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Tell us what your five favorite books are and others will try to guess stuff about you irl

>> No.8396911

Lolita (Nabokov)
Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
La Confirmation (Segre)
Babyfucker (Alleman)
Infinite Jest (Wallace)

>> No.8396922
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8396922

Lolita
Lolit
Loli
Lol
Lo

>> No.8396934

Gravity's Rainbow
The Age of Innocence
Middlemarch
Ulysses
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

>> No.8396935

Behead All Satans
The Magnificent Third Rail
Yurope
Yurope 2
Tao Lin on a Tricycle

>> No.8396950

Tropic of Cancer.
Lolita.
Ficciones.
Terra Nostra.
Ulysses.

>> No.8396952

Ulysses - James Joyce
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Odyssey - Homer
Volverás a Región - Juan Benet
Anabasis - Xenophon

>> No.8396955

>>8396911
>>8396922

forever alone paedophiles

>>8396935

hipster pleb

>>8396950

godlike taste, probably a writer, hot girlfriend

>> No.8396970

>>8396934
Steampunk mystic. Good taste in music.

>>8396952
Palavering wayfarer of time and space. Struggles with a dependency on anti-acids.

>> No.8396976

the virgin suicides
Never let me go
mason and dixon
J R
vurt

>> No.8396985

>>8396824
Der Golem (Meyrink)
Stoner (Williams)
Journey To The End of The Night (Celine)
The Shadow of the Sun (Kapuscinski)
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Dick)

>> No.8396993

>>8396985
absolute faggot

>> No.8396996

>>8396993
Thx, anon, now let's hear yours.

>> No.8397000

The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor)
Lanark (Alasdair Gray)


>>8396911
Probably not fun at parties

>>8396985
I have a feeling that you don't really want to be wherever you are

>> No.8397001

>>8396824
Welcome to the NHK
Evangelion
The Tatami Galaxy
Beck
Texhnolyze

>> No.8397004

>>8396996

the iliad
dr. faustus
phenomenology of spirit
a cockwork orange
nietzsche

>> No.8397005

>>8396996
mine was the one with vurt

>> No.8397010

>>8397000
Enjoys guava preserve with cheese. Sensuality grew like a sunflower in a tomb. Will meet a man named Hans.

>> No.8397012

>>8397000
>I have a feeling that you don't really want to be wherever you are
Correct.

>> No.8397015

>>8397004
Is casually dismissive of newer philosophies as being without substance. A dreamer, and secretly very sweet.

>> No.8397023

Anatomy of Melancholy, The
Complete Essays of Montaigne, The
Remembrance of Things Past
Story of the Stone
Trial, The

>> No.8397027

>>8397023
Suffers from a very sharp memory. Highly opinionated, but fears retribution for expressing opinions. Prefers observation to participation in activities.

>> No.8397029

>>8396976
You masturbate to interracial pornography.

>> No.8397034

The Iliad, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Steppenwolf, The Nicomachean Ethics, Ulysses

>> No.8397035

>>8397029
no, I only watch it

>> No.8397040

>>8397023
you take baths just to jizz underwater and watch the jizz come out

>> No.8397041

>>8397034
Flirted with New Age beliefs, but stopped short of dream-catchers and treacly-themed retreats on warm islands. Has an enormous dick, but gets too distracted to keep it erect long.

>> No.8397051

>>8397041
Haha spot on, but I can keep my dick hard mate.

>> No.8397083

>>8397051
Oh? Why don't you let me see sometime? ;)
We can take baths just to jizz underwater and watch the jizz come out.

>> No.8397090

>>8396824
Glamorama
Cosmopolis
The Elementary Particles
Sentimental Education
Crash

>> No.8397093

>>8397027
Spot on.

>>8397040
I haven't taken a bath since I was a baby.

>> No.8397094

The Plague
The Illiad
Tao Te Ching
The Trouble with Being Born
The Art of Always Being Right

>> No.8397099

>>8397001

Weeabo plz go

>> No.8397117

>>8397083
Sorry bro, to preoccupied with my qt 3.14

>> No.8397118

>>8396824
The Recognitions
JR
Don Quixote
Beckett's Trilogy
A Brief Life (Onetti)

>>8396934
Question: is Rebecca West good in general, or is BL&GF just really god-tier? I've been eyeing a copy of it at my local bookstore for a while now but I can't decide.

>>8396950
I give Fuentes a hard time, but I think Aura is a gem of a novella, and Terra Nostra is like Aura firing on all cylinders for 900 pages. Seriously, a great accomplishment.

>>8397023
Been making my way slowly through Burton and Montaigne. It humbles one to know other, more learned men have traveled the same paths one is following. You should read some (more) Beckett.

>> No.8397130

>>8396824
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Lolita
Blood Meridian

>> No.8397141

>>8397118
I honestly haven't read any other West, but BL&GF is one of the greatest accomplishments in literature in my opinion. Fantastic prose and depth of knowledge, sustained for an unbelievable page count. The only downfall is the silly "dialogue", which is always going to be an issue with a book of its sort. I should probably read her novels since I like BL&GF so much, I just haven't yet.

>> No.8397146

Gravity's Rainbow
The Old Man and the Sea
Labyrinths
To the Lighthouse
Suttree

>> No.8397151

Alamut (Bartol)
Moby Dick (Melville)
Book of the New Sun (Wolfe)
The Man in the High Castle (Dick)
Call of the Wild (London)

>> No.8397175

>>8397094
Takes pensive walks alone. Prone to paralyzing frustration. Strives for great lucidity, but settles for subverting the arguments of others through agile sophistries.

>> No.8397179

>>8397175

Probably about 70% true good work.

