God tier books, I'll start with some of my favourite

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another favourite of mine, come on anons, prove you're not illiterate for once

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>>579196104

Hunger.

Changed my world

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>>579196104
i like the stranger by camus and hunt for red october

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>>579196250
Haven't read it, might write that down.

Another one that makes you think

>>579196291
I find the stranger a bit stupid sometimes, but hunt for red october is interesting nonetheless

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>>579196104

bee dee burr blurr derr bla blee blee dee shlooo reee meee doo bam bwap twat fwat

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another piece that makes your think...

Come on /b/, I know there must be someone that reads here

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>>579196104

contribootin

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>>579196713
I was waiting for someone to post H.P Lovecraft

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slow going but worth the time invested

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>>579196916
I was told to read it but didn't think about it twice... I think I might get it.

Come on anons, I'm writting all these titles down to read them later on, you should do the same, lets learn from eachother once.

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My last attempts to keep this thread alive... It really worries me that this dies but a trap thread is on the first page, what we've come to

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blew my mind

Head over to /lit/, it's no use trying to talk to /b/.

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Here's my favorite. When Im forced to go to church I bring this and read out loud. Fucking sheeple worshiping a fake sky god.

>>579198952
Richard Dawkings is a douche and doesnt prove a thing. Im athiest but even I think its a shit book.

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this

>>579198952
I haven't read it but for some reason it looks like the kind of literature meant for atheists with fedoras who think they're better than anyone else and that they will lead our civilization into the next level

>>579199130
Amazing book mate, read it at least 3 times

>>579199163
Have to agree here. While it's a good read it really is made for atheist Sheeple who can't make there own mind up. If you want to disbelieve in a loving father, go ahead... Just don't base it on this book..

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>>579196104
These and any other work by Stephen king are worth reading.

I have wanted to try out a book but i have no clue wich are good so.
Do anybody know a good horror book?

By the way, I'm sorry for any misuse of the English language I may have, I'm trying to get as much literature as I can to increase my abilities with it and expand my vocabulary so it can just as wide as my native language one.

>inb4 fucking import

>>579196229
as if you can understand it...you just saw it on the movie seven and now you think you are intelligent...

>>579199083
>>579199163
>>579199313

Fuck you guys. Seriously if you think "MUH JEBUSS" is real then fuck you. This guy knows what he's talking about. P.S Fedoras are a fashion statement not something to be made fun of

>>579199468
this
>>579199443

>>579196645
.....kafka and not mention the process.. do u even read?

Hey OP

What do you read?

IMO king is a shitflinging autist, please don't talk to me if you read shit like that.

The only book that needs to be posted is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

>>579196104
I've actually got that in my hands right now.
>>579199443
>God tier
>stephen king
Gtfo

>>579199723
Have you read any of his works, anon?

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>>579199625
I don't even know what the movie "Seven" is, and I don't consider myself intelligent, I just try to learn as much as I can from everything that comes across me, maybe I don't understand it, maybe I do, I went to a Dante Alligieri school and this book was explained to us, but I don't wish to prove anything my friend, just to share some good literature.

>>579199632
I do not believe in Jesus or God or anything mate, you sound quite angry, maybe you should consider the statement of the guy who agreed with me and think if you're actually one of those guys who get angry everytime someone tries to say something different to what they think, I know this is /b/, but there is no reason to be mad

>>579199443
Most of his books are serious crap.

But I did enjoy the Dark Tower a lot

>>579199826
Yes I have.
He has some very good works, but they are not God tier.

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>>579196104

want to start reading again but don't know where to start & need a book to get me hooked

wat do

>>579196601
Yeah. He can't use any part of his body and he had still don't more with his life than you ever will.

>>579200023
20,000 leagues under the sea

>>579200023
What do you want to read? Fiction, non-fiction? Educational? Entertainment? Dark/Gritty? Light/Funny? Inspirational?

>>579199709
I mainly read literature in Spanish but now I'm trying to get better at English by reading anglosaxon texts; I mainly enjoy everything but I try t keep myself aways from sci-fi and most of novels.

