hi /b/rothers God tier Books. Pic unrelated

The Holy Bible

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>>562340431
so much loli and incest plus they killed faggots like op, there was also some beastiality in there for the furfags so in the end I guess it would be the best book for you

Henri Michaux - Darkness Moves
Sadeq Hedayat - Blind Owl
Marquis De Sade - Justine

These are my 3 favorites.

Woody got wood

>>562340323
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

anything from Tolkien

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>>562341429
>anything from Tolkien
is boring as fuck

>>562341646
you must not have fucked before

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I really enjoy Steinbeck's works, particularly East of Eden

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Relevant given the WW1 timing.

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>>562341840
keked a bit

>>562341861
the red pony made me cry

Terry pratchets always good

>>562341958

Thats one of the few i've yet to read, will bump it up to the top of my to read list if its that good!

The original dune saga, the additions by Brian and Anderson are not to shabby either.

>because something that has over 150m copies sold is boring

Any good military books? I read Soldier X and liked it. I plan on reading Unbroken and Flags of Our Fathers.

The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

>>562341958

Fucking slow pointless book.
The Pearl is much better imo.
Still pretty shit tier.

Starship Troopers

>>562342128
anything tom clancy. the attention to detail is the best part

Don Quixote is the only correct answer

Kraken by China Mieville

>>562340431
>>562341342
>>562341429
>>562341996

strong. my favorite is The Stand and has been since i was 14, myself.

>>562342546
I'm still not sure if Zen and the Art is autobiographical or not

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If you enjoy fantasy, you need Trudi Canavan.

>The Black Magician Trilogy
>The Age of the Five Trilogy

Both are awesome.

>>562342910
And fuck Tolkien epicly boring shit. It has good plot and all but man, those 10 page long descriptions suck.

>>562340323

TOP TIER

Anything by

>Miller
>Burroughs
>Orwell
>Vonnegut
>Keller

>>562343196
i forgot what was happening when those were dropped.

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>>562343348
also my personal fav.

>>562340323
The gulag archipelago volume 2

>>562343543
I'm a big Celine fan, I even named my cat Bebert, but I much preferred his trilogie allemande. I don't understand why voyage is so well regarded.

>>562340431
Sorry, I prefer non-fiction.

>>562344950
youre a cheap nigger

>>562345234
wrong on both counts, sorry dude. Sorry to offend you with the truth.

>>562341840
>you must not have fucked before
nice comeback, you really got him there

Orwell's 1984.

>>562346360
>>562346443
These two are GOAT

i would recommend American psycho

>>562346805

Excuse my apparent lack of knowledge, but what the fuck is GOAT?!

The Road ~ Cormac McCarthy

>>562346360
they made a video game adaption from that book
never read it but i enjoyed the game

now someone make me feel bad for doing so

>>562346360
One of the best books I've ever read.

>>562347081
Greatest of all time

The Speaker for the Dead is a good

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>>562341840
>this is how virgins denounce criticism

FILTH by Irvine Welsh

Every /b/tard should read this.

Song of Ice and Fire

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>>562347834
This x 1000.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

Those are my two personal favourites, recommend them to anyone anytime.

>>562340323

Listen to me op, u read only, Frederich Nietzsche, then Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and u finish with Charles Bukowski, after that u have nothing more to read, ever, in the world.

>>562348174
God bless Mr rose water is my personal fav

>>562347221
Ten minutes in, I said fuck this piece of shit.

The Riftwar Saga - Raymond E. Feist
The Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Rothfuss
Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson

Not all favorites, just good ones.

The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

>>562348624
Still need to read that. Another good one is Galapagos. Been recommended Breakfast of Champions too

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niggers

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huehue

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>>562340323

In case anyone's wondering why this faggot posted a photo for ants; here's the correct size.

>>562348630
The Kingkiller Chronicle is definitely a good read

>>562349281
In the thumbnail those looked like leggings. ayy lmao

>>562347901
More art?

>>562347834
I'm on book 4 now. its pretty meh. The cons are he spends too much time explaining what people are eating, then what they are wearing (even unimportant characters). and the sex scenes are written like a pubescent 12 year old boy. He is not a very good writer but an ok story teller and when you have a lot of down time they are pretty good to kill the time. Book 3 was my favorite followed by 1. But 4 is really boring so far and i am 1/3 of the way thru

>>562347551
Did you read the others in the series?
I read the first 7, then stopped. My favorite was Xenocide, and my least was The Speaker for the Dead.