>> No.8397195

Ulysses
If on a winter's night a traveler
At Swim-Two-Birds
Stoner
Love in the Time of Cholera

>> No.8397196

malleus maleficarum
figaro's solo
gravity's rainbow
marriage of heaven and hell
all of borges

>> No.8397197

Siddhartha
Letters From a Stoic
In Search of Lost Time
Tao Te Ching
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.8397203

>>8397130
You're the type of person who googles "best books of all time" and base all your decisions on whatever subjective whorish listicles appear first. You probably don't go to restaurants unless they're 4-5 stars on Yelp, and your favorite pornstars at likely whoever the top 5 are on Pornhubs rankings right now.

>> No.8397211

>>8397203
you're actually wrong about everything. because its bait you dumb mother fucker

>> No.8397216

>>8397146
You thought you were gay for six months when you were 14 but it really was just a phase.

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>>8397000
You and I would get along so well.

>>8397001
On the wrong board

>>8397090
Has been offered cocaine before but didn't go through with it.

>>8397151
Wants to live off the land by yourself.

>2666 - Bolano
>Molloy - Beckett
>Barney's Version - Richler
>Suttree - McCarthy
>High Rise - Ballard

>> No.8397225

>>8396824
moby dick (melville)
the leopard (lampedusa)
huckleberry finn (twain)
story of my life (casanova)
the flashman papers (fraser)

>> No.8397229

>>8397216
Not that I remember.

>> No.8397244

Les Chants de Maldoror
The Society of the Spectacle
naked lunch
fall of hyperion
john cage´s "silence"

>> No.8397248

>>8397130
You are a troll that doesn't know the meaning of the word nuance.

>> No.8397257

>>8397196
Everything from Jorge? Everything?

>> No.8397261

Alright, let's see

The Recognitions (Gaddis)
The Castle (Kafka)
Faust I (Goethe)
Portrait of the artist as a young man (Joyce)
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)

>> No.8397262

>>8397225
You stopped reading after 11th grade

>> No.8397263

lifetime list-- would surely look different if my memory were more perfect

catch22
the harry potter series
hank the cowdog
redwall series
lacan's second seminar

>> No.8397269

>>8397248
Still nabbed two (You)s, that's more than I got

>> No.8397277

>>8397257
yes nigga

>> No.8397283

The Moral Landscape.
Hitch 22.
The God Delusion.
The Satanic Verses.
On Denoting.

>> No.8397286

>>8397277
He was a shitty poet though.

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>>8397283

>> No.8397315

>>8396824
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Beckett's Trilogy
Lolita
At Swim-Two-Birds

>> No.8397399

No particular order

The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Confederacy of Dunces
Roadside Picnic
Metro 2033
Brave New World

>> No.8397434

>>8397399
gonna go out on a limb and say you enjoyed playing metro 2033 and stalker: soc.

>> No.8397445

>>8397434
Metro replaces the word for the bad guys so is more PC
Stalker is fine

>> No.8397460

Tristam Shandy
Brideshead Revisited
The Republic (Plato in general)
Kierkegaard in general (esp. late pseudonymous works)
Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

>> No.8397461

Underworld
Beckett's Trilogy
The Recognitions
JR
V

>> No.8397464

>>8397315
You like playful and highly personal deconstruction

>> No.8397468

>>8397261
You like castle and other giant versions of indoors

>> No.8397486

Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
Kierkegaard: A Biography
The Trial
The Crying of Lot 49
The Complete Poems of John Keats

>> No.8397489

>>8397486
Author of the biography?

>> No.8397498

Watership Down
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Bible
Mrs. Dalloway

>> No.8397515

>>8397498
Hasn't read Cannery Row

>> No.8397521

>>8397515
I have. Love it. Sweet Thursday any good?

>> No.8397531

>>8397489
Wittgenstein: Ray Monk.
Kierkegaard: Alastair Hannay.

>> No.8397547

>>8396824
The Count of Monte Cristo
1984
Brave New World
Stephen Kings - The long walk
Also Sprach Zarathustra

>> No.8397558

>>8397498
You like cozy

>> No.8397620

Catch 22
American Gods
Night Watch (terry pratchett, not the vampire book).
Hearts in Atlantis
Inherent Vice

>> No.8397627

>>8397262
i probably didnt finish a book all of high school

>> No.8397642

The Count of Monte Cristo.
-
-
-
-

>> No.8397649

A Personal Matter - Oe
Vurt - Noon
The Story of the Eye - Bataille
The Stand - King
The Body Artist - Delillo

>> No.8397651

>>8397642
has only read one book
go read the demon barber of fleet street

>> No.8397658

Mephisto - Wolfgang Goethe
Plume (+Lointain Anterieur) - Henry Michaux
Elements de Philosophie - Alain
Moby Dick - Melville
Borges en general

>> No.8397660

>>8397651
Not really, it's just that the Count is my intimate friend, while the others are not so much.

>> No.8397665

>>8397547
Didn't understand Zarathustra for the dissonance on his most-loved books.
I have my doubts this is bait, but /lit/ quality has decreased to this bait's point

>> No.8397668

>>8397660
reasonable enough

>> No.8397677

Larva
The Tunnel
Finnegans Wake
Ada
the Great Fire of London

>> No.8397683

>>8397677
youre an upper middle class white male, 50% jewish

>> No.8397692

>>8397683
Meme harder. You got white male right at least. You could guess that and be right more than half the time on this site though.

