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>> No.816643

Harry Potter

>> No.816645

atlas shrugged

>> No.816647

Battle Royale.

>> No.816648

Fellowship of the ring (and the next 2)

>> No.816650

Name of the Wind

>> No.816651

Cloud Atlas

>> No.816652

>>816643
>>816645
>>816647
c'mon serious thread here

>> No.816654

The Fountainhead. Not even trolling.

By the time I finished I disagreed with some of her philosohpy, but the novel really hooked me in.

>> No.816656

Good Omens.

>> No.816657
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816657

dead serious.

>> No.816658

>>816652
I am being serious, you cunt. (I was the one who said Battle Royale).

>> No.816660

....Paper Towns, by John Green.

>> No.816662

death on credit

>> No.816663

Recently? Kraken by Cina Mieville. I just couldn't put the fucker down.

>> No.816664

Michael Ende's The Neverending Story

>> No.816666
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816666

...that or Lala Pipo.

>> No.816668

>>816666
Get the fuck out of here, Tao.

>> No.816671

ASOIAF kept me up late into the night for a couple of weeks.

>> No.816674

The neuromancer

>> No.816687

Ender's Game.

Haters gon' hate.

>> No.816690
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816690

...sorry, I meant that or All My Friends Are Superheroes

>> No.816692
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816692

<- This book. I started reading slower so the book would last longer.

>> No.816693

>>816666
>666
the devils troll

>> No.816694

>>816690
Get out of here, Tao Lin, nobody likes you!

>> No.816703

The first of the Ring novels was pretty intense. I probably read it in as few sittings as possible. I read The Road in one sitting, and If On A Winter's Night a Traveler in two.

>> No.816715
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816715

September 2010 - buy "Richard Yates".

>> No.816722

Saging a Tao Lin thread.

2 hip 4 u

>> No.816750

>>816687
>>816687

What's to hate? Ender's Game is one of the most groundbreaking sci-fi novels of the last 50 years. Motherfuckers can disagree, but hate is inappropriate.

>> No.816751

THE POWER THAT PRESERVES
FUCK YEAH

>> No.816753

>>816660
Anything by John Green really.
>>816687
OH GOD FELT SO GOOD

1984

>> No.816755

house of leaves, fucking cliché i know.

>> No.816757

>>816750
It's very popular to hate Ender's Game for some reason - at least here at 4chan.

>> No.816758
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816758

Loved this book. Loved the movie. Fuck the upcoming remake.

>> No.816762
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816762

cain mutiny. later, gone with the wind. farenheght 451, alas babaylon, ... earliest thing i remember read or recited... cat in the hat. boy, they sure made a botch of that movie... but 101 dalmations. 20000 leagues under the sea, around the world in 80 days,

>> No.816766

The Blade Itself

>> No.816768

>>816757

FFS tha's weird. I liked Speaker for the Dead better, tbh, but that's maybe because I read that first for some reason.

I can see how all the spin-offs might hack people off, but I read the one about Bean (is it Bean? Ender's shadow or sth) years after Ender's Game and I still thought it was pretty good, and it made me go back to the original trilogy.

I don' know - I reckon they're pretty good space opera, and who doesn't like a high school story about a tiny kid who fucks up jocks and doesnt afraid of anything?

>> No.816769

>>816758
oh fuck yes

>> No.816770

A Game of Thrones

>> No.816778

heinrich böll - ansichten eines clowns

>> No.816789
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>>816766

Aw man, that was good the first time I read it, with Logan falling in the water and thinking 'ooh, a barbarian book, it's been from long since I read one of them'

Revelation Space was another for me - I was so glad I read the first one when the whole series had been published - it would have killed me to wait. I read Revelation Space, and then went out the next day and bough the whole thing and just gorged myself. Fucking awesome.

And Blood Meridian - I couldn't leave that one alone.

>> No.816792

Kafka on the shore, 500 pages in one day, that was the most I ever read in one day(before college)

>> No.816813

>>816792
I could read it in one day too if I skipped the parts with the obnoxious 14 year old.

