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What's the best book you've ever read? Most of the time we just bitch about what we didn't like and shit on each other's reading lists. Let's try not to have any of that here ;)

>> No.9455099

>>9455085
With books distance does not make the heart grow fonder. I read enders game probably 10x between 10 and 15, and ever after included it in my list of favorite books. I re-read it at like 30, and it did not age well.

I have always loved The Call of the Wild and White Fang, but right now I feel the most intensely towards Laurus, and before that it was Brief History of Seven Killings, and before that it was Blood Meridian, and before that For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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anything by pic related

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>> No.9455343

Count of monte cristo.

>> No.9455346

test

>> No.9455355

>>9455343
Same. Fun fact: Some of it is ghost written.

>> No.9455380

i wish it was a hot, profound book, but its the disaster artist. too joyous to deny, while also having more depth (perhaps unintended) than just being a collection of silly funny anecdotes, at least to the extent of documenting the human spirit of this guy who has everything against him, but somehow succeeds. there's something universal and canonical about that.

>> No.9455381

War and Peace

>> No.9455445

Dream of the Red Chamber

>> No.9455452

>>9455085
Human Action by Mises.

>> No.9455464

It;s a tossup between A Canticle for Leibowitz, A Count of Monte Cristo, or Don Quixote.

>> No.9455492

Anna Karenina

>> No.9455722
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Petersburg by Andrei Bely. Learning Russian to read it in its original language. Just fantastic.

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pic related is my favorite but Steppenwolf is the best book I have read.

>> No.9455743

The Hobbit or Effi Briest.

>> No.9455775

Master of the game from sidney sheldon

>> No.9455995

Hunger by Knut Hamsun. But that's mostly because I live in Oslo at the moment, and I've lost ~17 kg the last year.

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Super comfy.