Shall we play a productive game? Post your three favorite books,

>>8330779
McCarthy's The Road
Beloved
The Sound and the Fury

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>>8330803

>>8330779
The Stranger
The Catcher In the Rye
The Trial

>>8330815
Call it Sleep, Henry Roth

>>8330779
Dream story, Arthur Schnitzler
Brave new world, Huxley
Richard III, Shakespeare

Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

>>8330779
Roadside Picnic
A confederacy of Dunces
Brave New World

Stoner
Lolita
Kokoro

>>8330779

Blood Meridian
The Brothers Karamazov
Mistborn: The Hero of Ages

The Kingkiller Chronicle
Infinite Jest
The Stormlight Archive

>>8331014
I fell in love with A Confederacy of Dunces recently.

Your rec- DOGBOYS: A Farce in Two Acts

Mine-
Pynchon's V
Joyce's Portrait of the Artist
Sartre's The Age of Reason

>>8330779
A fat cat hehehe

>>8331036
Naomi by Tanizaki

Magic Mountain
The Waves
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Ulysses
Ferdydurke
Last Exit to Brooklyn

>>8331081
have yall read Nightwood?

>>8330941
Primeval And Other Times

>>8331204
The Apes of God my dude

Also William Gaddis

>>8330937
Have you read The Tempest yet?

I don't have favorite books.

How do you decide?

I guess my top 3 will be

Ulysses
Moby Dick
Agape Agapē

I tried to narrow it down, but it's impossible to choose between The Recognitions and JR, or Molloy and Murphy and Texts for Nothing. Instead, I'll say
William Gaddis
Samuel Beckett
Juan Carlos Onetti
are my favourite authors.

>>8331227
Books that resonate the most with you as a person, the kind that you remember being blown away with as you read

>>8331227
think of three books that get you excited over the idea of rereading them anytime

>>8331229
It's time fir Moby Dick my friend

>>8331242
That's actually one of my favourite novels of all time; but I expected it to appear in half of all these responses so I tried to avoid including it in my own list.

Any other, preferably more modern, recommendations?

>>8331231
I don't look for books I agree with.

>>8331234
I don't need to re-read them. I get them the first time around.

>>8331247
it's not needing to, it's wanting to.

>>8331246
In fact, I was rereading The Sermon before I posted in this thread.

>>8331262
There's no wanting to do a needless activity.

Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
The Waves

I'm another one who doesn't really have favorites, I'll just pick three I really like and are unlikely to appear elsewhere in this thread.

Heller - Something Happened
Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
Steinbeck - Travels with Charley

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>>8331247
thinking that you get books in their entirety the first time around is symptomatic of immaturity in readership, and same with not admitting that you enjoy books that provide some sort of world-view affirmation. Sorry, anon, but you sound autistic.

>>8331277
you must be a blast at parties

>>8331279
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

>>8331223
I was planning on reading The Recognitions next year but I also have A Frolic of His Own on my shelf, should I just jump into that since I have it?

>>8331283
Using memes belies your intelligence.

There's more great books than one has time to read in a lifetime.

I'll always gain more out of reading two great books once than one great book twice.

Of course, that requires more work.

>>8331285
Using memes doesn't hide yours.

>>8331310
>I'll always gain more out of reading two great books once than one great book twice.
This is said by a person who doesn't reread?
Or a person who has never tried reading philosophy?

>>8331303
Thanks dude, I'll check it out!

Anna Karenina
Don Quijote
Moby Dick

>>8331310
You don't read very well if you think that rereading is useless.

>>8331310
I'm sure you can spare the two fucking days it takes to reread something.

>>8331322
Not extremely useless, no. Not the most useful, either.

>>8331325
Thanks for not disagreeing.

>>8331316
Is philosophy difficult for you?

The Magicians
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Brothers Karamazov

>>8331333
>Is philosophy difficult for you?
It is for everyone. That's why if you study it you have to take notes and read it over and over again, just like anything else.

>>8331340
So, you approach it with the idea to memorize it.

>>8331042

The Black Company

I have a long backlog of books I need to read, and hopefully this will all change soon.. busy with school atm.

Chronicles of Narnia, Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
The Mist
IT
also The Art of the Deal

>>8331338
Book of the New Sun

>>8331049

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

>>8331342
How do you understand something if you can't repeat in a meaningful way?

Larva
Finnegans Wake
The Tunnel

Looking for something poetic, long, and full of the one who wrote it.
>>8331070
Angela's ashes

>>8331352
rote memorization is meaningful

>>8331279

The Overcoat -- Gogol

>>8331227
Thought: you don't have favorites because you never for a second think about or digest what you've read, you let it flow through you like water and never stop to absorb anything. I reccomend Schopenhauer's On Thinking For Oneself

>>8331246
In that case, probably The Apes of God

>>8331306
Nah, go chronologically

>>8331362
Recommending a book to someone who has "short term memory loss" makes you look silly.

