I need to cure myself of being a screen-addicted cumbrain and get back to actually fucking reading.To that end please post books so enjoyable that you can't put them down. Don't care what it's about, just something that will make me spend hours and hours reading without even noticing the time pass by.
wait, you want to read something that isn't a major chore and a total slog? hedonist!
>>23815632roll
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>>23815657What fucking retard came up with this list? It's garbage
>>23815632>pimp>diary of a rapist>moby-dick>the tartare steppei think it's less about the book itself and more about what you're interested in. i think very few people would feel the same way i did about all four of those books.
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>>23815632Chips Channon dairies
>>23815680Interesting rec, thanks anon
>>23815632The Club Dumas
>>23815632I just went back and read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time since middle school, and I found it to be very gripping. It's nice and short, so it's a good starter to get back into the reading game.
>>23815632Unfortunately there's no easy answer to this one. I can tell you that that's also been my desire for a while, in a way it's my quest, as romantic as that sounds. Because you experience this at first once, and a few times afterwards and it seems to change everything. A book that actually takes you out of yourself, to which everything else just seems trivial. Then you're really at the heart of things, what you're doing is so meaningful, and you seem suddenly so powerful, you're getting through so much, if only you could always be like this, but you're not even thinking of that, that happens afterwards once you're taken out of it by the calculating mind, but now you're not with the mind or the heart but with the gut, or maybe the soul, and all of the bullshit of page counts or how many books you've read this year just fades away, the pages blur into each other, the author's voice actually comes off the page, and perhaps for just a moment you can hear behind it a faint whisper that you imagine might be like the beating heart of God. You are gripped in spite of yourself, you change and are changed. But when this moment comes, no-one can predict the hour. You cannot know, and the more you search the more it seems to elude you, the more you read for the sake of reading the greater the disconnect, the disillusionment and disappointment, and the mundane world resurfaces. You lose the power by grasping after it. You've identified the power we all really want: not to notice time. Not to know time and forever to be in a state of flow would be always to walk the middle path, to be one with Nature and the universe and everything, back in the Garden, forever with God's beating heart. But because this is our desire, the reverse is also our fear, because we desire it and fear lacking it, we cannot return. If we could only forget time, not "now and then for a moment", but truly forget it, not just with our mind but with every part of ourselves, to wipe out its stain in the deepest recesses of our soul, then surely, one feels, the prize would be eternity...
>>23815632I recently read The Island of Doctor Moreau and was pleasantly surprised in how well it sucked me inI finished it quickly
>>23815674>>the tartare steppeCan you redpill me on this so I finally get around to reading the damn thing? I'm sick of hearing its name in this place. It's the only /lit/ favourite I haven't read.
>>23815767you think anon will be able to read this whole post?
I see Malazan is huge, will that draw me in?
>>23815674nta, but what did you enjoy most about moby dick? i'm only ~ 20 pages in, but curious since it's lauded so highly.
>>23815632God, I am so sick of useless elves.
>>23815632Gravity's Rainbow
>>23815632I remember staying up at night to finish some of the Harry Potter books, though granted that I was a teenager at the time. I don't know if I could buy a copy now, though, don't want to give that asshole money.I also found Snow Crash very gripping. The most recent book I stayed up to read was a romance novel called Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity, but that one's much more a matter of my personal tastes and peculiarities.
>>23815657>100 greatest books of all time>7 of the top 10 originally written in one language out of the 200 or so with literature
Story of Pi. Uneducated Indian boys having strange adventures appeals to me for some reason. There are at least two more books in the genre.
>>23816263English is that much better than every other language
>>23816276Or the list is biased because it's compiled by English-speakers.
The Deadly Education trilogy by Naomi Novik was one of those series where I would read a book in one sitting over like 7-8 hours, then go back and get the next one and repeat until it was all over. I was totally fixated on it.
>>23816263correct
>>23816279WHAT
>>23816279It isn't the English-speaker's fault that most of the best books were written in English.
