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My top three:
Ulysses - Joyce
Lolita - Nabokov
Under the Volcano - Lowry

Don Quixote and the count of monte cristo

>>686775788
Lolita, Infinite Jest if you are into drug-sub culture

Stoner

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I have some pretty pleb taste it seems as I hated most of the books featured in all the top 100 lists there are.

pic related was pretty good though.
I also liked Enders Game, some of the Artemis Fowl series when I was younger.

Anyone got any good fantasy or sci-fi book recommendations?

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>>686778204
Oh forgot to mention Animal Farm. Read it when I was just a kid, and loved it. Read it again at 20 and loved it even more.

Hated 1984 though.

>>686778204
The Forever War is really good

>>686776522
These two should be required reading for boys when they turn 13, especially if they were raised by a single mom. Also Captains Courageous, Call of the Wild, and Robinson Crusoe.

Call of the wild

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Out Of The Night

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>>686775393

>>686778857
Thanks, I'll give it a look.

>>686779626
Ayn Rand walks into a bar, she orders a martini, the bartender mixes her one using unregulated vodka. She gets sick and dies.

>>686781778
Welfare cuck

>>686779626
that troll book.

>>686781856
you DO know that ayn rand died alone and was on welfare in her last years, right?

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>>686779626
Oh holy fuck...

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
When it's a Jar - Tom Holt
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami

>>686781856
Uneducated rube

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This 1, the whole series included.

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This 2

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This 3

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This 4

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This 5

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This 6

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This 7

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This 8

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This 9

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This 10

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>>686782777
>Also checked

Good picks if a little cliché

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Fantastic book, I've empathised with this book more than others I've read.

>>686782012
Why is it a troll book?

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files

>>686782314

Colorless Tsukuru is next on my summer reading list. Finishing up Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino (which popped up as a related author/book when I bought CT) right now and it's pretty good.

For favorites:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Good Omens
Brave New World

>>686775788
Of course you would pick Lolita XD

>>686781778
Unregulated vodka huh? That's a bit of a reach innit?

>>686782825
I really don't get to read for recreation any more - the overwhelming majority of my reading is focused on peer-reviewed literature.

>>686782894
Japanese contemporary literature is among some of the finest in the world.

Also Brave New World and Good Omens are both in my top 10.

>>686782606
>>686782669
>>686782748

I thought I wouldn't like you, but then I did

>>686782088
Incorrect. Not even close actually

>>686782160
Fuck is your problem, asshole?

>>686782355
Awful shit

>>686775788

Ulysses - Good book although allusions and metaphors are on the strong side. I preferred Finnegans Wake (late Joyce)

Lolita - Good book, I kind of felt sorry for Humbert Humbert but at the same time he was a pedo.

Under the Volcano - Pisshead Brit in beanerville always goes down a treat

>>686782884
You want get an answer as he, himself, is trolling

>>686783066

Since our tastes seem similar, I'm going to give When it's a Jar a try.

ITT: Main-stream literature

>>686782998
Kek, good read

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BEHOLD

>>686783502
Is that supposed to be an insult, or just commentary?

>>686783502

>This just in: Good literature is popular with people.

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>>686775393
'Nuff said.

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>>686783688
The Dubs Don't Lie!

Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Mogworld - Yahtzee Croshaw
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Armada - Ernest Cline
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

Like you won't be

>>686783690

This hurts me so much because I've been wanting to introduce this book into the grade 12 curriculum at the school I work at, but out Student population is predominantly English language learners so they would be completely overwhelmed.

>>686783444
Tom Holt is a master of his craft. You'd be hard pressed to find better.

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Top tier fantasy.

>>686783066
>Japanese contemporary literature
Like name some fgt

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>>686783248
Calm down there buddy, no need to get upset! I was just admiring how a pseudointellectual, campy fake philosophy fuckfest managed to become your favorite book. How is highschool treating you?

>>686783666
>Also in the news. Water: fad or here to stay?

