No.3341[Last 50 Posts]
Post your fav books and other people guess your personality
>Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (mainstream book on the pilgrims and the natives)
>Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard
>The False Assumptions of Democracy by Anthony Ludovici
>Patriarchia: The Natural Power of Kings by Robert Filmer
No.3343
i've never read any of those.
but let me make an educated guess.
/pol/lack?race and sex realist? natsoc?
my turn.
>the master and margarita
>les miserables
>heart of darkness
No.3344
Favorites it is then, make of it what you will. Favorite here means this is stuff I've reread for reasons other than intentional study, and reread within the last ten years.
Isaac Asimov:
Foundation, the original trilogy.
Gore Vidal:
Julian.
Creation.
The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel.
J.R.R. Tolkien:
Lord of the Rings, the trilogy.
John Gardner:
Grendel.
Malcolm Lowry:
Under the Volcano.
Graham Greene:
The Power and the Glory.
The Quiet American.
L. Neil Smith:
The Wardove.
William Shakesspeare:
The Complete Works, the historical plays specifically, and Richard II and III most often reread of all.
George Orwell:
Down and Out in Paris and London.
Homage to Catalonia.
Charles Bukowski:
Pulp.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline:
Journey to the End of the Night.
Thomas Pynchon:
Inherent Vice.
Ursula K. Le Guin:
The Left Hand of Darkness.
Hunter S. Thompson:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes translation:
History of the Peloponnesian War.
No.3347
>>3344out of that list i've only read the foundation trilogy, which i loved, LOTR, fear and loathing in las vegas and some shakespeare of course, so i cannot desume a personality out of that, other than a clear interest in history, maybe not in history in itself but in how history works. the last part is just a hunch.
you seem like a pretty interesting guy, anon.
No.3355
Okay, lemme try here:
The novel that has had the most impact on my life, and is easily my favourite, is A Canticle for Leibowitz. Runner ups are Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and the Yiddish Policeman's Union. As a horror lover, the best Horror novel I have ever read is A Good and Happy Child, by Justin Evans. Hm… Oh, and my favourite play by Shakespeare is the Tempest.
No.3356
>>3355i've never read any of those, beside the tempest, which i think i saw an adaptation of quite some time ago, so i doubt i can say something about you as a person from them.
but i looked them up and they seem pretty good. "a canticle for leibowitz" has especially caught my interest.
No.3359
>>3356A Canticle for Leibowitz is definitely worth the read. It's smart, and a little funny, too.
No.3360
>>3347>pretty interesting guyThe least interesting complement
No.3361
>>3360i'm not an interesting person.
No.3365
>Catch 22, Joseph Keller
>Good Omens, Terry Prachet and Neil Gaiman
>The brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
>Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
No.3366
>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
>Pale Fire
>Doctor Zhivago
>Invisible Cities
No.3367
>>3365you seem like the kind of person that wears slippers
No.3371
>the hunger games trilogy
>Atlas Shrugged
>Annie on my mind
>the rubyfruit jungle
>Star wars: shadows of the empire
>Jurassic park
>the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy trilogy
No.3372
>>3371you have a goodreads account and use axe bodyspray
No.3374
Amerika, Kafka
Cyberiad, Lem
No.3379
No.3383
>Junky by William S. Burroughs
>The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (I prefer her poetry to her writing but both are good)
>Post Office by Charles Bukowski
>Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McIrnhey
>Black Sabbath's Master of Reality by John Darnielle (33 1/3 series book that has little to do with the actual album)
Pretty pleb, but I've slowly been accruing better taste recently.
No.3384
>>3383the only thing remotely related in my experence to that list is cronemberg adaptation of naked lunch.
if it is a good adaptation, i think burroughs is not for me.
No.3645
Good Omens by pratchet/gaimen
Franny and Zooey by salinger
The Swerve by Greenblat (nonfiction)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Hocus Pocus by Vonnuget
No.3679
>>3356>>3359A Canticle for Leibowitz is great. One of my all time favourites. It's got a really cozy vibe and gave me some interest / respect for Catholic philosophy. Prior to reading it I thought it was going to be super boring but it's awesome. Check it out my Nubian brother.
No.3699
In order of Nationality, my 5 Stars, limiting one per Author, no poetry collections, didn't do short stories either outside the Borges nod…
Ada by Nabokov
Petersburg by Bely
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Dead Souls by Gogol
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Moby Dick by Melville
Franny & Zooey by Salinger
The Book of the New Sun by Wolfe
Labyrinths by Borges
2666 by Bolano
Watchmen by Moore
No.3700
>>3341read the Eddas and some Joseph Campbell thou Aryan prince.