>>23816292Good stuff anon that's exactly what I'm after
>>23816111https://youtu.be/eq5LDSZDr2E?si=WoJ88GzoA4qLvOjz
>>23816310>a school of magic where students face deadly monsters and class divideoof
>>23815632>books you cant put downI'd have to say it's my copy of Equal Rites, not because its amazing or anything but because I had some super glue on my hands when first picked it up and had to pay for it before I left the store
>>23815632>Slowly walking down the hall>Faster than a cannonball>Where were you while we were gettin' high?
>>23816323thanks, anon, i'll slowly (re)watch this
>>23816305If the best book ever was written in, say, Czech or Malay or something and hasn't been translated to English, then by definition someone who only speaks English wouldn't know about it.
>>23816341You're assuming they don't get translated when in reality they do. There's probably some Russian books that never got translated to English but all of their quality literature floats to the top and gets picked first. The same process applies to other languages. Why did you make the choice to spend time on an English speaking website?
>>23816388>You're assuming they don't get translated when in reality they do.Some do. But not everything gets translated.>Why did you make the choice to spend time on an English speaking website?Because English is my native language and the language of the majority of content on the Internet?
>>23816407>Because English is my native language and the language of the majority of content on the Internet?I don't see how that's a question so I'll just assume you're confused. English dominance is why it's always the first language books are translated to, that's the point. As I said all of the best examples of non English literature float to the top among the speakers of that language and get picked for translation before the rest.
>>23816420Still, if you google "greatest books with no english translation" you'll find quite a few results.
>>23816438>greatest books with no English translationis not>greatest book ever written in a given languageWhat is the greatest book ever written in Czech? The Metamorphosis (which is on the list you're whining about at no. 37)? The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
>>23815657roll.
>>23815632Count of monte cristo is shit but it is a pageturner that will likely have you glued to it at least until he escapes prison. Similarly you can check out the three musketeers. Stevenson is a great writer who is also very enjoyable. Conrad as well though you may find yourself having a harder time getting through his works copared to the others. Jane Austen is both a must read and impossible to put down, though this board will skip her because women
>>2381565796/100 it will be extremely hard to roll
>>23816453I was expecting to get bored but passages within 10 pages really captivated me.
>>23815657Rollerino
>>23816450The Metamorphosis? Wasn't that written in German?
>>23816457I tried reading it but couldn't stand any more of the shit in Paris. Italy was at least interesting but I don't care about the son or the Greek woman or any of the other shit. Up until the prison escape it was kino I admit.
>>23816528It was. People consider it a Czech book today because the author was from Prague. Maybe it should be considered an Austro-Hungarian book but this is all tangential to the question.
>>23815657Rolling
>>23816457I really cannot understand how anyone could think the Count of Monte Cristo is shit. It’s unironically one of the greatest novels ever written. I guess you just have to get over the wannabe intellectual phase to realize that.
The Great Gatsby. I realize you read it in high school and disliked it, but just try it again. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.
>>23815657Oh my heckin' rollerino.
>>23816160Am I suppose to know what the fuck any of that means without having read what came before it?
>>23815632I have put down every book I have picked up. I hope you can break your curse
>>23815632The Name of the RoseThe Secret HistoryThe IliadFicciones
>>23815657>hamlet at 23rd place>1984 at 21st
>>23817468Which translations?
>>23817540English.
>>23817547WHICH English translations? The Iliad at least has a bunch of them.
>>23815657Why are Gravity's Memebow and Infinite Meme that highly rated?
>>23816337based
>>23815632Retarded slop but:>Rebecca Gablés Waringham SagaIts just so fucking comfy and easy to read. Well researched historical novels that feel like drinking cold Lager on a hot day
>>23815673say it ain't so anon. read above paragraph in the image.
>>23815673>>23816263Are you fucking illiterate? It is not the 100 greatest books of all time it is /LIT/'s 100 greatest books of all time.
>>23815657not gonna read what my post # is but rolling anyway
This is against article 31 of bylaw
>>23817634So why should I care about it if it's such a severely biased list?
>>23817667Show me an unbiased list.
>>23817677You could start by not having seven of the top ten written in one language that was the language of a small island country until recently and is still only the third most natively-spoken language.
