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Does /lit/ have a recommendation picture?

I'm going over to the library today to check out if they have The Metamorphosis and Walden because I heard elitist fags talking about them. Also Gulliver's Travels just because I like books about travelers.

>> No.685793

I'm actually in the midst of reading Walden myself. It's pretty good so far. Thoreau has some valid points.

>> No.685805

Dozens of them actually. What are you looking for?

>> No.685814

>>685805
I'm really not too picky about what I read. I don't know too much about the fine art of literature so if you just tell me some of your favorites or something I'm fine with that.

>> No.685825

Fantasy:
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
George R R Martin
J R R Tolkien

>> No.685855

Here are some of the classics you should read.

The brothers karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Crime and punishment - Dostoyevsky
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Moby Dick - Melville
Ulysses - Joyce
1984 - Orwell
Catcher in the rye - Salinger
The picture of dorian gray - Wilde

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>>685814

Finnegans Wake. Kidding aside, here's the "classics" recommendation pic.

>> No.685860

I've come to /lit/ looking for recommendations myself, since I'm about to make a book order.

The list so far includes Animal Farm (Orwell), a book of Orwell's essays, Notes From the Underground (Dostoyevsky) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce). The last book I read was Dubliners by James Joyce.

Any recommendations?

>> No.685868

>>685860
forever war, haldeman
lord of light, zelazny

broaden dem horizons, mate.

>> No.685869

>>685858

Thanks for this

>> No.685925

>>685858
Really, Casino Royale is a classic? I happen to own that book.

>> No.685939

Don't be crass, check out Oscar Wilde.
Picture of Dorian Grey is a bit involved and self serving, but it's undeniably well written...(except that one chapter in the middle, but it serves it's purpose)
He wrote a small collection of childrens tales that I found to be quite excellent despite the fact.
His plays are actually enjoyable to read by them selves as well.

Oh and Asimov, if only for those moments when you realised he acurately predicted the future!

>> No.685963

>>685858

None of the Greene's works are modern classics?

>> No.685970

Rather than start a new thread, I'll tag along on this one. I read a lot of fantasy stuff and would like to try some scifi. I've asked fried for recommendations but some of the stuff they've passed my way has been a bit dry. Any sci-fi recommendations for a fantasy nerd like me?

>> No.685981

>>685970
I'm in the same boat as this Anon. The only sci-fi's I know are Hitchhikers and Neuromancer.

>> No.685983

>>685970

Hunter's Run. It was co-written by George R. R. Martin.

For that matter, most of GRRM's short stories are good science fiction. I especially like "And Seven Times Never Kill Man."

He's a much better author than most people give him credit for.

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>>685970

>> No.685988

>>685970

Would be helpful if you could name a few that have already been recommended to you.

>> No.685990
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>> No.685995

>>685983

Second.

I like his Haviland Tuf stories, myself.

>> No.686005

If you haven't already read Hitchhiker's Guide, it's staple for sci-fi/fantasy.

>> No.686009

>>686005
I watched the movie, does that count?

>> No.686012

>>686009

There was no movie.

You can't prove me wrong.

>> No.686017

>>685995
>>685990
>>685986
>>685983
Thanks! A friend gave me an Alan Dean Foster book or two and I thought they made for really tedious reading. Then I tried reading Philip Palmer's "Red Claw" and it was absolutely terrible. I thought Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun stuff was bad-ass but it didn't feel like full-on sci-fi to me. I've read a shit-ton of the stainless steel rat books and loved them. I'm hesitant to read Asimov's stuff, but I have no real reason why.

>> No.686025

>>686009
The movie was funny.
The books - at least the early ones - are side-splitting.
The movie is no substitute (even with Rickman as Marvin).

>> No.686073

>>685990

Wasn't there a fantasy one too?

>> No.686088

>>685790
Hey OP, could you post part 1 of your pic?

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>> No.686105
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686105

Just uploading the pic posted of /lit guides to rapidshare for everybody so hang tight; there's about 4 mins left.

