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That's right, best book ever written contest. Feel free to just say best in blank genre too, if you're afraid of making too many people mad.

>> No.9166950

À la recherche du temps perdu

>> No.9166956

>>9166871
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.9166963

Ulysses

>> No.9167205

>>9166871
Ada

>> No.9167222
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C'est un livre très patricien

>> No.9167234

>>9166871
J R

yup I fucking said it. call me crazy. I do not give a fuck. I thought it was hilarious and heartfelt. made me feel. good times. suck a dick.

>> No.9167247

>>9167234
Heartfelt seems like a strange accolade for 'J R,' which I did enjoy. What did you find heartfelt about it, Anon, the relationship between Bast and ... Stella? Or Amy and Jack?

The grosse feeling I was imparted with while reading 'J R' was antipathy, with maybe only a few bona fide beating hearts (namely Bast and Amy) littered throughout.

>> No.9167253

>>9166871
Moby-Dick

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>> No.9167287

>>9167234
what the fuck is J R

>> No.9167291

it's probably Metamorphoses

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>> No.9167300

>>9167287
Do people not use google anymore.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=J+R+Book

>> No.9167326

>>9167247
not op but JR is beautiful despite its humor and irony, I actually found Bast's story tragic, and Gibbs, as enjoyable as he is to watch fuck around, it's often just as despondent and lost

>> No.9167330

The Quran

If you haven't actually read it then you can't say no btw

>> No.9167334

the ego and its own

>> No.9167346

>>9166871
A Life

>> No.9167379

>>9167326
I don't disagree with any of this, but I was asking specifically why he found it heartfelt, or perhaps what he felt was heartfelt about 'J R.' A (character's) story can be tragic without being heartfelt. I agree about Jack, I found him pitiful most of the time, perhaps his unfinished book stirred a little compassion in me

>> No.9167387

>>9167330
no btw

>> No.9167412

>>9167330
No, former muslim here. In youth I used to aggressively memorize it so i can be a hafaz and shit.

>> No.9167648

>>9167412
Eyyy another former muzzie on /lit/. I was never proper muslim though. No Albanian muslims really are.

>> No.9167652

Infinity Jest

>> No.9167815

>>9167300
holy shit. this is the future of the Internet.

>> No.9167822

Unironically Lolita

>> No.9167835

Illuminatus!

>> No.9167839

>>9166871
unironically don quixote

>> No.9167851

>>9167835

I'm quite a fan of Illuminati (the game) because of this book series lel

>> No.9167855

>>9167851
Never played it. Are you talking vidya, tabletop, or your own weird go at controlled schizophrenia?

>> No.9167865

>>9166871
Principia Mathematica

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>> No.9168100

Anna Karenina

>> No.9168104

unironically my diary t b q h f a m i l y

>> No.9168120

>>9166871
Joseph and His Brothers. Of all time you say, published in 1943 you say? In terms of context not only is it Mann's greatest work but rivals if it not surpasses Dante and Milton's works