Give me your top 5 favorite books right fucking now
The Holy BibleTao Te ChingBeyond Good and EvilThe House on Pooh CornerMeditations on First PhilosophyYes, I realize the irony of having both The Bible and Nietzsche.
>>25317816Pretty good desuTo truly read Nietzdawg, one must understand christcuckery
>>25317811SuttreeJourney to the WestDon QuixoteThe IdiotBook of the Five RingsNo particular order. List would probably be different if you asked me in again in an hour. Did not include strict philosophic works on the list because that's a different question entirely
Moby DickThe Sound and the FuryBlood MeridianThe Name of the RoseThe Red and the Black
Holy normgroid prune this thread nowMy top 5:American PsychoMemories from the underground Marcus aurelius's journalA wizard of EarthseaThe movie The Counselor (Cormac wrote it, counts as a book)Honorable mention:The Boys (both show and comic)
>>25317811Paradife LoftGravity's RainbowMoby-DickDoctor FaustusAeneid
>>25317970>Holy normgroid>American Psycho>Marcus Aurelius>The GoysNigga... and it's called "Meditations," by the way, not "Marcus Aurelius journal." I'm making myself believe your post is bait, for my own psyche.
>>25317816Decent>>25317942Lit bro >>25317949Beginner >>25317970Edgelord >>25317992Pseud
>>25317998Are you retarded? It was literally the nigger's diary, it doesn't have a real title.
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>>253178111.critique of pure reason2.aristotles metaphysics3.platos republic4.leibnizs essay on human understanding5.humes essay on human understanding
My favorite novel is As I Lay Dying.
Moby DickJourney to the end of the nightCyrano de BergeracFIccionesMason&Dixon
In no orderThe Tartar SteppesDivine ComedyThe Count of MontecristoLife and FateThe Lord of the Rings
Yertle the TurtleScary Stories to Tell in the DarkPigsGnomesWhere the Wild Things Are
>>25318118>The Tartar SteppesMy nigga
Tristram Shandy, Don Quixote, Garganuta/Pantagruel, Wealth of Nations, Chinese Characteristics (Smith)
>>25317811The History of the Peloponnesian WarThe Temptation of St. AntonyThe Sound and the Fury Tropic of CancerRobinson Jeffers: Selected Poems
The Confessions if Saint AugustineAda, or ArdorParadise LostComplete KeatsPnin
>>253178111.Ulysses2.Moby Dick3.Les Miserables4. Picture of Dorian Gray5.Anna Karenina In shock and mild disgust that Ulysses has not appeared on this thread until now
>>25318267There is the small matter that it is a frightfully tedious read. There is that. How the fuck do you jizz in your pants out in public so bad that it sticks to them and it hurts a bit to separate them, to the point that you register a bit of pain. Oh here now, let's have an interminable description of the exact contents of one particular drawer in the question-and-answer cathechism format this time.
>>25317811ImajicaStonerHyperionGulliver’s TravelsBooks of blood Volumes 1-3
>>25318269>How the fuck do you jizz in your pants out in public so bad that it sticks to them and it hurts a bit to separate them, to the point that you register a bit of pain.I did that in college when this tall girl sat next to me with 3-inch long shorts
>>25317811lots of performative so-called readers in hereLord of the RingsBook of the New SunThe Night LandThe Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathGor
>>25318269It’s the minutia such as that which in their totally form all encompassing beauty of Ulysses. If you go into it with the intention of understanding and deconstructing all aspects of the work you will inevitably fail. finding yourself frustrated and disappointed, but if you throw yourself into it and allow it to encompass your soul, in a religious fashion, to submit to the work than you will see a spark of true art. Metempsychosis.give up the agenbite of inwit
>>25317816Holy based >>25317811John (Bible)Ecclesiastes (Bible)Fear and Trembling Blood Meridian The Hobbit
>>25317970You are way more normie than anyone else itt kek
>>25318307Actually replace The Hobbit with TBK. I need to reread the latter again. But it's close.
>>25318311What's your top 5 then
Tartar Steppe Anna kInfinite jSlaughterhouse fZen a t a o m mI'm a mid wit sue me.
Anna KBook of MonelleDivine ComedyThe Cathedral of MistThe Makioka SistersFirst five that came to mind reading the question.