>> No.8397699

The Book of the New Sun
The Sound and the Fury
Moby-Dick
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Lord of the Rings

>> No.8397701

>>8396824
Ficciones (Borges)
Dubliners (Joyce)
Blood Meridian (McCarthy)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)

>> No.8397734

Down and out in Paris and London
I, Claudius
The Martian Chronicles
The Tropic of Cancer
Journey to the End of the Night


Honestly the books I think I enjoyed the most

>> No.8397735

>>8397701
Cried after the first time he had sex

>> No.8397737

>>8397658
Recent English grad who is currently unemployed and sexually frustrated

>> No.8397740

>>8397699
with the first three, i thought you were a real mans man. then i see LOTR, now i think you are just a puss that cant stick up for himself but still thinks highly of the classic masculine idea
moby dick
GR
ham on rye
don quixote
little prince

>> No.8397745

>>8397649
You are a misanthropic dude with trouble believing people are good at heart and therefore have issues forming strong relationships with new people

>> No.8397757

>>8397461
Has no ability to think for himself

>> No.8397758

>>8397737
retry, you've got nothing

>> No.8397761

Phenomenology of Spirit
Finnegans Wake
Anti-Oedipus
120 Days of Sodom
Quran

>> No.8397763

>>8397701
Latinamerican.

>> No.8397766

>>8397761
Deluded.

>> No.8397769

>>8397735
Pretty close. The first time I had sex was when I discovered that I'm allergic to latex condoms.

>> No.8397785

>>8397023
This may sound retarded but is Anatomy of a Melancholy meant to be read back to front or can you just read random bits in a random order

>> No.8397821

>>8397785
What
are you retarded

>> No.8397828

>>8397683
Everyone on /lit/ is an upper middle class white male.

>> No.8397834

>>8397828
*was an (before we became neets)

>> No.8397835

>>8397828
I'm a prole.

>> No.8397836

>>8397785
explain to me please how you managed to get such a demented idea?
also thanks for reminding me to get that book

>> No.8397841

>>8397828
I am a lower middle class negro

>> No.8397869

pierre menard
the trial
the man who mistook his wife for a hat
the thirty nine steps
Rochefoucauld maxims

>> No.8397886

>>8397763
>he can't distinguish latinos from latinaboos

>> No.8397890

>>8397836
i-i thought it was something akin to a book of collected essays all related in some way to melancholia, that don't necessarily need to be read in order.

>> No.8397927

>>8397886
Latinamerican who's only read Borges, Márquez, Cortázar and maybe Vargas Llosa.*

>> No.8397933

>>8397890
I don't like spoonfeeding, but this is more like a vitalfeeding, since this is basic stuff.
Burton wrote the title as The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up

So no this is not collected essays or stream of consciousness, this is a 1500 pages book on the study of Melancholy from all the possible perspectives written by a truly avid reader, that retained all his latin quotes in his mind. Read it from front to back, and the full version, also take bookmarks with you, since you'll need them when you'll read your favorite parts

>> No.8397938

>>8397927
>Latin American who's only read Borges, shit, Cortazar and maybe mediocre Llosa
fixed
t. Latin American

>> No.8397941

>>8396824
Man, there really is a DFW face for everything.

>> No.8397957

hmm well I guess mine would have to be (in no particular order)

>Dubliners- James Joyce
>Infinite Jest- David F Wallace
>In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
>The Pale King- David F Wallace
>Child of God- Cormac McCarthy

>> No.8397964

>>8397933
Thanks. I based my assumption on something which I read some time ago from a review. Just found it now: "It is the ideal book to dip into, though. No one on earth is going to expect you to read it cover to cover. (Although I know one person who is doing just that.)"

>> No.8397996

>>8397964
disregard any opinion by this person
read it thoroughly

>> No.8398000

Infinite Jest
Zorba the Greek
The Sound and the Fury
The Decameron
Moby Dick

>> No.8398022

>>8397957
actually replace mcarthy with American psycho then thats my list

>> No.8398036

>>8398022
what grade are you

>> No.8398063

Pale fire
The Tin Drum
Satantango
The Idiot
Brideshead Revisited

>> No.8398073

>>8397785
Since its mostly still in print for Burton's prose style, most people generally peck at the sections at random just to get a taste at what's acclaimed to be the height of English style. However, Burton composes the structure of the Anatomy with a rhetorical intricacy that rivals and strengthens the prose style. The rhetorical structure is understood the easiest reading everything in order, but if you're in it for the >prose, don't feel shy about just flipping through it

>> No.8398095

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lolita
Gone With the Wind
Brave New World
Swann's Way (haven't finished ISoLT yet)

>> No.8398123

metro 2033
metro 2034
world war z
ender's game
Stalingrad

>> No.8398156

dont just post your shit. Judge and post.

>> No.8398199

Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo

Paradiso - Jose Lezama Lima

The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch

Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan.

Mindfulness - Martin Heidegger

>> No.8398242

>>8397244
You struggle to differentiate uniqueness and profundity.

>>8397151
We'd be splendid friends if you'd only tell Dick to eat chode.

-Ficciones
-Diogenes
-Stories of Ernest Hemingway
-Antigone
-The Call of the Wild

>> No.8398477

>>8398000
Ze memer! xdd
>>8398063
Narcissistic faggot, would befriend /10
>>8398095
''''''avid''''''reader''''''
>>8398123
>metro 2035 just came out
you didn't hear this from me kid
>>8398156
your shit
>>8398199
lindos libros senhor taquito, buen gusto de salceo
>>8398242
>Antigone
>Not the eternal trilogy of Sophocles
You must not like a complete story
Are you by any chance a jester

>> No.8398547

Invisible Cities - Calvino
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
A Scanner Darkly - Dick
Childhood's End - Clarke
Steppenwolf - Hesse

>> No.8398559

>>8398477
No jest here, no sirree.

I prefer Antigone much over the Oedipodes, and I ain't using two slots on the others.

>> No.8398572

>>8398559
>He doesn't want to fuck his mom after killing his dad
>He doesn't want to fuck his mom
I think you are also gay

>> No.8398622

>>8397118
Can you read / speak spanish?

>> No.8398628

>>8398622
Yes, why?

>> No.8398629

>>8398063
Wants to be futilely desired (same tho)

Ulysses
Under the Volcano
The Tunnel
Gravity's Rainbow
Moby Dick

>> No.8398634

>>8398629
Sábato is so good. I hope you've read his longer works too.

