What’s your favorite book and why?
The Desert of the Tartars/The Tartar Steppe, because I resonate with the situation Drogo found himself in and the timing was also impeccable as I read it at the start of my first year in uni and I was wondering if it was worth it (STEMcel).Ultimately I think I will die as a lonely retard with no bitches but at least I know that I should avoid ancient empty fortresses in the middle of nowhere.
Anna Karenina.Dabs on women and women think it's "empowering".
Serious Weakness
>>25177330>> Anna Karenina. Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature.
>>25177811The whole part where Levin and Kitty are spelling out the first letters to words in their sentences was CRINGE AS FUCK.
>>25177195"Victory" -- Conrad
>>25177799>and why?
>>25177825Oh, and why for "Victory" -- Ah, silly me . . .Why: It's literally me
>>25177823Agreed. Levin was a painful simp for a pump and dump whore.
>>25177195Sartor Resartus. I found my "everlasting yeah" while reading it.
It's partly thst I like the story, but I also like it as a cope and hope I get to replay my life.
Probably A Confederacy of Dunces.Hilarious, well written and the ending was really satisfying
I’ve only read about 40 classics, but The Monk had the most memorable ending for me, so it’s my favorite.
>>25177862the hipster party towards the end made me so uncomfortable 4/5 stars for me
>>25177823>>25177831You missed the entire point of the book, that living for yourself leads to self-destruction, but forgiveness is divine. Levin's realization of God in the closing chapters is one of the most profound things I've ever read. You got filtered.
>>25177330qrd how it dabs on women? haven't read it
Eddings' the Redemption of Althalus. Fantasy from 2000, wore out two copies I reread it that much. Man goes on journey, finds book, finds cat, becomes priest mostly by mistake and thinks he's a wizard.It's standard fantasy stuff. But it's good fun.
>>25177862What I love about this book is how Smooth it is, how all the little elements connect and influence each other, and in the end, it comes together very nicely, as you said. It's an easy book to read, because it feels like every single moment Matters in some way. I don't think there were any scenes where I was bored or looking forward to the next one to start. And despite how well the plot works logically, it also feels really nice and organic. There's that part where Ignacius' mother starts crying because of how hard it is to live with him, and it fits in perfectly. In a worse humor novel, this moment would have been a bit jarring, but Toole just makes it work.>>25177195Lolita. It's so good, that it's hard to describe why it's so good. There are just so many layers to everything - I've read this book like 4 times and still notice things I've missed. The language is really, really pretty, but everyone knows that. Nabokov was such a skilled writer, that he could do whatever he wanted, even do some things that would look stupid in other books. Lolita is just... its own thing. The kind of book that doesn't feel like it was Written by someone, because it just works so well and on so many levels. It's Everything - it's funny and tragic and uplifting and depressing, sarcastic and honest. I love this book, because reading it feels like stepping into a world.It sucks, how a lot of discussion around this book starts and ends at the subject matter. It feels like an endless cycle, someone says Lolita is a love story and someone else says "um, actually, it's not a love story! Humbert Humbert is bad!" and then they pat themselves on the back for it. I get that the topic is important and that it might be a bit cold of me to dismiss it like that, but to me, Lolita feels like it's more about Art and Beauty, than about Hephebophilia. I mean, it Is about that, I'm not stupid, but I don't think that Nabokov wrote this book purely because he wanted people to understand that an adult man dating a 12 year old is bad, you know?
>>25177195virginia woolf's the wavesI love the prose and her critique of identity
Prometheus Rising by RAW gives me a really good framework to figure out how people think and makes me want to improve myself, all without sounding too academic to be fun. our potential is limitless!!!