UlyssesThe WavesPetersburgThe Sound and the FuryOn the Doorstep of the Absolute
>>25318298>just go with it dudeNo, I will not just go with it. Non Serviam. You have to give me something worth liking. What characterizes Joyce's major works is that they have a strictly monotonic decrease in quality, which becomes clearer once one actually reads them, thinks seriously about them, and becomes familiar with all of them, even to the point of looking at those tiresome volumes to explain the hard ones. The "novelty" of the fragmentary consciousness of Ulysses (and to a lesser extent, Portrait) pale before the actual good work: Dubliners. Good not for its simplicity, but for its legible richness which does a vastly better job of communicating a society than the other works. There are several remarkable resonances throughout the stories when one pays attention, and these comparisons are far more interesting than anything else that Joyce ever did.His dumb bitch wife being a dumb bitch who remembers Gibraltar and thinks typical childish foid thoughts at the end is not some grand finale. If anything, the real point in reading this sort of thing is to overcome it and get past the cult of it from a position of genuine knowledge and understanding, but the exercise is largely superfluous given demographic and cultural trends. Large numbers of dumb brown people who don't care a fig about Ulysses will inherit the earth, and despite all of the attendant problems in this, at least it will have the happy effect of diminishing unwarranted homage to a dull book that runs twice as long as it should and thereby overstays its welcome.
>>25317811>Ugly love>Harry Potter 1>Morning glory milking farm>Notice>50 shades of grey
>>25317970I'm so much better than you it's insane.
Journey to the End of the NightThe StrangerFaustCrime and PunishmentI don't have a fifth
>>25317811Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Epic of Gilgamesh Tao Te ChingDon Quixote Do Androids Dream of Electric SheepThe more I read the more I find simpler books float to the top of my favorites
>>25318656Tits and/or feet or GTFO
HyperionDuneFoundationDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpireGame of ThronesI'm mostly a sci-fi fag but i like history as well
>>25318284>The Night Landwanted to read this based on the premise, couldn't find a single review online praising it, all saying the writing was fucking terrible
>>25317811Introduction to Magic volume I by Julius Evola and UR GroupIntroduction to Magic volume II by Julius Evola and UR GroupIntroduction to Magic volume III by Julius Evola and UR GroupThe Hermetic Tradition by Julius EvolaAzumanga Daioh collected edition by Kiyohiko Azuma
Hunchback of Notre-DameUlyssesNarcissus and GoldmundLolitaCrime and PunishmentVery basic picks but I like what I like
>>25318698lol based
>>25318689You could read it for yourself, anon. But if you need someone else's opinion, take Clark Ashton Smith's.>In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of darkness. Only a great poet could have conceived and written this story; and it is perhaps not illegitimate to wonder how much of actual prophecy may have been mingled with the poesy.
>>25318267god what a based picture. joyce is the fucking man
>>253178111. The Road Back2. My Childhood3. Germinal4. Sometimes a Great Notion5. Kolyma Tales
>>25318298I do this for other books but from the little I've read of Ulysses it still doesn't appeal to me. I have a similar thing with music where I can appreciate the artistry but still hate how it sounds, usually regarding Jazz, because the emotional content is something I'm uninterested in or annoyed by.
The Iliad (E. V. Rieu)The Holy Bible (septuagint > biblia hebraica)First FolioThe Chronicles of NarniaPython Crash Course (third edition)
>>25318792autism or still not 18?
>>25318820Maybe autism, I'm old. Mostly I think I've just lived a richer life than most and don't enjoy puerile shit like most jazz and anime.
>>253178111. Roadside Picnic2. Samuel Beckett's French trilogy3. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect4. Suttree5. The Sun Also Rises
>>25317811IliadBibleGreek Alexander RomanceChristmas CarolAnna Karenina
>>25318643Well, if what you care about is cartoonish characters and grand finales maybe you should stick to genre fictionThe idea we shouldn’t care to engage with the highest human achievements just because people in the future won’t care is ridiculous, you will die, nothing will matter to you then, so spend the very limited you have wisely
>>25318856Not him but it's bizarre that you reference an objective value ordering then slip into nihilism. If we're all gonna die and nothing matters then who cares about the collective greatest (which still ultimately means nothing, remember) works?
