How do you find good books?

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How do you find good books? Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:31:10 2020 No.15932869 [Reply] [Original]

Everytime I find a good book accidentally, I get depressed and wonder what other masterpieces are hidden in some corner.
What is your method of finding good books?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:33:02 2020 No.15932877 listen to your heart

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:33:14 2020 No.15932879 I just read the same 10 books over and over. Works pretty well for me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:36:45 2020 No.15932896 File: 1.01 MB, 1500x3242, 1560896679548.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15932869 I look and roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:37:00 2020 No.15932899 >>15932869 Read your favorite authors' favorite authors/books etc. Most of them are pretty vocal about that kind of stuff

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:38:48 2020 No.15932910 >>15932896 rollin

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:39:52 2020 No.15932916 >>15932910 unlucky

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:41:04 2020 No.15932924 >>15932896 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:41:25 2020 No.15932928 >>15932869 Look at the sticky in the front page. That will guide you to a page crafted by /lit/ filled with charts of various themes which recommend plenty of books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:41:34 2020 No.15932929 >>15932899 Not a very efficient method, if you, for example, mostly read classic books, the authors your favourite authors will cite will be even older. So your scope wouldn't progress beyond 19th century.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:42:43 2020 No.15932936 >>15932869 Browse /lit/ Ask /lit/ If this board is good at anything it's producing great recommendations.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:43:19 2020 No.15932943 >>15932924 Rerolling because I want something that wont require contextual knowledge. I want to read the Bible before Paradise Lost

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:44:50 2020 No.15932953 >>15932928 Are /lit/ charts updated regularly? Also, how's the non fiction collection there?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:47:08 2020 No.15932972 >>15932936 In 2019 maybe. Have you got a single good rec this year from this board?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:48:20 2020 No.15932984 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:51:47 2020 No.15933008 >>15932953 It has a chart of the best books of 2019, so I'm guessing that it's stayed updated. As for non fiction, look by subject and you'll find something. You don't really need me to tell you any of this; just go check it out for yourself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:59:51 2020 No.15933061 >>15932929 Not necessarily I read White teeth due to a John Barth rec I read Tenth of December due to a Pynchon rec But yes, if you're a turbopleb without the least idea of (modern) literature, the canon seems like a good place to start

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 21:00:53 2020 No.15933073 >>15932896 They forgot Dune on that list

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 21:01:17 2020 No.15933075 >>15932896 rolls

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 21:39:41 2020 No.15933350 File: 1.04 MB, 1500x3242, 1595464605725-read.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15932896 Hmm. I've read quite a few of those (marked). I should get to the others sometime.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:57:12 2020 No.15934898 >>15932896 rollin rollin rollin

« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Thu Jul 23 02:07:34 2020 No.15934960
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I sit and wait patiently.
Once made aware of one, I file it away to look for later. Years later sometimes I find a copy and bring it home only to leave on the backlog

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:11:55 2020 No.15935238 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:14:30 2020 No.15935252 >>15932972 Yeah dozens. Browse or make threads generally aligned with your interests. Once you get a few good recs it will daisy chain as good books lead you onto other associated books and tangents.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:33:13 2020 No.15935348 >>15932896 Hmm

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:39:35 2020 No.15935380 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:46:18 2020 No.15935426 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:51:04 2020 No.15935456 File: 65 KB, 1068x601, gigachad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15932869 Simple, I read what Cervantes likes.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:51:01 2020 No.15935773

