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Books to Read Before Dying 2017-05-01 10:11:58 Post No. 9450217
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Hey /lit/, won't try to attention whore, so let's just say I have 1-1.5 years left to live best case scenario. What books should people read before they die?
I've already read pretty much all of Dostoevsky, Goncharov and Gogol. What are some MUST read books before passing over? Thanks in advance.
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>>9450217
As I Lay Dying
The Picture of Dorian Gray
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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>>9450217
Buy a cheap Bible and read Job, it's pretty /lit/
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Tolstoy - all of his stuff.
>select all vehicles.
>Never works the first time.
EVERY FUCKING TIME I GET THAT CAPTCHA.
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Stoner
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...Everything you do is {before dying}.
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>>9450233
>not using legacy
turbopleb
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The Death of Ivan Illyich
Book of Job/Ecclesiastes/Proverbes
Hamlet
Finnegans Wake
Paradise Lost
The Corpus Hermeticum/Kyballion
good luck with whatever condition you're suffering from, I'm rooting for ya anon.
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>>9450233
that's just google getting that you're a human, then using you to classify some additional pictures
>working for free
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Sorry for your lack of time anon.
My recommendations:
I would read Hell from the Divine Comedy, the rest of the book is meh.
Anything by Pynchon, I like his absurd and surrealism. I read TCoL 49 and GR which are highly recommendable.
Anything from the russians. The collected stories from Pushkin is my next purchase, I think you might like that.
If you haven't read Kafka, get that shit going. Start with the metamorphosis, I will be starting The Trial soon which is also another excellent starting point. Anything from Kafka is a must read, even his diary. Desu
If you like sci fi, you could try PKD. A scanner darkly and the man in the high castle blew my mind when I read them, Ubik as an honorable mention.
You could try the Japanese as well, Yukio Mishima's the sailor who fell from grace, Dazai's No longer human or anything by Soseki actually. There is a book of 100 Japanese Poems which is very good as well.
Latin America is one weird place, you can try Pessoa, Bolaño, Cortazar, Borges, García Marquez, Galeano, Benedetti, Quiroga, Isabel Allende, Alejo Carpentier, etc. Cortazar's hopscotch is a good starting point.
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>>9451562
I second Kafka, Borges and add Gogol to that. Start with the Overcoat or the nose.
Also Robert Walser if you wanna feel good.
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read siddharta if you are feeling down
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>>9450217
read Rilke
good luck anon
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Socrates' apology desu.
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My Twisted World
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>>9450217
You've got me concerned for you OP.
Tibetian Book of the Dead
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