/b/'s favorite books?

>>594531425
/thread

You win OP.


Some Chuck Palahniuk always does it for me as well

Name of the Wind

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>>594532065
My fucking nigga.

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

Nothing even comes close.

>>594532379
That thing's a beast

>>594531425
just bought that exact book (all the books in one volume) last week and its my favorite series now
it probably helps that im in love with monty python

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Underrated but easily on par with Game of Thrones.

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This

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Or this. OP's is up there as well.

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>>594531425
this is a classic

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>>594531425
My favorite was Dickens, right up until someone sent me Adams' essay on Australia, which led to HG2TG, which led to the end of my desire to ever read another work of fiction ever again.

Hitchhikers Guide left me wanting nothing.
Wundebar.

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if you had this as kid your childhood must have been a ton of laughs

>>594531425

OP wins, but

Dark Tower series, including Insomnia

>>594533381
Wow!

I didn't know horses could even be lesbians!

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>>594532065
>>594532350
>i want am make gold
>no i am make gold, u r path to do nothing because universe wants
>now we r both alchemist, bad book

>>594531425
>zomg so random dolpins and 42s!

>>594531994
>i read 1984 so i figured i didn't need to read this one

>>594532624
homoerotic cover / 10

>>594533657

Also Odd Thomas, the o-rig

>>594533657
the first four.
the rest were fucking retarded ridiculous stupid.
>mfw i forgot the fucking magic trumpet 100,000 pages back and have to redo everything

>>594532379
I'm reading that right now. It's taking me a while. But it's so god damned good.

>>594532156
I tried reading that front to back. got like 60 pages in before my brain went number. best just to skip to parts you're interested in

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>>594534265

>>594534105

Yeah it's dense as fuck but it's worth it.

>>594532350
muh nigguh will never be the wind :/

>>594534580
Have you seen the MIT seminars they have online? It's really helping me digest the book.

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If Monty Python wrote the book of Revelation.

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The only book I thought was so funny I read it twice.

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This is a good read.

>>594534924
Kill yourself

>>594535330
Lmao

Naked Lunch

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I love me some Vonnegut.

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Literature is great, poetry, fine, but quality nonfiction, now that is a treat.

This title sounds easy. It sounds serene, peaceful, even a little melancholic. It is none of those things. This lucky crazy badass fucker right here, decided to do a thing against all advice and odds, went into a field and built himself a little wood boat, learned and prepared what he could, and just went out and fucking did it, and the adventure and insane shit he lives through is beyond what he or anyone else ever imagined.

That tasty sandwich you had for lunch today, was not actually epic. THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE is actually EPIC, in the truest classical sense of the word. And it was all corroborated afterward by the financiers... and THEN how it ends, holy fuck.

This book is why people today still build replicas of his boat and try doing what he did, and die trying it. A lot. It's a thing.

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Pendragon series

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surprised Mein Kampf hasn't been posted yet.

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Catch 22

>>594535738
Dat Breakfast of Champions doe

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>>594531425
The golden compass books were pretty damn good.

>>594536235
I tried reading this but I was so god damn confused I couldn't continue. It wasn't until much later on that I discovered that's the whole fucking point.

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>>594536405
garbage books, shit ending made me cry.

Dune, when I was a child, it opened up a whole new world to me

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Come get some of this \b

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>>594531425

>>594535738
That book was shit.

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>>594536138
eh. I dunno. It definitely like, spoke to me, like the Fuhrer was writing it specifically to me, encapsulating the spirit of the German people, but then the middle section just kind of dragged on. Ja Ja, Jews this, Jews that, on and on it goes... snooze. Methinks mein Fuhrer needs an editor.

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>>594535020
>my niqqa.
This book turned me on to Neil Gaiman. The writing's so fucking dry and witty. I love it. I have yet to read any Terry Pratchet. Want to tho.

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>>594533763

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Nothing beats Robert Jordan. Though Hitchhikers guide to galaxy is probably funniest thing I've read.

>>594536641
shit i was talking about this book here
>>594533763

>>594536674
it was pretty good

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>>594531425
Watchmen is a great graphic novel.

>>594536768
referring to Good Omens btw

>>594536674
worth a read. even if you hate the book you will have fucking guns by the time your done reading it.