>>15932869
you need to ALWAYS be on the lookout and open to get to know more
join discussion/book groups on facebook or other social medias, look for book reviewers whose taste matches your own, talk to friends and ask them if they read anything good, listen to people talking in the streets, jot down books named during movies or tv shows or in songs or in other books, look for "top whatever" lists both on here and through google and write down every book that looks interesting, make a to read list not to let yourself forget them, browse lit's threads with suggestions, make an account on a book rating site and start adding people that consistently like the same books you did etc. etc. etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:52:19 2020 No.15935781 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:58:25 2020 No.15935823 File: 1.42 MB, 2074x2919, 04B7B983-26D6-412B-9FCA-67E7A2AB48A4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I’ve never seen anyone on /lit/ mention this book at least.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 05:22:50 2020 No.15935978 >>15932869 why be depressed? i don't have many books but whenever i find a good book, i am happy at the thought of finding other good books amongst all the shit in the world.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 05:38:37 2020 No.15936068 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 05:44:31 2020 No.15936109 >>15932896 roolololol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:06:44 2020 No.15936208 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:08:02 2020 No.15936214 >>15936208 Rolling for second

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:11:46 2020 No.15936229 >>15934960 confirmed retarded

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:18:20 2020 No.15936265 >>15932896 rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:19:53 2020 No.15936270 >>15936265 >meditations read it, re-rolling >>15932896

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:22:07 2020 No.15936281 >>15936270 >heart of darkness read it as well, RE-re-rolling! >>15932896

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:22:27 2020 No.15936284 >>15933073 and thank gods they did. That's one overrated hell of a book. Go read The Accursed Kings or Asoiaf and then compare

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:22:44 2020 No.15936285 >>15932869 /lit/ wiki

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:23:12 2020 No.15936286 >>15932869 I look at books great men read. Peo tip: There are no great men after WW2.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:24:17 2020 No.15936291 >>15935823 Man that sounds really interesting, especially the male-female part

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:25:27 2020 No.15936297 >>15936284 Which one? The series as a whole has some slow/bad spots but is overall pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:27:28 2020 No.15936311 >>15932869 What genres do you prefer? The Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester is a good read. Set in the Napoleonic era from the view of a sailor as he goes up the British ranks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:29:38 2020 No.15936321 >>15936311 If you prefer more realistic Sci Fi look up "Hammers Slammers" Its a series of shorts spread out all over gritty universe centered around a Merc company.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:33:08 2020 No.15936342

>>15936297
I mean both the series. They are kinda similar. Although I will concede that the last book of The Accursed Kings was really bad and I couldn't finish it, since the writer changed everything, it didn't even feel like the same series anymore. The series has a satisfying end in second to last book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:58:51 2020 No.15936448 >>15935773 good post

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:06:57 2020 No.15936482

>>15935978
I know what he means. When you happen across something good by pure chance it's disconcerting, because it suggests there's no sensible structure in place to make sure people get the good stuff, and so there could be loads of nuggets hidden away that you're missing. It's a bit like driving around randomly looking for a hospital and coming across one and saying "Oh, here it is, but there were no signposts; what if I hadn't found it?" and people saying "Well, you did find it, so no harm done".

When I was young I had the following conversation many times:

Me: This is really good

Parents: Yes, it is, aren't you glad you found it?

Me: No. I wish I had found it ages ago, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IT WAS GOOD

Parents: Well there's lots of good things, we can't tell you everything, you have to find them yourself.

Me: BUT I WASTE 99% OF MY TIME WADING THROUGH STUFF THAT ISN'T GOOD.

Parents: It's hard to recommend things because it's a question of what you're ready for.

Me: BUT I WOULD HAVE BEEN READY FOR THIS TWO YEARS AGO <rushes at parents and bites them viciously>

Parents: Don't bite us.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:21:07 2020 No.15936564 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:40:46 2020 No.15936625 >>15932896 Rollin'

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:47:04 2020 No.15936651 >>15932896 Gonna roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:47:38 2020 No.15936654 >>15932869 The best book I've read were books I found mentioned and recommended on /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:49:05 2020 No.15936663 >>15936651 Oh fuck no, I can't read Lord of the Rings. I've got the movies practically burned into my memory. I'd just remember the movies the whole time I read it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:50:46 2020 No.15936667 >>15936482 based parents. it can be hard sometimes to deal with an autistic child.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 08:02:18 2020 No.15936723 >>15936654 what are some of them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 08:06:14 2020 No.15936744 >>15932896 Rolld

