ITT /r9k/ approved books

>>34610163
>reading

that's time that could be spent on r9k

read room

oraliginal co-moment

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This post is approved by the robot overlord.

Citrus. Look it up and you'll see what I mean.

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>>34610295
itll make u apprieciate ur worthless life. dude had it rough and got way more fucked in the head from being the ultimate neet to full on real world

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>>34610163
The true and tested timeless classic and undisputed masterpiece:

My Twisted World
The Story of Elliot Rodger
By Elliot Rodger

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

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Most books by this author are robot approved.

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Houellebecq is the patron saint of /r9k/. Reading is his books is highly recommended!

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This!

About a fat, judgy and autismal NEET forced to interact with society. The author wrote this one book and then killed himself.

>>34610163
Harry Potter
origami computer

>>34610163
If you like Star Trek read this author is Kitty Glitter, its called "Wesley Crusher Teenage Fuck Machine"

>>34610392
Oh my sides senpai I just looked it up its a actual book what the fuck

>>34610163
only true robots cant read

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This one.
>Once guilty of the deadly sin of gluttony, thousand-year-old Viking vampire angel Cnut Sigurdsson is now a lean, mean, vampire-devil fighting machine. His new side-job? No biggie: just ridding the world of a threat called ISIS while keeping the evil Lucipires (demon vampires) at bay. So when chef Andrea Stewart hires him to rescue her sister from a cult recruiting terrorists at a Montana dude ranch, vangel turns cowboy. Yeehaw!
>The too-tempting mortal insists on accompanying him, surprising Cnut with her bravery at every turn. But with terrorists stalking the ranch in demonoid form, Cnut teletransports Andrea and himself out of danger - accidentally into the tenth-century Norselands. Suddenly, they have to find their way back to the future to save her family and the world... and to satisfy their insatiable attraction.

arthur rimbaud complete works

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"Whatever"
A cynical and isolated 30s-something man stucked in a boring programming job (with normies as co-workers) get more and more depressed. He soon realize that society is based on the struggle for money and sex.

Lolita, of course

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>>34610380
Spot on, spot on...

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most approved book of all

>Kenzaburo Oe
brutally detailed descriptions of daily life, every character struggles with his own problems
>William S Burroughs
Strange and bewildering, like naked lunch
>David foster wallace
Most robot author i know. Killed himself due to depression, known for his gigantic sized book Infinite jest
>Jean Amery
Heavily suicidal guy
>Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe is his most reknown book, and a really good allegory on life at that.
Some soldiers waiting for something to happen.

>>34610339
thanks for the tip, anon. ordered it just now

Catcher in the Rye.
Holden would definitely browse /r9k/.

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The most r9k book ever. Houllebecq is based.

>>34610777
>trips
>Holden Caulfield post

Recognized but dear Kek, such a waste.

>>34610339
read it and watched the anime a masterpiece desu
btw

welcome to the nhk it's in it's own level far better than the manga and anime

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'The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze' by William Saroyan is one I consider required /r9k/ material. It's actually a short story, but I still think it's a worthy addition, and it's one of my favorite short stories.

It's about a young man during the Great Depression who is literally starving to death because he can't afford food; he's unable to find a job in anything, so his daily routine is going to the work agencies where they look at him condescendingly and tell him there's nothing.

And yet his greatest regret isn't that he's going to die or that he's hungry: it's that he sold his books off to buy a little coffee and cigars and to pay his rent.

>Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
>Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert
>Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
>The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
>Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Some of these are short stories/plays but I'm including them anyway.

>>34610380
This fucking NEET, this NEET right here. I found him before /r9k/ and didn't feel so alone.

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I'm sure you guys would love this book.

>>34610869
i commend you for your taste

>>34610911
Pale Fire is a better book by nabokov.

Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts

>>34610348
>the normiest of edgy normie authors
You're fucking trash. Get the fuck off my board.

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>No one has mentioned Catcher in the Rye yet

>>34610163
My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3049.John_Kennedy_Toole

>>34611210
They have, and it's a still a bad book even if mentioned a second time.

embarrassed to say/ i like the school classics

lord of the flies is my fave book just sayin...
hated pitcher in the rye, he was sucha beta fag through out the whole thing, with daddy money..

there could be a whole thread dedecated to hating on that fag

>>34611210
its gay

onomonigia

>>34611343
gettin cucked..........

Whatever by Michel Houellebecq

The climax of the book is like a /r9k/ green text about Tyrone stealing someone's oneitis

Kurt Vonnegut's work, especially stuff like Cat's Cradle or Breakfast of Champions, is pretty robot. Full of biting satire and sarcasm, coupled with general misanthropy.

>>34610380
sick...will read

>>34610939
Got anything else to recommend?

