Huh, so you like books too, anon? What is your favourite book then?
Man in the high castle
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Joyce is pretty memey, but the power of the language in this text (in all of his texts desu) is stunning
>>25461467
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
>>25461467
Gawain and the Green knight.
>Book
Ah shit, the bible.
>>25461467
the trail of the fox, catcher in the rye
>>25461467
My notebook.
>>25461467
Ab Urbe Condita Libri. Book I is truly amazing. Livy has a power of evocation none of the ancients could compete with.
>>25461546
>being this supreme
>>25461518
muh nigga
Last and crowning torture of all the tortures of that awful place is the eternity of hell. Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it? And remember, it is an eternity of pain. Even though the pain of hell were not so terrible as they are, yet they would become infinite, as they are destined to last for ever. But while they are everlasting they are at the some times, as you know, intolerably intense, unbearably extensive. To bear even the sting of an insect for all eternity would be a dreadful torment. What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tortures of hell for ever? For ever! For all eternity! Not for a year or for an age but for ever. Try to imagine the awful meaning of this. You have often seen the sand on the seashore. How fine are its tiny grains! And how many of those tiny little grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play. Now imagine a mountain of that sand, a million miles high, reaching from earth to the farthest heavens, and a million miles broad, extending to remotest space, and a million miles in thickness; and imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplies as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean, feathers on birds, scales on fish, hairs on animals, atoms in the vast expanse of the air: and imagine that at the end of every million years a little bird came to that mountain and carried away in its beak a tiny grain of that sand.
>>25461467
Clockers by Richard Price (there are dozens that could qualify as favorites, that's just the one on the top of my head at present).
>tfw a girl asks you what the book you are reading is about
>tfw cant explain it to her because she doesnt understand and reads for the plot
>>25461557
How many million upon millions of centuries would pass before that bird had carried away even a square foot of that mountain, how many eons upon eons of ages before it had carried away all? Yet at the end of that immense stretch of time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended. At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun. And if that mountain rose again after it had been all carried away, and i f the bird came again and carried it all away again grain by grain, and if it sop rose and sank as many times as there are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves on the trees, feathers upon birds, scales upon fish, hairs upon animals, at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time the mere thought of which makes our very brain reel dizzily, eternity would scarcely have begun.
Or when he wanted to peach on priest who beated him, and how he described his fear during way to principal. Or entire description of hell. Joyce is really amazing writer
>>25461557
That preacher section gave me fucking chills, I lost my faith a while ago but I got the true fear of hell here. imo Portrait gets a good blend of the dreamlike Ulysses and the realist Dubliners perfect. It may not demonstrate thought processes and emotion as vividly as Ulysses, but the greater attachment to reality makes it less of an intellectual pursuit and more enjoyable. Saying that, the big U is pretty fun to read imo.
>>25461518
IMO Dubliners and Ulysses are the respective heights of his traditional and experimental prose styling, but Portrait is still a masterpiece, regardless.
>>25461467
English novel: Gravity's Rainbow, Moby-Dick, Lord Jim
English poetry: King Lear, Hamlet (works of Blake and Milton get an honorable mention)
Nonfiction: The World as Will and Representation, Ecclesiastes
World literature: Swann's Way, TBK, Kokoro
>>25461629
>respective heights
exactly, I love transitional works in any media form. Even if they aren't as accomplished as the peaks they move in between, the experimentation they provide can make it all the more exciting.
>>25461602
I thought its amazing in showing how his thought process changed from when he was child to times when he finally decided who he trully wants to be. I may not relate to Stephen very much, but some of moments Joyce described was pretty unniversal desu and i get bit nostalgic
>>25461527
Narnia was shit
Oh look there is santy Claus, he is bringing weapons to children
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>>25461467
Mein kampf. I want to kiss pic related pursed lips. She's very sexy. She almost has a duckface, but not quite.
She ceased: then godlike Hector answer'd kind,
(His various plumage sporting in the wind):
That post, and all the rest, shall be my care;
But shall I then forsake the unfinish'd war?