I also read The Tales of Alvin Maker by Card, but after that, I couldn't read more of him. It was more noticeable in the Ender series, but I got sick of his politics/religious shit.

>>562346443
I recommend gulag archipelago

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>>562349676
I'm currently on a Storm of Swords. I'm already spoiled on the whole series though, so yeah. Seems pretty legit so far.

>>562348630

Plot of The Road:
There's this road.
And this father. And his son. And they're walking down the road. and a bunch of evil shit is going on in the background. And the road doesn't end. Ever. And there's a bunch of pseudo-horrible shit that occurs, such as an unimaginative person might come up with in post-apocalyptic world if they had zero access to /b/.

Blah blah blah great lit blah blah blah eat my ass Cormac McCarthy. You couldn't plot your way out of a paper bag.

>>562349676
Yeah, for me, the fourth was easily the worst.

I feel like it got way better with the fifth, and I'm very much excited for the next and the last books, though who knows if even I (let alone Martin) will still be alive by then..)

>>562349281
thanks, added to feet folder

>>562340323
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

Fucking read it. It's written from the POV of a Dahmer-esque serial killer.

>>562341840

>tolkien is awesome
>anyone who disagrees must be a virgin
>all tolkein diehards are already virgins
>mfw everyone on earth is apparently a virgin

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>>562340323
The Prince.

>>562350428
How many is he supposed to make? I heard seven.
>>562351053
>>562350312
Thank you sir, where are you finding these. Google just has a bunch of Deneryes shit. Any kind of stuff from Aegon I ?

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>>562351615
Google (character) art. Search tools, large.

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>>562340323
Pretty much everything this guy ever wrote. He's known as the Godfather of "pulp fiction."

Check out Pop 2108 too and of course The Grifters.

At the end of From Dusk Till Dawn (the original film), the place where Seth is headed, El Rey, this is the guy who invented it and in The Getaway, he describes exactly what El Rey is. It might give some new perspective to those who have only seen the film.

Enjoy.

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>>562351804

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>>562340323
I finished reading this a few days ago. Great book. Would read again.

>>562343196
They entered the forest, which blah blah blah green blah blah blah dwarves mighty blah blah blah thews blah blah blah Ranger elves blah blah blah blah blah blah blah eagles blah blah blah blah blah blah...(repeat for fifty pages)

The Lord of the Rings, short version.

>Uncle has magic ring
>uncle gets drunk at party and takes off
>stupid fat hobbit gets uncle's ring
>uncle's ring is BAD RING
>are you a wizard
>let's go to the elves
>hey look another stupid fat hobbit
>hey look two more stupid fat hobbits
>go to town
>town doesn't want the ring
>hey look a ranger who is really a king with an elf fetish
>oh, by the way, these guys want the ring back
>stab stupid fat hobbit
>elves don't want the ring
>well fuck, what to do with this ring
>I know let's take it to a volcano and drop it in
>that's the stupidest idea I've...oh, the elves like it. Okay
>oh hi, a dwarf
>oh hi, an elf that looks like a girl
>oh hi, it's the ranger that's really a king again
>oh hi, an actual prince instead of the elf-shagging broody king ranger
>let's go climb some mountains
>these mountains suck
>let's go THROUGH the mountains, we have a dwarf
>the mountains are occupied
>the mountains ARE OCCUPIED
>OCCUPIED
>jesus can't you people read a fucking sign on the door when the toilet's in use? I mean the mountain
>you shall not pass
>NO SHIT THAT'S THAT I WAS TRYING TO DO WHEN YOU FUCKING PEOPLE SHOWED UP
>my god, what's a balrog got to do to get a little privacy around here? Shit made from goblins doesn't just pop out of your ass, it's not exactly full of fiber, you know
>goddamn it, if I'm falling in the septic tank I'm taking your wizard with me
>noooo not our wizard
>oops there's orcs
>eeeeevil orcs
>they're taking the hobbits to isengard
>nobody gives a shit
>orcs are not just incompetent but evil, lose hobbits
>hobbits meet the tree
>yes, a fucking tree
>you got a problem with the tree?
>other hobbits go elsewhere to go find convenient volcano to drop ring into
Continued

>>562351804
Thanks.

