Your 10/10 books.

>>6327054
I have yet to find a single book that is 10/10. Why don't you start us off OP?

a confederacy of dunces

>>6327058
Cause I can.

>he rates things out of " "

pleb overload

>>>/pol/

Blindsight and Neuropath. By the way - anything similar?

IJ

>>6327054
Chartism - Thomas Carlyle

>>6327054
The God Delusion

Everything by John Edward Williams: Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, Augustus.

Notes from Underground and Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky.

GR and TCOL49 by Pynchon.

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem.

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan.

Steps by Jerzy Kosinski.

The Trial and The Metamorphosis by Kafka.

Ficciones and El Aleph by Borges.

Nine Stories and The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis.

Moby-Dick by Melville.

Ubik and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by PKD.

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>>6327151

Growth of the Soil
Moby-Dick
In Search of Lost Time
Anna Karenina

These are the only 10/10 novels I've read so far.

>>6327168
16/20 are my 10/10 as well
i like you, anon

>>6327204

Which 4 aren't?

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

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>>6327085
You enjoyed Blindsight? Man I thought the descriptions of the alien creatures and vessel were fantastic but the super powered vampire captain that randomly goes apeshit who is actually the ship AI(??) was pretty twisted.

Also the book left me wanting to know more about the aliens... I cared about what they were doing more than the crew.

>>6327054
Ulysses - Joyce.
Ego and It's Own. - Stirner
Phenomenology of Spirit. - Hegel
The Republic - Plato
Catch 22 - Heller

Though, I wouldn't say they are 10/10, but they are among my favorite books.

Especially the Republic, Phenomenology and The Ego, I feel like I learn something new everything I read them.

>>6327446
everytime I read them*

Geez.

Classifying books from 0 to 10 is a spook.

Nostromo
Mason & Dixon
As I Lay Dying
The Man Without Qualities
Labyrinths
Lolita
Story of an African Farm
Jane Eyre
I don't have any paper so shut up
Invisible Man
Island of Dr. Moreau

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1000/10

faust I

>>6327785
>revolverocelot.jpg

Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - HST

Blood Meridian / Child of God - McCarthy

Ficciones - Borges

He Died with His Eyes Open - Derek Raymond

A bunch of Italian books that aren't translated, others that I can't remember at the moment

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This and White Noise. The settings and the character in both of them were somehow very, very human although I'm not sure why I find that so charming.

>>6327806
>A bunch of Italian books that aren't translated

Name three.

One Hundred Years Of Solitude and LOTR are the only books that I've read which I feel I could confidently give a 10/10 to.

>>6327785
His name three times on the cover. Talk about an ego.

Recently finished The Road. I wouldn't call it a 10/10, but it was really damn good. I'm looking forward to exploring McCarthy's work after I read some other stuff.

The Time Machine Did It by John Zwartzwelder
Lolita by Vlad the Destroyer

Mark Twain

>>6327177
You can't negate he has the handome look in his face.

Orwell - 1984

Saint Exupery - The Little Prince

Kafka - The Metamorphosis

Lin Yutang - Leaf in the Storm

As I lay Dying
Absolom, Absolom!
Blood Meridian
Suttree
Stoner
Redwall
That one animorphs book.

>>6327806
>A bunch of Italian books that aren't translated
like what?

>>6328501
My favorite was the one with the alien centaur on the cover and he turns into a porpoise.

The Idiot

The Sisters Brothers

>>6328515
You mean all of them?

The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

>>6327054
im pretty sure ive got more than 10 books bro.

The Road
El tunel
La fiesta del chivo
Notes from Underground

>>6327791
Best historical fiction that I've ever read.

Candide was a perfect book imo

>>6329963

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>>6327054

Novels/Novellas:

Blood Meridian - C McCarthy

Note from Underground - FM Dostoyevsky

Essay Collections:

Consider the Lobster and Others - DF Wallace

Pulphead - JJ Sullivan

Love, Poverty, and War - CE Hitchens

Other:

Homage to Catalonia - G Orwell

Tropic of Cancer by Miller
Only true 10/10

>>6330191

>Only true 10/10

hah. well you're probably just in fan mode so i'll let it pass. have you read his book on writing + his one on rimbaud? check em out.

>>6330202
It's complete fan mode...I assume from the little pieces of Ulysses that I've read that it'll be a 10/10 too. And I saw them at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, but I didn't feel like stealing from a place that gave me free tea, so I'll have to check them out some other time.

>>6327829
Because he obviously wrote it

>>Growth of the Soil
Nice. Hamsun is hardly ever talked about here.