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 08:49:13 2020 No.15936947 >>15936723 Nothing very original, I am a boring man, but Lolita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pale Fire, A Canticle for Leibowitz to name a few.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:02:24 2020 No.15937359 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:19:19 2020 No.15937493 >>15932896 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:20:44 2020 No.15937501 >>15932896 J.K. Rolling.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:22:45 2020 No.15937514 >>15932896 rolland

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:23:52 2020 No.15937520 >>15932896 what'

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:25:42 2020 No.15937532 >>15932879 hi butterfly

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:35:45 2020 No.15937609 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:36:41 2020 No.15937621 >>15932972 >murakami >houellebecq Two authors that I found here this year that were truly something else although yeah don't fall for meme shit like ij

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:40:56 2020 No.15937652 >>15932896 woll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:47:35 2020 No.15937708 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:50:55 2020 No.15937735 >>15932896 I’ve already read all these

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:51:56 2020 No.15937746 >>15932869 I already know about all the books worth reading so I just find one of those and read

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:58:51 2020 No.15937807 Often I visit secondhand bookstores and pick out whatever catches my eye. This is how I discovered Andre Gide, J.P. Jacobsen, Charles Maturin among others.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:08:12 2020 No.15938801 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:14:07 2020 No.15938847 >>15932896 why not

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:18:06 2020 No.15938872 >>15932896 okay

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:24:03 2020 No.15938916 >>15932896 whatcha got

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:27:12 2020 No.15938947 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:32:08 2020 No.15938986 >>15937532 you're giving her too much credit, for her it's like 3 or 4 books

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:34:01 2020 No.15939002 >>15937621 Yeah, but you're a newfag. That's like saying you discovered Pynchon in 2020.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:41:05 2020 No.15939076 >>15932896 lets see what i get

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:41:27 2020 No.15939077 >>15932896 Rolen

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:52:08 2020 No.15939147 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:54:40 2020 No.15939173 >>15932899 This, books naturally lead to more books, especially nonfiction and older ones. >>15932929 Is that really a problem?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:40:38 2020 No.15939943 >>15932896 FUCK YOU /LIT/ 34 GET

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:42:17 2020 No.15939954 >>15932896 rolling for anything but pynchon or david foster wallace

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:42:43 2020 No.15939958 >>15932869 This place unironically lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:23:32 2020 No.15940266 >>15932896 rllll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:24:18 2020 No.15940274 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:24:24 2020 No.15940275 >>15932896 roll!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:29:55 2020 No.15940305 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:39:28 2020 No.15940367 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:42:55 2020 No.15940397 >>15932896

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:43:55 2020 No.15940407 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:46:11 2020 No.15940423 >>15932896 Rolo

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:56:19 2020 No.15940498 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:07:45 2020 No.15940608 >>15932896 ROLLAN

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:11:03 2020 No.15940627 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:37:28 2020 No.15940868 >>15932896 rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:38:47 2020 No.15940882 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:03:26 2020 No.15941120 >>15932896 BUMP

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:17:49 2020 No.15941257 I've been working my way down the 2017 top 100 list for the last 3 years

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:24:49 2020 No.15941309 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:29:15 2020 No.15941352 >>15932896 Rolling too

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:34:06 2020 No.15941387 >>15932896 roll like fat cunt downhill

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:38:26 2020 No.15941425 >>15932896 rollery rollin'

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 19:19:30 2020 No.15941689 Call me a log that's being pushed because I'm rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 19:31:38 2020 No.15941818 >>15939002 It's true. I am a newfag lol. But read them because they are cool and you won't be disappointed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 19:36:26 2020 No.15941850 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 19:57:15 2020 No.15941987 >>15941850 Good luck lmaooo

« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Thu Jul 23 20:05:51 2020 No.15942036

>>15935823
I got a copy because of old lit’s recommendation. One of those backlog books. I’m sure I’ll enjoy it, someday.

