Let's post our favorite novels, then other anons judge you based on your selection.
Pic related.
decent taste OP, it's a shame you're a pleb who only likes his most famous novels
here's an original one for /lit/
ah well, it's the truth
>>7384669
Pretentious try hard
>>7384690
>catch-22
>>7384690
what a fucking faggot you are
>>7384687
Damn, son, you grew up here, didn't you? You cut your teeth on Infinite Jest, you scalped them dirty injuns in Blood Meridian, and you finally made it through Finnegan's Wake.
Too bad you didn't read any of them, you're just here for the dank memes.
>having a single favorite novel
Literally only plebs and children of memes do this
>>7384699
>nally made it through
>not riverunning past a commodius vicus of recirculation
>>7384699
I read Gravity's Rainbow long before discovering lit actually.
I started reading Pynchon in highschool and I've never stopped rereading his books
Don't hold back on me
>>7384701
God, I can smell the pungent odor of your fedora from here. You're probably typing with your orange Dorito encrusted fingers right now, the rust colored sediment settling down deep between the spaces of the keys. Your briefs are covered with cum stains from weeks of masturbation. A ziggurat of Mountain Dew cans rests near your computer monitor. You have mountains of books you've never read, yet you come here to feel like you're apart of something. You sit alone in public places and think: "Well, at least I'm smarter than these plebs." Pathetic.
This or Watership Down have been the novels I enjoyed the most.
Top 5:
1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. Ulysses
3. A River Runs Through It
4. If on a winter's night a traveler
5. The Sun Also Rises
>>7384690
Bitter, blowhard.
>>7384693
>>7384697
>>7384732
>They don't like Catch-22
>>7384669
>>7384732
I think you're alatent heterosexual
The last book I read was 1984 like 4 years ago. Why am I here?
>>7384780
I don't know. Turn off your computer and read something. If you don't wish to, then please leave this board and never return. :)
>>7384718
Mah nigga.
My favorite is personal favorite is between 1984 and 100 years of solitude. But my favorite quote of all time is from Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms:
"The The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Till We Have Faces
>>7384761
Good post.
>>7384748
I like Catch-22. I don't like the person who posted it.
>>7384800
I'm always surprised by how much I like CS Lewis. I usually don't like Protestant Christian thought.
Top 5 in no order
Painted Bird, Kozinski (best rec I ever got off here)
Fifth Business, Davies (wish Robertson Davies stuff had a bigger presence here)
Humboldt's Gift, Bellow
Pilgrim At Tinker's Creek
The Futurological Congrees, Lem.
those are some of my favorites at least. Also a big fan of Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul was very good.
>>7384836
Yeah, it really depends on what you read. You have to remember that he was only a lay-theologian and that his expertise is was in literature. His theology will be seen in any of his writing, but it does not necessarily make it bad.
TWHF is his best book in my opinion.
Winesburg, Ohio is the best book I've ever read
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>>7384872
afterword by dean koontz
for what purpose?
>>7384872
>afterward by dean koontz
hahah, what the fuck
>>7384821
>>7384902
Not even kidding m8
>>7384709
That is a thoroughly good book...robust, imaginative, satisfying...
>>7384687
reading this now, it's my second Pynchon. There was one part with Jessica and Roger about 130 pages in I really liked.
>>7385338
forgot image
Catch 22, but I don't love it enough to find an image or check to see that it's already been posted.
>>7385368
Good fucking taste
Incidentally, Nabokov of all people praised this novel
>>7384863
This is great. Thanks for sharing. For once not just /lit/core, but someone with an own taste. Actually helpful.
>>7385909
>someone with an own taste
Stop projecting your own insecurities, some books are bound to be like more often than others.
>>7385915
Sure, but it's not very helpful. It also shows that people here don't read a lot outside of /lit/core, always mentioning the same books.
Everyone's going to meme me, but infinite jest, so far.
this
>>7385296
10/10
Demons by Dosto
Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
Seven Madmen/Flamethrowers by Roberto Arlt
Yes by Thomas Bernhard
The Trial by Kafka
>>7384669
You're try hard is showing.
>>7386043
>a typo
>on /lit/
>>7384718
This.
>>7384796"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
>mfw
Can you give a quick run-down of why One Hundred Years of Solitude is (maybe) your favorite? Haven't read it.
I don't know, maybe I'm a simple man.
The unbearable lightness of being by Kundera
Brothers Karamazov by Dosto
Stoner by Williams
Tropic of cancer by Miller
>>7386032
what was it you liked about the trial ?