>>686784093
Murakami, braj

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Step aside, plebs.

>>686775393
Choke by Chuck Pallahniuk
He's written several good ones, Fight Club is good if you've never seen the movie.

>>686784093
Kimifusa Abe, the man who inspired the box mechanic in Metal Gear Solid with his book Box Man. Considered by many to be Japan's answer to Kafka.

>>686778204

People with English degrees need to find books with "deep meaning" that explore the "human condition". AKA they need books that they can write a paper about and bullshit enough to pull a B.

You my dear anon are a fan of the dirty, gutter whore of literature (to those of refined taste) that is "genre fiction". You DARE to like, for instance, Science Fiction. You dirty fucking ape.

I joke of course, I goddamn love science fiction.

You should try reading:

>The Foundation series by Issac Asimov.

Just wonderful. The " Trilogy" includes "Foundation" "Foundation and Empire" and "Second Foundation". Asimov then wrote two sequels and two prequels, but please do yourself the huge favor of at least reading the original trilogy.

>Dune by Frank Herbert

Give this one a chance. The universe it presents is so different to science fiction universes like Star Wars that you have to read a little way to get what is going on in the first few pages. People are inevitably confused by the first few pages, but it is a very well written and explained book, you just have to read it. The universe is rich and interesting, it is deep science fiction with political intrigue that would make George RR Martin cream his pants. The sequels include "Dune Messiah" "Children of Dune" "God Emporer of Dune" "Heretics of Dune" and "Chapterhouse Dune". DO NOT read the works of his son, they are shit.

>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I know you said that you didn't like 1984, this is another Dystopian future book, but a very good one and much different than Orwell's. What if instead of crushing surveillance, hatred and pain controlling a population you controlled them through pleasure and distraction? What would a sane man trying to do great things feel trapped in a world of sedated morons feel? This book explores that.

>>686784243
Back of the pleb line you go, this way is for patricians only.

Foundation Series - Asimov's
Dubliners - Joyce
Most of Cicero's writings, though specifically those on Stoic philosophy.

>>686784450
>Dune

Maa Nigga!

>>686784112
High school lol. Graduated in '02 buddy. How's freshman year of college treating you?

>>686778204
The Buried Giant is very good.
Also, The Inheritance Cycle is not bad.

>>686784783
Oh so you're an adult reading Ayn Rand..

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>>686784450
>science fiction universes like Star Wars

>>686779626
can anybody explain why that book gets so much attention? I've seen it being laughed at, byt have no idea why

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Game of Thrones nigga

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>Inheritance Cycle

Admittedly, I only read the first book, but it was painful from start to finish. I see many of my 10th graders reading these, so does the story get better in later books?

>>686785000
Czeched

>>686784970
you Obviously have never read dune. fuck off pleb.

The Circle - Dave Eggers
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
So, Anyway - John Cleese
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

>>686785138
Oh, I've read Dune.
It's just that Starwars is about space wizards so you shouldn't talk about it like it's science fiction.

>>686783794
>Confederacy of Dunces: Book about a /b/tard before the Internet...

>>686784992
Read it. It's great. People laugh at it because it's not an easy read so they don't understand it. The world desparately needs the philosophy contained in her books

>>686785529
Right? Even the title sums up /b/ in a nutshell.

>>686785073
the later books are better

>>686785073

It's definitely a suitable book for younger people. I'm college age, so grain of salt:

My opinion is that they drag on at parts, seem to fill up space that is already crowded.

There are some good moments, themes and ideas and I think the ending is a bit anticlimactic and goes on a bit but it's better than some flowery thing.

I would recommend it - don't need to rush to it though!

Recommend me a great fantasy series?

>>686785463
Very good point fine sir. What kind of tits would you like, large or small? Saggy or Perky?

>>686784992
Do not listen to: >>686785648
It's a delusional work written by a delusional Russian with a mindset not unlike a child's.

