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In this thread: Books you've read that you think no one else on /lit/ has.

Picture related.

>> No.635017

How to win friends and influence people

>> No.635021

>>635017
"How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first bestselling self-help books ever published"

>> No.635025
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>>635017

Was a pretty good read. The only self-help book I'd feel comfortable reading; it's a classic!

>> No.635030

Song of Solomon. I understand now that nearly all of /lit/ hates Toni Morrison

>> No.635035

>>635030
I am yet to see it discussed here, hopefully there's no Jews here, or you lose :(

>> No.635036

Solar Lottery - Philip K. Dick

>> No.635041

Reading the OED

Atoms of Language

Power of Babel

?

>> No.635045

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

>> No.635049

>>635041
Non-fiction doesn't count.

>> No.635056

>>635045
"Man in the Dark is a novel by Paul Auster published in August 2008. Its topic is a dystopian scenario of the present-day USA being torn apart by a new secession and civil war after the presidential elections of 2000. (The fictional division between the secessionist and loyal states is very similar to the "Jesusland" map.)"

It's only 180 pages, is it any good?

>> No.635057

>>635049
This thread can use all the help it can get.

>> No.635067

>>635057
It's because everyone on /lit/ reads the same shit!

>> No.635070

>>635025
hmmm...
Didn't expect that.
I have an at least 50 year old version of that book, from my dad, who I guess "forgot" to give it back to his college library in the 80s

>> No.635078

>>635067
It's a generation of people who only read when they are forced to and they all dream of being writers.

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>> No.635084

>>635078
I just enjoy reading. I have no aims to even work in the field of literature, I study accounting.

But most of what I enjoy reading would be 'easy'. I don't mind reading a classic from time to time though.

But in /lit/, it's ALWAYS the same shit:
The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm
Catch-22
The Stand

And a handful of others...

>> No.635088

the fifty year sword

>> No.635101

>>635056
It is actually great. It is really meta.

>> No.635106

>>635088
You actually got that book? Wasn't there only 500 made?

>> No.635113

>>635106
There are two editions, 1000 copies each, and a third edition in plans for publication.

>> No.635116

Romance of Three Kingdom.

>> No.635125

Lone Survivor
great book

>> No.635131

>>635125
Is it this: Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10?

>> No.635252

>>635131
yeah

>> No.635284
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It was far better than I expected.

>> No.635416

Bump need to make this thread alive

>> No.635515
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The New York Trilogy

>> No.635536

Kiln People

Even though they made a shitty movie based off of it.

>> No.635541

>>635284

I thought it was going to be more Jane Austen, and while I didn't love it, it wasn't terrible.

>> No.635579

Do plays count? If so, Stoppard's After Magritte (I don't think its one of his better known texts) and Henry Livings' Stop It Whoever You Are.

If drama doesn't count, then I guess... Val McDermid's The Mermaid's Singing? If anyone else has read that, then I pity you, you poor defenceless bastard.

>> No.635594

>>635515

you sir, are sorely mistaken

>> No.635600

>>635594
Aw poop, I never win :(

>> No.635644

Venus on the half shell

>> No.635649
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God-like

>> No.635671

>>635649

let me share with you a little frankensteinlet I made of the quartets


For Thine Wast The Twilight Kingdom of Cockaigne
(An Eliot Medley Assembled from "Four Quartets" & "Sweeney Agonistes")


"Exterminate the brutes!"


Below, the boarhound and the boar
Of the petrel and the porpoise
Like the river with its cargo of dead negroes, cows and chicken coops
I caught the sudden look of some dead master:

Doris: You'll be the cannibal!
Sweeny: You'll be the missionary!
Churchill:—But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.
Kurtz: The horror!


Courtesy of T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, et.al.

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>>635004
I've read that one, op, and the sequel, and qould appreciate a lot if you had a link to the short story collection from the same author "the rising, selected scenes from the end of the world".

Pic is of the Emberverse series,w hich only me and a couple thr anon seem to haeve read.

>> No.635810

Strange Attractors by Rebecca Goldstein

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THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE

>> No.636053

Franny and Zooey

>> No.636103
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Crazy fuckin' book.

>> No.636109

Fitzpatrick's War

>> No.636111

can somebody post that book with the gay cowboy, jurrasic park cover

>> No.636165

>>636053
um

>> No.636184

>>636109
its on my to be read list

>> No.636205

"The Cloud of Unknowing"

>> No.636206

>>635649
<3

>> No.636209

>>636205
Read.

>> No.636210

>>635671
Stop raping good things.

>> No.636213

>>636210


DA

DA

>> No.636247

>>636213
I can quote Eliot too. Datta, damyata, dayadvham. Shantih. Shantih. Shantih.

>> No.636258

>>636247

Mistah Eliot could quote like no otha