I wanna read a fuckin' book, give me a suggestion.

Night Train To Lisbon

The Neverending Chuckle by Duck Francis Wilkins.

Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons

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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction - Immanuel Wallerstein

>>7408466
Good book.

>>7408444
If you want to read something to get INTO reading, then I'd recommend reading whatever is an interesting subject to you.

Personally, I think that Orwell's best essays are a great intro into who captivating non-fiction can be. Shooting and Elephant and "On Politics" are fucking great.

>>7408485
>Shooting an Elephant

This is a solid rec. Just read it around a month ago. Pound-for-pound, I can't think of anything I've enjoyed reading more in a long time.

Start with the Greeks.

Magic Treehouse

the convalescent byt jessica qanthony

>>7408444
The Lime Twig by John Hawkes. It's p fun.

If you're looking for a book of poetry you should try Shel Silverstein

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Feast of the goat

Finnegan's Wake

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>>7408444

>>7409406
Any choice other than this one is wrong

>>7408444
>I wanna read a fuckin' book, give me a suggestion.
"The Joy of Sex" was the canonical fucking book when I was a kid. Try that.

Even Cowgirls get the blues - Tom Robbins

>>7408524
Its just an incredibly visceral, real story and one which you can read in literally like 10 minutes or something.

People don't have enough respect for essays and short stories IMO, so if you want stuff to build up curiosity and isnt a big time commitment then try that.

>>7408543
Starting with Greeks aint bad. The nice thing is that there is not really any prerequisite readings for the Iliad, the Odyssey and the plays. If you go straight to realist/modernist/pomo stories you'll find that a lot of them reference or do allegories towards classics.

I wanna read a book about fuckin', give me a suggestion.

>>7408444

Confederacy of Dunces

Also nice dubs.

>>7409841
>dubs

Dune

What's the /lit/ equivalent of ru.tracker?

Seriously struggle to find specific book editions now that the UK ISPs banned loads of book sites.

Twilight reimagined.

>>7410092
Using a proxy or VPN to get around the bans.

>>7410092
Try the irc

Non-American, Sane, Well-Rounded, Empathetic Man by Terb Nostae Sille

>>7410120
Tried it and although some worked, they did not have the book and the rest were dead.

>>7410142
#bookz? Tried that, no luck.

I would also like a site.
I want to relive my childhood and DL all the Fear Street books by R L Stine. I'd try the IRC, but I want to DL the collection all at once.

>>7410063

Who cares about triples... He's not called triples guy

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No Longer Human

>fuckin book
Kama sutra







Amirite

>>7408444
A collection of Anton Chekov's short stories. They're the shit.

>>7409406
I wouldn't recommend 'Infinite Jest' as anything but an experiment in reading, not as a good book as such. It is beautifully written for sure, but like 'Ulysses' it is more of an experiment in what writing can do than it is an actual book you would casually open to get an experience from.

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>>7410425
more like pic related

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>>7409373
Great recommendation!

Against the Grain from J.-K. Huysmans.

/lit/ doesn't talk about Robert Louis Stevenson enough.

>>7410437
So a book isn't good if it isn't "casual?"
Git gud