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2013-12-09 08:18 4352374 Sunhawk What are your top 10 books of all time, /lit/? (littleboxmanpic.jpg 645x442 25kB)
God, I don't think we've had this thread in a long time.
In no order...
1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
2. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
3. Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
4. 2666, Roberto Bolano
5. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
6. Foundation & Empire, Isaac Asimov
7. Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
8. Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace
9. Oblivion: Stories: David Foster Wallace
10. Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger
Such great books. And so rereadable, too! I've read F&Z 9 times, Second Foundation about a dozen times, and Oscar Wao exactly 19 times. Lulz. Is this too much?
7 min later 4352393 Sunhawk
I think people are too afraid to post their top 10s. They are too worried about what people will think. I mean, people are going to reac tbadly whatever is posted, so maybe it's a legitimate concern. Or not.
10 min later 4352398 Anonymous
Off the top of my head, in no order:
The Waves
On The Road
Naked Lunch
Wuthering Heights
The Helmet of Horror
Narcissus and Goldmund
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Lord of the Flies
The Metamorphoses
Labyrinths
Probably forgotten some I like more than a few of these but whatever.
11 min later 4352400 Anonymous
>>4352398
>The Metamorphoses
oops, ditch the 'the'
15 min later 4352404 Sunhawk
>>4352398
Not bad. Read some of them. Wuthering Heights almost bored me to death. Gave up about 100 pages in.
20 min later 4352415 Anonymous
Failure is Not an Option
Humiliated and Insulted
Entering Space
The Three Faces of Fascism
Collected Fictions
The Emperor of All Maladies
The Search for Modern China
Chronicles of a Death Foretold
Division of Labor in Society
The Discoverers
38 min later 4352449 Anonymous
My favorites in no order and off the top of my head
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
Breif interviews with hideous men - David foster Wallace
Black hole - Charles burns
Raised by wolves - Jim Goldberg
The wanting seed - anthony Bruges
The overcoat - nikolai gogol
Brave new world - aldous Huxley
Candiede - Voltaire
A crackup at the race riots - harmony korine
47 min later 4352472 Anonymous
in loose order:
1. All The King's Men, Robert Men Warren
2. The Big Sky, by A.B Guthrie
3. Narcissus and Goldmund, by Herman Hesse
4. The Idiot, by Dostoyevsky
5. Demian, by Herman Hesse
6. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
7. The Plague, by Albert Camus.
8. Notes from the Underground, by Dostoyevsky
9. The Fall, by Albert Camus
10. Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
53 min later 4352485 Anonymous
captain underpants 1
captain underpants 2
captain underpants 3
captain underpants 4
captain underpants D.I.Y
i dont read anything else on these again.
53 min later 4352486 Anonymous
>>4352374
>>4352398
>>4352415
>>4352449
>>4352472
hey op you should have just renamed this thread "shit taste general"
54 min later 4352490 Anonymous
>>4352449
Is Time's Arrow really that good? I've seen in a couple of times and wanted to buy it
57 min later 4352496 Anonymous
>>4352486
sorry we aren't all cultured enough to appreciate the captain underpants series
57 min later 4352498 Deep&Edgy
>>4352490
it's okay, but it gets much better if you read it backwards.
1 hours later 4352524 Anonymous
>>4352490
I really enjoyed it. It does what the movie Irreversible does by using the backwards format to add to the meaning of the story instead of just being a gimmick
1 hours later 4352526 Anonymous
>>4352486
what are your top 10?
1 hours later 4352582 Anonymous
In no order
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Tropic of Cancer
3. The Book of Disquiet
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. Our Lady of The Flowers
6. The Rings of Saturn
7. The Idiot
8. Nausea
9. Hunger
10. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
1 hours later 4352616 Anonymous
The Grapes of Wrath
A Tale of Two Cities
A Long Long Way
The Call of the Wild
Moby Dick
The Maltese Falcon
The Plague
Slaughterhouse Five
Blood Meridian
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I am the plebest of plebs
2 hours later 4352640 Anonymous
no order
Mrs. Dalloway
Lord of the Flies
Waiting for Godot
Paradise Lost
Mansfield Park
1Q84
Frankenstein
Wide Sargasso Sea
Midnight's Children
Wuthering Heights
2 hours later 4352670 Anonymous
Blood Meridian
Lolita, or pretty much any book by Nabokov
Moby Dick
The Secret Agent
Invitation to a Beheading
The Big Sleep
Red Harvest
Collected Fictions, Borges
Tishomingo Blues
Hombre
2 hours later 4352675 Anonymous
moby dick
invisible cities
the unconsoled
the waves
crime and punishment
the master and margarita
catch-22
stoner
moby dick again
in cold blood
2 hours later 4352690 Anonymous
1. Game of Thrones.
2.A Clash of Kings
3.A Feast For Crows.
4. A Dance With Dragons
5. A Storm of Swords.
6. Eye of the world.
7. Deathly hallows.
8. HPMOR
9. Worm
10. Into the wild.
2 hours later 4352698 Anonymous
Grading them takes away from the experience.
