Books

>>6860785

Nineteen eighty four, George Orwell

why is this literally everybody's favorite book?

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

weed bad

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>>6860820
It got a surge of popularity with the rise in populism and "altenrative facts".

>>6860785
The call of Cthulhu

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>>6860893
my melanin enriched friend

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1984 was already taken. And I doubt I can find anything related to "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
So have this OP

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can't beat it

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This is a frightfully difficult question. I can name my top movies on one hand, and even my favorite (blade runner).
Yet books are so much more difficult. I can think so many books I consider fantastic. Pratchett, Orwell, Asimov, Huxley, Bradbury, Clarke, Aurelius, Aquinas, it never ends.

I suppose if I had to pick, it would be Ecclesiastes. It is beyond reproach in philosophy, religion, composition and story.

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The king in yellow, a Brazilian edition.

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Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn

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>>6860785
1984

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Wind, Sand and Stars by antoine de saint exupery

>>6860820
Because it's babbies first 'makes you think' book.
The conclusions made in 1984 can easily be made by anybody who commits any thought to the subject.

>>6862220
That book was shit. Not shit in the sense that it was good, but shit in the sense that it was written by a teenager and shows throughout the novel. Now, I'm not claiming to possess the ability to write a better novel, but from my own criticism of the novel, it seemed terrible.

>>6863520
the way i see it books like Frankenstein and Catcher in the Rye are more important books than they are good books. I personally liked Catcher but a lot of people hate the damn thing, but you can't deny the importance of it. Same goes for Frankenstein

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>>6860785
Atlas Shrugged

>>6863594
What is a leppo

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I really can't say I have a "favorite" book, Dante's Inferno comes to mind but it's really not a book, I'd say One day in the Life of Ivan is a recent read that I've liked.

>>6863429
Obnoxious moron detected.

>>6860785
All Quiet on the Western Front

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I preffer the book, but the film was alright too.

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The Chronicles of Narnia

>>6862009
10/10

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>>6860785

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The spy who came in from the cold
by LeCarre
Cold war spies but with a realistic approach (dont expect James Bond shenanigans)

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>>6867696
And for some lighter reading
Metro 2033
Post-apoc survival in the Moscow subway

>>6867703
Excellent book

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>>6867711
/Lit/ would probably disagree but i enjoyed it immensly
Damn even Last light (the second game set in the metro2033 universe) did an amazing job capturing the atmosphere of the book.

>>6860820
timeless lesson, easy read, everyones forced to read it in high school (in the US at least)

basically appealing to edgy kids from 14-17

>>6861947
Dante Alighieri's ’Divine Comedy‘.

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Pape is Apocalypse Now which is based on my favorite book, Heart of Darkness.

>>6862273
Had this one

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>>6860785

Barbarian days

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1/3

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>>6868046
2/3

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>>6868047
3/3

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Contact by Carl Sagan

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>>6868579
“The dead man in Yossarian's tent was a pest, and Yossarian didn't like him, even though he had never seen him. Having him laying around all day annoyed Yossarian so much that he had gone to the orderly room several times to complain to Sergeant Towser, who refused to admit that the dead man even existed, which, of course, he no longer did.”

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Tales From The Radiation Age
Nick Podehl truly brought the characters to life in the audiobook.

>>6860820
It has great lessons that are very relevant in today's social systems. It does a good job of portraying apathy in people.

>>6863429
>>6867856
It always makes me laugh when kids think because they had to read a book in school, that somehow lessons the value of the book.

>>6868047
saved. thank you

>>6863429
i'd be critical of people's favorite books too if i was too much of a pussy to back it up with my own favorite book.

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my favorite bit of fiction abridged for a pape
>inb4 edgy teen

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The Shadow of the Torturer
First in 'The Book of the New Sun'.

>>6867696
Now this is a good fuckin pick, nice choice bro

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dream of the red chamber , a chinese classical novel

>>6861947
La gloria di colui che tutto move
Nell'universo penetra, e risplende
In una parte più
E meno altrove.

