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5909240 No.5909240 [Reply] [Original]

Which is the next book you are gonna read?
Which one i should read from the image i've post?(The ones in red are the ones i've already read).

>> No.5909246

>>5909240
rollin

>> No.5909271

91 get

>> No.5909296

>>5909240
That insert below the title of the image is absolutely retarded and embarrasses me every time I see it

>> No.5909319

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5909339

>>5909240
r-r-rolling

>> No.5909341

>>5909240
what the hell

>> No.5909347

Rollan

>pls no fantasy shit

>> No.5909352

rolling (I probably won't read it)

>> No.5909358

I've just recently started reading something but let's roll for this

>> No.5909365

>>5909358
How did you go through life before learning to read? Are you 4 years old? (^:

Also rolling.

>> No.5909367

rawl

>> No.5909371

>>5909367

Already read it

Rolling in the deep

>> No.5909407

>>5909240
rollin

>> No.5909445

roll

>> No.5909467

sage
Just kidding, I secretly wanted to roll

>> No.5909494

>>5909467
this.

>> No.5909506

Can someone update this list with contemporary books.

>> No.5909515

Roll

>> No.5909533

Rollin' so I can inevitably decide to read something other than what I get.

>> No.5909672

Rolling.

>> No.5909880

Roulant

>> No.5909902

>>5909240
roll to purchase

>> No.5909908

>>5909902
Read that like... two weeks ago. :(

>> No.5909910

>>5909908
>that book's coming amongst an online order of four
thy will be done.

>> No.5909914

role

>> No.5909917

>>5909914
already read

rerole

>> No.5909922

>>5909240
tfw i voted on that 3 times for joke books

>> No.5909973

went on random.org and got 20: the great gatsby.

i guess i have to read the great gatsby now.

fuck, how did i get on this board, i dont even read books and now i have to read the great gatsby.

welp im off to buy the great gatsby and to read it, bye.

>> No.5909975

>>5909973
enjoy reading the great gatsby

>> No.5909982

>>5909240
Wow you're pretty pleb.

Rolling

>> No.5909987

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5910012

>>5909240
Just finished Notes from 4chan last night, may as well.

>> No.5910021

>>5910012
Get. Fucked.

>> No.5910025

roll

>> No.5910029

rollin

>> No.5910047

>>5910021
>I can't read

>> No.5910053

>>5910047
Good morning /lit/

I'm going to get some coffee. Rolling

>> No.5910059

Just finished #17.
Rolling

>> No.5910062

roll

>> No.5910070

rollin

>> No.5910075

>>5909240
>Which is the next book you are gonna read?
Either Plato's Symposium or Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
>Which one i should read from the image i've post?
Catcher In The Rye.

>> No.5910084

>>5909240
Rolling

>> No.5910089

/lit/, i have Dante's Divine Comedy and i have tried to read it but its all gibberish! Im too pleb to understand it. Should i just power through or give up?

>> No.5910098

>>5910089
Get a copy with good annotations/notes.

>> No.5910105

>>5909240
henry rollins

>> No.5910111

>>5910089
Get Ciardi's translation, it supplies the basic overview of the Canto prior to the verse and even babysits you through the themes. Highly recommended for a first time read.

Don't feel bad though, Dante can be quite "Dante-ing" LOL. Seriously, it's difficult if you aren't taking a class/don't have an adequate translation.

>> No.5910137

>>5910062
Well fuck that, reroll

>> No.5910138

Rolling

>> No.5910148

I'm excited about this

>> No.5910162

rolling to the oldies

>> No.5910179

the next book I read will probably be Against the Day or The Handmaid's Tale, after I finish Urth of the New Sun

OP, you should read The Crying of Lot 49

>> No.5910227

rolllll

>> No.5910241

>>5910227
never even heard of that

>> No.5910254

I read quite a few, but rollin'

>> No.5910255

>>5910254
meh, read the Harry Potter series as a kid, reroll

>> No.5910276

r-roll..

>> No.5910283

>>5910276
fuck it, reroll

>> No.5910290

>>5909240

rolling hard

>> No.5910292

rollin

>> No.5910342

roll

>> No.5910353

Rollan.

Also I started Moby dick but found it difficult to get into. I feel like this is just me being a pleb with a short attention span. Will I appreciate it more if I come back to it late? Is it ok to drop it and pick it up again down the line?