>>23817838If one smote one of you so thoroughly that, with the bystanders watching, (You) could but agree, and if one thus thought he had advanced at least one step, one was greatly astonished the following post. (You) did not in the least remember the post before, (You) continue to talk in the same old strain as if nothing had happened, and if indignantly confronted, (You) pretended to be astonished and could not remember anything except that your assertionshad already been proved true the post before.
>>23815657Gay
>>23815657poll
>>23815797If it doesn't draw you in you won't complete it, might as well get Gardens and give it a try. If you get hooked you have A LOT of reading to look forward to.
>>23818082repoll
>>23817992To clarify, I'm not saying there can be any perfectly unbiased list. But I'm asking why I should even bother with this list when it's clearly not even trying to check its biases.
>East of Eden>All the pretty horses>The idiot
>>23815632Unironically the Sprawl trilogy by Gibson. Neuromancer took me a bit because it takes some getting used to but then I blitzed through the next two. Peak sci fi heist kino.
>>23817634Yes, and it's clearly evidence that /lit/ is filled with nothing but bog-standard pretentious pseuds and contrarians. Jersualem? Naked Lunch? The Hobbit? It's a list for people who want to pretend they have taste...Although, now that I put it that way, it's kind of a perfectly fitting list. Carry on.
>>23815657Keep rollin rollin rollin
>>23815632Elementary particles, though I have stopped reading since a couple of years
>>23817178>dude 500 pages of filler is actually high iq
>>23817180I liked it in high school though
>>23815632The first law trilogy is fun
>>23815632the song of ice and fire series is some 5000 pages and didn't feel like it at all, breezed right through.
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>>23815657rollin
>>23819268Already read it but yes it’s great. Winds of Winter soon.
>>23815767what the fuck are you on about?
>>23815657rolling. I will listen to it
>>23815657rolling
>>23815657rolling for next read, if third number is 0-4 i'll read it in english and if its 5-9 in french
>>23819830that's a tricky one
>>23817178>I really cannot understand how anyone could think the Count of Monte Cristo is shitseveral resons>fanfiction tier writingpretty much since the moment the titular count appears we are treated to pages after pages of everyone being wowed by his charm, and how cool he is, and how competent and smart he is. It really feels like a wattpad self-insert fanfiction. How could anyone tolerate such tripe is beyond me>muddled messagingThe novel has nothing to say about revenge, or providence, or anything at all really in terms of a moral, and yet it has the galls to close on a comment on having faith that god will provide through his grace, after having essentially tortured the guy (can't be bothered to remember his name) making him believe his gf has died just to see if he'd kill himself and after having lead the latter part of his life working his ass off to achieve what he wanted instead of waiting for providence. If he really needed a final statement to close the novel it should have been something like "god helps those who help themselves">awful, awful proseThis is the worst sin of all. It is clumsy and mechanical, almost autistic, in the portrayal of feelings, it is obsessive in repeating stuff that we already know, it keeps using the same adjectives over and over again and accumulating them until the sentences can't hold them and struggle to close a page long digression that leads to nothing worth the while.I was actually baffled by how so much better three musketeers was even though it held little value beyond a fun swashbuckling adventure, until I learned that Dumas was actually using several ghost writers and was paid by page line. He must have used the very worst of all of them for writing Monte Cristo
>>23815657>roll
>>23820003re-roll
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>>23820011re-roll
>>23820012I think I'll just read a light novel instead
>>23816263>English language board>waaah why are their favourite books mostly EnglishThirdies are so entitled, that is assuming you are a thirdie when more likely you’re from and English speaking country but have a maladaptive obsession with another country’s culture, who’s books you probably read in translation.The fact that it’s most English language actually speaks to the relative intellectual honesty of this board because picking lots of books you’ve only read in translation as your favourites is something that shallow rubes do.
>>23815648Finding great works of literature a slog is a sign that you’re a screen addicted cumbrain >>23815657These probably (mostly) aren’t great for someone who’s trying to get back into reading from a brainfogged place, blood meridian maybe works well, OP probably wants something not too long with some good action in it.Rolling>>23815673It’s just a compiled list of /lit/ users averaged favourites not intended a curated western canon, an excel spreadsheet compiling data from a bunch of young dudes on the internet came up with it>it’s garbage I have never seen a community curated favourite books list that isn’t orders of magnitude worse, in fact it’s significantly better than most lists like this created by major publications as well.