>>15937532
I’ve only read two books more than once (not including bible books) and that was well over fifteen years ago. An Arthur C. Clarke.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:13:27 2020 No.15942081 >>15932896 rolll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:15:56 2020 No.15942092 Sometimes the recommended reads thing on whatever sites I use to buy books are interesting

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:24:33 2020 No.15942138 >>15932896 ok

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 21:22:35 2020 No.15942470 >>15932896 Le smelly roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 21:26:09 2020 No.15942494 >>15932896 Niggerdick

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 23:04:51 2020 No.15943142 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 23:14:32 2020 No.15943189 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 23:25:28 2020 No.15943263 >>15932896 rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 23:27:03 2020 No.15943276 >>15932896 rooleng

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 23:32:24 2020 No.15943323 >>15932896 rollin

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 01:53:22 2020 No.15944400 >>15942470 Already have. Time to shit the dice

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 03:05:29 2020 No.15944829 >>15932896 Henry Rawlins.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:25:27 2020 No.15945231 >>15944400 reroll pls

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:27:12 2020 No.15945242 >>15932896 Rolling, probably not going to read it but whatever.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:37:27 2020 No.15945298

>>15932943
>Rerolling because I want something that wont require contextual knowledge. I want to read the Bible before Paradise Lost

You don't need to read the entire Bible to understand Paradise Lost. The Yale Lecture series will help you understand the fundamentals of it.

Read the specific parts of the Bible that get referenced. The entire Bible is not gonna help you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:44:19 2020 No.15945331 >>15932896 Rollarino

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:45:22 2020 No.15945334 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:46:53 2020 No.15945343 >>15932896 röll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:47:09 2020 No.15945344 >>15932896 rolls

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:24:32 2020 No.15945476 >>15932896 rollin'

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:25:34 2020 No.15945483 >>15945476 read it - reroll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 06:45:53 2020 No.15945774 >>15932896 >the Capital, Hegel, Spengler randomly thrown in >Bible at #3 What a list.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 06:46:48 2020 No.15945777 >>15932896 Röll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 06:47:25 2020 No.15945779 >>15932896 Roll :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 06:52:29 2020 No.15945800 >>15932896 rollll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 06:56:59 2020 No.15945814 >>15932896 rolling

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 07:02:50 2020 No.15945843 >>15945800 Okay, I should stop reading I guess

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 07:09:01 2020 No.15945873 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 07:11:40 2020 No.15945889 >>15932929 >your scope wouldn't progress beyond 19th century As it shouldn't. Only the classics are worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 10:05:20 2020 No.15946830 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 11:09:08 2020 No.15947333 >>15932869 I want to give her a hug, bros.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 11:13:20 2020 No.15947361 >>15932896 Ro

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 11:18:12 2020 No.15947393 >>15932896 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 11:20:06 2020 No.15947410 >>15932869 What do girls feel like bros? Are they as soft and warm as I imagine?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:31:51 2020 No.15947888 >>15947410 They really are. A girl, when she wants to be held, is absolutely the most holdable thing in the universe.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:34:57 2020 No.15947910 >>15947410 Yes. It is a genuine shame that many girls would take offense at being called delicate and soft, because they are and it's great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:36:51 2020 No.15947927 >>15947410 Yeah

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:01:08 2020 No.15948088 >>15932896 Rollerino

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:03:02 2020 No.15948098 >>15932896 Rolling too. Promise to make the rolled book my next.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:52:34 2020 No.15948566 >>15932896 Reroll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 14:01:07 2020 No.15948643 >>15932896 here we gooo

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 14:57:40 2020 No.15949126 >>15932896 rollang

>>	jesus Fri Jul 24 15:44:27 2020 No.15949477 >>15947410 they are cool when dead.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 15:47:51 2020 No.15949500 >>15932896 Rolling