>>562340323
Jules Verne

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>>562352112
<3

>>562342249

This.

The Forever War is also a good one.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman is another.

>>562352047
>orcs stab prince
>prince lets on he had a thing for the ranger
>suddenly no hobbits
>fuck, no hobbits? we're losing our Catholic school priest molester cards now. Dammit
>let's go find the hobbits
>cue heroic sodomy music

>>>562351804
>we are a bunch of idiot faggots who want you to think we're the opposite gender we actually are. Ha ha, oh what fun it is to dress like the opposite gender OW OW OW STOP HITTING ME WITH MY OWN ARM OW OW OW OW

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>>562340323
Might have missed it, but the fact that no one has mentioned Bukowski yet, honestly, is more than a little disturbing.

This is still 4chins /b/, right?

>>562342128
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brian.
fucking godtier

>>562348469
Bukowski will suck the happiness right out of you.

>>562347081
the test you take to determine your occupation in the vault

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the Day by Day Armageddon 3 part series by J. L. Bourne. The last one was pretty stupid, but the first 2 were awesome. Great read if you like zombie books.

>>562341429

Tokien was long-winded i.e. writing out the stupid songs in Lord of the Rings instead of just writing "and so such and such sang a song"..no he had to dedicate a whole fucking chapter to that shitty song. He was no song writer, I can tell you that much. Plus his characters were fricking weird improved greatly in the films i.e. the oliphants (oh look it's an elephant with an "o") oe the ents stupid walking trees the movies did their best to include in the film but left a lot of people scratching their heads whether Tolkien was on drugs at the time. And worst of all...fucking stupid Tom Bombadil weirdo character too weird in fact to be included in the film though he was a big part in the book.

What the fuck.

MFW: J.R.R Martin is 1 million times better than Tolkien ever was

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>>562352769
Anyone into Sci-fi ought to read Stranger in a Strange Land

>>562347834
Totally mediocre books.

>>562351615
Yeah, seven.
(So when I said 'first and last books', I meant books #6 & #7)

Although, according to wikipedia, "He has publicly hinted that the series might be stretched to an eighth volume". No source link for that, though..

It was originally going to be a trilogy, but he wrote too much and went into too much detail, etc.

Here's to hoping he lives long enough to finish the 7th (and possibly eighth) book.

>>562341221
The lusty xenomorph maid is better.

>>562353040
One time he wrote a ten page letter to a fan explaining why he didn't have time to respond to every fan mail

>>562353040
Did you even read the book?

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>>562353040

HERE IS MY FUCKING FACE WHEN I REALIZE TOLKIEN WAS AN OVERATED CUUUUUNT...!!!

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I'll just leave this here.

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This is a great book
Conrad's short stories are great too.
Especially An Outpost of Progress:

"Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. The courage, the composure, the confidence; the emotions and principles; every great and every insignificant thought belongs not to the individual but to the crowd: to the crowd that believes blindly in the irresistible force of its institutions and of its morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion."

Any good dark fantasy series?
I've read:
>Black Jewels. Best I've read so far.
>Old Kingdom. Not really dark fantasy. I really like the adventure aspect.
>Black Company. Books of the north were great, books of the south were dull. Waiting for books of the east.
>The Broken Empire. I like the way the story is being told by warping between time.

>>562353439

>Did you even read the book?

Yes, they forced me to read it out loud when I was captured and sent to Guantanamo Bay. I was begging to be water-boarded by the end of the first chapter...

>>562340323
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

prepare your mind for the fucking it'll receive

>>562353743
Eon by Greg Bear will also do the same amount of fucking.

>>562353737
How was that?

>>562342128
Extreme measures is a book I read that goes back and forth between the CIA and some terrorists, read it maybe 6 years ago but I remember it being good especially the beginning

>>562353986
>Eon by Greg Bear
i'll check it out, i fucking love house of leaves

>>562354102
It's hard sci-fi, just a forewarning.

>>562354198
hard sci-fi makes me hard

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Also anything by Philip K. Dick if you're into sci-fi.
List of films adapted from Dick's stories...