>> No.8398643

>>8398628
Onetti is just a surprise, don't often see him mentioned here.

>> No.8398659

>>8398643
I've started referring to his works by their English translations because I suspect this board's tastes are far more Anglo -centric than we'd like to admit. As such, Onetti is one of those great writers which transcends languages and borders (indeed, I'm almost convinced that was his plan throughout his oeuvre), and I don't hesitate to include him in my list of favourite authors, whether it be all-time or restricting myself to the mid-(30's to 80's)-twentieth century.

>> No.8398661

>>8397701
A classicist, a true gentleman, a man of letters.

>>8398095
You are either in high school, or just like the idea of reading instead of actually reading.

The Sound and the fury
Oficio de difuntos (Uslar Pietri)
Romancero gitano (Garcia Lorca)
Light in August
Futbol a sol y sombra (Galeano)

>> No.8398663

I Claudius
Hells Angels: A strange and Terrible saga
Generation kill
The Decline and fall of the Roman empire
Karate-do my way of life

>> No.8398667

>>8398634
Ah, I meant the book by Gass. I do want to read Sàbato though

>> No.8398671

>>8398123
Slavboo

>> No.8398683

Of Human Bondage
The Sun Also Rises
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Qur'an
The Wretched of the Earth

>> No.8398685

>>8398667
That was the joke.

Ha ha

>> No.8398692

>>8397734
No love for Claudius the god? What gives?

>> No.8398712

>>8398547
You like bestiality deep in your heart
>>8398629
The sentiment of questing arouses you
>>8398661
You've always fear to mistake your family for a taco and eat them
>>8398663
You just wanted to be a good legate for your VII regiment
>>8398683
Asalama ding dong to you too

>> No.8398729

The Recognitions
Moby Dick
Philosophical Investigations
The Brothers Karamazov
The Sickness Unto Death

>> No.8398731

>>8398547
Childhood's End is a creepy ass book. Good taste m8.

>> No.8398740

Stoner
House of Leaves
Confusions of Young Törless
Crying of Lot 49
Lolita

>> No.8398745

>>8398547
Sharp eye, blunt soul. Curiosity motivated by suspecting the world harbors a hidden secret.

>> No.8398747

The Twelve Chairs
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Women and Appletrees
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

>> No.8398752

Foundation (Asimov)
Ghosts of Onyx (Eric Nylund)
The Shadow War Chronicles (Chris Claremont [technically George Lucas too, but he really didn't have a lot of writing in there, he's more credited for the creation of the book])
The Stand
The Dark Tower Series (I shouldn't have to list the author of these two)
The Sexual Revolution (Wilhelm Reich)
Fight Club (Palahniuk, man I hope I spelled that right)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)

>> No.8398755

>As I Lay Dying
>Stoner
>Moby Dick
>Lolita
>Cakes and Ale

>> No.8398759

>>8398752
You struggle to follow simple directions
You probably don't think episodes 1-3 are shit
You may be rusing

>> No.8398763

>>8398661
Revolutionary spirit counterbalanced (and sometimes undermined) by painstaking attention to detail. Troubled religious feelings thinly safeguarded by latent romanticism.

>> No.8398765

>>8398199
Not a burger
Actually reads books
You once grew a mustache but you hated how it looked, and now stay clean shaven no matter what

>> No.8398766

>Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt
>Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"
>Slammed In The Butthole By My Concept Of Linear Time
>Pounded By The Pound: Turned Gay By The Socioeconomic Implications Of Britain Leaving The European Union
>Dubliners

>> No.8398767

>>8398000
Wounded extrovert.

>> No.8398772

>>8398759

#1. Wrong.
#2. WRONG. Also, they really fucked up Star Wars, there was a perfectly good trilogy of books that were set up after 6 but no dice. Also, fuck you for thinking that because I even dare mention the name of George Loser that you think I actually like that bastard. I bet you don't even know what the Shadow War Chronicles are.
#3. Wrong.

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>>8396824
The Waves - Woolf
Finnegans Wake - Joyce
The Hellbound Heart - Barker
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and other American Stories - Thompson
Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard

>> No.8398780

>>8398775

You like the first Matrix film.

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>>8398766
kek

>> No.8398793

City of saints and madmen
million little pieces
the bible
the giver
Dantes inferno

>> No.8398800

>>8398793

AA/NA member.

>> No.8398805

>>8398793
Sentimental debauchee. Has potential.

>> No.8398815

Cannery Row
The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Lord of the Flies
The House of the Scorpion
The Wasp Factory

>> No.8398828

>>8398775
Imagination like a house of mirrors overstuffed with domestic appliances. Very talkative. Changes his mind in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of a task.

>> No.8398831

>>8398815
you are a child

>> No.8398835

>>8397244
Apocalyptic fever-dreamer, but drinks cheap beer.

>> No.8398839
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>>8396824

Dubliners by Jimmy Joy boy

Metamorphosis By Frank Zappa

House on the Borderland William Hope Hogson

Master and Margarita by Mikhail Gorbachev

Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Radbury

>> No.8398841

>>8398831
Fair, I suppose, though not true.

>> No.8398849

East of Eden
A Portrait of the Artist
The Great Gatsby
Light Years
Oryx & Crake

>> No.8398861

>>8396824
The Trial
Invisible Cities
Don Quixote
Ficciones
Notes From The Underground

>> No.8398863

>>8398815
Drawn to nature and its ability to reorganize values. Can't pitch a tent.

>> No.8398865

Silas Marner
Book of the New Sun
I, Claudius
Notes from Underground
Red Sorghum Clan

>> No.8398878

>>8398849
>Fabulist given to bouts of spurious optimism seeks she-wolf, or sphinx, dressed in a golden fleece.
You are strangely delighted by the fact you can't see what's behind you until maybe it's too late.

