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Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:04:07 2010 No.970502 [Reply] [Original]

books to read before you die
>no trolling
>no haters gonna hate
>just good books that need to be read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:04:07 2010 No.970505 Atlas Shrugged

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:05:07 2010 No.970508 File: 281 KB, 600x600, haters-gonna-hate-fat-american.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Overton Window

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:06:07 2010 No.970511 Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:15:07 2010 No.970546 bamp

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:26:07 2010 No.970590 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:30:07 2010 No.970610 The Stranger

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:31:07 2010 No.970612 >>970502 >no trolling aha ha. anyways. my input is the Tao Te Ching

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:32:07 2010 No.970615 As many as you can dude. There's very little probability that you're going to manage to read ALL readworthy books in your lifetime, anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:33:07 2010 No.970618 >>970511 Wow, someone mentioning Garth Nix's work. I'll throw No Longer Human out there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:37:07 2010 No.970628 >>970618 Was something I read as a child, remembered and am now reading again

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:41:07 2010 No.970637 File: 121 KB, 1000x787, Kthanid_la_eminencia_by_verreaux.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] any thing H.P. lovecraft Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagel fhtang

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:43:07 2010 No.970645 -Slaughterhouse Five -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant At The End of The Universe

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 18:44:07 2010 No.970649 all of these duh http://interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 19:19:07 2010 No.970951 pygmy russian spy child in an american family

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 19:26:07 2010 No.970969 The Brothers Karamazov

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 19:26:07 2010 No.970971 Discworld.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Mon Jul 26 19:32:07 2010 No.970985 File: 32 KB, 524x720, george-orwell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Every piece of literature by this guy except Keep the "Aspadisdra Flying" and "A Clergyman's Daughter".

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Mon Jul 26 19:33:07 2010 No.970988 >>970985 Aspidistra, I mean.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 19:33:07 2010 No.970990 >>970505 OP said no trolling.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 19:34:07 2010 No.970993 >>970985 I just bought "Homage to Catalonia" today and am too fucking excited to read it.

Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Mon Jul 26 19:37:07 2010 No.971000
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>>970993

It's one of my favourite books of all time.

I reread it constantly.

Orwell makes writing seem so easy, but it's so fucking difficult to write as beautifully yet sparingly as he does.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 19:39:07 2010 No.971008 >>970993 >>971000 hrm.... looks like ile have to add this to my reading list. thanks guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 19:54:07 2010 No.971051 File: 34 KB, 400x225, hatas gonna hate.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Life of Pi – Yann Martel The Green Man – Kingsley Amis Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 20:03:07 2010 No.971077 Atlas Shrugged. If only just to know your enemy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:44:07 2010 No.971810 divine comedy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:49:07 2010 No.971835 File: 9 KB, 200x324, 200px-Joyce_wake.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This monster of a book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:51:07 2010 No.971843 >>971077 >no haters gonna hate

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:52:07 2010 No.971849 Tomorrow and Tomorrow

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:53:07 2010 No.971853 http://www.listology.com/list/1001-books-you-must-read-you-die Better get started.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:53:07 2010 No.971854 The Bible no trolling

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:54:07 2010 No.971857 The Iliad and The Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:55:07 2010 No.971863 East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:56:07 2010 No.971864 Sophie's World

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:57:07 2010 No.971867 1.Atlas shrugged (dont listen to others about this book, made your own judgement) 2.Catch-22 3.Lord of the rings 4.Divine Comedy(or just the Inferno) 5.War and Peace 6.The Stranger 7.Catcher in the Rye 8.The Illiad 9.Crime and Punishment

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:57:07 2010 No.971870 >>971854 people have to get past their edgy atheist phase before they can appreciate it as a work of history and literature

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 22:59:07 2010 No.971877 Time Enough for Love

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 23:01:07 2010 No.971881 Stephen King's IT

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 23:02:07 2010 No.971882 Count of Monte Cristo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 23:03:07 2010 No.971886 War and Peace baby now I've just got to read it again when I hit retirement and have a massive nostalgia bomb and be like "holy shit how did I think that about this character I was so dumb" shit's gonna be so cash

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 23:04:07 2010 No.971889 A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews The Road & Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 23:05:07 2010 No.971894 >>971886 I've heard that war and peace has like a thousand characters, and they each have 3 names at least

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 23:05:07 2010 No.971895 >>971051 >Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra THIS.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 26 23:08:07 2010 No.971905 Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Seriously. Shit will open your eyes.

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