>> No.5910355

roll

>> No.5910375

rolling in le deep

>> No.5910381

roll

>> No.5910387

>>5910375
already red it rereoll

>> No.5910399

roll

>> No.5910402

rp;;;

>> No.5910404

>>5910399
the fuck is that

>> No.5910406

rolly polly

>> No.5910408

>>5910404
It's funny

>> No.5910425

>>5910387
c'mon lit

>> No.5910427

Bloody idiots

>> No.5910430

>>5909240
bowlango

>> No.5910482

hm ok

>> No.5910524

roll

>> No.5910545

roll

>> No.5910596

lloR

>> No.5910609

get

>> No.5910613

>>5909240
Ooh boy

>> No.5910626

guess i'll roll

>> No.5910633

Rool

>> No.5910640

Let's see what I get.

>> No.5910738

rolling

>> No.5910742

Rrrrollling

>> No.5910746

>>5910742
Like fuck am I reading Tolkien

>> No.5910833

call me butter cause im on a roll

>> No.5910837

Rolón

>> No.5910853
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5910853

Roll

>> No.5911001

raol

>> No.5911004

roll

>> No.5911014

>>5909240
Roll!

>> No.5911065

right reserved to say fuck no, but roll a roll

>> No.5911086

rol

>> No.5911089

>>5909240
k

>> No.5911093

>>5909240
rollan rollan rollan

>> No.5911116

rolling

>> No.5911121

>>5909240
rolling

>> No.5911135
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5911135

If you're still reading beginner lit like the books in the OP image, you have literally no reason to be posting here. So sick of seeing people here saying they're just now reading Lolita or Ulysses or whatever other high school level book. Fuck off plebs.

>> No.5911175

Rollin for my gf

>> No.5911259

Are you prepared to roll deep? Because that's how I roll. I roll deep.

>> No.5911276

roll

>> No.5911292

>>5909240
rollange

>> No.5911294

>>5911135
Stay out of the 'recent purchases' threads then. Most pics in there are of people buying shit like Gravity's Rainbow and Book of the New Sun.

>> No.5911296

Roll

>> No.5911297

>>5909240
rolling

>> No.5911300

A compliation of stories by Lord Dunsany, and Well at the World's End by William Morris

>> No.5911308
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5911308

>>5911300
>plebbin this hard

>> No.5911333

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5911335

>>5911135
>high school level like ulysses
>>5911294
>waaahhh stop talking about good authors I've never read

Why is /mu/ obsessed with our board

>> No.5911336

>>5909240
rolling

>> No.5911347

rawlin

>> No.5911352

>>5911347
Already read, re-roll

>> No.5911360
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5911360

>>5911335
>Why is /mu/ obsessed with our board
Because it's shit, like theirs.

>> No.5911381

>>5911135
I would bet my unborn children you haven't even attempted Ulysses. I would also bet you haven't read over 50% of the image.

Anyone that posts that stupid frog shit is a teenager anyway

>> No.5911384

roly poly

>> No.5911387

>>5911308
I'm gonna pleb so hard. And there is nothing you can do about it.

>> No.5911388

>>5909240
rell

>> No.5911392

Roll

>> No.5911410

roll

>> No.5911414

Rol

>> No.5911429

>>5909365
>reading something

>> No.5911458

le roll

>> No.5911463

roll : )

>> No.5911559

rollen

>> No.5911595

trying to get into lit. I guess this is a good way to start

>> No.5911613

roll again

>> No.5911624

>>5909240
roll it like it's /b/

>> No.5911632

>>5909240
skeebop

>> No.5911662

>>5909240
rolling in the deep

>> No.5911687

>>5909240
see me rolling

>> No.5911715

Henry Rollin'

>> No.5911754

ayy lmao

>> No.5911759

>>5911754
Harry fucking Potter series, well fuck that

ayy lmao [take two]

>> No.5911763

>>5911759
jesus fucking christ I already saw that movie

AYY LMAO [take three]

>> No.5911775

roll

>> No.5911856

/lit/ is an faggot

>> No.5911992

I don't know how to read

>> No.5911995

>>5911763
>already saw the movie
Well, I guess that's a valid complaint...
>59 is Fear and Loathing by Thompson
Plebbest of plebs.

>> No.5911997

how do i become an faggot

>> No.5912009

i have already experienced that particular instantiation of an faggotry, please sir may i have another

>> No.5912015

roll

>> No.5912019

god dammit batting rereads tonight

>> No.5912025

>>5912019
bout to die
sagerollagain

>> No.5912030

>>5909240
probably read it already, but leggo

>> No.5912032

rollin

>> No.5912071

It seems poor form to just post with no purpose other than to roll; but ah well, that is what the thread is for anyway.

>> No.5912107

r o l l i n

>> No.5912432

roll nigga

>> No.5912463

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "One Day in the Life of", "The Gulag Archipelago"
"First Circle"
Balthazar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Aldous Huxley

>> No.5912466

Rawhide

>> No.5912471

rollin mah litizens

>> No.5912654

roll

>> No.5912661

Slaughterhouse 5, or the Stranger by Albert Camus. They arrive the same day. Currently on Cloud Atlas.