>> No.8398918

>>8398755

You like My Chemical Romance. Not that that's a bad thing, but you were/are definitely goth/emo at one point in your lifetime.

>> No.8398925

>>8398861

I think you are a sociologist.

>> No.8398942

>>8398925
nah, but probably in some armchair sense. A few more slots and I probably would have included Mythologies.

>> No.8398957

The Hour of the Star, Lispector
The Passion, Winterson
The Age of Innocence, Wharton
The Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne
The Trouble with Being Born, Cioran

>> No.8398982

Gravity's Rainbow
Breakfast of Champions
Waiting for Godot
The Trial
Naked Lunch

>> No.8399058

>>8397023

Quiet and reserved.

Socially awkward.

"I'm smart but grades don't tell the whole story."

Either obsessive compulsive or just a neat freak.

You collect books but you have only read 10% of them.

How did I do?

>> No.8399158

The Cannibal
J R
The Recognitions
Agapē Agape
Finnegans Wake

>> No.8399162

various kerouac
various gertrude stein
travels with charley
great expectations
lit by mary karr

>> No.8399188

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Cortázar's short stories
Gravity's Rainbow
Froth on the Daydream
In Watermelon Sugar

>> No.8399218

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Breakfast of Champions
A Clockwork Orange
Myth of Sysiphus

>> No.8399222

Yu Hua - To Live
August Strindberg - Inferno
Maksim Gorkij's autobiographical trilogy (My Childhood, In the World, My Universities)
Sigrid Undset - The Wreath
Franz Kafka - The Judgement.

>> No.8399223

>>8399162
You wish you were Rory Gilmore.

>> No.8399229

>>8396824

Mein Kampf
Blood Meridian
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
King Leopolds Ghost
The Killing Star

>> No.8399280

>>8398835
damn accurate! thx anon

>> No.8399326
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Beyond Good and Evil
The World as Will and Representation
Faust
Peer Gynt
Beowulf

>>8399158

You took /lit/ seriously. Perhaps, like most of us, you were criminally unread and wanted a few prestigious titles in your repertoire. This is not a bad thing in itself: sometimes it is better to jump in the deep end, sink or swim. However, if you neither understand nor appreciate the books you have listed, you will nonetheless continue to fool everyone - save yourself.

>>8399229

You took /pol/ seriously. Perhaps, like most of /pol/, you were some sort of Far-Left anti-theist in your teenage years. Upon reaching your 20s however, something may have given you pause for thought. Perhaps, the conservatives are not all bad after all? Maybe there is something worth conserving, fighting for?

Unfortunately, and naturally, you have gone from your metaphorically Hegelian thesis to a reactionary antithesis. In time, you may yet reach your synthesis.

Read Nietzsche.

>>8399222

A daydreamer, but with visions of grandeur. Though you may look to the stars, you hold a certain loathing for the gutter and all that joins you in it.

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gravity's rainbow
been down so long it looks like up to me
valis
don quixote
sot-weed factor

>>8399188
my man

>> No.8399403

the white tiger
ubik
siddhartha
against nature
philosophy in the bedroom

>> No.8399424

>>8399326
If anything, you're taking yourself too seriously by poo posting this.

>> No.8399428

>>8396824
Pycho-Cybernetics (Maltz)
The Richest Man in Babylon
The Bible
Beautiful Creatures
Temple of the Antichrist (Fabio Delico)

Fuck me up senpai

>> No.8399444

>>8399218
non-reader
>>8398982
edgy undergrad
>>8396911
>>8397130
>>8397957
wonders why girls don't like them

>> No.8399539

>>8399188
What Cortázar stories? Wasn't too taken with his first collection

>> No.8399544

>>8399326
Incredibly generous and helpful post.

>> No.8399547

>>8399544

Which one were you that he responded to?

>> No.8399552

>>8396824
Moby Dick
Ada, or Ardor
Franny and Zooey
The Waves
Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable

>> No.8399553

>>8399547
None of them.

>> No.8399560

Growth of the Soil - Hamsun
The Guermantes Way - Proust
Gormenghast - Peake
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabo
Herzog - Bellow

>> No.8399565

>>8399326
Autism: the list

>> No.8399569

>>8399565

It's one of the few original lists ITT. Most of them are just /lit/ tropes.

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>>8396824
Chuang Tzu
Epictetus: The Discourses
KJV Bible
Technological Slavery
Nausea

>> No.8399578

>>8399569
Just because it's "original" doesn't mean it's good. Even then, I'm sure he threw Beyond Good and Evil and The World as Will and Representation in for the sake of a (You).

>> No.8399579

The Gambler - Dostoevsky
LOTR - Tolkien
Lolita -Nabokov
1984 - Orwell
J'irai cracher sur vos tombes - Vian

>> No.8399582

>>8399576
Fuck. I forgot Augustus. Maybe that one instead of Nausea. Nausea is pretty underrated though and not just babby's first existential crisis.

>> No.8399584

>>8399578

2 philosophy and 3 fiction. Sounds good to me. /lit/ focuses too heavily on fiction at times, for my liking anyway. Good to have a balance.

>> No.8399587

Asturias' Mulata
Nabokov's Lolita
Milton's Paradise Lost
Orwell's Animal Farm
Murakami's 1Q84

>>8399368
You're desperate for adventure.

>> No.8399597

>>8399587

You don't trust the state, perhaps because you harbour some unorthodox desires and taboos, but ultimately you just want to be comfy.

>> No.8399603

>>8399584
No that's not what I'm saying; I'm saying he (or she, but who are we kidding) likely only included them because of the recognition they would receive because of it.

Here, I can give five books I've read that likely won't be found together anywhere else on this thread:
Phenomenlology of Spirit
The World as Will and Representation
Being and Time
Critique of Pure Reason
Dissemination

Now the reason they won't be found is this: only an autist or a liar would say those are their favorite works.

