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>age
>favorite writer
>favorite fiction novel
>favorite nonfiction book

And other anons attempt to discern how much of a faggot you truly are.

>> No.9098174

22
I don't read books

>> No.9098181

>>9098166
22
Tolstoy
War and Peace I guess, I haven't read that much fiction
Reasons and Persons by Parfit

>> No.9098187

>>9098166
>22
>Barth
>Ada
>Godel, Escher, Bach

>> No.9098306

18
Too many. Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dumas to name a few
Candide
The Mediations

>> No.9098312

>>9098306
Meditations*, sorry

>> No.9098319

>>9098306
fuck off, 22 only

>> No.9098332
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9098332

>19
>Dostoyevski
>Fear and loathing in las vegas
>lolita
Rate

>> No.9098341

>>9098319
K

>> No.9098346

21
Alice Munro
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Holy Bible

>> No.9098414

19
F scott fitzy
The stranger
Meditations on First philosophy-Descartes

>> No.9098426
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>>9098166
31
knausgaard
the hobbit
the disaster artist

>> No.9098428

>>9098181
Whenever people say their favourite book is War and Peace I usually assume they inflate their praises of long books, out of (perhaps subconcious(?)) fear of having wasted time. Or maybe you just really liked it. 4/10

>>9098306
This is exactly the kind of answer that most 18 year olds who frequent this board would provide. Keep reading and develop some underground/novel tastes. 4.5/10

>>9098332
I don't like that you're trying to count Fear and Loathing as non-fiction. 6/10

>>9098346
10/10. If I had to guess you probably live in Kentucky

>> No.9098434

>>9098166
>20
>Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
>Georges Perec-Life an user's manual
>Walter Benjamin- The Arcades Project

>> No.9098438

>>9098428
No, I really liked it, I waste time remorselessly

You're not really rating people's tastes, but rather assessing how likely you are to like someone who has the given tastes--is that your intent?

>> No.9098443

>20.
>Tolstoy.
>W&P or Infinite Jest.
>Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I need to read more NF, history and philosophy stuff.

>> No.9098454

>>9098166
22
Plato
Moby-Dick
Bible

>>9098181
>i guess

>>9098187
meme nonfic pick

>>9098306
cringe

>>9098319
niceeee

>>9098332
'just graduated from reddit'-tier

>>9098346
>Bible
nice

>>9098414
awful

>>9098426
awful

>>9098434
awful

>>9098443
awful

>> No.9098459
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9098459

22
James Salter
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen

>> No.9098462

>>9098438
The anecdote I attached was in some cases a critique of taste, in others not, but the ascribed number was an appraisal of taste. Don't conflate the two because the come in the same package

>> No.9098467

>>9098306
>>9098346
>>9098443
>>9098454
Nice

>22
>Shakespeare
>Ulysses
>Bible

>> No.9098475

>>9098462
Oh, so it isn't your intent? You've conflated the two!

>> No.9098484

>>9098428
>People only like thick books because they're pseuds who try to impress people.

Fuck off. Tolstoy is objectively the greatest writer of all time. W&P and AK are universally considered two of (or the two) greatest books ever written. Really long books like W&P can be difficult to see through to the end for anyone, but it deserves all the appreciation it gets.

You have to really want to read any 750+ page literary classic. Even the most avid readers will find some sections of long books a drag to get through.

>> No.9098487

>>9098454
>Bible
>.t victim of fantastic credulity

... brutal

>> No.9098496

>21
>
>Don Quixote
>Iliad

>> No.9098512

>>9098475
The number is an appraisal of taste. I don't see the confusion, Anon, please try to keep up. The corollary anecdote was just that, an anecdote, not a factor/justification for the number

>> No.9098522
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9098522

>20
>Pynchon
>Dharma Bums
>Perceptions of Heaven and Hell

I'm very new to all this

>> No.9098531

>>9098484
>People only like thick books because they're pseuds who try to impress people.
Does this strawman keep away many crows?

>Tolstoy is objectively the greatest writer of all time
You're right, this fact slipped my mind, I rescind my comment

>> No.9098532

>>9098496
>Iliad
patrician nonfic pick

>> No.9098539
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9098539

>22
>Salinger
>Crime and Punishment, I suppose
>Holy Bible

r8

>> No.9098540

>>9098484
>>9098484
bbut its long and has lots of characters

>> No.9098548

>>9098166
>19
>William Faulkner
>The Sound and the Fury
>Does philosophy count? If yes then I would say The Confessions or the consolation of philosophy...though i guess that isnt, by any stretch of the imagination, "non fiction"

>> No.9098550

>>9098484
War and Peace. A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome messages, didactic interludes, artificial coincidences. Uncritical of its historical sources.