That book is gorgeous

I don't have anything, but I'd LOVE to see something about "do androids dream of electric sheep?"
It is one of my fav books.

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The Long Goodbye - in fact anything by Raymond Chandler.
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>>6863594
I heard a lot of people praising atlas shrugged, but I couldn't read it. For me relatable and realistic characters are very important and the characters of Atlas Shrugged seemed to be completely shallow tropes.

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*my literary fav right here, and not for content you pervs.

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>>6860785

Too many books to call any one "the" favorite. I have a number across several categories.

For just a pure entertainment fantasy love story across several centuries ...

Tom Robbins gets too much credit in some circles, and is unfairly slammed in others. I don't particularly like a lot of his work, even if I do admire his talent and prose.

I do recommend Jitterbug Perfume as just fun and humorous entertainment, with an occasional deep edge here & there. One of the books I've gone back and re-read a number of times over the years.

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>>6873697

Also, damn near everything by Vonnegut, especially approximately pre-1980.

Cat's Cradle is one of several of his novels that can be described as "If you read only one of his books, read this one."

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>>6868718

Classic masterwork.

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>>6873707

It's been a while ... this is _probably_ Catch-22 ..?

But, I might be off and it's from a Vonnegut book (such as, I suspect, Cat's Cradle).

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>>6873709

Again ... can't remember which author/novel ... but Heller or Vonnegut I'm pretty certain. This one I think is Catch-22.

Damn. I need time to re-read a bunch of the classics.

By the way, I don't have a pic or pape for it, but anyone who likes Joseph Heller's Catch-22, you should check out his novel God Knows. You might like it even more, and it's certainly no worse.

>>6869182
you're the first person I've known of to claim The Silmarillion as their favorite. I'm incredibly interested in reading it, but most claim it's like trudging through mud.

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>>6873740
>The Silmarillion
> it's like trudging through mud

It is.

That's not entirely a Bad Thing. It's phenomenally epic, like almost no other story ever. However, it will only work for you if you really want to immerse yourself in the Tolkien mythology. You will have to continuously remember and recall lineages of households. Very challenging, but also rewarding if you want to experience something like being a Nordic skáld and recalling 5,000 years of oral history in Beowulf-like poetry from memory.

I trudged through it in high school, then again in my first year of college, because I loved the Lord of the Rings so much (This pre-dates the movies). And, frankly, I admit I missed a good bit of it because only reading through it twice isn't enough to comprehend and hold all the details in mind while you experience the story. My first read through I was too young to really grasp it, and my second read through I was distracted by my studies.

And, I've read through the entire Lord of the Rings plus the Hobbit something like a dozen times.

So, if you're a true Tolkien fan, go ahead and do it. Don't try to read it in a couple of extended sessions ... pace yourself and absorb it, take breaks and come back to it, read parts of LotR in between.

Also, I don't believe anyone who claims it's their "favorite" book. It has its merits, but someone who claims they hold that up as the one and only favorite above all others is a try-hard faggot trying to impress other people.

I love and cherish the Lord of the Rings, and I don't claim it as my "favorite." Just one of my favorites.

>>6863429
The reason is because 1984 was was on the first English dystopian novels that had a lot of influence on later tropes in dystopian books. It brought a lot of tropes from Yevgeny Zamyatin's Russian book to a Western audience.

It also has made a great impact in popular culture. Words such as "thought crime", "doublethink", and "newspeak" have become parts of casual language. You also read it in American high school's and have since the late 20th century and to the 21st century. It is just as loved as all the other contemporary fiction books like the Great Gatsby and Slaughterhouse-Five.

Don't be a retard and think you are "too cool" to enjoy it because you only read the "profound shit" like Camus or Pynchon. It makes you look like a dick and seem pretentious.

>>6873709
Slaughterhouse Five

>>6866556
Oh my fuck!

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Not exactly a book, but Paradise Lost changed my life.

>>6867703
I just finished this book. Is there any more wall papers?

