Post /r9k/ approved literature.
Fuck the thread topic I'm rollin
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My favorite book.
>>29203891
Why is that your favourite book?
Yahtzee is the best
>>29203909
I can relate to the protagonist. I have a lack of emotion most of the time. He kills a man and doesn't even care.
after reading this, it's hard not to see women as complete sluts. especially knowing that a lot of his whores went on to latch onto some unknowing beta bux.
Ah! One of the many books I bought 4+ years ago and never read because too bus shitposting and masturbating.
Not sure I even want to read it at this point, because while it may have some useful info on how to be less socially awkward, it might be full of that whole "being alone is worse for you than smoking a pack a day" crap that doesn't apply to enlightened people who adapted to being genuinely happy even if alone.
>>29203891
This was my favorite book as a teen, I love the opening line. Albert Camus has to be one of the best writers of all time.
>>29203946
Please tell me you're joking, lad
Pretty much all of Dazai desu
>>29203978
Not that anon but it shows someone who is indifferent to the world and how a person is not judged by what he does but by who he is. It really is one of the best books out there if you do decide to read it
>>29203946
You don't understand a fuck. You should consider to stop reading, it's not worth for you.
Good if you like folklore and/or communism.
Huck Finn
>>29204042
You cannot be serious
>>29204084
They're so unaware
>>29204018
This! Schoolgirl and No longer human are my favourites.
>>29204096
So what is it about then?
>>29204094
I've also been reading this lately, though I wouldn't expect most people to really like it.
>>29204042
No, that's not the point of the book. It is about life, which is meaningless.
>>29204165
It has absurdist themes in it but that's not the main point of the book.
>>29204184
It is. The whole book is a mere representation of the haphazardness that rules our existence.
By the way, Camus rejected the idea that the book was existential at all.
>>29204110
I'm not disputing your understanding of the plot, but if you're reading for plot alone you're doing it wrong.
He's your stereotypical poster on here
All Dostoyevsky to be honest
I wonder how many robots would side with Clegg.
The books I currently have on hand. The Clancy were gifts. I really enjoy Hunter S. Thompson.
>>29204220
Read the part when he shoots his gun again, and maybe you'll get it.
Great book. Main character is very relatable for robots.
>>29204528
Re-read the whole book, maybe you'll get that the important thing is not that the protagonist is autistic.
>>29203711
MTW
>>29204758
Re-read the whole book, maybe you'll get that the important thing is that Camus was a hack
>>29204758
Are you just saying it's about absurdism?
>>29203964
this desu, stoner had some arcanine themes
"something about the University being an asylum , a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled. But he didn't mean Walker . Dave would have thought of Walker as--as the world. And we can't let him in. For if we do, we become like the world , just as unreal, just as . . . The only hope we have is to keep him out."
I say this part sums up r9k a lot. desu in my imo
>>29203711
I can really relate to Tyler.
>>29206358
I can also relate to the driver.
>>29206358
Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors
>>29206386
He was for me, too, but his newer books I found to be utter shit (Doomed, Damned and Beautiful You). Rant is probably my favourite because of the world-building.
i used to read a bunch of stephen king novels and short stories. even though he's a sjw hack now i used to really enjoy them.
>>29206479
Ah that's a shame. I haven't read his new books yet, maybe I should just keep it that way
>>29206386
same, but i read most in my teens. i might find them a little forcefully edgy these days, although theres no doubting that fight club is ridiculously culturally relevant and becoming moreso as time goes on
you should read the unabomber manifesto desu
>>29206530
His early works holds up pretty good but recent stuff, i dont know. I'm reading bazaar of bad dreams and there's only one good story so far.
>>29204794
I'm glad someone mentioned this before I got to the bottom of the thread
This right here homebizzoy
>>29204821
I always thought it was about son-father relationships.
>>29206553
yeah.
goat tier
>The Stand
>Misery
>Night Shift
>Four Past Midnight
>The Shining
honorable mention to the tommy knockers. i like aliens and dreamcatcher. i like aliens.
I should get around to reading all of the dark tower series. I've only read the first one.
damn i killed another one.
>>29206585
desu i was about to post this, but i thought it would do robots no good so i stopped..
if you read this you should hit up zen or nihilism afterward so you can realize things arent bad or good, they just are. and its stupid to be angry at everything, because morality and value judgements just don't actually exist outside a subjective idea.