Don't think that a book is bad in that way, they're all knowledge from someone's point of view and you can always learn something from one of them. I also listen to the stupid guy talk, because inbetween of all the bullshit he says there might be something truthful, that something that the wise man didn't say from fear to be judged.

And when you say "King" you mean Stephen King? No I don't read anything from him, don't really enjoy it, but I don't consider him "autistic"

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Haven't read this since like middle school or something. Its not even that long, but to this day I have not read another book that I've loved more

>>579196104
anyone know the name of the movie that came out or is coming out this month?

>>579199632
*fedora intensifies*

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>>579199926
Serious crap? I'm curious as to why you think that. Got an example?
>>579199931
I didn't notice god-tier in the OP, I just thought we were posting books.

>not for the weak of heart

>>579200286
The Theory of Everything

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>>579199632
>pic related

>>579199443
Worth reading yes,God tier no.
SK goes off on a tangent about unimportant details for fucking pages. Another thing that shits me is the constant references to other books, and to himself. And how nearly every story takes place in Maine, and every protagonist is a writer. I used to love his books(the stand is my favorite), but his writing style annoys me to much now. And nowadays he get paid by the fucking word, and he has no fucking editor anymore so his books are fucking stupid thick now, like 1500 pages thick.

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>>579200436
Very much this

>>579199443
You've got great taste anon

The Forever War. Puts starship troopers to shame.

>>579200167
Man there's a difference between reading everything and recommending crappy books to crappy people on /b/

Consider your audience, why don't you post over on /lit/?

>>579200360
What I like, Dark Tower, Mobiel, Cujo, It, Eyes of Fire and even Dome.

The rest I don't like at all. But I think that's more because my preferences lie somewhere else these days.

>>579200142
>anything basically
sorry anon I'm not exact, I'll need to read a few and then find what I enjoy
>preferably not sci-fi or fantasy
>inspirational would be enjoyable I guess
>Would prefer shorter books to begin with
>not bothered whether fiction or non-fiction

>>579200360
You didn't notice the 1st two words?!
now I understand why you're a Stephen king fan.... It all makes sense.

>>579196229
Finally some good litterature taste on /b/

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>this

>>579200553
Because I'm on /b/ and this place is meant for all the genreless cancer to come, also, I didn't really post crappy books mate, may not be god tier, but not crappy, if other anons did so that is not my fault, now I will abandon thread as a Kangaroo is destroying my garden and I have to scare him off to the bushes, which are far.

Farewell my /b/tards.

Forgot to post one more, too lazy to get picture.

The Dhammapada

>>579200584
Did you read the tommyknockers? Thoughts?

>>579200642
I am gonna recommend a weird-ish, amusing, sometimes funny, sometimes feeling book. It's not God-Tier but seriously enjoyable. It's short and easy. It has a couple of good points, and it's generally weirdly relatedable.

The Universe versus Alex Woods

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>>579196104
>Hawkings
>god tier
> ?
>>579198952
kek. Hello wannabe sci fag

>>579200762
Oh you're Australian too

onya bruce

>>579200823
Fairly sure that the man has the ability to write a really good book, much better than anything you could write anon.

>>579200859
>>579200823
>>579200360
>>579200718

Not that great

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Know your opponent and know yourself, and you shall not be in danger in a thousand battles.

I vigorously recommend reading this book.

>>579200801
I actually just looked, and I do have it on my shelf, but haven't read it - reason being they're in Dutch and I got this collection of Stephen King books when I was just transisting to reading English only. However, I will read it next week and try to find you again.

>>579200675
Ok, I lied. I did see that. I think that Stephen king is god-tier. I like how a lot of his works hint to others and how they all go together in one way or another.

>this is the internet and you have every right to disagree with my opinion.

>>579200895
which man?

Did anyone like the Dexter novels? I liked the story in the book more that the show, still haven't read the last to. I also like how its written so you can hear dexters internal monolog(is monolog right? Meh you get the drift).

>>579200478
Read 11/22/63, he's still got it.