>>25318932It’s not that nothing matters, it’s that when you are dead nothing will matter. But for a brief time you are alive, you are free, you have the power to decide what is important. There is no meaning but the meaning you make for yourself. This makes our passions and our pursuits all the more important, If i and all i know will soon be dust in the wind then that simply makes the choices I make in the now all the more important, for me I believe that the appreciation of beauty and love is of the greatest value, it’s a better use of my time to read Ulysses than to wile away the days being angry about brown people on the internet even if both actions lead to the same inevitable end
SiddharthaCrime and punishmentDeath in VeniceBlood meridianHam on rye
>>25318936Let me put it more abstractly: You are universaling your aesthetic preferences at the same time as you claim to believe that no universal values of any kind exist. It's fine to be incoherent but it's bizarre to be so and claim that you aren't.
>>25318946I don’t deny that I am incoherent, nor do I actually believe that aesthetics hold any true value, it is merely what I have assigned value to. I was simply being catty when I replied to that individual earlier, I for no other reason that emotion, view it as such a waste that he is so content to flitter way days he will never get back, I am judging those who decline to spend their lives in an interesting fashionbut again, pursuing aesthetics holds no more value than spending the days staring at a wall, i’m simply being a catty absurdist
>>25318954Ah that's fine then
>ctrl f karamazov>0 resultsIt’s over.
>>25318983It's TBK.
>>25317811>booksGlad you didn't say novels1. The Count of Monte Cristo2. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor3. The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James4. Maldoror5. Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
diary of wimpy kiddiary of wimpy kid rodrick rulesdiary of wimpy kid dog daysdiary of wimpy kid ugly truthdiary of wimpy kid the third wheel
>>25317811The Master and MargaritaNaked LunchVeli JožeO ArmatolosThe Illiad
>Catch 22 not mentioned onceTf wrong with y'all niggas
The Crying of Lot 49Phenomenology of SpiritGiordano Bruno and the Hermetic TraditionTristram ShandyPlato's Dialogues (Complete)
>>25317811gm here's my five books>>25318829need to read roadside picnic. read hemingway's The Capital of the World>>25319431>The Master and Margaritawhy should i read thismy reply was longer but the site thought it was spam so whatever
The third policemanIn parenthesisBlood meridianFiccionesTo the lighthouse
>>25319479>why should I read thisIt's a multilayered book, you can read it as a biting satire, a slapstick comedy, or an introspective analysis of religion. It's genuinely fantastic.
>>25319502Good taste
>>25319505thanks anonrest of the post was something like respect to all the borges, narnia, quixote, and les mis enjoyers. and i am literally prince myshkin. and why should i read the tartar steppes?
>>25317811>Song of Albion>Conan the Barbarian>Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever>Super Sale on Super Heroes (First 3 books)>The Hobbit
>>25317811Second Skin (John Hawkes)The Tale of GenjiHow It IsIn Search Of Lost TimeThe Golden Bough>>25318261Do you like anyone else comparable to Nabokov, or just him among the secular moderns?>>25318267>In shock and mild disgust that Ulysses has not appeared on this thread until nowIt is very good, and would have made my top 10. Unfortunately you get people calling you a poser or a noob for listing objectively good and well-known books, but I'm glad this thread's not the same twenty books we've all read slightly rearranged. I respect Ulysses as a Great Book but there are others that do more for me.>>25318561Bitchin.' Petersburg would be on a lot more lists if it wasn't so opaque to the non-Russki. Not impossible but challenging without lots of context. I liked the other Bely I read too- underrated writer.>>25319479>why should i read thisTMaM is a fairly easy read and a fun ride. But idk why it's so many people's favorite book, there's not a lot to say in terms of depth or style. When I ask why they love it I usually get some variant of "it's fun" or "I love the premise" and little more.>>25319502nicePoliceman especially, that book is the tits.
>>25319639>golden boughever read campbell's masks of god? eliade? check out martos doorways to the sacred
wolf halldungeon crawler carljourney to the end of the nighton writing: a memoir of the craftif i stop at 4 i dont need to pick any book over another
>>25319651>ever read campbell's masks of god? eliade?They're on my radar- I own MoG volumes 3 and 4, can they be approached on their own or should I get the first book before diving in?>check out martos doorways to the sacredNever heard of this one, thanks for the rec anon.