>>34610163
The catcher in the rye

Origamix

>>34610163

"Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski.

"Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

"A Confederacy of Dunces" already mentioned but perfect example.

"Notes From Underground" by Dostoevsky

These are all solid robotic books, but I'd advise you to read outside the realm of shit that reinforces your faggoty downer mentality.

>>34610339
It's hard to sympathize with the guy in the story. He's well off financially, gets women easily, and annoying over all. I kept wishing something bad happened to him.

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120 days of Sodom

even the robot agrees

>>34611414
Recommended indeed. He didn't even get it published while alive (his mommy did it posthumously) and then the book won the Pulitzer price 15 years after the author's suicide.

>>34612544
... because we're gay shit eaters?

>>34610621
exactly what I was going to post, all Houellebecq's other books fit too

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we made an official list a while ago

Hayden mills is a robot poet

>>34610530
Kill yourself young adult pleb

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>>34612818
I personally think he's pretty good

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pic related is pretty good for robots, all about someone who ruins their life early on and rejects sex as a possibility

>>34612772
the metamorphosis is perfect for wagecuck robots

>>34612772

english is my 3rd language do i have a chance to understand those?

>>34610939
I enjoyed Bend Sinister most of his works. Raw. And the Lewis Carroll pedo trashing is amusing.

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Ever since I read The Idiot, I've had no distaste for normies. Now I'm shameless enough to LARP as a rambling madman amongst them; oftentimes they'll say interesting things in response. Even if they don't respond, I end up making myself laugh.

ill mention one that never gets mentioned here: "blindness" by saramago. its a post apocalyptic book, where everyone is blind and diseased, and women are raped at will, and people literally eat shit and get pissed on

>>34612772
I read Stoner. Great book.

>>34610163
Anything by Charles Bukowski is mandatory robot reading.

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying is criminally underrated and essential robotcore.

just finished the stranger yesterday, main character is pretty robot tier

>>34612488
I think that's their punishment though. Eternally being well off, without hardship and anything really meaningful, therefore they are always empty and they know it. Nothing changes.

The extended phenotype by Richard Dawkins.

>>34612455
>"Notes From Underground" by Dostoevsky

Glad someone mentioned this. Literally the best robot book out there.

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A very robot book.

>>34615540
hnng fuckin memories man
didn't expect the feels to hit

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

>>34610869
>The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Fyodor Dostoevsky
>by Fyodor Doestoevsky
>Fyodor Doestoevsky
>Doestoevsky
IT WAS WRITTEN BY TOLSTOY YOU FUCKING POSER PSEUDOINTELLECTUAL

>>34610380
>Wrote the quintessential robot character then killed himself
This is almost too perfect.

>>34610392
I wonder if Wil Wheaton has read this.

>>34612907
It depends solely on your level of comprehension, it'll be good practice nonetheless. If you understood that last sentence perfectly most English language books should be okay.

also some of those books are originally in German, Japanese, Russian and probably other languages.

The tales of dunk and egg. It's not a literary masterpiece but the 3 novellas so far are a great time.

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>>34610380
>just start this book while sitting in car while mom is grocery shopping
>first chapter has ignatious sitting in car while mom is shopping

it was a great book

>>34612772
>ctl f
>Stoner
>1/1
Good. Stoner is quintessential robot reading. I have read Metamorphosis but don't think I understood it. I kinda just got the feeling that once you become unrecognizable and useless nobody will love you, not even family.

Oblomov

It is about a russian guy who sleeps in bed all day, and eventually decides he will never get out of bed again and then doesn't

I couldnt tear myself away from the book at all.

>>34614295
wow must be hard being normalfag

>>34610163

Smelliot Dodger

My twisted world

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Essential for every robot out there.

Essential robot core
>my twisted world
>a confederacy of dunces
>notes from the underground
>the metamorphosis
>Ulysses
>the catcher in the rye
>infinite jest
Anything else?

>>34618695
oblomov

>>34618686
>alinsky
into the trash it goes

>>34610163
ATLAS SHRUGGED
Because it is a really really good book that normies are too stupid for and they do not get, and they don't understand themiportace pf the free market, it is entertaining with many a sub plot and a good storyline, the only problem is that it was written by a stupid ROASTIE but she is smart for a dumb stupid hole it is very funny as well, and it makes normies mad as they don't understand it.

>>34618817

I dont know about you guys but this post was really fun to read. I like the person behind it. I can tell he is an argumentative person that normies dont like because normies are stupid npc pieces of shit, this writer is basically a misunderstood silent philosopher king walking around among us...but the people around him dont deserve him.