>>579200196
I fucking loved that book, and it's nice that it's set in my state

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pretty much everything written by bolano

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Seriously, no clockwork orange?

>>579200980
Shitty new age tome I would not wipe my ass with it enjoy reading your faux self help book.

Die you pretentious fuck

op is literally a faggot

>>579201139
Next time don't lie. Stand up for your convictions. No matter how wrong you are....

Also
Cloud atlas - David Mitchell
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Are god tier

>>579201139
King has shit prose. pleb

>>579201205
You read the one where dark passanger is infact ancient god?
Even jeff lindsay was ashamed of that one. He didn't continue the story

>>579201368
>calls someone pretentious

>half of his posts are talking shit about other books and saying don't talk to me if you enjoy books by Stephen king

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>>579196104
This book is excellent.

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i like this series

>>579201426
You're trying to hate on someone promoting literature?

haha.

>>579201528
Yet you did, that makes you pretentious and an idiot.

>>579200424
c heers dude, already found it but yea any good? im gunna watch it either way

>>579201614
I did neither of those things, anon. You did.

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sci fi is god tier genre. this is god tire sci fi

ITT: pretentious assholes feigning culture

>>579201628
:spoiler:
Dude ends up crippled
Shit sux bro

>>579200054
learn English. Retard

>>579201205
I liked the first one, but the second started getting a bit too gory for my taste. I heard the last ones have like vampires and shit, so I dropped it.

I did enjoy the witticisms, like when he described how the janitor/whatever at the arena
>were in a hurry to find a new place for his breakfast
when he saw the chopped up vic. I read the translated version, so that's not exactly the correct phrasing.

>>579201596
His writing style is pretty awesome, I like the books. I should get the third one, I think it got out recently.

>>579201614
>>579201717
Nice samefag

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>>579198759
You'd probably like this.

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A short book. A revealing book. Especially if you bother to read the historical context regarding the author.
>guy the average joe or jane knows nothing about, but whose methods permanently altered the course of history

>>579201767
Still waiting for the 3rd one

If you want to start reading

Start with the greeks

/thread

>>579201859
I'd pay natelys whore to beat the shit out of me

>>579201670
Twisting words now, heyyyy stooopid.

>>579201680
Got this book, to be honest it's utter shit. Unreadable/10

Any reccomendations for good post-apo books ?

>>579201720
no way!? damn, you ruined it for me fuck you anon
stephen b da whore-king

>The Hobbit
>The Silmarillion
>The Children of Hurin
>Bernard Cornwall's Sharpe series.

all 10/10 in my eyes

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>>579197697
Gonna have to agree with this post. God tier books are any book that makes you change yourself for the better. Pic related.

>>579202021
>new name of my dick

>>579201517
What dexter in the dark? Starts with the passenger referring to itself as "IT" watch monkeys evolve? That one was weird.

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Some of my favorites
>Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
>The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

>>579201960
I really loved the Passage by Justin Cronin. It has some follow-up books which are a bit less, but the first book sure is one I would recommend.

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This is the only book /b/ should read

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Helped me to heal my depression.

>>579201945
You posted one book and it was a terrible one at that. The rest of your posts were spent talking shit about other people's taste in books and calling people pretentious.

>have fun trolling m8

>>579199130
THIS. my favorite book

>>579201732
Yeah dexters humer is darker in the books, I like it better.

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>>579196104
the lord of the rings obviously.

>>579201859
i didn't like this. i really expected to, but struggled to finish it.

>>579198952

> look, bait!

>>579202283
Have you read his other work?

>>579202224
Meditations or 20,000?

They're both recognised as classics of literature?

>>579202340
like the children of Húrin? and The Silmarillion

>>579196104
It's been on my shelf for a couple of years now. Might as well finally read it

>>579198952
Boring. And Dawkins is an arrogant cunt

>>579200823
I've read most of the less mathsy works of Feynmann and they should be compulsory for science/engineering students

>>579200823
QED is my favorite feynman book. it is excellent.

>>579202348
Are you asking me, anon?

>>579202456
Yes, both really good reads.