>>23820240>40 >lotrI reread it not too long ago so reroll
>>23817565Emily Wilson
>>23815657Rollan
>>23815657Reroll cause ive read it twice
I read the Antichrist in one sitting.
>>23815657Reroll
>>23815657Gay shit
>>23815632Red Harvest, Frankenstein and Farewell, Cowboy.
>>23820210>picking lots of books you’ve only read in translation as your favourites is something that shallow rubes do.And why is that?
>>23820339I know everyone likes to complain about Emily Wilson but what specifically is wrong with her translations?
>>23820907Translating doesn't work. It's a myth.
>>23815657Fine
>>23820923I've read the same work in the original and in translation on some occasions. It's never identical, but with good translations I feel like I've gotten a substantially similar experience.
>>23815632I’ve been blasting through Inherent Vice whenever I get the chance. I love stories about private investigators. I also finished the Big Sleep last week. Love me a cynical substance abuser and femme fatales. My suggestion is find a genre that speaks to you and read the most recommended works, then branch out by either following the work of an author you just read (I plan on tackling Pynchon) or move on to another genre
>>23817172>Gormenghast>/Sffg/Kill yourself asap
>>23815657rolly poly
>>23815632Deserto dei TartariTaras Bulba
>>23815657Hi
>>23815632Unironic, unstoppable kino page after page
>>23815657Roll
>>23815657Less goo we busssin
>>23815657rollin rollin rollin
>>23815657rolla
>>23815632This one so far is great
>>23815632Robert E Howard
>>23815657roling for an actual good book
>>23815657moby ricker?
>>23815657Please Lolita
>>23815657>>23822405There is no way! I’ll rush out and buy a copy now.
>>23815657Niggers
>>23815632Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe Laura Warholic, or the Sexual Intellectual by Alexander TherouxSolenoid by Mircea CartarescuZeitgeist by Todd Wiggins2666 by Roberto BolanoMile Zero by Thomas SanchezNovel Explosives by Jim GauerA Short History of a Small Place/Off For the Sweet Hereafter/The Last of How it Was by T. R. PearsonPrejudices by H. L. MenckenShantaram / The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David RobertsPower of the Dog by Don Winslowearly 87th Precinct police procedure mysteries by Ed McBainThe Paper Dragon by Evan HunterPlutarch's LivesSynergetics by R. B. Fuller
>>23815632His greatest play besides Tempest and King Lear.
>>23815657Song of Rollin'
>>23815657>The Magic Mountain on twice, once as Steinbeck
>>23815632Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
>>23822521btw if you're gonna read it, probably don't read anything about it. Every short summary I saw on wikipedia and shit kinda ruins the book. Figuring out what's going on with the main character and instinctively reacting to what's happening around you is 90% of the intrigue
>>23815657Rollan in a pathetic bread
>>23822430Do you read anything that isn't about fucking societal collapse?
>>23815665j kys habibti wth
>>23815657roll
>>23816160Too scared to shoot it
>>23815632Unironically, Harry Potter got me back into reading. Its not high literature, quite sloppy at times, but dang, its captivating, and brought back my habit of reading books
>>23815657Rolling.
>>23815657i'm gonna... i'm gonna-i'm gonna rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllll
>>23824001moby dick was an apt roll - read blood merridian last year, it's time to visit mccarthy's well of inspiration
>>23823176I got all three of my parents hooked on it by reading the first chapter out loud to them.
>>23815657Rollem
>>23815632I just read Genealogy of Morals in one sitting.
>>23815657Unironically rolling for what I'm gonna start reading next
>>23815657re-roll c'mon gimme something juicy
>>23824585>Confessions of Saint AugustineFuck. Reroll
>>23815657rollin'
War and Peace.
>>23822860No.
it's no doorstopper, but I just went through this in a day and a half. before that I had to slog through a few books of similar lengths, so it was a welcome breath of fresh air.
Dead space novels by BK evenson. You won’t regret it
>>23824685reroll, I guess
>>23815657Rolling for botns
>>23815632Pedro Paramo is short enough to read in one sitting and beautiful enough that you'll want to.
