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Why do you like your favorite book?

>> No.15016676

because it's surprising enough to bring loud reactions
like, an actual LOL, or such a finely phrased sentence that my mouth says HOLY SHIT MAN, or a plot that makes you say CMON YOU DID IT BASTARD

>> No.15016683

>>15016676
what book

>> No.15016805

>>15016683
not the same book for the 3 of them, sadly. Novel with Cocaine is probably the one that shook me most. Blood Dark when it comes to plot+prose.

>> No.15017218

>>15016588
because the author's aesthetic sense is alligned with mine and so there are no sentences that i find ugly or cliched

>> No.15017232

1. because it interests me and makes me feel emotions. it's engaging emotionally and intellectually
2. because it's funny and also sad
3. because it hits several points that strongly resonate with my own life
4. because i read it a long time ago and discussed it with my friend at the time, and it has nostalgia for me
5. because it's weird and vaguely obscure and liking it makes me cool

>> No.15017251

>>15016588

Implying I read...

>> No.15017262

>>15016588

Ever read snow crash?

You just don't let other people mind viruses into your consciousness.

>> No.15017430

>>15016588
I like beautiful romance books with asian girls in them.

>> No.15017444

>>15016588
Because reading about the same pain I feel makes mine feel a lot smaller, because it's just another same pain on another same person, which makes me live with it with a lot more tranquillity

>> No.15017572

>>15017232
I relate and feel similarly. No friend, thoug.

>>15016588
It genuinely made me a better teacher, and helped me love my work instead of focusing on a reward.

>> No.15017666

>>15017232
prisoner of azkaban?

>> No.15017738

>>15016588
it presents timeless themes in a way that is both charmfully naive and unabashedly clever, in a way that children can understand and adults can appreciate. it plays with both the english language and the medium of the printed page. it is a little pretentious, to be sure, but never insincere.

>> No.15017749

>>15016588
Can't actually explain it desu. It doesn't seem to do anything special, I just love reading it and I love rereading my favorite parts.

>> No.15018247
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>>15017430
>asian girls

>> No.15018255

>>15018247
You wish C or J would even spit on you. lol

>> No.15018392

>>15017262
I really liked that aspect of Snow Crash. Anything relating to language and consciousness gets me going

>> No.15018440

It frustrated me for the longest time.
I put it down several times but kept picking it back up and forcing myself to keep going.
Finally I got about three quarters of the way through the book and all of the sudden I understood what was going on and what had happened in the first 160 or so pages of the book.
And the story got me right in the feels. It’s an incredibly sad book about a family deteriorating. It’s also rather cruelty funny. Sometimes laugh out loud funny. But then I would wince at laughing at something so cruel and heartless.
Also the prose was at times beautiful. Not all the way through because of the different narrators.