>>686784450
I'll probably start with Brave New World.
I tried really hard to like 1984, the idea of it is appealing, but I just couldn't. Hopefully this is different.

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>>686784783
So let me get this straight... Youre in your 30s and still into Rand? Thats really an achievement.

>>686785648
Hmm. But guy from xkcd laughs at it... Thus may be proving you a troll..

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Top 5
>Crime and punsihment by F.M. Dostoyevsky
> Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac
>Life is a dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
>Therese Raquen by Emile Zola
And my all-time favourite book is Kiklop (Cyclops in english) by the croatian author Ranko Marinković,too bad the book isn't well-known outside the borders of former Yugoslavia
>pic related

>>686785911
just give me the gist of it, please.

>>686786156
Please r8/h8 or whatever

>>686779626
>Atlas Shrugged by Russian Kike

>>686783794
You managed to get some of my absolute favorites, and some of my most hated books in a single post.

Farenheit 451 is the most god damned boring thing I've ever been forced to read. I always thought it was oddly fitting that a book about burning books is probably the one most deserving to be turned to ash.

>>686785772
What kind of fantasy tickles you.
Jim Butcher can handle you on three separate fronts.

Dresden Files - Modern day magician
Codex Alera - More traditional fantasy, people control the elements using familiars
The Cinder Spires - new series, steampunk, floating islands, sky pirates.

>>686786263
That's amusing as all hell, do share which ones you love and which ones you hate (excluding Fahrenheit of course)

>>686785648
Synopsis: I don't want to play anymore so I'm taking the ball and going home.

It's a poorly written propaganda piece that tugs at the heartstrings of American Libertarians, usually very young or very old, that don't have a very firm grasp of how our nation actually works. There are some valid points raised in the narrative translateable to intellectual property rights and fair use, but it gets trampled by the overly preachy way the story is told.

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>>686786067
Not a troll. Yes im in my 30s. Yes I'm still a fan of Ayn Rand since i read Fountainhead about 10 years ago. Yes she's a Russian that fled communism and her philosophy is based on her experience living under communism. She mocks the entitled non producers that have disdain for the producers and creators of our society. If only more people were taught this at a younger age, we would have more hard workers and less entitled cunty little snowflakes running around

>>686786343
All three sound great, thank you!

>>686786526
>Use the poster child of entitlement to fight entitlement
Get a grip

>>686786343

I'll probably be shat on for this, but I really could not stand the Dresden Files.

I rather liked On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony though. Never got a chance to read the rest of the series, but it was one of the few "fantasy in modern times" that I liked.

And NOBODY mentioned Philip Kindred Dick?
Like, literally every his book is worth mentioning, one of the best being
>Do Andriods Dream Of Electric Sheep?
ethics, religion, lasers, what does it mean to be a himan
>The man in the High Castle
cant describe it properly, but perfect
>Divine Invasion
religion to the max, origin or religion, drug visions
>Scanner Darkly
drugs, drugs, drugs. Movie was good, but missed most of the points

Honestly, my favourite author. Perfect psychologist

>>686775393
Are the Harry Potter books worth reading if you're not in high school?

>>686786659
Poster child of entitlement? Explain please

Slaughter House 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Long Walk - Steven King (written as Richard Bachman)

Can't remember. Others

>>686786641
Excellent. You have a lot of reading to do.

Dresden Files is at 15 books and a short story comp
Codex Alera finished at 6
And Cinder Spires, as previously stated, is new so one book.

The Malazan Book of the Dead series was pretty dope. Prolly my favorite fan-fic

>>686786855
Sure, just know going in that the writing style is a bit toned down for younger audiences. The stories are good if you enjoy fantasy.

>>686779626
modern version of saying your favorite book is the bible

>>686786855

I believe any book series that has had much cultural attention is worth looking into, if only to better understand the generation of readers who grew up with those books.

>>686786720
See I understand some people not liking Dresden Files because of the whole modern magic juxtaposition but I find there's a certain energy to those books that I just can't put them down once I start them.

