What is the best book you have ever read?

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Anonymous Mon Apr 13 13:18:04 2015 No.6398614 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best book you have ever read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 13:21:33 2015 No.6398629 >>6398614 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 13:33:46 2015 No.6398679 >>6398614 My Struggle, call me a pleb if you must, but a book that is so relatable and beautifully written has yet to be challenged.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 13:35:11 2015 No.6398690 >>6398614 Moby dick I'll admit I didn't understand what reading 300 pages about very specific whale parts had to do with the story, or what it symbolized.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 14:14:54 2015 No.6398834 >>6398679 >has yet to be challenged Oh anon, I think you need to read up on your history. Especially the latter half of 1945.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 14:16:16 2015 No.6398838 >>6398614 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 14:23:16 2015 No.6398860 >>6398614 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 14:24:45 2015 No.6398871 >>6398834 >implying he didn't mean "Min Kamp" by Knausgard

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 14:28:22 2015 No.6398887 >>6398614 The Name of the Wind, because I mostly read fantasy, not the pretentious shit /lit/ shitposts about. Solaris was pretty up there too.

Anonymous Mon Apr 13 14:29:34 2015 No.6398892
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>>6398614
I chuckled consistently throughout Catch-22. The imagery in Lolita was real good. The Stranger kept my attention best. Boy I just don't know, I'll probably insult other people's taste rather than introspecting and considering my own.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 14:30:27 2015 No.6398897 GR

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:09:54 2015 No.6399032 >>6398860 >>6398838 >>6398629 >these people have probably read less than 100 books Underworld by DeLillo for me OP

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:12:37 2015 No.6399044 Island- Aldous Huxley Man that book is so thought provoking.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:14:55 2015 No.6399056 Philosophy of History G W F Hegel

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:18:50 2015 No.6399066 >>6399056 Schopenhauer should have outclassed Hegel but Hegel was too good of a speaker

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:20:26 2015 No.6399070 >>6398614 Ulysses Gravity's Rainbow 2666 Hamlet

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:21:03 2015 No.6399071 Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Not even kidding.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:21:53 2015 No.6399076 >>6399070 >Hamlet >Book

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:22:44 2015 No.6399078 sǝʌɐǝן ɟo ǝsnoɥ

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:23:13 2015 No.6399080 >>6399032 People who aren't well-read usually hate Infinite Jest, I don't really see your reasoning here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:23:50 2015 No.6399084 File: 239 KB, 520x638, 1397225717702.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6399056 >tfw reading The Science of Logic

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:33:11 2015 No.6399109 >>6399044 lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:38:03 2015 No.6399128 >>6399076 >Hamlet >Play

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:38:56 2015 No.6399134 A play is not a book

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 16:40:39 2015 No.6399400 >>6398614 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Probably read it at the perfect stage in my life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 16:41:45 2015 No.6399406 >>6399400 Care to elaborate?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 16:43:00 2015 No.6399414 The best book would be Madame Bovary, but my favourite is The Savage Detectives

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 16:45:25 2015 No.6399424 >>6398614 Arthur C. Clarke's Rama.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 16:47:40 2015 No.6399436 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 16:50:13 2015 No.6399440 >>6398614 Dante's Inferno

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 17:02:02 2015 No.6399488 The tin drum

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 17:06:47 2015 No.6399504 File: 791 KB, 1800x1193, Saul Leiter - Scarf (1948).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Magic Mountain.

>>	The cats Mon Apr 13 17:07:41 2015 No.6399507 J R by William Gaddis Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 18:44:40 2015 No.6399977 The Once and Future King

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 18:46:07 2015 No.6399982 infinite jest by david foster wallace probably the greatest novel of all time

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 18:52:00 2015 No.6400003 The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 18:55:18 2015 No.6400012 The Holy Quran

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 18:57:30 2015 No.6400021 Paradife Loft

