/fa/ book thread

>>12319389
i guess the book is /fa/ enough but that edition definitely isn't. NYRB and Penguin Classics are v effay

basically any good /lit/ is /fa/ tho

>>12319399
I agree, i posted that cover because it's the copy I own. original editions always look more aesthetic

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pic related is what I'm reading right now. no one fucking spoil it.

IQ84

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Actual plebos ITT

>>12319505
Never seen this cover, is it a Hans Bellmer drawing?

>>12319424
holden caulfield kills himself

>>12319389
I love F&L but i wouldn't consider it /fa/ at all

>>12319547
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lmao

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my dad made me read this when i was 16. it has always been one of my favorite books ever since

>>12320137
ever read dharma bums?

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Almost finished. Great read.

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>>12320283
This is next in line.

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Counter-culture

>>12319424
What's there to spoil about this shitty book?

>>12319505
>Actual plebos ITT
>bataille
>history of eye
implying
>>12320137
you better be reading uncensored version

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>>12319424
Fucking funny book!
>>12319400
Did you enjoy reading this? It's on my list this year.
>>12319980
Started my year by reading this. Read one of the racier bits while surrounded by 12 year old girls on the train. Thank god it was on the kindle and the cover wasn't on display.
>>12320137
I saw the original scroll a while back in the British Library, was pretty impressive.

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>>12319980
Shit dude, I was going to post this one!
My number one favourite book. I collected copies for a while. I still buy any print I come across if I haven't already copped it. A great read.

>>12320311
Sorry I should make myself more clear-
*Lolita is my number one favourite book.
Not Catcher in the Rye, but it's good and pretty edgy/effay.

>>12320311
w2c hat

>>12320302
>History of the eye
>History

>>12319389
>reading books because its fashionable

wow can u really be more pretentious

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Call it a meme all you want but it changed my life and I struggle to understand how someone could not love it if they read it. Everyone i've talked to who slagged it off always ended up saying "Oh it was so boring I dropped it or oh I listened to it as an audiobook while on a long drive" which just proves they didn't pay attention

Why do you faggots have to try and ruin everything?

>>12320558
Why do you insist on posting just pointless shit.

>>12320302
w-what ? there is a censored version ?

>>12320649
'Censored' maybe isn't the best term, but there's the original, rambling, scroll version, and the version edited for palatability.

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saw some other good mentions like On the Road and Lolita, both effay as fuck.

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Just finished The Prince and recently started this

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Reading the manifesto for the 5th time, reminds me of what i work towards everyday(not the ideal communist state, but more of a state with free healthcare and a semi-free market)

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>>12322119
Just finished it today too, and gonna start on Albert Camus.

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>>12322147
>hurr I'm such a socialist guise, I love free healthcare lolz XD
Take that fat capitalist dick out of your ass for 5 minutes and read 'Wage Labor and Capital' instead you fucking social democrat.

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Can exclusively reading fantasy be effay?

>>12319424
He never catches the 22

I can't believe it those are all very good books you guys read/like.
Regardless of that every day there is a new thread about branded sports shoes and ghetto wear.
How can people with such a well trained taste for lit. have such little sense for /fa is beyond me

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An amazing read, definitely recommend.

>>12319424
the only book I ever laughed out loud while reading

/lit/ here, thanks for the laugh, faggots.

>>12319389
Crime & Punishment is probably my all time favorite, just finished the Idiot, it didn't really get that good until the second half honestly but still fucking great.
If you want HS Thompson type stuff I can recommend some books, I read ton of that type of transgressive drug infested shenanigan books at one point.

>>12323376
Have you read BK yet? I started with Karamazov and regret not starting with C&P because apparently a lot of his arguments in it are developed and polished in BK and I would like to have experienced the growth of Dosto's philosophy more naturally rather than having to go back and examine it. BK changed my life though, made me a Christian again.

>>12323498
>Have you read BK yet?
Nope, planning on reading it next probably, love Dostoyevsky.
>BK changed my life though, made me a Christian again.
In a way Dostoyevsky makes lot of good arguments for Christianity but he also gives the best arguments against it, though yeah I haven't read BK yet. He did probably influence me to see Christianity in bit different light, it's hard to see it 'objectively' when it's so intertwined in your own culture and traditions and it's something that you were more or less 'forced' to take part being child and young adult.
But the general moral and existential contemplating in his books is my fucking jam. The suicide note of Ippolit in Idiot was absolutely fucking hilarious, tragic, sad and made you think at the same time, probably one of my favorite parts of the book.

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>>12323542
Oh and currently reading this, it's pretty interesting, not only as Waits fan but I think anyone doing any creative things would probably get something out of it, just really interesting to read where one can find inspiration from really anywhere.
Another one I'm reading through is this book about history of artfield in my country through 20th century, lot of interviews with artists talking about other artists, insightful journalism and research, crazy good read.

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Reading classy smut in public is pretty effay.

Honestly though, read what you like. Reading something just to seem cool is very un-/fa/.

>>12322610
You're an idiot if you really think communism works you fucking mongoloid

>>12320538
its definitely a great book, just disagree with it philosophically

>>12323716
>Reading something just to seem cool is very un-/fa/.
It's true. Though lot of the renowned classics are considered such for a reason, doesn't hurt to at least some of them a try.

I'm reading Aristotles Poetics and Rhetoric. It's not very fun. I also have A Farewell to Arms to read and Joseph Cambells stuff.

I just finished Discourse on Method and that was fun. He basically talked in circles about how he isn't super smart except yeah I am that smart lol a lot.

