Let's get an essentials thread going. Post one book you think that should be on everyone's bookshelf.Pic related, it's my contribution to this thread. Be honorable, ladies and gentlemen, one pick per person.
Finnigan Wake's by James Joyce
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Stranger
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html/thread(sorry)
Starship Troopers
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>>625885Fuck you faggot.The Great Gatsby
>>625884>implying The Stranger isn't terribly weak when compared to his other worksThis should be The Plague.
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>>625885OP here,Of course anyone could look elsewhere but what's the point? It's like driving off a new forum member with a legitimate but oft repeated question - you can tell them fuck off but what's the point? If you don't agree then kindly fuck off.
>>625907except I'm not trolling. The Stranger isn't bad, but it doesn't hold up to rest of Camus' works.
>>625920Not that I disagree with you, but if we had something similar to /v/'s "Recommended Games" this board would be the shit
Only one book? I was going to post my entire politics and survival collection.
>>625927Actually we do have something similar and i'ts SHIT
>>625920Is this a daily reoccurring thread or something? I've been lurking for just over 2 months now and I've only seen this thread a handful of times - each time I've pulled a title that I eventually liked/loved. I think it's necessarily as long as it isn't en masse.
Enough Camus.-Slaughterhouse Five-A Farewell to Arms-Norwegian Wood-Oedipus Cycle-Medea-Catch-22-Battle RoyaleLet's get this thread on track.
posting more than one book to make up for Camus butthurt
>>625934>>625936There were, what, 5 posts about Camus? Is this board really that slow?
>>625934>one book>posts 7>get thread on track
The Holy Bible King James Version
>>625946Why not the more accurate versions?
>>625934>Posts 7 books. Most of them in no way essential.
Wizard's Hall
>>625950>Implying any version of the bible is accurate to the original text
>>625951>implying the essentiality of a book is something undisputed
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich
>>625956Okay then, well why not the 'more' accurate versions?
>>625956I myself only read the Vulgate. In Latin.
gravity's rainbow
>>625965I only ever read Beowulf in Old English. SUCK ON THAT
>>625973What? Doesn't everyone?What would be the point otherwise?
>>625973I read Shakespeare in English. YEAH MOTHERFUCKER
>>625985No, it's OLD english, which means it's HARDCORE English
>>625973I read the Epic of Gilgamesh on clay tablets in Sumerian. So fuck you.
this and Ink
>>625973I only ever hear The Iliad recited by Homer, in the original Ancient Greek. HA HA!
>>625997Yes. I know. I thought the point of reading Beowulf was to read it in Old English.
BonjourI just wanted to say hi to everyone!This is my first post here :)
I only ever read the original ten commandmends on the original stone tablets. Which were given to me by Moses himself.I keep the Ark of the Covenant in my basement. FUCKING SUCK ON THAT
>>626034Dare you to open it.
>>626034Bitch, I saw the first cave painting being painted.
>>626038goddammit, I thought I had a .gif of the face melting from Raiders.This is the closest I have.
The Man who was Thursday: A NightmareGK Chesterton.
>>625994What's so special about Marcus?
>>626044Bitch, I WAS the Big Bang.
Lord of the Flies. Not trollan. Still a good book to flip through, enjoy the prose quite a bit.
Murakami is a genius.
Honestly, lovely prose and a thought provoking read.
>>626486that's some resolution you got there, buddy
>>626480Lolita sucked. Deal with it.
>>626486http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-vagina-ass-of-lucifer-niggerbastard/10891067
