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What is the BEST book ever written?

>> No.8654285

>>8654282
my diary to be dishonest

>> No.8654292

>>8654282
my twitter, to be sincere

>> No.8654295

Gravity's Jest

>> No.8654299

>>8654285
Post an excerpt please.

>> No.8654323

>>8654282
Is gondola unspooked?

>> No.8654326

The Hobbit

>> No.8654337

>>8654299
i just did

>> No.8654350

>>8654282
Depends on the format. The Great Gatsby is widely recognized as the perfect novel, and for good reason. It's an honest slice of life piece that delves into the heart of modern life and dreams with very subtly metaphor.

People will meme Ulysses at you, but it's banality, crudeness and inaccessibility really disqualify it as being "the best".

>> No.8654355

>>8654282
Jerusalem's Dream, by Arno Vico

>> No.8654364 [DELETED] 

the star wars: attack of the clones novelisation

>> No.8654370

>Great Gatsby is widely recognized as the perfect novel
>Ulysses at you, but it's banality, crudeness and inaccessibility
10/10, expert gatherer of newfag (you)s

>> No.8654382

>>8654326
You are a man after my own heart, anon. I came here to say LOTR.

>> No.8654498

>>8654282
Don Quijote de la Mancha

>> No.8654522

>>8654282

Karamazov

>> No.8654525

Infinite Rainbow

>> No.8654527

>>8654282
Harry Potter

>> No.8654590

>>8654527
which one?

>> No.8654624

>>8654590

now you've gone too far with this

>> No.8654666

>>8654282
The Deep by John Crowley

>> No.8654769

>>8654282
The Master and Margarita

>> No.8654854

>>8654498

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>>8654323
Gondola transcends such categorization

>> No.8655212

>>8654282
probably any john green novel desu

>> No.8655220

>>8654282
The old man and the sea to be total and utterly honest desu

>> No.8655227

>>8654590
the third one, obviously

>> No.8655319

The Book of Revelation

>> No.8655337
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8655337

>>8654282

>> No.8655342

Ulysses. Best book ever written in English at least

>> No.8655344

>>8654282
The Bible or Brothers K

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>>8654323

>Is gondola unspooked?

>> No.8655351

The divine comedy.

>> No.8655358

>>8654498

To anyone who hasn't read this book yet, this guy isn't memeing. This is an amazing book. I first picked it up just because it is one of those books you're "supposed to read," and read the first book in a few days.

>> No.8655359

>>8655348
Post more gondola

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>>8655359
Ok

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>>8655372
>>8655359

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>>8655376
>>8655372
I have to go my friends are downstairs. I'll post more when I get back if the mods haven't deleted my shit thread.

>> No.8655386

>>8654282
>>8655348
>>8655372
>>8655376
I don't understand how I can relate with Gondola on such a spiritual level. Was listening to this song and thought it matched Gondola's melancholy spirit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx97snsx7-I

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>>8655386
I don't think we'll ever understand our attachment to him. He just seems to reflect life so well.

>> No.8655424

>>8654295
Infinities' Rainbow

>> No.8655425

>>8655386
>>8655410

Literally just Spurdo drawn without arms.

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>>8655410

>> No.8655431

What is the essence of Gondola? I don't think I've ever truly understood him. Or is such a thing even possible?

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>>8655425
He's more than that.

>>8655431
I don't think you should try. Men have died from trying to determine the true nature of Gondola.

>> No.8655452

>>8655446

Smug Pepe was a more thoughtful build on original Pepe than Gondola was on Spurdo to be honest. The only staying power Gondola has is that the one or maybe two anon/s who draw them happen to be good at making aesthetic scenery art. The meme says more about that person than it does about the character that happens to feature in it.

>> No.8655458

>>8654282
The one you leave in your pocket, opened for a rainy day
The picture held in a locket, one that means what it does not say
The perfect book is no written word, nor confounded phrase made in Jest
Its the idea of life, the experience heard
The sounds of song, the days long gone
The one who knows a book to be good, is the one who loves it best.

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>>8655452
He's a lot more than a build on Spurdo. I wish you could see him the way I do.

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>>8655428

>> No.8655473

>>8655460

I'm meeting you halfway. I'm saying there's something more there, it just isn't about the character; it's about the person who makes those pictures.

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8655485

Tom Defalco's Ultimate Spiderman Guide

>> No.8655490

>>8655460
Does anyone know what the original painting is called?

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>>8655473
Perhaps, but Gondola relates to me on a level deeper level than anything else. Every single piece of art ever produced can be enhanced by adding in Gondola. He has a power beyond our knowledge.

>> No.8655497

>>8655490

I just tried looking for it and couldn't find a name, it shows up everywhere as a random stock image for expressionist art.

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>> No.8655795

>>8654498
this.

>> No.8655817

Toilet Bug

>> No.8655825

There are so many books that could fit this criteria, but if I were to pick a few to be very, very close:

The entire Captain Underpants series.
The HOLY BIBLE.

and

Infinite Rainbow; The Life and Times of the Power Rangers

>> No.8655834

>>8655497
Damn. Thanks for trying though.

>> No.8655863
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8655863

Perhaps his armless body along with those long legs give him the ideal aesthetic of the "wanderer", an individual defined by being in a constant search for something that doesn't even he knows what it is.
Perhaps it's not like he's actually searching for something, but more like his structure is made for this purpose to such extent that he has to search, no matter what. He's cursed to wander until the end of his existence because his very existence is the search.
Maybe that's what relates so well with people about Gondola. He's the representation of our constant search to fulfill our aspirations and desires. He's lonely on his path because said search is only for us to take, so unique and individual that we can't bring anyone to make us company because is related with a fundamental part of our construction as an individual being.
Gondola can even be a critique to our individualistic culture. So fixated with this solo search that we have lost the ability to take on the future and what it holds as a group, rendering us to this, a pathetic individual filled with some sort of nostalgia and even grief. So defined by his wandering that it even lost his hands, which represents not only creativity, but also the serves as a metaphor that we cannot take the hands of others. There's no need for such a thing in this overspecialized culture that only requires of you that you take on a path to wander until you're defined by this, until you're just a shadow of what a human is supposed to be.
Godspeed, Gondola. I hope you meet your end soon. Perhaps the afterlife will offer some relief to those tired legs.