>>8331227
This is something stupid people ask or say that makes them think they're real damn clever. All it does it goes to show that you're socially retarded. All people are asking here is to give three books you really like. Hell, give more if you want. Go ahead and pseud it up with rhetoric if you want, feel free to say ohh I don't think someone as brilliant and with such eclectic taste as me can limit myself to three books, so here's four.
Just stop being such an annoying pedant.

>>8331360
Will check, thanks :)

>>8331229
Barthelme

>>8330779
In Watermelon Sugar
The Blind Owl
Pedro Paramo

>>8331402
Saunders

>>8331402
Which one fag

Iliad
The Sound and the Fury
Moby Dick

Additional Qualifier: Suggestions can't be by the same author. Obviously The Odyssey and Absalom are complimentary to my picks.

>>8331414
I tried to narrow it down, but it's impossible to choose

don't have a top 3, but these come very close:
Gödel's Proof
The Waste Books
anything from Michel de Montaigne

>>8331042
Sketches from a Hunter's Album

>>8331354
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
it's really evocative, i didn't expect to appreciate this as much as i do

>>8331414
The only one that matters: Donald Duck

We're not a bunch of Tao Lin K Mart fuckbois around here

>>8331386
You bring to mind Gollum, and his precious.

>>8331419
Principlia Mathematica
All of Turing
Letters of a Stoic, Descartes Meditations, or stick to the pretty French writing and go with Proust

>>8331417
Song of Solomon

>>8331419
Principlia Mathematica
All of Turing
Letters from a Stoic, Descartes Meditations, or stock with pretty French writing and go with Proust

>>8331443
Morrison is Faulkner derivative muh black woman trash

Metamorphoses -- Ovid
No Long Human -- Dazai
The Divine Comedy - Dante

I don't have the best taste, I know. Would like suggestions though.

>>8331455
The Decameron
Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel
Canterbury Tales

Alternate: Don Quixote or the Faerie Queen

>>8331450
I think he was referring to the literal Song of Solomon.

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>>8331446
*Principia, shit for brains. Nice recs though.

>>8331450
nah she's good

>>8331450
Yikes

>>8331461
Nope

>>8331491
Yup

>>8331460
ah, I did really enjoy the Canterbury Tales and Don Quixote. Will check out the other 3. Thank you.

>>8331455
>>8331509
seconding >>8331460 for Faerie Queen


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>>8331446
thank you! you're good- i love turing and seneca. principia mathematica is a behemoth i ambitiously want to finish but have yet to.

i've been meaning to read more proust, do you have some suggestions outside of ISOLT?

>>8330803
The Inquisitor's Manual
>>8331414
Meant which Bartheleme. Also, if you can't narrow it down to one, give more than one you stupid little shit.

1. The Quiet American, Greene.
2. Inherent Vice, Pynchon.
3. Cakes and Ale, Maugham.

>>8331410
Speedboat by Renata Adler

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Gravitys Rainbow

Norwegian Wood
Gold
Taiko

>kafka in general
>narcis and goldmund - hesse
>picture of dorian gray - wilde

>>8331908
my diary desu

Ubik
100 Years of Solitude
Lonesome Dove

>>8331939
Heinrich Von Kleist

Ulysses
Moby Dick
Absalom Absalom

>>8330779
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger

>>8332113
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars

>>8331985
oh god. i hated Michael Kohlhaas. Some stupid fag burning down villages and shit, just because some dude took his horses or something.

The Recognitions
Don Quixote
Moby Dick

>>8331954
Midnight's Children

>>8331653
East Of Eden

>>8332140
Not really into black literature. Can you suggest something else.

>>8332143
rushdie's a black guy?

>>8331247
>I don't look for books I agree with
Nothing that person said is even remotely like this

Nice try, though

Infinite Jest
The Fountainhead
The Soft Machine

My two favorites:

Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

What do next?

>>8331410
>In Watermelon Sugar
I still don't know what the fuck that book was about.

>>8332006
Remembrance of Things Past, Proust

Grapes of Wrath
Moby Dick
Watership Down

>>8331410
If you have yet to read more Brautigan I'd suggest trout fishing in America. Also maybe if on a winter's night a traveler and Burroughs's nova trilogy may suit you well.

Asturias' Mulata
Milton's Paradise Lost
Nabokov's Lolita

>>8332154
I only got 4 responses.

>>8332135
1Q84

The Iliad
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Moby Dick

>>8331345
Infinite Jest

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>>8332142
>Come take a ride on an intermingled familial crazy train.

Interesting.

I will track down a copy. Thank you for the suggestion.

A portrait of the artist - Joyce
New York trilogy - Auster
A sport and a pastime - Salter

Invisible Cities
Valis
To the Lighthouse

>>8331954
If on a winter's night a traveller...