>>29206683
>dark tower
It's worth to read but i warn you that quality drops a bit with each book. However, world description, characters, pacing and the end is worth.
>>29206955
>if you read this you should hit up zen or nihilism afterward so you can realize things arent bad or good, they just are.
If things aren't bad or good, then your use of "should" here is nonsensical.
So much cringe I couldn't finish it
>>29206585
>lmao joy is a chemical
>lol there is no god
>scientists are dumb
>we are all waiting to die xx
tip fedora
i thought everybody was on board with those dieas already
>>29207109
>lmao joy is a chemical
Hormones are chemical
>lol there is no god
Human uses 5 senses and there's no god in this context
>scientists are dumb
Most of them are.
>we are all waiting to die xx
nihilism much.
>>29207109
>"lol thinking that is so edgy right guise?"
>implying they're not right
>>29203964
GOAT SENPAI
>>29207149
>>29207171
Did you guys not actually read his post?
>>29207149
>scientists are dumb
.............
>>29207171
JUST SHITPOSTYING DON4T MIND ME FAGGPOT
pic related is literally about a robot living in 19 century.
>>29204042
>>29204018
good taste
>>29204094
Read this for uni, Tom Sawyer is a huge faggot.
Sorry for the shakiness I have a tremor
The bell jar is my favourite book
I've never related to a character as strongly as I have with Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. If you're a homicidal robot, you should really check Crime and Punishment out.
>>29207684
Nice taste anon. Have you read The Tunnel? I've been meaning to buy that after all I've heard on /lit
>>29208007
If you think he has good taste, The Tunnel is not for you
Pic related.
Someone already mentioned the Metamorphosis but I would also add Kafka's other books, namely The Trial and my personal favourite, The Castle. I'm bad at describing art but there's something almost mystical about his books, a permeating loneliness and the sense that you're lost and alone. Sad but beautiful work
>>29207797
One of the times I was locked up there was a homicidal guy who was re-reading Crime and Punishment. He was working on slowing down his desires.
Sad thing is that his desires were completely legitimate, and everyone there (including staff) acknowledged it, he just didn't want to ruin his life for a few days of glory.
>>29207684
I just find it so fucking funny that The Bell Jar has a happyish ending, and she still killed herself like four years later.
This book helped me not kill myself. It made me comfortable not being normal.
>>29208048
I'm a retard, forgot pic
>>29208076
Are you saying homicidal desires are legitimate? Please explain or give us some context
>>29204314
>>29207684
Step your games up niggers. This is only like half of my books too.
Anyway, I really like Dostoyevski, especially his themes about suffering. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and assorted Faulkner and Philip K. Dick are also things which I like quite a bit. And Steinbeck and Orwell, even if they aren't horribly advanced. The Heart of Darkness is good too. Any 13-14 year old kids who might be lurking here, I'd recommend picking up A Scanner, Darkly, 1984, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heart of Darkness, or some random other stuff by those authors.
I'd recommend those things highly no matter what the age, I just think at those age it's starting to get important to start reading deep literature if you want to be intelligent and intellectual.
>>29208162
He got gang raped. So yes, I would say he wasn't in the wrong for wanting to kill the offenders.
>>29208219
Of course, I forget the fucking picture. Also, I just read a book called Diary of a Bad Year, and that was pretty good too. Had some vaguely tfwnogf themes running threw it.
>>29208246
Oh, and he also contracted HIV from the incident as well, just to make it even more of a shitshow.
>>29208007
Nope just got the books at the top shelf
>inb4 /lit/ complaining about putting books you haven't read in your shelf
>>29208219
>Step your games up niggers. This is only like half of my books too.
Moved out of my mother's house
These are all books I have purchased since October(well I took 3-4 with me)
>>29208371
Yeah, I was assuming it was something like that, I was just being a dick.
>>29208076
I don't think it has a happy ending
>>29208450
It's not outright happy, but she doesn't want to kill herself, and says that it feels like the bell jar lifted (somewhat at least), right?
>>29208474
It's rather neutral in my opinion
>>29208527
Fair enough, but it isn't very representative of killing yourself a couple years later. I guess it's sad to me. I wonder if she wrote it hopefully, or there was just an intense fluctuation going on. I can't remember many of the details very well.
>>29208474
It's been a while since I've read it, but I think she says that even though the bell jar has lifted, she never knows if or when it will descend again.
>>29208613
If that's true, I guess that's much more of a accurate ending than I remembered it.