>> No.9098552

>>9098548
You sound like a fucking faggot. If I ever saw you in real life, I'd beat your ass.

>> No.9098553

>>9098550
Nabokov says a lot of stupid things in that book, you'll notice

>> No.9098563

>>9098166
>name:OP
>age:12
>Favorite author:Hemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmingway (he's so dreamy he makes my virgin boipvcci wet <3)
>Favorite novel:The old man and the sea
>Favorite nonfiction:Mein Kampf (XDDDDD)

>> No.9098570

>>9098550
Do you think Nabokov liked inhaling his own farts?

>> No.9098577

>>9098552
kek

>> No.9098584

>>9098570
Not as much as Joyce, but probably slightly more than Leo

>> No.9098606

>>9098552
yes but why are you really mad?

>> No.9098626

>>9098166
20
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
The Bible

>> No.9098645

>>9098166
>25
>Virginia Woolf
>Crime and Punishment, Mrs. Dalloway, As I Lay Dying
>Ecclesiastes, The Last Interview with James Baldwin, Autobio of Helen Keller

>> No.9098656

>>9098552
nice try but im not scared of white people. if you even touched me your entire race would crucify you lmao.

>> No.9098660
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9098660

>Bible as nonfiction

Just kys, you're going to hell anyway

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9098665

>>9098656

>> No.9098669

>19
>Alan Moore
>Book of the New Sun
>Hitler's Revolution

>> No.9098717

30
Gaddis
The Recognitions
Naked Lunch

>> No.9098777

>>9098166
>>age
25
>>favorite writer
Terry Prachett
>>favorite fiction novel
A scanner darkly
>>favorite nonfiction book
Lel
>And other anons attempt to discern how much of a faggot you truly are.
I've sucked cock, but I'm most certain,oh not a faggamund.

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>>9098656
Nigga what

>> No.9098798

>26
>Waltari
>The Brothers K
>Uber Gewissheit

>> No.9098807

>20
>Camus
>The Plague
>A History of Philosophy vol 1-11 by Copleston

>> No.9098829

>>9098166
>19
>Tom Wolfe
>Le Petit Prince
>The Hero With a Thousand Faces

>> No.9098852

>24
>JD Salinger, Dostoevsky and Tove Jansson
>Middlemarch
>The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys

>> No.9098853

23
Wallace
The Recognitions
Either Dummit and Foote or Reasons and Persons

>> No.9098859

>34
>Hermes the Thrice
>The Dictionary
>Playboy

>> No.9098870

>>9098853
meme'd

>> No.9098875

>>9098853
no, those are perfectly good choices

>> No.9098881

>18
>Bolano
>Brief History of Seven Killings
>A History of the World in Six Glasses

>> No.9098922

23
DFW
1984
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

>> No.9098948

>>9098166
>age
18
>favorite writer
Joyce (havent read anything of his yet)
>favorite fiction novel
Ulysses
>favorite nonfiction book
Infinite Jest

>> No.9099101

>>9098870
They're mostly nostalgic choices. Each of them inspired some sort of big shift in my thinking. Not really indicative of my recent reading or anything.

>> No.9099681

20
Hemmmingway
Heart of Darkness
On Writing

>> No.9099684

>>9098166
26
Thomas Bernhard
Correction
The Closing of the American Mind

>> No.9099689

>>9098459

Salter is a great choice, what's your favorite work of his?
For me it's Solo Faces, probably.

>> No.9099798

>>9099689
A Sport and a Pastime, tbqh. I know it's a pretty basic choice but it's the first of his I read and it still has that magic for me.

>> No.9099849

>>9098166
24
William Golding
Book of the New Sun
Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

>> No.9099869

>>9098467
Breddy good.
>ageless
>Pessoa
>Werther
>Divine Comedy

>> No.9099891

>>9098645
I'm not surprised you liked ecclesiastes since you seem chronically unable to pick one thing.
>>9098669
Moore, meaning you're attracted to big abstract ideas and inconsistent lunatical raving. Of course you're interested in Hitler.
>>9098717
Dull.
>>9098829
19 and already pining so desperately for the simplicities of youth. Sad.
>>9098807
>look at how existentialist I am

I give you all a 7/10, more than most people in this thread

>> No.9099918

>>9098166
18
Pynchon
The crying of lot 49
Ethical intuitionism by Michael huemer

>> No.9099937

>28
>Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>The Triuph of Death
>Industrial society and it's future

>> No.9099941

>20
>Joyce
>Swann's Way - Proust
>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wittgenstein

>> No.9099951

>>9099941
>Early Wittgenstein
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EVEN WITTGENSTEIN DISLIKED EARLY WITTGENSTEIN

>> No.9099953

>>9098166
>25
>Dostoevsky
>Crime & Punishment
>Sculpting in Time

>> No.9099966

>>9098166
48
Tom Robbins - funniest and funnest writer I ever
Illusions - Richard Bach still quoting it after 34 years
Modern Primitives (RESearch compilation, sorta old, but hey, so am I)

Usually only lurk, but sure, roast that if you wish

>> No.9100100

>>9098496
Bretty gud.

