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Recommend a book, as if no one will make fun of you for it

>> No.8704009

>>8703975
Stoner - John Williams

If you are a student I would urgently recommend this book. Superciliousness aside, this book is perfect.

>> No.8704011
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One of the best books I've ever read.

>> No.8704020
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Holy Bible KJV

>> No.8704023
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Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice

>> No.8704025

>>8703975
Suttree

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>>8704023
did someone draw her tits on to her chest

>> No.8704048

A Clockwork Orange, Breakfast of Champions, and Catch-22.

I also keep a copy of IT around, and read it every 4-5 years. You can make fun of me for that.

>> No.8704061

>>8704048
Would punch you in the face if I met you irl.

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>>8704031

I don't fully understand this gibe but I'm fuming nonetheless.

>> No.8704079

Shantaram

>> No.8704083

How to train your dragon.
You're welcome.

>> No.8704085

>>8703975
I don't understand this thread.

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Fight club

>> No.8704099 [DELETED] 

>>8704079
Shantaram is fiction.
>and then I went to this village. and everyone loved me lol
>and then I was being tortured, and I totally independantly came up with Viktor Frankl's philosophy lol
>and then I went into the slums and put out a fire and healed everyone because I was white xD Everyone loved me btw


t. Gregory R. Davis acquaintance.

>> No.8704111

>>8704079
Shantaram is fiction.
>and then I went to this village. and everyone loved me lol
>and then I was being tortured, and I totally independantly came up with Viktor Frankl's philosophy lol
>and then I went into the slums and put out a fire and healed everyone because I was white xD Everyone loved me btw


t. Gregory D. Roberts acquaintance.

>> No.8704121

>>8704076
Asymmetrical boobies!?

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>> No.8704208

>>8703975
My Diary Desu

>> No.8704210

>>8704061
>Would punch you in the face if I met you irl.

You could try. You'd more likely stagger home crying, holding your ass.

>> No.8704218

>>8704210
I find that hard to viddy, edgelord.

>> No.8704250

>>8704218
>I find that hard to viddy, edgelord.

A couple tolchocks and a raz rez of your platies, and you'll think most different, little droogie.

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>>8704250

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YEET

>> No.8704424

>>8703975
Bridge of Birds

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Holes

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songs of a dead dreamer and grimscribe

>> No.8705201

>>8704288
My brother just read this. He has shit taste.

Nathan, do you post on /lit/ now?

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>>8703975
Its one of my favorite books. Really enjoyed the faction type political intrigue and worldbuilding. Lots of good characters as well.

>> No.8705305

Abbott - Flatland

>> No.8705315

Hunter by Andrew Williams
The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
The Culture of Critique by Kevin Macdonald

>> No.8705411

>>8704009
I think you mistook superciliousness for supersillyness.

>> No.8705417

The Knife of Never Letting Go
It's pretty good, desu, despite the shitty name

>> No.8706764

I am reading crime and punishment right now. pretty good. can someone recommend me a redpilled book on slavery in america?

>> No.8706766

Percy Jackson

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>tfw you can't recommend one of your favorite books because it's gay as fuck

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I'd like to slightly derail this thread.

I'm getting my friends books for Christmas and I can't decide. Both are artists, one of them has read some literature (Hamlet and Portrait of a Young man), and the other doesn't read it.

I've gotten a few ideas
> Don Quixote
> Meditations
> Stoner

Any yays, nays, or suggestions?

>> No.8707371

>>8707286
I wouldn't give Quixote to anyone who doesn't read, the length will probably scare them off.

Maybe The Picture of Dorian Grey? Meditations is a good shout.

>> No.8707373
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Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, a short 19thC Russian novel about nihilism, vanity, love, and communication across the generation gap - a family saga that is not overly sentimental. I read the Pete Carsson translation.

A young graduate returns to the provincial family home with a new friend, a nihilistic doctor who ruffles feathers by his forthright views on society. There is love, disease, death, a duel, and a lot of character observation of memorable figures from up and down society, within a relatively short space.

>> No.8707404

>>8704089
Same fampai. I unironically enjoyed this novel. Can someone explain why it's a meme here? It's pretty edgy at times but other than that seems pretty good.

>> No.8707419

>>8707371
I figured that Meditations would be good, but I also wanted to get them a second book. The problem is I don't want to get them anything that has wank jokes (So basically no Montaigne or Derrida), highly sexual themes, or anything too long.

I don't read enough literature to be able to know what book would be perfect, so I figured asking here would be good. I'll look into the Picture of Dorian Grey!

>> No.8707433

Catcher in the Rye

>> No.8707437
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Or most anything else by Roald Dahl. Just plain good fun.

>> No.8707464

>>8707286
Get em something recent enough to not feel antiquated but something well regarded and possible to be canonised, also I would recommend keeping it short. White Noise? Blood Meridian? TCoL49? None of those are too long, they were novels I enjoyed most when I was getting into literature.

I haven't read stoner or meditations, but I have read DQ and I agree with the other guy, it's very long and without understanding of how ahead of its time it was, could be very boring.

>> No.8707504

>>8707464
Is Crying of Lot 49 hard? I haven't read it, but the same guy wrote Gravity's rainbow so...

I will look into your two other suggestions as well. It's hard to know what books they'll like.

>> No.8707592

>>8704121
Virginia detected, most boobies, like balls, are asymmetrical

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>>8707504
Not him but some book guy I listen to occasionally on youtube said it was the hardest he's ever read, and he has a lot under his belt. YT:Fortheloveofryan

>> No.8707652

>>8704186
How does it compare to the movie?

>> No.8707679

>>8707595
kek

>> No.8707687

>>8705203

Same, too bad that fatty will eat himself to death before the sixth book comes out.

>> No.8707688

>>8707595
>>8707679
Oh, am I getting memed on?

>> No.8707690

>>8707688
absolutely.
its fucking easy like trig.

>> No.8707694

>>8704009
why

>> No.8707702

i used to love reading as a kid but now i cant seem to read more than 100 pages in a month because nothing is appealing to me, please post something that you couldnt put down and you were engrossed in?

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>>8707690
Now here's the question
Are you meming me?

>> No.8707719

The Amulet of Samarkand

>> No.8707980

I like High Rise by J. G. Ballard. It's a fun book.

>> No.8708150

>>8707595
I haven't read the book but if its difficulty is comparable to whatever they're doing on that board it can't be terribly hard. Just looks like basic trig applied in 3 dimensions. Oh and a pair of offset circles. That's basic first year stuff for anyone in a science degree, and an intelligent high schooler could definitely figure it out. Unless what they're doing is leading up to something much grander than what's currently on the board.

/autism

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Atlas Shrugged

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>> No.8709572

>>8707702
Build your way up starting with short stories. Then read novels like 1984 or The Old Man and the Sea, which are middle lenght, and so on.

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>> No.8710178

>>8707687
yeah, youd think he'd have the story planned out but it looks like he just cant figure out how to end it or bring it all together.

im dreading the day i wake up to the new that he's died.