>>3344Read more Pynchon (ie what people mean when they say Pynchon)
And I can't actually believe that people are still deluding themselves about Orwell/Bukowski/Thompson…
>>3355>>3365Sincerely hope you are in High School.
>>3366>Zhivagolol
Read more Nabokov. You'll come to realize why he hated that book with such a passion.
>>3374Nice.
>>3383Read more, we'll look back at this list and laugh someday ;)
>>3645Vonnuget and McCarthy are stand-ins for their superiors (Pynchon and Melville)
No.3738
>Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (Adams).
>On The Road (Kerouac).
>Winter's Tales (Blixen).
>A Universal History of Infamy (Borges).
No.3740
>>3738i've only read the first hitchiker's book, and while i had a chuckle or two, i really can't see what some people see in it.
does the series get better going on?
No.3745
>>3740The trilogy's good but if the first book didn't really work for you won't gain anything more from the other two.
There's more than just the trilogy as well, except that Adams lost something, or maybe my tastes changed, and I couldn't finish any more of his works.
I still praise the trilogy and think everyone should at least give it a shot.
No.3753
>The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories, H.P. Lovecraft
>Temeraire, Naomi Novik
No.3754
>>3738I haven't read the original
Hitchhiker's, but I did read
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and I found the humor a lot more difficult to swallow than I was expecting. I might do better with a second read now that I'm older and I think I understand the joke a bit better.
Would it be fair to say that
Hitchhiker's Guide is kind of surrealist and that might be why so many people don't get it?
No.3765
>>3753i'm not saying it to offend you or to mock you, but read more.
personally i think that the hound of baskervilles is kinda weak as a crime/mystery novel and certainly not the best sherlock holmes there is.
have you tried "the adventures of sherlock holmes"?
No.3766
>>3765To be honest I'm not particularly enthralled by
any of the Sherlock Holmes stories. I find that a lot of them are weak as mysteries and could do much better by focusing on the character and method of Sherlock Holmes rather than the ever-present adventure. I'm still reading through them, though, so if I say that any particular one is my "favorite" that could change at any given time.
I'm reading
Sherlock Holmes (a two-volume set of the full collection of novels and short stories) as part of an effort to steep myself in classic literature, and I'm trying to judge each of them by the merits of their date of writing. As such, my actual top favorites list has been turbulent lately as I'm rapidly taking in more and better stories. You'll notice that I didn't choose any particular favorite story of Lovecraft's and instead chose a book containing a couple dozen.
I don't know what I'm going to read next, probably some of the books I've seen other anons posting here like
Hitchhiker's Guide, but if you have any other suggestions I'd be happy to give them a go.
No.3774
>>3384Junky is grounded, it's basically his autobiography of getting hooked on heroin & becoming a junky for the rest of his life. Short & worth the read.
No.3776
>>3766i understand.
personally i think that sherlock holmes should be read in bursts rather than all in one sitting. i get the feeling it would get boring pretty quickly.
you must have a remarkable patience…
No.3777
>>3774thanks. your concise explaination made find interesting something i doubted i could ever find interesting.no joke.
No.3780
>>3776As a general rule, I don't read a book unless I find something absolutely fascinating about it. In this case, it's the character of Sherlock Holmes. I won't go into the full details of why, but I find that I can really sink my teeth into stories that have unique and well-thought-out characters.
No.3786
>>3780after reading quite a bit of it, i started to think that the character of holmes constitutes the biggest part of the appeal of those stories.in a way it's strange because he's probably the first autist in the history of literature.
as mystery/crime stories they are quite weak. and at times it commits a major sin you could find in these kind of stories:
the solution is not provided by datas the reader is given beforehand.
No.3787
>>3786I feel exactly the same way. In fact I almost feel robbed because Conan Doyle must be remarkably intelligent to make the connections that he does, and he must have done quite a bit of study into deductive reasoning to fine-tune the character of Sherlock Holmes, but he prefers to keep the methods a secret. It's rather a bizarre way of writing a mystery story unless the stories are meant to revolve solely around Holmes and not the mystery.