>>6330214

>I assume from the little pieces of Ulysses that I've read that it'll be a 10/10 too.

oh, it is. you should consider reading gifford's annotated alongside it.

and miller completely idolised blaise cendrars so you should consider reading him too

>>6328516
>Sisters Brothers
Why?
I recently read it and totally hated it, but that might just be because I'm a huge McCarthy fanboy, and I just can't get used to westerns that are even slightly reminiscent of his settings

>>6330217
I tried reading Hunger, but the translation I got must've been fucking awful because it sounded like the unending ramblings of a madman.

>>6330222
Never heard of Blaise. How would you characterize his writing style? I tend to care more about style than plot, though I would not say style over substance, because I find substance to be oftentimes dependent on style.

>>6330248
It felt like that to me too, but that's what I grew to love about Hunger. Bored me for the first quarter, though.

Short stories by Heinrich Boll
The Magic Mountain
The Blind Owl
Red Cavalry
Wallace Stevens' poetry
Platonov's short stories
John Donne's Holy Sonnets
Paradise Lost
Faust
Borges' short stories

Necromancer
Every other sci-fi book has looked like harry potter level crap since I read it and ruined the entire genre for me

Harry Potter series, band of brothers novel, the kushiel trilogy by jaqueline carey, the odyssey

I just want 1/100th of this board to read something that isn't a novel for a change.

>>6330542
Inb4 the whole thing was played out in Penelopes head who went crazy after her husband got whacked at troy

The only correct answer is Finnegan's Wake and you all know it. All other works pale in comparison.

>>6327466
>Jane Eyre
b8?

>>6328501
im keking at redwall

>>6330598
It's a good book. Have you read it?

>>6330608
yeah I read it recently... a ten out of ten seems a bit excessive though... I think a seven out of ten would be more appropriate

>>6327054
The one I'm writing, here's an excerpt, behold:

Here he was at ten—the year they left Europe. She remembered the shame, the pity, the humiliating difficulties of the journey, and the ugly, vicious, backward children he was with in the special school where he had been placed after they arrived in America. And then came a time in his life, coinciding with a long convalescence after pneumonia, when those little phobias of his, which his parents had stubbornly regarded as the eccentricities of a prodigiously gifted child, hardened, as it were, into a dense tangle of logically interacting illusions, making them totally inaccessible to normal minds.

>>6327168
>The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem.
This. Hell, it's 11/10 for me.

>>6328501
Animorphs. Classic series.

>>6330619
2/10

The
Ten
Most
Obscure
Books
You
Have
Never
Heard
Of

pleb

>>6330619
>totally

Use completely or wholly instead. Totally sounds like a tween is narrating.

>>6327054
>Your 10/10 books.
this is some /mu/ bullshit. Seriously low qual discussion your asking for bud. A better thread would be to ask which books people found near flawless and WHY they did, so we can actually have a discussion. Not that we can't, just try and promote one a bit bitter

>>6330278
read magic mountain in german, it had a strange feeling to me. It is one of my favorite as well. How did you like Bölls ansichten eines clowns?

>>6330575
The 1850s ballad?

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>>6327466
>Story of an African Farm
>oh that is a neat title
>goes on wikipedia
>"One of the first feminist novels"
fucking dropped

>>6329595
>El tunel
i found his neuroses extremely repetitive, reminded me of infinite jest

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>>6330619
>Here the MC was at age -- the time of some event.
>Xe remembered the emotions, the feelings, another word for emotion because I have a thesaurus on bookmark, and the cliched antagonists that I give no shits about because they were only described using words that literally every novel pre 1900 uses to describe a villain.
>And (starting a sentence with and? fucking really?) then came a run on sentence that awkwardly claims that the MC is eccentric, gifted, and impossibly intelligent, so much so that his own thought process had left reasonable dimensions and become 'inaccessible to normal minds', implying that he's actually just a functioning autistic in the medical sense of the term.

>>6327054
10/10 relative to an ideal?
none, I will try to write it

10/10 relative to other books?
Suttree
The Border Trilogy
The Man Without Qualities
The Sound and the Fury
Macbeth
La vida es sueño
The Sleepwalkers
Sordello

>>6330770
>The Sleepwalkers
Fucking Hermann Broch ftw. Haven't read that one, but I absolutely loved The Death of Virgil, have you read it?

>>6330860
haven't read the death of virgil but it is a goal of mine

>>6330732
>Misses out on good books because of arbitrary descriptions added by random people on the internet.

