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Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:13:17 2014 No.4436879 [DELETED]

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Found this infograph on leddit. Is this a good list of books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:15:16 2014 No.4436890 Paulo Coelho and Neil Gaiman are shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:16:16 2014 No.4436895 >>4436879 Yes. I approve of this list. Who am I? Nobody. This list is high quality entry level literature, if you want to be a cultured person.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:20:16 2014 No.4436910 wow what shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:22:16 2014 No.4436919 Thos books are a load of crapola

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:27:16 2014 No.4436930 File: 495 KB, 1215x887, tigra.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pagenumbers are for remembering where you stopped reading, not for knowing how much pages a book is, lettertypes can change.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:29:16 2014 No.4436933 >>4436890 You're shit

Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:43:19 2014 No.4436972

>>4436890
>Paulo Coelho

This. If you suggest the reading of Paulo Coelho you are either retarded or are acting in bad faith. This guy is not only a bad writer, but also a terrible human being: coward, liar, arrogant, charlatan (for example, he once hit a boy with his car and fled the scene; he state that he can control the weather; se assured that he once made a pact with the demon; he lied about his youth and sex life, painting himself in much more impressive colors; he forced a girlfriend to make an abortion, and other things – he is, you can see, a piece of trash). He is some kind of cultural cancer (well, the world is full of them – just take a look at rap and hip hop).

I really think this piece of shit should die: the world would be a cleaner place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:52:46 2014 No.4436988 File: 32 KB, 250x272, stopped reading there.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4436879 >Neil Gaiman

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 19:54:18 2014 No.4436993 eh its like half pleb tier

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 13:37:20 2014 No.4439216 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 13:42:19 2014 No.4439228 >>4436972 The scoundrel also insulted Ulysses!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 13:46:52 2014 No.4439235 >>4436972 What did you expect a perfect human being?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 14:09:51 2014 No.4439278 >>4436890 My dog writes better than Coelho when he shits. But Gaiman is fairly good, I enjoy Sandman and most of his novels

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 14:12:51 2014 No.4439287 >>4439235 Invalid. He writes self-help motivational novels. If he wrote fiction I wouldn't give a fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 14:21:51 2014 No.4439316 >Series of Unfortunate Events It's actually good, though kid's book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 14:25:52 2014 No.4439328 >>4439278 Only when Coelho shits?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 14:28:51 2014 No.4439342 Old man and the sea. Wasn't that wrote after he got senile?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 21:29:17 2014 No.4440644 >>4439328 Plot twist: his dog is Coelho

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 21:34:17 2014 No.4440659 Charlotte's Web and The Stranger on the same list? Who was this list made for imao

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 21:35:17 2014 No.4440665 The novella is the highest form of /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 01:03:15 2014 No.4441383 Infinite Jest is honestly better than all of those combined and much shorter

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 13:44:47 2014 No.4441522 >>4440659 it was made for karma

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 13:51:47 2014 No.4441549 >>4436972 so biased

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 13:54:47 2014 No.4441554 >>4436972 Brazilians always hate Paulo Coelho. Seeing how you say "demon" instead of Devil only reinforces my suspicion. Hell, I should know, being from the same place and also hating Paulo Coelho.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 13:57:47 2014 No.4441563 File: 8 KB, 241x228, sweaty froggy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw reddit has better taste than /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 14:01:47 2014 No.4441577 http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/readlist.shtml

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 14:08:47 2014 No.4441604 those are all very quick reads i would never recommend 90% of that list to any adult but there's some good stuff. i think that list might have been made for children/"young adults" though. most of the books on there I read around the age of 10-14.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 14:12:47 2014 No.4441613 there's no bernhard so no

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 14:30:47 2014 No.4441664 >>4436972 I didn't know any of this, but I read The Alchemist when I was 13 and thought it was fucking shit. Looks like I wasn't alone

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 14:38:09 2014 No.4441692 >>4441604 are you serious? I read these when I was 6. fucking plebs

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 15:55:45 2014 No.4441979 How has nobody mentioned the book by Steve Martin?

>>	FiRez !!tndrCZJHE+I Sun Jan 5 16:10:02 2014 No.4442018 Grendel and The Old Man and the Sea are great existentialist reads even better than The Stranger imho.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 19:17:29 2014 No.4442775 Definitely high schoolcore, but decent list.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 12:20:58 2014 No.4444962 Neil Gaiman is amazing - to that one anon Other than that avoid reading Animal Farm - the biggest disappointment. Orwel is pretty good though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 12:30:58 2014 No.4444990 >>4444962 Never trust the opinion of someone who calls Neil Gaiman amazing. I've read the entire Sandman comic and I still had the clarity to see that American Gods turned to shit about halfway through.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 12:33:58 2014 No.4444999 >>4444990 that's cause you A) read a comic B) read the wrong book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 12:43:58 2014 No.4445016 anyone read Rape: A Love Story? and would they reccomend it or not?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 12:57:58 2014 No.4445038 >>4444999 Sandman is Gaiman's best work by a million miles. He just isn't a great novelist, but Sandman is legitimately unsurpassed in its medium for me. And that's not just because of the general lower quality of comics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 12:58:58 2014 No.4445041 >>4444962 Neil Gaiman is a terrible writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 12:58:58 2014 No.4445043 >>4436879 >not a single Calvino book >no Motorman I guess I would expect that from le Reddit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:07:59 2014 No.4445061 >>4445038 >reading comics for plot top lel

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:10:58 2014 No.4445067 >>4445043 le retard face

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:10:58 2014 No.4445068 >No plays

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:20:32 2014 No.4445095 >>4436910 >>4436919 >>4436988 >>4436993 >>4441692 >blanket negativity >nothing to offer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:24:32 2014 No.4445103 >>4441692 you read the ocean at the end of the lane when you were six? that was released this year >B&

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:25:32 2014 No.4445107 >>4445068 Importance of Being Earnest is there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:29:33 2014 No.4445118 >>4445103 He's also never heard of Buber.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 15:02:04 2014 No.4445324 >>4436972 I didn't read The Alchemist, but now I will. How shit could it be? I want to become angry as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 15:07:04 2014 No.4445337 >>4436879 I love short reads. Thanks for the list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 7 08:12:07 2014 No.4447690 Read The Alchemist as a teen. Absolutely fucking hated it. Fuck Paul Coelho.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 02:06:06 2014 No.4450155 >>4440644 oh fuck

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 02:08:05 2014 No.4450157 >>4441692 i read all of these when i was a toddler faggot

JewmanMenorahSupreme Wed Jan 8 02:12:05 2014 No.4450161
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>>4436972
so essentially he's like every other human being that's ever existed ever?

I'm just wondering what a person's personal life has to do with the quality of their writing.

I read the Alchemist, and honestly it wasn't as horrible as you make it out to be. Sure it was a little force feedy, but nothing is black and white like the picture you paint.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 02:13:05 2014 No.4450163 >>4447690 agreed. that book is fucking awful

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 03:09:41 2014 No.4450236 >>4436972 >talking shit about someone being a cultural cancer >blindly insulting a valid art form you clearly know nothing about can you keep your pretentious bullshit to yourself?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 03:34:43 2014 No.4450256 >>4445324 It is really bad

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 04:34:43 2014 No.4450314 >>4450163 >>4450256 Hmm. Why?

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