What is the most "you have to own this" book? Regardless

Ulysses

The bible

the bible

>>9298519
Yeah has to be said.
I was going to say that so I guess I will say the Koran.

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>>9298519
>>9298521

>>9298515
>>9298516
>>9298519
>>9298521
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>>9298538
MY MOTHER FUCKING DIARY, DESU

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>>9298549
Must have Item.
Only one copy in the world.
really makes you ponder the futility of life.

>>9298515
bibble

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>>9298565
Such a kinetically pleasant word to say.

Compete works of Shakespeare, can cut out tempest though.

Complete Works of Shakespeare

>>9298519
Should I put down east of eden and read this first?

>>9298589
nah finish what you are on

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>>9298597
So I won't be missing much depth on the Cain and Abel story from just 2nd hand.

>>9298599
Just spend a minute or two on wikipedia its a pretty short section of the bible.

>>9298598
Yeah ok to be fair it isn't the worst, would probably put it above two gentlemen, cymbeline and Timon of athens.

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>>9298515
How can a book be "essential to own"? Essential to read, maybe, but why would would something be crucial to own, and what's more, regardless if you like it or not?

>>9298674
Way to be pedantic dude, its obvious what he meant.

>>9298680
Maybe he doesn't want to read books, just to have them on his shelf. Maybe he needs books with nice spines.

>>9298589
You don't need to read the Bible, just own it.

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The classics.

The Bible, for the sake of your soul.

>>9298674
shut the fuck up

>>9298515
Das capital?

>>9298515
The KJV, the JPS, Frame's Complete Montaigne are the first three that come to mind. But also a koine NT, and single v. Homer in Homeric! Choosing one would pit the first against the last. Still deciding....

>>9298515
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

>>9298515
Communist Manifesto

Nibelungenlied

pure history and culture

>>9298515
Among urban kids atm the answer to this is unironically Infinite Jest.

>>9298515
The Bible is by far the most important. The rest of these are up there for a good, well-rounded English-language library:

Iliad/Odyssey
Plato/Aristotle
Sophocles
Aeneid
Divine Comedy
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Ulysses
Moby-Dick

In no particular order.

>>9298549
There it is, every thread, some inane child posts this "my diary desu" meme. I bet you don't even keep one, you pathetic whelp. Do you think you're funny, with your diary memes? All you're doing is wasting everyone's time. Fuck off to /pol/ or /v/, you're not welcome on a serious discussion forum.

>>9298874
Sounds like most of /lit/

Isn't it obvious?

The dictionary!

>>9300826
muh greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks

>>9301137
>impying ancient geek greeks weren't apex humans

>>9300826
>>Complete Works of Shakespeare
>Ulysses
Other than those good list

>>9300850
fuck man

I try to have a one but it's taking too much effort so I just make some analyses on book chapters I've read.

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>>9301160
>goodness

>>9300850
"my diary desu" is actually the greatest meme ever created. there's nothing that satisfactory and fair as shitposting and mocking those retards who can only name ad infinitum the same two or three books (being Ulysses, the Bible, Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow among them). I could repeat "my diary desu" a trillion times just to bait them

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>>9298519
>>9298521

this

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>>9300850
cry harder

>>9298920
cringe

>>9300850
>a serious discussion forum
>anime board
did you think this was a university?

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>>9298515
Mы