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what is the greatest book ever written?

>> No.5895257

>>5895252
TBK

>> No.5895439

>>5895252
The Bible

>> No.5895454

>>5895252
>book
Lol

Best works:
Paradise Lost
Hamlet
The Divine Comedy
Canterbury Tales
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Genesis/Exodus
Sections of the Lyrical Ballads
Moby Dick
Ulysses

Fill me in on what I forgot

>> No.5895472

>>5895454
Don Quixote
Madame Bovary

>> No.5895495

>>5895454
À la recherche du temps perdu

>> No.5895625

>>5895252
Not that book

>> No.5895687

The 4chan survival guide by Tommy Hedgins.

>> No.5895700

>>5895472

>not putting the lusíadas of camões in this list
>and its because its the greatest and most beautiful epic poem in the portuguese language
>cause you know portuguese >>> spanish
>not only because of that but because the author was a fucking badass moor killer warrior too
>not knowing about the greatness of portuguese literature
>being this pleb

How can you guys be like that ?

>> No.5895724

>>5895454
>Fill me in on what I forgot

Iliad
The Faerie Queene
Jerusalem Delivered
Job, Psalms, Proverbs
On the Crown

>> No.5895731

>>5895252
Up to you, I guess

>> No.5895750

>>5895724
The Lusíadas of Camões

>> No.5895768

>>5895724
>Jerusalem Delivered
no, siege of jerusalem

>> No.5895782

It's Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

>> No.5896268

>>5895724
Yeah I left the Iliad out on purpose. I feel it pales in comparison to The Odyssey but I know this isn't exactly a popular opinion. Probably should've put it on there.

>> No.5896286

>>5896268
You can't read Greek, can you?

>> No.5896491

>>5896286
I can't read Ancient Greek. In fact, I can't read any Greek. Perhaps I'm not adept to make such claims.

>> No.5896547

>>5895252
There is no better way letting us know that you don't read than saying "what's the best book"
Thus op is a faggot

>> No.5896554

Wikipedia is the best book because i can read any book there

>> No.5896927
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5896927

>>5896547
>he took the bait

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5897904

>>5895454

>Genesis/Exodus
No, there are far greater literary examples in the Bible than that shite

Ecclesiastes & Ecclesiasticus ,Songs of Solomon,Proverbs,Revelations ,Solomon s Testament and Psalms are much better to choose

You're missing The Sorrows of Young Werther,Thus spoke Zarathustra ,The Adventures of Tom Bombadli ,The Stranger,The Metamorphosis and The Trial

>> No.5898283

>>5897904
>Genesis is shite
No

>> No.5898289

>>5897904
>The Sorrows of Young Werther

lol

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5898299

>>5897904
Ecclesiastes alone is the only book that needs to be read in the Bible. It reduces everything to the baseless and trival except for love of God, friendship, and party time.

>> No.5898305

>>5895454
Hunger games is missing

>> No.5898316

>>5895454
>Moby Dick
>Ulysses

Get rid of these memes. If you want an American book go with Leaves of Grass.
Beckett is better than Joyce.

>> No.5898334

>>5898316
Moby Dick isn't a meme. I'm not even sure why you're saying that, have you read it? Melville is America's best author, he and Whitman aren't even comparable.

As for Joyce, I'll just assume you jumped on the /lit/ against-the-grain bandwagon

>> No.5898341

>>5898316
>calling everything memes

Please fuck off.

>> No.5898354

It has not been written. Thats why we keep on reading.

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5898368

>>5898316
>Beckett is better than joyce
>mfw

>> No.5898388

>>5895454
Nice anglo-centered list

>> No.5898404

>>5898388
Oh god shut the fuck up. I suppose the list should include no more than two authors from each race? You're such a joke.

I'll throw in The Tale of Genji, only because it was revolutionary.

>> No.5898412

>>5897904
>The Sorrows of Young Werther
Obvious bait

>The Adventures of Tom Bombadli
Trash shit

>The Stranger
couldn't you pick a better French novel? Literally everything is better than this shit

>> No.5898459

>>5895252
Iliad
The Aeneid
The Bible
Mahabharata
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The Lusiads
Don Quixote
The Legend of the Ages
Shahnameh
Orlando Furioso
In Search of Lost Time

>> No.5898463

If you don't count the Epics as "books" then it would without a doubt be Don Quixote.

There may be a book as good as it written in the future, but when compared to the state of literature at the time Don Quixote was written and how much of influence it had nothing will ever have as much significance.