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 19:03:06 2015 No.6400050 >>6398892 At least you had enough introspection to realize that, which is more than can be said for a lot of people on this board. I'm not that well read, but I'll say Lolita. I'll probably change my mind in a year's time, when I've read more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 19:04:15 2015 No.6400052 >>6398614 Gravity's Rainbow or Underworld.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 19:10:21 2015 No.6400072 The Stranger Ulysses Gravity's Rainbow Infinite Jest The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 19:13:44 2015 No.6400088 File: 39 KB, 277x450, The Sound and the Fury.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 19:23:53 2015 No.6400122 Go Dog Go

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 19:49:18 2015 No.6400223 >>6398614 the moon and the bonfires

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 20:05:31 2015 No.6400307 >>6398897 mah boi

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 20:15:49 2015 No.6400364 File: 205 KB, 1000x852, 3306798_01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6398614 >ever I won't answer that because I can't. But here's one I've been fascinated with recently.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 20:17:25 2015 No.6400372 >>6399406 19, impressionable, desperately looking for validation as an intellectual being

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 20:21:54 2015 No.6400392 Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 21:07:32 2015 No.6400607 The Divine Comedy is the eternal GOAT.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 21:43:21 2015 No.6400768 >>6398614 My 745 pages novel. Still unpublished but surely the best book of this century.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 21:48:43 2015 No.6400797 Blood Meridian has gotten continually better as I return to it. I think it has one of the most beautiful opening pages I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 21:52:42 2015 No.6400819 Literally nothing beats Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 21:59:40 2015 No.6400844 >>6400797 hell yes. i just read it and was fuckin stunned. >tfw you must sleep, but i must dance

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:04:12 2015 No.6400863 >>6400392 Ah, I just finished reading Sound and the Fury and I thought it was incredible, terribly confusing at parts but such a pleasure to read. Is Absalom, Absalom! good? I was about to put it on my next purchase list.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:08:24 2015 No.6400877 >>6398679 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:17:46 2015 No.6400915 >>6399414 same Madame Bovary

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:20:22 2015 No.6400926 IJ. though the pale king is pretty close...

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:21:32 2015 No.6400929 >>6400088 nice oprah core m8

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:26:03 2015 No.6400942 >>6400929 >sound and fury >oprah core Top kek. Most people wouldnt even be able to get past the first chapter without giving up in frustration

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:26:39 2015 No.6400943 >>6398614 I really enjoyed Temeraire. I know its YA shit and to be honest it's not even a good book and the rest of the series is shit, but that was the book I enjoyed most and so it is the best book I have read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:28:00 2015 No.6400945 ITT: pseudo intellectuals with terrible taste.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:28:12 2015 No.6400947 >>6400942 yeah, that's why it's one of her favorite books of all time... lmao you're just angry at your entry level shit homie.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:29:48 2015 No.6400952 Divina Commedia, King Lear, The Cantos.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:30:56 2015 No.6400957 >>6400947 >hurrr some celebrity likes this book that means its shit!! Quit reading now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:31:04 2015 No.6400958 >>6400940 Who cares how many fried sandwiches there are? Only in Amerifat.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:34:50 2015 No.6400972 >>6400957 i'm not saying that dude, i'm just saying it's basic. literature has gone a lot further since the sound and the fury and if that's your favorite book then you clearly haven't read enough.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:39:30 2015 No.6400986 File: 212 KB, 715x722, 1424930827879.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Book of the New Sun

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 22:41:14 2015 No.6400994 >>6399128 >A "Book" consisting of nothing but dialogue and brief scene descriptions It's a play you autist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 23:31:48 2015 No.6401185 I won't say the best, but my favorite is A Canticle for Leibowitz by far

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 23:34:05 2015 No.6401198 >>6398690 Even as you come to understand the constituent parts of the whale, do you ever come truly closer to understanding the insurmountable mystery that is Moby Dick?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 23:37:34 2015 No.6401208 Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion? - Johan Harstad It's like Jonathan Safran Foer without the cloying sentimentality.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 23:39:29 2015 No.6401215 File: 145 KB, 667x960, elmo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I use audible and average a book a week, sometimes two books/week

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 23:54:43 2015 No.6401273 The Picture of Dorian Gray

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 23:55:40 2015 No.6401278 Favorite plays instead: The Misunderstanding, Camus Dirty Hands, Sartre

