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7940577 No.7940577 [Reply] [Original]

Post the best book /lit/ gave you

I'll start with this beauty

>> No.7940617
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>> No.7940622

Infinite Jest tbqhwy

>> No.7940898

>>7940622
Memes: The Book

>> No.7940933

>>7940898
What's wrong with memes?

>> No.7940940

I can't believe how dull that book was.

>> No.7940955

>>7940940
Some pretty brilliant moments but it really was a slog to get to them
>muh dreams
>muh landscapes

>> No.7941146

>>7940577
John Williams
Walser
Bruno Schulz
Sebald
Bernhard
Bolaño

All authors I wouldn't have bothered with (Sebald, Bernhard -- based on friends' opinions and GR reviews) or even heard of if it weren't for this beacon of culture and good taste that is this place (no, really).

>> No.7941169

>>7941146
Wait, there are more:

Jean-Pierre Toussaint
Sadegh Hedayat
Flann O'Brian
Julien Gracq
Cesar Aira

There must be more that I would never have heard of in my second-and-a-half-world shithole.

>> No.7941172

Hermann Broch, some anon posted his Death of Virgil here, now it's one of my fav books

>> No.7941183

>>7940577
A clockwork orange

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Ty lit

>> No.7941188

I haven't read anything /lit/ has suggested and I don't intend to.

>> No.7941229

Definitely John Williams. Augustus is one of my favorite books. Maybe Pynchon, just because I don't think I would have motivated myself to read him otherwise, but I knew about him.

>> No.7941450

Borges
Pynchon
McCarthy

>always read the Greeks, Romans, and up through Montaigne

>> No.7941461

>>7940577
Honestly the greeks

>> No.7941480

>>7941187
Yes! I would have never read anything aside from Dalloway and Lighthouse had /lit/ not pushed me to do so.

>> No.7941551

>>7941187
This.

It might be the only thing I've read on /lit/ recommendation and it was great.

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>> No.7941708

>>7941187
x3

>> No.7941819

Already been said, but Infinite Jest.

[Spoiler]Handed in my dissertation on Nietzsche and Infinite Jest today.[/spoiler]

>> No.7941852

>>7941819
take out your name and post it here, I wanna read it.

>> No.7941873

>>7941852

Nah. If it get posted on the internet before it's graded I could get done for plagarism

>> No.7941880

>>7941873
will you post it afterwards? Make a thread about essays and dissertations and post it.

>> No.7941960

>>7941880
Please do this

>> No.7942111

>>7940617

I haven't in a long time been able to say, "I fucking lol'd."

>> No.7942114

>>7940577
>le life is pointless:the book

it is brilliant though

>> No.7942344

>>7940898
>Implying memes are bad
>pleb