2 hours later 4352736 Anonymous
In a vague order:
Blood Meridian
Ficciones by Borges
2666
Moby Dick
The War of the End of the World
All the King's Men
Catch-22
Stoner
Among the Thugs
The Secret History
What's interesting to me is that while there are various "/lit/-core" books on my list, I had read all of before ever coming here. I guess we all (for the most part) have some combinations of qualities that cause us to gravitate to these books, regardless of whether we see them spammed here or not.
4 hours later 4353098 Anonymous
>>4352690
>Game of Thrones
>Liking a fantasy soap opera
go away
4 hours later 4353103 Anonymous (1384120066007.jpg 484x550 62kB)
>>4352698
and the pretension award goes to
4 hours later 4353130 Anonymous
>>4353103
What's the point of grading something completely subjective? How do you put a value on a feeling or state of being?
5 hours later 4353164 Anonymous
>>4353130
>What's the point of liking or disliking things? Why don't you just let the words wash over you like a wave because I'm such a hippy-dippy loser?
You, my friend, are a Grade-A squeakerduck.
5 hours later 4353169 Anonymous
1. lol!
2. toasting
3. in
4. another
5. epic
6. sunhock
7. bread!
8. archive
9. quick
10 !
5 hours later 4353208 Anonymous
>>4352698
Not only that, but I'm certain you could only come up with a 'Top 10' if you had only read a little more than 10 books.
5 hours later 4353211 Anonymous
>>4352374
>>4352393
lol sunhawk your such a pleb gtfo
5 hours later 4353221 Anonymous
In no real order
Lolita
Against the Day
The Brothers Karamazov
The Sound and the Fury
Neuromancer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Moby Dick
The Lord of the Rings
The Name of the Rose
The Road
5 hours later 4353236 Anonymous
>>4352690
>Putting ASOIAF on a top 10 list
>Wheel of time
>Harry fucking potter
>A fucking harry potter FANFICTION
pls go
5 hours later 4353242 Anonymous (1376871103591.png 300x163 3kB)
>>4353236
>being this gullible
back_to_/r/_books.jpg
5 hours later 4353244 Anonymous
1. Ecce Homo - Nietzsche
2. Dr.Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
3. The Amber Spyglass- Phillip Pullman
4. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
5. Purgatory - Dante
6. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
7. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
8. Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper
9. Slaves of the Mastery - William Nicholson
10. The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
5 hours later 4353250 Anonymous
>>4353244
>ecce homo
i don't think we were counting non-fiction.
also
>pullman
>nicholson
5 hours later 4353257 Anonymous
The Brothers Karamzov
The Illiad
Moby Dick
Blood Meridian
100 Years of Solitude
The Hobbit
East of Eden
For Whom the Bell Toll
The Death of Ivan Illych
The Stranger
Pretty boring list but I haven't really been reading long enough to branch out into my own taste yet[/spoiler
5 hours later 4353281 Anonymous
>>4353257
I dig your list, anon.
5 hours later 4353307 Anonymous
I'm not even sure if I've read 10 books lol
6 hours later 4353345 Anonymouse
>>4353307
> /lit/
6 hours later 4353354 Anonymous
>>4353250
I wanted to do a coming out film called Ecce Homo
6 hours later 4353355 Anonymous
1. Starting Strength
2. 5/3/1
3. Relax Into Stretching
4. Greyskull LP
5. The Anabolic Bible
6. Men's Health 5/2013
7. Men's Health Eat This Not That 2013
8. UFC Magazine 3/2013
9. Das Kapital
10. Old Testament
6 hours later 4353356 Anonymous
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
2. Begriffsschrift by Gottlob Frege
3. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
5. Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke
6. How to Do Things with Words by J.L. Austin
7. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
8. Metaphysics by Aristotle (if that can be considered a cohesive, single work)
9. Monadology by G.W. Leibniz
10. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
As you can see, German and British philosophy is kind of my bag.
6 hours later 4353359 Anonymous
Not in order.
BotNS
Snow Country
Shantaram
Pale Fire
A Confederacy of Dunces
Shogun
Suttree
Dhalgren
Gormenghast
Meditations
6 hours later 4353366 Anonymous
>>4353356
>2. Begriffsschrift by Gottlob Frege
This is the only work by Frege that, except for historians in Logic, is ignored by almost everyone, because over the years his symbolic notation has been changed beyond recognition.
Can you justify your choice? Because it seems like a case and a list of an obvious name-dropping.
