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What are books that you like, or even love so much, that you re-read them? How many times have you done that? Is the book itself particularly well regarded, compared to your opinions on it, or are you aware that it is just a favorite for yourself and maybe few other fans?

>> No.14486975

hello basedboy

>> No.14486980

>>14486975
wow, so s-yboy is now basedboy by our ai overlords?

>> No.14486982

A Scanner Darkly

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>>14486975
Hi. Are you a fan of Harry Potter? Or, what else do you like?

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14486996

Kino

>> No.14487004

>>14486985
I typed in s-y but the bot changed it to based. Ive read harry potter in my teen years though.

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>>14486996
What a weird baby-eater. He wrote the new Star Wars books, too.

>> No.14487020

>>14486996
I think I'm officially anti-democracy. The fact that crybaby, beanmilk-chugging faggots like Cuck Wendig get any say in government is just a testament to the failure of our political system.

>> No.14487031

>>14486996
Disney fired him for these tweets lol.

>> No.14487033

>>14486985
Kek how many more of these do you have

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>>14487033
This picture, depicting its subject holding a book, is similar, but he doesn't have it in or up against his mouth. I don't have any more, though.

>> No.14487059

>>14486982
How is that book? I know nothing about it.

>> No.14487068

>>14486969
The religious poetry of the ancient near east, so stuff like Gilgamesh, Ecclesiastes, Discourse of a Man with his Ba. Mainly those three in fact. I've re-read Gilg at least 20 times, Ecclesiastes a lot more from being raised Christian and it being my favorite book of the bible as a youth. Discourse probably 10 times, and the "Death is before me today" part more.

Gilgamesh was well regarded by Rilke, a favorite poet of mine, and the amount of stories with mythological similarity to Gilgamesh (the Aphrodite-Ishtar Anu-Zeus connection, Enkidu as the master of beasts, the conflict between the civilized and the natural, and their eventual partnership being the Apollonian vs the Dionysian before they were cemented, etc). Ecclesiastes is obviously well regarded, doubt that one needs any explanation. Part of Discourse of a Man with his Ba was in Gaiman's Sandman, but aside that it's definitely less well known.

>> No.14487471

>>14487068
Very interesting. I should read the epic of Gilgamesh. I am aware of Ecclesiastes.

>> No.14488370

>>14486982
Me too.
Party because I just missed falling in that type of hell.
Also, because I know the locations in the book.
Very nostalgic.

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>>14486969

>> No.14488417

Demons - read three times
The Idiot - read twice
Anna Karenina - read three times
Brideshead Revisited - read twice
The Sword of Honor (Waugh) - read three times
The Razor's Edge (Maugham) - read twice

>> No.14488454

>>14486985
Wait...is this the guy that made that stupid Wii music video? Confirmed for Kikkoman cuck

>> No.14488465

>>14488454

Yes, it is Cornelius. He made a new version of the Wii music video, the other day. Below it is the original one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruIsvDglLgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptUNUFdyas

>> No.14488480

>>14488417
Good taste anon

>> No.14488595

Everything by Pessoa, biyearly

>> No.14489237

>>14488595
I have never started reading anything by Pessoa. What do you recommend to get started with?

>> No.14489242

>>14486969
Most Burroughs books, some Bukowski and Journey to the End of the Night

>> No.14489261

>>14488465
HAHAHAHAHA

>> No.14489295

This kind of post honestly gives me suicidal urges.

>> No.14489309

>>14488391
I’m interested in this book. What can you tell me about it?

>> No.14489361

>>14486969
Truly this guy was a mistake..

>> No.14489369

I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy about every decade since I was 7.

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The border trilogy by Macarthy.
I've probably read it for or 5 times.
Great books.
Suttree too.
Musashi series by Eiji Yoshikawa.
Probably read it 8 or 9 times since I was a kid.

>> No.14489694

>>14489539
That's my favorite Rockwell painting.

>> No.14489936

>>14486969
The Night in Lisbon by Remarque

>> No.14489951

>>14486969
I don’t reread fiction very often. I reread the count of Monte Cristo because of how comfy it was. I read moby dick last year and I’m certain I’ll reread that again at some point. I think I’ll read lots again soon because I last read it when I was about 14 and want to see how my perception is different as an adult