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simply list your top 3 novels

>> No.8488401

>>8488397
BK
DQ
MD

>> No.8488426

>>8488401
? can you elaborate?

>> No.8488471

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
The Stranger

>> No.8488476

>>8488426
Don Quixote, Moby Dick and Burger King

>> No.8488482

>>8488426
Brothers K
Don Quixote
Moby Dick

>> No.8488483

Moby Dick
Alamut
Book of the New Sun

>> No.8488485

>>8488476
burger king is also an acceptable answer.

>> No.8488494

>>8488483
is Moby Dick good....doesn't he spend alot of time just talking about whaling industry and not even doing any narrative?

>> No.8488499

The Sound and the Fury
Moby Dick
East of Eden

>> No.8488503

>>8488494
its there for a reason u fuckhead

>> No.8488508

>>8488503
but Moby Dick isn't even a story..its just Melville talking about the whaling industry..granted in great detail...but there is no plot

>> No.8488515

A farewell to arms
Invisible monsters
The hobbit

>> No.8488516

>>8488508
There is indeed a plot, have you read it?

>> No.8488519

>>8488508
It's like 2 chapters if that bro

>> No.8488520

moby dick
the leopard
ficciones

>> No.8488521

>>8488508
yeah definitely absolutely nothing about the human condition in moby dick. huge waste of time. fuck whales.

>> No.8488522

Ada or Ardor
Gravity's Rainbow
In search of Lost Time

>> No.8488525

i>>8488516

I mean do literary critics even consider Moby Dick to be one of the great novels of the english language?

>> No.8488529

>>8488508
>but there is no plot

there is a plot
unfortunately that plot only takes up probably less than 100 pages in a 600 page book

>> No.8488540

>>8488494
each time i read moby dick i get something completely different out of it and i still get the sense of "wow" you get after finishing a good book. yes its good.

>> No.8488545

>>8488529
why do many consider a great american novel then?

>> No.8488549

>>8488525
what does it matter what literary critics think? aside from the general suggestion of the book, just deciding for myself was enough. The writing above all else struck me as genius, I liked to take Melville seriously when he says in the book not to take it as an allegory and just try to erase analysis from my mind. It was worth it.

>> No.8488553

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Gravity's Rainbow
The Tartar Steppe

No particular order.

>> No.8488562

>>8488508
Your argument is like saying huck finn is just about the tom sawyer

>> No.8488577

>>8488562
my problem is that alot of Moby Dick seems to be ripped off from Ulysses

>> No.8488579

>>8488397
>ITT: people triggered by some lvl 1 Moby Dick troll

>> No.8488587

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.8488591

lets just make a 2016 list already

>> No.8488594

>>8488499
but those r all american books

>> No.8488603

>>8488522
>In search of Lost Time
You actually read that fucking thing ?

>> No.8488604

>>8488545
A lot of people enjoy his ramblings, he has a fun style, very conversational and humorous at times but quite poetic at others. I enjoy the odd moments in the book, like the Cook's sermon to the Sharks or when they come upon a giant squid and are disturbed by the sight of it.

>> No.8488608

>>8488604
Or the infamous squeeze of the hand, no one can say that melville didn't have a sense of humor as well as a touch o' the homo

>> No.8488618

>>8488604
Your description of it makes it sound exactly like Gravity's Rainbow.

>> No.8488623

>>8488591
This. Maybe we sold wait another month or two.

But to op
Oblomov
The Karamazov brothers
Anna Karenina

All avsey translations of course.

>> No.8488626

Dhalgren

Dhalgren

Dhalgren

>> No.8488631

Madame Bovary
Der Prozess
Die Ringe des Saturn

>> No.8488731

>>8488631
madame bovary is great

>> No.8488749

Crime & Punishment
Blood Meridian
Mao ll

>> No.8488768

>>8488749
Mao 2 huh?

>> No.8488780

Watership Down
Ada
Anna Karenina

>> No.8488784

>Mrs. Dalloway
>Crime & Punishment
>Stoner

>> No.8488790

>>8488577
Than why didn't you say thay rather than arguing the one chapter about whaling?

