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Hello, lit.
I disliked: for whom the bell tolls, the stranger, no longer human, lord of the flies.
I liked: dune, wind up bird chronicle, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, montaigne's essays

What would you recommend for me to read?

>> No.12174837

>>12174831
The bible; alternatively my diary.

>> No.12174846

>>12174831
The fart sniffers almanac.

>> No.12174855

>>12174846
>>12174837
thank you

>> No.12174921
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12174921

>>12174831
Moby-Dick. Amazing fucking book. Also, although it might be a struggle at first, The Plays of Shakespeare.

>> No.12174932

>>12174831
The only good book that you've listed is Dune, and you sound like the kind of retard who just liked it because 'hehe action and fighting funny'.

You also seem like you disliked the stranger because it was too complex for your ungadunga mind and didn't actually have any issues with its nonsensical, circular, and stolen philosophy, if you understood it at all.

>> No.12175075

>>12174932
Dune was good, but the sequels were crap for the most part, although God-Emp was OK. He would have done better to diversify his ouput more. And by the end he was cucked. The old Baron had a chaotic neutral grandeur in Dune, but the later books reduced him to a mere unPC villain. Also, in Dune Judaism had disappeared along with every other religion, and the Jews had morphed into the Sardaukar. Later he introduced a group of modern day crypto Jews, who being a more sensitive and based Master Race were able to secretly retain the exact same culture as they had in the 20th century, unlike the goyim around them. Don't know why he retconned his series like that...

>> No.12175169

>>12174932
I just didn't care about any of the ideas in that book. The guy just didn't care. Me neither, really. I also didn't care about the problems of that kid in no longer human. I stopped reading it almost immediately. Same with for whom the bell tolls, except I might have finished it, I don't remember.
Does not being able to empathise with characters from these books make me a retard?

>> No.12175182

>>12174921
I actually wanted to read that next. Thanks. I hope I'll like it more than previous lit's recommendations.

>> No.12175244

>>12175169
The stranger wasn't written for its plot, it was written to espouse Camus' shitty, stolen philosophy.

It's like Atlas Shrugged but somehow worse.

>> No.12175247

>>12175182
I was talking about moby dick

>> No.12175268

Didn't like The Stranger either. Camus did a good job transferring emotion to the reader. The whole book felt like a sweltering hot headache. So good job.

>> No.12175305

>>12174831
try k dick you might like him

>> No.12175335

>>12175244
Atlas Shrugged wasn't bad. You just don't like the author's ideology. You can't separate ideology from its context in a work of fiction. That, or you have literally never read it and are jumping on a r*ddit bandwagon of hate.

>> No.12175352

>>12175335
I was actually a rabid objectivist. When I was sixteen.

Now I'm a functional adult in society and think Atlas Shrugged was nothing more than a poorly-written manifesto. However, The Fountainhead was a good read.

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what would you recc me /lit/