>> No.5912780

>>5909240
Fuck it why not.

>> No.5912811

>The First 8 books on the list are Meme Books

>> No.5912821

Railing

>> No.5912825

Re-Railing

>> No.5912847

First time doing this on /lit/

>> No.5912859

>>5912811

go back to /mu/

>> No.5912904

>>5909240
railling

>> No.5912936

>>5909240
Camus would be so happy to see his work at 2#

>> No.5912948

I've read exactly half of this list. Who can beat me?

>> No.5912949

rroll

>> No.5912950

rolling

>> No.5912952

I'll probably read The Bluest Eye next

>> No.5912987

Rollio

>> No.5912989

Rerollio

>> No.5913092

>>5909240
wtf...all these young adult angsty teen books. No fucking thanks.

>> No.5913148

>>5909240
I'll re-roll if I get 44 since I have already read that book.

>> No.5913152

>>5913148
>As I lay dying

Shouldn't it be "dieing" and not "dying" isn't "dying" when put dye on clothes/hair`?

>> No.5913163

Roll, I will read it, whatever I get.

>> No.5913170

hoping for 07 because that's what i'm reading now

>> No.5913171

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5913176

>>5913152
dying and dyeing

>> No.5913187

mmke

>> No.5913194

roll

>> No.5913196

rolling

>> No.5913222

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5913226

R-rolling?

>> No.5913229

>>5913226
Rerolli
ng because I just read Notes.

>> No.5913231

>>591113
>>5913092

Oh wow look at you, aren't you so fucking edgy and hipster? The list is a bit too mainstream is it? Needs more Nietzsche and Foucault?

>> No.5913238

Roll

>> No.5913287

>>5909240
starting the year off with whatever book i get

>> No.5913289

>>5913287
ok not fight club

>> No.5913304
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5913304

>>5909240

>The Stranger
>Second-highest ranked book overall

>Notes from Underground
>Higher than Siddhartha
>Higher than lots of things

Why is this edgy-on-purpose literature regarded so highly? Is it because /lit/ is full of misanthropes and wanna-be bad-asses?

>> No.5913307

>>5913304
How do you think the list was made?
How much do you trust random anons in a single thread just posting the most memetastic books they can think of.

>> No.5913315

Let's see mu fate

>> No.5913330

rolll

>> No.5913335

roll

>> No.5913337

>>5913304
You are clueless

>> No.5913340

>>5913304
The Stranger is edgy-on-purpose literature?

You really think Camus was trying to be edgy on purpose? That's what you got from the book?

>> No.5913431
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5913431

Christopher Rolan!

>> No.5913433

>>5913431
Already read that one.

Pls gib me good buk boss

>> No.5913560

roll

>> No.5913562

R-ro-rol-rolin

>> No.5913667

This is without a doubt the worst board on 4chan

>> No.5913677

>>5913667
I have a theory you post something of this likeness in every thread.

>> No.5913683

>>5913667
Leave then

I love this board

>> No.5913685

>>5913677
No, I was just thinking I'd say something provocative instead of just "rolling"

>> No.5913841

>>5909240
git me sumthin gut

>> No.5913988

roll

>> No.5914041

>>5909240
rolo

>> No.5914049

rollol

>> No.5914289

>>5909240
ehh I'll roll I'm bored

>> No.5914337

Let's roll

>> No.5914373

roll

>> No.5914551

roll

>> No.5914623
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5914623

lets just see

>> No.5914634

>>5914623
I was actually going to pick up 100years of solitude next time I was at a store

>> No.5914648

Rool

>> No.5914657

Reroll for literacy

>> No.5914661

3rd toss

>> No.5914695

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5914722

roll because i dropped out of elementary school at 20

>> No.5914730

>Two or three fat autists have been samefagging this thread for over a day straight

>> No.5914746

WHAT COMES WITH THE CHICKEN PLATE

>> No.5914796

ROLL

>> No.5914813

rollliin

>> No.5914822

rollin cause i already read crime and punishment

>> No.5914828

ROOOOOLL

>> No.5914831

rolllllllllllllllll

>> No.5914834

>>5909240
crolling

>> No.5914838

RRROOOLLL

>> No.5914870

>>5909240
This is a roll bread?

>> No.5914875

>>5914870
HA READ IT.

>> No.5914881

Rolling

>> No.5915486

Roll

>> No.5915494

What if we've already read all of them?