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 23:58:32 2015 No.6401287 >>6401215 I average a book a week because I read on public transportation.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 00:28:50 2015 No.6401425 >>6398892 the Stranger is great and probably my favorite as well. His other book, The Plague, is up there as well

Anonymous Tue Apr 14 00:59:34 2015 No.6401556

>>6398614
I don´t think there´s a book I have read that can classify as the best I read, damn I got so tangled up in literature that I just can´t pick one specific book. However, I recently re-read Faust by Goethe (I know... it´s a play) and everytime I read this play I found it more overwhelming and satisfactory.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 01:46:22 2015 No.6401736 >>6399076 Can't tell if b8 or genuine retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 05:04:23 2015 No.6402108 Undoubtedly Infinite Jest. Undoubtedly the best novel of the '90s, and maybe of the 20th c. (if we're being honest)

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 06:19:32 2015 No.6402221 The Egyptian

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 06:34:30 2015 No.6402245 File: 35 KB, 381x424, 10984697_10203219109032519_273467865_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6402108 Undoubtedly

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 06:36:05 2015 No.6402249 >>6399071 Woolf guide >God Tier The Waves Dalloway Lighthouse >Top Tier Jacob's Room Room of One's Own >Mid Tier Orlando Three Guins everything else is great

Anonymous Tue Apr 14 06:38:29 2015 No.6402254
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>>6402245
"Your opinions are shit" Nice compassion. Sounds like you need to remind yourself that this is just water.

>mfw the people who think they don't need dfw need him the most smh

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 06:52:41 2015 No.6402282 >>6398614 single work: Gödel, Escher, Bach

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 07:02:01 2015 No.6402301 >>6400223 really? that book was so mediocre for me

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 07:04:24 2015 No.6402306 Absalom, Absalom!

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 07:06:40 2015 No.6402310 >>6402108 >>6402254 you're lucky you baited that one anon because boy do you ever suck at baiting ham it up some more lol might as well say JUST JOKING after every post

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 07:13:08 2015 No.6402319 >>6402310 How do people listen to wallace's speech and still remain this angry about life

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 08:36:20 2015 No.6402513 The Demons Dom Quixote The Death of Ivan Ilich

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 08:39:21 2015 No.6402525 >>6398614 The Bible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 08:50:42 2015 No.6402556 >>6402525 Stop this meme already.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 09:57:19 2015 No.6402748 Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:13:57 2015 No.6402781 The War for Civilization by Robert Fisk.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:33:05 2015 No.6402842 100 Years of Solitude

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 10:45:43 2015 No.6402876 >>6398614 novel: TBK short story collection: Ficciones essay collection: ASFTINDA nonfiction (not essays): GEB

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 12:04:05 2015 No.6403108 The Brothers K. I can only point to one scene in its 700-something pages that bored me, and that was the prosecutor's speech, but then it picked up again immediately after. Other than that, I loved every page of it

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 12:13:39 2015 No.6403140 Mrs. Dalloway

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:21:21 2015 No.6403336 >>6403108 >the prosecutor's speech Oooh, you mean The Brothers Karamazov, not The Brothers K.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:29:44 2015 No.6403365 >>6402525 It sure sold well

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:32:29 2015 No.6403379 >>6403108 The characters are so archetypical that even today you can identify with them. >this whole board is full of smerdyakov's

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:39:39 2015 No.6403404 >>6399044 Could never get into it, really loved ape and essence though

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:41:33 2015 No.6403408 >>6399507 Mein Niggur

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:41:48 2015 No.6403410 >>6402842 true

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 14:48:46 2015 No.6403580 >>6400994 I believe the word you are looking for is "novel", friendo.

Anonymous Tue Apr 14 16:11:11 2015 No.6403862
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>>6398614
The Madeleine Chronicles, by Marcel Proust.

In a distopic near future, young Marcel is out of cereals and milk for breakfast so he takes some madeleines and tea.
But what Marcel doesn't know is that eating those madeleines will change France's future since he's gonna lost a lot of time that will allow nazis to invade his country or whatever after 3000 pages.
In the meantime he'll become a NEET and an edgy gaylord, constantly whining for everything.

