Let's see some God-Tier books

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This X 100000000

I recently read it and was blown away by how amazing it was in everyway

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I have love for Jack London... and this book, I swear to god this book. Marked my life.

>>568559772
I am a professor in composition at an Ivy league school and the great gatsby is over rated horse shit

>>568561606
good author. really visceral stories of hardship

>>568561648
mandatory retard who defames random item posted in thread reporting in

>>568561856
I am not an ivy league professor. I am just drunk and very lonely so I attacked somebody else's opinion. I am not sorry.

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>>568559772
>God-Tier books
>Post The Great Gatsby

Is this fucking middle school?

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Thanks /lit/

>>568559772
>great gatsby
>god-tier
yeah right, it a nice read for a highschooler but god tier it is not

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Best read for going about life.

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First line:

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four shots ripped into my groin and I was off on the greatest adventure of my life!

Need I say more?

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>>568559772
Not exactly god-tier, but close
It was still a great read

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>>568561746

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Way old school

>>568563673
you must be older than me and i'm fucking old

>>568564171
muh nigga

someone who read the book before playing the game

>>568559772
No it isn't. It's an overrated pile of shit that women masterbate to after menopause. Only a faggot or a woman would like that piece of garbage.

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>>568562156
get the fuck out

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>>568559772
I always crave pancakes after this little gem.

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Much better than that movie. Awesome book.

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>>568559772
this

>>568565469
Mah nigga

>>568565186
2edgy4me

>>568563876
>>568563931

My niggers

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>>568565315
Great book.

>>568565335
fuck off

>>568565264
you get the fuck out
the man is right

Literally anything by Hunter S. Thompson. He has a great way of drawing you into the written word, you almost feel like you're there. My favorite HST piece is The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.

>>568565571
10/10

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>>568565335

>>568565691
>edgy atheist 12 yo not getting joke

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Captcha was jam complete

>>568560820
I've never read it, but adding it to my reading list.

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>>568565509
Just grabbed it off the shelf to read again. It's been like 5 years.

>>568565834
The world would be a better place if we were all a bit more Yossarian

>>568560820
This is the best book ever written

>>568559772
>god tier
>great gatsby
good goyim, how was highschool today?

>>568565264
>highschooler detected

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>>568565910
Commonweath saga

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>>568559772

>>568565571
i was debating between this and on war, glad somebody else shares this opinion.

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these.

>>568559772
Terrible book, it's just about some dude who's too fucking scared to talk to a girl and how everyone is literally full of themselves and blow each other based on how much money they have.

>>568565863
Nothing has ever hot me as much as the ending to that book has.

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Fantastic book.

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if you haven't read this why are you doing anything else

>>568562253
I have these downloaded for my dad, they really that great?

>>568565424
great choice.

anybody here ever read hunger by knut hamsun?

>>568559772
Being a freshman is cool right?

>>568566302
So it struck too close to home for you.

>>568566326
*hit oops

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>>568560820
>>568563876
>>568565127
>>568565315
>>568565424
>>568566156
These niggers know what's up.

>>568566138

The silfen are really cool, thought the void trilogy wasn't up to the level of the other two arcs. The thing I really love about his books is the amount of detail out into the world everything is in.

My favourite from all of them has to be the chase to the star flyer on far away though.

>>568566361
>you will never devote your life to making an illumination of a blueprint

>>568565810
>herr durr i trolled you XD

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What do you guys think of yahtzee

>>568566350

the only decent one by that guy.

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>>568566102
>>568566098
>>568563116
>>568562156
ITT high schoolers turn on each other

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It's not exactly Paradise Lost, but I fucking love it. I tore through this book in a day and then reread it.

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Here, faggits.

>>568565364
I fucking loved this book. Vonnegut clearly wrote it for his own entertainment, and the illustrations really tie da book together.

>>568564989

this nigga knows what's up

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life-changing

>>568567117
>3097 pages
seriously???
i'd buy a pocket book instead

>>568562114
Wow that was candid

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Does god of death-tier still count?