No.3986
War of The Flea (Taber)
The Forever War (Haldeman)
1984 (Orwell)
No.3994
No.4000
"faith of our fathers" strongly informs my religious views
"the true believer" has influenced my political views
orwell's writing kinda reads okay to me but apparently he's not cool anymore and i kinda suspect it's because he's not really politically okay at this point
borges is neat imo
i resent the fact that i have to write like a 13-year-old to prevent people from thinking i'm actually serious about my opinions
No.4001
>>4000by "a thirteen year old" i mean "a 30ish hipster" but whatever
No.4069
House of Leaves
The Cipher
The Bible
Meditations
No.4074
>>3383I'm so glad Sylvia Plath killed herself. Her stories are so awful that, if she was still alive, I'd have to hunt her down and murder her myself.
No.4082
>>4069>The Bible From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 21 The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
22 From the descendants of Simeon:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 23 The number from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
24 From the descendants of Gad:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 25 The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
26 From the descendants of Judah:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 27 The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.
28 From the descendants of Issachar:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 29 The number from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400.
30 From the descendants of Zebulun:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 31 The number from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400.
32 From the sons of Joseph:
From the descendants of Ephraim:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 33 The number from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500.
34 From the descendants of Manasseh:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 35 The number from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200.
36 From the descendants of Benjamin:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 37 The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
38 From the descendants of Dan:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 39 The number from the tribe of Dan was 62,700.
40 From the descendants of Asher:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 41 The number from the tribe of Asher was 41,500.
42 From the descendants of Naphtali:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 43 The number from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400.
44 These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family. 45 All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families. 46 The total number was 603,550.
numbers 1:20-44
some books are simply amazing. some others suck balls.
you need to believe that it's the literal word of god to like some of this stuff.
to each his own i guess.
No.4085
Il Codice Di Perelà (Italian)
Aldo Palazzeschi
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
E. Hemingway
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
No.4096
>>4085so, palazzeschi wrote novels too?
the only thing of his i've ever read was one of those wacky futurist poems.
it really felt like some kind of a joke.
No.4104
>>4096He did, he was a very funny guy so most of his early years poems are jokes against the academical rules on poetry that were common in Italy at the time.His novels are mostly social satire masked with some nonsense comedy. Perelà itself is about a man of smoke who is first hailed as a saviour of a completely insane realm where a lot of things are a veiled critique to the early 20th Italian Kindom and then seen as an evil being and denounced by everyone, since Perelà lived only 33 years parallels with christ are obvious.
He had a peculiar writing style in his novels too, that ended up influencing my own too, he basically describes the bare minimum and makes the action mostly go on via dialogue. It seems hard to grasp at first, but it works well.
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No.4112
>>4104sounds interesting.
thanks.
No.4198
>>4085>Small GodsMah muffuggin' niggah. Small Gods best Discworld book. Only one that can compare to the City Watch stories.
No.4199
>Slaughterhouse Five
>Hyperion Cantos
>Gridlinked
>Hunter
>The Metamorphosis
>1984
>Foundation series
No.5315
>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
>Battle Royale by Toushun Takami
>The Vampire Genevieve Collection by Kim Newman
>Mr. B. Gone by Clive Barker
>The Idiot by Dostoevsky
>Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
>The Dreams in the Witch-House by HP Lovecraft
>inb4 edge lord
No.5332
>>3341
>Suttree
>The Border Trilogy
>Amsterdam Stories
>Rilke Complete Poems
No.5347
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Welcome to the N.H.K.
>Homo Faber
No.5353
>Siddharte - Herman Hesse
>Nausea - Sartre
>El Tunel - Sabato
>Farabeuf - Salvador Elizondo
>East of Eden - Steinbeck
>Ficciones - Borges
No.5354
>>4199
you dont trust peoople at all and you tend to feel alone.
No.5355
>>5353
Siddhartha, im stupid.
No.5370
Notes
>>5347
You sound lonely.
>>5315
>>Mr. B. Gone by Clive Barker
This is the same Clive Barker that developed Undying, yeah? Tell me about this book.
No.5374
Stoner by John Williams.
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
No.5379
Foundation, A History of England by Peter Ackroyd. It's really good.
No.5408
In no particular order:
The Iliad - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Paradise Lost - Milton
Faust I & II - Goethe
The Once and Future King - T. H. White
Beowulf
No.5410
>>5408
I guess I ought to add Moby Dick - Melville and Heart of Darkness - Conrad to the list. Shows what I know, trying to come up with my favorite books list off the top of my head.
No.5421
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
>I Am a Cat
>The Hall of Uselessness
These aren't necessarily books, nor are they my favorite works or what i consider exceptional, they're just the first things that spring to mind and allow me consent to put them on a short list, on short notice.