10/10 would read again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 16:23:27 2015 No.6403916 The Confidence-Man

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 16:28:20 2015 No.6403943 >>6403862 It's like Orwell with madeleines 10/10 IGN

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 17:10:40 2015 No.6404139 >>6400972 >literature has gone a lot further since the sound and the fury Please give examples

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 17:11:57 2015 No.6404149 Objectively? The king james bible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 17:15:04 2015 No.6404180 All books are nothing to me

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 17:20:18 2015 No.6404206 >>6402249 I think youre being hard on orlando and eveything that daffy posh bint wrote is Goddess Tier

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:13:35 2015 No.6404390 >>6399032 Underworldbro. Love every bit of it, what a book. Second might be Lord of the Flies but I guess /lit/-san will now disapprove of me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:16:12 2015 No.6404400 >>6400972 >you clearly haven't read enough. welcome to /lit/ where everyone is reading the same ten books all the time and nobody can discuss them.

Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:16:35 2015 No.6404403
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>>6398614
The Gospel according to John is probably mine. I am a lukewarm catholic with serious reservations about the historicity of the Bible, and moreover I am rather skeptical of christian eschatology. Nevertheless, John's Gospel too me is sublime. Even if you aren't a christian, I recommend at least reading this. Exodus is probably a close second followed by Genesis. Good stuff.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:17:13 2015 No.6404406 >>6399032 >>these people have probably read less than 100 books fewer, not less.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:20:36 2015 No.6404415 >>6404406 Why is less wrong?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:29:04 2015 No.6404443 >>6404415 I think few goes with things you can count. >I have fewer than ten apples >I have less of an aptitude for math than English Also I think fewer goes with plurals generally. I'm not the guy who corrected you by the way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:34:27 2015 No.6404458 >>6404403 >Exodus Maybe the first half. The second half is dreadful since it's almost entirely God telling Moses exactly how the Tabernacle is to be constructed, which is then repeated verbatim later on.

Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:38:31 2015 No.6404472

I don't know why you guys don't take these threads more seriously...if you're going to troll, might as well make it funny, which, news flash, none of these posts are. All they are are recondite jokes that contain dry to no humor at best. AT BEST.

Thus, let me proclaim;

the only real answer here is Light in August.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:12:51 2015 No.6404571 >>6404458 Very true. I forgot that was in it, although the Exodus "story" itself is great. The minutia is exceedingly tedious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:13:29 2015 No.6404574 The Bible by God

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 19:20:28 2015 No.6404599 File: 50 KB, 700x504, 1426450593706.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6404574 >by God That guy has an uncanny acumen for seeming like several different people.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 23:18:18 2015 No.6405304 >>6404574 God hired a ghost writer for most of that, and the publishes have reworked it to the point that it's really hard to say it's still his work anymore.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 23:19:54 2015 No.6405310 >>6404599 did you forget that god is everything

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 00:07:35 2015 No.6405458 >>6400863 not op, but I'm reading it now (80% done). It's more of a slog than either Sound and the Fury or As I Lay Dying. It feels more dense, and is kind of tough to read. Though the story is still pretty good and the prose is typical Faulkner great

>>	Noko Wed Apr 15 00:13:20 2015 No.6405485 1985 by Orson Welles, best book ever so far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 00:14:45 2015 No.6405495 >>6405310 lol sophist

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 00:23:58 2015 No.6405532 >>6403379 Pfff. I'm an Ivan. walks away into shadows

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 00:26:09 2015 No.6405543 Niels lyhne

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 01:41:09 2015 No.6405769 Mason & Dixon War & War

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 02:21:20 2015 No.6405858 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 02:34:45 2015 No.6405895 >>6398614 I'm not well read, but Tao Te Ching.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 02:55:11 2015 No.6405947 >>6405769 >War & War confirmed good taste

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 03:29:47 2015 No.6406012 >>6400940 mein neeg. i have the exact same edition too

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:04:12 2015 No.6407205 >>6398614 Fellowship of the Ring and Treasure Island.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:12:38 2015 No.6407230 >>6398887 Fuck I hate kotes or kvothe's apprentice and his character is well over done, must admit I enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:17:04 2015 No.6407240 >>6399424 My man