>>12320538
I got through the first book of it and got bored. She hamfists her point too much. I gave it away to my girlfriend to read.

Dune is my favorite book.

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foreignfag here
what do people think of Brautigan in his american homeland ?

>>12320538
Cool story and all, but Rand is a wretched writer.

>>12320283
>>12320289
will I like these if I like murakami?

>>12324464
Maybe. Either way they're worth a read.

Mishima gets pretty dark though, be warned. I mean, the guy attempted a military coup in real life and committed public sudoku, so his work isn't exactly full of whimsy.

>>12319424
He fakes his death to get out of the army.

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just finished this and count zero & mona lisa overdrive are in the mail

>>12324254
literal pleb

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Great so far.

Came here to laugh at you faggots.

>>12319389
If you liked Fear and Loathing I'd recommend High Rise by JG Ballad, similar themes minus the LSD but still very trippy.

Other favorites are the Book of Disquiet, the Atrocity Exhibition, A Thousand Plateaus, Either/Or, Streets of Crocodiles, Altazor and Ulysses.

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any suggestions for comfy books?

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>>12325061
the moviegoer

>>12320137
this

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thoughts?

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Started this series last week, been too crammed with work to get some quality time. Opinions??

>>12320283
>penguin
Rough times indeed, anon.
>>12320538
This and Fountainhead were dreadful because I couldn't get her absolutely atrocious views out of my head while reading. Trudged all the fucking way through and never touched either again.
>>12321161
:)))
>>12322771
Anything is possible

>>12324971
>Thinking /fa/ will understand deleuze and guattari
>Taking postmodernist philosophy seriously

>>12325282
My friend raves about Foundation and Asimov in general, I never made it past the begining because I lost interest in reading altogether.

I'm finishing up Dune now and it's been really good, so Foundation is now on my list.

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Been reading this for quite some time now. I'm almost done.

I've found myself reading mostly what you might call 'great literature' the past few years.
I think I need something lighthearted and not too dense next.

I dig Proust, Dylan Thomas, Frank Herbert, and Alain Fournier.
Recommendations?

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>>12319389
i think im the first person to ever read this book

>>12325340
There used to be a tumblr called People Holding Infinite Jest. It was pretty hilarious to see everyone affecting an aloof posture while blatantly trying to show off the cover of the book.

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why the fuck hasn't anyone posted this yet?

>>12324799
Cyberpunk af

>>12325350
Good pick

>>12325340
Pretty /lit/

>>12322575
dont

>>12325282
foundation is good, but tends to lose resonance after a while. It presents a paradigm for history that is valuable.
The story line gets wrung of drama after a while.

>>12325352
I kinda doubt it. This was years ago.

>>12324231
which actually means in some ways you agree with her philosophically. It's critical that you form your own opinion under objectivism.

I agree with the other anon that the people who don't like it, haven't read it and digested it. Instead they mostly ape their college professors opinion that it's trash.

The thing is Ayn's not the best writer, but fountainhead is the better novel on many counts. The clunkiness of atlas shrugged just makes her philosophy easier to negate.

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>>12325061
read these two.

other murakami books are comfy too, but these two are the most comfy. make sure to read the intro / preface.

/fa/ book list coming through:

pride & prejudice
critique of pure reason
hippias minor
madame bovary
wuthering heights
white noise
de rerum natura
metamorphosis of plants

>>12325628
Just started reading these yesterday.

>>12324251
Why bother reading Poetics? Are you doing a literature degree?

>>12323542
I'd have to say Dosto is my favourite author. He's hilarious, but you're also spot on with how he portrays Christianity as a monolith in society that civilisation has had to grow around. If you don't get round to reading the entire BK, read The Grand Inquisitor, its excellent and was the part of the book that changed my mind the most. The ending to BK is absolutely beautiful as well, felt a weird mix of destitution and joy at the end of reading it, which I've never felt before.

>>12320137
god I hate this book

>>12325350
Rules of attraction and Less than Zero deserve a mention.

>when /fa/ likes reading more than fucking /lit/

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>>12324058

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>>12324058

>>12324814
She's so hamfisted it's ridiculous. If you don't get atlas shrugged by chapter 4 you're probably retarded.

>>12325676
Screenwriting

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a little life is my favorite fucking book, it hurts to read so much but god damn

>>12325276
i liked that one jordaan mason album, what's the book like?

>>12325340
i spent a summer working on a farm and didn't have internet and read this in like five weeks, i actually really liked it and i wish it weren't so overhyped by people that never finished it

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>>12325282
>reads sci-fi/ fantasy trash
>fell for the retarded anti-penguin meme
What a surprise.

>>12326025
why ?

>>12328297
I just find Kerouac insufferably vain. Dharma Bums was almost bearable, but On the Road comes off as nothing but "look at me, look at how cool and free and better than everyone else I am, look at all the cool people I know". And I get his importance to the beat movement, that's all fine, but personally I can't stand him, sorry.

>>12327105
it's pretty abstract and maybe too "try-hard", but an interesting read for sure

>>12326506
How does that invalidate the other facets of the book like the plot, characters etc?
Did you get molested by a train when you were younger or something?

>>12320538
Shit tast famalan

>>12324251
A farewell to arms is my favorite hemingway novel

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not necessarily /fa/, but i feel like Oblomov resonates with people who spend a lot of time on 4chan

it did with me

>>12320538
are you 14? or just an unbearable autist?

>>12319424
I've read many books, this is probably top 5 /fa/ of them all

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what do y'all think of pkd?

>>12328886
agreed