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Is there one book you think everyone should read at some point in their lives?

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>> No.6293314

Is it really that good?

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>> No.6293346

T H E
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>> No.6293361

>>6293314
2nding this

was thinking about reading this

>> No.6293378

>>6293314
>>6293361
Not OP but I loved that book, it really blew me away. I'm excited to reread it in the future.

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/lit/'s thoughts?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-xSiZKxBjw

>> No.6293982

Agree with OPs choice, if you have ever felt really lonely, which I assume everybody has at some point in some way.

>> No.6294064

>>6293243
Probably either that, or East of Eden.

I would say Moby Dick but I'm afraid many people wouldn't be able to handle it.

>> No.6294077

That's a pretty cool looking cover, OP.

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>> No.6294195

>>6293434
5/10, nono

>> No.6294360

>>6293382
One of my favorite books, I really wish he had written more

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The Stranger is a really good intro to literature. Also, given how short it is there's no reason not to read it.

>> No.6294510

>>6293243
Why should I read that?

>> No.6295932

>>6294505
Agree with this, also a good springboard into existentialism

>> No.6295938

>>6293243
Of course /lit/ would take the opinion of some literary critic and make it their own. I'm coming more and more to believe that lit is a big mire of autism where no original opinions are ever formed.

>> No.6296067

>>6295938
?? explain

>> No.6296124

Station Eleven is easily the best book I've ever read and I believe everybody should read it. It's a post-apocalyptic novel that gets down to an emotional level of the characters through backstories that don't entirely relate to the vague plot. There is very little plot, which I really enjoy. No action, no great adventure, just... a story, simply entertwining the lives of the survivors in unforseen ways.

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One of the few greats I've read that I think most everyone would enjoy about the same.

>> No.6296135

>>6296129
God, how I love that book. I don't think it's something everyone would enjoy, but MAN.

>> No.6296146

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>> No.6296177

>>6294149
The Killers, Farewell to Arms, and Old man and The Sea I would recommend

>> No.6296188

>>6294510
it's a really great multigenerational story that works as a parallel to the history of Marquez's Colombia and it's very touching, surprisingly funny, and beautiful to read

>> No.6296316

>>6296188
>i know because i read the translation.

>> No.6296341

>>6296316
>Colonel Aureliano Buendia
>NuFF NuFF cOcO pUff

>> No.6296364

>>6296316
¿no habéis leído la traducción , fuckboy ?

>> No.6296369

>>6296316
the translation is great you dingus

>> No.6296375

>>6296364
No porque si conozco el idioma, cara de verga.

>> No.6296421

>>6295932
Existentialism beginner here. I've read the stranger and I have the plague, selected essays, the myth of Sisyphus, and the resistance by Camus. Are they all worth reading? Who should I move onto next. Besides Camus, I've only read Kafka.

>> No.6296445

>>6296421
All of Camus' stuff is good, even if only for the virtue that he writes well, thus presents his ideas well

From there you have many options, Sarte is pretty similar, and Heidegger is their contemporary but is much more esoteric and less concerned with ethics