How would the Trojans brand great Hector's name,
And one base action sully all my fame,
Acquired by wounds and battles bravely fought!
Oh! how my soul abhors so mean a thought!
Long have I learn'd to slight this fleeting breath,
And view with cheerful eyes approaching death. 10
The inexorable Sisters have decreed
That Priam's house and Priam's self shall bleed:
The day shall come, in which proud Troy shall yield,
And spread its smoking ruins o'er the field;
Yet Hecuba's, nor Priam's hoary age,
Whose blood shall quench some Grecian's thirsty rage,
Nor my brave brothers that have bit the ground,
Their souls dismiss'd through many a ghastly wound,
Can in my bosom half that grief create,
As the sad thought of your impending fate; 20
When some proud Grecian dame shall tasks impose,
Mimic your tears, and ridicule your woes:
Beneath Hyperia's waters shall you sweat,
And, fainting, scarce support the liquid weight:
Then shall some Argive loud insulting cry,
Behold the wife of Hector, guard of Troy!
Tears, at my name, shall drown those beauteous eyes,
And that fair bosom heave with rising sighs:
Before that day, by some brave hero's hand,
May I lie slain, and spurn the bloody sand!
my diary, tbqh
Song of ice and fire the seven kingdom knight.
>>25461688
Negative nancy ples go
I know it's probably kiddie level but Nightwatch by Terry pratchett I love Tue universe he built in his books and all the political commentary he can fit into high fantasy.
Either that or the dark tower series ( also mainstream as fuck) by Stephen King.
>>25461712
that a fun translation tho, in one i have its not rhyming that well, probably language differences
>>25461467
My Twisted World is my fav (the official R9K's holy book), other than that I'm not a reader besides old sci-fi when I was into reading on some period of my life.
>>25461691
Good enough book to be a favorite, normal enough to not look like a fedorafag. One of my favorites too
Anyone else here really into picture oriented books?
Go Dog Go is my favorite, second is Spot goes to the circus, love it when the monkey says butterfingers kek
>>25461751
>not reading shit in their original languages
>>25461781
You should read light novels then cuck
>>25461744
Except this time I'm able to give my opinion because I read every book in the saga. You know what Narnia is? It's absolutely forgettable. You can talk shit about Harry Potter and you would be right, especially on books 5 and 6 but books 2 stuck with me, all I remember from Narnia is the weird, the out of place and the inconsistent
>>25461814
Negative ned pls go
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.
>>25461467
The Brothers Karamazov
>>25461688
Didnt even read the last battle
Opinion discarded
>>25461781
Love the one with the highschool full of crippled children even tho adding porn to kids literature is not ok
The Road
>>25461865
The one when everyone dies? I'm literally lost because how forgettable they are sorry. I liked the one with the rings but that's it.
Harry potter filler the saga
The innocents abroad by mark twain. The single longestkek i have ever had.
>>25461865
But Narnia is shit. Also His Dark Materials starts off promising but turns to shit in book 3.
This Narnia fanfic is better than the originals because it actually bothers thinking about how a country could survive permanent winter and the consequences of suddenly ending that winter and installing 4 kids with no political experience as monarchs:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/106190?view_full_work=true
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10743
It's hard to believe this is from the 19th century. This is a proper fast-paced adventure story with no boring parts.
>>25462032
Fast paced story's where invented by Aristophanes in ancient rome
>>25462129
I am not aware of any other novel this old that is completely non-boring.
>>25462176
>novel
You mean plays and he invented grabbing a long boring 10 acts plays and cutting it down to 3
>>25461467
My favorite book is a manga, and before you call me a weeb, it's berserk
>>25461963
It's a children's story you fucking retard, not an adult politico-thriller
>>25463632
That's no excuse to just ignore that kind of thing.
Fuck I was really hoping this was going to be a Gilmore Girls thread.
Who /kirk/ here?