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:17:54 2020 No.15949683 File: 258 KB, 1920x1080, 1576216715613.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15932896 rolllllin

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:35:59 2020 No.15949816 >>15932896 probably already read roll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:37:00 2020 No.15949821 >>15932896 Re-roll cuz I was right

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:38:01 2020 No.15949834 >>15949821 FUCK

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:38:20 2020 No.15949836 >>15932896

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:36:20 2020 No.15950269 >>15932896 rull

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 18:05:35 2020 No.15950483 >>15932896 r

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 18:07:02 2020 No.15950501 >>15932896 roll

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 18:33:13 2020 No.15950707 >>15932896 roll!

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 18:35:48 2020 No.15950731

>>15932869
Nonfiction will cite them or the intro will refer to them. Fiction's harder. Mainstream awards can be pretty lame. When I was a kid and not J-woke I started reading National Book Award-winning novels and was like wow, did anyone's grandparents not flee the pogroms and settle in New York

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:15:14 2020 No.15951009 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:16:16 2020 No.15951011 >>15951009 Already read. Rolling again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:17:18 2020 No.15951021 >>15951011 Read that as well. Third time’s a charm.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:18:18 2020 No.15951032 >>15951021 MOTHER OF ALL. Roll x 4.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 21:06:02 2020 No.15951884 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 21:08:04 2020 No.15951894 >>15932896 rolinga

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 22:28:27 2020 No.15952493 >>15932896 rollerino

>>	sag Fri Jul 24 22:47:12 2020 No.15952649 >>15932896 >the reddit chart

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 22:48:33 2020 No.15952659 >>15932896 rolll

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 22:49:21 2020 No.15952668 >>15932896 The book I get will be stupid and not straight

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Fri Jul 24 22:51:09 2020 No.15952682 >>15952668 >Mishima Hmm maybe

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 23:16:29 2020 No.15952855

>>15935823
Anything by Pavic is great. He really plays with the medium in very creative but not annoying ways. I first read Unique Item which is a detective story featuring a "dream merchant". It's super short and it comes with the detective's notebook with information to help you understand and piece together the mystery. Anything you can get your hands on is recommended although I'm not sure how much of it is translated to english.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 23:21:19 2020 No.15952886

>>15936291
If you can get someone to read the version other than yours alongside you it can be a really fun experience. The differences are such that they're relatively subtle but really really have profound impact in each respective version at large. Kinda like men and women.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 23:46:39 2020 No.15953067 >>15932896 ok

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 00:37:56 2020 No.15953393 >>15932896 It's that easy

>>	sag Sat Jul 25 01:04:44 2020 No.15953587 >>15952682 kill yourself tranny

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:08:42 2020 No.15953616

Once you read enough books you will come across so many names in passing that it will begin to snowball. If you read nonfiction it happens much faster as the related books are listed at the start and often referenced throughout.

I feel like it is better to discover things "naturally" like this instead of just through random charts

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 02:39:42 2020 No.15954113 >>15952855 Anything? Ive read a collection of his short stories and they were of mixed quality.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 04:51:16 2020 No.15954635 >>15932896 Rill

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 07:21:27 2020 No.15955192 >>15932896 rollanarado

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 08:50:20 2020 No.15955551 >>15932896 go

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 08:52:23 2020 No.15955557

>>15932869

1. Gather all the books you like
2. List the publishers
3. Go through the publisher's catalogue
4. Find books

Obviously this doesn't work as well for major publishing houses like Penguin and Oxford, but it's likely a handful of the books you like were published by smaller presses which will be more selective about what they publish.

For instance, I've never read a book published by nyrb that I haven't enjoyed, so if I see they've published something interesting I'll get it. After reading Denton Welch's In Youth is Pleasure I looked up the publisher (Exact Change) and found some other books that looked interesting.