>>579201354
the guy who played Dim in the movie just died. i think his name was warren clarke

>>579202348
You really shouldn't be calling anyone else pretentious

>>579199632
Actually I am a Atheist, but I follow no one. I lost my faith honestly, not by reading a book but through years of looking at the facts.

>>579202479
Rhetorically

>>579202502
yeah, it just deepens Tolkiens works. I love the whole story and setting of middle earth.

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>TFW I wanna read some HP Lovecraft but don't have the vocabulary of a English teacher, and can't be fucked reading with a dictionary next to me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8

Too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks too many cooks

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please tell me some other anon has read this book.

>>579202181
is it drug releated?

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If you're into dark fantasy

Much underrated in the West

>>579202661
>an English teacher*

>>579202550
My thoughts exactly.

>>579201354
Great read, I was almost a third through it before the nadsat really clicked but then it was a breeze

>>579202661
The solution to this is simple, read it multiply times. And he doesn't really use hard words, just old words.

I have the same problem, I am about 5 stories in on the "Complete fiction' tome.

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Best book ITT

>>579202883
Is his work as good as the fanboys n fangirls rave? Or overrated?

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Much better than the movie

>>579202550
>>579202794
plebs

>>579202629
My only regret was that he didn't write deep enough into the 2 blue Istari and the Haradrim.
I would of loved a book about those 2 and there adventures

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>>579202972
I bet you stroke your neckbeard while reading that you fat downie cunt.

>>579202467
Read it in high school. Doesn't contain much maths. Tbh much easier than our course book, which was filled with numericals. Give it a try anon, reads like novel

>>579202742
It's about observations from psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Some of the theories presented there are pretty revolutionary.

>>579203246
their adventures bro

>there
>Their
>theyre

>>579203021
So far I like it, but maybe overrated.

However his stories are short and know how to deliver. It's definatly a must read if you're a serious reader.

>>579203484
Meh, English wasn't my strong point at school.

>>579202552
atheism is faith..

>>579203760
BAIT BAIT BAIT ABORT ABORT ABORT

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Unabridged version is my favourite fiction novel of all time.

I really enjoyed the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwall.

Anyone have any drug life books? Such as Tweak growing up on methamphetamine, about a boy, glass, crank, pill head, broken, we all fall down?

>>579204342
Got crank. Great read.

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>>579203856
yea sorry about that. not bait, just posted without thinking of the possible risk of thread derailing. i really don't like dawkins unresearched stance on religion however silly religion might be.

>also this

Anyone read the books king penned as Richard Bach man, some good shit, I had rage in PDF format on my phone but deleted it, got a copy of thinner from when it came out, the pages are nice and yellow/brown its that old.

>INB4 "The God delusion" by Dawkins.

>>579204647
Bachman*, damb autocorrect

Also, I got a question.

Are there any decent zombie reads? I read World War Z (Which I liked) + that survival guide he wrote. I also read the series feed/ deadline and blackout which was alright but nothing special. Are there any good close to god tiered zombie reads?

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Multilayered thriller. The book's intertextuality, well-researched occult subject matter, and incredibly erudite tone give it huge potential for re-reading. I've read it six times so far, and I know that there are still things in it I've missed.

>>579204946
George a. Romero's dawn of the dead got turned into a novel, exactly like the movie but in writing.

>>579205328
there's also a book based on the first mission impossible movie

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best book i ever don read.

>>579205328
I will look into that, that might be cool.

Zombies are my non-sexual fetish, but zombies never reach god tier in movies or books shamefully.

The Reapers Are The Angels

Is one I found and am gonna need to buy and read though, it's said it's a really good zombie read.

>>579202661
context

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Put a whole lot of stuff in a new light to me.

>>579196645
Absolute yes. God tier. In fact everything by Kafka.
>>579200753
I don't know why you bother reading such silly books. Unreastically hyped by neckbeard readers. Move along, you are not 13 anymore.
>>579200980
Are you serious?
>>579201354
>>579201354
Yes! The movie as well
>>579201680
I would argue that you should read it if you are seriously into politics. You should try at least. Just to better understand evil.
>>579201939
Awesome.