6 hours later 4353369 Anonymous (issa-and-giant-s-head-1932-3.jpg 900x568 273kB)
Moby-Dick
Heart of Darkness
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Johnny Got His Gun
The Waves
Paradise Lost
Da Iliad
Brothers and Keepers
Netherland
A Heartbreaking Work of [deal w/ it] Staggering Genius
6 hours later 4353395 Anonymous Current State of /lit/
>>4352374
>Asimov
>>4352398
>Kafka
>>4352415
>Failure is Not an Option
>Humiliated and Insulted
lmao
>>4352472
>Hesse
>Camus
>>4352582
>French existentialism
>>4352616
>Camus
>>4352640
>Murakami
>>4352670
The only decent one up until now
>>4352675
>the master and margarita
>>4352690
Too obvious
>>4352736
Eh
>>4353221
>The Lord of the Rings
Was alright before that
>>4353244
>Hesse
>>4353257
>Camus
>>4353355
>Old Testament
>>4353356
>Hume
>>4353359
>Shogun
>>4353369
Passable
Plebtown
6 hours later 4353417 Anonymous
>>4353395
>disliking hume and kafka
oh my god what a fucking pleb. post your list.
6 hours later 4353421 Anonymous
1. Moby Dick
2. The Outsider by Richard Wright
3. Old Man and the Sea
4. Confederacy of Dunces
5. Native Son
6. Ulysses
7. Pynchon's V.
8. Cannery Roy by Steinbeck
9. Brave New World
10. Steal This Book
go ahead, try to dispute my list I dare you
6 hours later 4353425 Anonymous
The Republic
King James Bible
Les Miserables
The Hobbit
The Birth of Tragedy
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I Am America (And So Can You!)
In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash)
Coldfire Trilogy
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
awaiting state of /lit/ guy
6 hours later 4353429 Anonymous
>>4353421
Moby Dick is over rated plebian trash.
6 hours later 4353430 Anonymous (1383218261382s.jpg 200x199 6kB)
>>4353425
>those last four
6 hours later 4353439 Anonymous
>>4353429
somehow I doubt that you've read the book in its entirety, if you feel that way. so your perspective is not valid.
7 hours later 4353452 Anonymous
>>4353421
>black literature
kek
7 hours later 4353454 Anonymous
>>4353452
>implying Richard Wright is a black author and not just a great American novelist
read his haiku collection, pleb
7 hours later 4353460 Anonymous
Locus Solus
Against Nature
The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt
La Maison de rendez-vous
Place of Dead Roads
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Thomas the Obscure
In Search of Lost Time
Being and Time
Genealogy of Morals
7 hours later 4353461 Anonymous
>>4353454
>Americans
>trying to haiku
this keeps getting better
7 hours later 4353482 Anonymous
Envy
Life and Fate
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Furry
Moby Dick
Collected Poems of Philip Larkin
Collected Poems of TS Eliot
Collected Poems of WB Yeats
Midnight's Children
Blood Meridian
7 hours later 4353489 Anonymous
>>4353454
He's terrible
The only truly great American black author is Ralph Ellison
7 hours later 4353490 Anonymous
>>4353452
african-americans are breddy god-tier in literature, dude. many would roll over in their graves now if they saw the current state of affairs going on with african-americans today, but that's a whole other bag.
that being said, most african-americans wrote about societal afflictions/racism.
7 hours later 4353494 Anonymous
>>4353460
Funeral Rites
Ficciones
The Castle
Sentimental Education
The Idiot
Anti-Oedipus
Ice
Asylum Piece
Dark Spring
Ulysses
7 hours later 4353498 Anonymous
Ham on Rye
Naked Lunch
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Last Exit to Brooklyn
The Sound and the Fury
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Junkie
The Grifters
Waiting for Godot
This is embarassing rec me stuff
7 hours later 4353544 Anonymous
Passage to India
Jane Eyre
Last of the Wine
A Fine Disregard
Gitanjali
On the Road
Palm Wine Drinkard
The Buddha of Suburbia
Burning Down the House
The Little Disturbances of Man
7 hours later 4353546 Anonymous
>>4353439
I watched the movie. It sucked.
7 hours later 4353552 Anonymous
>>4353546
help i'm being trolled on the internet
7 hours later 4353554 Anonymous
>>4353250
Books \ Fiction = { }
Good luck with your basic logic class anon.
>>4353366
List is tryhard, but you gotta respect the G-dog.
No formal calculus = no respect
7 hours later 4353582 Anonymous
>>4353489
Ellison made it big and sat on his ass the rest of his career. I dont mean he gave up writing, but he was basically trapped in academia. Wright, on the other hand, got out and travelled. He experimented with different forms and styles. While Ellison went from potential author of the Great American Novel to little more than an essayist.
But if you're going to go with ONLY true great black american author, it'd better be Langston.
20 hours later 4355164 Anonymous
Infinite Jest
Good Morning, Midnight
Under the Volcano
Runaway Horses
Moby-Dick
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
The Sun Also Rises
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Herzog
Bleak House
20 hours later 4355168 Anonymous
Kill yourself.
23 hours later 4355481 Anonymous
In loose order...
1. The King James Bible
2. Moby-Dick
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. The Book of the New Sun
5. Hamlet
6. La Divina Commedia
7. The Illiad
8. The Everlasting Man
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
10. The Lord of the Rings
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