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What's the deepest book you've ever read?

>> No.8250337

>>8250295
>twenty thousand leagues under the sea
kek

>> No.8250350

>>8250295
Cosmos by carl sagan.

>> No.8250356

>>8250337
Journey to the Center of the Earth is far more deep.

>> No.8250359

>>8250337
>not Journey to the Centre of the Earth

>> No.8250361

idk but I haven't viewed reality the same way since I read The Library of Babel.

>> No.8250362

>>8250356
technically, no

>> No.8250384

The Stranger by Albert Camus

>> No.8250386

The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

>> No.8250392

The Upanishads

>> No.8250404

Theres a section in my political philosophy textbook with some kant in it so that part probably. Maybe blood meridian?

>> No.8250457

>>8250362
>he thinks the title refers to depth beneath the surface of the sea
>he thinks a submarine could go to a depth beneath the surface of the sea that is more than six times the diameter of the Earth

laughinggirls.jpg

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>>8250295
The Brothers Karamazov. If you are looking for something short, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is pretty deep.

>> No.8250540

The Corpus Hermeticum

>> No.8250563

Depth is a spook.

>> No.8250715

Tao te ching

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>>8250295

Critique of Pure Reason

>> No.8250759

>>8250715
What the fuck the Tao Te Ching itself basically says the Tao Te Ching isn't deep.

You are whats wrong with modern Taoism.

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>>8250759
>He doesn't understand that greatest depth is non-depth.
People taking Taoism literally is what's wrong with Modern Taoism™. If you wanna be a stiff book licker and hang up on words go read King Kong.

>> No.8250886

>>8250337
Topkek

>> No.8250888

>>8250295

Anal Acrobats: An Amazing Adventure

>> No.8250900

>>8250295

Republic

>> No.8250914

>>8250295
Predicable answer, but I reckon Gravity's Rainbow gave me more to chew on than any other book I've ever read. I often say that I've learned more from Pynchon than anybody else and it's really true.

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>>8250392
mein irreducible divine nigger!

>> No.8251036

beelzebub's tales to his grandson, yep

>> No.8251569

Religious morons really need to FOAD.