I liked the other set of characters, though. It's like a half-good book.

>> No.816819

The Fountainhead
The Stand

>> No.816820

>>816634

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>> No.816826

a clockwork orange

>> No.816837
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816837

I loved this book. I genuinely enjoyed the whole series with the exception of Wolves of Calla. None of the books in the series held my interest as much as the first one though.

>> No.816838

Infinite Jest.

>> No.816843

Contact

>> No.816851

>>816813
Jep, the boy was boring but Hoshino and Nakata were awesome.

>> No.816869

The Long Walk

>> No.816896

The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.816911

When I read Harry Potter it's the only time I've ever read 300+ pages in a day.

>> No.816915

The New York Trilogy

>> No.816916

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
tat was the book that made me like reading. Thank God I found it

>> No.816919

Verhalen van de Tweelingbroers

>> No.816920

dune

>> No.816922

>>816869

Brofist. Blind-bought that after reading several other King books and thinking it would be meh, and it came out of nowhere and kicked my ass.

>> No.816926

Night Watch.

>> No.816939

Youth in Revolt.

>> No.816942

The Death of Artemio Cruz

>> No.816957

>>816920
THIS

>> No.816963

Hitchhiker's Guide, that shit was awesome

>> No.816981

Ape And Essence by Aldous Huxley.

Went into work early, sat out in the sun two hours before clocking in and finished it by the time I clocked out.

>> No.816987

>>816657

While Rand's characters are wildly obtuse, I couldn't and cannot put down both The Romantic Manifesto and The New Intellectual.

Compounded, I did run through 100 pages of The Fountainhead straight on through.

>> No.817028

Kung Fu High School.

Not the best writing, but still a great story.

>> No.817030

>>816758
Fuck yeah. Even more so with his later books. I read Human Harbour in one sitting during a train ride, and his latest Lilla stjärna in just a couple of days.

>> No.817033

Redwall.

>> No.817040

Enders Game back in teh day. I-Robot, Dune, and The Outsiders (fuck your shit)

>> No.817042

The Flies by Jean Paul Sartre

>> No.817043

>>816869
>>816869

Bought this randomly, was amazing.

>> No.817044

Diary and Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
I hate him overall but those two stories had me by the seat of my pants.

>> No.817047

I'm more of a "newspapers and magazines" kind of guy.

>> No.817048

Hobbit.

>> No.817051

Dune. Hunters of Dune. Sandworms of Dune.

>> No.817054

2666

>> No.817056

confederacy of dunces

>> No.817060

>>817047

<-------/int/

>> No.817070

>>817051
This. Still does.

>> No.817121

>>817030

Lucky bastard! I don't think many of his books have been translated in English yet. The pic I used was just my favorite pic, I have the Let Me In version. I think amazon has a pre-order up for Handling the Undead, and I know that's one of his older books. I'm sure both Human Harbor and Little Star are great as well.

>> No.817127

>>816660
I am disappoint. I borrowed that book from a girl I wanted to bone once, and when I was done reading it I stopped being attracted to her

>> No.817131

>>816654
I was going to post this. In fact, these were almost the exact words I was going to post.

>> No.817134

1984

>> No.817141

>>816750
It lacked something. I don't know what. I was hooked into the book, then I read the end and I got a bad taste in my mouth. I was just like "...wait, what? What a stupid way to end a book like this."

>> No.817143

Song of Ice and Fire.

Any of them.

>> No.817144

Catch 22

>> No.817146

>>817134

Dude, YES.

I went through an Orwell period a few months back and I damn near couldn't put anything he did down.

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817148

This book had such awesome characters. I didn't think I could enjoy a book with content like this but I was greatly surprised.

>> No.817150

The Forever War

Too bad the sequels sucked.

>> No.817157

The Road

>> No.817182

le rouge et la noir - stendhal

>> No.817199

Stephen King's 'It'.

>> No.817218
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Just finished 1984 and Generation X, what should I read next to further my journey into books?