>>23815657rall
>>23815657rerall
>>23815657Sure
>>23817472It's more of a popularity top than a quality top.
>>23815657Already read, on audiobook at work jej to think I'm gonna spend money to say I've read the great Gatsby, I laugh at you
>>23815657Rolling again, fucking meditations, gayyyyyyyy
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>>23815657rollos
I know its a short read but I read the Time Machine by HG wells in one evening. cant believe ive never read it before. good god the movies suck. why do they have to suck so bad wells bros? like who thought picrel was a good idea?
>>23815657rollinalso surely we have an updated list by now?
>>23815632When I get like that I like to read something breezy and dumb that I've read numerous times before.
>>23815632Start with good short books. For e.g. I am Legend by Richard Matheson.
>>23815657roll for my tbr
>>23815632Ones with glue on them.
>>23815657Why not
>>23815657Probably won't read, but rolling.
>>23815657I'm rolling.
>>23829416I am reading Who Killed Palomina Molero? by Gabriel Vargas Llosa, and it’s a solid book of this type.
>>23815657rowl
>>23829797What am I in for>inb4 warosu
Can someone please explain to me how you can roll on a list of 1-100? This makes no sense to me.
>>23815632>Anons roll to read the most basic bitch books which they won’t actually read the thread
>>23815657I hope it's not gay
>>23815657At least it almost certainly won’t be by a woman.
>>23829824The last two digits of your post correspond to the book in the list. Retard
>>23829919Thanks anon :) I rolled Illiad on my retarded post, but I've read it. I will consider this my re-roll.
>>23815657why not
>>23815657This shit is broken
>>23815790it's abput boredom and tediousness. it's fun poke at military rigor but far more than that, it's the book that does the best at making reader feel that the years fly by to quickly. it pull absolutely no punches. most readers will think of the book every time they climb stairs.>>23816111the first 20 pages of moby-dick are twenty of the comfiest pages in the world as well as doing an excelent job of hyping the reader up to read about the sea. if you don't like it by the first twenty pages, maybe even the first two, i think it unlikely that you will likethe rest.
>>23815657Rollin’
>>23829766great, finish it and read the one I gave you after that one.
>>23815657They seem rollin'They hatin'Patrollin', trina catch me riding dirty
>>23815657reroll
to me every book that focuses mainly on violence, rape, war is hard to put downeverything just focused on stressful and negative feelings, it's intoxicating it just makes me hyperfocusreading about eastern front or about serial killers makes me really lock in, they're the only types of books i dont have to softly "force" myself to be readingstart of crime and punishment or ending of the idiot worked on me the same way
>>23830620interesting, mind giving more recommendations on top of those two?
>>23815632>i need to cure myself of being screen-addictedDid you try building a bit of self-discipline? Consider reading atomic habit
>>23815632At the Mercy of the Sea by John Kretschmer.If you like sailing, boats, and disaster stories this is a great one. His friends passed away after getting caught in a hurricane, along with several other sailors. Kretschmer, being an experienced sailor, does his best to recreate their last moments as an ode to them.
>>23815657Keep rolling rolling rolling
>>23815657gimme good one
>>23815657rolling lads
>>23815657Come on 11
>>23831112sigh>reroll
>>23815632I just spent an entire day reading Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte. Haven't been sucked into a book like that in a while.
>>23815657piss
>>23831675already read it
>>23815657rollz
>>23830680This is part of building self-discipline and healthier dopamine regulation.
>>23815657Rollen
>>23830381>the first 20 pages of moby-dick are twenty of the comfiest pages in the world as well as doing an excelent job of hyping the reader up to read about the sea. if you don't like it by the first twenty pages, maybe even the first two, i think it unlikely that you will likethe rest.i'll come back to it later then, maybe when i'm a little older
>>23815657yo
>>23815657Last two digits decide what I read after I'm done with Lord Jim
>>23815657rollan
>>23815657Keep rollin rolin rollin
>>23815657Rollin
>>23815657Roll wit it
>>23833343Re rolling, I read The Idiot last month
>>23833347Shit, re rolling again for something I haven't read already
>>23815657muthafuckin roll