Oh okay. How about some Ayn rand for you

Catcher in the rye

>>6330907
I expected this response, that is why I included the photo

Roadside picnic was pretty cool

Also Notes from the underground. But that's mostly because I learned so much about myself from it

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>>6331019
I bet you're pro Skub.

>>6330240

It's one of the only books where I could honestly say "I couldn't put it down". It was like he had managed to capture the essence of every cowboy movie I have ever loved, and mixed it with decent character study. Obviously, McCarthy is the superior writer, and Blood Meridian is a superior literary western, but I enjoyed TSB so much more.
Plus it was fucking hilarious.

Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee.
Perfume - Suskind
Ask the Dust - Fante
Heart of a Dog - Bulgakov

The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), by Michael E. Porter
Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), by Jim Collins
Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson
The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor
The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen
Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter
Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming
My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), by Stephen R. Covey

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>>6327054
The Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina
The Red and the Black
The Eternal Husband
Germinal
The Castle
Siddhartha

I would love to add Sketches from a Hunter's Album and The Immoralist to the list, but first I have to finish the former and reread the latter.

.The Sun Also Rises
.Franny and Zooey
.Like Life
.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
.Almost Transperent Blue

>>6331098

I like your taste. I'm saving Brothers for this next winter. I'm reading Hunter's Sketches now while fishing or hiking and it's fantastic. Russian realism at the most basic and true to life

>>6327168
Gud taste bru

>>6327054
Brothers Karamazov
Stoner
Book of the New Sun
The Republic
Anna Karenina
Divine Comedy
Sickness Onto Death

>>6327815
>>6328508
Everything by Antonio Moresco and Luigi Meneghello. At least I think they weren't translated, would be surprised if they were

Sentimental Education * Flaubert
Sillabari * Parise
Ask the Dust * Fante
Tropic of Capricorn * Miller
Identity * Kundera
Short Letter Long Farewell * Handke
Story with Child * Handke
Heart of Darkness * Conrad
Faust I * Goethe
The Certose in Parma * Stendhal

not sure of title translations, also it is a fluctuating list

>>6330723
James Joyce yeh cunt

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>>6327168
>Mockingbird by Walter Tevis.
Are you tryin' to hav' a giggle m8?

>Notes from Underground and Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky.
10/10 for me too

I add Grapes of Wrath and Winter of our Discontent by J. Steinbeck.

>>6330619
Don't write fiction about an illness unless you've had it.
It keeps a lot of garbage off the "market".

>>6330998
I've been eyeing a copy of this in my local bookstore. I know nothing about it. What makes it so great?

>>6331214
>Magic Mountain features a ton of tuberculosis
>Mann never had tuberculosis
>Nobel Prize

>>6331217
how do you guys make that white on black shit and more importantly why

>>6331232
Because i suck dicks you fucking newfag

>>6331232
Use spoiler tags: [.spoiler.] and [./spoiler.]

remove dots

>>6331235
so im new. better new than old

>>6331237
With age comes experience _____________________________________________

>>6330598
careful, your pleb is showing

>>6331237
Welcome to your new prison.
Faggot.

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>>6327054
It's like a more profound Tolkien.

>>6327168

How would you compare Cyberiad to Solaris? I loved Solaris, it's one of my favorite SF books. Been meaning to get Cyberiad eventually tho

Also,
>borges

>>6327168
>Ubik and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by PKD.

I like these 2 so much more than High Castle

One Hundred Years of Solitude

'fiesta' hemingway

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
My Idea of Fun - Will Self
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

Maybe not 10/10 as that implies a level of satisfaction and enjoyment which I'm not sure is possible, but nonetheless, these are my favorites.

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Sincerely, as much as I like modern authors, and as profound as the changes they made in my life are, there's nothing I ever read that compares in perfection to the Iliad and the Odissey.

Under The Volcano

>>6331874
apart from the fact you haven't read the Iliad and the Odyssey, only translations of them :^)

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>>6327054

Oedipus rex
don quixote
the day of the triffids
captain correlli's mandolin
blood meridian
the old man and the sea
out of mind
Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass

>>6332839
I wish this meme would stop.

Thus spoke zarathustra

From all the books I've read, there's been 2 that are a 10/10 for me - "The Brothers Karamazov" and "The Sound and the Fury".

Unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
The picture of dorian grey by oscar wilde
Nausea by Sartre
Walden by Thoreau

>>6332857
I absolutely hated the old man and the sea, such a short story, felt like a 600 page book

>>6332839
Oh God, the stupid.