>>686785772
>drag on at parts
You sly devil you.

>>686786516
I loved Hitchhikers guide, Ready Player One (I posted it somewhere above), mogworld was okay.

Farenheit and The Magicians are the biggest offenders of the ones I disliked. Dunces I just found boring.

Haven't read the ones I didn't mention, though Shades of Grey sounds interesting.

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>>686786855

>>686786727
No one has to bring up PKD. Everyone loves PKD. Deep breathes.

>>686787123
No, at least the bible has some entertainment value...

>>686786526
Atlas Shrugged is a terribly written piece of shit. It spends 3/5ths of the book having characters describe John Gault's philosophy, then 2/5ths of "him" (Rand preaching) his philosophy on a radio.

She should have just written a thesis paper and left out all the fiction.

>>686786727
I like PKD's short stories best, so full of ideas.

>>686787168
I'm happy you noticed!

But seriously, the baby being born with a cleft lip was so so...

>>686787215
BOOM

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>>686787130
I'll borrow them off a friend then.

>>686779626
This was pretty good, it contributes to my outlook on life. Though I thought it massively oversimplified things.

>>686787139
I tried to like them.
They aren't bad... they just dawdle between the good bits. Kinda like when you read a book with multiple POV's and you just want to skip the boring characters chapters.

>>686787245
he made many of them into his books. Like Divine Invasion is based on one and The Penultimate Truth on another and probably many more

The road - cromac McCarthy

>>686778726
Yeah 1984 wasn't as good as I thought it would be. It's pretty weird how it's coming true though.

>>686787503

Hated the main character but I cried like a bitch at the end.

>>686787168
I liked Magicians because the author is so malicious towards his main character it was refreshing to me.

I really recommend Jasper Fforde. Shades of Grey is truly a great piece of dystopian fiction even if it's played for laughs the whole time

>>686787209
Thats a relief. Can you suggest any other authors then?
I might recommend Necromancer (forgotten the author). It's good. Lots of action. But it lacks philosophy

>>686787471
Once the overarching story kicked in there really wasn't much time to waste but it can drag a little in those early books for sure

>>686778204
Ender's Game was the shit. Did you read Speaker for the Dead? Best one in the series.

>>686787503
>>686787613

Genuinely felt fear from finding the basement to hiding in the grass outside, hearing the screams.

So far from this thread I'm gonna try out:

Brave New World
Foundation Seriess
Dune
The Buried Giant
Shades of Gray
The Forever War
At least the first Eragon book. I feel like I may have read it in the past though.

Any I missed?

>>686787471

Same. Plus my elementary teachers often forced terrible detective/mystery novels on me, where I usually figured out whodunnit within the first few chapters, so I have an aversion to that genre as an adult.

>>686787715
Gibson - Neuromancer
That's a classic

>>686787854
Hey now nothing wrong with some pulp fiction.

>>686787240
Disagreed but ok.b

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>>686775393
Havent seen this one yet. Liked it quite a bit.

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God Tier

>>686787878
shit, I'm losing my brain. Too sleep deprived at this point I guess. Thanks for straightening me up

Somewhat off topic, but does anyone like plays?

Cyrano de Bergerac, Wit, and The Pillowman are all fantastic.

>>686787799
I liked Ender's Game and Speaker for he Dead, but it seems like the author doesn't know how to finish up a story. At the end of each book he sets up the next one.
I've only read those two in the series, does it go on like that?

>>686787852
Looks like a good bit of reading.

>>686787852
I recommended The Buried Giant. It was different to read for me, but I think it's so neat and self-contained I can't not love it.

Looks good though!

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one of the few books of "classical literature" i've read and really enjoyed.

>>686788086
Get off to bed then my man, quit hurting yourself

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Read it over 50 times by age 12

Guys, its a long shot, but I'm looking for a book.