Also in random order, fiction and non-fiction: Thomas Pynchon. Steven Pinker, Thomas Elliot, Hannah Arendt (Eichmann in Jerusalem is revealing), Thomas Kuhn, e.e.cummings

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>>579201680
there's always one isn't there.

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not for you if you have short attention span

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You know you guys used to love these books

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Essential.
Also in full here: www.angel.net/~nic/askitiki.html

>>579204548
That doesn't make atheism a faith

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>>579196104
My favorite book.

>>579204946
Try I am legend, not exactly a zombie book but an awesome read and way ahead of its time

>>579199443
I own all of his books in first edition.

>>579207513
What about his bachman work?

>>579204946
Day by day Armageddon is amazing.

>>579207681
I think so. I may be missing one or two of those. I do have "Rage" and If you can find it, I would recommend it. It's been pulled out of print since it caused too many shootings.

>>579206146
>Douglas Adams
>Silly books
So incredibly witty, clever and hilarious books are just silly? Grow some taste and a sense of humour.

>>579207813
Yeah I had it in PDF on my phone I deleted it to make space, have to find it again. Only got a few chapters in.

>>579208124
I don't read paper books. I'm only 25 so I didn't buy his books new. My aunt is a huge fan and got them all new but needed the space so she gave me them. Now she is on a mailing list so after she finishes his newest book she gives it to me. I'm a kindle guy but my shelf looks rad.

I live about 3 hours from his Bangor mansion. I should have him sign some older copies.

>>579207820
Witty, clever and hilarious are pretty desirable qualities but not necessary for a memorable book in the course of fiction. There are several counterexamples and some examples as well. Adams books are fun to read, but by all means not everlasting. Same is true for Tolkien's I'd say.

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>>579196104

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Egyptian Sinuhet - Mika Waltari

>>579208754
so much this, one of my favorite reads, started it and didn't let go. also better than 1984 in my opinion

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>god tier

>>579209038
It's way better imo

>>579208393
Yeah I'm the other way round, paper books all the way. I only got rage in PDF coz if was free, people want a pretty penny for that book on ebay

>>579198952
low quality b8

>>579207261
never said it did. just added that. the fact that you can't scientifically prove that a god doesn't exist makes it that. or maybe a belief is a better word for it.

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>>579209225
Get on my level pleb. ALLAH HU AKBAR!!

>>579209265
I love paper books don't get me wrong. I just like the size of the kindle. If i finish a book at work, I am able to start a new one right away. There are some books I will read in paper. Like I wanted to read The Green Mile again and I have the original 6 part book set. I would rather read it that way than in one file on my kindle.

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>>579196104
Roadside Picnic is god tier by all means.

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>>579209654
ordered it yesterday, tell me how awesome it is so i know how quicky i should finish pic related

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>>579199130
eh, I found 100 years of solitude really really really boring. just endless 'woe is me' unrequieted love and generations using the same names as their fathers and grandfathers, plus the constant time-skipping just made for dull, confusing reading.

>>579201674
that looks interesting, ill keep an eye out for it thanks.

>>579202021
I liked this, really enjoyed the unbiased 'dual lens' approach he took, let me form my own opinions and connections :)

>>579203087
awesome read, loved it.


<<my personal pick, gotta read the sequel as well.

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in the realms of philosophy:
suprised no ones posted this yet

>>579209937
I liked it so much I read it in one day.

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My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård, 3600 pages with beautiful self-hatred

>>579209464
It's the opposite though, it's the lack of a belief

>>579208406
Well of course they're not necessary qualities, but they're qualities that Adam's writing has in abundance. I'm just confused as to why someone would fob off H2G2 as silly books unless they're the type of pretentious person who thinks comedic books aren't worthwhile literature, or just plain boring.

This is my list of sci-fi god tier books. Anyone want to add something?
"A Planet Called Treason"
"Roadside Picnic"
"Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
"Our friends from Frolix 8"
"Galactic Pot-healer"
"Left Hand of Darkness"
"Brave New World"
"Do androids dream about electric Ships"
"1984"

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>>579211108
>electric ships
Lel it's sheep dummy. Good list though.