Do you think there are anything like the "original" Iliad and Odissey? Don't you know the greek text has been changed by generations of scholars over the centuries? In fact, that's the reason why they are deemed perfect by many: they are a collective job. Now: how again am I missing out on something that doesn't exist, faggot?

And how the hell you dare to suppose I haven't read the greek sources? Not everybody is as lame and illiterate as you are, idiot.

>>6331248
>he reads women authors and thinks their work is on par with the greatest male authors

>>6331848
I thought watermelon sugar was better than Trout fishin

Crime and punishment is the only 10 I've ever read. After I finished it I was in awe of the author and his ability to so deeply describe a character's psyche.

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Europe Central
The Tree of Smoke
Underworld
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
The Dispossessed (Le Guin)
The Hunters (Salter)
Ulysses
The Rings of Saturn
A Farewell to Arms
The English Patient
Too Loud a Solitude
Eyeless in Gaza
Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life
The Shadow of the Torturer

there's more but those are a few gud buks

East of Eden
Catch 22
Infinite Jest

>>6331092

This is underrated bait. I appreciate you making the most capitalist list possible on this board of flaming Marxists.

Genealogy Of Morals - Nietzsche

Civilization And Its Dicontents - Freud.

The Open Society And Its Enemies - Popper.

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland.

The Catcher In The Rye - Salinger

One Flew Over The Cuckold's Nest - Kesey

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - HST

The 48 Laws Of Power - Robert Greene

Ecce Homo - Nietzsche.

Counsels and Maxims - Schopenhauer.

>>6333143
best panzer

>>6331217
One of the books I read early, when I hadn't read much yet. Just the first book that really got me dem feels, and I found the writing enjoyable aswell. Still think Salinger is an amazing character writer.

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>>6327054

I'll leave it at 10.

>Cosmos, Carl Sagan

>The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

>A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

>The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

>1984, George Orwell

>The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

>King Lear, William Shakespeare

>Hamlet, William Shakespeare

>god is not great, Christopher Hitchens inb4 hatmemes xD

>Why do you care what other people think?, Richard Feynman

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>>6327054
>the Gay Science. 10/10 in terms of range, freshness every time, precision, and compelling joy. Nietzsche achieved literary merit with this one more so than Zarathustra.

>>6333326
I wonder what's your opinion of die fröliche Wissenschaft

>>6333326
>Genealogy Of Morals - Nietzsche
>Civilization And Its Dicontents - Freud.
Nice picks

Don Quixote

the one book that feels like it became an essential part of my life

Mrs. Dalloway
White Noise
She Came To Stay
The Savage Detectives
Confederacy of Dunces

>>6333326
>One Flew Over The Cuckold's Nest - Kesey

NICE SLIP KEKEKE

~sigmund

>>6334314
keep it up man, you'll get to the truly great ones shortly

>>6327810
fuck. Same here.
A-are you a grill?

>>6327058
The man without qualities

>>6327466
will i enjoy nostromo if i didn't really like heart of darkness?

>>6327054
Animal Farm
Welcome to the NHK
Hunger Games trilogy (are you upset?)

>>6327151
Even if you're genuinely into Atheist lit, that book is fucking garbage.

>>6328501
I only ever bought the books for the flip book animations. I've only ever read the first half of the first book. I liked the concept more than the actual writing and plot

>>6331039
>liking skub

Even as a joke, that's retarded. No one could possibly like skub.

>>6331746
Not him, but The Cyberiad and Solaris are two of my all-time favorite books, but they're very different.

What makes Solaris so great is the ideas. It really pushes you to think deeply about the boundaries of science and science fiction and psychology and philosophy. The ideas are deep, but they're presented in fairly straight forward manner. The whole unknown/unknowable aspect is unique as a plot device, but other than that it's a fairly linear novel.

The Cyberiad, on the other hand, is a masterpiece of the craft of writing. It's not a linear plot; it's just a collection of (mostly loosely) connected short stories, so don't expect some grand, deep revelation like Solaris. The brilliance of The Cyberiad is much more subtle and much more intricate. Most of the stories are humorous, but they almost always have a deep undercurrent that really makes you think. The writing is astounding, probably some of the best ever. It's the type of book where you read a sentence or a page or a paragraph, then you stop and smile when you realize when Lem is doing.

The Cyberiad was the first Lem book I read. I then read Solaris and thought it was a masterpeice. Years later, I re-read them both and now I'm convinced that The Cyberiad is the true masterpiece.

Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Depends on my mood. Sometimes I think back on it and wonder if it was that great.
The Cyberiad - Stansilaw Lem
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut come at me
Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton

Pretty much all of the classics of Racine.

Phèdre is probably the pinacle of writing to this day. My favorite play I guess. But one can only compare it to other tragedies.

>inb4 mad non French speaker saying Hamlet

Kolyma Tales

>>6331209
then you mean Finnegans Wake

>>6336114
Would you care to share your opinion on the greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen or whoever else?

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Greatest story of all time

>>6336114

proust pls go

Blood Meridian

Lolita

Ficciones

The abridged version of Infinite Jest

>>6336104
A+

A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man

>>6327446
>the Republic, Phenomenology and The Ego
That's an eclectic collection of philosophy books. What is it about those 3 that appeals to you?

>>6327806
>Child of God
Very underrated McCarthy. Such a great genre piece.

>>6336114
>Phèdre
>better than Iphigénie, Britannicus or Andromaque
kek

>>6328537
East of Eden is one of my favorites too, although as for Hardy I would day Return of the Native is better.

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Foundation Trilogy
Dhalgren
Illuminatus!
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Paradise Lost
Raja Yoga
Sabbath's Theater
Quantum Psychology
The Idiot
Dead Souls
The Dispossessed

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>>6334314
I'm a Hitchens fan boy, but Arguably and some of his other works are much better than God is Not Great.
My 10/10s
Under the Volcano - Lowry
The Third Policeman - O'Brian
Catcher In the Rye - Salinger
Nazi Literature in the Americas - Bollano
Hard Rain Falling - Carpenter
Ada or Ardor - Nabokov

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>Let me pretend I actually liked the shit my high school english teacher forced me to read to appear cultured - The Thread

I can honestly say that HP is way more enjoyable to read than so called "classics".

>>6336623
thats fine, you are allowed to have your own personal opinions.

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>>6327054

The Odyssey
Treasure Island
Michael Kohlhaas
The Conference of the Birds
The Moral Discourses of Epictetus

>>6336623
stay pleb, faggot

>>6336623
go to /tv/ or something i dont know. why are you here? just go somewhere else

>>6336568

What did you like so much about Dhalgren? I started reading it a few months ago but dropped it because I got bored with it

Italo calvino anybody ? Invisible cities and IOAWNAT ?
Celine -Journey to end of night
Zweig - a chess story
Bulgakov -m&m
Borges - labyrinths
Koestler - darkness at noon
Sebald - austerliz
Grossman - everything flows (maybe)

The Confidence-Man

>>6327054
moby dick

Die Leiden des jungen Werther

>>6327054
the magus john fowles

>>6327054

There's only a few worthy of 10/10:

>Moby-Dick
>Divine Comedy
>Brothers K
>Absolom! Absolom!
>Book of the New Sun
>Peace
>Don Quixote
>Summa Theologica

>>6337675

How does Absolom! Absolom! compare to Sound & da Fury or As I Lay Dying? That's all the Faulkner ( + some odd shorties) I've read, but thinking about which one to do next.

Paradise Lost
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dubliners
White Noise
Lolita
Macbeth

Sorry for pleb

>>6337433
overrated and melodramatic to the point of self-parody

>>6337688

It's superior in almost every way IMO. It's Faulkner's greatest work. It's less widely red for the simple fact that AILD is a much more accessible as far as Faulkner is concerned and TSATF has the opening Benjy chapter that academia splooges over.

But Absolom! Absolom! is his true masterpiece. Similar to how Bleak House is one of Dickens least read works but remains his masterpiece.

>>6337675
>summa theologica
*tips fedora* m'lord I promise to edge out every atheist by outcontrarianing the new atheist scum

>>6337701
your'e not a pleb m80

>>6337799
>Absolom! Absolom! is his true masterpiece.
You don't even know how to spell the name of his "true" masterpiece, ya fucking pleb

Don't sit here and pretend you're some sort of authority on Faulkner who has read all of his books and their critical analyses. You're a posturing fraud, the kind of intellectual hypocrite that Willy would skewer in his books, and you have no business discussing this subject.

P.S. Bleak House is one of Dickens's most widely discussed books, maybe even more so than Copperfield. There are TOMES of criticism on it

>>6327806
>Night Watch
Mah nigga. Should be compulsory reading for those joining the po-po if you ask me.

>>6336623

cool

The Sound and The Fury is just some shitty tale, signifying nothing.

>>6338015

>not an expert
>can't have an opinion

Bait? Bait.