Blade Runner
Total Recall
Screamers
Minority Report
Impostor
Paycheck
A Scanner Darkly
Next
The Adjustment Bureau

to name a few

>>562353986

>How was that?

It was like fucking your mother in the ass just after she had taken a sloppy shit which smelled of undigested garlic.

>>562354361
You must really hate yourself to be bitching so much in a "god-tier" books thread. I think you need a hobby.

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>>562340323

>>562354509

I have a hobby. It's sodomizing your mother's hairy asshole. Do you not approve kind sir?

>>562354656
god damn it i know what i'm doing tonight, i hope i can find it. just moved and didn't label any boxes...

Blood Meridian...just, holy fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIQynsWpBpQ

>>562354656

I remember I made the mistake of reading this at the airport. I looked like a fucking tard reading parts of this upside down, sideways, etc.

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>>562352616
I wanted to like this book, I really wanted to. I was interested in the story because holy fucking fuck fuck the Vietnam war. But I can't stand the last third or so of the book. I won't spoil the ending, but you best be prepared to be disappointed.

If you are looking for a good "military" book, read Catch 22. Real short book, real easy read, real funny outlook.

>>562354809
Do it.

>>562353047
Yeah, I read it. Yeah, I regretted it.

Totally meh.

>>562354929
read it to me, i've already read it a half dozen times

>>562354927
>Catch 22
>short
k

>>562355176
man... that'd take forever

>>562342453
Came to say this. Good job.

>>562355201
It's like 450 pages, that's pretty damn short for a military-influenced book

great dick jokes peter (:

>>562353469
>be me
>watch the movie
>srslys wtfs et cetera
>in disbelief that something so bad could have made it to the movies
>reads the book
>reads all the books

>>562355282
would you read the footnotes as they come or wait until after the paragraph?

it totally matters

speak up though, i've been to a lot of concerts

>>562340323
Starbound by Joe Haldeman

>>562355669
oh god yes

ill tell ya this too

people like the movie, people who have read the book like it too. I've asked allloot of people as to there thoughts on the abortion, people like it.

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>>562340323
The Ritual by Adam Neville

>>562355669
You really only need to read Ender's game and Ender's shadow. The other books in the series really fall off in the worst way. Kind of the same way the Full Metal Jacket starts to fall apart after Boot Camp.

Childhoods end was probably my favorite book (I hated the end but I guess I can't really think of a better ending, probably would've involved religion more)

>>562356004
uh-uh nigga

your missing one of his shorts, ender has some christmas shit going on and its a damn good one.

plus -spoiler- bean being a super crazy big headed freak was pretty great, and him killing that evil limp dick/leg cunt was good too tho i was honestly bored through allot of the books

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Since this is /b/ I'll only suggest edgy super fucked up shit:
>William S. Burroughs:
Naked Lunch
>Marquis deSade
Justine
>Georges Bataille
Story of the Eye
>Samuel R. Delany
Hogg

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>>562356765

Wouldreadinparkwith/10

>>562356765 Hogg is a novel by Samuel R. Delany, often described as pornographic.[1] It was written in San Francisco in 1969 and completed just days before the Stonewall Riots in New York City. A further draft was completed in 1973 in London. At the time it was written, no one would publish it due to its graphic and copious descriptions of murder, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape.

I wouldn't say god tier, but these are series' that I enjoy.

Wheel of Time
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Stormlight Archive
The Lost Sword/Sword series + Empire of the East (I read this A LONG time ago)
The Kingkiller Chronicles
Lightbringer series
the Gone novels

Anyway, yeah, so the Gone novel aren't the highest class books, but I enjoyed them. And I haven't read Fred Saberhagen's Sword books in a long time, but I remember them being good.

>>562357345
Kingkiller, 10/10

The Hyperion Cantos, OP. The first two are godly. The last two are great, but just shy. Awesome series overall.

>>562340323
Any book by Micheal Crichton. ANY!

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>>562357629
Hell yeah, man!
Andromeda strain was one of the first books I read when I was ready to shed that "books are boring" and "cool kids don't read" stigma of Elementary School.

>>562357629
Except for Airframe
Worst book I've read.
Hated it.
Everything else he wrote is great.

>>562358023
Timeline and Jurrasic Park are fking great reads

And now some normal god-tier shit:
Dostoyevsky -Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy -Death of Ivan Illych
Nietzsche -Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Franz Kafka -the Trial
Albert Camus -the Stranger

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>>562357345
Thank you kind sir. I will be saving this post for...science.

