What book does /lit/ think everyone should read? - /lit/ - Literature

>>8963408

Terrible writing, OP if you're going down this route just save yourself some time and play Ethnic Cleansing, much more entertaining. It's like being a part of his books, instead of reading one. The quality is the same

Anonymous 2017-01-12 06:43:00 Post No.8963571
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Serious response:
>The Old Man and the Sea
>On the Road
>Redwall
>The Hobbit
>The Chronicles of Narnia
>Nineteen Eighty-Four
>The Metamorphosis
>Howl
>UBIK
>Ender's Game
>Fight Club
>The Call of Cthulhu

All books that every person in their early to mid twenties should have read (and understood and learned from) by now. There are lots of others, too.

Anonymous 2017-01-12 06:59:23 Post No.8963609
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Anonymous 2017-01-12 06:59:23 Post No.8963609 [Report]

The bible.

Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:06:16 Post No.8963624
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Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:06:16 Post No.8963624 [Report]

>>8962575
>>8963024
Second for Dubliners

Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:06:29 Post No.8963627
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Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:06:29 Post No.8963627 [Report]

>>8963571
>Call of Cthulhu
Check

>Chronicles of Narnia
Really? I rank that with Harry Potter

Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:09:12 Post No.8963637
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Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:09:12 Post No.8963637 [Report]

>>8963627
Harry Potter is in there, too.

Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:10:14 Post No.8963641
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Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:10:14 Post No.8963641 [Report]

>>8963627
Narnia is a book best for young teens, but unlike harry Potter it was written with a deep insight into Christian metaphysics and therefore has quite a lovely system of symbolic mythology behind it.

However, for >>8963571 to include Redwall in his list of books everyone should read confirms that he is speaking mainly from a YA perspective.

Anonymous 2017-01-12 07:11:46 Post No.8963647
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>>8963637
>harry Potter
>20s
Try 12. Same for Narnia and Redwall. If you're in your twenties and haven't read these you missed the boat and should not swim back to it.

Anonymous 2017-01-12 06:51:57 Post No.8965179
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>>8963647
If you're literally new to reading and still in your 20's why would you not give them a read? You shouldnt be jumping straight to tolstoy from illiteracy

Anonymous 2017-01-12 06:57:03 Post No.8965194
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>>8965179
Because unless you're from island in Polynesia you aren't illiterate and will have already read a few classics.

Anonymous 2017-01-12 06:59:23 Post No.8965203
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>>8965194
do you not live in america? you don't understand the depths of illiteracy here