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What's your favourite book you read in 2021? Not necessarily the best, just your favourite. This is mine. It was a lot of fun and at times genuinely terrifying. I liked the word art and hidden puzzles. It got a little tedious at times (Nth review of The Navidson Record from X perspective with Y footnotes) but was ultimately worth slogging through these parts.

>> No.19659662

>>19659539
not even joking
Behead All Satans
great characterization and it was crazy different in a good way

>> No.19659729

>>19659539
I liked The Ice-Shirt by Vollmann. Very fun.

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this by far
i love her so much

>> No.19659760

>>19659539
I read all of cesar aira this year.
I loved ghosts and an episode in the life of a landscape painter.

>> No.19659795

>>19659662
You still here?

>> No.19660846

Moby Dick

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>>19660846
I wanted to read it but then I read pic related and now I don't know..

>> No.19660906

The Truce, Benedetti.
Diary of a country priest, Bernanos.

>> No.19660921

>>19660868
You missed the chapter where they discuas the evolution of the concept of declaiming: "No Homo." It really ties together the wooden leg jokes with the sperm chapters, nautical aromas, and cabin boy episode. Its the best book in English.

>> No.19660942

>>19660921
what the fuck

>> No.19661271

A toss up between Wuthering Heights and A Hero of Our Times.

>> No.19661285

>>19659735
>intro by Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson
Fuck yea

>> No.19661320

>>19661285
>WHAT CAN I SAAAY EXCEPT... JUST READ THIS!

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Without a doubt pic related. What a great book.

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This, I thought it was a meme but it’s pretty decent

>> No.19663441

Absalom, Absalom! or In Search of Lost Time for me. I also really liked The First Circle.

>> No.19663446

Waiting for gadot

>> No.19663475

The Tree of Man by Patrick White. A few specific scenes I have gone back and reread several times since I finished the book. It's absolutely superb.

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This hit me a lot harder than I was expecting. First it sent me onto a misogynist rage then when I really thought about it an awful lot of the men were sons of bitches in their own right.
I’m a confirmed misanthrope now.

And parts of it were pretty funny too.

It’s what Fitzgerald wishes Gatsby was.

>> No.19663683

>>19659539
House of Leaves was great, I agree.
Favourite of mine was Piranesi. Loads of tiny reveals and a really fact pace, it was an amazing read.

>> No.19665037

Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts.

It's short but I liked it.

>> No.19665050

>>19663549
>It’s what Fitzgerald wishes Gatsby was
Imagine unironically typing this.

>> No.19665059

>>19663549
the ending of this book was fucking crazy, love it