>Foucault's Pendulum
>Catch 22

>>6336623
lel we're just pretending right guissee xDDD

The Sound and the Fury
The Name of the Rose
Blood Meridian
Jesus' Son

>>6331773
>>6327168
Guys, I have a very serious question.

We all know that Ubik started BRILLIANTLY, but did you REALLY think a 10/10 book would have that sort of ending? It seemed to break down by the end completely to me.

>>6337729
you are an idiot, that is like calling mozart bad because people have been inspired by him and his work is no longer as unique as it once was.

>>6336549
Andromaque I understand.
Iphigenie's ending isn't on par with the rest. Andromaque is patrician taste but I prefer Phèdre for some reason.

>>6336241
mad non French speaker

>>6336219
My advice on the Greeks is to start with them.
Haven't read Ibsen (pleb).

100yearsofsolitude

>>6327054
The Grapes of Wrath

Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Orlando Furioso

10/10 just for me, though

>>6331098
>The Red and The Black
Good taste, excellent taste

Pale Fire
Steps
Confederacy of Dunces
Tortilla Flats
From Dawn to Decadence

Die Blendung
Moby Dick
Faust 2

Journey to the end of the night LF Celine

>>6327054
Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard, translated by George Pattison
Stoner by John Williams
The Pale King by DFW
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Tolstoy

>>6327054
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle

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>>6340161
>Faust 2
>Not Faust

>>6340284
2 is better than 1. 1 is way too tame in comparison.

The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Razor's Edge
Siddhartha
The Great Gatsby

>>6333104
>he's so close-minded and dogmatic that he allows his ignorance to deny him access to some of the greatest literature ever written

Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

>>6340306
>The Sun Also Rises
Nice, I just finished it. Excepting some sort of character growth felt like an exercise in futility.

>>6340306
razors edge pissed me off. I could not care any less about everyone in the novel whose name wasnt larry, and maugham fucking hides him the entire book.

>>6327806
>Reading HST
>liking fear and loathing over anything else

People like you are why he shot himself.

>>6331098
>>6331139
Its not Hunter's, its Sportsman's you fucking plebs

The Corrections by Franzen.
50 Shades of Grey by EL James.

>>6340408
>implying Elliott Templeton isn't the greatest character in all of literature

>>6340519
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you have the poorest translation.

>>6340515
Allow me to put my choice into context: I enjoy reading everything he wrote, but things like FaL on the Campaign Trail or Hell's Angels are less culturally/thematically relevant to me, especially the former, than FaL in Las Vegas is.

If you were to name a Calvino book you enjoyed more than the others, you'd probably say Invisible Cities instead of, I don't know, The Path to the Nest of Spiders, which is an incredible book in its own right but it's lacking in relevancy for an American reader (assuming you're one), while the other is more universal.

Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Gabriel García Marquez - The Fall of the Patriarch

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>>6340036
>haven't read Ibsen
>pleb

The way of men- jack Donavon

>CTRL-F "The Stranger"
>no results

This entire thread is just people trying to out fedora eachother. What le fuck.

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
Dante Alighieri - The Comedy
William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
-King Lear
-Othello
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
Paul Valery - Dialogues

The Brothers Karamazov/ The Gambler/ Crime and Punishment
The Count of Monte Cristo
Steppenwolf
The Stranger/The Fall
War and Peace
Fathers and Sons
Don Quixote

The only book which I consider PERFECT is "In search for lost Time"


fight me.

>>6341099
What the fuck? Are you seriously saying that if people don't mention The Stranger when talking about 10/10 books then they are 'trying to out fedora eachother'.
The Stranger isn't even Camus' best work. I might argue that The Fall is a 10/10, but certainly not The Stranger.

>>6337675
>Summa Theologica
Why exactly is it a 10/10? I haven't read it yet, but been thinking of doing so.

>>6330248
That's kind of the point of the book though

>>6327054
>nobody has mentioned Lord Quickoats by Peter Menard
Lord Quickoats by Peter Menard

>>6341163
what about madame bovary
what about the leopard
what about fathers and sons
etc etc

>>6340875
I think you misread it.
I was implying to be a pleb because I didn't read Ibsen.

>>6341456
Do you plan on reading a specific part ?

Because the whole is gigantic and witten in a very dry style. Thomas kept the writing method of his lessons. Meaning he more or less simulates each question being a debate among students. Not in dialogue form, but as a report of what was said.

It's still 10/10. If you haven't read anything by him it's a bit surprising. He really stands out of usual categories for philosophers.

He was writing at a time when there was less influence from "schools of thought" and people were not categorized. It's hard to describe how he is the best because it lies in each question separately.