>>25319696each volume is pretty independent, though campbell makes comparisons in the later volumes iirc building off of stuff in primitive mythology and oriental. but yeah they're pretty great; basically a catalog of lots of different mythos and how they are similar. like tracing DNA or language across continents but its myths instead. honestly vol 1 was skippable. it's literally about prehistoric people, like something you'd see early on in a philosophy of religion class, but if you're into that more power to you.you're welcome; martos is basically just about Catholic sacraments. still, very interesting. it was a textbook of mine once.
>>25317970>Marco Aurelius' Meditationsliterally the shitties cheapest philosophy pamphlet
>>25319434i liked that book, but top 5 ever? nah.
>>25317829His slop rabbinic philosophy was born out of protestantism which isn't even true christianity, redditard
>>25317970>complains about normgroids>only reads what podcasters tells him to read
I'd go with 1984, Fahrenheit 451, the Handmaid tale, Petersburg tales and animal farm.I also like "Les contes de la bécasse"
>>25320014>Handmaid's Tale over Brave New WorldYou're only 80% based
>Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith>The Mask of the Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer>Lords of Light by Roger Zelazny>Lyonesse by Jack Vance>The First Book of Lankhmar by Fritz LeiberPic related is me by the way
>Barabas >Six Records of a Floating Life>I am a Cat>MetamorphosesNot sure what to pick for fifth. If I can get away with a poem I'd go with Cat and the Moon by Yeats, otherwise The Good Soldier Svejk
>VALIS>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo>The Song of Roland (Sayers translation)>Thus Spoke Zarathustra>The Art of War
>>25320055I remember thinking the Lyonesse trilogy felt incomplete and wondering if he'd meant for there to be a fourth book. It's been a long time since I've read it, though.
Ender's GamePerfume: Story of a MurdererGrande Sertão Veredas Pride and Prejudice Count of Monte Cristo
1. American Psycho2. Halo: The Fall of Reach3. The Merchant of Venice (it's a play but)4. Dark Matter (blake crouch. tried to read another book by him, was pretty faggoty)5. The Chronicles of Narnia, I guess. When I read them it was a single compiled book.
>>25317811'Dracula' by Bram Stoker'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley'Swiss Family Robinson' by Johann David Wyss'Mr Dizzy' by Roger Hargreaves'The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women' by John Knox
Black FuturePumped by the Bodybuilding ThugsSissified by Her ThugThugs Breed My Bratty DaughterFertile Wives: Christina and Her Dream Thug
>>25317811For Whom the Bell TollsParadise LostA Confederacy of DuncesThe Lord of the RingsThe Divine Comedy
>>25319721Better than stuff like reddit meridian and reddit eighty four which seem be coming up a lot
>>25320311Funny, I'd say Catch 22 is way more reddit than either of those two.
>>25320130>Halo: The Fall of Reachlol. thought i was the one that read this book. Read it in middle schoolIn any order:2666- Roberto BolanoValis- Philip. K DickWoodcutters - Thomas BernhardThe House of Hunger- Dambudzo MarecheraDhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
>Chromos, Alfau>The Tower, Yeats>The Hearing Trumpet, Carrington>The Black Heralds, Vallejo>Cities of the Red Night, Burroughs>>25317811Europe was only coverted with the sales pitch, "The Godhead's son is your older brother, and he wants to recruit you for judging and smiting Demons and evil sonsofbitches in the end of days, so we all can chill in Paradise thereafter." There are more mismatched pairings possible.
This was surprisingly difficult. 60 stories - Donald BarthlemeThe Argonauts - Maggie NelsonSwann's Way - ProustInfinite Jest - DFWAll the Pretty Horses - McCarthy (For some reason I just love this more than Suttree or BM, or any other McCarthy. I think Bevins is just one of the most haunting characters of all time. Suttree close second.)I did include not non-fiction, poetry, essays, or philosophy. Arguably Swann's Way doesn't fit, I don't care, get fucked.
>>25317811Castaneda
>>25319434Never read the book but the movie is in my "out of comparision meta film" list, together with "Blow Up", "The Conversation", "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover"
Normie shit, buuuut:Simulacra and simulationsHouse of leaves A clockwork orange On the roadThe stand
The Oresteia by AeschylusThe Holy BibleThe metamorphoses by OvidMan and his symbols by JungFicciones by Borges
>>25317811Germinal - ZolaWar and Peace - TolstoyMoby Dick - MelvilleThe Grapes of Wrath - SteinbeckLolita - Nabokov
>>25318219>Wealth of NationsMy man
>>25318983If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