>> No.817241

Dune
Brave New World
Grapes of Wrath

All of these grabbed me on the first page, and I resented spending my time doing anything other than reading them!

>> No.817254

Harry Potter, anything by Jules Verne
Recently Lord Jim.

>> No.817258

What does /lit/ think of Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Library_100_Best_Novels

I like it. I feel that Lord of the Rings should have been on there though.

>> No.817262

>>817182

I've only ever read his "Love". I was impressed with his ideas. How is this?

>> No.817264

Among the gymnosperms, only three species of Podocarpus and the atypical Tetraclinis articulata have a higher content of p-hydroxyphenylpropane units.

>> No.817282

>>816663
has anyone read the scar or the city and the city?

>> No.817576
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>>817258

Fuck off, troll, Lord of the Rings isn't even the best book written about orcs.

>> No.817591

Storm of Swords

>>816768
High school jocks wouldn't like it, is my guess.

>> No.817608

>>817282

The City and the City is so good that people will be talking about it with awe after we are dead. Believe me, Mieville will be the Borges of the 2060s.

I read The City and the City again recently and I was amazed at how good the whodunnit was - the concepts were so strong that I couldn't work out the case till I'd almost internalised the topography and topolgangerity.

Borges never needed a whole novel to express ideas like this, but Borges was fucking special.

>> No.817616

his majesty's dragon

>> No.817617
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this

>> No.817626

>>817282
Oh, I just read both of those! I enjoyed The City and The City, but I didn't really like The Scar. I hated the main character, she was just awful, and she ruined the entire book for me. I think it could have been a good book, too, I just couldn't get over her. I haven't read Perdido Street Station though, and maybe you have to read that before The Scar? They're set in the same world, I know that, but I'm not sure if reading one would help with the other.

Also, I think Mieville gets off on throwing people into these ridiculously complicated worlds and then not explaining anything about why they are like that. It took me half the book (for both of those books) to just figure out how the world he set up worked. It's rewarding once you figure it out, but I kind of think he does it to be edgy or something. I hope none of his other books work like that, because that would be so cheap.

>> No.817644

WIld Cards - the mosaic seried about superheroes. It's edited by George R.R. Martin, and it's been simmering for like twenty years and it probably deserves your attention,

Croyd Crenson, Typhoid Croyd, who sleeps and wakes with a new set of suprepowers

Demise. Demise don't look in his eyes

The Judas Ace, Tarzan with immortality, who stitched up his amigos for 30 pieces of silver

Captain Trips, who's never quite what he seems, or entirely what you need,

Doctor Tachyon, nuff said. If you don't likethe Doc, you're probably a fag.

Quasiman

Jokers by the dozen

You should read this work, arcanines.

>> No.817647

The Bible. All of it.

>> No.817651

On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato.

I could hardly get my hands off that fucker.

>> No.817653

>>816635

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>> No.817654

>>817651
Oh and anything by Bukowski. The guy knew how to write.

>> No.817662

>>817654

Holy SHIT, Bukowski!

I ate Women alive.

>> No.817664

>>817626

Perdido Street Station is a fucking astonishing novel, with a totally believable internal constistency, and such a well established world that a lesser author would have spent 20 years obsessing on New Crobuzon and Bas-Lag.

I personally have mixed feelings, I think it's a tragedy that new Crobuzon is just going to waste while Mieville reimagines London/Budaest/some kind of floating pirate megalopolis but thn again, specialisation is what made Tolkein such a fucking faggot.

>> No.817803

Bukowski couldn't write his way out of a paper bag.

>> No.817974

...Genre fiction

>> No.817983

Norwegian Wood

Fucking read it.

>> No.817987

Twilight. I was high out of my mind though.

>> No.817990

Hot Zone by Richard Preston

>> No.817992

malcolm x

>> No.818012

Blood Meridian

>> No.818020

>>818012
This.

>> No.818023

H.A Covington's White Revolutionary Series.

>> No.818037

Magician: Apprentice

>> No.818039

>>816920
>>816920
>>816920

>> No.818055

Dark tower

>> No.818068

"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. It was probably the most enjoyable experience I could have during an English literature class, glued from start to finish.