>> No.8488792

>>8488587
The name drop is real

>> No.8488859

1984
Farenheit 451
Cave and the light

>> No.8488867

>>8488859
Farenheit 451 is amazing

>> No.8488870

>>8488731
I hated it. There's basically no plot, and the main character is so stupid I couldn't identify myself with her.

>> No.8488872

>>8488790
Cetology*

>> No.8488876

>>8488859
Are you excited to be starting high school?

>> No.8488880

>>8488397

Don Quixote
Super K Bros
Ulysses

>> No.8488881

>>8488876
I'm actually very excited to be starting on my last couple quarters of college.

>> No.8488882

Against Nature
Madame Bovary
Dead Souls

>> No.8488885

>>8488397
Suttree
Manhattan Transfer
The Confidence-Man

>> No.8488891

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Secret History

>> No.8488968

>>8488476
>>8488482
Could be Mason and Dixon

>> No.8488975

Atlas Shrugged
The Tartar Steppe
Anna Karenina

>> No.8488977

>>8488397
>Cetology
>>8488397
The End of the Road
The Sot-Weed Factor
Pale Fire

>> No.8488986

>>8488975
atlas shrugged

what?

>> No.8488996 [DELETED] 

>>8488986
Living in a hell-hole wartorn border city, trying to rise up from where I am by myself, looking for love.
Those books are touching my life from some points, thats why their my top 3, for now.

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8489001

>>8488977
>sot-weed factor
disgusting

>> No.8489006

Tinker Pan
The Tainted Turd
Behead All Satans

>> No.8489014

>>8488577
Are you a fucking idiot

>> No.8489018

>>8489014
he might be?...*reads what he said*

yep, he's an idiot

>> No.8489023

>>8489006
i love Tinker Pan

>> No.8489162

>>8489023
great

>> No.8489445

The Twelve Chairs
Women and Appletrees
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland

>> No.8489448

Ein Mann will nach Oben, Der Zauberberg, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

>> No.8489503

flowers for alrgernon
notes from underground
infinite rainbows

>> No.8489529

>Atlas Shrugged
>The Fountainhead
>The God Delusion

>> No.8489531

>>8488397
Gravity's Rainbow
Finnegans Wake
Beckett's Trilogy

>> No.8489784

The Magic Mountain
The Red and the Black
A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.8489803

>>8488768
Mao ll.

>> No.8489815

>>8488870
You're not supposed to identify with her, and I don't know why it should be relevant anyway.

And of course there's plot, what book did you read? Writing without a plot is not an option for XIX century literature -at least up to 1857.

>> No.8489825

>>8488870
>I couldn't identify myself with her.
biggest pleb red flag ever

>> No.8489826

A Confederacy of Dunces
-
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>> No.8489830
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8489830

Fignigs Wack
Youlistless
Biblel

>> No.8489831

>>8488397
Moby Dick
Martin Eden
Lolita

>> No.8490933

>>8489831
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake

>> No.8491013

The Emigrants
The Master of Go
Murphy

>> No.8491326

Crime and Punishment
The Master and Margarita
2666

>> No.8491335

East of Eden
Brothers K
Bible

>> No.8491382

>>8488401
>burger king
>dairy queen
>mcdonald's
the meme trilogy of fast food??

>> No.8491387

>>8488397
The sound of the mountain
Infinite Jest
Tau Zero

>> No.8491411

>>8488397
1:Perks of Being a Wallflower
2:The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3:Leaves of Grass

>> No.8491416

Moby-Dick or The Whale
Heart of Darkness
Paradise Lost

Read once, but almost in top 3: Blood Meridian, Portrait of the Artist, The Waves
>>8488483
Whoa! Alamut eh? I've wanted to read that since I heard Burroughs talk about it.

>> No.8491564

>>8489830

>she will never be able to discourse on Yeats and Joyce and the relationships between them

Why must beauty in form and beauty and mind be divorced!

>> No.8491569

Blood Meridien
As I Lay Dying
Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.8491607

>>8488397
Nooit meer slapen
The brother Karamazov
The house of the dead

>> No.8491616

>>8491607
Nooit meer slapen is well written, but that's it. The main character was a whiny bitch and reminded me of the main character of Into the Wild.

