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what is your favorite books, /lit/?
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what is your favorite books, /lit/?
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This is my favorite book.

It is also, undeniably, the greatest book of all time.
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>>7479413
i've been reading it for the first time. i have to admit it is extremely comfy
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eugene onegin
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>>7479429
It really is. I really liked the almost homosexual relationship that Ishmael and Queequeg had from the very beginning.
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my diary tttt
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>>7479442
Fuck you and your shitty diary tttt
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>>7479207
This whole board is one big ad for Infinite Jest.
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>>7479477
May be cause Infinite Jest is one of the best written books fucking ever.
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Too many books to choose a singular favourite. The Necronomicon is getting my love yet again tonight though, for my second reading.
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>>7479484
>Infinite Jest is one of the best written books fucking ever
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>>7479207
absolute shit taste my friend
that book is supposed to be a meme
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It just doesn't get any better.
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>>7479498
You sir, are a waste of oxygen.

>>7479509
Being a meme doesn't mean it's a shitty book fuck you idiot.
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not to call them my favorites but my most frequent rereads are The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton and Life of Johnson by Boswell, long as they both are. They're hella comfy and make me laugh nearly every page. The Bible is another book I love to read frequently, you can skip nearly anywhere and hit pure content every time.
desu as much as I dislike DFW I have reread IJ at least 6 times ever since I first read it, always once every few months or years. I've purchased and given away many copies to friends. comfy/10
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>>7479531
Get some taste dear god lol
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>>7479509
>absolutely frivolous post, uncle.
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>>7479539
Grow a fucking brain duh lol
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>>7479541
what'd you just say to you me little bitch ?
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>>7479524

If i skip the whale trivia am I missing anything? I tried to read this book when I was like 16 to seem super deep and actually started liking it but that whaling info was such a slog and I can't even remember when I put it down I think they had just rescued some lads stuxk at sea or something.
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>>7479539

Yeah I know everyone praises it way too much on this board but to say it's not without any merit and just a meme is pretty stupid.
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>actually defending this meme of a book
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>>7479413
its boring lol
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>>7480509
No it isn't.
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Probably this.
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lord fouls bane
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Blood Meridian
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>>7480689
This was one my favs for a long time, I was lucky enough to have had read it for a college class. Rec any other calvino? I see a lot of his published stuff are collections of short stories but another novel would be good.

Pic related, also my favorite winchester. Ties together history, politics, anthropology and above all, for me, geology while still being succinct (unlike The History of the Medieval World that I just picked up which was too encompassing to be any good)
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>>7479854
Please stop falling for obvious bait
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Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.
>inb4 sci-fi
>actually I don't know if /lit/ hates sci-fi these days
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>>7481266
I really like The Baron in the Trees, its a real nice novel
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It is probably my shit taste, but god damn I'm starting my 3rd read-through soon
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>>7481242
Mein nigga.

Mines The Road by Cormac.
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eugene onegin
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>>7479851
You kidding m8? Laughed at loud several times through that section. The absurdity of that cataloging is one of the hidden gems of that GAN. It's not just about the philosophical allegory.
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either this or Karamazov Bros. (karamazov world 2 )
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It was my first "adult" book. I read it when I was in 6th grade, I think. Still love it.
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