>>6860785
You already did.

Is this the real life? ...

>>6869182
I like this. As long as you read it thinking, 'this is a fictional history book,' yah gud.

>>6873710
Something Happened is also amazing, didn't know about God knows, I'll definitely check it out!

>>6869849
Shallow tropes was part of the entire point.

It was a masterful work of art by making satirical points about the shallowness and short-sightedness of permanent and deep-seated government intervention in a free market society.

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All quiet on the western front

>>6860785
Shame it's no longer fiction.

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Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

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>>6865584
I second that

>>6867978
was it any good? cover looks interesting

>>6862273
Have you seen it?

>>6860820
Because it's such an easy go to for entry level political commentary. While I'm not a huge fan of the book, I do respect its impact on conversations about government. That said, people are far too quick to use it to smear the party opposing them to realize that it's just as applicable to the party they support.

>>6862271
Hahahahahahahahaha

>>6873826
>namedropping two completely unrelated authors
Just goes to show how little you have read. Orwell is an incredibly skilled essayist, if you read 1984 as an essay it is very good.

>>6874657
Mmmm good shit, I thought I was the only one who's read something happened. God the book kinda dragged but the ending was worth it. Not to mention it steered me away from a corporate job which I'm thankful for.

>>6873710
>anyone who likes Joseph Heller's Catch-22, you should check out his novel God Knows. You might like it even more, and it's certainly no worse.
Something Happened is at least as good as Catch-22.

>>6876099
>>6876368
People on wg are more lit then people on lit, proof right here

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an old book. Perhaps "the book" for lots of people.

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Neuromancer

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Dresden Files

>>6869755
Great fucking taste, my man. I absolutely love Wolfe.

I'm genuinely surprised to not see mein kampf on here

>>6869582
This make me kek.

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Best book I've read so far. It really shows you how most customs of modern society were created by a single person.

>>6862009
noice [spoiler]I'm on God Emperor right now and nervous to finish the proper series becuse i heard his sons books pale in comparison[/spoiler]

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my fav

>>6871880
The Color Out Of Time?

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There is just something about this book that really clicks
Read it three times now, and it just keeps suprising me, especially the clever/dumb wordplays

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>>6880567
Second favourite is Brave New World
Mostly because it is rather accurate, and more so than the other dystopian example people always give, 1984.
Still both have their merits and with the 'alternative facts' thing being Newspeak you could say we're living in a Brave New 1984

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The Name of the Wind, Kingkiller Chronicle saga

>>6874706
I disagree. I read it, and I liked it a whole lot better than The Fountainhead or Anthem, but all the characters--even the ones that you're supposed to "like"--are poorly written stereotypes. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Objectivism, but Rand's characterization has always been her weakest point.

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La Peau de Chagrin, Honoré de Balzac

>>6873740
Not OP. But I've read it four times now. Not my ultimate fovorite but in the top 10 for sure. It just hits the spot just right.

>>6879705
It is in no way a literary masterpiece desu. I doubt more than a hundred people around the globe consider it that.

>>6865817
what are you? 8? how is that your favourite book/saga? I read it a lot when I was 8-10

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Favorite Book

100 Years of Solitude

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Second Favorite Book

Stranger in a Strange Land

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Third Favorite Book

The Metamorphosis

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>>6860785

>>6860893
>altenrative facts
You are completely mentally handicapped

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>>6863594
Not even in high res
How can you post something like that for a book that deserves so much more?
Here you go cunts

>>6867703
Fuckin ruissiboo

>>6873740
>it's like trudging through mud.
That's because everything in it came from the mind of a man remembering The Great War pretty much every day of his life
Its good though if you can compartmentalize information relatively easily
The Hobbit is easily the best book I'm the series though. Too bad the movies were shit

>>6875636
70's movie is almost better than the book imo
Fuck I love that damn book

>>6879705
It was written by a secretary mate
Its a decent book but it's also falsley attributed to Hitler literally to sell copies and that's cheating.
Also books about reality cannot by default be a masterpiece because the point of books to to bring to life the impossible

>>6882109
>books about reality cannot by default be a masterpiece because the point of books to to bring to life the impossible
that's retarded

>>6880978
Her somewhat less-developed characters tend to be the best, probably because she didn't explain them to death. Danneskjold, in particular, but Rearden and d'Anconia were also pretty good. Although I freely admit she overdid the description on d'Anconia in particular.