120 days of Sodom
A wrinkle in time
The first 3 minutes
Anything by Isaac Asimov
I hope they serve beer in hell

>>562340323
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave

>>562340323
King's 'It' and 'Everything's Eventual'
Koontz' 'Watchers'
Homer's 'The Odessy'

Tau Zero
It's a pretty good read, but kind of short.

I'll be real blunt with you guys, so feel free to chime in your two cents as well.

My coworkers keep on recommending me read "John dies at the end" and "This book is full of spiders." I don't know much of nothing about either except that it is written by somebody who writes for Cracked.com

>>562358654

I saw the movie of John Dies at the End, and I loved it. I've heard the books are better.

I'd read the books if I could get my hands on them, or if I get a little less lazy and just download them from somewhere.

>>562340323
Rober jordans Wheel of time "finished by Brandon Sanderson"

>>562342720
This book is shit! Straight garbage! Funny thing, I found it in a middle school teacher's lounge, when I read it.

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Am I the only one here that loved the Dark Tower series?

>>562358920

Fuck man is it finished atlast?
I got to 19 when i was younger.
Been thingking about picking it up ever since.

>>562359507
Yes, cause you're a fucking faggot

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>>562359851
stahp

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>>562340323

Here are some awesome books (and books series) for you to read that are incredible.

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (and his other books)
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis (first in series)
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor (first in series)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Dracula by Bram Stroker
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (first in series)
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

That should tide you over for a while.

Lolita, The Satanic Verses, Catch-22, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Middle Parts of Fortune (only 1930s WWI novel to use realistic swearing), The Outsider, Crime and Punishment, Atonement, Dharma Bums, Mrs Dalloway, The Secret Agent, READ THESE BOOKS

>>562340323
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The great gatsby. Seemingly simple on first read, but I think the whole style is a reflection of drunkenness.

bernard has a small fat dick

>>562359596
i thought there where 14 book :0 and it got finishes with a memory of light by Brandon Sanderson after the origonal arthur passed away.

>>562351983
No. Edgar Rice Burroughs is the godfather of Pulp Fiction. And Thompson came too late, he's from the paperback age.

>>562361329
>Crime and Punishment
>Lolita
>the Outsider
>Portrait
Good shit man, I haven't read the others you listen but Satanic Verses sounds like Hedonistic faggotry.

Burroughs? Top Tier? LOL
Irvine Welsh? One trick pony much? Should have stopped at Trainspotting.
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road? Still no one can explain to me how in a post-apocalyptic world a female can be fertile enough (without any nutrition) to give birth to a child that can then be eaten in a cannibalistic fashion. Talk about spectacle much...
Now some other posts suggested Dracula? The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? Dharma Bums?
Yeah, sure, read that trash if you want to get fucked in a Starbucks.

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>>562340431
Mahnigga

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>>562362429
You're an idiot

Read this for your health.

>>562362981
Fucking hipster, gtfo. Sorry for not posting Gurdjieff or Ouspensky or any other esoteric faggotry you jerk off to, someone weaker than you should rape you.

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>>562340323
48 laws of power
Neuromancer
The odyssey
Enders game
Frankenstein
1984
The A game
The hitchhikers guide the to universe (complete set)
Sun tzu the art of war
Day of the dragon
The mind control method by jose silva
War and peace

>>562346357
>>562347617
>>562351386

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~the joke
*_* [•_•] O.O your heads

What is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Existentialism and Human Emotions Jean-Paul Sartre
Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
and last but most definitely not least,
The Will to Power Friedrich Nietzsche
These are some pretty good books. Some are hard to understand. People that I've spoken to rarely understand Nietzsche, or at least interpreted his work in a very different way than I have. I think existentialism is a great way to explore the universe inside your mind, so long as you take care not to become a elitist prick on your way.

>>562359507
Nope, my favorite books ever.

>>562353469
the movie fucking sucked

>>562364542
The worlds religions
CompTIA A+ cert (for you nerds out there)
Romeo and Juliet
Quran (helps to get an understanding of muslims)
Bible (not the new king James version)
Flowers for Algernon

>>562362937
I have a copy. It's fucking weird man. Some of the stuff in there I can really get behind, but then they throw 5 pages in telling you how to curse someone by jacking off onto an altar to summon Belial the god of lies.