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:22:04 2015 No.6407252 File: 42 KB, 337x355, 1406919325789.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i hated all the books i have read

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:23:24 2015 No.6407255 File: 225 KB, 858x536, marquisdesade.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6398614 120 Days of Sodom

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 21:09:00 2015 No.6409038 File: 12 KB, 320x256, off yonder.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6407255

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 21:21:00 2015 No.6409098 >>6398614 Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 21:24:25 2015 No.6409117 >>6398614 War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilich Kholstomer Lolita Hamlet Macbeth A Midsummer Night Dream Henry IV

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 22:29:53 2015 No.6409442 >>6399504 Mien neger

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 22:43:48 2015 No.6409512 >>6398614 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 09:20:54 2015 No.6411301 >>6400768 tell me about it

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 09:22:04 2015 No.6411304 >>6398614 Divine Comedy, The Brothers Karamazov, Stoner, The Republic, Fear and Trembling, Book of the New Sun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 09:51:16 2015 No.6411348 >>6411301 I know right

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 10:50:47 2015 No.6411522 >>6398614 What is so polarizing about Infinite Jest? The only criticism of it comes from people what don't understand it, it seems.

Anonymous Thu Apr 16 10:56:54 2015 No.6411547

>>6411522
I think it's because Wallace has a passionate fanbase, which naturally invites a backlash. Also I suppose his style is just not for everyone. It took me a little while to warm up to what he was doing with his writing--I found it somewhat offputting at first even; others don't get past that hump I suppose. A lot of the criticism of him is pretty empty though, like when the autism label gets memed at him (ridiculous given how deeply empathetic and insightful his writing is).

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 10:57:55 2015 No.6411548 >>6411348 heehee

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 11:15:58 2015 No.6411581 The Savage Detectives

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 12:40:03 2015 No.6411812 >>6411547 Way to kill the discussion with actual discussion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:21:58 2015 No.6412857 >>6398679 You didn't continue your original sentence after that restrictive clause...

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:30:13 2015 No.6413506 Plus by Joseph McElroy Seriously everyone go read it it's damn amazing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:37:18 2015 No.6413545 Brothers Karamazov

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 20:05:36 2015 No.6413666 >>6398614 >What is the best book you have ever read? The next one. :^)

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 20:11:57 2015 No.6413691 >>6404403 I thought Ecclesiastes was the most sublime book in the Bible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 21:51:14 2015 No.6414081 File: 874 KB, 1011x1180, 1421947784059.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6404403 have you never read Ecclesiastes?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 21:55:09 2015 No.6414109 >>6413691 >bible Best book not best tranquilizer.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 22:41:30 2015 No.6414235 >>6398614 Gide So be it

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 22:43:53 2015 No.6414246 >>6399044 Hickeys essays in revisited were great. I just found two paperbacks like that in my collection.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 22:47:28 2015 No.6414255 A Sport and a Pastime.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 22:53:41 2015 No.6414276 >>6413691 You think that because it is. >first existentialist lit >before Christ Kierk and Sartre BTFO

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 22:57:27 2015 No.6414290 >>6400972 You sound like you're from /mu/

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 00:08:50 2015 No.6414477 >>6414246 Typo meant bnw revisited. Some great hux essays if you like that style of writing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 04:36:17 2015 No.6415115 >>6399032 nice bait try harder

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 04:56:01 2015 No.6415147 >>6401185 The Faith prevails, friend.

Anonymous Fri Apr 17 05:11:32 2015 No.6415165

>>6398614
>quantifiable
From what I've read?

