/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6187835]

ITT: Books that gave you goosebumps when you finished them.

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[Anonymous No.6187844]

I really liked One Flew's ending. Ended it perfectly and was a great book.

[Anonymous No.6187847]

Hard Times, Charles Dickens.
Pretty much anything by Charles Dickens.

[Anonymous No.6187893]

>>6187835
I should really make a diagram of this goddamn family.
These motherfuckers are all called José.
But so far I'm enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.6187915]

>>6187893
most spanish editions come with a family tree. the one from Austral also comes with an introduction which runs through the major plot points.

[Anonymous No.6187926]

>>6187893
>tfw I still don't know which Jose Arcadio Aureliano was which

[Anonymous No.6187927]

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea

[Anonymous No.6187932]

>>6187893
don't take it too seriously, it was basically intended as a joke. you really just need to keep track of whether someone is supposed to be act like an Arcadio (adventurer) or an Aureliano (shut in) at what point

[Anonymous No.6187933]

'The Indians know magick.'
'And you too.'

[Anonymous No.6187987]

>>6187835
Absalom, Absalom! So many scenes of staggering beauty and power, and the prose is unbelievable. If you were to tell me that it was handed down to Faulkner by God atop mount Sinai, I would be more apt to believe that than believe that he wrote it himself.

[Anonymous No.6188019]

>>6187915
Too bad I'm reading it in French, when my Spanish will be better I'll try it.
>>6187926
I think it's the bastard of Jose Arcadio Buendia and the woman "who can read in the future".
>>6187932
Ok thanks I'll keep that in mind.

[Anonymous No.6188357]

[Anonymous No.6188366]

>>6187835
I haven't read Moby Dick, but it's been referenced so many times that I feel like I've read it. Should I even bother reading it knowing how it ends and what its lesson was?

[Anonymous No.6188448]

>>6187835
Little, Big

[Anonymous No.6188450]

>>6187835
The Gospel According Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago

[Anonymous No.6188452]

I Am Legend

[Anonymous No.6188470]

>>6188366
yes, because it's not about the story or about a lesson, it's about melville's infectious enthusiasm and love of whaling, and hilarious and revealing tangents on the subject

[Anonymous No.6188481]

>>6187847

tale of two cities ending was absolutely perfect after all of the drudgery beforehand

[Anonymous No.6188485]

>>6187915

as does the english one

[Anonymous No.6188487]

>>6188366
>what its lesson was?

What do you think it's lesson was?

[Anonymous No.6188499]

cronicle of a death foretold, savage detectives

[Anonymous No.6188504]

>tfw i decided to look up his website where he uploaded the manuscript

[Anonymous No.6188522]

>>6187987
Seconding this, and also adding Light in August's (real spoiler, avoid to preserve power of the scene) castration scene. For that matter, fuck, most anything he wrote has given me goosebumps.
Also:
Kafka - The Trial, Hunger Artist, and Metamorphosis, but mainly the trial. Holy hell it stuck with me.
Tolkein - The Two Towers
Hemingway - Farewell to Arms

Off the top of my head. I'm sure I'm forgetting loads, and only counting the ending excludes some of my favorites

[Anonymous No.6188538]

Metro 2033
Best. Fucking. Ending.

[Anonymous No.6188946]

The last 200 pages of Les Miserables went by in what felt like 10 minutes to me because of this.

[Anonymous No.6188987]

Illuminatus!, Gravity's Rainbow, M&D, The Unnamable

[Anonymous No.6189115]

>>6188366
Lol no of course not. Just pretend you've read all the books you've heard about. That's gonna play well...

[Anonymous No.6189127]

[Anonymous No.6189148]

Oblomov

[Anonymous No.6189160]

The final line is one of the only good things about One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Anonymous No.6189191]

>>6189127
me too

[Anonymous No.6189442]

>>6187893
The Harper Perennial edition has one in it.

[Anonymous No.6189564]

>>6187835
>cien años de soledad

when i ended reading it, it felt like the whole tapestry of reality was swept away from under my feet