De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) by Lucretius

>>562358195
I admire your taste

>>562366508
Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life," 1859

An amazing book that most people will never actually read and try and spew out what he actually said.

>>562340323
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>>562342748
Anything by hst is good.

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>>562367021
The communist manifesto
Fort apache The Bronx

>>562367021
see also "the selfish gene" by dawkins

>>562342128
Old Man's War

Just started reading Name of the Wind. been enjoying it so far.

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>ctrl+f
>no Emile Zola
>no Archibald J. Cronin

Seriously, Germinal (Zola) and Stars Look Down (Cronin) are brutally realistic and a perfect depiction of cruely of life. Read them, faggots. I read Stars Look Down when I was 14 or so, and my vision of the world was never the same, so I guess I'm a bit biased, but it would probably have a big impact on me as an adult as well.

>>562368880
Agree. Germinal is a masterpiece

Movement Image - Gilles Deleuze, the book that kills plebs

>>562368518
I will definitely pick it up. Always looking for a new read.

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>>562340323
basically the best book I ever read, it's kinda about a future internet and basically the future of humanity which ends up being like amazing version of /b. Also there is easter eggs inside the book where people irl had to beat high scores on certain games like tron e.t.c. and they won one of them back to the future cars.

>>562342159
This a million times. Or anything by Sagan, actually

>>562363669
You're the idiot. Jim Thompson came too late for the pulp era. Paperbacks already supplanted it by then. ERB was a larger force in the world of pulp

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Most of books by King and Pratchett
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1984 by George Orwell
Cat's Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt

>>562342668
>The Stand
it should be, the guy says in the epilogue that his son died in his teen (apparently shot or knifed by some nigga or something)

>>562368787
Not too bad, lacks a bit of consistency. Second book was just horrible, all over the place

>>562348863
I take it you dont read?

>>562369924
Maybe that anon is mentally disabled. It is okay, nature didn't give everyone the ability to prosper.

>>562349281

They legal? If so, more?

>>562369379
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

RPO is a pile of shit.
It's /b/tard teenager wish--fulfillment.

Please go make a thread on /lit/ about how much you like it. They appreciate a good laugh.

Actual good books:
Ulysses
Lolita
Under the Volcano
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Catch 22

That should get you started, OP.

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How about H. P. Lovecraft

>>562353040
Your a faggot.

>>562340323
Wise Blood -Flannery O'Connor
Frankenstein -Mary Shelly
The Stranger -Albert Camus
Flatland - Edwin A Abott

>>562340323

The Brothers Karamazov. Not sure you'd really appreciate it,

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>>562340323
stalker pls go

>>562370141
>Maybe that anon is mentally disabled.
>posts porn
I'll say

>>562370220
fuck you it is a good book, the only other book as good was no war for old men, that was decent.

>>562369754
A Clockwork Orange would be a perfect novel if it wasn't for that last chapter.

some books i would recommend

elephants of acid
the sigularity is near
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

>>562340647
Never got the joke.

*elephants on acid

>>562370372
He's great. His crazy cohorts get ignored like Clark Ashton Smith though.

>>562370220
>Ulysses
>with catch 22

is this some sort of literature trolling scheme, do you look for "best book" lists, or will you really pretend you ever read/understood it and put it in a same list with catch 22?

>>562349676
Snow gets killed my Bowen Marsh

>The Count of Mone Cristo
What can I say Im a sucker for adventure, and justice getting served

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Count of monte cristo
The forever war
Man in the high castle

Anything Steinbeck, all depressing as fuck

>>562340323
I enjoyed "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King. Also "A Song of Ice and Fire" (Game of Thrones)
>>562369754
This!

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>>562340323

>>562351330
>>562348469
>>562358195
>>562360449
Good taste

Andrew Vachss Burke novels

>>562371023
I read it twice but I still didn't understand every word, no.
It's a hard read but there are plenty of reading guides out there to assist you and if you just take your time and enjoy the flow of the writing instead of forcing it on yourself you'll get through it and and have a good time doing so.

Catch 22 was both very funny and very tragic and an overall excellent read. Easier than Ulysses of course, but that doesn't make it a bad book.

