Post your favorite babbys first book
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>>7719302
This book is great
>short
>funny
>still a masterpiece
would love other similar recommendations
and no Cat's Cradle is not as good or better than it
this was my 11th english teachers favorite book of all time
he was 55, not sure if that means hes based or retarded
>>7719318
>funny
I get that it has a dark humor sense to it and most of the alien interactions are funny, but I found it much more thought provoking than just funny.
Still I would like some recs like it as well.
Or anything that's not overly bloated.
I don't get why people call this book "Thought provoking". Its just an anti-war book about a guy who may or may not be a time traveler who married a hog.
Spoon feed me.
>>7719328
they are redditors, anon
The Long Ships is sweddys first book, and it's absolutely amazing
There's a good NYRB translation, ebook is easy to find, you won't regret it, "vikings go everywhere and kill everything because it makes for a good story"
>>7719302
The Stranger, if you're interested in being a existential jive turkey who furiously generates baby batter at the mention of absurdity
for "hey look i don't wear a bib anymore" Catch 22 is acceptable (Something Happened is easily Heller's best work though), and Lolita shows that you like purple prose with some thought behind it
i feel like Mother Night might be the best introduction to middle-school lit from vonne. its plot and themes are decent.
>>7719333
what anons who try to look down on redditors are like in real life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyUNGUJ25Gc
>>7719328
I just happen to find the concept of time being seamless and unchangeable as very interesting.
The time skips were also a fun plot device.
I hadn't read anything like this until.
>>7719322
I mean I absolutely think it's thought provoking and touching. It's really a wonderful snapshot of the human spirit. It's also funny though. The book made me laugh out loud at least 4 times, which for such a short book is fairly impressive
>>7719337
the guy who wrote that was a redditor
this is a video of a post written on reddit
>>7719337
Congratulations on your public embarrassment. Hope the upboats were worth it.
>>7719337
Wew. Found the butthurt Redditor. Epic Karma points coming your way.
>>7719322
The aliens are a real trip. That part of the story never seems to get brought up when the book is discussed.
Where the Wild Things Are
The Hobbit
>>7719365
>linking a neckbeard's Reddit video
Is this how you want to spend your life?
>>7719374
Slow down, Scooter McZoom! You shouldn't recommend Neo-Feuerbach social commentary until a reader is properly versed in Germanic idealism.
>>7719380
>>7719367
isn't the trip ambiguous? couldn't he be insane?
I always took it as being real but couldn't it easily have been a figment of his imagination?
I mean he is in some ways mentally ill, or at least he was enough to commit himself.
>>7719391
here we go
This book kicks ass
>>7719504
Fucks it too.
>>7719391
When I got back into reading at about 19 I read this first and it was my favourite. Then I read another book
The Count of Monte Cristo, for sure.
That does count, right?
>>7719302
1984 blew my mind when I read it as a teenager.
>>7719504
This was the first book I read that wasn't pop fiction, I was in third grade and I would sit under a tree and read it at recess. God, the nostalgia.
Dorian Gray. Its comfy.
>Tfw you realised all the 'best books ever written' are just the only books that actually get read by fedoras/redditors who dont have the attention span to read more than a tiny handful in their lives so we get stuck with infinite jest and 'thought provoking' easy sci-fi garbage at the top
>>7719328
He's a bit of an Everyman
A good cuck
Doctor, provider, husband, dad
Does what he's supposed to do
Wife eats her fat ass to death
Son is a weirdo he barely knows
Daughter wants him put in a home
No big deal he's just a lonely old man, who likes porn and he's losing his mind
It's your future anon
If you're lucky
>>7719302
>>7720682
Was going to post this, my first "real" book.
It's a good book though
>>7721117
I'm a curious visited from /sp/, first time on /lit/... And this is my favorite book. So yeah, perfect choice.
I do not recommend Slaughterhouse-Five for a beginner. I definitely think most would lose interest in the book pretty quickly and I feel it's a bit "deeper" than his other novels; say what you will. If I were to recommend a start for Vonnegut, it would be Cat's Cradle(takes itself less seriously) or even his short stories where I believe he shines.
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>Ctrl+F
>No Catcher in the Rye
Sirens of Titan was so much better, I'd say Vonnegut's best
Catch 22
>>7721736
This.It's still my favourite book.
I really enjoyed this as one of my first more srs reads
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