>>594532379
Gonna read this now. I read the wikipedia page and I feel like this is gonna be good.
>Question
Do i need to have this SUPER advanced vocabulary to understand this. I have a pretty decent vocab but if it starts using some voodoo words I'll have to whip out a dictionary.

>>594531425
Elfstones of Shannara

>>594536659
This has been sitting in my house for ages and for some reason I cannot bring myself to read it. I want to, I just haven't.

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>>594537318
>advanced vocabulary
you're fucked mate dont even

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our future

>>594537223
I read it when I was sick with the flu so it was extra terrifying

>>594537318
It wouldn't hurt

>>594535330
>Berenstain
I still have autism about it not being "Berenstein"

>>594537048
I think I have it, but I've never read it. I just can't bring myself to read comics.

>>594537561
It's fucking deep though man. If you take it at face value, yeah it's a comic book, but it reflects on a lot about the human condition and a reflection of the time period of the Cold War.

>>594531425
Mine was H2G2 until I read an interview with Douglas Adams where he cited 'The Sirens of Titan' as the inspiration for that book.

Now Cat's Cradle is my favourite book.

Trust me, it make's sense.

That being said, Douglas Adams is definitely my favourite person ever. I had the pleasure of meeting him at a book signing once. I handed him my copy of 'Don't Panic' and he opened it up right to the middle pages and wrote across both of them in big black marker

'this book has been defaced by its author
-Bop Ad'

>>594536624
The shit movie adaptation made me cry.

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>>594531425
THHG2TG isn't just a god tier book it's an amazing series. As you get further and further into the series shit just gets funnier, and shit that was random before just makes more sense.

For example there's a part early on in the first book where they use the improbability drive, and create a whale, and a potted plant. They actually explain why it happened in a later book.

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frank herbert's dune series

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Damn so many of my options got picked but here is a favorite from when I was growing up.

Stephen Fair
i forget the author

>>594537786
Hm. I'll give it a look. Having lived through enough of that to remember some of the attitudes, I may just dig it after all.

Heinlein all things SciFi

>>594535738
FUCK YEAH MAN!

Oh a lion hunter,
In the jungle dark,
And a sleeping drunkard,
Down in Central Park,
And a Chinese Dentist,
And a British Queen,
All fit together,
In the same machine,
Nice, nice, very nice,
Nice, nice, very nice,
Nice, nice, very nice,
So many different people in the same device.

From memory: How did I do?

>>594532156
Freemason propaganda.

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TANSTAAFL

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God will give me justice!

the Necronomicon

>>594537800
Ever read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency? It's along the same vein. The way he describes this super old man at a dinner party had me laughing so hard, I had to put it down and come back to it later.

>>594537988
I think you mean Frank Herbert's single novel Dune. We don't acknowledge any of the sequels, and even if we did we ESPECIALLY don't acknowledge any of the ones past 3.

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Stranger in a Strange land, but I am in a pretty big Scifi phase including the works of Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Stapledon, and Bradbury.

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Asimov's Foundation & Robot books

>>594533381
Definitely not what I was expecting
By Graham W. Jenkins on February 25, 2010
Format: Paperback
So I'm a big opponent of all things heteronormative, and so it was nice to finally find some literature that featured horses partaking in a different lifestyle (not that it's a choice, mind you, I just liked that they admitted some lady horses probably liked other lady horses). Except that this book was not at all about homosexual mares.

Rather, it was about these great busty lesbians who seemed to have very little in the way of steady work. Their days consist mostly of sleeping, some horseback riding (but only little walks of twenty minutes through the garden, a loop around the veranda, and then back again), and then stories by a campfire at night (a campfire at a country estate? With no butlers or Indians? What?!?). Inexplicably the ladies' steeds are present at these storytelling sessions as friends and partners, though lacking even the rudimentary body language reading capabilities of Clever Hans it escapes me how they ever thought they might seduce the ladies. Short answer: they don't.