Its about a stable boy that befriends a dragon that is kept chained up(I think) in a kingdom somewhere. He takes care of it, befriends it, and eventually rides it at some point.

Only scene I remember well at all is some girl (main characters love interest?) puts Aloe Vera on the dragon to treat its wounds at some point.

I read it when I was a kid. Its either a kids book or a teen book. Its not eragon. Been searching for years.

>>686788127
Always had a soft spot for Hamlet myself.

>>686788195
Ender's saga has either 4 or 5 books. He wrote a few books about Bean from battle school as well as a side story like ten-twenty years after the original books came out.
The Ender books are great though.

>>686788113
King has written so much and you choose that. Ugh

>>686778204
You know they're making a movie of Ready Player One. It's supposedly coming in 2018.

>>686788472
Except the one where they turn into trees

>>686775393
Giovanni's Room. If you want to understand faggots this is the book (though beware the 50s pop-psychology at the beginning).

>>686788083
mah niggah, this was fucking amazing

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>>686788420
Maybe in this series? I'm thinking the book was The White Dragon possibly

>>686788495
I won't hold my breath but goddamn if they did it right it'd be spectacular

>>686788528
Fuck you the piggies are awesome

>>686788420

Fuckfuckfuck I think know this! It also had dragon pit fighting too right?

>>686784410
Choke is garbage

The Princess Bride is a 10/10 book.

>>686788420
Are you sure the main character's a boy?
Sounds like Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, only the main character's a girl.

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Have this same paperback, it's frayed as fuck from use

>>686788644
God Orson Scott Card is such a weird motherfucker

>>686788348
It's not this. I woke up recently. But I was sleepless for too long, you know. Don't worry, though. I will have my rest soon enough, thanks!

So can you suggest me some good reading? I'm into stretching my mind...

>>686788472
Yeah, I choose that, Its an incredible book, one of his best in my opinion. Very rarely does a author make you feel nostalgic of a time you never lived in.

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I'd have liked it a lot more without that romance sub-plot and instead focused more on the whole war on God aspect and if it was more adventurous with the whole multiple worlds idea.

>>686788420
Dragon Rider?

>>686788730

There are like 10 different story lines from McCaffrey's stories if I remember right.

>>686788769
What do you look for in a book? Humor? Hard Sci-fi? I need a baseline.

>>686788584
>>686788730
I'll definitely check it out, but I'm fairly sure it was a guy. I feel like the dragon may have been purple.

>>686788651
I don't remember much of it at all sadly.

>>686788802
I do think it had dragon in the name, one sec ill look it up.

>>686788768
My dude, yes.

>>686787215
I loled

>>686788769
Not the person you replied to:

Thus Spoke Zaruthstra (sp?)
Catch-22 is good

>>686788749
Same. Love the book.

>>686785648
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>>686788983
Fuck, yeah.

>>686788749
WHY does no one ever read this.

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A sad but amazing book about how the West was lost

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best series ever

>>686788983
This

>>686788802
Its not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Rider_(novel), and I can't find any others.
But I really feel like the name is Dragon Rider, or Dragon Tamer or something.

>>686788911
topic is of no matter. I like philosophy. It should be well-implemented into the world. Like in thought experiments. Psychological studies won't hurt either. In fact theonly important think is for me to stop reading in some points, because of sudden urge to ponder on some important subject - so self-improvement

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This! And the following books. In general his writing has a wide range and he demonstrates it throughout all his novels from this one and onward.

>>686788769
Just saw a couple get posted you might like.
Wool and Metro 2033. Both fantastic in their own ways

>>686788763
As a person he's a total cunt

>>686789115
>>686789203
My niggas

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Anybody read this series? Supposedly it's still being written but I ain't holding my breath. Fantastic so far though, been reading it since the '80s... Yeah, I'm that old.

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>>686788970

This is the one I was thinking of. It's called The Pit Dragon series

>>686789063
Catch-22 if perfect, indeed. Unfortunately you're late

the Cherub series is great for teens.

