hey guys i need to read a book that dose not have a movie adaptation any suggestions
>>36613014
flashman is great
>>36613014
In The Eyes Of The Dragon by Stephen King
gorilla mindset by mike cernovich to be quite original with you
>>36613014
On Heroes and Tombs
The Stranger
or any Cioran
>>36613014
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky might be the best book ever written and it is both entertaining and meaningful. You should relate to it if you're on r9k
>>36613014
six pillars of self esteem
changed my life
>>36613141
Crime and punishment it average. Thought notes from underground was way better
1984 by George Orwell
The old man and the sea by Hemingway
Dubliners by James Joyce
Go for something decent, tell me what you are interested in, your reading level and your attention span and I'll give you heaps of recs
I've read loads of western Canon books and can remember a oddly strange amount about them
>>36613231
There's a 1984 movie, dude
and The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway sucked. I think it's a children's novel too. It's like less than a hundred pages
>>36613014
The Real Story by Stephen Donaldson
Read any of Palahniuk's books if you like grimdark and edgy fiction. Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, and Survivor are all good.
>>36613263
Didn't know, it's probably shit
The old man and the sea is certainly not a children's Novel
How well can you read? I'll give you hundreds of suggestions.
Metamorphosis by Kafka
Heart of darkness by Conrad
>>36613312
>didnt know, its probably shit
Yeah, pretty much. The book was way better.
>>36613203
Notes was just a philosophical monologue for the first 20pgs and a proto-Raskolnikov for the last 60. Way less room for character development and interaction. It was great though. First Dostoevsky I read
>>36613231
Old man and the Sea is not his best desu. For whom the Bell tolls is my fav Hemingway and is definitely the most entertaining. Joyce is good and Orwell wrote better books than 1984, dystopian novels are overrated
>>36613312
>Heart of darkness by Conrad
This also if you can handle it
thank you everyone for your suggestions, i really appreciate your help
>>36613376
I certainly agree on notes from underground
Crime and punishment didnt do that much for me, a great book, great character development, a riviting story. Given a million years of struggle to write something like it but I didn't think it was all thAt amazing, good but not great
>>36613390
I think it is, or the sun also rises. I liked the death theme in for whom the bell tolls. 1984 is a good start point
I feel like your average robot could probably really relate to the Savage in Brave New World
>>36613445
Brave New World is a book for High school sophomores
>>36613470
I disagree. But you could argue the whole dystopian genre is
>>36613494
its a great book, and i love the anti degeneracy message, but I remember reading it when i was 16
>>36613470
I don't care, I still liked it. Doors of Perception and Heaven And Hell were good too. Come at me, faggot.
Reading about Huxley talking about what the perfect kind of drug would be like fascinated me.
Jk, I read Brave New World when I was in rehab. Always heard about people talking about it and figured I'd read it. I read a lot of shit in rehab. Pretty much snatched whatever non-religious book I could get my hands on for some escapism.
/lit/ here, check out a Hungarian novel called Skylar, it's damn crushing in a lot of areas and I think a lot of robots could potentially relate.
>>36613263
I liked A Farewell to Arms better but the Old Man and the Sea was well written and you can read it in one sitting.
>>36613014
Just go to /lit/. Also, some book/movie adaptations are good. Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness are both great in their own right, for example.
Wheel of Time
The stranger by Camus. I don't think there's a movie adaptation and Robots can relate to the main character
>>36613694
I heard these books are good. I've known guys who literally started crying when they got to certain points in that series
>>36613715
Ive read and reread this series of books many many times. I was furious that jordan died before finishing them. his son and some other author finished it for him, however the writing style of the last two books is much different and feels hurried. but all in all the best fantasy series ive read
Notes from Underground is THE robot novel.
Also "Of Human Bondage" by Maugham.
The alchemist by Paulo Coelho
>>36615591
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Don't you have any taste?
A Confederacy of Dunces.
It is literally the tale of the robot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces
>>36616002
And Myrna Minkoff is an SJW. It's almost like history repeats itself.
>>36616197
Its pottery. I read that book maybe 10 years ago and only today realized how closely they nail the stereotypes, even 30 years later.
>>36615591
not op but, i just finished that book yesterday. why the fuck does santiago go for the roastie instead of buying that bitch ass sword, he says he's going to buy it but he dosen't fucking buy it . my autism was triggered