100226

>>5100223
my old chap, chip of the ole block!

>> No.5100234

>>5100183
Halt die Fresse, Für immer in Honig ist GOAT

>> No.5100243
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5100243

Anything by: Krasznahorkai, Sebald, Woolf.

Usually liked by pretty bro anon.

>> No.5100247

>>5099094

Mein Kampf
Evola
Savitri Devi - The Lightning and the Sun

>> No.5100257

anything pynchon

>> No.5100414
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>>5099575
>>5099559
new favorite author... first read sailor who fell, now finishing the temple of the golden pavilion... how's his tetralogy?

>> No.5100423

>>5099213
:3

>> No.5100444

anything by Styron or Gaddis

>> No.5100737

IRL?

The Brother's Karamazov by Fyoddy D
Journey to the End of the Night by Céline (Dion)
Ficciones by Borges (I couldn't think of something clever for this)

The only reason why I make any distinction between IRL and on this shithole is because essentially none of my friends read, so it can be refreshing to find someone with decent tastes.

>>5099575
>>5099559
>>5100414

denzelwashington.jpg

>> No.5100741

Borges

>> No.5100751

>>5099199
I love Joyce, took a class on him a few semesters back. My favorite short of his is The Dead, really puts the cap on Dubliners.

>> No.5100779
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>> No.5101084

>>5099418
my nigga

>> No.5101086

tropic of cancer

our lady of the flowers

rimbaud

anything by mishima

>> No.5101103
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5101103

Melmoth the Wanderer

Never actually met anybody who read it

>> No.5101112

>>5101086
>our lady of the flowers
You my nigga even though you read Mishima.

>> No.5101120

Angela Carter
KJ Bishop
Mary Wesley

>> No.5101137
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high quality shit right here

>> No.5101188

Baudolino
My Name is Red
The Glass Bead Game

>> No.5101197

>>5099864
>tfw a kid at a flea market was selling a hardback copy for cheap and I didn't get it

Fuck everything, now I have to get it for like 15 euros

>> No.5101309

>>5099094
Catch 22
anything by Douglas Adams
Camus (and prefers Camus over Sartre)

>> No.5101321
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>> No.5101328

>>5101309
So basically almost any literate person who did Grade 11 English.

>> No.5101333

>>5101188
>Baudolino
my nigga

>> No.5101337

the unconsoled

>> No.5101338

Sartre's play Lucifer and the Lord

>> No.5101345

not one, but if someone mentions combinations of any two
>Ruh Adam and Plague
>Ruh Adam and Picture of Dorian Gray
he is my nigga

>> No.5101370

If someone mentions Koltes I want to get to know that person.

>> No.5102067

>>5099094
The Corrections because no one every brings it up

and I loved it

>> No.5102096
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5102096

There can be only one.

>> No.5102101

Under the Volcano.

>> No.5102111

>>5102101
And any Raymond Carver.

>> No.5102121

>>5102111
Yes.

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>>5100444
The only Styron I read was Set This House on Fire. His writing style piqued my interest and I definitely intend on looking at his other work (I have Lie Down in Darkness), but I thought the book sort of buckled beneath itself. It was just a bit bloated and tried too hard to be transgressive.

What by Styron have you read?

>> No.5102262

>>5102096
I agree one hundred percent. you and i, we're like brothers, endlessly logging the forests of Oregon, riding down the Wakanda auga.

>> No.5102631

VALIS or The Man in the High Castle or most PKD books
Foundation
Dune

>> No.5102637
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>> No.5102643

>>5102637
Muh nigga

>> No.5102655

>>5099094
Anything by Oscar Wilde.

He is pretty widely read, but when a woman mentions that she loves Wilde, I know that she's worthy in terms of literature.

>> No.5102663
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The Edge Chronicles

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5102679

Pic related.

No one has ever mentioned it. ;_;

>> No.5102682

>>5102663
My nigga, I loved those books so fucking much
I don't think I will ever read anything that I like as much as I liked these books

>> No.5102683

>>5102637
This book was tedious and the ending was just nonsensical.

Then again, I did read it while I was in a psychiatric hospital drugged up to my eyeballs on antipsychotics, so maybe I can't say anything.

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>>5102663
>>5102682

>> No.5102730

>>5099094
Silmarillion or Jude the obscure

>> No.5102740

>>5099209
You are aware some people pretend to read big name books to seem more.intelligent right?

>> No.5102747

>>5102740
what do you think the proportion is?
(actually read : actually read and enjoyed : bought it to be a poser faggot)

>> No.5102767

>>5102747
I thinks its more subjective.

But the "posers" everyone keeps.mentioning are people who either buy the books to put on a shelf to look smart or just name drop a writer without knowing anything about them.

And just reading the book and having a minute understanding of it is good enough for me.

And anyone who has read and enjoyed hitch hikers guide is my nigga.

>> No.5102776

>>5101086

OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS BEYOTCH.

yeah!

On the realz. I need to finish that book. I read the first thirty pages, was intrigued, spellbound, and stimulated. But then I got distracted, probably writing freaking research database articles for minimum wage.

>> No.5102787
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5102787

John Dos Passos. USA trilogy was epic, engaging and avant at the same time. Kinda weak on the characterization angle, but still very much worth the time investment for its strengths.

>> No.5104359

Die Gestalt des Menschen, Menschen Zeichnen, or the latter's English equivalent, Complete Guide to Life Drawing.

>> No.5104384
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5104384

Spike Milligan's war memoirs

>> No.5104409
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5104409

anything by Tanizaki

>> No.5106164

Whitman. Specifically if they say 'Song of Myself' AND know what it means when I say 'which version?'

That individual is indeed mah nigga.