>>34618959
Thankyou, i am sure that you always triggered normies and other NPCunts by telling the truth also, it annoys me that they can go around living like sheep while barking at the truth

>>34612772
I second Oblomov

Dream of a Ridiculous man by Dostoevsky

Seven pillars of wisdom, t.e. Lawrence

Actually one of those books everyone should read

>>34611210
Phonys, phonys all of you. I'm freakin sitting here reading your phony posts and you know what I see. Nothing, not one bit of intelligence in any of you,

Slaughterhouse V, Billy was the prototypic robot
>tfw aliens will never abduct me and force me to fuck a pornstar

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>>34618817
Fuck off m8. Ayn Rand is a shit writer shilling an immoral ideology.

>>34619173
Nice projecting strawman

>>34610163
Amanoja9 TS I love you series is great.

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Whatever by Michel Houellebecq

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground.
It was uncanny how similar the narrator was to me when I first read it, sadly its still that way.

>>34619283
read the dream of a ridiculous man i'm more of that guy than from the guy from notes freom underground

>>34619254
>Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

This guy is literally me.

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>>34610163
The ultimate redpill, anon

>>34610163
>ITT /r9k/ approved books
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

The book describes a present-day slum of Mumbai, India, named Annawadi, and located near the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. It follows the interconnected lives of several residents, including a young trash picker, a female "slumlord," and a college student.[

>ctrl+f Ligotti
>only one find
come the fuck on, lads

>>34610380
Ignatious is much more /pol/ than /r9k/. Remider he even had a love-hate relationship with that Jewish woman.

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Vonnegut is based
>Writes symbolically but in an ironic way, as though he were shitposting
>Ending is perfect

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>>34610163
Stephen Baxter's work doesn't seem to be well known outside of a few /lit/ threads but it truly is fantastic. It's extremely hard and grim science fiction, no matter how far into the future or the past he goes, his shit is always in accordance with what we know of physics and shit. That leads to unintentionally absurd powerlevels sometimes, his human empire in the Xeelee sequence could mop the floor with The Culture and 40k because they follow trough with the implications of shit like FTL travel (every starship is also a time machine, so sometimes ships come back from battles that haven't even happened yet). Also he never shies away from the ugly shit that can happen in adventures like that or how truly awful things could be in the past or a collapsed future.

Imo he's at his best when writing short stories so I'd recommend you check Starfall or his Vacuum diagrams collection to see if you like what he brings to the table. Also he wrote the single official sequel to Wells' The Time Machine, and just published another one to War of the Worlds.

>ctrl+f "On Women"
>no results
I'm disapointed in you /r9k/

>>34612772
I was just about to complan about No Longer Human not being mentioned itt but I can shut up now. Fucking prime robotcore.

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>>34612772
>The Perks of being a Wallflower
tech

>>34610911
Reminder it's Humbert's account of the events and he's at best an unreliable narrator and at worst fucking batshit. It's never meant to be sexy, just disturbing. Unfortunately, most people get it wrong.

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Just finished it. if you can't relate to J.K then you are a normie.

The fact he is complicit in his own punshment. The fact the world is treating him as a guilty man simply for being. The fact nothing is explained to him yet he is expected to understand and even thrive.

I am Josef K.

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Oswald Mosley - Tomorrow we live

>only one person has brought up Lord of the Flies
Literally everyone on this board is Piggy

>>34619254
>Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
stupid high school tier book to be honest

>>34620554
Highschool tier? What high school studies anything but YA and To Kill a Mockingbird?

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how a robot become an emperor

>>34620593
>Highschool tier? What high school studies anything but YA and To Kill a Mockingbird?

I read Crime and Punishment in high school

it's an AP lit book, I imagine quite a few high schools reading lists involve this book actually

>>34620469
Beady eyed little bastard.

>>34620675
I'm Australian. Maybe you guys just do better stuff than we do (it's not hard tbqh).

>>34610163

Here's one that's obviously NOT approved

The DSM-5

Obviously

Because although you faggots use the word 'autistic' in every sentence, NONE of you actually knows what it means

And you actually thought you were 'smart'

>>34610380
I fucking love this book!

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My absolute favorite, desu

>>34620664
that's my favorite book anon

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>>34610163
I read this book every night in bed. It was written by my best m8 adolf

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>>34620469
origenaolalyimjustpostingapicture

>>34620769
the audacity of this nigger

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If you can't understand it, then you are a hopeless brainlet who shouldn't post anything in the first place.

>>34611210
Because it sucks, I hate catcher in the rye!

>>34611402
He's such a good writer

>>34612772
God damn Yukio Mishima

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>>34620914
I read it but saw through the authors flawed reasoning.

>>34620914
>mathematical physics

meme field.

Pure maths or bust brainlet

t. tripos student // trinity college

>>34610339
Finished reading this yesterday, it was quite a ride.

>>34620162
I like him but his writing skills are in some need of polishing