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>you're about to serve a six month stint at the county jail
>you can only take five books with you
>what are they

>> No.6876486

>>6876481
I've got an about 20 book to-read list so I'd just look up the longest five of those and take them.

>> No.6876491
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>The Bible
>Infinite Jest
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Complete Neitszche
>and of course my good ol' buddy boy Cap. Kirk

>> No.6876498

>>6876481
Five lecture pads so I can write them all down

I've got more than five books in this head honey ;)

>> No.6876514
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>parables and paradoxes
>war and peace
>feast of the goat
>the brothers karamazov
>the sound and the fury
>

>> No.6876575

Phenomenology of Spirit
Being and Time
Zen Teachings of Huang Po
The Trial
Baudelaire collection

>> No.6876578

>>6876481
5 translations of the bible

>> No.6876599
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6876599

the hobbit
the fellowship of the ring
the two towers
the return of the king
the silmarillion

>> No.6876639

>>6876481
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Zettels Traum by Arno Schmidt
À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
Gordana by Marija Jurić Zagorka
Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus by Madeleine de Scudéry

>> No.6876641

ten shades of grey
ten shades of grey
ten shades of grey
ten shades of grey
ten shades of grey

>> No.6876653

>>6876481
I spent a year on the road, living in a tent, and space was at a premium. I had to pick three books which I knew I could read over and over again not lose interest in them no matter how many times I read them -- as I did many times over the course of that year. They were:

> The Bible (KJV)
> Lord of the Rings (in one omnibus edition; the three books were intended to be published as one book originally)
> The Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau

>> No.6876706

>>6876639
why the zagorka?

>> No.6876730

>>6876639
>À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust

Has anyone actually finished it ever?

>> No.6876791

>>6876481
Meditations.
Collected Thoreau.
Anything by Arrian detailing the teachings of Epictetus.

>> No.6876802

>>6876706
>>6876730
literally longest pieces of fiction ever written

>> No.6876825

The standing ASOIAF books of course xD

>> No.6876834

I would take an ereader, because I'm not retarded

>> No.6876837

The collected works of literature

>> No.6876845

five copies of Crime and Punishment

>> No.6876876

>>6876834
> the conditions would not aver that you could only have five book files downloaded

>> No.6876889

The meme trilogy
Hemingway's Complete Stories (cause everyone has heard of him so I don't have to explain the memes to my cellmate)
Whatever volume of In Search of Lost Time I'm on at the moment

>> No.6877748
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JR
War And Peace
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms
The Agony And Ecstasy
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler

>> No.6877785

The Bible
Summa Theologica
Quran
Complete Rumi works
Dictionnary

>> No.6877797

The Recognitions
Gravity's Rainbow
Anna Karenina
Europe Central
Foucault's Pendulum

They're all on my to read list anyway. Might as well knock out some door stoppers when I'm not getting ass raped

>> No.6877798

>>6876491
>the bible
are you a fucking 3000 year old goat herder?

>> No.6877803

>>6877748
Would you really bring a 300 page book? Why? I mean its a good book but still I mean I know these are often thinly veiled name your favorite books threads but I'm compelled to ask.

>> No.6877817
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6877817

>gravity's rainbow
>infinite jest
>ulysses
>foucault reader
>European History

>> No.6877880

Infinite Jest
Either/Or
The Brother K
The Pale King
Fear and Trembling

>> No.6878002 [DELETED] 

>>6876481

Well I wouldn't take the Bible with me, because I'm sure the jail will have plenty available for their prisoners (as all prisons in the U.S. do)

I would take the following:
>Complete works of William Shakespeare

>Plato: Complete Works
>The Complete Works of Aristotle Vol. 1
>The Complete Works of Aristotle Vol. 2
>Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol. 1
>Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol. 2

A good start into philosophy
Shakespeare for entertainment
My interest in Japanese history and literature finally becoming fulfilled.

Dodging ass rape and reading should keep me busy for 6 months.

>> No.6878015

>>6876481
Well I wouldn't take the Bible with me, because I'm sure the jail will have plenty available for their prisoners (as all prisons in the U.S. do)

I would take the following:

>Complete works of William Shakespeare
>Plato: Complete Works
>The Complete Works of Aristotle Vol. 1
>The Complete Works of Aristotle Vol. 2
>Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol. 2

A good start into philosophy
Shakespeare for entertainment
My interest in Japanese history and literature finally becoming fulfilled.

Dodging ass rape and reading should keep me busy for 6 months.

>> No.6878031

>>6876481
Obviously the longest ones, since I have to make them last more than a month.

Zibaldone
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Remembrance of Things Past vol. 1, 2 and 3

>> No.6878038

>>6878031
and that's 7,500 pages

>> No.6878043

Phillip k dicks 9000 page "exejesus"

>> No.6878049

>>6876481
>>6876481
id pick all 5

>> No.6878058

>>6876481
My Norton Anthology of Poetry
Don Quixote
The Man Without Qualities
The Brothers Karamazov
War and Peace

>> No.6878066

>>6876802
nah
http://warriorink.org/literary/2014/04/04/meet-the-worlds-longest-piece-of-american-fiction-a-fanfiction/

>> No.6878072

>>6876481

V.
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Mason & Dixon
Against the Day
The Odyssey & The Iliad combo book

Ideally I would bring a more varied selection of authors, but all the longest good books I know are by Pynchon

>> No.6878079

>>6878058
>Don Quixote

Enjoy laughing your ass of in jail.