Comparatively with the vast majority of philosophers, Thomas has little "grand theory".

The questions on hapiness are a good exemple. You may begin with that.

Harry Potter series
Gunslinger by Steven King
Ender's Game

>>6341540
Madame Bovary and The Leopard might be 10/10, yes. Fathers and sons, not so much. I think A Sportsman's Sketches is the best Turgueniev.

>>6341908
>>6341540
Is The Leopard really that good? Was looking at it the other day.

>>6327058
The way I see it, a 10/10 is only in relation to the books I've read so far, I don't consider it to mean faultless.

>>6327054
Life Is a Dream
100 years of solitude
Pedro Paramo
The Stranger
Jane Eyre

odd list, I know, but those have to be my all time favorites books. As corny as it sounds, they made me who am I. I always go back to them.

>>6341668
b8

Euclid - Elements

>>6342452
it wasn't corny until you pointed it out

Macbeth
East of Eden
Master & Margarita
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov
The Plague
Dead Souls
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Catch 22
The Trial
some Tolstoy short stories: The Kreutzer Sonata, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Devil

>>6336673
holy shit, is this bizarro /lit/?

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Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Dune I-IV - Frank Hebert
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The entire His Dark Materials trilogy - Phillip Pullman
Many Waters - Madeleine L'engle
The Subterrene War series: Exogene, Germline, Chimera - TC McCarthy
The Things They Carried - Tim O'brien
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
A Sand county Almanac - Aldo Leopold
>>6343202
>The Brothers Karamazov
Love this book. Also on my list.

>>6327168
You might like Bruno Schulz seeing as Lem was one of your favorites. Street of Crocodiles is the best thing I've ever read.

>>6343202
The Kreutzer Sonata and The Death of Ivan Illych are among my favorite short stories, I'll have to check out The Devil.

If you enjoyed Catch-22 that much, I would highly recommend you read his Picture This and Something Happened if you haven't already. I also hear only good things about his Closing Time, but I haven't gotten to it myself yet.

>>6327054

Underworld by DeLillo
Madame Bovary by Flaubert
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Lives of Girls and Women by Munro

I suck

The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
Ulysses

>>6327054
Lolita & Pnin

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
VALIS - Phillip K. Dick
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Red Book - C.G. Jung
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
Faust - Goethe

>>6327054
Hunger games

>>6343795
Always happy to see Pnin receive the love it deserves. It may have some structural issues, but that doesn't subtract from its beauty, its hilarity, and its tragedy.

>>6341571
that's better.

>>6341513
>Lord Quickoats by Peter Menard
This. George Louis Burgess said it's richer and more evocative than the original by Michael Servant.

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>>6344233

I love that at least some people on /lit/ have a sense of humor.

>>6336928
it sort of rotates away from Kid as it progresses, which he notices, being one of the narrators and also clinically insane

>>6327054
Leo Tells Troy, by Warren Pace

Now that you ask, there aren't any books I've read that are more than 5/10. Fuck literature.

>>6333326
Freud was a Charlatan and personally obsessed with his own mother.

>>6336104
God I fucking hate Slaughterhouse-5.
What a load of shit.

>>6345158
Cool opinion, bro. 8^)

>>6345405
Yes, yes it is.

Someone mentioned Ubik and I now I remember how much I loved that book. Might actually be a 10/10 for me.

That and Neuromancer, maybe. Not to say Neuromancer was particularly well-written or some achievement of literature, but I have a hardest of hard-ons for that cyberpunk shit and the atmosphere was just sublime. Drew me in like nothing else. Personal 10/10.

Game of Thrones

The Divine Comedy in italian
Paradise Lost
Solaris

I'm too tired for this shit, these are the first three that come to mind

>>6343268
if you liked The Brother K you should read Demons. Currently reading it and its looking like a potential 10/10 on my list

>>6343277
Tolstoy's short stories are very underrated imo. I read about 12 of them from a collection a short stories. I also really liked Master and Man & The Forged Coupon, so check those out.

>>6346828
>>6343277
Haven't read anything else by Joseph Heller honestly but thanks for the recs. I'll check them out for sure.

>>6327058
>I have yet to find a single book that is 10/10
This

People are far too liberal with their ratings, nd I don't mean only with books; I mean with everything.

That girl is not 10/10, that movie is not 10/10, that book is not 10/10. Do you know what 10/10 means? That means it is perfect. There is not a single thing that could be done to improve it by even a hint of a fraction of a scent of the presence of a ghost of any pleasant emotion

It *could not possibly* be any better, that is what 10/10 means

>>6346905
>that one guy who takes everything absolutely literally
He's the best and I really like him and being around him

>>6346911
Not at all, man.