>> No.8491620

Literally:

Ulysses
Mason & Dixon
Blood Meridian

Come at me, fampaitachi.

>> No.8491640

>>8491616
Did you read it in Dutch, or English?
I personally haven't read Into the Wild, so that might be the case.
However, that is sort of the point of the novel, which is why it is so wrecking for the main character to read the notes at the end seeing that he was so misanthropic throughout the entire story. It wasn't a mere disdain for society from what I suspect Into the Wild is about (if the movie reflect the book correctly at all).

>> No.8491660

the trial
blood meridian
stranger

>> No.8491670

>>8488397
A Rebours
Sentimental Education
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.8491672

Blood Meridian
Moby Dick
Paradise Lost

I feel like I should mention W&P

>> No.8491683

The Divine Comedy
The Stand
House of Leaves

>> No.8491703

The trial
Blood meridian
The pale king

>> No.8491712

The Stranger
The Rebel
The World of Yesterday

>> No.8491723

>>8488397
What's with the Blood Meridian boner on /lit/?

>> No.8491737

Crime & Punishment
The Fountainhead
Ender's Game

>> No.8491739

Blood Meridian
V.
Lolita

>> No.8491743

Siddhartha
The Brothers Karamazov
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>> No.8491764

>>8491723
You serious?

>> No.8491775

One hundred years of solitude
Hedda gabler
The scarlet pimpernel

>> No.8491776

Dream of the Red Chamber
The Tale of Genji
The Neverending Story

>> No.8491784
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8491784

Finnegans awake
Larvae
The Ton Owl

>> No.8491802

Cuando ya no importe
Museo de la novela de la eterna
Hijo de ladrón

>> No.8491966

Watership Down
One flew over the cookoos nest
Oliver Twist

>> No.8491979
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8491979

Lord of the Rings
The Once and Future King
The Children of Hurin

Escapism is beauty.

>> No.8491991

>>8491416
>Heart of Darkness
Muh African descendant

>> No.8492009

Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
Notes from Underground
Heart of Darkness

>> No.8492018

The Recognitions
l'ecume des jours
Ulysses

>> No.8492026

Infinite Jest
Franny and Zooey
Blood Meridian

>> No.8492204

Somtimes a Great Notion

The Gunslinger

Running with Scissors

>> No.8492233

>>8491802
>Cuando ya no importe
Onetti is seriously underrated/under-exposed, both here and in general.

>> No.8492259
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8492259

>>8491382
This is underrated but only because I thought of this too

>> No.8492322

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Narcissus and Goldmund
The Plague

>> No.8492349

The Count of Monte Christo

>> No.8492358

>>8491387
>Infinite Jest
Addiction and recovery.
>Start reading it right now.

>> No.8492567

>>8492322
The Plague is fuckin' based.

>> No.8492577

Moby Dick
The Sound And The Fury
East of Eden

not even Murrican

>> No.8492594

And the Ass Saw the Angel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Sound and the Fury

>> No.8492595

>>8491979
Elle Fanning is qt

>> No.8492689

Stoner
White Noise
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.8492886

>ctrl+f Finnegans Wake
who are you guys trying to impress? strangers on the internet?

>> No.8492955

>>8492886
Is it so unbelievable to you that people like it and aren't just pretending to?

>> No.8492973

>>8488577
They're both just retellings of the same ancient myth first encountered in Infinite Jest.

>> No.8492981

>>8489815
>Writing without a plot is not an option for XIX century literature -at least up to 1857.
What happened in 1857?

>> No.8492989

Infinite Jest
The Brothers Karamazov
Middlemarch

>> No.8492994

>>8488397
Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
Her - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Provisorium - Wolfgang Hilbig

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8493306

>>8488603
yeah the seven fucking volumes. About fifteen years ago. I should tackle that thing a second time now. It's a pinnacle of the history of literature, period

>> No.8493839

>>8492981
Nothing, it's the year of Madame Bovary. I added that because towards the end of the XIX century there are some books that start disregarding plot, a phenomenon that nevertheless was not half as exploited as it was in the XX century.

>> No.8494255

>>8493306
I hope you didn't read a translation :^)