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What book have you been putting off reading the longest, /lit/? You know, THAT ONE collecting dust on your shelf for months or years

>> No.5126667

my son

>> No.5126668

>>5126653
Consolation of Philosophy.

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>>5126671

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>>5126653
That book is so good, you should read it. For me it's Illuminatus and Naked Lunch.

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Im 100 or so pages into it. Not really feeling it and its starting to become all weird with the writing. I bought four books since than so its on my backlog

>> No.5126709

On the Origin of Species

It's a seminal work, an exposition of forbidden thought that, perhaps ironically, is now in favor with the commonly held beliefs of mainstream society. I've wanted to delve into the work for nearly two years now--however, I seem to always find a more pressing distraction to enslave my attention.

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Rushdie, will read Midnight's Children one day more than likely...

>> No.5126857

>>5126653
Beyond Good and Evil
Bought it on a whim, got home opened up and saw the prose and nope'd the fuck out

>> No.5126865

Rayuela. It was so long and full of boring stuff...

>> No.5126883

The Complete Works of Plato, for obvious reasons.
Infinite Jest, I got like 1/2 way through and lost interest.

I'm in the middle of a bunch of books I'm slowly chipping away at. Ideally I would like to finish one before starting on another, but a lot of the stuff I'm reading is philosophy and while I want the content of a book in my brain, I need to take a break from it or often consult another book it's referring to

>> No.5126885

>>5126709
like shitposting on 4chan?

>> No.5126887

Huck Finn, I always read the first page, the pick up something else...

>> No.5126910

Catch-22.
I got halfway through and gave up.

Forgive me pls

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>>5126653
"the golden pavilion" by Mishima
why the asians have so wild sexual perversions?

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>>5127059
>why the asians have so wild sexual perversions?

Obligatory

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>>5126668

that's such a breeze, just skim it.

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Just started it though, after about 4+ years of putting it off