The series of campfire stories are utterly predictable, ranging from the oppressive, homophobic patriarchy to the repressive, bigoted anti-matriarchal forces. Naturally I loved them, but come on, ladies! Alisa and Monica, I know you can do better. Maybe just Monica, actually. Alisa, this was a good effort, but it remains your only book and I worry you may have hit a protracted case of writer's block. Take a cue from Monica, who had some great sequels like "Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary," and "Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher," and who could forget "Program Evaluation Procedure for Leisure Service Agencies?" A distinct lack of equine-related subplots, but then again, so was this, and I presume that it's a mistake you'll soon rectify in "Emily Earheardt, Lesbian Horse ...

I am bumping this thread.

>>594542251
Unique book, but not cloppable
By Princess Twilight Sparkle on September 27, 2014
Format: Paperback
I found this book in Princess Celestia's restricted archives in the Canterlot library. She disapproved, but if she didn't want me reading it then she shouldn't have put the book behind seven easily defeated magic cipher locks with deadly traps. It was practically out in the open!

Despite the enticing, forbidden fruit title of this book, it made me very disappoint. The distinctly non-lesbian (they're stallions, actually) ponies are depicted as dumb beasts and subservient to some sort of bipedal simian females. At no point do any lesbian ponies get together for a good, healthy [REDACTED BY EQUESTRIAN CIVIL AUTHORITY]. I don't think this book even belongs in our world based on the residual magic resonance that surrounds it. The mysterious "human" creatures are certainly the denizens of some strange and distant dimension.

Anyway, I loaned the book to Lyra Heartstrings and haven't seen her since. The overdue charge is on her head.

>>594534705
Link to seminars?

Currently rereading Raymond E. Fiests riftwar cycle again. On book 5 currently. Love the series.

>>594536405
>>594536624
I'm an atheist, and heard so much whining from Christian groups about the movies that I got and read the books. What a clusterfuck. Supposedly all about atheism, but what are the characters doing? THEY ARE WARRING AGAINST HEAVEN.

How in the fuck can they go to war against a God that doesn't exist? It's self-contradictory.

Very disappoint.

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>>594531425

>>594536768
>I have yet to read any Terry Pratchet. Want to tho.
He has some amazing books, but a lot are meh. I would suggest Thief of Time first, as it's pretty good as a standalone. Night Watch is another good one, but it helps to have read some of the other "city watch" books first -- Guards, Guards! was the first (meh), Men At Arms (meh), Feet of Clay (pretty decent), Jingo (ok), Fifth Elephant (ok).

>>594536768
Man, Neverwhere is sitting on my shelf and I can't get around to it cuz I'm reading 5 other books atm(includind 2 pratchett books). And Good Omens have been staring at me from the shelf of a local bookstore for a while but I always tell myself I still have a lot of unfinished books.

Terry Pratchett is amazing tho, definitely try it, If I can advise, go with discworld, keep the older novels in the series for later, his writing started to get exponentially better after the first 2 books. They are all good tho.

The man who was thursday: A nightmare by G. K. Chesterton

>>594544551

Is it that good?
I've only read Ender's game, might pick up Speaker of the dead as well

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This series is mindblowing.

Crawling Chaos, which is actually a collection of stories by HP Lovecraft (and some authors influenced by him)

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>>594544957
And this series is also great, if you are into Space Opera. Complex characters and plot, interesting universe. The short story "Investments" was the first one that I read; it comes after the three novels, and I had no idea they were out there for years after I read it.

>>594542922
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=godel+escher+bach+lectures
There you go, you lazy fuck.

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>>594537318
>2014+1
>not having ebook device

>>594536674
So I need to ask people who read Stephen King. I've only read a couple of his books and the dark tower series looks really cool to me. I've heard that it references his other books and somehow ties them together. So what books of his should I read before I get to the dark tower?

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this

>>594545388
I honestly couldn't stand the dark tower stuff. Couldn't even make it through the first one. Love most of his other books though.

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I thought this was /b/'s favorite book, there's always a thread dedicated to it at all times.

>>594544372
this
as standalones pratchett's books are solid, but nothing amazing. but read as a series, the characters develop and the whole discworld universe progresses, making it really engaging

the city watch.. "arc"? is my favourite by far, but I'd definitely recommend Thief of Time, as well as Thud (which is my favourite of Pratchett's books)

Anyway, Ice Station Zebra is probably my favourite book, with the George Smiley novels being a close second (I know, spyfiction/10, but I'm a filthy casual, not an English professor)

>>594545388
It's not like it's required reading.

