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ITT: Create a mosaic of your nine favourite books.

Do it here; http://bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php

Pic related, it's my choices.

>> No.913161

bamp

>> No.913184
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center and left center are life of pi and moby dick, respectively.

>> No.913187
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middle left is illuminations by Rimbaud. middle right is Naked Lunch. Bottom right got cut out but it's Franz Kafka's The Castle.

>> No.913195
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>> No.913196

>>913187
I'm starting journey to the end of the night in a few days, how taxing is it to read? I'd like to finish it before school starts up in a few weeks, but I'm not sure if it's very dense as I've never read Celine before.

>> No.913206

>>913195
ROFL. Brainwashed much?

>> No.913217

>>913196
Not dense at all. It's kind of a breeze to read and to me it was one of those books which you can't put down. It's a philisophical adventure story with lots of humor. It was written in french ''argot'' which means the language is basically simple. New Directions has a great translation, but I imagine it's simple enough in any translation to come across.

>> No.913237

>>913217
alright awesome now I'm excited.

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>> No.913266

HAHAHA. We've got some pretty generic /lit/core up in this bitch.

>> No.913268
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Top mid is Ficciones, bottom left is Beyond Good & Evil.

>> No.913274

>>913157
jesus christ what are you a 9th grade english teacher?

>> No.913275

>>913274
well i'm not a /lit/snob.

>> No.913282

>>913196
Not difficult or dense at all. Once I got to page three I was hooked and ignored all responsibilities until I finished. The Manheik translation (1980s) is the best. The older translation glosses over Celine's choppy, colloquial, vulgar style. It was made for a prude English-speaking world that didn't allow frank discussions of sex or curse words in books. Celine sanitized is not a very interesting Celine.

>> No.913288

>>913282
*Manheim translation, not Manheik. I think his first name is Ralph.

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1. LOTR
2. Count of Monte Cristo
3. Ivanhoe
4. War and Peace
5. Kidnapped
6. 1984
7. Grapes of Wrath
8. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
9. Crime and Punishment

>> No.913305
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This should be interesting...

>> No.913307

>>913268
Borges and Camus lover brofist

>> No.913311

>>913297
High School lit with some Russians thrown in.

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>>913305

>> No.913316

>>913282
sweet that's the translation I have

>> No.913319

>>913311
lol u mad because i'm not pretending philosopy texts are my favourite books ever?
I wish I had studied those books at school.

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>> No.913344

>>913268

I like that the book in the bottom-right has a vertical that reads FAGPOW

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>> No.913347

>HAHAHA. We've got some pretty generic /lit/core up in this bitch.
>jesus christ what are you a 9th grade english teacher?

And then /lit/ was /mu/.

>> No.913349

are the haters on this thread doing their own mosiac? i need to be schooled in your taste in william burroughs and palahniuk.

>> No.913352

>>913334
Neverwhere and Pattern Recognition? I like you, sir.

>> No.913354

>>913319
>I wish I had studied those books at school.

This. The idiots who complain about what they consider to be "high school lit" don't realize how lucky they were to have had to read those books in high school.

>> No.913357

>>913349
>Mentioning Burroughs in the same sentence as that faggot Palahniuk

Nigger please

>> No.913359

>>913349
>are the haters on this thread doing their own mosiac?

Maybe yes, maybe no. In any case, at least we know how to spell mosaic and use our shift keys.

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The one with no author that isn't obvious is the Complete Stories by Franz Kafka.

>> No.913363

>>913187
is this /lit/ core

>> No.913364

>>913354
This. Haters gonna hate.

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>>913359
>grammar on the internet

>> No.913368

>>913359

Is this what we get in the god tier board? Crucifying someone for a lazy spelling error. Shit is hardcore.

>> No.913370

Sure is hipster garbage in this thread...

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>>913367
>Not using the full keyboard sitting right in front of you.

>> No.913375

>>913370
>only reads genre fiction
>eschews social interraction
>projects pretense onto people who are more socially successful
stay classy /lit/.

>> No.913376

>>913367
>>913368

Sure is butthurt analphabets in here.

>> No.913380

OP here. You're ruining my thread. lol

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>>913374
>implying anything outside of correct spelling is relevant

>> No.913390

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
THIS IS /MU/ SHIT
/lit/, I am disapoint .

>> No.913396

>>913390

what the fuck were you expecting. no one reads books anymore except for hipsters

>> No.913402

>>913389
>implying I care and don't still think you're a fucking retard

>> No.913404

>>913380

Welcome to 4chan.

>> No.913405

OP here - I'm bailing. This puppy is dead.

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>> No.913459

>>913187
French fag?