>> No.8399611

>>8399597
Can't deny it.

Mulata is not an anti-establishment book though. Most of Asturias isn't, it's just that The President was so strong, it kinda became his A Clockwork Orange.

It's a fantastic, surrealist, highly descriptive, amazingly prosaic story about magic and gods and shit, with what I would say is the best use of language in history. Do check it out.

>> No.8399614

>>8399603

Look, mom! I'm projecting!

>Now the reason they won't be found is this: only an autist or a liar would say those are their favorite works.

Or that all 5 books are authored by wildly differing philosopher, some of whom are directly opposed to each other. If you have a favourite philosophical work, chances are you will subscribe to all (or most) of the work in question.

A Schopenhauerian isn't going to like anything by Hegel, and vice versa. Etc.

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>>8399587
>You're desperate for adventure.
yep, pretty much.

>> No.8399632

>>8399603
The most try-hard armchair philosopher's list I ever saw.

>> No.8399641

>>8399569m
The fuck is original about it. Everyone has read these here. Early on

>> No.8399642

>>8399539
End of the Game and Bestiary collections are personal favourites, I guess

>> No.8399647

>>8399560
Is Proust's work other than ISOLT quite good?

>> No.8399651

The Iliad
Three Theban Plays
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment

>> No.8399653

>>8399641

>Everyone has read The World as Will and Representation early on

Ha.

>> No.8399665

>>8399653
>'hauer
>not a /lit/ staple
Kill yourself back to >>>/r/eddit

>> No.8399672

>>8399653
If you don't read the unabridged version in German, then you are a pleb.

>> No.8399791

>>8399647
The Guermantes Way is volume three of ISOLT. OP asked for favorite books, not favorite novels, so I chose my favorite volume. The only other work by Proust I know of is a novella called The Lemoine Affair, but I haven't read it.

>> No.8399796

>>8398839
you're silly and overtly sexual, you might also be bisexual

>> No.8399801

>>8398780
I do, not in my top 5 though.

>>8398828
I do love mirrors, rarely talk but if I'm interested in the topic then I won't shut up.

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>>8399603
As someone who loves philosophy, I like your list.

They're not my favorite books, but there's no reason they couldn't be someone's favorites. Different people read for different reasons.

Even then, posting a list solely for recognition isn't autistic it's attention seeking. Autism is basically the opposite behavior.

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The Odyssey
The Old Man and the Sea
East of Eden
Power and the Glory
Childhood's End

>> No.8399869

>>8399814
>posting a list solely for recognition isn't autistic it's attention seeking. Autism is basically the opposite behavior.
I don't agree with this. Autists can still seek attention (Approval), they just do so in less socially nuanced ways.

>> No.8399877

Home of the Gentry
The Brothers Karamazov
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
After Virtue
On Certainty

>> No.8399896

siddhartha
les miserables
moby dick
new testament
the wind up bird chronicle

>>8399651
You're very sincere and don't overthink things

>>8399838
You either really like or really don't like America

>> No.8399931

>>8399896

What are your favorite and least favorite books of the NT?

>> No.8399947

>>8399931
Not same poster but John is pretty top tier and I also like Acts.

>> No.8399956

>>8399947
Revelation least favourite. Just seems like an acid trip and a totally unnecessary volume that only diminishes the bible's credibility.

On a side note, reading the Greek is pretty fun and not as hard as you would think. You can become reasonably fluent in a few hours.

>> No.8399961

>Notes from the Underground
>The Birth of Tragedy
>Oedipus King
>The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway
>Norwegian Wood

>> No.8399965

>>8396824
Riddley Walker
Deliverance
Dancing Bear
Black Money
Child of God

>> No.8399971

Stoner
The Trial
Kokoro
Lolita
Infinite Jest

>> No.8400027

notes from underground
lolita
meditations of aurelius
montaigne's essays
flowers for algernon

>> No.8400030

>>8399971
you're too invested in /lit/ and the idea of a literary life

>> No.8400041

Ecce Homo
The Histories
Notes from the Underground
God Emperor of Dune
Brave New World

>> No.8400065

>>8399971
/lit/ starter kit, the list

>>8400027
Depressed person sublimating their anguish into an artistic and philosophical form, in an attempt to escape from the prison of their emotion through an appeal to aesthetic fundamental truths and principles. Recommendations: Epictetus, Taoists, Buddhists.

>> No.8400069

The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion I'm just counting as one
The Count of Monte Cristo
Childhood's End

Those are the only ones I can really call my favorites since I can reread them endlessly. I really like the Sharpe series and the Saxon Tales but when I try to reread them I get bored.

>> No.8400077

Too many list posters and not enough reviews in this thread. I've tried to review the ones I actually know about. Come on guys, make an effort.

>> No.8400078

>>8400065
>Taoists, Buddhists
Not him, but speaking of which, would you say Thomas Cleary and Bhikkhu Bodhi the best western sources for each one respectively?

>> No.8400080

>>8398477
i knew it was out im just waiting for translation

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>>8400078
I don't read western sources but I own multiple translations of each core work. Eastern mysticism is to be understood and interpreted on the very personal level of each individual, it can't be prescribed and consumed as the more commodified western philosophical traditions. Your Thomas Cleary, Alan Watts etc. are a nice low-effort introduction to the concepts, as long as you don't become attached to their particular perspective as being some objective authority on the matter. You can ask for directions but it's your own journey and your own path to tread.

>> No.8400139

>>8400115
But Thomas Cleary and Bhikkhu Bodhi ARE mainly translators. Yeah, they've released some introductory books, but Cleary has translated the I Ching, the Golden Flower, the Avatamsaka Sutra, Chang Po Tuan's Wuzhen Pian, and Liu I Ming's Wuzhen Zhizhi. And Bhikkhu Bodhi has translated... I believe 4 out of the 5 Nikayas, that is, the Buddha discourses. Though of course, I originally knew him due to his introductory Noble Eightfold Path book.