>>562370984
I'm reading clark Ashton smith right now. It's a Shane lovecraft overshadows him

>>562341342
>>562342720
>>562358195
>>562361329
>>562365780
>>562367021
>>562368518

These people know their shit.

I would add The Rebel by Albert Camus and reiterate that Lolita is a fucking masterpiece.

For something more humorous I would recommend The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

>>562356765
Naked Lunch was influential but not really fun to read. At least not if you're expecting an actual story

The First Law trilogy and associated standalone books by Joe Abercrombie for some great fantasy with imperfect characters and a friggin awesome story.
Living Hell by Catherine Jinks for a short, bizarre, and generally just fun sci-fi horror with an awesome concept.
Music of the Spheres by Jamie James for more educational/thought provoking reading.
Tyranny of the Night by Glen Cook for a hugely detailed and immersive fantasy, higher level reading but still fantasy.
John Dies At The End by David Wong for /b/ embodied in scribbles on a page. Just read it. Hail Korrok. Read This Book Is Full Of Spiders too.
The Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide if you want to know how to design a world and broaden creative horizons. Seriously, read this even if you'll never play DnD, it's informative and helps to work out your brain.

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>>562340323

Literally JUST finished reading this. Can't believe I put if off for so long. It was awesome.

Red Dragon.
The Silence Of The Lambs.
Still don't know what to think of Hannibal.
Don't read Hannibal Rising (at least it's my suggestion).
Thomas Harris has a fantastic way of describing something with as little of effort as possible, and still paints the picture very vividly. His books flow very well too. I definitely suggest them.

>>562371739
Is he really better than lovecraft ?
I just fucking love lovecafts word choice and I dont know if I should start with Clarks books

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Forever War by Joseph Halderman
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Galapagos by kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (and Stanley Kubrick to some extent)

those are some pretty good ones if you like sci-fi

>>562371878

I should also add that the audiobook of The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry, is phenomenal.

>>562372252

I'll put a second on The First Law trilogy.

Those books messed with me because of how non typical they were. It was awesome, and world shattering all at once.

I only put myself back together after reading it by convincing myself that there was a flicker of light (hope) that could still be seen after all was said and done (if you looked for it).

My Struggle
/thread

>>562371651
Oh sorry, i was an asshole, its just that everybody throws that book around because its always on top of reading lists and pretend to understand it, but your answer was pretty cool.

>>562373208
everyone should read that, if only because it gives hitler a personality, and doesn't just make him a Black & White Morality "bad guy"

>>562373454

Gives the impression that he is an illiterate faggot

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>>562340431

OP's pic reminded me of Gattaca

>>562340323
the name of the wind and the wise man fear are pretty good so far

>>562372754
The radio shows are also worth listening, specially high.
>>562373454
I wanted to read it because of all the quotes people put around /pol/, a couple of them cracked me up, i always figured the book would be a hateful rant, but it looked super innocent and idealistic, i would even say autistic.

>>562372579
I also would like to recommend We Were Soliders Once... And Young if you like war novels. It has details from both sides of the Vietnam War, and goes into great detail of what these guys experienced.

>>562372668
I dunno if he's better. I like Smith's fantasy more than Lovecraft's Dreamlands cycle, but otherwise there's not much overlap.

"Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

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Alright

>Neuromancer
>Idoru
>Pattern Recognition
>Snow Crash
>Diamon Age
>The Stranger
>American Gods

Pretty much anything by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Neil Gaiman

>>562373549
yeah the man's prose leaves much to be desired

>>562373817
yeah, Hopefully Idealism has really reached it's death in modern society (That is if it was alive to begin with) but I feel that the world may be changed by individuals, not through such comicbook heroics but by deluding the masses into a beneficial state of mind. Of course I could be completely wrong about that as well.

>>562374247

mah nigga

>>562343543

Have you read death on the installment plan, I heard its somewhat of a sequel?

>>562372934
Have you read the standalone books too? Best Served Cold was different, not as good as the trilogy. The Heroes was awesome, brutal, and provided insight into some of the cogs that keep the story going, I'd say it's better than all but Last Argument of Kings. Haven't read Red Country yet, just started reading
The Name of the Wind so I'm occupied.
I need a second trilogy from Joe. I need to know how it's all going to end.