This also works for movies and music. If you like a film, look up the production company or distributor (or even the cinematographer) and see what else they've done. If you like an album, look up the label.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 08:53:59 2020 No.15955562 >>15932896 rolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 08:57:21 2020 No.15955580 >OP wants to discuss the topic of rare hidden gems of literature >the thread gets hijacked by a chart based on popularity Is this a troll thread?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 09:07:46 2020 No.15955626 >>15932896 joj

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 09:43:12 2020 No.15955786 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:30:41 2020 No.15956021 >>15932896 rollybolly

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:10:51 2020 No.15956264 >>15932896 roal

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:14:46 2020 No.15956279 >>15932896 Worth a try

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:15:41 2020 No.15956285 >>15932896 Roll niggagagagagaggag

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:18:56 2020 No.15956311 >>15932896 yeet

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:24:57 2020 No.15956843 >>15932896 Rolling for MOBIVS DICK

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:25:13 2020 No.15956845 >>15932896 Yerp

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:42:00 2020 No.15956987 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:06:13 2020 No.15957977 >>15932896 Do good

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:12:50 2020 No.15958019 >>15932896 Rolling for marx

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:37:04 2020 No.15959170 File: 1.05 MB, 1440x2960, 1594776327308.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15932896 Reading goethe but lemme roll on through

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:39:49 2020 No.15959191 Rollzort

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:27:46 2020 No.15959499 >>15932896 rollo

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:28:41 2020 No.15959509 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:28:53 2020 No.15959512 >>15932896 fuck it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:33:11 2020 No.15959917 >>15932896 desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 20:11:03 2020 No.15960148 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 20:20:05 2020 No.15960213 >>15932896 oh righ

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 20:46:58 2020 No.15960369 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 20:48:16 2020 No.15960378 >>15932896 Roll.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 20:52:12 2020 No.15960399 >>15932869 I'M GONNA COOOOOOOOM

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 21:26:34 2020 No.15960624 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 21:30:36 2020 No.15960644 >>15932896 how do i roll???

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 23:28:19 2020 No.15961316 ROLLOOOOO

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 23:30:43 2020 No.15961330 >>15932896 R

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 23:45:54 2020 No.15961398

I have a huge list of thousands of authors which I've compiled over a number of years. What I'll do is pick a random line in that file. If I know of the author and have read his books, I'll look for a quote of his, or the title of his book on google (this works better for more obscure books), most of the time there willl be some unknown blogging or commenting on said book, then I can look through that blog/poster's history and see what they've been reading, etc. I also like using wikipedia's e.g. "male german writers from the 18th century" type of list. That being said, I've always most enjoyed simply spending an afternoon at a library or used bookshop just looking through what they have. A virtual way of doing that would be to look up sellers from ebay/abebooks and see what they have in their inventory.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 01:53:32 2020 No.15961925 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 01:54:26 2020 No.15961930 >>15932896 Roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:02:08 2020 No.15961970 >>15932896 Piece of piss

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:04:20 2020 No.15961981 >>15932896 rool

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:18:51 2020 No.15962051 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:24:38 2020 No.15962077 >>15932896 rol

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:35:02 2020 No.15962127 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 03:27:58 2020 No.15962358 >>15932896 Rolen

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 08:03:13 2020 No.15963510 >>15932896 rolling

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 09:33:48 2020 No.15963853 >>15932896 roll/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:02:46 2020 No.15963999 >>15932896 Alright let's roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:03:34 2020 No.15964005 >>15932896 rollin

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:12:43 2020 No.15964067 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:13:37 2020 No.15964073 >>15963999 Only trips of my life wasted on this shit

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:17:13 2020 No.15964092

>>15936482
What a retarded take. There's this thing called 'subjectivity' you might want to read about. I will say I'm impressed by your ability to take something so unimportant and inane and turn into a HUGE ISSUE that merits freaking out and obsessing over...must be a fun way to live!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:48:12 2020 No.15964272 >>15932896 roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:53:24 2020 No.15964289 >>15932896 roll

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