That's why I got interested in them (and pirated their shit ages ago) - because they appear to be objective authorities, as they're mainly modern language translators of taoist and buddhist essentials.

But of course, maybe I'm wrong about them being objective authorities, so that's why I was asking.

>> No.8400404

>>8400139
>objective authorities
The Tao that can be named is not the Tao. To believe that there is some correct interpretation is to miss the point, that's why I cautioned against it.

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>>8399896
I just want it to be better

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The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Dead Souls by Gogol
The Iliad by Homer

>> No.8400531

>>8400065
i'm unemotional and the least depressed person you can meet. i like art and philosophy you got that right, but not in an edgy way ooohhh ahhhh van gogh pretend my dick is your ear and cut it oooh turns me on. i just find it appealing

>taoists
i was so close to putting tao te chingchong kek
>epictetus
good guy but too much struggling involved

gg friend

>> No.8401193

>>8400494
sexually frightened memelord

>> No.8401333

Germinal
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Moby Dick
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Les Onze Mille Verges

>> No.8401416

Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
Watership Down (Adams)
Blindsight (Watts)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Egyptian (Waltari)

Last one was kind of hard since there's a huge pile to pick from, first 4 were easy to name.

>> No.8401439

>>8397620

Relaxed person.

You have a regular pub you go to occasionally instead of trying to find and explore new places in the weekends.

>> No.8401564

hi /lit/, do you want rate my taste?

Solaris (S. Lem)
Pale fire (V. Nabokov)
Doktor Faustus (T. Mann)
Decameron (G. Boccaccio)
Savonarola (N. Lenau)

>> No.8401589

>>8399632
That was exactly the point. That was the point of my entire post...

>> No.8401594

>>8399614
>You can't have 5 different books that are vastly different from each other in the same list.
What am I reading?

>> No.8401606

>>8401564
> Doktor Faustus, Pale Fire
Good shit

>> No.8401611

>>8401606
what do you mean by this?

>> No.8401629

Grande Sertão: Veredas (João Guimarães Rosa)
O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo (José Saramago)
Poesia Completa (Álvaro de Campos/Fernando Pessoa)
The Revolution of Everyday Life (Raoul Vaneigem)
Metaphors We Live (George Lakoff)

>> No.8401873

BEEP BEEP PLEB COMING THROUGH

Blood Meridian
The Lord of the Rings
Brave New World
The Book of the New Sun (4 novels, but whatever)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>> No.8401931

Admitted pleb here.

>Waiting for Godot
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Travels with Charley
>Death of a Salesman
>The Aeneid
>Augustine's Confessions
>Suso's Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

>> No.8401938

Catch-22
Blood Meridian
The Divine Comedy
Ubik
The Silmarilian

>> No.8402003 [DELETED] 

>>8396824

Don't have any fiction ones but okay

>Enquiry concerning human understanding
>After Virtue
>The Concept of Mind
>The Constitution of Liberty
>Reflections on the Revolution in France

>> No.8402340

>>8396952
good taste

>> No.8402365

>>8397828
lower middle class white male

>> No.8402370

>>8398729
you wish you were religious and feel like a fraud sometimes

>> No.8402394

>>8401931
You've failed at least one math course

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Suttree - McCarthy
Italian Journey - Goethe
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
The Collected Poems of John Gould Fletcher
Pseudodoxia Epidemica - Thomas Browne

>> No.8402408

>>8402394
lel

>> No.8402428

VALIS
Brave New World
King Lear
Lord Jim
Tao te Ching

>> No.8402431

>>8398767
Yes,
I didn't know until you said it
but yes

>> No.8402434

>>8401938
you consider yourself a fan of Star Wars.

>> No.8402908

>>8396911
>>8396922
>>8396955
>>8397000
>>8397099
>>8397211
>>8397244
>>8397277
>>8397399
>>8397677
>>8397699
>>8397766
>>8397933
>>8398000
>>8398022
>>8398199
>>8398477
>>8398622
>>8398755
>>8398766
>>8398800
>>8399188
>>8399222
>>8399444
>>8399544
>>8399611
>>8399877
>>8400077
>>8401333
>>8401611
Holy digits this thread

>> No.8403262

>>8399869
I think memeing for approval is more subconscious though, millions of non-autistic people meme all the time. It's a cultural artifact, like certain clothing styles, in these cases though I'd say it's mostly used ironically to say, "look, I'm in on the joke." which is basically the core of memes

>> No.8403274

American Psycho
Brave New World
1984
A Clockwork Orange
Catch-22

>> No.8403329

Blood Meridian
Catch-22
Inherent Vice
Heart of Darkness
Ulysses

>> No.8403337

The Dogs of March
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Frankenstein
Blood Meridian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.8403379

Under the Volcano
Portrait of the Artist
The Aeneid
Moby Dick
Hamlet

Looking back I feel like it's incredibly generic, at least for this board...

>> No.8403389

>>8399956
>reasonably fluent in a few hours
What the fuck
I know very little about ancient languages but how would this be possible with any language at all?

>> No.8403431

>>8396824
Slaughterhouse 5
Brave new world
Crime and punishment
1984
Fahrenheit 451

>> No.8403541

>>8398683
ummm you have a very twisted sexuality? I mean, with of human bondage and the qur'an and hemingway and all...

>> No.8403547

The Debasement of Greigory Shaksovych
Pallet Moon
Sumner and He
The Ostrovia
Lattices to Diving and other Short Stories

>> No.8403550

The Aleph - Borges
Cosmos - Gombrowicz
Grande Sertão: Veredas - Rosa
The Brothers Karamázov - Dostoiesvki
To the Lighthouse - Woolf

>> No.8403561

>>8403329
you love to talk shit with mates for hours on end whilst binge drinking and chain smoking (and possibly drugs). Kind of wish you would be taken seriously more often in a different social context but this would be contradictory to the person you project. Or maybe i'm somewhat projecting.