Also, basically everything from Neil Gaiman. American Gods is just weird.

>>562362981
Irvine Welsh's book Ecstacy is a collection of 3 short stories. Each is more harrowing than the 1 before. Great stuff.

If you haven't read Phillip K. Dick's novels, I genuinely feel bad for you.

The Man in the High Castle
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly
Radio Free Albemuth
VALIS
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

>>562374548
google "Changing Images of Man" if you haven't read it already, it discusses exactly that

>>562374558
I didn't see you'd posted it first. I haven't. I had a hard enough time getting my hands on that copy of Journey to the End of the Night.

>>562373918
It also features one of the few true heroes of 9/11 on the cover and in the book. Rick Rescorla. His actions in Vietnam and at WTC are the stuff legends are made of.

>>562375229
thank you I will

>>562375189
I have read Man in the High Castle and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

l a t i n o c h a n . c o m / s e x o no modss

>>562375547
was he the security guard who saved a shit ton of people in the south tower?

I'm not very informed about 9/11 kind of think it's a waste of time

>>562375773
no thnks fbi

>>562375652
That was my first from him. The others I listed are his core works which I highly recommend if you want to read more.

>>562342339
>>562342128

Yep. His later stuff is are real slow burners but the last few chapters are always incredible. And the fucker did his research, pretty accurate stuff

>>562375821
Head of security, and fucking Vietnam hero. Died going back into the tower to try to bring more people out. He was a soldier, in the classical sense of a man willing to put his life on the line defending others.

>>562375547
Yeah man. Those guys were crazy brave. I remember reading about the one guy (forgot his name) that got lost at night with a head wound, and had to sleep with ants trying to crawl in the there and shit. I would've never had the balls to go through what those guys went through, I probably would've offed myself by the second day.

>>562352564
As a teenager, Bukowski was my god. He put me onto Fante and Céline. And he showed me rules don't matter in writing, it's honesty that really matters.

>>562376058
I feel like I've read some kind of book or article about that guy but for the life of me I can't remember what it would be

>>562340323
lies of locke lamora - Scott lynch
red seas under red skies - Scott lynch
republic of thieves - Scott lynch

part of the gentleman basterd series. so good.
also house of the scorpion, read that shit quite a while ago, it was awesome at the time.

Drizzt series by RA salvatore.

>>562341646

Totally true. If there's a movie with a book, I always read the book and then watch the movie, but the Lord of the Rings was completely unsmokable.

The Hobbit was nice, though, and I really enjoyed all the movies.

>>562373445
No problem, man. I am very aware of both the lists and the posers who read those rather than the actual books.

If I wanted to troll OP I'd have said Infinite Jest, which is actually a decent book and a fairly easy read, but the pretension surrounding it makes it effective bait.

>>562376283
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033919/Twin-Towers-hero-predicted-terror-attacks-led-2-700-safety--died-went-look-stragglers.html

"The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" - by Murakami
trust me, i read a LOT of things. but that one really got it.
btw, someone else read it? opinions?

>>562375987
I am interested to read more Philip K. He seems to be a unique SF writer. What do you think of Asimov?

>>562376680
not a good storyteller, IMNSHO. Great ideas, good predictive tales, but seems to lack a "soul". Characters all seem made of cardboard.
His essays are often entertaining and humorous, so go figure.

>>562376680
All I've read is the first two installments in the Foundation series, so I can't draw very many conclusions. I did enjoy what I read though, especially the first book.

>>562376594
yep pretty sure it was this thx anon

>>562376680
Philip K. Dick is great if you want your mind to be absolutely melted.

Asimov imo is probably the most optimistic of all Sci-Fi writers, especially compared to Hinlein or Clarke. which make his books very enjoyable and relaxing to read,... that's just my opinion anyway.

To Kill a Mockingbird

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david gemmel - sword in the storm and all the rigante novels

charles stross- the atrocity archives and all the laundry series

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>>562352047
>361 BCE + 2375
>reading books solely for the narrative
Lol, how's your James Patterson collection coming along?

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>>562342720
Dont listen to fucks who dont know art when they see it. Fucking great book.

>>562377921
I've got a few David Gemmel books, haven't read them yet.

And why the FUCK has no one /b/ read Peter S. Beagle? For fuck's sake.