I started the dark tower series on wizard and glass ( the most spaghetti western of them all) and then went up chronologically.

After I finished all the books i decided to try reading related books because I was interested in the characters.

Insomnia and Salem's lot are the ones that have the most notorious connections, I'd say (and they are REALLY good books by themselves), but the shinning, it, cujo, hearts in atlantis and a couple more I think get referenced. So just read what you feel like reading, mang.

>>594545879
The first book is actually the worst. The second one in MUCH better. In fact, he went back and revised the first book after he mapped out the whole series so it would fit better and not suck as much.

>>594541737
Classics. I re-read the robot and foundation series everey few years.

>>594545867
Yep, holy shit that's a good one.

>>594546666
Your quads insist I must give it another shot then

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here all tho I am byest by it if you won't go with it then go with animal farm

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>>594532379
this is loosely based on the same book and is an easier read to get through. its pretty fuckn great

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>>594531425
I love the whole series, but pic related is still my favorite.

It's hard to beat stomping around downtown Chicago on the back of a zombie t-rex.

>>594546126
His "Laundry" series is also awesome. Starts with "The Atrocity Archives" (totally awesome), then "The Jennifer Morgue" (letdown), then two more great ones.

His "Merchant Family" series was rather disappointing, and unfortunately it looks like he's going to continue it as his main one.

>>594546666
>he went back and revised the first book
That explains a lot. I've never been able to understand how people even bothered to read that series. All I ever read was the first book, and it sucked so badly that I never even looked at the rest.

Not that I'm going to pick it up at this point; he's almost as bad as Dan Brown with his reuse of the same fucking plot time and time again.

>>594546964
Most of the way through this... It seems like it just treads the same stuff over and over
>inb4 Hofstadter
But it just started to get boring after a while because it seemed like it stopped covering new ground and was getting a bit..masturbatorial? I'll have to pick it back up and finish it one of these days. For now I've got some new Henry Miller stuff with my name on it.

>>594547386
yeah its just a friendly tip, the gödel escher and bach book was just a bit too much for me i admit.

might give it another try though

>>594544924

It's very good. I think it's the strongest in the series. It's a very different book than the first one though, expect a lot more philosophy than action/strategy. Ender's Game kind of serves as an introduction to this and the ones that follow.

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>>594546892

More Thrall.

>>594547603
Yeah GEB is pretty intense. I might check those MIT lectures and take another stab at it myself

>>594547035
Literally just read that one.
I like the series, its mostly fun, even is Dresden himself is a bit on a prick.

I felt like the dinosaur thing was a bit silly, and kinda took me out of it.
Dresden suddenly can raise the dead? Just because?
If old = strong + hard to raise, why wouldent necromancers have already used used the dinosaurs? Cavemen? Subcavemen? Hell, even old school mammals, bones ready and available at your local museum.
I get that humans are meant to be stronger in general, but it doesnt make sense that the necromancers havent thought about options.

I can forgive all that, though, because that final thread given to Marva was awesome.

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anyone read it?

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/b/ know of any books like The Count of Monte Cristo that are well written where the main character is fueled by revenge? Fucking love this shit. Was lucky enough to find a first edition in French at a church book sale

>>594532379
Narrative at the start of each chapters is cringe worthy but the rest is sold.

>>594548098
>first edition in French at a church book sale
Holy shit, I have to start going to more churches.

Stephen Brust has two or three fantasy novels written with a (supposedly) similar prose style, but they are not along the same lines as far as plot. Still enjoyable. The Phoenix Guards is one, I think the second is called 500 Years After or something like that. Or maybe I have the order backwards.

>>594547892
I think Dresden's sudden ability to raise the dead was mostly because of the conditions the necromancers created for their ritual. I think he even said himself on any other night he couldn't have done it.

>>594548567
Dude seriously go to church book sales. You find fucking gold, the only problem is they have no idea what they have and write in pencil how much they want on the inside of the books. I had to get my books restored since I wasn't going to erase .75$ out of each front cover myself.

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This timeless piece.

>>594540684
Eh, I liked Dune Messiah more than the original Dune. Brian Herbert's ejaculations are shit though.