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Picking up some books, what do I get?


Lolita
Breakfast of Champions
Animal Farm
War and Peace
The Man in the High Castle
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Something Happened
Alas, Babylon
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Stand
A Confederacy of Dunces
Anything by Cormac McCarthy (Barring The Road. Read it already.)

Suggestions not listed are also helpful.

>> No.756176

All of them

>> No.756180

>>756176

Well, I plan to do that. Just not all at once.

>> No.756186

>>756180
Just finish what you got planned, then come back and ask.

>> No.756188

>>756186

Well, that's the problem. I finished my last few books, and I'm in need of new ones. That list is currently my "to-read" list, but I can't choose which ones to start with.

>> No.756189

>>756188
Does it make a difference? Just read it in the order you got listed then.

>> No.756192

>>756189

I suppose it doesn't, but I'd like to hear what /lit/ thinks of some of the books.

>> No.756200

Start with Breakfast of Champions. It's highly entertaining and a super fast read. There's some great satire but nothing you have to wrap your head around to understand.

>> No.756204

>>756200

I was thinking Breakfast of Champions, Fear and Loathing, and A Clockwork Orange to start

>> No.756288

Bump.

>> No.756296

>>756204
Fear and loathing is hilarious but very overrated. The other two are fantstic

>> No.756298

isn't war and peace seriously boring?

>> No.756313

>>756298

So I've heard. I might scratch it off the list, or put it at the end.

>> No.756332

Animal Farm is best, I don't care if it's cliche. Read it first.

>> No.756339

>>756170
>>Anything by Cormac McCarthy

everyone needs toilet paper? Why list it with your lit?

>> No.757064

bump

>> No.757209

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World if you're into those dystopian novels.
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is also a good one.

>> No.757235

breakfast of champions is a good but easy read. definitely pretty humorous. some nice satire.

i hated animal farm, tbph. hurrr an allegory about communism but with animals. that shit didn't help gain anything.

fear and loathing is great. as to be expected it is better than the movie. thompson gets in some hilarious stuff and at the same time he offers a few nice things to ponder upon about life and such.

only ones on that list i've read.

>> No.757236

>>756166

"w" + "b" - "b" + "w" + "s" - "s" + "w" + "d" - "d" + "." + "a" - "a" + "a" + "m" - "m" + "n" + "r" - "r" + "o" + "u" - "u" + "n" + "z" - "z" + "t" + "p" - "p" + "a" + "d" - "d" + "l" + "a" - "a" + "k" + "n" - "n" + "." + "u" - "u" + "s" + "s" - "s" + "e" + "m" - "m"

>> No.757237

>>756339
BABBYS FIRST TROLL

>> No.757239

>animal farm
>fear and loathing in las vegas
how old are you??

>> No.757243

>>757239

17 lolol.

i used to read a LOT but sort of fell out of it. i'm trying to get back into reading as of late.

>> No.757259

>>757239

also, come on. what on earth does age have to do with animal farm being a boring book? honestly, i never thought that short a book could be such a chore to read. if you know even just the rough outlines of stalinist russia the animal schtick does NOTHING to add to it.