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Ahem.

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

>>568567398
It's an ebook. It probably has 8-900 pages in print.

>>568563435
>not reading superiors Vom Krieg, German version

>>568566871
Yeah Because it's totally impossible I've been out of high school for 3 years right.
ITT:current highschooler faggot whom enjoys the great goyimsby gets mad and thinks it's because of fellow highschoolers

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>>568567430
I think we've had a breakthrough

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Both of these books.

>>568567476
Get out kira

>>568567595
>implying anybody would know what it would be if i put that

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This was god-tier in middle school

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"another thing is, no matter how much you think you love someone- you'll step back when their pool of blood moves too close."

>>568567663
3...whole...years

wow

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>>568567230

>>568567561
that's why i'd stick to the printed version, too boring scrolling down the pages over and over... but hey, nice choice, must read again

No / faggots, bring on the hate!

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>>568565335
I got a better read for you

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Downloaded from bay. I prefer downloading rather than buying so that works for now.

Also, another book that kept me reading it.

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"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."

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>ctrl+f
>no Terry Pratchett

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>>568559772
I don't know about god tier but I'm a huge fan.

the show was complete shit though. Glad it didn't last longer than it did

>>568565863
What's the book?

>>568569108
Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

>>568568519
Night watch was earlier in the thread but it was just an image

Why had nobody posted Good Omens?That book is the shit!

>>568569295
Thanks anon!

>>568559772
>>>/lit/
they're all right over there, once you get over how pretentious they all act

>>568569296
Good Omens is a fucking fantastic book!

Haven't read Night Watch yet. I'm reading it all out of order. But the Night Watch books are definitely my favorites.

And besides Discworld, this is a great book too. A Pacific Island kid leaves home on a manhood ritual, returns home to find that literally his entire tribe was killed by a rogue tidal wave.

>>568568489
I was surprised at how good this book is when I first picked it up. It's well written and the ideas are interesting, although I feel like if I was smarter or older I wouldn't like it as much, hell, I may not like it now if I were to reread it...

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Gets me everytime

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When you read it, you'll shit bricks.

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>>568560820

Hell yeah, mother fucker.

>>568569443
werd

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>>568566156

>>568567670
great book

short novel with great story

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dis shit niggers.

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This

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>>568569963
Also great by Camus

I forgot the name but maybe somebody can help me. I have the book but its in the car and the car isnt here.
Its about 3 sibling 2 boys 1 girl and they all are children of a emperor of some major kingdom in their land. 1 son becomes a monk of sorts. 2nd son becomes an elite warrior of some group. The daughter is trained in politics and the emperor dies. It was an internal assassination. The one son who was with the monks got a new teacher who would always beat him. If you need more info ask. Please help

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>>568559772
this. if you havent read it you need to.

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>>568564989

The memories. I used to get those books from Scholastic Magazine or whatever that shit was we could buy books at school.

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>>568563556
>>568563876

>Terry Pratchett
>Neil Gaiman

Why not both?

>>568559772
Rolling

>>568562156
mah nigga

>>568561648
>Ivy League
>4chan

Yeah, okay.

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>>568559772

HILBILLAY HOLLA

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And this.

>>568570879
I tried to post that same cover earlier, but for some reason it wouldn't post. Love this book, I've read it 8 or 9 times

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>>568570762
also. how has no one posted a tree grows in Brooklyn??

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some non-fiction...

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>>568562156

>>568571373

I bought it because I liked the cover. Easily became one of my top 3 favorite books, it's one of the most genuinely funny books I've read.

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More good non-fiction

>>568561648
Composition teachers are the worst / most irrelevant professors in existence. Congratulations, you're trolling as the least qualified type of English teacher, which (as we all know) is saying something.