>> No.5915585

r-rolling

>> No.5915599

>>5909240
ROLLAN

>> No.5915607

eh re-rooll

>> No.5915626

>>5909240
I am reading all the Kapuscinski I can.
I wish all the journalists could be like him. He just limits himself to tell the facts. And he tells just the facts, not bullshit to advance someone's narrative. Too bad he died without a Nobel prize.

>> No.5915640

r

>> No.5915648

re

>> No.5915697

>>5909240
rolling

>> No.5915741

rolly pollys

>> No.5915749

scrollin'

>> No.5915801

Roll

>> No.5915860

yes

>> No.5916320

rollin

>> No.5916348

>>5909240
Rollan

>> No.5916650

>>5915801
Well, you better get started.

>> No.5916656

>>5909240
Robert

>> No.5916759

I just bought The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, which one should I read first?

>> No.5916814

roll

>> No.5916970

roll

>> No.5916987

>>5909240
Henry Rollins

>> No.5916993

>>5909240
You got me rockin and a rollin rockin and a really Barbara Ann

>> No.5917023

llor

>> No.5917032

roll

>> No.5917033

roll

>> No.5917051
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5917051

>>5909240

>> No.5917065

>>5909240
Roll

>> No.5917066

>>5909240
roll for after blood meridian

>> No.5917070

>>5909240
reroll because already read Flies

>> No.5917074

>>5909240
might as well roll

>> No.5917078

rollan

>> No.5917106

to here knows when

>> No.5918960

>>5909240
let's do it

>> No.5918968

>>5909240
rawlin

>> No.5918969

>>5909240
reoll

>> No.5919000

>>5909240
Rolling, hope I haven't read it yet.

>> No.5919033

>>5909240
rolling dice

>> No.5919046

>>5909240
So I have a signed copy of Dandelion Wine my grandpa gave me. Is that worth anything?

>> No.5919122

>>5909240
Rerolling, got Dumas and I'd already read him.

>> No.5919124

ok

>> No.5919132

>>5919124

didn't expect i'll need to reroll, seeing how little i've read

>> No.5919145

roll

>> No.5919150

Rolling for muh backlog

>> No.5919155

yeee

>> No.5919162

>>5919122
Already read that too, dang.

>> No.5919180

>>5919162
and that, reroll again

>> No.5919199

roll

>> No.5919207

rolling

>> No.5919214

>>5909240
rollin

>> No.5919229

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5919276

>>5919180

Not reroll, reread, faggot.

>> No.5919277

Rollan

>> No.5919285

Roll

>> No.5919311

>>5909240
Rollan

>> No.5919332

Roll

>> No.5919338

>>5909240
they all have nice covers so i cant go wrong.

also, harder captchas are better for society. we they make us more intelligent. eloi Vs morlocks.

>role

>> No.5919340

Roll!

>> No.5919390

>>5919338
holy shit, i just bought that book for my dad for christmas, but i was gona take it back, read it myself, and give him a different book. what a kawinkle dink!!!

>> No.5919398
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5919398

>>5919390
fucking aliens and CIA man. i swear this is just a simulation.

>> No.5919419

roll

>> No.5919458

rolling for christmas

>> No.5919469

Again... and again!

>> No.5919670

rlll

>> No.5919674

>>5909240
fuck you neigges

>> No.5919694

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5919701

>>5919694
Fuck the greeks. Roll.

>> No.5919704

>>5909240
dem 1s

>> No.5919752
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5919752

roll

>> No.5919773

who culd it be

>> No.5919798

Rolling

>> No.5919904

too many drugs

>> No.5919940

>>5909240
r8elll

>> No.5919989

>>5909240
rrrrrooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

>> No.5920001

>>5909240

Rolliolio, Lo, lo!

>> No.5920123

>>5909240
rrrrr

>> No.5920143

>>5920123
r-reroll..

>> No.5920149

>>5920143
again

>> No.5920193
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5920193

Here's hoping I get a book that isn't a fucking doorstop. Also pls no postmodernism (although I guess they're the same thing).

>> No.5920210

>>5909240
rolllll
>post how many youve read for the good feels
>32

>> No.5920216

>>5909240
reroll
captcha: ipede

>> No.5920222
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5920222

>>5909240
re-re-rollan
>tfw when i already read them shits hawhaw i must b smart

>> No.5920615

rollan

>> No.5920813

>>5909240
bumb

>> No.5920819

>>5920813
rebumb

>> No.5920824

>>5920819
rerebumb

>> No.5921393

Rawlin

>> No.5921459

>>5909240
roll

>> No.5921469

>>5909240
rolling

>> No.5922218

>>5921469
vroll

>> No.5922786

Rollardo.