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What's a book that's actually fun to read?
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What's a book that's actually fun to read?
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if on a winter's night a traveler
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>>8145186

Catch-22
Confederacy of Dunces
Gogol's Petersburg Tales
Kafka
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>>8145186
three men in a boat
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>>8145186
Odyssey
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Tropic of Cancer
The Doctor is Sick
White Noise
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
(At Swim-Two-Birds)
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>>8145212
>Gogol's Petersburg Tales
Just finished this I liked it a lot. He is quite a sad man I believe. characters are social autists like on here. Lots of metaphors used it was the first gogol I read where should I go next from here.
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>>8145186
fun to read, and a fucking noir masterpiece to boot
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>>8145186
fun to read
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>>8145186
Any book that you actually care about, pseud
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>>8145186
everything by eric frank russell is fun

He's criminally overlooked
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>>8145186
The Book Thief
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The Great Train Robbery.
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>>8145186
>reading for fun
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>>8145423
>The Book Thief
The oxygen thief
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>>8145210
This, The Master and Margarita, At Swim Two Birds / Third Policeman, pic related
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>>8145423
I cried so hard
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Any Wodehouse, really. Dont like this stuff then there's not much hope for you, im afraid :^(
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Pnin
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>>8145186

City of Dreaming Books desu

>>8145633

I like O'Brien's short stories, I'm trying to read At Swim Two Birds right now but it ain't doing much for me unfortunately...
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>>8145186
Kafka by the shore.
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>>8145186
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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if you dont have fun reading dont read
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>>8145462
I'm aware this might be a meme, but for other reason would you read fiction if not for some form of entertainment?
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>>8145734
Try a Third Policeman. A lot less "complicated" and a little more humorous.
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>>8146792
Intellect.
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>>8146792
patrician credentials
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A hypnotist makes a dad disappear out of his three sons' lives, then they grow up into dysfunctional, mentally ill adults
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I'm sure people will say these are reddit, but Vonnegut is engaging and fun to read if you're looking for that. I liked cats cradle despite the fedora tipping

also hitchhikers guide
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>>8145186
Good Omens
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>>8145633
seconded
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Catch 22
Blood Meridian
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>>8145186
been down so long it feels like up to me
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>>8148205

>translated
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>>8145186
donkey oaty
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Gravity's Rainbow
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>>8149044
Is that actually a book or just a funny way to write the original
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