Give me ONE (1) book that is an essential read

>>9717026
Dante's Inferno.

Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy

my dairy desu

The Bible.

>>9717026
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

>>9717043
This

>>9717031
Reading currently. Not essential. Entertaining but far from a must.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.

On arabic, of course

>>9717026

War & Peace.

>>9717077
I read it on prose and didn't care for dante's story. All the entertaining bits are references to better stuff. And there was that guelfos/gibelinos thing on the footnotes

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How To Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

>>9717080
I have it in Spanish but it's too fucking long

>>9717179
Well, you know how they say spanish is arabic's rape baby, so the spanish translation should retain most of it's nuances; i'd say do it, faggot. It's not really that long

Crime and Punishment

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>>9717201
>more than 1000 pages
>not long

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Thanks I will read none of these.

>>9717241
Well meme'd lad

>>9717213
if you read 70 pages a day (2 hours of reading) you can read it in two weeks

>>9717241
Lol ebin XD

>>9717043
This is the only correct answer. If you're only going to read one.

>>9717353
>religious dogma written by primitive peoples
>essential read

Gargantua and Pantagruel

>>9717473
>the starting point for most of western literature
>not an essential read

>>9717698
>the starting point for most of western literature
[Citation needed]

The Myth by Alfred Rosenberg

>>9717077
well now we all know what to call you.

>>9717264
Not that anon but anything over 1000 pages is objectively a long book.

>>9717698
>essential read means essential for western literature

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

>>9717473
t. pseud

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>>9717031
yes, dante's inferno is magnificent, but not inferno alone. you must choose 1 book, and without reading all the greek/roman/medieval lit and theology/philsophy references inferno wouldn't be that good/essential.

bible is the answer. the one book you can read cover to cover without any pre-requisites and the one book that influenced the whole canon

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>>9717026
>everything there is to know in life is in the Brothers Karam

>>9717026
A good Grammar of one's native language.

>essential

As a man thinketh by James Allen

>>9717031
This or Hyperion/The Hermit in Greece