ITT: Particularly memorable sections, chapters, or passages of a book

[Anonymous No.6747189]

>that whole nosejob chapter

[Anonymous No.6747194]

>>6747189
Oh yeah, I forgot about that part.

[Anonymous No.6747196]

>>6747189

>That scene where Saleem jumps into the Prime Minister's head just as he was about to drink his own urine

[Anonymous No.6747223]

every battle scene in the Iliad

metal as fuck

[Anonymous No.6747226]

>>6747189
Iceberg Slim's entire childhood
>sexually abused
>mother fucked over the only man he ever knew as a good father-figure
>mother and bf find out his biological father has his shit together now and rob him blind
No wonder he was such a piece of shit despite his natural gifts.

[Anonymous No.6748960]

>>6747194
>>6747194

KEK

[Anonymous No.6748972]

Lolita. The whole thing.

[Anonymous No.6749409]

>>6748972

[Anonymous No.6749415]

>>6747189
Will they ever release it with a decent cover again? The current ones available just suck. The only thing hindering me from buying it.

[Anonymous No.6749434]

>>6749415
I like this one

[Anonymous No.6749445]

The alzabo ritual and its consequences in BotNS

[Anonymous No.6749898]

The climax of portrait of the artist as a young man

[Anonymous No.6749907]

>>6749898

I just realized I don't remember the story arc of that book at all

[Anonymous No.6749936]

>>6747189
Against the Day
>trip to Utah
>tunguska event
>time machine

damn, i love this book.

[Anonymous No.6749940]

>>6749415
You are such a fucking child.

[Anonymous No.6749946]

>>6749415
Literally judging a book by it's cover

[Anonymous No.6749960]

>>6749898
funny how that book affected me to no small degree when i was younger and now i identify more with L. Bloom in Ulysses than S. Dedalus. that Joyce, wasn't he something?

[Anonymous No.6749966]

>>6749946
Why would you not care about the general aesthetics?

[Anonymous No.6749989]

>>6749966
you're the result of tumblr, buzzwords and moderate philosophy

[Anonymous No.6750019]

>>6749989
I don't give two shits about either of those, I just like neat covers. The original one is nice while the one with the take on "Where's Waldo?" is pretty weak. The other one posted above is also cool so I might just get that.

[Anonymous No.6750058]

>>6749415
pic related is my copy, picked it up at a second hand bookshop for like £3

[Anonymous No.6750097]

>>6747189
“Her rhythms pulse regular and sinusoidal—a freak show in caravan, travelling over thousands of little hills. A serpent hypnotic and undulant, bearing on her back like infinitesimal fleas such hunchbacks, dwarves, prodigies, centaurs, poltergeists! Two-headed, three-eyed, hopelessly in love; satyrs with the skin of werewolves, werewolves with the eyes of young girls and perhaps even an old man with a navel of glass, through which can be seen goldfish nuzzling the coral country of his guts.”

[Anonymous No.6750132]

>>6750058
man, i love those old paperback covers. i have this one for 49.

[Anonymous No.6751613]

>>6750058
>>6750132
I don't usually say this, but those are terrible.

[Anonymous No.6751759]

>>6750132
I have this one too. Absolutely love it. That V. Picador one is pretty shit, though.

[Anonymous No.6751794]

>>6747189

Read juan it was written in greek and it's pretty interesting

[Anonymous No.6751805]

>>6750132
the blurb on the back of that edition is hilariously misleading

[Anonymous No.6751845]

>>6751805
What does it say?

[Anonymous No.6751851]

>>6751805
how so? what should the blurb say instead? it sets it up as a vaguely wacky mystery about something

[Anonymous No.6751956]

>>6751845
>>6751851
>Who is Oedipa Maas? And what was she doing when the Paranoids blew out all the lights? What was the strange legacy of Pierce Inverarity that first led her to the world-wide conspiracy known as the Trystero System, and then on into the mystery and enigma of America itself?

Every sentence is a question, which is cute, but everything else about it is just badly handled. I shouldn't have to explain why.

[Anonymous No.6752013]

>>6750097
what a showoff

[Anonymous No.6752029]

>>6751956
It could be considered a troll blurb in that it gives the impression that any of those questions will be answered.

[Anonymous No.6752181]

>>6751956
I see it as not wanting to give anything away. I think it works. You're right, it is cute. What's wrong with that? It's a jacket blurb.

[Anonymous No.6752191]

>>6752181
Blurbs do tend to be worthless in general.

[Anonymous No.6752431]

The scene in GR where he goes down the jobby chute for that harmonica. And, y'know... the other one.

Also the scene in Trainspotting where he shits himself.

I like jobby.

[Anonymous No.6753957]

The Eisenstein film in Underworld
The Rolling Stones film in Underworld
The Psycho screening in Point Omega
Frank's unfinished film in The Names
JOI's films in Infinite Jest

I'm not even a huge film guy, but I could read about people describing films for an eternity.

[Anonymous No.6753965]

>>6752029
>implying

>Who is Oedipa Maas?
A 28 year old suburban American housewife
>And what was she doing when the Paranoids blew out all the lights?
Having sex with Metzger with his head in a drawer
>What was the strange legacy of Pierce Inverarity?
A stamp collection

[Anonymous No.6754061]

the entire major major major major chapter in catch-22

[Anonymous No.6754142]

>>6752431
Byron the bulb is the cutest thing he ever wrote

[Anonymous No.6754177]

>>6754142
>cute

more like seriously fucking disturbing

[Anonymous No.6754260]

>>6752431
>>6754142
>going down the toilet/The Kenosha Kid
>Byron the Bulb
>the toiletship
>coprophilia scene
>the dodos
>the gauchos
>Africa
>banana breakfast
>tentacle rape on the beach
>the castration scene
>the adventures of Rocketman
>Pokler's story
>the Hereros
>Blicero's BDSM
>the ending
>etc
>etc

Gravity's Rainbow had so much memorable shit. It's been years since I read it but I still recall vivid flashes of scenes. Definitely my favorite book.

