What is the single most well written book?

>>8736112
Unironically, the Bible.

>>8736127
What book?

>>8736112
The Last of The Mohicans

>>8736112
Probs the Divine Comedy desu (I don't like it much though)
Only thing i know for sure is that it is poetry whatever holds first place

The Rum Diary.
>> And yes I know my opinion is shit.

>>8736139
Did you read it in Italian or a translation?

My diary desu?

>>8736142
I read it in translation, blah,blah blah I still acknowledge its structural supremacy (even though rhyming in italian is basically cheating).

>>8736133
In my opinion, the most well written ones are:
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job, The Gospel of John

>>8736148
>rhyming in italian is basically cheating
???

Please explain.

>>8736155
everything rhymes with spaghetti or oregano.

>>8736112

/lit/ will hate me but I genuinely think 1984

A lot of times when I'm reading philosophy or a novel moments of poignance come after brief ambiguity or overly verbose explanations of concepts.

Orwell wrote that shit on like a 4th grade level and made me genuinely intrigued and emotionally in-tune. He did what takes philosophers a million caveats through frameworks of obscurity and sesquipedalian obfuscation by simply narrating the lives of farm animals and average people.

/orwelljerk

>>8736112
Ada, or Ardor

>>8736180
OP asked for a single book - make a decision you idiot

Stoner.

For Whom the Bell Tolls (English)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Deutsch)

The Shadow Of The Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon

>>8736238
Pretty good answer, even if it's meme tier around here. I think Augustus is even better. You should try it.

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>>8736112

My Twisted World - Elliot Rodger

>>8736133
the bible

>>8736112

The picture of Dorian Gray

>>8736364
>the book
what book

>>8736171

It's a comfy read.

>>8736112
Probably A Clockwork Orange, the droog-speak shit was really skillfully written for what it was. It's one thing for a writer to talk in English but it's something else for them to convey in a different language.

>>8736148
>>8736165
We should invent a language in which words can only end in 10-20 ways so it's incredibly easy to rhyme. A language just for poetry with a lot of added adjectives for all the subtle differences that can exist.

>>8736506
Wouldn't tolkien win the language award?

The Cantos of Ezra Pound

...Ulysses? I mean, 17 years y'all.

advise a simple book to learn English

>>8736555
17 years was FW

War and Peace.
Very simple to read but also emotional and intriguing.

>>8736112
I think this is subjective. For me it's Lolita.

>>8736112
MDD

>>8736714
Mistakes of the subhumans. They immediately interpret the idea of subjectivity as giving them free reign to support any viewpoint that they want, no matter how incoherent, ignorant and wretched. Sure, the ant too has its own perspective of things, and therefore its own subjective reality, but who gives a shit about the reality of an ant? The greater the man the greater — and hence the more objective — his perspective, and therefore the idea of subjectivity does not undermine the absolute rule of inequality in the universe but is precisely the mechanism by which it comes about.

>>8736853
>The greater the man the greater — and hence the more objective — his perspective

The greater the man the greater - and hence the more greenish-blue - his perspective

>>8736571
boo hiss

>>8736853
LOL, i read this in the voice of luna lovegood

>>8736861
What?

Probably Wuthering Heights for the beautiful description of human nature.

>>8736935
>romanticism
>description of human nature
>human
Don't you mean nature, as in landscapes?

The Sound and The Fury, easily.

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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time - Polanyi

>>8736127
Is this the most pseudointellectual answer possible?

>>8736547
Esperanto
Make sure you end each couplet with the same type of word and you're golden

>>8736870
Problem lad?

>>8736228
underrated post

>>8736547
Unironically, this language is Farsi. It feels like it's designed for poetry only it's not constructed shit like Esperanto.

>>8736853

Read Crime and Punishment you fucking normie. There is no "Greater man"

Crime and punishment is hands down the greatest book I've ever read.

>>8737455
Disbelief in God is merely the logical conclusion of socialism (which is to say of Christianity, which is to say of ressentiment). From the variety of gods and the hierarchy between them of the pagans, to the single God before whom all lifeforms are equal of Christianity and the other decadent religions, and finally to the modern socialistic impulse to get rid of even that single God, because there still remains that pesky little problem that this God is not equal to the lifeforms he created, and hence by all means must be made so (so that these lifeforms will feel better about themselves and cease hating and envying him), by ceasing to be God. The dethroning of even God himself is the final act of their revenge on the strict hierarchy and order of rank that permeates existence (that is indeed existence itself).

Dostoevsky may not be a socialist, but he -is- a Christian.

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>>8737534
>so that these lifeforms will feel better about themselves and cease hating and envying him

Matthew 5:48
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Mason & Dixon.

J A N E
Y
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>>8736139
>>8736143
Can someone please explain 'desu' to me? I took a break from 4chan for the last year or so and it seems like its all over /lit/ not and I only remember it from ancient /b/ threads. What word or phrase can I substitute in to understand its use?

>>8736141
Good book but I don't think it's the best every written. Easily his best tho

>>8738514
It's a wordfilter for a commonly used abridged version of "to be honest" desu

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>>8736112

>>8736949
Currently reading it. I enjoyed As I Lay Dying more but God damn if this novel isn't written well. He doesn't just shift the narrative between characters, it's a full-blown paradigm shift.

>>8738519
thank you

>>8738514
Desu is Japanese. It means "to be" and is placed at the end of sentences. Examples:
Kore wa pen desu - This is a pen
(Watashi wa) Anon desu - I am Anon

It was often misused by dweebs on 4chan in the early days, to sound cute or something, just added randomly at the end of sentences even if it didn't make sense. It's basically a meme.

Recently it was added as a wordfilter replacement for t-b-h (without the minuses), just like f-a-m which is replaced with sempai.

>>8738514
It's a japchink word stapled on the end of statement sentences to show they are statements.
"that is" is the best translation, or how teenage girls put t b h at the end of their sentences.
Also, it rhymes with race, think dayce or day-SS with lots of stress on the snakey bit

>>8738572
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT
Japanese doesn't conjugate verbs according to person?!?!??!?

>>8738588
Yeah, it's the same for all subjects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_verb_conjugation

>>8738596
tfw you speak portuguese and the verbal conjugation is as bad

>>8736228
Lol

>>8736871
Lol again

>>8738629
>mr. hacker
since when did 4 Chan get a YouTube channel?

>>8738629
omg they're hacking the world

>>8736165
kek

>>8738669
the hacker 4chan
haha
reddit innit

>>8736151
>>8736364

What you read is not The Bible as it was written.

Not even close.

KJV has beautiful language I admit.

It's a crying shame that the subject matter underwhelms the presentation.