Stoner
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Fiesta: the sun also rises
Infinite jest
Descartes meditations (a favourite mostly because its what got me into philosophy recently and its really fun to read)

>> No.8403577

Ulysses
2666
Orlando
Light in August
Herzog

>> No.8403581

>>8397195
Still feels like he's on the cusp of being a true patrician but feels far more well read than everyone he knows his age

>> No.8403635

Heart of Darkness
Moby Dick
Blood Meridian
The Stranger
Gulliver's Travels

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>>8403389
The letters take a lot less effort than you would think. Also, with a /lit/ level vocabulary, you should already be able to determine many of the Greek words due to English words which derive from them. Give it a go. :)

>> No.8403878

>>8403818
Or maybe you just have savant-tier language acquisition

>> No.8403894

War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Eyeless in Gaza (Huxley)
Time Enough for Love (Heinlein)
The Once and Future King (White)
Siddhartha (Hesse)

>> No.8403905

>>8396824
Jurassic Park
Alien
Crows & Cards
Fable Haven
Of Mice and Men

>> No.8403923

>>8402406

What do you like about The Idiot so much?

>> No.8404331

Ficciones
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
Notes from Underground
Myth of Sisyphus

>> No.8404352

>>8403923
How polite everyone was about Mishkin's stupid handwriting shit. He's basically a cooler Steve Wozniak.

>> No.8404369

>>8397197
Searching for meaning in life, but has failed and is thus moving towards eastern mysticism.

>> No.8404391

Book of the New Sun
Stoner
The Brothers Karamazov
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Chekov Short Stories
Gogol Short Stories
Silence by Shusaku Endo

Hard to keep it down to just 5.
>>8404331
Is 18 years old
>>8401873
Is a pleb
>>8401629
Is Spanish

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>>8404331

>> No.8404402

>>8404391
Pycня.

>> No.8404425

>>8404402
Nah. Slav, but can't even read that.

>> No.8404636

The Fall
The General of the Dead Army
The Tin Drum
Oblomov
Heart of a Dog

>> No.8404660

Darth Bane
Don Quixote
Starting Strength
Self Reliance
The Boys on the Tracks

>> No.8405028

>>8404660
Hopelessly Idealistic, striving for purity. Has an unhealthy addiction to caffeine.

Meditations (Aurelius)
Junky (Burroughs)
Walden (Thoreau)
The world of yesterday (Zweig)
The Holocaust Industry (Finkelstein)
Maybe some Lima Barreto too.

>> No.8405097

>>8404391
Only has read 7 books and is trying to show off

>> No.8405130

Ulysses
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Moby Dick

Can't pick a fifth which could stand together with those 4.

>> No.8405143

>>8405028
What the fuck, m8.

I literally had an appointment with my cardiologist because I was drinking so much coffee that it was fucking up my heart. On top of that I am overly idealistic.

How did you derive this from my post? Good vague guesses? I'm surprised that you're not saying anything about typically shit taste

My guess on you us that you enjoy documentaries/investigation videos. In addition to this you put value on the path a book leads you down instead of the prose or actual plot.

You think serious literature is over-rated because philosophical thinking can be learned intrinsically-whereas cultural exposure cannot.

>>8405130
I would just add one that was good for getting your feet wet

>> No.8405144

>>8405143
>I would just add one that was good for getting your feet wet
What?

>> No.8405150

>>8405144
I book that brought you into a medium/field. E.g.
How to Win Friends and Influence People

>> No.8405154

>>8396824
Spring Snow
Norwegian Wood
The Hobbit
Things Fall Apart
Battle Royale

>> No.8405155

>>8405150
Excuse me for not having hipster taste, fucktard.

>> No.8405164

>>8404425
I think they're trying to say Russia but have a tic where they speak like an anime cat girl.

>> No.8405173

Bohemian lights, naked lunch, somebody flew over the cuckoo's nest, under the sign of the fifth sun, on the road

>> No.8405178

>>8405155
I'm just saying that if you can't find one that fits with the merit of pure quality, then add one from the standard that you deem most noble.

It's not a hipster thing. Just a choice of personal taste.

What do you consider important in a book? (Penetration of an idea to an audience, expansion of thought for one particular person, introduction to a medium, enjoyment from the story itself, the model it represents)

>> No.8405186

>>8405178
It's hard to describe, I'd say it's the experience it gives me. Nothing trumps Ulysses, checking out the locations on the Dublin map, checking for references and analyzing things, also just the overall things that happened, it's my favorite book hands down.
Other 3 also have a special meaning for me, because I value experiences the most.

>> No.8405368

>>8405143
>How did you derive this from my post?

Your book selection says a lot about you m8. I'd also guess that you're overcoming (or trying to) self image and self esteem issues. Also, I wouldn't call you a pleb because I'm not impersonating a /lit/ cretin.

About your analysis, you're right about my preference towards documentaries. In fact, I'm coming up with an idea for a documentary/screenplay right now. I'm also guilty of downplaying the importance of a plot, and your last paragraph was spot on as well, how did you infer that?

>> No.8405392
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8405392

>2666
>book of disquiet
>ficciones
>the trial
>rayuela

>> No.8405398

>>8405368
I had them at one point, but that was a few years ago.

Same deal as mine.

If I was reading those books (I've read similar ones) it would be because that was my belief.


What did you think of TWoT?

Did you endure emotional/physical abuse or serious ttials at any point in your life and did it affect your appreciation for Egwene's, Rand's, or Cadsuane's growth/characters?

>> No.8405698

Mistborn: The Final Empire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Fool's Assassin
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Lord of the Rings

>> No.8405716

>>8405392
did you read rayuela in translation?

>> No.8405744

>>8405716
no