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The Warded Man (also known as the Painted Man) the first in a great series of books where a young kid struggles to survive in a medieval/apocalypse type world. He kicks ass.

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Omega Force - it's like Firefly but with more fighting, more ass kicking, more epic scenes but it still has the witty banter between crew members. Awesome series

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I guess you've all forgotten about the bible

>>6880352
The Color Out Of Space

>>6863594
daily reminder Ayn Rand was a welfare queen

>>6883157
How she chose to live her own life and what she could observe in the world is two very dfiferent things

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Anyone here know Cory Doctorow's books?

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>>6883192
Absolutely, I love all his books, little brother and homeland are great but I also enjoyed makers. A definte must for anyone of the techie persuasion

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>>6883212

>>6883212
Same, I've been looking for similar books, I found a Web comic called fisheye placebo which is pretty close but nothing else really with the same kind of vibe.

>>6862273
Mein neger!

>>6876097
1984 and Brave New World are a sister series of sorts. Brave new world is the more foreign Venus to Orwell's Earth.

The problem with 4chan's edgy disenfranchising environment and eternal pessimism is that the value of even having *read* a book having to do with greater society is scoffed at.

While Fahrenheit 451, Anthem and 1884 display very real VERY SERIOUS, very possible threats to freedom.

Brave new world shows us caging ourselves with drugs, liquor, fear, sex and entertainment.

You can't fully appreciate 1984 without reading Brave New World, and you can BARELY fucking understand 1984 without having studied some form of dictatorship. Preferably Stalinist flavored oppression.

If you spit on a valuable book because it's well known, you're not only an asshole, but you're a stupid asshole who didn't learn his god damn lesson.

>>6867696
Just got this at the thrift store, looking forward to reading it

>>6862220
Just got this for free at this thrift shop that just opened up but books are free. I didn't find anything good except this and I'm looking forward to reading it.

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>>6880567
Just got a copy at the Christian thrift shop of all places since all paperbacks are 25 cents. Has a really shitty cover that just says The Annotated Lolita so we'll see.

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"This perfect day"

>>6868435
Stephen King is a hack. ~1100 pages of garbage, and need I remind anyone, a fucking prepubescent gangbang. Fuck, I hate this mother fucker so much. Tell me I'm a fag, a reddit-tier sperg, whatever, but Dark Tower is his only good series.

>>6869582
From an old Christian, fuck Paul. Looking back, he's just an incredibly sexually frustrated fag who wanted his young ward, Timothy, to ram his wrinkly ass.

>>6879778
Any of the glasses?

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Where my Hunter Thompson bros at?

I know most people like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but my favorite of his is FaL on the Campaign Trail '72

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Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil.
Was one of the first ones that got me into books, and this far i haven't felt the same way for another one.

Requesting anything even somewhat related to Don Quixote.

>>6888888

>>6863429
just because you are on 4chan doesnt mean you NEED to be a dick for no reason

>>6863594
disgusting

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>>6885996
Reporting in
Sick paper friendo

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>>6877606
Narnia aint that old

>>6863520
>>6863588
Yea I hated both of those books, Jekyl and Hyde sucked ass too. Brave New world was the shit though.

>>6868718
This was great. Wish it would have been required reading in my school.

>>6860820
Because it is easy lies
The actual truth is Brave New world
The book is the definition of the bluepill
It teaches that the only type of info control is authoritarian control
While the actual truth is that we are too absorbed by the entartainment to get information
It is a shit book because it does not challange or answer questions
All it does is make everyone happy that they do not live under INGSOC

>>6862271
oh cut it out, nobody cares about how well read you think you are, just pick something you twat.

