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Post your favourite book Anonymous Mon Oct 14 12:59:04 2019 No.13991918 [Reply] [Original]

Prove you are not pretentious.

>i don't read books

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 13:00:12 2019 No.13991925 File: 24 KB, 329x499, 41DRCmOKIxL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 13:14:57 2019 No.13992005 >>13991918 A Scanner Darkly

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 13:16:20 2019 No.13992017 File: 66 KB, 398x496, 1570932641530.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918 Easy. >Logan's Run

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 14:55:33 2019 No.13992495 File: 83 KB, 292x450, 43DBB135-A82A-4A8D-A569-0D0C25369934.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991925 Me too, although pic related is very close second

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 14:57:57 2019 No.13992508 >>13992495 Ha, I was actually thinking about which was the better one right before posting. Picked the Count because it was the first book I read cover to cover after 8 year of near sunsetting suicide and it really got me starting again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:08:59 2019 No.13992551 Old man and the sea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:13:07 2019 No.13992569 File: 36 KB, 297x500, 9780804900065-us.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:13:49 2019 No.13992572 >>13991918 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:14:56 2019 No.13992575 >my book

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:15:58 2019 No.13992579 I am not pretentious. But I have no right to be My IQ is far too low

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:23:06 2019 No.13992605 File: 43 KB, 315x499, 0A040AD1-1720-4466-BF3D-BF76F90A68B7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918 This book really spoke to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 16:09:22 2019 No.13992841 >>13991918 Kafka on the shore or as I lay dying. Can't decide between the two

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 18:43:20 2019 No.13993954 The Jungle

Anonymous Mon Oct 14 18:57:30 2019 No.13994041
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>>13992508
Count of Monte Cristo really helped me when I was in my late teens and extremely unhappy
Moby dick helped me get back into reading regularly when I had fallen into bad habits
We’re frens now

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 19:16:08 2019 No.13994169 File: 40 KB, 299x450, 9780143105466.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918 This. The original scroll is the only way to read on the road.

Anonymous Mon Oct 14 20:55:02 2019 No.13994741
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>>13991925
>>13992495
>>13992508
>>13994041
Nice. I'm a newfag to /lit/ so I was worried I'd get bullied if I said The Count of Monte Cristo. Yeah the carnivale stuff drags on a bit but the adventuring and banditry is pretty fun. I also enjoyed how misanthropic the book could be bit without being edgy about it.
It's my equal favourite with Musashi. Interestingly they both begin quite similarly (don't worry, far from being a spoiler, literally the first thing that happens in both books) with the protag being imprisoned and forced to achieve expansion of knowledge and consciousness during their imprisonment. I wouldn't be surprised if Yoshikawa was inspired by Dumas.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 20:58:13 2019 No.13994760 Tbh, War and Peace.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 21:19:49 2019 No.13994901 I listen to rap

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 21:22:08 2019 No.13994912 >>13994901 whoops retard post, my bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 21:24:08 2019 No.13994927 File: 24 KB, 261x400, 9781408845042.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The guy was becoming more and more of a cunt with time but fuck I love this book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 21:32:57 2019 No.13994983 >>13991918 The Horse and His Boy

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 23:07:08 2019 No.13995385 >>13991918 Chesterton's Orthodoxy, so far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 23:11:26 2019 No.13995407 >>13992017 >that pic Christ, I miss that aesthetic

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 23:13:29 2019 No.13995416 Tie between Owen Wister's The Virginian and The Iliad

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 01:01:18 2019 No.13995878 File: 45 KB, 640x512, 5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991925 >>13992495 >>13992508 >>13994041 >>13994741 We all gonna make it, frens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 10:38:05 2019 No.13997561 Either Catch-22 or Journey to the end of the night. Am I gonna make it, lads?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 10:44:21 2019 No.13997583 >>13992605 >>13992005 These, and The Sun Also Rises

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 10:51:20 2019 No.13997615 >>13994983 This is a really good answer

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 11:10:25 2019 No.13997714 File: 485 KB, 1500x1001, 1568657932867.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918 Sophie's World and H. E. Marshall's Our Island Story.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 11:22:08 2019 No.13997794 >>13991918 The Magic Mountain Journey to the End of the Night Thus Spake Zarathustra Introduction to Logic - Copi Ancient Greece Rate me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 11:24:12 2019 No.13997812 >>13997714 >SW Get the fuck out of here.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 11:53:07 2019 No.13997969 >>13991918 The Tunnel or Maldoror Am i pretentious?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 12:10:03 2019 No.13998060 >>13994741 if you don't mind me asking, what made you come to /lit/? Was it a board on here or was this completely external influence? Just curious to know.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 12:14:31 2019 No.13998085 >>13997812 I'm not proud of it. I'm only admitting it on an anonymous basket-weaving image board.