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>> No.686113

>>686105

You're brilliant. Thanks!

>> No.686117

>>686105

Here sir, have 1.000 (1k or One Thousand) internets as gratitude from me.

>> No.686125
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Here is another one I have, it is not /lit/ though, but /x/ and /v/ though (paranormal video games).

>> No.686126

>>686105
why do people still use rapidshit?

>> No.686128

>>686126
Because we hate you

>> No.686129

>>686125
And I just used "though" twice in that post.

I feel fucking stupid (though).

>> No.686133

>>686113

No probs, you have to share the love sometimes.

I haven't used RS before to upload so its just a free one, if it hits a d/l limit i will post them in a gallery somewhere instead.

Ok it's done. here is the link, I have split it because last time I posted a link on /lit, to a gallery of great library pictures, I got a 24 hr ban :(

http://rap
idshare.com/files
/388849945/lit.zip.html

>> No.686138

>>686126

Because I am not an uploader usually and you are not getting my ftp server details :) I used rs in ignorance of anything better, sorry if my noobity offends you.

>> No.686137

>>685790
guillivers travels fucking sucks prepare for the most dry boring satire you'll ever read.

walden also sucks thoreau is a hypocritical douchbag "im gonnal ive in the woods by only my own work" fuckers just living in emmersons backyard and eating dinner at his house everynight

>> No.686140

>>686138
try mediafire next time.

>> No.686146

>>686140

Roger that, tnx for the info bro

>> No.686149

Anyone have part 1 of OP's pic?

>> No.686150

>>686137

So what, pray tell, is good?

Please don't say James Joyce. He's an overrated sack of shit.

>> No.686176

gulliver's travels was so fucking good. and considering when it was written it baffles me. swift's prose was ahead of it's time.

>> No.686181

>>686133
hey thanks for this

>> No.686190

>>686181

no worries: )

If anyone has other /lit pics that aren't in that pack can you post them, I would really appreciate it.

>> No.686419

>>686190

Seconded

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Here, it's a work in progress

>> No.686446

>>686429

You really need to add permutation city to that pic.

>> No.686468

>>686133

Please, upload to Mediafire/Megaupload. The 10 downloads are up. ;_;

>> No.686469

>>686133
Been downloaded ten times already. Any chance you can reup it or make it non premium?

>> No.686473

we need a manly man book recommendation pic. post your suggestions.

>> No.686477
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Russian Literature

>> No.686478

ringworld is hardcore? dude, the author can't get a grip about time-zones, it's not hardcore.

>> No.686483

>>686473
Fear and Loathing, anything Hemingway, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange...

>> No.686508

>>686483
thanks keep'em coming

>> No.686592

>>685858

>>Huckleberry Finn

>>Remembers fucking terrible ending to that book

>>notsureifserious.jpg

>> No.686608

>>686483
Fight Club is not hugely different than the movie and even the author preferred the movie. That said he is a great author and I'd recommend any of his books other than Lullaby and Snuff. My favourite is Survivor.

>> No.686617

Is there a Fantasy one?

>> No.686636

HOW DO I TIME TO READ ALL THESE GREAT BOOKS?

>> No.686670

Can somebody post the Japanese one?

>> No.686706

Could one of the 10 guys that got that Rapidshare up it to mediafire?

>> No.686734

>>686706

Seconding.

>> No.686759

Is Monster by Naoki Urasawa up there?
If not, DO IT

>> No.686763

>>686636

Be a man and never sleep more than 4-5 hours a day.

>> No.686775

>>686706

Coming soon

>> No.686794

>>686706

Here ya go


http://www.media
fire.com
/?mmmjy3zwnzm

>> No.686799

>>686794

Thanks, mate.

>> No.686805

>>686799

No problem.

Hopefully it works. Never did this before.

>> No.686818

>>686794
Thanks, Rapidshit link expired.

>> No.686850

>>686794

Thank you.