Here's a solid list of good shit I've read. Not posting covers:

-1984 -George Orwell
-A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess
-Red Alert -Peter Bryant
-No Country for Old Men -Cormac McCarthy
-Blood Meridian -Cormac McCarthy
-The Road -Cormac McCarthy
-Lolita -Vladmir Nabokov
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Ken Kesey
-American Psycho -Bret Easton-Ellis
(Fun Fact: This is the only 18+ book in Australia)
-Mein Kampf -Hitler (Written badly, still interesting)
-Animal Farm- George Orwell (1984 is better)
-Dracula -Bram Stoker

-Anything by Poe or Lovecraft.

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Fucked up, man.

>>568570846
Scholastic catalog was the shit. Good memories. Also, I can't wait to read Metro 2033. I heard it's great.

>no Infinite Jest

Some sorry mother fuckers in here

>>568571562
I bought it originally because Terry Pratchett. It not only became one of my favorite books, but also convinced me to read Neil Gaiman. I had never read his books before that. I've read them all since & they are all great.

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Read it once. One is enough.

>>568570324
-600/10

>>568571026
kek

>>568571975
Ah the pretentious asshole has arrived.

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>>568571783
For crying out loud, read his follow up post before making such an ass of yourself. Actually pretty funny.

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ITT: we post our favourite quotes from books
ill start:
"That was why his head had seemed lower than his legs. Because he had no legs. Naturally they seemed light. Air is light too. Even a toenail is heavy compared to air."
>pic related

>>568572542
>trolling as
>trolling

>>568572531
Not really, but cool man.

Nearly all of DFW's stuff is spot on. But if liking Infinite Jest makes me a pretentious asshole then whatever.

>>568571908

It's a good one. I really got pulled into the world the author was trying to create. I highly recommend it.

Also, any good novels that are post-apocalyptic (I'm thinking nuclear war, not like zombie or virus)? Looking for a new read, and I love books like that.

>>568565571
This book is fucking amazing.

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How has nobody said american psycho?...

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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>>568565571
this

also pic related

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>>568569416
maybe good fire starter. younger readers will kiss up to later for the enlightenment of anti-establishment material.
>>Fight
>>Club
>>douchebag

>>568573801
because almost nobody knows it's a book

>>568569416
>>568571879
>>568573801

You're not looking hard enough.

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also this

Tons of great books listed. I always reread devil in the white city. It's brilliant with historical minutiae as well as carrying a gripping serial killer story.

>>568566258
Faggot edge lord books

>>568566156
have you read any of his other stuff?

>>568569428
Kek , like is this for real ?

>>568567874

Mah nigga

I read all those books. Taggerung I think it was called was badass. But legend of Luke was my favorite.

>>568570739
Thanks anon,
Will check out this one next

>>568570050
Mah nigga. Was going to post this.

>>568559772
hahaha im just about to read another chapter. i said 'ill refresh one more time then read'

what a carazy coincidence

>>568571463
i was going to post that in response.
mah furvrite booke

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>>568571975

I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow.

I like it, but it's a difficult read, it very stream of conscious in some ways... scenes just shift without any real clear indication and suddenly I'm reading about a giant blob taking over London?

Going to keep at it, everything about it says it's right up my alley. It's a worthwhile challenge.

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1000 times this

>>568570050
this
this
this
t
h
i
s

A Song of Ice and Fire
Slaughterhouse 5
Sandkings

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>>568571463

Mah negroid.

>>568565910
i read the first one and have been mullinh it over in my mind for the 5 years since then

>>568566779
youre allowed to name your kid yahtzee?

>>568565571
1984 brave new world and we are way more complex than this. A little overrated

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You know

>>568567802
My nigga.

>>568568489
>the GLORIOUS best seller

made me laugh

ITT: americans and their non-existing culture

>>568567961
Chuck Palahniuk is great. my favorite is Choke.

>>568580726

FUCK YOU

>>568580726
only 300 years old bra

The Myth of Sisyphus and The Trial are my two favorite books.