No.5422
>>5370
A gentle introduction to Clive Barker would be to start with The Thief of Always, and Tapping The Vein(get books 1-5 from torrents)
No.5460
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Angela's Ashes - McCourt
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick
The View from the Mirror quartet - Irvine
Mistress of Rome - Quinn
The Memoirs of Cleopatra - George
The Amber Spyglass - Pullman
Frankenstein - Shelley
No.5462
>>5460
Oh and I forgot Neuromancer. Sorry Gibson.
No.5473
>Crime and Punishment
>The Sound and the Fury
>On the Road
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
No.5490
Anthony Burgess-
A Clockwork Orange
Alexandre Dumas-
The Three Musketeers
Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
Crime and Punishment
(I've only started on Dostoyevsky recently, I'm ashamed I didn't sooner. In the words of a stereotypical teenager "this book, like, gets me")
H.G Wells-
The Invisible Man
War of the Worlds
James Joyce-
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
J.R.R Tolkien
The Silmarillion
Michael Crichton-
Jurassic Park
Prey
Everything on this list, with the exception of Crime and Punishment, I feel helped define my taste in literature growing up at various points (C&P would be helping that a bit right now). I can always enjoy these specific novels, and most works from the authors.
No.5521
>>3679
Another mention for Canticle. It's a great piece of hardcore Asimovian polemics, and the final section is truly heart-breaking.
No.5522
My turn:
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Homer - The Iliad (Fitzgerald trans.)
Xenophon - The Persian Expedition (Rex Warner trans.)
Shusaku Endo - The Samurai
Yukio Mishima - Runaway Horses
Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
Frank Herbert - Dune
Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle For Leibowitz
Unknown - Beowulf (Tolkien and/or Heaney trans.)
Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
James Harpur - The Dark Age
Jorge Luis Borges - Collected Fictions
I know I'm forgetting more, but I only have half my library with me.
No.5529
>>5522
Well since it's not possible that you're my father, you're probably very similar to him. Probably a trained classicist background, you were raised a Catholic even if you're not actively a Catholic, fond of poetry, surprised Pablo Neruda isn't on your list, actually. Probably also enjoy H. P. Lovecraft and I'd bet good money you have at least tried to learn Latin.
No.5530
>>5473
Has tried at least three different drugs, at least one of which was probably psychedelic, enjoyed American History in school.
No.5533
>>5529
Hah, pretty close! Practicing (i.e. bad) Catholic, haven't gotten to Neruda yet, studied medieval history and minored in Latin in college, but the only Lovecraft I actively enjoy is his dream cycle works like Unknown Kadath.
No.5534
>>5533
Swoosh. What are your feelings on Emily Dickinson, Gustav Klimt, and Audrey Hepburn?
No.5560
>>5534
Not much interest in the first, second's a decent visual artist, third is a good actress.
No.5561
>The World as Will and Idea (Schopenhauer)
>Journey till the End of the Night (Céline)
No.5562
>>5530
You got me down exactly, anon. Nice going.
No.6022
Silmarillion - J.R.R Tolkien
The pillars of the earth - Ken Follet
Shogun - James Clavell
The older Edda
Nathan der Weise - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A song of ice and fire - George R.R. Martin
Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules Verne
No.6023
>>6022
i've read only the last two.
why the last one?
No.6025
>>6024
>being a pretentious contrarian
No.6027
>>6023
I liked the adventure and the setting in the late age of exploration. This feeling that back then EVERYTHING seemed possible, be it to travel the center of the earth or to go to the moon etc. is just a nice look at their perspective.
>>6024
So? I like world-building and Martin does a decent job. It's fun to read, the characters are relatable and indulging in a low fantasy world which delivers quite some lore is just intruiging.
No.6029
>>6025
>enjoying shitty books
>>6027
Let me know when you finish ASoS
No.6037
No.6061
>>6027
i see.
>>6029
>implying aFfC is not the best in the series
even though i really get the feeling that gurm wrote himself into a corner and that even if he manages not to die and deliver the books it will be a massive copout.
but i would be glad to see the opposite happening.
No.6152
>>3341
Barry Hughart:
Bridge Of Birds.
No.6161
in no particular order
Les miserables (victor Hugo)
The divine comedy (Dante Alighieri)
Dead souls ( Nikolai Golgol)
Tales from H.P Lovecraft (H.P Lovecraft)
The sun also rises ( Ernest Hemingway)
As I continue to read I expect this list to grow
No.6165
>>6161
>The divine comedy (Dante Alighieri)
At least it isn't just Dante's Inferno. I can't understand why some people think it just ends there.