"Fight Club" and "Slaughterhouse-Five" are some good honorable mentions.

>> No.818095

Fucking Eva Ibbotson and The Secret of Platform 13.

Every single page had me going 'Oh shit! Ohhhh, shiiiiit!"

>> No.818104

Mort.

>> No.818108

Fahreheit 451.
My first MOAR moment.
Ninth grade was a good year.

>> No.818117

None because I am not an unimaginative loser like you faggots.

>> No.818125

>>818117
I don't follow your logic.

>> No.818132

>>818125

I didn't even know trolling had logic.

Huh. I've got some learning to do before I can troll people on this here Internets.

>> No.818138

First thing that comes to mind is 'The Whisperer in the Dark', which I just finished reading. Fucking crazy story.

>> No.818145

On Teh Road

>> No.818146

>>818132

Good trolling has a great deal of logic built in. You have to be subtle but obvious in your logical fallacies. That involves being logical.

>> No.818159

I liked A Scanner Darkly.
Miiiindfuuuuuucckkk

>> No.818183

>>818068
SH5 was good shit, man.
I think I might be unstuck in time now.

>> No.818191

The Subtle Knife

>> No.818493

factotum, oblivion, cien años de soledad

>> No.818495

Finnegan's Wake. It was a difficult read, but great work.

>> No.818525

Apeshit

...but that's the gorehound in me saying that.

>> No.818562

>>816694
I actually like Tao Lin's work sometimes.
Does he troll here or something?

>> No.818569

>>816838
>>816838
>>816838
>>816838
Infinite Fucking Jest

>> No.818571

100 years of solitude
catcher in the rye
falcon's malteser

>> No.818573

>>818562
nice try, Tao.

>> No.818578

>>818573
I'm not Tao or the guy who posted the eeeee cover. I'm just curious if he does troll here because I think that would be funny.

>> No.818593

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

I don't know why but it's the book i've liked the most in my entire reader life

>> No.818594

>>816687

Oh hell yes I love Ender's Game.

But I read it in jr. high, didn't pick up on some things, but seriously the whole time reading it just thinking, "this is badass, this is so badass!"

I'll have to grab that one again.

>> No.818618

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy


also, hello from /b/ :3

>> No.818620

The Hobbit
Hitchhiker's Guide series
The Green Mile
Jpod by Douglas Coupland

>> No.818626

1984

>> No.818628

The Space trilogy - C. S. Lewis

>> No.818646
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>> No.818651

The Count of Monte Cristo. I was a little scared about reading it and once I started I got in about 200 pages a sitting. So fucking awesome.

>> No.818658
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818658

Toilet paper

>> No.818675

>>816768
>>816757
People generally hate on Orson Scott Card because he's a Mormon son-of-a-bitch who's started letting his beliefs drag his writing down.

But people who only hate on Ender's Game are trolls. Even as one of the former people, I like it a lot. I can't think of anything bad to say about it except that it resonates less with adults who read it for the first time than with children/adolescents.

>> No.818681

1984
Any of the Dark Tower series except the Wizard and Glass (Liked it, but nothing anywhere near as awesome as The Gunslinger, obviously)
The Pastafarian Bible

>> No.818691

Watership Down

>> No.818692

It's a play, not a book, but I read it instead of seeing it, so... Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. It's about love and sex and halfway through Lord Byron shows up and starts having affairs with everybody and it's AWESOME.

>> No.818706

The Bible.

>> No.818716

1984

>> No.818719

>>818706

Yeah, until you hit Numbers and it stops being sex and fire from the heavens and people stabbing other people and starts being "Bob begat Joe begat Steve begat Billy begat..."

>> No.818721

>>818646

This.

And 1984, I remember not even eating lunch at school and just burning through the pages.

>> No.818725

>>818706
and this is why /lit/ sucks cawk hard ¬_¬

>> No.818726

>>818691

omg THIS.

