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What the greatest book of all time? One that everyone needs to read at least once?

>> No.6510593
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This or Critique of Pure Reason

>> No.6510594

everyone needs to have read Hamlet. that's not too much to ask right?

>> No.6510599

The Velveteen Rabbit
Totally serious

>> No.6510600

>>6510593
why? so people will be turned off of Marx, the entire political Left, and reading altogether because they don't know what the fuck labor is? Manifesto maybe, but Capital would kill most people

>> No.6510609

divine comedy

>> No.6510610

>>6510599
why?

i assume its something about the value of fulfilling your purpose?

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>>6510586
the good book is the best book

>> No.6510616

>>6510593
Hume is OBJECTIVELY better than critique

>> No.6510620

>>6510593
Nice try, dingus

>> No.6510623

Proust

>> No.6510625
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Book of Genesis

>> No.6510628

>>6510616
no

both are amazing though

>> No.6510631

>>6510594
>Reading Hamlet

Shakespeare must be turning in hia grave.

>> No.6510637

The Holy Bible, but it wouldn't be fair because it was written under divine inspiration. Thus, my answer is The Republic.

>> No.6510641

>>6510637
what a banal answer

>> No.6510642

Any book that disagrees with the Qu'ran is heretical
Any book that echoes the Qu'ran is superflous

>> No.6510646

>>6510642
What ran?

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>>6510646
The Noble Qu'ran

>> No.6510660

>>6510652
second rate

>> No.6510664

Infinite Jets

>> No.6510680

>>6510641
They are really well known works for some reason. Did you expect that the answer to this question would be some obscure novel, anon? If so, you are quite ignorant.

>> No.6511107

>>6510586
Th

>> No.6511116

>>6510586
Thread over before it even started

>> No.6511122

>>6510664
infinite jets cant melt rocket fuel

>> No.6511140

>>6511122
Jews did 911

>> No.6511149

>>6510586
>Count of monte cristo is good

>> No.6511171

Idk about any "best book" out there since that seems very subjective, but everyone should read at least a couple books about future dystopian societies.

Just not 1984. It makes people start creating their own definition of a successful hippie future which ends up being utopian and doesn't take into account the complexity of running a civilization.

>> No.6511367

There is possibly no single book that can match the breadth and multi-layered nature of The Divine Comedy. Harold Bloom, the biggest Shakespearefag of all time, claimed that to match and in some ways surpass The Divine Comedy, you would have to combine all of Shakespeare's top 24 plays.

>> No.6511372

>>6511171
And yet you provide no suggestions

>> No.6511381

>>6511372
>hey, buddy, don't put your hand in acid, it will burn you
>BAH, YOUR WRETCHED KIND CAN ONLY PROVIDE IMPOTENT CRITICISMS WITHOUT OFFERING ANY POSITIVE ADVICE, I SHALL NOT BE SWAYED BY YOUR EFFETE RHETORIC

>> No.6511402

>>6510586
Anne of Green Gables.

We can all learn something from Anne.

>> No.6511418

>>6511149
Yes, yes it is.

>> No.6511421

>>6510594
Guys I get this is a very anglo-centric board, but suggesting that everybody "needs to read" plays is a bit ridiculous

>> No.6511429

>>6510625
lol.

The bible is probably the right answer for anyone living in a Western country.

>> No.6511441

>>6511429
The Iliad & The Oddyssee ?

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>>6510586

>> No.6511452

>>6511429
go away american

>> No.6511456

Don Quicksote

>> No.6511457

>>6511441
It would be nice to think but we are more informed by a Christian framework than Grecian one.

>> No.6511462

>>6511452
I'm not American. Just because you don't like the answer doesn't make it not true, retard.

>> No.6511471

>>6511457
The Christian framework is necessarily Greek though (with a Semitic half).

If I were Lord of Public Education I would execute anyone who hasn't read "Sein und Zeit" by their 25th birthday.

>> No.6511474

Moby Dick

I am not even american.

>> No.6511479

>>6511471
Of course there is homogenisation in European culture, we should not forget that the New Testament was originally in Greek like you say. I'm not downplaying Greece's contribution to modern culture, more the suggestion that it is a pagan-Grecian one.

>> No.6511497

>>6510631
Good performances are so hard to come by, every contemporary theater director thinks he can out-think Shakespeare

>> No.6511502

>>6510586

Probably Quixote

>> No.6511508

>>6510652
Second rate shit written by talentless hacks who tried to copy Christianity and jewism

>> No.6511511

>>6510586
Anything by penguin classics

>> No.6511526

>>6510600
The manifesto would turn most people off though
people would need a set of works to get marx, really

>> No.6511593

>>6511526
>The manifesto would turn most people off

I very much disagree. The book is written so as to be very inspiring, and it certainly has inspired millions since it has been written. I do agree that a set of works is needed to fully understand marxism though.

>> No.6511705

>>6511593
I hate Marxism, but the book was indeed an entertaining read. The biography of Mr: Marx is also quite interesting. He's quite a rolemodel for anyone into politics and lit.

Too bad he never took economics 101.

>> No.6512492

>>6510586
Mein Kampf

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>> No.6512582

>>6510593
I don't think a work of pulp fantasy is that important.

>> No.6512587

>>6510615
underrated post

>> No.6512969

>>6511171
Brave New World it is then.

>> No.6512995

>>6510586
>greatest
>Penguin
Pick one.

>> No.6513574

>>6510586
The Complete Shakespeare.

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>>6510586
Catch-22

>> No.6515699

There is no "best", no highest score, life ain't a videogame

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>> No.6515706

The Hungry Caterpillar

>> No.6515730

What a stupid fucking thread title

Just outright say 'what's your favourite book?'

>> No.6516253

>>6510593
The writing in the critique of pure reason is dogshit though the philosophy is interesting

>> No.6516336

>>6510586
I would suggest, if one wants to read much western literature, they read Hamlet, The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Bible.

That's a pretty strong foundation, for fiction anyway.

>> No.6516720

>>6511402
dude, anne is such a sweetie

>> No.6516747

The Qu'ran, because it is the word of god.

The Republic because it is influential on theology and philosophy and politics.

The Wealth of Nations esp. books III and V

>> No.6516805

Alice in Wonderland

>> No.6517067

The City of God

>> No.6517076

>>6511457
it wouldn't be nice at all to think that

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>> No.6517082

>>6511451
maybe the art of war, but definitely not this

>> No.6517085

>>6511462
and just because you like it doesn't make it true
i agree though, the bible is a good book to read with the right intentions

>> No.6517535

>>6517078
I like that such a frilly book has such a minimalist cover.

>> No.6518117

>>6513574
not a bad answer, dunno about "complete" but whatever

>> No.6518122

>>6515730
not the same thing

>> No.6518594

>>6510652
>oh, and another thing god told me