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Post your favorite book of all time.

>> No.16348395

>>16348323
I can't choose but it's tied between Will to Power, The Tunnel, Maldoror or Tomb for 500.000 Soldiers.

>> No.16348409

>>16348323
Convince me to buy it for $0.50, OP. Is it more than proto-hippie "whoooa, dude" drivel?

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>>16348323
I know /lit/ considers it primer material for philosophy but it was gateway into religious and folklore literature which I love dearly

>> No.16350135

>>16348323
I read this + Heaven and Hell very recently, after dabbling in Ellis Dee for the first time in a couple years. I didn't understand many of the references to art history, but it was a pretty cool read as far as "first trip reports" go. Any follow ups from Huxley and/or his contemporaries that I should read? Thinking of reading Tim Leary's Psychedelic Experience (I've read the Tibetan Book of the Dead) but I don't want to get bogged down in schizo obsessions over "ego death" when I have a hard enough time keeping my own head screwed on properly

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>>16348523
Have you read pic related?

>> No.16350170

>>16348323
>>16348523
This or any other mythology book as an aggregate, but specifically The Iliad.

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>>16348323
This book is pure kino. It interleaves the story of the 1893 World's Fair with the story of serial killer H. H. Holmes, in a nonfictional narrative that is an amazing read.

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most fun I've ever had reading

>> No.16350234
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>>16350211
Read Gravity's Rainbow. For me it's pic related

>> No.16350241

>>16348409
Aldous Huxley's father and brother were eminent eugenicists and the Fabian Society is very real.

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>> No.16350438

>>16348409
>"whoooa, dude"
it is much more than that
you should also read "Heaven and Hell"

>> No.16350658

>>16350234
>Read Gravity's Rainbow
ok

>> No.16350738

>>16350241
>Fabian Society is very real.
They literally have a website and Tony Blair is in it. No shit

>> No.16350757

>>16348323
>Dude weed lmao

>> No.16350763

>>16348323
>dude mescaline lmao

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>>16348323
I’ve yet to find another book with as interesting ideas as this one, great book

>> No.16351618

>>16351470
wow this looks interesting. would I get anything out of it if I'm not very spiritual? I come from an extremely catholic background though

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>>16350161
what are the core differences?

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>> No.16351907

>>16348323
Dream of the Red Chamber

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This or Le ventre de Paris

>> No.16352064

>>16351618

%110

>> No.16352493

>>16352064
aight I ordered it lol

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Hunter by William Pierce.

>> No.16354041

>>16352061
fr? I have this edition in my library, but figured i'd just throw it away

>> No.16354320

>>16352061
Good choice, anon.
Mine is L'assommoir from Les Rougon Macquart.

>> No.16354350

>>16348323
A canticle for leibowitz