For imagery, Blood Meridian.
For absolutely flawless prose that is beautiful in every line, probably Lolita (maybe something else by Nabokov)
For prose that shoots past beauty into the otherwise unreachable firmament of insanity-genius, Ulysses
For thematic complexity, Moby Dick (not counting Finnegan's Wake as it is a Rorschach test)
For grand story development and character study/development, the Brothers Karamazov

But my favorite book has to be either Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, or The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 05:54:45 2015 No.6415247 >>6398614 Crime and Punishment

Anonymous Fri Apr 17 06:20:31 2015 No.6415311

>>6402301
Are you italian?
Being born and having lived near where it takes place, it resonates with me on a deep, personal level. It's not about the deepness of thoughts expressed, or the extreme floweriness of its prose, it's about the passionate nostalgia of a sentimental, compassionate human being; it's humble, earnest and as close to what truly makes life as it gets.
My second favourite would have been in search of lost time, so maybe it's just my bias

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 07:45:25 2015 No.6415475 File: 31 KB, 220x315, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] if I'm being completely honest

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 17:05:18 2015 No.6416882 >>6415475 My fucking nigger.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 17:25:02 2015 No.6416971 File: 1.88 MB, 480x270, 1399178102823.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The King James Bible.

soup Fri Apr 17 17:37:56 2015 No.6417046

I don't understand why everyone writes the same titles. You do not have personal tastes /lit/? You base only on the popularity of a work?

Onestly, i love fantasy and science fiction, so my favorite books are H. P. Lovecraft complete works and Walter Moers The city of dreaming books. Also The Naked Sun of Asimov.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 18:15:08 2015 No.6417214 >>6417046 You can only read a limited number of books, why would you read some hipsterish authors you know nothing about when you can read the books that many people say are good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 18:23:02 2015 No.6417240 File: 1.39 MB, 200x150, 1415255710460.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6400945 I've never read that. What's it about

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 18:25:29 2015 No.6417254 >>6407252 Then you're in the right place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:09:23 2015 No.6417423 >>6400797 Yes. Blood Meridian is the answer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:11:24 2015 No.6417432 >>6399400 >pick up this book at age 19 >read first page >moocow moocow tralalala etc >drop it and walk away should i try again?

Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:18:52 2015 No.6417464

>>6417432
lol it changes style a lot really quickly

"He climbed to the crest of the sandhill and gazed about him. Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of skyline, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand; and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools."

"With a sudden movement she bowed his head and joined her lips to his and he read the meaning of her movements in her frank uplifted eyes. It was too much for him. He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips. They pressed upon his brain as upon his lips as though they were the vehicle of a vague speech; and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour."

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:20:11 2015 No.6417469 middle school.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:21:58 2015 No.6417478 probably anna karenina.

>>	meow meow Fri Apr 17 19:23:35 2015 No.6417486 >>6417423 If I read Blood Meridian will it ruin his other books for me? I have all the pretty horses but I've been really wanting to read BM lately

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:24:50 2015 No.6417491 >>6417486 it wont ruin them because it's different than anything he wrote after, and most of what he wrote before but it is better

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:31:28 2015 No.6417525 >>6417486 I still love No Country for Old Men Ask me on the right day and it might be my favorite. But Blood Meridian is sometimes surreal in how good it can be.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:32:54 2015 No.6417529 >>6417525 no country for old men fucking blows and by blows i mean it's just not that good 7/10 etc

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 19:36:17 2015 No.6417541 >>6417529 I can understand why people would say that. But personally, you know...etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 08:21:34 2015 No.6419424 >>6417464 i like both passages you posted, anon. i will buy and read on the strength of your recommendation, so thanks

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 08:24:27 2015 No.6419433 >>6398614 to the lighthouse, probably

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 08:51:32 2015 No.6419470 Voice of the Fire

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 09:19:05 2015 No.6419525 East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 09:49:26 2015 No.6419594 Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy Rumo and all other books by walter moers harry potter the time maschine

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 09:58:49 2015 No.6419620 >>6419525 Just finished Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath and think i'm gonna pick this up next. honestly find it hard to believe that Steinbeck could write something more powerful than Grapes of Wrath...

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 15:42:57 2015 No.6420796 >>6417478 >Levin

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 16:08:52 2015 No.6420873 >>6420796 levin is the homie

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 16:12:03 2015 No.6420883 Rabbit is Rich I love all the Rabbit books but that one is my favorite

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 16:18:39 2015 No.6420908 People who arent saying the bible havent read it in a decentvtranslation

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 18:24:27 2015 No.6421433 >>6404472 Why is Faulkner so GOAT?

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