[Anonymous No.6754321]

>>And then I started to think again about Stridentopolis, about its museums and bars, its open-air theaters and newspapers, its schools and its dormitories for traveling poets, dormitories where Borges and Tristan Tzara, Huidobro and Andre Breton would sleep. And I saw mi general talking to us again. I saw him making plans, I saw him drinking, standing at the window, I saw him receiving Cesarea Tinajero, who had come in with a letter of recommendation from Manuel, I saw him reading a little book by Tablada, maybe the one where Don Jose Juan says: "under fearful skies / keening for the only star / the song of the nightingale." Which is as if to say, boys, I said, that I saw our struggles and dreams all tangled up in the same failure, and that failure was called joy.

;_;

also:
>When Ulises meets Paz

[Anonymous No.6754357]

The Apaches slaughtering the soldiers and the Judge making and then using gun powder in Blood Meridian.

Stoner deviating from the lesson in his English 101 class to teach what he wants.

The staircase part in Ubik.

The protagonist being saved from suicide in prison by his new cat in Mockingbird.

Rieux and the Tarrou going for a swim in the moonlight in The Plague.

Gately fighting that guy and getting shot in the shoulder in Infinite Jest.

Pretty much every story in The Cyberiad but especially the very first one where the machine starts to erase all objects that start with the letter N.

[Anonymous No.6754454]

>>6754357
>n eraser
such a pretty fable.

the one that springs to mind before & over all others is the nature theatre of oklahoma.

nothing else really sticks in my mind. just a bunch of made up bullshit & lies

[Anonymous No.6754521]

The incipit of The human condition.

[Anonymous No.6754529]

The part where Meursault is euphoric not because of any phony god’s blessing but because, he was enlightened by his own intelligence.

[Anonymous No.6754533]

>>6747189
>the Eschaton game
>Steeply's dad's obsession with MASH
>Mario showing his film to the school
>Don Gately's fight with the French Canadians
>every scene with Michael Pemulis
>the ending

[Anonymous No.6754539]

>>6754533
>the nocturnal talk between Mario and Hal about Himself's suicide and how Avril copes with it
>flag pole

So damn good. This was when I was hooked.

[Anonymous No.6755090]

When Homer snaps outside the theater and stomps that child to death

[Anonymous No.6755841]

>>6754061
not really related but I was halfway through the book before I realized Lt. Scheisskopf is german for shithead.

[Anonymous No.6755845]

>>6754529
so edgy
This book actually had so many good passages despite being so ridiculously short, yet you decided to be an epik memer

[Anonymous No.6755867]

Chapter 10, Tobin's story of the Judge

[Anonymous No.6755930]

>>6755841
Me too!
Diagnosed that was because he wasn't brought up often enough that you'd bother parsing or subvocalising the name until then

[green !YOUlQWt3s6 No.6756266]

>>6754177
i liked it
sad but cute
byron the bulb is my fav

[green !YOUlQWt3s6 No.6756272]

>>6754533
i liked the films endnote about JOI
such a good book 2

[Anonymous No.6756319]

In A Scanner Darkly when Donna is holding Bob Arctor and she describes her friend seeing God. The whole passage after about injustice is spectacular too.

[Anonymous No.6756387]

>>6754539
this tbh

[Anonymous No.6756424]

>>6756387
This scene is Infinite Jest, in essence. A comedic approach reveals an unbearable inner abyss.

[Anonymous No.6756506]

>>6754260
>When Tchitcherine Meets Enzian
>"Certainly not the first time a man has passed his brother by, at the edge of the evening, often forever, without knowing it"

[Anonymous No.6756846]

>>6754321
>>When Ulises meets Paz
Yes yes yes.

[Anonymous No.6757217]

>>6755867
>The Apache ambush
>The burning tree
>The Judge's speech about life existing without his consent
>Glanton's end
>The old woman's corpse
>The dancing undying judge

[Anonymous No.6757390]

Stanley, in "The Recognitions", cums his pants trying to restrain Esme, and Gaddis describes it like Jesus on the cross.

[The cats No.6757398]

>>6757390
This entire fucking thing is "particularly memorable"

[Anonymous No.6757424]

>>6747189
"Perhaps history this century is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see."

Fuck me, I'm starting a reread right now
>tfw love rereading

[Anonymous No.6757513]

>That horse-whipping scene from Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.6757526]

>>6757217
THE APACHE AMBUSH that shit was Crazytown, USA

[Anonymous No.6757634]

>>6747189
The part about the critics

[Anonymous No.6757712]

>>6747189
That was tough to read for me. Call me squeamish

[Anonymous No.6757746]

>>6757634
Phew, I thought you were going to say the part about the crimes. That was quite forgettable. For me, it's the part with the geometry textbook.

[Anonymous No.6757760]

>>6757513
I was just about to post this
spooky

[Anonymous No.6757762]

>>6756506
oh that was a heavy moment..

[Anonymous No.6757938]

>>6754533
I liked the parts with stices head stuck to the window

[Anonymous No.6758810]

>>6757712
It's quite funny how differently people experience that passage. I was anxious before it actually started happening, but when it did, I was as passive as Esther, reading further more fascinated than horrified.