Has anyone here read 100 years of solitude? I dont have a pape for it because I doubt one exists but I might use my copy and my camera tomorrow to put something together

>>6891358
Oh I just saw this >>6881265

>>6868005
I have the copy with this as the cover.

>>6869800
Write it in English cunt because we all know no one here read it in the original Italian least of all the dude quoting it in Italian.

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>>6860785
The Haunter of the Dark

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The Wheel of Time Series, by Robert Jordan.

I didn't attend my last year and a half of highschool, I read these books instead. I just sat in class and read for hours and hours. People would remark, because sometimes the books would go by in a week or two, that I was a quick reader. Honestly I can't say I've read them all even. Robert Jordan died before the series was ended by his protege. For some reason it fills me with quite a bit of loss to just think about that, and I can't help but not finish them. My favorite book is Catcher in the Rye, or the Mouse in the Motorcycle, but this means a lot more to me as a whole than seperate books I guess. This one is related to my favorite character Matt Cauthorn.

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Best military satire

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WE Yevgeny Zamyatin

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>>6863594
senpai, I know you're probably trolling, but on the off chance that you're not... this book is garbage

in order to have her perfect society work, ayn rand literally had to have (among other things) her main characters be supernaturally intelligent, creative, and lucky

and she stuck them in a single valley that has plentiful amounts of all the resources they will ever need: from crude oil to copper ore to coal to redwood trees to huge fruit orchards

plus they invented free energy generators and more advanced mining machines than we have today

like, iirc, one of the guys in galt's gulch made a tractor from scratch

a tractor

like, without machinery or a decent foundry to cast the parts, even the parts of, like, the engine, that require extremely precise measurements in order to work

this guy just took some metal and a hammer and like banged that shit out

and somehow this hand tooled tractor was magically able to reduce an 8 hour working day to like 4 hours

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look, read snow crash by neal stephenson instead. it presents a more credible version of a free market system, but with fun stuff like pizza delivery samurai hackers, teenagers with futuristic skateboards delivering packages for the mafia, and dudes driving motorcycles around with nuclear warheads in the sidecar

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>>6891961
>Brandon Sanderson
>Robert Jordan's protege

He's a great author in his own right that was completely unrelated untill Harriet got him on board for continuing the series. His WoT books are well written and faithful to the serie. They were basically co-authored by Jordan himself because of the crazy extensive notes he left.

1984 is also my favorite book. Actually, i like most orwell´s books. The end of 1984 let me without faith for the rest of my life, like Animal farm but both of them make me be more conscious of the type of world we live. I recently read Keep the Aspidistra Flying but it doesnt like very much. Now im reading A clergyman's daughter but this is hard to read it

>>6865799
that book was crazy good.

>>6874143
have you read His Dark Materials? its directly inspired by paradise lost, the Golden Compass is the first book

>>6885996
FaL on the Campaign Trail is far more entertaining than any book about that election has any right to be. Although my personal favorite of his is still his book on the Hell's Angels

>>6877629
I just finished that book with him riding the dinosaur.

It was so surreal, but I like it.

>>6880588
still waiting for that last book.

>>6880251
I hated Hyperion, it doesn't even really finish you never find out what it was all about really. It pissed me off!

Snowcrash, so good, such a futuristic and yet realistic feeling book

mein kamf it was really inspiring

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>>6873704
I read it but, I just don't seem to "get" it. the whole thing is pretty ridiculous with absurd happenings.

not read this yet either but also thought brave New world was a bit dumb of an ending.

>>6883070
hate trump if you want but this book is unironically good, for what it is

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not my fav book but still good/fun

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A Scanner Darkly

PKD

>>6868718
Heh,I like that,I need to read it later.

>>6865027
Pretentious fedora boi detected.

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comic book count?

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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Recently read this and really loved it.

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>>6880588
Make me some spaghetti and maybe I'll consider releasing it.

Easily my favourite book so far.