Don Quixote, White Noise, Lonesome Dove
>>7386059
In all honesty, I have a bad memory and I've tended to trend towards the books that I've studied at school, except for 1984.
100 Years of Solitude is just uniquely strange and well written. The book is completely centered on just one location and goes through several generations of one family in a cyclical way.
Its the only south/lit American book i've read so it has a very different king of style.
I guess my only recommendation would be to read a chapter or two and see for yourself. Its certainly not for everyone, and I can mainly just remember having really liked it, rather than the specifics.
it's just so accurate
>>7386340
I would like to recommend to you "The Famished Road" by Ben Okri. It is written in the same magical realism style. It is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read, and I think you might like it since you liked 100 Years
>>7385061
I mean, I guess it's okay. Comedy's not really what I look for in lit, but to each his own.
>>7384679
The Wild Palms was boring as shit tbqh myfam.
Outside of his "Big Four," The Reivers and Sanctuary are his best, as is "The Bear."
![134004[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/fFLB15x.jpg "134004[1].jpg")
>tfw Captain Raib Avers
>>7386618
That book was me when I was 18.
>>7384687
you're a meme
>>7384690
/reddit/
>>7384718
idiot
>>7384723
you make me sick
>>7384732
>>7384755
you're ok
>>7384800
you're
cancer
>>7384821
nice b8
>>7385296
tryhard
>>7385341
either lolxdsorandum child or pedophile
>>7385349
you're that person who says tarantino is their favorite director
>>7385368
you're ok
>>7385944
weeb
>>7385966
you are literally a meme
>>7386618
you autist
hi there i'm that one guy that always posts the unconsoled
thanks for reading, this has been great
Find a flaw.
>>7384669
really, any Hawthorne. Melville too, other than his first two.
>>7387218
talking animals
>>7387223
I said 'find a flaw'.
>>7387227
Many of the words are spelled incorrectly and the grammar is inconsistent to say the least.
Petersburg - Andrei Bely
The Brothers Karamazov - Dosto
>>7387231
>Thinks this is a flaw in Mason and Dixon.
>>7387269
you are depressed as shit
>>7385368
I never seem to be able to get past the first few pages, although i dig Fitzgerald's other stuff. What's wrong with me?
>>7384669
>>7387205
>you're that person who says tarantino is their favorite director
These are the worst kind of people: the people who are idiots but refuse to acknowledge it.
>>7387223
>implying that's a bad thing.
>tfw nobody here has read Far Tortuga but me
>>7387302
well done
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
>>7384748
I don't like Catch-22. It's funny, but it's not great literature. By the time it was written I think it was damn well established that war is hell, and Catch-22 doesn't really bring anything to the table on that front, or in terms of writing quality.
Snow Country by Kawabata.
>>7387321
i think that catch 22's message isn't so much that war is hell, as hell is funny
>>7387321
It wasn't about that. It was about the damn Catch-22, hence the title. It was about the ABSURDITY of war, not the hell in it. It was about the choice between complying witht he system to serve your end or defying and getting roasted or, as a third option, fucking the lot of it.
>>7387324
I like you.
It might be the most beautiful book I've read.
Far Tortuga as well.
>>7387336
Fok you dood, don't belittle my genuine preferences.
>>7384708
rumor says he might still be reading to this day
>>7384732
literally the
>I just discovered this book and author and still haven't read anything but pretend to like him
kind of faggot
>>7387289
Not sure. I started kind of slow but picked up around page 10 and couldn't stop/
>>7387383but I have :^)
>>7387235
What translation of Petersburg?
>>7387446
wait are there multiple english translations? i always presumed the one i had was the only one
(not that guy)
>>7387359
I was being serious in my message, ironic in my delivery. I genuinely love all four books mentioned in the posts I replied to. And in fact if you're the proprietor of the Chants de Maldoror pic, then I have an especially large amount of love for you ;)
Love loves to love love, bro. Love my genuine love for your preferences.
>>7387454
Yeah there are multiple translations. Two translations are from the 1913 uncut text which is roughly 580+ pages long. The 1913 text is translated by David McDuff (the Penguin Classics edition) and the other more recent translation by John Elsworth (published under Pushkin Press). The other text was cut down to fit in one volume in 1922. That shorter text is about 380 pages and has been translated by John Cournos and John E. Malmstad/Robert. A. Maguire.
Not exactly my favourites, but these are the books I read that significantly changed me as a person.
Lanark
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Moby Dick
Marius the Epicurean
Tristram Shandy
>>7387205
i could be a mathematician too, fyi
Tree of Smoke- Denis Johnson
>>7387295
Shit taste
>>7387222
Superb taste
