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If /lit/ only could choose five books to read, which one would you choose and why.

>> No.2346837

>>2346835
What about hypothetical books?

>> No.2346835

Define
>books
in this context.
Do anthologies and omnibus collections count as a book, if bound together?

>> No.2346845
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2346845

With "books" do you mean any written narrative? Does it has to be by one author alone, no collaborations? Does it need to be published? Where does it end anyway -- what if it's continuous, multiauthoral narrative?

My list:
4chan
4chan
4chan
4chan
4chan

>> No.2346889

Catch 22
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
A farewell to Arms
Slaughterhouse 5
U mad?

>> No.2346966

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Stars my Destination
1984
Animal Farm
Anthem

>> No.2347006

In Search of Lost Time - first 5 volumes and then I'll kill myself since I'll never finish it.

>> No.2347014

>>2346966
Hitchens' spiritual successor detected

>> No.2347020

>>2346966

>God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything


Wow you're bitter.

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2347017

All five books.

>> No.2347030

>>2347017
>malus darkblade
is that a joke?

>> No.2347031

Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
Swann's Way
Sexus
The Fountainhead

>> No.2347033

Green Eggs and Ham
The Hungry Caterpillar
Mr Happy (Mr Men series)
James and the Giant Peach
Where the Wild Things Are

>> No.2347037

>>2347017
...ohhhhh "MAlus darkblade"...

>> No.2347043

>>2347020
Not that guy but it's funny you should react like that. I read God is not Great then I read Life of Pi. Though religious people would never realise it, the latter is actually more derogatory. The former is at least is up front with its vitriol, but the latter is duplicitous in its condescension by the time you reach the end.

>> No.2347048

>>2347030
Uh, no. Have you ever read a better series of novels?

>> No.2347051

finnegans wake
under the volcano
fictions
don quixote
conrad aiken poetry

>> No.2347060

>>2347051
I thought you didn't like Under The Volcano... awesome book, still!

Dean

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2347065

>>2347060
>Dean

>> No.2347068

>>2346767
The Bible~Gotta get your God on.
Finnegans Wake~Canever have unough puns.
The TLP~Bad philosophy but endless naval-gazing assured.
Moby-Dick~>dat spermaceti
The Changing Light at Sandover (or Collected Poems)~Favorite poetry.

>> No.2347077

>>2347051
whats fictions? i cant do a google search for obvious reasons...

>> No.2347078

>>2347068

what the fuck is TLP

>> No.2347082

>>2347078
wittgenstein

>> No.2347086

>>2347077
fictiones by Borges, probably

i know, it sounds pretty stupid in english

>> No.2347119

>>2347068
why now koran? vedas? granth?

>> No.2347120

>>2346767
The classic 5 tome collection:
"The entire literature of Earth"

It's included in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
At least in the edition I read ...

>> No.2347141

>>2346966

>God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

I just finished this. I like Hitchens and I read everything of his I can, but this thing drones on and on and on just like a Pat Robertson book would drone on and on about its antithesis. It's a tiring read.