>>579211108
nice nice, ive only read a couple of those so far.

im-a add:
"Quarantine"
"Diaspora"
"Ring"
"Jurassic Park"

>>579211669
Jurassic Park is a great read!

>>579211669
Can you give autors to first 3 books? I can't find them by titles alone.
>>579211108
Also *sheeps

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America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard

https://mises.org/books/agd.pdf

>>579211669
..although Ring should only really be read after several of the others in the xeelee sequence

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All of this.

>>579211885
sure, Quarantine and Diaspora are by Greg Egan

Ring is Stephen Baxter

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>>579196104

>>579212057
Thanks

>>579196351
critique of pure reason is a very difficult read. many page long sentences. the guy was a kraut after all. Also, he provides tons of examples based on physics, XIXth century physics. Most of it is bullshit, though his points still stand. All in all, I wouldn't recommend for most of valuable things stated there are already common knowledge and you won't be learning much from it.

>>579201731
autist detected

>>579199130

Beautiful illustration of what 'time runs in circles' means. One of favs.

>>579200753
has some nice insights, though it's hard to understand the good parts. if you are not smart enough to comprehend it, you'll end up reading a silly book about silly aliens

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>>579203087
god tier, these plebs are undeserving of it's presence

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personal recomendation,
neolithic humans vs lizardmen

>>579208965

All time favorite, must've read it like 7 times.

>>579205075
i cannot get this book anywhere for a reasonable price and it's bothering me a lot.

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will change the way you view the world

>>579196104
How did he write it?
>tfw he can't

>>579212982
Gtfo. David icke is fucking batshit crazy and gives all conspiracy theorists a bad name.

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This. Together with Ender's Game, Xenocide and Children of the Mind.
A great series about fear of unknown and how that fear affects men.
I read it after watching Ender's Game the movie. I refused to believe that something that bad could make it to the silver screen. Director of that movie should be shot or better, burned alive.

>>579213391
You could at least be first one to post it

>>579213391
I really really like this book!

>>579213198

You may mock Dr Icke now but dont come complaining to me when youve got ancient reptilians crawling out of your ass

Its a must read in my opinion. youll realise your eyes have been closed to the hidden powers that influence our daily lives

>>579213341
sheeeit cant beleive i forgot those, love that series!

If you want alot more back/sidestory and context to do with Bean (amazing charachter, so much deeper than ender) and Peter Wiggin i'd highly reccomend Enders Shadow and Shadow of the Hedgemon.
(I havnt seen enders game film yet, and I really dont want to.)

>>579211885
*sheep

>>579213897
Mate I've read ALL about the global elites playing puppet with the world leaders, but the way David goes about it makes him look batshit. Besides you really think knowing the truth about it all will change anything, Whatever is in control of our leaders and our planet has been in control for most of our evolution, they have there plans for us and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.

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>>579212035
Excellent pick.

>>579212253
What is this?

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>>579209981
I also recommend The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. It's similar to Cloud Atlas

>>579215197

And thats exactly what David Icke tells us. He tells us that shills like you will say exactly that in order to keep us distracted and our eyes closed

>>579215362
Plot summary?

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>>579196104

>>579213341
I was bored an evening, watched that movie and felt robbed of my time.

But then again it was a childs movie.

Books are adult-ish and actually good?

>>579215790
I used to think like you anon, now I have a nihilistic view of everything and couldn't care less.

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My recommendation

Dude spends 7 days murdering people just because he can

>>579211108
Dune?

>>579215879
It's difficult to describe...

It's written in the style of the Canterbury tales and is well deserving of its Hugo award.

There is an interstellar government called the Hegemony of Man. This planet is beyond their reach. These 'pilgrims' have come to see the Shrike, which is a monster/deity. The other books in the series are also worth reading.

I'd say that's almost as awesome as Dune.

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>>579216482

Also this. A short novella about a guy who likes to fuck cows