>>568569963
hes autistic right

>>568578921
pissed me off reading it so much i almost threw the book
then i realized that was probably what the author wanted
so i was kind of mind blown by that

>>568569416
>lolita
yup im going to the library tomorrow.

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>>568566756
>Passing it off as a troll to not look like an edgy atheist.

>>568581104
exactly. america is still in its youth.
[spoiler] and it shows [/spoiler]

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My collection

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I love these books.

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These two are fantastic. I also thought 'All Quiet on the Western Front' was amazing

>no Lord of Light

Fucking plebians.

>>568582815
if you look very closely, you can see a deck of yu-gi-oh trading cards.

also /thread

>>568582815
did you yoink that shelf from a storage room at a restaurant/fast food place?`

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Nope no card games

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>>568583248
Yes actually

>>56858324
It was from my friends work they were getting new ones so I asked if I could use it

>>568582815

>Uline Shelf
>blurry as pic
>Can't see titles

I admire you for reading, but goddamn son, Step it up.

>god tier
From my collection

Nausea - Sartre
Metamorphosis - Kafka
The plague - camus
Of human bondage - Maugham
The good earth - pearl buck
The art of war
The big sleep - raymond chandler
Zen and the art of.motorcycle maintenance
39 steps - john buchan
Disgrace - coetzee
Catch 22
A passage to India - e.m. Forster
Great expectations - dickens
A tale of two cities - dickens
Crime and punishment - Dostoevsky
Don Quixote - Cervantes

>>568583885
If you liked Crime and Punishment, I can recommend all of his books.

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if youre a person who enjoys computer science
this book will be amazing to you

>>568583882
Is this better and these are from this year of reading top shelf will hit limit and I'll start from New I have boxes of books. I'm a costom pc designer and a technician at Coen oil

>>568564171
Love this book

>>568559772
hitchhikers guide anyone?

>>568580136
2spoopy

>>568584194
Have read The Brothers Karamazov. Good but not god tier.

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My personal work horse 8core coy hydro cooled with two 770ti super clocked sli 12 gig of ram 3 tb of hdd with win 7 ultimate tri monitors. Going to be upgrading when do put your email I'll do a raffle one of my /b/ros can have for free

Also,

The grapes of wrath - Steinbeck
Kim - Kipling
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Day of the Jackal - Forsyth
The Spy who came in from the cold - Carre
Three men in a Boat - Jerome k Jerome
The count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Siddartha - Hesse
The trial - Kafka
Thus spoke zarathustra - nietzsche
The stranger - Camus
The moonstone _ collins

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Only the first four.

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>>568559772

oldfag here, just read Gatsby since figger should before i die, it was interesting, liked the misogyny and misanthropy of it.

>>568585226
What does one have to do to receive such a computer?

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>>568576728
rum diary was pretty good and so was hell's angels

>>568586409
Post your email /b/ro

>>568586409
Be a 14 year old faggot with poor taste, your mother's credit card, and a surplus of shitty stickers.

>>568569416
I've read most of these before ever visiting /lit/ tho.
what do

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>>568572206
Fixed it for ya.

>>568586623
The stickers were my gfs idea

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>>568578749

kewl, i will give it a retry too, bailed on it 20 years ago, but had a few laughs

>>568581686
Now thinking about it,
He probably was autistic,
Or just a common selfish man.

>>568586576
Ha aha ha. No.

>>568583885
Agree with most of that anon however, a tale of two cities starts perfectly, ends perfectly...but the rest of the book is the worst Dickens wrote imho.

Try some gabriela garcia marquez...he was god tier without a doubt.

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>>568583036

speaking as a Morlockslaving away to supply the blissfully ignorant Eloi with itoys, I agree HG Wells saw it all too clearly

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>>568559772
>god tier
>gatsby
the only god tier is the most pretentious sounding answer
Faulkner
Joyce
Pynchon
everything else is shit in comparison

>>568565315
You do know that book is about the Jews in Palastine, right?