This illustrates my point in a different way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3li_aZWt-r0

>>6327054

Dedrabbit Manifesto
Plato's Socratic Dialogues

If Mason & Dixon isn't hailed as a masterpiece fifty years from now, I don't want to know what will be.

>>6339370
PKD had great ideas and concepts, but I felt like he could never fully deliver on them. Even the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich I think could have been better. Not a 10/10 book, but still good.

>>6346986
Gravity's...Rainbow...

>>6338091
not empathizing with Quentin Compson its like you are fucking normie who had a normal childhood

>>6339370
I've always felt as if that was part of his charm - the falling apart and slow dissolution into rambleyness always seemed like a fundamental part of his universes.

>>6346905
And then there's this faggot.

>>6346911
>>6347731

He's clearly on the spectrum go easy on him he can't help it.

Really liked Hamsun's Hunger. Tho as far as I know not many people liked it, most of them found it boring.

>>6347219
Up here is the joke.
>
>
>
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And way down here is your head.

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>>6331213

No! I adored Mockingbird. Forgotten classic as far as I'm concerned.

>>6327054
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Cruddy - Linda Barry
Wasteland - Francesca Lia Block
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Columbine - Dave Cullen
Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norell - Suzanne Clark

Libra - Don Delillo

>>6348042
I will not reply to bait, I will not reply to bait,I will not reply to bait,I will not reply to bait,I will not reply to bait,I will not reply to bait

>>6330715
It was a nice read, but kind of 'teenage-tier'.

>>6348111
+Mason & DIzon, Absalom, Absalom!, Moby Dick
~Gravity's Rainbow

>>6331217
It encapsulates the feeling of being a teenager, at its purest form. Go for it, pretty good imho

>>6348274
Reading that as a teenager, I hated him. I thought he was a moody, whiny brat. Looking back on it, I still feel the same.

>>6341140
Fathers and sons was a good read. Have any other suggestions for other turgenev books?

>>6348111

What are the bottom 3?

>>6340306
>The Sun Also Rises

I tried to read this thing. I didn't manage to get past page 60, it was unbearably boring.
Tipical Hemingway, nothing happening.

>>6348301
Invisible Cities, The Tunnel (Gass), The Recognitions.

>>6327168
>the crying of lot 49
>the cement garden
>the catcher in the rye
>ubik
>notes from underground
>the trial
>the metamorphosis

these are 7/10 at best
the rest are good

>>6327810
Roy is GOAT and /lit/ needs to post her more often

Don Quixote

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Blood Meridian

Pale Fire

Ficciones

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Hamlet

The Great Gatsby

Autobiography - Morrissey (read as though it were a work of fiction)

>>6346949
>Louis CK
>"(Hilarious)"
American pls go

>>6348311
>nothing happening.
that's precisely the point. I enjoy the mellowness of his books, Its like watching a typical person's life with no excitement.

>>6346905

I had a teacher like you in high school who wouldn't give people 7's (we abided by the IB grading system which was out of 7), and he was a scornful, over-inflated idiot.

Scores are relative, and as with any relative scale, there must be an upper-limit. That upper-limit for works of art is usually 10/10. Such a score doesn't imply perfection, it implies that it is above all the rest–this is why people so often compare artists, musicians, and writers unnecessarily, because they're unknowingly stressing the fact that all grading systems are self-referential.

Revise your definitions, bro.

>>6348111

Why'd you enjoy Apathy so much?

I noticed it at a friend's house once, but because I don't respect my friend's taste, I disregarded it. Your taste, however, is good, so I'm curious.

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>>6348853
It sounds very juvenile, like something a 16 year old female would say after reading a YA or Jane Austen novel, but I have never related more to a character than the main in Apathy.

It is also the funniest work I have ever read.

I think humor is very underrated in literature, and Apathy is just incredible in that aspect. It's short (pic related) and sweet (bitter-)and extremely enjoyable. It's not a microcosm of societal landscapes, a clever commentary on the nature of man, or a deep character study of any sort. It's just incredibly enjoyable, and I think for that alone it belongs on my (personal) list.

Don't expect it to compare against the other books on my list. It doesn't. But I do recommend reading it if you want something that is just very honest about being a humorous bitter read. Think Bukowski but wittier and stranger and more depressed.

The Longships - Frans G. Bengtsson

>>6348350
>Ubik
>7/10