>>686788801
One of the few series that's main plot points still stick in my mind to this day. The subtle knife was amazing.

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>>686788970
>I'll definitely check it out, but I'm fairly sure it was a guy.
Actually a boy is the main character in The White Dragon it's a book in the series, the first book does have a female as the main but there are many books in the series about different characters

>>686784992
Because it points out how important it is to have people in the world who work hard to make things happen, and we'd all be fucked without these people even though many despise the producers for having what theyve worked for. It's a testament to hard work and self reliance.

>>686789129
It's one of Crichton's best novels. Pulls you in.

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La philosophie dans le boudoir - Marquis de Sade
About what /b/ way of life should be.

>>686789339
Hmm... What is Wool about? Is it fantasy only or are there some imporant thoughts attempted?

>>686789506
Andromeda Strain too, great reads.

OP here is ready player one anygood I'm thinking of getting it but haven't made my mind up yet

>>686789358
Yeah well that can't really be helped unfortunately.

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Best fantasy ever!

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1984 - george orwell
Brave New World - aldous huxley

>>686788588
"Penn says he’s found the magic formula, and while he isn’t ready to share what that formula is exactly, he says he has gotten the seal of approval from Ernest Cline himself."

Zak Penn is one of the screenwriters for the movie.

Taken from: http://www.cinemablend.com/m/new/Ready-Player-One-Happening-Or-Here-Latest-68443.html

I think and I really hope it will be good.

>>686788537
i had a hard time putting it down tbh, one of the best scifi reads i've had in years.

>>686787852
The Forever War was great, the prologue alone is worth the purchase price

>>686789249
Try Reddit?

I think you can ask at

/r/tipofmytongue or a similar sub

>>686789584
Oh yeah. I own most of his books. They're all pretty good. But my least favorite is Timeline.

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No one has mentioned Clive Barker yet?

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Felt some genuine emotions reading this book and couldnt put it down until it was done

>>686789928
Yeah, Timeline and Pirate Lattitudes were let downs.

>>686789554
Wool (Silo) is a post apocalyptic series where humanity clings to life underground. It's similar to Metro in that respect. Both bring up the concept of living vs. survival and what it means to live when the world around you is dead.

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>>686788195
the way I remember it there was kind of a satisfying ending to the books but i read them a long time ago (like 20 years)
on the whole this was a better space opera series of novels

>>686782669
Its a good movie

>>686785000

checked

>>686790104
Oh yeah. Definitely agree.

>>686789949
Crap, the Great and Secret Show was his best IMHO.

>>686789777
The creation as explain by the bible

>>686789802
The hardest part I'd think is acquiring all the rights to all of the references in the book

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While I'm here:

The Bartemeius trilogy is awesome. Think Dresden, but more magic than detective.

>>686789448
I don't think so. I'm looking through all of the plots in the series and world but can't find anything that looks familiar. The books look fun enough though.

>>686789877
Just done so.

>>686790222
Wut?

>>686775393

>reading Kindle version
>Check the characters tab after a short break to remember one of the Russian names
>unfiltered spoilers in the first line

wow thx

The fucking dune books were great. Surprised no one has brought them up yet.

>>686790230
Exactly, it wouldn't be the same without them.

>>686789487
THANK YOU

>>686789656
it's amazing. if you like 80's pop culture, video games or dystopian internet based futures you'll enjoy the book.

>>686790243
>>686789386

Is this it? It's about a kid who steals a dragon egg and keeps it near an oasis to raise it to be a pit fighter. There's a girl who helps him take care of her. The dragon's name is Heart's Blood.

>>686790324
That fucking author's name though.

>>686790364
There is already two post about Dune.

>>68679036
I've seen 2 people bring them up. And I just skimmed the thread.

>>686790391
I'm afraid honestly.

>>686779626
A badly-written tome for badly-educated cunts looking for a moral justification for being a cunt.