>> No.8656051

>>8655490
Gondola Strolls

>> No.8656067

the stranger

>> No.8656213

I haven't read every book in the world, but out of what I've read, the one I felt captured life best was _____Suttree_____.

>> No.8656665

>>8655490
>>8655497
>>8655834
It's Leonid Afremov - Misty Mood for fuck's sake.

How anybody has managed to find and use this website and still not know how to use Google reverse image search is beyond me.

>> No.8656674

>>8656665
I'm on mobile hoss

>> No.8656683

>>8656674
even worse

>> No.8656685

>>8656674
You can still use reverse image search on your phone, mong.

>> No.8656688

the greatest literary accomplishment is obviously Finnegans Wake.

>> No.8656689

>>8656685
No shit, really? How?

>> No.8656708

>>8656689
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+use+reverse+image+search+on+my+phone

>> No.8656727

Moby Dick is my fave novel - there's no such thing as a 'best' anything tho

>> No.8656751

Ulysses, Brothers Karamazov, and (less popular of an opinion) To the Lighthouse

>> No.8656766

>>8656727
how do you feel when someone says it's boring and that it sucks?

>> No.8656851

>>8655351
This, and it's not even close.

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8657063

Phanomenologie des Giestes

>> No.8657073

>>8657063
You should've taken the 2 seconds to google the proper German title if you want to brag with it.

>> No.8657077

>>8654282
the bible

>> No.8657080

>>8657073
>caring this much about an umlaut

>> No.8657085

>>8657080
>being too american to see an error even when having the right spelling right in front of you

>> No.8657094

Animal Farm is my favorite book.

>> No.8657096

>>8657085
Top lel, I didn't even notice I spelled Geist as Giest.

>> No.8657144

>>8656665

I did use reverse image search, it just showed up as a bunch of stock photo matches with no name.

>> No.8657240

>>8654282
The Akashic Records

>> No.8657383 [DELETED] 

>>8656665

I can't believe you were thisclose to being >>8656666

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>>8657144
first page

>> No.8658395

>>8654350
You should write for the newspaper of your home village desu, really great and insightful commentary. I liked it when you called The Great Gatsby a slice-of-life novel.

>> No.8658405

The greatest novel of all time, is, without doubt, The Man without Qualities.

>> No.8658407

>>8655485
This book was so much fun.

>> No.8658410

>>8655386
>>8655410
Come to circleboard.

>> No.8659820

>>8654590
ORDER, duh

>> No.8660304

>>8654282
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

>> No.8660741
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How to Get (You)'s 101:

Genesis was trash. Literally every Christian I know cucks over Revelations.

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>>8654282

>> No.8660828

>>8654282
the Odyssey

>> No.8660839

>>8660741
Revelations was good desu
Genesis is decent, if it wasn't it wouldn't have inspired so much literature.

the latter books with David, Sampson and all them are better.

>> No.8660910

>>8660839

My beef with Genesis is the fact that the interesting parts like Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and even Abraham's journey, get overflooded by twenty pages of nothing but "this guy begot these three guys". I get Genesis is supposed to be a genealogy, but that gets pretty taxing at some point.

>> No.8662676

>nobody has said Mein Kampf yet

>> No.8662687

>>8658395
kek

>> No.8662731

Art of the deal

>> No.8662801

>>8655351
It's not that good

>> No.8662815

>>8660828
>written

>> No.8662822

>>8662815
I'm fairly sure that they meant Homer's version of The Odyssey, which was indeed written.

>> No.8663172

>>8655518
What is this?

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>>8655431
Omnia ambulat, nihil complectitur.

>> No.8663435

How to live the Gondola lifestyle?

>> No.8663477

>>8663435

When I go out in nature alone I feel lonely and the silence presses inward on me like being deep underwater. I feel most gondola like driving my truck on the highway in the sun with music on.

That's how I want to die.

>> No.8664138

>>8663435
Just walk and watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jzysxHGZCAU

>> No.8664148

>>8664138
The youtube jews deleted the man-eating-fries-scene so the liveleak version is the only watchable cut now

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>>8659820

>> No.8664223

>>8655863
Does anyone have the picture showing that Gondola is amongst the oldest known cave paintings?

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>>8654590

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>>8664223
Found it

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>>8664229
fucking kek

>> No.8664265

>>8664167
ayyyyyyy

The best book ever written will be produced somewhere between 100-300 years from now, in the last few years before human civilization achieves the self-anihiliation that's been the subterranean, silent dream-current propelling it through history. The book will be mostly pictures, some stories featuring character's named after the author's friends, feathers glued onto the pages, cooking instructions coded as etymologies etc...

>> No.8664815

>>8655351
This, in MY opinion. This book changed my life. I first read in as an agnostic back in high school, didn't get much of the references and shit but I loved it, and it made me go after philosophy and theology. After reading my way up from Aristotle and the greeks to Aquinas, I read it again and I loved it even more. Again, it is for me the best book. Have read it in English and Portuguese, one day I will read it in Italian.

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>>8657096

>> No.8665113

Post more Gondola

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>> No.8665197

À la recherche du temps perdu

>> No.8665588

>>8664138

I do that a lot already

It just seems Gondola doesn't have a care in the world and I can't believe I envy a bastardization of pedobear