Anonymous Tue Oct 15 12:17:01 2019 No.13998102
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>>13998060
I'm not that anon, but I'm relatively new too. I wanted to read more books now that I'm between jobs, so I went and got recommendations from friends, but hardly any of them read so those ran out quick and I had to find something online.

I tried reddit but their opinions and tastes are awful and just high school reading list tier, so I figured why not try out /lit/? I got into music from /mu/ chart threads and shitposts, became gay from /fit/, so I figured why not become a pseud from this board and top it all off?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 12:24:57 2019 No.13998141 Lord of the Rings.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 12:31:52 2019 No.13998178 not going to tell you my favorite.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 12:41:11 2019 No.13998221 >>13998178 ok

>>	CalvinoShill Tue Oct 15 12:42:12 2019 No.13998225 File: 93 KB, 1298x2004, 61vkh9+xBnL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Prove you are not pretentious Am- Am I not supposed to be?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 12:45:28 2019 No.13998243 File: 125 KB, 600x600, tumblr_nvjksd3Ev41ufnh57o1_1280.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13998102 >another /lit/fit/izen Mired, senpai.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 13:03:46 2019 No.13998338 >>13997969 >Maldoror Nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 13:07:30 2019 No.13998357 File: 44 KB, 344x499, Rationality.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 13:13:54 2019 No.13998389 >>13992495 This (MD). Took a while for me to finish it but savoring it was pure bliss.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 13:54:22 2019 No.13998576 File: 11 KB, 234x216, wAJOKBSDJV.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13998243 based

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 14:03:14 2019 No.13998622 >>13998357 Tell me more anon, I charge thee.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 14:10:03 2019 No.13998651 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 14:20:08 2019 No.13998690 File: 7 KB, 306x306, rat kiss.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fiction: Mason & Dixon Nonfiction: The Golden Bough don't make me choose >>13997969 >Maldoror Picked up a copy recently because it was a big influence on based David Tibet

Anonymous Tue Oct 15 17:10:10 2019 No.13999544

>>13998060
Hey anon. I wouldn't say it was a board here it an eternal influence. I started lurking on 4chan in 2008 after chanology but it took a while before I started posting. Back then I was initially on /a/ most. Eventually I made the switch to /v/ when I started gaming again. But the last month or so I've been spending a lot of time on /ic/ because I've started drawing again for the first time since I was a teen.
I've had periods where I've dipped in and out of boards (fit, fa, diy) and I've always been impressed with the breadth of knowledge you can find on 4chan in amongst the shit posting and wojaks. And I've always been drawn to reading classical literature so I thought I'd check out /lit/.

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Anonymous Tue Oct 15 17:43:57 2019 No.13999707

>>13991918
A Tale of Two Cities. I recognize it's deeply flawed but projecting onto Sydney Carton makes it impossibly moving.
>>13991925
Nice, reading this now. I wasn't too crazy about the Morrel/Valentine stuff but it feels like it's going to have a sweet payoff.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 20:20:20 2019 No.14000393 Blood Meridian. i don't care if I'm pretentious or not

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 21:43:56 2019 No.14000722 File: 48 KB, 570x538, images (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14000393 Ah, I see you are also an intellectual.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 03:17:20 2019 No.14001781 File: 69 KB, 276x475, 9633468.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991918

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 03:23:09 2019 No.14001794 >>13991918 moby dick is my favorite ive read so far but i had fun with C&P too

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 03:26:20 2019 No.14001799 >>13991918 Hunger

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 04:16:28 2019 No.14001930 Anna Karenina

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 04:38:07 2019 No.14001974 File: 57 KB, 362x550, 9780199538867.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty sure this will be it. Just recently started it but I just started it over just for fun, I am loving it. It is very musical.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 09:15:56 2019 No.14002557 >>14001781 Why? I found it to have lots of cool ideas but be delivered in such a stilted, academic way I couldn't really appreciate it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 14:07:33 2019 No.14003760 >>14000722 I think bottom left has aids poor guy

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