>> No.6878086

>>6878072
>falling for the memes

>>6876845
kek

>> No.6878258

How to break out of prison
Cutting metal with household objects
Self Improvisation from household objects
Dirty Fighting
Camouflage and survival

>> No.6878312

The Bible
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
The Recognitions
Paradise Lost

>> No.6878324

>>6878258
It's six months, not life. No sane person tries to break out of prison if they are in there for less than a year.

>> No.6878408

>>6876491
4/10 you'll just end up misinterpreting the philosophy without supplement texts
>>6876514
5/10 could be higher if you speak Russian
>>6876575
4/10 I like the addition of poetry but you're bogged down by Zen teachings
>>6876599
2/10 pretty gay
>>6876639
7/10 I've only read two of the five but they're pretty based so I'll give you a good score (bonus points for not translating titles)
>>6876641
50/10
>>6876653
2/10 Horrible, horrible choices considering you could've brought some really nice nature writing and not Thoreau, who is pretty lame. Lord of the Rings was just pleb as all hell. Just, no.
>>6876791
3/10 Again, Thoreau fan boys for absolutely no reason. I fail to see why reading Thoreau in prison would do anything except amplify sadness, he even frequently writes about how lonely he feels and so he just gets up and goes to hangout with people. Meditations is pretty bad choice for philosophy but I guess you can't really fuck up interpreting that one.
>>6876834
dumb/10
>>6876837
new/10
>>6876845
0/10
>>6876889
6/10 no reasons given
>>6877748
3/10 You'll breeze through Calvino in an afternoon, waste of a choice
>>6877785
dictionnary/10
>>6877797
7/10 good reasons out of ten
>>6877817
trying to fit in/10
>>6877880
eh/10 I don't care
>>6878015
9/10 Based choices
>>6878031
7/10 you'll be reading a while
>>6878058
5/10 too many translations and yes I'm assuming
>>6878072
new/10 but Mason & Dixon is a perfect book
>>6878258
no such books/10
>>6878312
8/10 because they're mine and I chose them because they have the most reread value and they're in English and im biased towards myself please don't be mean about my choices but also I would like to replace Gravity's Rainbow with the Norton English literature 17-19th century

>> No.6878468

>>6878258

> breaking out during a 6 month sentence

that makes about as much sense as shooting a cop to get out of a traffic ticket. Almost everyone who escapes from prison is caught or killed within days, and those who dont are fugitives for the rest of their lives.

>> No.6878478

>>6876481
Bible
Moby Dick
???

>> No.6878519
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>>6878408
shut up you spergy faggot

>> No.6878537

>>6878519
lil baby can't handle ONE person's opinion

pathetic.

>> No.6878551

the book of pook
god's delusion
the stranger
1984
brave new world

>> No.6878565
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>>6878551
nice tbh imo

>> No.6878574

>>6876481
One book, The Collected Shakespeare.

>> No.6878607

war and peace
mason & dixon
moby dick
collection of ashbery poetry
collection of dostoevsky short stories

>> No.6880388

Bump

>> No.6880393

>>6878565

Stay out of my closet, faggot.

>> No.6880512

>>6876481
>The Brothers K
>The Bible
>Ulysses
>Siddathra
>The Complete Feynman Lectures on Physics (If these don't count as one book I'll take volume one)

>> No.6880519

>Infinite Jest
>Ulysses

Maybe then I'd finally be able to finish those sons of bitches

>> No.6880571

Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
The Iliad
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Oliver Twist

>> No.6880576

>>6876481
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Starship Troopers by Robert a. Heinlein
Convict Conditioning: The Forgotten Art of Bodyweight Training
Complete works of William Shakespeare

>> No.6880610

The Quran
Futuhat alMakkiyya by ibn arabi
Phenomenology of Spirit
The Four Journeys by Mulla Sadra
Ecrits of Lacan or Less than Nothing by Zizek

>> No.6881175

>>6878408
>>6878408
Please don't do this. Nobody is interested in your opinions on opinions. This isn't a /soc/ rate thread.

>> No.6881182

>>6880610
That feel when just bought les Ecrits in English for $5.

>> No.6881388

Two books on economic history, two books on the history of ideas, and Snorre's Edda.

>> No.6881406

>>6876481
Infinite Jest
War and Peace
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Don Quixote
The Odyssey

>> No.6881435
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>>6876481
The Iliad or The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Bible
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost

>> No.6881444
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The God Delusion by Sir Richard Dawkins

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Sir Christopher Hitchens

The Portable Atheist by Sir Christopher Hitchens

The End of Faith by Sir Sam Harris

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sir Sam Harris

>> No.6881598

>>6876481
first five books of the harry potter series