>> No.818728

Blood Meridian

>> No.818730

>>818725

To be fair, it IS full of fire and brimstone and war and sex and things that are generally considered awesome...

>> No.818741

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

>> No.818745

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

>> No.818847

>>818651

Actually, this too was pretty THIS IS AWESOME at times.

>> No.819045

some book about this whore fucking all sorts of men... I read it in 2 days when I was ten

>> No.819050

The figwort family by lars saabye christensen

>> No.819055

Dune

>> No.819056

Crooked Little Vein - What's his face, I can't remember.

>> No.819061

fight club

>> No.819068

The Sword of Truth and every consecutive novel in the series by Terry Goodkind

>> No.819094

His Dark Materials (ok, it's three books, but still)

>> No.819106

Neuromancer

>> No.819110

Sirens of Titan

>> No.819748

Ham on Rye.

>> No.819753

The Giver.
Animal Farm.
The DaVinci Code.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Literally the only books that come to mind.

>> No.819760

Every book used to be this way for me when I was younger.

>> No.819763

Richard Laymon's The Wilds.

>> No.819767

Every reader has a gateway book that got them hooked.

When I was 10 or 11, our teach was reading Charlotte's Web in half-hour increments. Then got sick, so I finished it myself and loved the experience of reading, the power of suspending disbelief.

After that, only Lord of The Rings captured me in that way.

>> No.819769

Life of Pi.

>> No.819775

The Bourne Identity

Carlos, Kaine, Delta! Who is he!

Fuck that shit movie

>> No.819788

feynman lectures on physics

fiction: A Simple Plan by Scott Smith

>> No.819796

Candide.

"Sorry Candide, but Cunengonde was raped and slaughtered. But, it's all for the best!"

>> No.819803

The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.819834

Moby Dick

Melville's description at the beginning of man's longing for bodies of water resonated deep within me.
Also, fucking Ahab man.

>> No.819847

harry potter. i was six.

>> No.819869

airman Eoin Colfer.

>> No.819876
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Illium

>> No.819887

Harry Potter.
Still to this day.

>> No.819899

King Solomon's Mines

>> No.819926

The Drawing of the Three.

So far anyway.

>> No.819927

>>818692
>>818692
So fucking yes.

>> No.819929

The Sword of Truth: part 3.

Shit was great, yo

>> No.820154

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

>> No.820157

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

>> No.820187

The Gunslinger

>> No.820200

Brave New World

>> No.820205

>>817258
Did /b/ do a goddamn raid on that poll or something? How the hell are Ann Rand and Hubbard the best authors of the english language?!

>> No.820212

Snow Crash
Although I actually listened to the audio book.

>> No.820220

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

>> No.820222

Harry Potter

>> No.820239

Does anybody else think that the Great Gatsby is one of the worst fucking books ever written?

I do....

>> No.820255

Going Bovine
One of the best books I've read this year.

>> No.820269

>>820239
Oh god yes, one of the worst books I've read in my English class. I honestly don't know why everyone always claims it's one of the best books in the history of mankind.

>> No.820272

The most recent and prominent one is Crime and Punishment; I craved it to be interminable, but I reached its end.

>> No.820283

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

>> No.820294

>>819763
awesome

>> No.820760

Swan Song. one of the best i have ever read

>> No.820771

The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

Also, just finished Snow crash, by the same. Surprised to have just learnt it's on the Time top100 - I think the Primer was better.

>> No.820774

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

But I simultaneously thought of

The Penis Was

So really it's a tie.

>> No.820778

Harry Potter

>> No.820782

Foundation

>> No.820787

The Road

I felt like they would die if I stopped reading ;_;

>> No.820794

Neuromancer.
Electric kool-aid acid test.
The big sleep.

>> No.820801

Fahrenheit 451

>> No.820815

Dan Simmons' Ilium/Olympus

>> No.820836

A Shadow Over Innsmouth.

>> No.820842

Harry Potter. Haters gonna hate.

>> No.820865

Rumo und die wunder im dunkeln

unfortunately i don't know if there are any translations