No.6166
>>6165
Its a shame that most people overlook purgatorio, and paradiso, both have their charm and unique ebb & flow. But from what I can tell "dark" and perhaps "edgy" atmospheres and stories on modern media have become more prevalent. Which is my guess as to why people just read infierno
No.6167
>>6166
Not that Anon, but if any of them get read in highschool/most college classes its going to be Inferno. I suspect most people who read Dante do so for a class, and after reading Inferno go "Oh well now I've gotten a taste of Dante and don't need to read any more."
No.6181
>1984, by George Orwell
>Blindsight, by Peter Watts
>For a New Liberty, by Murray Rothbard
No.6183
>>6167
yeah, they also hear Inferno is the best part and so they keep repeating probably believing this make them look knowledgeable. I know it sound absurd but I guess it must be like this since most of them don't even attempt to read the Paradiso, which is the most complicate book.
No.6185
>>6181
Mostly carefree, thinks that governement invents too many worries and propagates too much dullness.
No.6187
>>6185
Actually, I'm far from carefree. Struggled with depression and OCD, plus I have a bit of a vengeful streak. Hard to explain without sounding edgy as fuck. Let's just say there are more than a few people I'd like to punch in the face pretty damn hard. That also applies to a lot of other people, but unlike many of those, I don't enjoy bossing others around or being mean in general, unless I feel like I have been wronged.
The rest is correct, however.
No.6195
>>6187
Wasn't letting go one of Blindsight's messages?
Sarasti tells Siri to let go of conciousness and other things humans care about. The ayylien ship attacks and dies because they want to control or understand everything. The humans die because they won't remove their conciousness. Vamipres only wanted freedom and they get it. Siri gets out because he lets go of what he was.
No.6200
>>6195
Never looked at it like that, I must admit. I thought the main message was that consciousness is nothing but dead weight.
No.6211
No.6239
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Old Man And The Sea - Hemingway
A Moveable Feast - Hemingway
Dubliners - Joyce
Poor Folk - Dostoevski
No particular order.
No.6245
>>6239
pls explain the old man and the sea.
one of the blandest books i've ever read.
>>6211
among those i've read only siddartha, not sure i can help.
No.6249
>>6245
Well, if you think about The Old Man And The Sea as a book about a guy who goes fishing sure it's dull, but I think it is about solitude, about struggle, about motivation and about trusting yourself.
The old man faces not only a big fish but a sea of solitude where in order to survive he needs to trust himself (even if he's insane) and to believe that he'd going to catch the fish and is no impprtance if someone doubts that. He's has hope and he knows what he can do and he will do it.
No.6250
>>6249
He's going to*
Also sorry for any mistakes. English is not my mother tongue.
No.6261
>>6249
i got that when i read the book.
i guess it just didn't connect with me…
No.6262
>>6250
you're not the only one.
No.6279
>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
>The Fate of Empires by Sir John Glubb
>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
>The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
>Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Judge me e/lit/eists
No.6285
>>6279
>>6239
>>6249
>Old Man and the Sea
I just read this as well. Pretty good.
As far as short novellas go I liked The Pearl - Steinbeck a lot more.
No.6290
>>6279
probably your list will change over time, and quite fast if you read regularly especially considered that you are clearly interested in history and politics.
asimov's foundation is pretty good, one of my favourite s ci-fi novels, but it's really the decandence and fall of the roman empire IN SPACE. and the series kinda falls apart to me with the ending of "foundation's edge" with its forceful lack of compromise between possible outcomes, (if you read it you know what i'm talking about) you'll find better both on a literary and a conceptual (asimov himself came up with better, more original concepts in other books) standpoint.
No.6296
>>6285
I hated the pearl. The futility of everything led to nowhere, and it felt like it dragged on forever for such a short book. Admittedly, it's been years and I'm not a Steinbeck fan in general, but The Old Man and the Sea had similar themes of hopeless determination and loss, but it had what Steinbeck lacked in The Pearl –a point. In The Pearl, he loses family, health, and property only to toss the pearl into the sea and bring all his efforts to nil. In The Old Man and the Sea you have the struggle, but you also have the victory. Even after losing the fish, he returns with honor. He was worthy of besting the king of the sea, even if he could not bring it home intact. He returned stronger, more hopeful, and did enough to regain the company of the boy. His struggles weren't pointless. Steinbeck's futility kills me.