>> No.913460

>>913444
the only good 3by3 in this threead

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>>913460

>> No.913467

>>913459
No American actually but I didn't realize until I made the list how much I favor France. I am going to take classes in French, too.

>> No.913486

>>913464
reverse trolling?

>> No.913488

>>913467
Oh, that's nice.

>> No.913502

>>913460
anything with ayn rand yada yada yada you're wrong.

>> No.913506

>>913334
>Feynman
You are a good person!

>> No.913513

>>913502
So because I genuinely enjoy Ms. Rand's fine literature and philosophy, I'm a troll?

>> No.913521

>>913513
It's not the most decent 3by3 though. It's the less pretentious though.

>> No.913527

>>913521
At least didn't list War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and Lolita or some shit to look like a pretentious intellectual. I read most books, like The Dresden Files, for fun.

>> No.913537

>>913527
Implying you have to read stupid books for it to be fun. JESUS people some times intellectuals do what they do because that is what is fun to them.

>> No.913547

Lolita is pretentious? I'll take that as a complement.

>> No.913558

>>913527
There is nothing pretentious about any of those books. You sound like some fucking crazy Republican anti-intellectual.

>> No.913564

>>913375
>LOL UR JUST JEALOUS I HAVE MORE FRIENDS THAN U

Typical hipster response.

>> No.913565

>>913558
Try again, I voted Obama.

>> No.913585

>>913375
>eschews social interraction
Cool strawman bro

>> No.913586

>>913527
Why are you on a literature board if you have a problem with classic literature?

>> No.913589

>>913585

That's not a strawman dude, wtf.

>> No.913598

>>913586

What would we do without that one guy that starts and samefags all the dresden threads?

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>>913598
We'd abide....
we'd abide....

>> No.913641

>>913564
It works because it is true.

>> No.913648

Sure is /mu/ in here.

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Awesome books up in this bitch.

>> No.913695

>>913681
>comics


get out of here you illiterate manchild

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I didn't know what metric of favourite to use, so I went with 9 books that are important to me. Each of these books was a revelation to me when I first read it, and remains a source of inspiration.

Top-right is Nausea by Sartre. Middle-Right is The White Deer.

>> No.913722

>>913681
>funnybooks

nope, try again.

>> No.913745

>>913695
I do read comics but rarely regard them as legit reading. However Batman Year One and Watchmen are worthy of spots on my list. Since I'm guessing you've never read them, enjoy your uninformed opinion.

>> No.913748

>>913157
what is the top left book?

>> No.913756

>>913706
I have that book by Beckett

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>>913745
The only comic worthy of Literature-status is Invincible

>> No.913776

comics and books are two separate things - it's unfair that i have to use my imagination while you fuckers get it all drawn out for you. putting them together is therefore WRONG.

And the guy who did Maus should give back his Pulitzer Prize.

>> No.913781

>>913776
The Pulitzer has been meaningless for decades yo

>> No.913788

>the guy who did Maus
Nice informed opinion yo

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God tier: my tastes, Fag tier: your tastes, etc.

>> No.913810

>>913788
This post baffles me. I'm on the Internet with easy access to information - if I wanted to say Art Spiegelman I would have.

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>> No.913829

>>913823
>>913823
swans is okay but shitty prog rock is shitty

>> No.913830

>>913762

Walking Dead > The Road

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Solipsism says that my taste is the only taste that matters.

>> No.913904

I'm going get a lot of heat for this, but I'm just gonna come out here and say I didn't enjoy Slaughterhouse Five very much. Frankly, I don't know why it's considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Maybe I just didn't "get it."

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My list is Zeus. Suck it.

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I only started seriously reading for pleasure a year ago so my taste is entry-level.

I look at my growing to-read list which is nearing 1,000 now and despair. Shit will take me decades.

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>> No.913937

>>913776
If using your imagination is as difficult of a task for you as you make it sound, maybe you should check out some sitcoms or children's programming.

>> No.913940

>>913904
You must have missed the Satirical genius.
Goddamn Trafalmadorian.

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>> No.914010

Would it be acceptable include Shakespeare's plays?

>> No.914027
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I guess I just don't have that many favorite books

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

>> No.914244

>>913157

nice op, hey nostrodomus is my fucking favorite book of all time. it's a shame it's not more recognized

>> No.914298

>>914027

Can you or anyone tell me what's so great about that zombie survival book?

THEY'RE NOT EVEN REAL?!?!?!

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>> No.914493

NO ONE MENTIONED MANAIC MAGEE?

i'm 23 now, but that book was fucking life changing for me

>> No.914498

A 3x3 thread. It's like I'm really on /mu/

Now I'm sad.

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Horrorfag here :D

I'm sure you know these...

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Top right was supposed to be Neverwhere.

>> No.915949

>>914300
>Sure is high school in here.