>>9098777
Underrated post.

>>9098948
kek

>>9099891
Careful with that hook, friendo. I almost nicked myself.

>> No.9100162

>>9098881
Bolaño is sublime.

>> No.9100170

>20
>José Saramago
>Blindness
>A Causa das Coisas - Miguel Esteves Cardoso

>> No.9100203
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9100203

>18
>lovecraft
>necronomicon (lovecraft collection)
>"Genghis khan" by John Man
am fashy, that probably explains a few things

>> No.9100209
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9100209

>20
>Murakami
>Kafka by the Shore
>Meditations

I know all the problems with Murakami's work but it's comfy and I always return to it

>> No.9100234

>19
>Thomas Mann
>Musil - The Man Without Qualities
>Spinoza - Ethics

>> No.9100606

19
>pynchon
>notes from underground
>the conspiracy against the human race

>> No.9101356

>>9100606
You have undiagnosed autism

>> No.9101542

23
De Sade
Silence by Endo
Meditations

>> No.9101543

>>9101356
I really hope there a few layers of irony here since I'm unironically paranoid about that exact thing and those are unironically my favorites

>> No.9101550

>>9098166
>18
>Tolstoy
>War and Peace
>Fear and Trembling

>> No.9101558

>20
>Umberto Eco
>Foucault's Pendulum
>The Collected Works of William Blake

>> No.9101569

>>9101542
I would like to change my favourite non-fiction to The Tao Te Ching. It had slipped my mind during the initial post

>> No.9102880

>>9098166

19
Hunter Thompson
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Tie between Hell's Angels and How to Win Friends and Influence People

>> No.9102893

>20
> Yukio Mishima
> Runaway Horses
> A Rumor of War

>> No.9102902

>>9098166
20
Ernest Hemingway
Norwegian Wood
In Cold Blood

>> No.9102922

18
- Either ive read too many, or not enough, because I don't know
- The Guns of the South
- The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schlitberger

R8 me m8

>> No.9103370

26
Currently, L.F. Celine or Houellebecq
The Brothers Karamazov
R.D. Laing's corpus...?

>> No.9103397

>18
>Camus
>The Tin Drum
>In Cold Blood

>> No.9103407

>>9098166
>25
>Tolkien
>The Once and Future King
>none come to mind

>> No.9103418

>>9098166
21
Wallace
The Pale King
Chaos by James Gleich

>> No.9103422

19
Kafka or Nabokov
Lolita
Peter the Great, his life and world by Robert Massie

>> No.9103512

18
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Meditations

>> No.9103616
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9103616

>Age
23
>Favorite written
Italo Svevo / Hilda Doolittle / José Emilio Pacheco
>Favorite fiction novel
The Alexandria quartet
>Favorite nonfiction book
Leviathan

>> No.9103644

>22
>Shakespeare
>Abaddon el exterminador
>Montaigne's Essays

>> No.9103653

>>9098166

22, Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Brave new world, The Plantagenets (by Dan Jones)

>> No.9103674

29
Kadare
Blood Meridian
Conspiracy against the human race

I like turtles

>> No.9103690

>>9098459
>>9098853
>>9100234
>>9103616
>>9103644

Good taste for such a young age. Nice to see.

>> No.9103701

30
Iain M Banks
Excession
Stalingrad

>> No.9103710
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9103710

>25
>Dostoievsky
>Don Quijote de la Mancha
>Montaigne Essays

>> No.9103716

25
I don't really have one. I'm trying to read more and eventually find someone I really like.
Hitchhiker's Guide
GEB

>> No.9103768

>>9098166
>18
>Carl Jung or Nietzsche
>Notes from the underground
>The Undiscovered Self

>> No.9103842

>>9103512
I'm glad youl.p. like Siddhartha, but it's honestly my least favorite of his works that I've read. You should read Steppenwolf, Demian, Narcissus and Goldmund, Beneath the Wheel, and Magister Ludi (a.k.a. The Glass Bead Game). I would suggest you not read his works back-to-back, though. I read three or four in a row when I was about your age and ended up in a state of far deeper depression than I already was by the end of it.