>>568585226
Can I have it

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>>568587454
>Joyce
>god tier

>>568585226
I'll take you up on your offer.
[email protected]
Throw away acc

>>568566361
jesus christ this

>>568568519
Every thread on god tier books someone posts Pratchet.

Not even pratchet himself thinks his books are god tier...they are a good way to waste a couple of hours...but they only God tier to people who don't read much or don't understand literature.

>>568587351
Have read his love in the time of cholera book and one hundred years of solitude. Loved the latter and hated the former. If its magical realism, Rushdie's Midnight's children is miles better than these two IMO

>>568587768
what do you consider god tier then

>>568578921
Down and out in London and Paris...best book that guy wrote.

He killed an elephant once you know.

>>568582882
are you me? those books blew my mind when i was a kid, have you read rainbow's end?

>>568588294
I agree with your opinion on the two books, Rushdie not so much, he did however create a whole new genre of English language lit...so he is god tier in that respect.

>>568580120
Did you know that Huxley wrote that after reading Henry Fords ideas on economics and society...can't remember the name of the book as I have a god tier hangover.

>>568563673
The fuck is this book about?

Anything by Vince Flynn I'd consider quality reading.

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>>568570846
Pretty good it's super fucking russian though.
>>568560820
One of my favorite novels
>>568565364
>>568565469
Simply amazing probably the only novel I've read that pulls off the author insert
>>568565571
While I like the themes I find Bradbury's writing style to be a chore to read.
>>568567670
Had to read this for a lit class in highschool. I hated it so much that when we were supposed to discuss the themes in class I spent the entire period talking shit about it.
>>568569443
Fucking loved this shit Philip K Dick has such an amazing making fantastical worlds seem real.
>>568572161
Was pretty good
>>568583036
10/10 Sci Fi Classics I prefer the time machine myself though
>>568570737
>>568578749
The first book I ever read and half way through realized I had no Idea what was going on. I fucking loved it it convinced me to voraciously read until I could come back to it and at least attempt to put together all the allusions and shit myself.


Pic Related is my curennt read

Lawrence Kraus; A universe from nothing

pretty much anto god tier...but in a good way.

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>>568574657
My nigga, but I prefer the Aleph

>>568590132
I can't even spell current right

>>568590132
If you have that much of a hardon for scifi..try Iaan M Banks.

You will bust a nut

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>>568590558
I never really realized how much Sci fi I read maybe I'll check out this banks fellow.

If anybody is looking for some good relatively unknown sci fi I recommend The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester. I was recommended it by /m/ of all places and god damn is it a fine little stories equal parts 50's sci fi, cyberpunk, and the count of monte cristo it's a fun short read that I think some of you will enjoy.

>>568590132
How is A confederacy of dunces? Do you like it so far?

>>568590974
start with 'consider fleabas', very god tier scifi.

>>568591175
Yeah It actually made me legit laugh out loud at one point which is extremely rare for a book to do. And hidden behind the humorous characters is some real cool writing about New Orleans and how things were back in the day.

Some of the more NEET anons might not appreciate how similar Ignatius is to them selves though.

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Great thread

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>my growing library.
Missing Herodotus' Histories and
Hayek's "The road to serfdom"

Ask questions, make fun, or bitch.

>>568585226
I'll post my throwaway email. Why the fuck not?
[email protected]

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>>568591684
My 2nd scifi nostalgia reads

>>568591684
>>568591839
Luke? How many star wars books do you have?

>>568591684
Why are all your copies so old anon...do you steal them from the library.

You seem to be trapped in amber of 19C capitalist dogma...nothing to report here....you are a dinosaur.

>>568592047
Lel. Libraries are going out of business, their books are cheap as fuck

I read a biography of Marx and have a list of the work mentioned. I'll get to them eventually, I have a big file of books to be read

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>>568591684
We posting our shelves now? My upper shelf

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>>568592696
The bottom

>>568592548
check 'mark steel' on marx on YouTube...you will get way more out of marx after watching it.