>>6290
Foundation is one of my favorites mainly due to the original trilogy. The final books I look at like the Star Wars prequels –nice to see and have to tie things together, but ultimately just an accessory to the main attraction. The first three particularly inspired me on a literary level, because they were the first thing I ever read intended for a serial format. The pacing kept me engaged where a lot of fiction could not. They were the reason I didn't abandon hardcore Asimovian polemics like I did fantasy.
No.6297
>>6296
haha is hardcore Asimovian polemics wordfiltered?
No.6311
No.6312
>>6311
even the last books?
pls explain.
No.6660
>Infinite Jest, DFW
>Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut
I feel like this doesn't wholly represent me but I can't really put anything else there
No.6676
Point Counter Point - Huxley
Infinite Jest - DFW
Notes from Underground - Dosto
The Devil to pay in the Backlands - João Guimarães Rosa
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Machado de Assis
>>6660
huh u have an odd sense of humour and has a mental problem
>>6279
u're getting into literature just now and like classics cuz u're told to, will probably grow found of all Asimovian polemics classics
>>6239
really fun how all ur books are small but anna karenina, dunno bout u but would probably hang out w/ u
>>6022
you like shit books, should probably contempt suicide
No.6806
Transparent Things - Nabokov
L'Immoraliste - Gide
The Comming Insurrection - Invisible Committee
Ka - Calasso
Story of the Eye - Bataille
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Apology - Plato
Patriotism - Mishima
This could be fun.
>>3341
14 year old /pol/lak
>>3344
I'm gonna guess you're
American, been reading since childhood, got into smoking pot in university, and mostly read non-fiction
>>3383
Edgy
No.6808
Pistis Sophia
Tao Te Ching
The Nag Hammadi Library, if it counts as one book
My favorite modern book is The Brothers Karamazov
No.6809
>>3344
I don't understand why people consider William Shakespear's plays literature. They were meant to be viewed, not read. They are not literature.
No.6812
>>6809
The scripts are by definition literature no matter how that makes you feel.
No.6813
>>3341
>The Trial-Kafka
>Temple of the golden pavilion -Mishima
>Heart of Darkness- Conrad
No.6816
>>6813
the gold pavillion is on my list.
what am i in for?
No.6817
>>6806
Ain't much fun not seein' how the guesswork stacks up.
>American
Check.
>been reading since childhood
Check.
>got into smoking pot in university
[Reply automatically masked by browser anti-DEA plugin. Plus, my legal advisor flips her shit at the merest suggestion of answering this.]
>and mostly read non-fiction
Partial credit, now that I've thought about it. It works out to about one in four books.
No.6818
>>6812
Except that they aren't.
No.6820
>>6809
Outside expert consensus says they are. Whatever, I'm not going to dwell on the topic of what is or is not literature. Instead, I'm trying to read between the lines here to hear what you are saying. Such a complaint is, to me, understandable only in an abstract sense.
Why do people read plays with their threadbare scaffolding structure instead of a novel done with the full armamentarium of a writers artistry? The key is the presence of an active imagination, plus the willingness to use it. Not all readers have such abilities, nor want this sort of experience. It's not like I'm reading more plays than novels either.
A play being studied and taught in a classroom setting obliterates the focus needed to experience it in this manner. That may be why so many people cannot see how others simply read them as if it were a 'real' book.
One thing plays are an excellent resource for is as a study of just how much story can be delivered through dialogue alone. It helps, even if you have no intention of every writing a play.
Kinda like how the study of poetry can improve your prose.
No.6821
>>6818
define literature you fraud
No.6822
>>6820
I don't care that you like to read plays, that doesn't mean they were intended to be read rather than performed and viewed.
No.6880
>>6822
Tell that to my pleb teachers.
No.6945
No.6952
>>6822
and poetry was meant to be sung.
what's your point?
No.6965
No.7152
>Submission: Michel Houellebecq
>Platform: Michel Houellebecq
>Camp of the Saints: Jean Raspail
>Eumeswil: Ernst Junger
>Fiesta-The Sun Also Rises: Ernest Hemingway
No.7153
>David Copperfield
I am not even shitting you. This book may not be my #1 pick, but it had an impact on me.
No.7157
>>7153
Wow, commendable reading anon. That is straight up the most boring book I've ever attempted to read.
No.7184
>>7157
really? i've read a couple of pages but dropped it because i didn't feel like having a long read at the time years ago.
didn't seem that bad.
de gustibus, i guess.
No.7215