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>not assed enough to find one with higher res

The Count of Monte Cristo
Unabridged version, Translated by Robin Buss (penguin edition)

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>>6898986

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Not my favorite but my faves were already mentioned and this is like top 3 for me.

>>6895855
Existentialism is interesting in summary, but reading the actual texts is boring, especially Camus and Sartre.

I find Dostoevsky much more interesting.

>>6868005
Yet to read this one

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this might be something to bring up on /lit/ but I love pulp era books. I know they are trash but they are fun to read and the covers are amazing.

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Drácula by Bram Stoker

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Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
KEK!

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>>6868718
may you enjoy my favorite background

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>>6898963
started this and then stopped a bit into it, seems to be a pattern in my life recently. ive been meaning to finish journey to the west and lotr too, but i never get around to it. how younger me even read all those books i did baffles me.

>>6900149
KEK! Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and German-speaking Switzerland true are Germans Lands!

>>6869628
Same

>>6885996
Present and accounted

>>6877614
>Neuro
thank youuu

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>>6860785
Good old allen moore

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>>6860785

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>>6860820
Can't choose only one title that's my favourite.
When someone ask me the same question the OP did I usually answer 'Orwell's 1984'.
Why? Most people have heard of this title already, this is a good conversation start that gives us an opportunity to go into this subject futher.

>>6879902
They make for good reading material in the toilet. By that I mean material to wipe the shit off your arse with even worse shit

>>6860820
For me personally, and this doesn't get brought up often enough, there are some fantastic episodes of eroticism in the book. In particular where it's mentioned where the Antisex ribbon bringing out the curvature of Julia's hips and when Winston has sex in the woods with the woods. It didn't help things that there was a Julia I was infatuated with at the time so it really made me relate in that aspect.

>>6866556
man, my nigga Scuffy been blazin' with that smokestack.

>>6880575
what a fucking hypocrite, Huxley advocated the use of psychedelics

still a great book

>>6886088
I hope you've had the pleasure of reading it in french

>>6898992
huh? I love reading both and Camus and Sartre, especially the latter


although Dostoevsky is amazing, I agree

>>6863764
underrated

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>>6875824
fuckin god bless bois

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>>6867952
what kind of rubes do you think we are

>>6862271
looks like someone read the /lit/ starter pack kek

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>>6865584
how big was the little shit?

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not my favourite, but I gave annihilation 5/5

>>6882094

HELL YEs, I managed to score this copy for cheap

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>>6869762
thanks
this one and "call for the dead" made me get almost all of his books

>>6883935
if you like it you may want to try"A Small Town in Germany" next, although you may want to swear after reading it (happens quite often with his books)

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>>6874182
there you go

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>>6882097
do you even into reading comprehension?
my first pick was literally the opposite of that.

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I'm close to finishing the Dark Tower

>>6867703
>>6867729
>>6907997
>>6907999
god i hope none of you actually think metro is a good book

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>>6909984
seriously, what did you expect?
A new "Dune" or "Foundation"?
It's popcorn sci-fi and very good at it.
(or did you read it in the butchered english translation)

also
post papes of your books

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>>6860785
the better setting

>>6891363
Me too, it's probably one of my favorite things I've bought.
>>6899757
You should try to get around to it sometime, it's worth the read.

>>6873802
Some people, dont care about your parameter for tryhads, they just like it, stupid asshole.

>>6868718
I really enjoyed this book when I read it in school.

Almost 15 years later I read it again after being in the military for 4 years and enjoyed it far more.

>>6892403
Starship Troopers the book was far from satire, anon.

The movie, however, is an entirely different animal.

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>>6900135
damn right on the covers part
though I think the best for James Bond were the penguin covers

>>6898744
that one does

>>6891364
>tfw italian and can read dante,toquato tasso and petrarca in their original forms

>>6912445
>implying you understand whatever they say

>>6860787

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not my favorite but it's good

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Not my favorite, but I enjoyed it when I read it.
(And its the one book-pape I happen to have)
Looking for Alaska by John Green