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>>568592741
And my nightstand

>>568592696
Dracula actually a classic or no?

>>568592548
Also prolly the most important book on socialism is amything by Thomas Paine...he predates marx by quite a bit and is way more important.

>>568592814
Naw my friend got a whole set of those tiny books and I took a few off his hands

>>568592814
I would say...yes.

He hated the Jews.

>>568592981
Have not gotten to Paine in my philosophy study. If anyone is interested Download "The History of Philosophy without any gaps" on your podcast app

It's a complete history, and extremely comprehensive

>>568592814
>>568593058
Wait I misunderstood. No I wouldn't consider it a real classic It's honestly not that good. It's plodding in the way that many novels from that era are but it doesn't have that good of a payoff in my opinion.

>>568564171
This was a book? Is it good?

>>568565047
Fuck yes, genious writing

>>568593912
It's translation is either stilted or Russian as a language is stilted but either way the novel is stilted. It's also very Russian in it's outlook do not go in expecting happiness or cheer only dread, fear, and hopelessness.

It differs a lot from the game and for the better I find, there's no good ending in the novel for instance. If you have an interest in post apocalyptic fiction through a non American point of view or want to try to get a better sense of the conflicts in modern Russian society I'd recommend it.

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>>568560820
Honestly, my favorite book to sit down and enjoy.
Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book overall.

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>>568594365
In reality ibe never played metro but im considering trying the game out,, would it be best if i read the book first?

>>568594856
I'm trying to read this but its so goddamn boring.

>>568560820
finished it a week ago
funniest thing i have ever read period
best written book i have picked up so far

>>568565424
another great book
the movie is so shit
massive massive massive shit in comparison that skips out on the main themes because it has kids in it. If they wanted to do the movie justice they would have made it an adult movie with child actors and not a kids movie.

>>568565571
>>568567117
read moby dick in middle school and Im never doing it again fuck that shit. But i respect Melville for his work.

I just started reading the name of the wind untill I took an arrow to the knee
literally just stopped reading when I go to that part

>>568594945
I don't think it really matters. The games really make it easier to envision the hell scape that is the metro but the novels have a better since of dread and hopelessness. The game is really pretty but the gameplay is janky.

>>568595072
That's cause it's a shit book. Pick up almost anything else posted in this thread and you'll have a better time.

>>568595072
The beginning is slow, and nothing really explosive happens until the end of Part 1. From then on shit hits the fan and it is absolutely amazing, given you're not a Liberal, otherwise the book is pure Kryptonite.

Nobody has mentioned The Witcher books? Best fantasy in my opinion.

>>568595490
I don't understand Polish
>>568595329
I'm as far right as you can be without being /pol/ and even I know that Atlas Shrugged is poorly written.

>>568595598
Most of them are translated.

>>568595717
Where might I acquire them Senor

>>568566779
I like his books. They're simple even for a middle schooler to read, but it's still good.

>>568566302
You can make any book sound shit if you just reduce it to its surface like that.

Bravo, you mong.

>>568595598
Opinions, to each his own. I honestly loved it, but everyone can claim what they wish.

>>568594945
More like do androids dream of dick amirite?

>>568595871
Your local bookstore or order them from Amazon? I got most of them in Finnish. Not sure about the english translation.

>>568596006
The fuck am I supposed to read something in Finnish of course I want the English translations.

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I risk sounding like a huge faggot but On the Road is my fucking life. I haven't really read anything else by Kerouac but I read On the Road during the spring and it was the best thing I've read in ages. I just love the old-timey simplicity it engenders. I started The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test today 'cause I've heard it's similar. It's great so far.

>>568596109
What I'm trying to say that there are not that many translated versions. Amazon has few in english.

>>568595717
>>568596339
You fucking finns don't make any sense

>>568596419
I'm tired as a motherfucker

>>568594856
I'm sorry that you have horrible taste in literature.

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>>568595940