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I'm tired of video games, I want to read a book. What should I read /jp/?

>> No.9367000

I really like The Dark Tower by Stephen King and some other books by him, but that's mostly regarded as mainstreambabbiesfirstbook shit.

>> No.9367004

>>9367000
Didn't he have a car crash and ruin it or something?

P.S. Newfags won't get this.

>> No.9367010
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9367010

Did you even have to ask?

>> No.9367009

>>9367004
What's with the spoilers?

>> No.9367014

Brave story - Miyuki Miyabe

There's a game you can play after too. Also a movie.

>> No.9367021

Anything by Dostoyevsky, particularly Notes from the Underground. You'll love it as a NEET, doubly so if you're also a teenager.

>> No.9367022

Read Dune and be in ave of how much everyone has been stealing from it for half a century now

>> No.9367042

I read Ender's Game recently. I didn't think I would like it, just 'cause I don't usually like dated stuff as much, but it was really good. I started reading all sorts of 80s-90s sci-fi after that. Neuromancer was great. I dropped Startship Troopers like halfway through because it seemed like it was trying to convince me that violence is a good teaching method. I also liked The Road a bunch as a more recent example.

>> No.9367046

We already have a light novel thread up.

>> No.9367045

I don't understand reading fiction. Expend the same mental effort reading a textbook or something useful, or just settle for the superior middle ground that is visual novels.

>> No.9367050

>>9367045
I don't understand how anyone on /jp/ could be confused over why someone prefers fiction.

>> No.9367054

>>9367045

Why do you think it's OK to play VNs or games, but not to read?

Reading is usually more intellectually stimulating, so at least you get that out of it.

>> No.9367058

>>9367042
>dropped Startship Troopers like halfway through because it seemed like it was trying to convince me that violence is a good teaching method

it is

>> No.9367066
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Here you go.

>> No.9367067

>>9367046
Light novels are for middle school girls

>> No.9367070

>>9367066
Is this a joke?

>> No.9367074

>>9367054
The great thing about reading is that I form a world of my own according to what is described in the book.
Someone else might take the informations given from the same book in a different way and have a completly different view.
That's why it feels so weird to watch a movie to a book.
The other day I read Dreamcatcher by Stephen King and I always imagined the bad guy to be some white american though guy war veteran while in the movie he is played by Samuel L Jackson.

Now that was weird

>> No.9367075

>>9367070
What would make you think that?

>> No.9367077

>>9367058

Really?

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2540224
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x526215441037r74/
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/98/4/837.short
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/584804?uid=3739896&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid
=21100917731951

>> No.9367079

>>9367067
Maybe, but they're also the only type of books that should be discussed here. I'm sure you understand.

>> No.9367097

>>9367077
"Adapt or perish!"
SPELL BREAK

>> No.9367099

>>9367066
I already read several of those in Highschool. But I really liked some of them, and it's been a long time, maybe I will reread some of them.

>> No.9367151

>>9366986

Patchery looks to be very sexually aroused in that picture. Look how she's drooling. Just imagine how lubricated her vulva must be. I imagine it won't be long until she starts masturbating to relieve herself. What a sexual girl she is!

>> No.9367188
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>>9367045
I have no patience for fiction either.

I suggest perusing stock philosophical works and fringe theoretical efforts. The flamboyant rhetoric and sustained pretension will sexually excite you in ways conventional VNs simply cannot.

>> No.9367203

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

>> No.9367246

Should I read "Critique of Pure Reason" or "On the Genealogy of Morality"?

>> No.9367253

>>9367075
I don't know much about literature but I see that Lolita is on it, which I know is not American.

>> No.9367298

>>9367246
Start with Nietzsche's more lucid work and approach Zarathustra only when you feel you are ready for the most ostentatious fog of opaque literary devices ever created. It's also obligatory you be on copious amounts of drugs through this journey.

>> No.9367306

>>9367298
Is learning German necessary for the best experience?

>> No.9367308

ASOIF

>> No.9367309

>>9367246
You will finish neither of those.

>>9367253
Nabakov was in America when he wrote it, and was published in English.

>> No.9367313

>>9367298
But drugs are bad. How can I read if I'm on drugs?

>> No.9367314

>>9367000
Every book is mainstreambabbiesfirstbook

>> No.9367320

Lolita is American literature though, it's written in English. Nabokov wrote several novels stateside. That's why it's such a remarkable book, it's written in his 3rd language.

>> No.9367321

I read The Odessa File recently. I was pretty good.

>> No.9367323

>>9367314
No, /lit/ is just a hipster board that hates everything to be unique.

>> No.9367328

I, Cladius

>> No.9367329

>>9367309
Genealogy isn't that long, I just haven't gotten around to reading it. I think I could finish it.

>> No.9367336

>>9367306
Many will argue it is. Fortunately his trove of elitism and delusion has been at least partially made accessible for those of us who subscribe only to formal literary discourse in english and other such mediocre vernacular.

>> No.9367341

>>9367323
Just like /jp/ then

>> No.9367342 [DELETED] 

>>9367323
〝Stop liking what I don't like〞
-Anonymous 7/14/12

>> No.9367347

>>9367306

Walter Kaufmann is considered one of the best translators of german literature/Nietzsche so I don't think you'll lose too much reading it in English. German is a pretty easy language to learn though if you know English.

>> No.9367369

I like "The Drunkard's Walk", and "Game Over".
I read both of those recently

>> No.9367381
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>>9367336
Why do you try to hard to sound intelligent on an anonymous imageboard?

>> No.9367398

>>9367381
Why do you try so hard to sound stupid?
Checkmate.

>> No.9367431

>>9367381
Utilizing language or any other symbolic means of communication and being complacent with its capacity to convey anything is precisely the antitheses of intelligence. Whether I choose to subscribe to your dull standards or antagonize the plebs with my ironic pretension I'm at very base communicating nothing rigid in meaning. These words are purely personal constructions and are entirely worthless in their ability to reflect anything at all. Notions of intelligence, standard and style derived from your interpretation of text is equally fictive.

>> No.9367435

Read The Count of Monte Cristo.

>> No.9367446

>>9367431
I hope you dont talk that way

>> No.9367448

Anti-Oedipus - Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

>> No.9367452
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>>9367431
ok

>> No.9367462

>9367431
Don't we have some fancy diction?

>> No.9367495

a suggestion for a novel to read is Welcome to the NHK it is story about a hikikomori and it touches on a few things of japanese culture and was fairly interesting and can be found fairly easily as a downloadable pdf.

>> No.9367516

i think you should read yotsuba xD

>> No.9367536

Oedipus Rex, its about a guy who kills his dad and knocks up his mom.

>> No.9367540

>>9367004
That happened back in 1999 right?

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>>9367070
>catcher in the rye
>the great gatsby

theres some pretty fucking awful books on there, that's what

>> No.9370266

Shutting Out the Sun

>> No.9370372

>>9370259
What do you expect from a list titled "american" anything?

Worst literature.
Worst movies.
Worst artwork.
Worst culture.
Worst food.
Worst touhou

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