post your favorite book of all time, why it's better than all the other books you read, and discuss.
>>8145486
Anyone who has a favorite book hasnt read much. I can give you my top 20, my favorite biography, my favorite genre fiction, my favorite Japanese novel etc. But "favorite book" is used by highschool students who were just forced to read75% of the /lit/ top 100and are able to pick from like 20 books that stand out from the shitty sci-fi and summer reading tier garbage they had, until that time, read.
>>8145533
give your top 20 then please
I'll post a couple, that I rate about as equally high:
East of Eden
The Red Book
Justine (or the whole Alexandria Quartet, for that matter)
VALIS
>>8145486
Dune. I don't know why it's my particular favorite, it's just a certain type of feeling I get reading it. Much of it has to do with the setting, atmosphere, and themes I'm guessing. All the elements compliment one another well.
Iam a big fan of Hesse's work, especially 'Demian' and 'Narziss und Goldmund'. Dunno, but I really like his style, use of words and how he is able to describe people and their relations
1934 by Alberto Moravia
t. true patrician
Prose
>>8145631
>Justine
I remember that book being very sad. It's even more sad when you know that that world is completely gone now. Are there any Englishmen, Greeks, or Jews living in Alexandria anymore? Can you buy a glass of pastis or wine there, or is that haram now?
Fuck Nasser.
>>8145486
I shan't, as I don't have a favourite.
I shall, however, give an honourable mention: Island by Aldous Huxley. Whenever people discuss Brave New World (or mention it ad tedium) they should do so in the context of a novel he wrote as a response to it.
>>8145486
Let me tell you about my nigga Edmond Dantès. This mother fucker right here has the most absolute revenge ever known to man. He fucks his enemies harder than a weaboo and his body pillow. If you don't drop everything you're doing and read The Count of Monte Cristo then congratulations YOU FUCKIN PLAYED YOURSELF.