>>8332410
Nadja
Borges
Zeno's Conscience

>>8332130
It's a 10/10 and one of the only things Kafka ever read in public

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Faust by Goethe
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche

Suttree
Invisible Man
On the Road

The Plague
The Illiad
Tao Te Ching

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>>8332479

The Odyssey
The picture of Dorian Gray
Lolita

>>8332978
Genji Monogatari

>>8332981
Sounds interesting, any other recommendations on japanese or korean literature?

>>8333001
1Q84

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
The Twelve Chairs
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

>>8333011
Alice is so good.
Read the Third Policeman by Flann o'brien

>>8333019
I was planning to do so at some point. Guess I'll burrow it after I've finished Spermy Dick.

>>8333001

Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
Konjaku Monogatari Shu

Gravity's Rainbow
The Iliad
Catch 22

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Brave New World
Lolita

>>8331354
Death of Virgil-Broch
2666 - Bolaño
Darconville's Cat - Theroux

>>8331410
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy

>>8333774
You really think I haven't read all of those? Only one half decent suggestion there anyway.

>>8332377
Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn - Henry Miller

The Discovery of Heaven - Mulisch

All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy

>>8333781
why even post (assuming no troll)

Under the Volcano
The Big Sleep
JR

>>8330815
The Painted Bird

>>8330803
Nightwood seems literally perfect for you

>>8331042
Count of Monte Cristo, if you haven't. Dhalgren, if you have.

>>8333781
Hey! You're a twat!

Sincerely,

A completely third party and therefore objective viewer!

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>>8332188
my diary t b h

>>8331433
Question: why recommend a book whose whole principal undertaking has been refuted (not to mention the fact that at its publishing Russell stated that he believed there only to be no more than a dozen or so men on the planet who could comprehend it)? It just seems so much more like a rarely used reference book to keep the shelves occupied than anything else, like most Bible, Taschen books, and copies of Infinite Jest ;)

Anyway, honestly curious.

>>8332162
who are you and what have you done with anonymous

Nights of Salazar
The Destitute Farmer
Quinceniera

>>8332692
How is it? Sounds kind of "quirky" desu.
Maybe I'm just skeptical because every other "le around the world" book I've read has been pretty shit, though that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the case here.

Alice in Wonderland
Gravity's Rainbow
Discworld

>>8330779
Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky
Les Fleurs du Mal - Baudelaire
The Last Temptation of Christ - Kazantzakis

I like philosophical novels, but anything is cool

Ficciones
Lolita
to the lighthouse

>>8330779

the anatomy of melancholy
nightwood
vineland

>>8330779

Siddharta
Dorian Gray
American Psycho

>>8330779
The Recognitions - Gaddis
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Lolita - Nabokov

Lolita
The pale king
The Metamorphosis and basically a collection of Kafka's short stories

>>8332199
Brautigan's one of my favorite authors, I've read him a ton. Haven't read that Burrough's though, thanks!

>>8331900
I didn't know that one was like those, though I had wanted to get it anyway. I'll bump it up my to-read list, thanks anon.

>>8333778
Thank you, anon. I've never read McCarthy yet. I never had it in my mind he was on the surreal side of things.

>>8332235
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World or The Lost Steps

The name of the rose, Umberto Eco
Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar
Baroque Concert, Alejo Carpentier

>>8331908
Infinite Jest

>>8335833
Juan Carlos Onetti: any of his later novels really, but try A Brief Life (La vida breve).

>>8332260
underrated

Godel, Escher, Bach
Othello
Pale Fire

The world of yesterday - Zweig
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
Ulysses
(I'm a cheater) The Savage Detectives - Bolano

Gibe me as many 5ths as you've got.

>>8335918
thank you, friend!

The Plague
The Illiad
Tao Te Ching

1984
Handmaid's Tale
The Stranger

>>8336583
The Glass Bead Game

I just started reading, but so far
Moby-Dick
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
In that order

>>8336563
Molloy - Samuel Beckett

At Swim-Two Birds
My Ántonia
Warlock

>>8336609

Thanks!

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>>8330803
Infinite Jest.

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The Other Side - Alfred Kubin
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders -Vítězslav Nezval
Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans

>>8336623
Why do you retards do this

>>8336623
badtrolling/10

>>8336615
Think it fits in with the spatial shifting your three, anyway hope you enjoy it.

Book of the New Sun
Brothers Karamazov
Dune

>>8332113
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

The count of monte cristo
Zorba the Greek
The fountainhead

>>8330779
ok

Confederacy of Dunces
Crying of Lot 49
The Castle

Brave New World(Adolus Huxley)
Jam(Yahtzee Croshaw)
The Physicists(Friedrich Dürrenmatt)

I read so little that I can't recommend anything, sorry. I've really liked:
Ice by Anna Kavan
Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

would probably love any book where any qualities of those three clash