Favorite album + Favorite book

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Tago Mago

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Blood Meridian

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Slaughterhouse Five

>>73313568
OP is literally me

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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>>73313580
I like u

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>>73313568
I'm on a quest to read Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow over the winter break, Infinite Jest is phenomenal so far

Favorite album is Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack

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less than zero by bret easton ellis

hot fuss by the killers, or because the internet by childish gambino

>>73313568
Can someone explain what the appeal in reading long ass novels like Infinite Jest? I'm no idiot and I have pretty good reading comprehension, but I get bored reading anything /lit/-tier. How the fuck are people entertained by books like that?

>>73314086
If something is good, it's natural to desire more of it

How is that hard to comprehend

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Catch 22

>>73314041
Good book, decent album

>>73314110
Well what's so good about it at its core?

>>73314086
What are you even asking? Why people like long novels?

>>73313568
Lmfao

>>73314118
Hell if I know, I haven't read the thing
>>73314124
Nice album, I prefer And Then Nothing... though.

>>73313568
Neat! You sound pretentious but that's also my favorite album and one of my favorite books.

I thought Infinite Jest was just a /lit/ meme, like the equivalent of Old Boots New Dirt here?

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Patrick White - The Tree of Man

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The count of monte cristo

>>73314278
It's the ITAOTS of /lit/

>>73314278
nah it's pretty well-regarded on the whole
essential I'm-a-young-humanities-major-without-significant-direction-in-life-core

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The Idiot

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>>73314342
Nice book. Why do you prefer Doolittle to surfer Rosa?

>Go Plastic - Squarepusher.

>Watership Down.

>>73314354
It's close, but I feel like Surfer Rosa drops off a little too much after Cactus. Doolittle is a little more consistent as a full album and doesn't have the lows that Surfer Rosa does imo,though the highs are higher on Surfer Rosa. Idk, I flip flop on which one I prefer

And The Idiot was the first Dostoyevsky book I read and I really connected with it. I hadn't really read a book like it before

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Deadhouse Gates

>the stranger
>tago mago

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>Glenn Branch - The Ascension
>pic related

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>>73314057
less than zero, as well

really anything by these guys is good but def ocean rain if i had to pick

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Either Naked Lunch or East of Eden
>>73313633
just finished reading Blood Meridian it was really good

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>The Man in the High Castle

I refuse to watch the tv show because the book resonated with me so much.

>1984 by George Orwell
>In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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R plus 7
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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>>73313568

>Choirs of the Eye
>Labyrinths - Borges or Amsterdam Stories - Nescio

>>73314455

Interesting SP album choice. I like it on the whole, but feel like it's pretty weak compared to Feed Me Weird Things or Hard Normal Daddy as an album. My Red Hot Car is a goat track tho

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mum - Finally We Are No One
AnCo - Feels
Glow Pt. 2
Can't pick a favorite

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>Bottomless Pit
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Or something close to that...

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Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

>>73315208

Oy, I love mum and the little prince. Now that I think about it they're strangely complementary

>>73314132
Have you even read it? It's like 50% footnotes.
>>73313568
You're a walking cliché.

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People's taste in books is more patrician ITT than people's taste in music.

Favourite album is:
Fausto Romitelli - An Index of Metals

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>Soundtracks For the Blind
>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

>>73315665
>Fausto Romitelli - An Index of Metals

Now that's some interesting shit

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moby dick or infinite jest. i know thats meme shit but whatever

>>73313580
nice

>>73313988
nice album pick, good band

>>73314118
yo la tengo may be the greatest band of all time

>>73315605
Completely agree :) The other albums fit nicely as well, I feel.

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>The Fountain Head by Ayn Rand

>A confederacy of dunces
>Devo - New Traditionalists

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the marble index
ada, or ardor

>>73314054
You fell for the meme, but you got lucky in the order you chose them - it'll only get better.

Ulysses is a book I strongly feel people only read to say they've read, and only like because it was difficult to read. The other two are sincerely enjoyable rides. Have fun.

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moby dick or portrait of the artist

Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People
Tony Conrad w/ Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate

>>73315665
>People's taste in books is more patrician ITT than people's taste in music
This has a very simple answer. People skim the "best of the best" lists and develop their tastes exclusively from that. The reason there's such a power gap between literature and music in this thread is that most of the music lauded here is the sonic equivalent of a Harry Potter fanfiction.

>>73318628
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
kek

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The Units - Ready for the House

>>73314086
Jest and gravity are Reddit tier. Both are full of dae reference, and freshman philosophy. Anyone that's actually tried to understand what Wallace is actually trying to say quickly finds out it's all very low effort, like he has a shelf full of books and reaches randomly for one every time he feels like being smart. He's the guy that over uses the thesaurus all grown up.

>>73315740
I'm too pleb to fully understand spectralism but it is amazing how many influences that album ties together and it's been one of the few times I've genuinely been shocked by a piece of music.

>>73318628
Yeah, I get the sense that a lot of the books here are merely /lit/core, but they are a much better selection than if you grabbed random people of the street which would name YA trash or whatever. And don't insult HP fanfiction, my second favourite book of all time is My Immortal, it is a work of genius social commentary.

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The road

>>73313568

I got so confused and thought I clicked on /lit/ for a second there...

>>73316132
Strange choice considering the rest of Coltrane's output. Totally respect the choice, but why?

>Programmed to Kill
>Dialogue-Bobby Hutcherson

>>73318863
seems like you missed the point of postmodernists using difficult language

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infinite jest

>>73315632
>50% footnotes
it's about 8% footnotes. and i really liked it.

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fuck yall elitist nerdburgers

Edward Abbey -- Desert Solitaire

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>>73314319
this, it's held in high regard but it's memed to death. still a great book

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I can't really pick a favorite album, how about:
The Locust - New Erections
>book
pic related

>>73314969
I need to read Borges. Love that album too.
>>73314544
Also need to read that Danish sonofabitch
>>73314174
I laughed

>>73314206
>you sound pretentious but we have the same taste
...

>grimes
>master and margarita

>>73315665
There are some really shit books itt too.

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>Geogaddi

>>73320022
>The Master and Margarita
Nice to see Bulgakov getting some love. Definitely check out Heart of a Dog if you haven't already.