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The last book you read with your reaction to how you felt when you finished it.

>> No.6724985
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Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.6724999
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Notes From Underground

It felt like the writer understood my depression and frustrations.

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The House On The Borderland

>> No.6725050

>>6724981
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Indifferent.

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>>6724981

>> No.6725061

>>6725056
Sorry, book name: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

>> No.6725065
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6725065

>The Forever War.

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>>6724981
Serencam.

>> No.6725074
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>>6724981
The Sorrows Of Young Werther

>> No.6725082
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divine comedy

>> No.6725085

>>6725065
Could you elaborate on this reaction?

>> No.6725086
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>If I liked this, do I have to be a Marxist now?

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>>6725065
>tfw the thing that happens at the end happens
>tfw it happens after it seemed like its polar opposite happened just one or two chapters earlier

>> No.6725093

The Elementary Particles

Humanity fucking sucks, men are incapable of love, children are a trap, and life will always destroy you no matter how optimistic you are.

>> No.6725098
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Herman Hesse - Siddhartha

They don't tell you what a faggot he is before you read it, I guess.

>> No.6725102

>>6724999
If you identify with the narrator from Notes from Underground, you have serious problems.

>> No.6725117
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A Clockwork Orange

That last chapter was hilarious
>inb4 butthurt americans who didnt get it

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>>6724981
Kipling's Kim

>> No.6725122

>>6725102
idiot

>> No.6725124

>>6725085
I didn't like it, especially after /lit/ told me it was a "Better version of Starship Troopers."

>> No.6725130
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The Sun Also Rises

>> No.6725134

>>6725124
It is on my sci-fi list to read, but the Old Man's War is next in line after I finish some Asimov novels. Darn, I was looking forward to another compelling space military novel.

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>>6725091
>tfw being stuck in the future where everyone's gay except you.

>> No.6725140

>>6725122
autist

>> No.6725143

>>6725134
It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but I was just a little underwhelmed by the ending is all. I'd definitely still recommend reading it.

>> No.6725146

>>6725143
Is it a stand alone novel, or how many are in the series?

>> No.6725148

>>6725146
It's a standalone novel.

>> No.6725168

The Laws of Plato.


I felt like he only started the conversation. Albeit pleased that there should be such preludes.

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Morning Crafts

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>>6725168
>Albeit pleased that there should be such preludes.

>> No.6725264

Ulysses. I use "yes i said yes i will yes" as a cadence when i forget to bring my phone with me when i go running. It was breddy gud tho

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TCoL49

granted it was still really good, but I was disappointing at how few question questions were answered and how it ended

>> No.6725286
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Shogun

>> No.6725396
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Blood Meridian

>> No.6725413
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The New York Trilogy

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Shoplifting From American Apparel

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The Boxer & The Goal Keeper: Sartre versus Camus

>> No.6725419

>>6725122
Ummmm

Brother Karamazov

>> No.6725441
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The Iliad

>> No.6725450
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Pikhal

>> No.6725462
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Don Quixote

>> No.6725465
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Grapes of Wrath

>> No.6725474
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Tropic of Cancer

>> No.6725488
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Das Kapital.

>> No.6725496

>>6725465
Just the ending or the whole book?

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>>6725488
>mfw Senior's Last Hour

>> No.6725559

>>6725496
Just the ending. I loved the book, but the end was a little too abrupt

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The Coming Insurrection

>> No.6725596
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Aeschylus' "The Persians"

>> No.6725604
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Inferno - trans. Allen Mandelbaum

>> No.6725609

>>6724981
XD

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Slaughterhouse-Five

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>>6724981
Story of the Eye

>> No.6725666

>>6725441
underrated post

>> No.6725759
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Pedro Páramo

>> No.6725839
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The Grapes of Wrath

>> No.6725848
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The Iliad

>> No.6725856

Inherent Vice

I dont have a suitable reaction

it was good

>> No.6725867
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Notes From Underground

>> No.6725871 [SPOILER] 
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Brave New World

>> No.6725873

Candide
> I want a carrot.

>> No.6725924

Lord of the Flies.
Been meaning to read it for years.
Finished it, glad I did but it wasn't that great.
A whole bunch of nothing happened.

>> No.6725932

Sons and Lovers

I kinda could relate with Paul. Not so much with his mother, but the fact that he loved a woman that he knew he would never be truly satisfied with, and that's kinda how I feel now.

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>>6725932
forgot pic

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>>6725932
>loved a woman he knew he would never be truly satisfied with

I know this feel

side pussy helps

>> No.6725982
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The Birth of Tragedy

>> No.6725984
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>>6724981
The Crying of Lot 49

>> No.6725985

>>6725050
Topkek

>> No.6726001
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The Dead

>> No.6726022

>>6724981
no an entire book, but
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

I feel totally fucking exhilirated

>> No.6726023
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Blood Meridian

>> No.6726061

>>6725098
u wot m8
yeah, okay, 7/10

>> No.6726079

>>6726022
That's a great story man. I'm making my way through all of Hemingway's and that one's been my favorite so far.

>> No.6726083
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The Red Badge of Courage.

>> No.6726088
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Stoner

>> No.6726101
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Niels Lyhne

>> No.6726130

>>6726079
I'm like 80% sure Hemingway was fucking Picasso's girlfriend when he wrote that and The Snows of Kilamanjaro.

>> No.6726187

>>6726100

Hah - exactly this.

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Plato's Symposium (reread)
>tfw you'll never experience the truest form of love, or at all

>> No.6726228

I was pretty sad after cartons death in a tale of two cities

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The First 15 Lives of Harry August

>Ending could've had more of a climax and felt rushed..

>> No.6726301
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Starship Troopers

>> No.6726901

>>6725102
That's what he said?

>> No.6726993

>>6725639
lel

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>>6725856

>> No.6727035

The Foundation book 1.

Tbh I didn't feel much. The book mashes a series of episodes with similar characters with an ending in the episodes themselves rather than the book. Nice dialogues and plot mechanisms though.

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ice trilogy

>> No.6727101

>>6725559

Can't say that I agree with you, anon. I thought the ending to Grapes of Wrath was one of the most beautifully symbolic and impactful images of all the books I have read, and a pretty compelling conclusion to all the observations that the book had made about humanity and authority. While I by no means agree with Stienbeck's political holdings, that one image of a girl feeding a complete stranger with the milk of her body, taking, effectively, the whole of humanity as her own child to be cared and provided for, at least showed me the beauty of socialism on a conceptual, visceral level.

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Cat and Mouse

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By grand central station I sat down and wept

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A Storm of Swords

Probably one of the best Fantasy books I've read.