100 Years of Solitude. r9k loves it. Every time it is posted there are several replies with some variation of "FUCK YEAH!!!"

>>2740247

BEST FUCKING BOOK EVER.

I'd have to go with 1984

The DaVinci Code

The entire barsoom series.

If you don't know what that is then fuck you.

Incidentally, /r9k/ hates Ayn Rand and Neitzsche above all else.

Candide by Voltaire

1. The Stranger- Albert Camus
2. Watership Down- Richard Adams
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
5. 1984- George Orwell

>>2740264
Haven't heard of this. Can any other robots out there vouch for it?

Wasn't Moby Dick copied in its entirety on /r9k/ in the first week?

Harry Potter, the early ones are better...

>>2740294
get da vinci code the fuck off there

christ, you should know that

>>2740310

I remember seeing a detailed treatise about vaginal properties on here early on, can't remember Moby Dick though.

virginia wolf is probably my favorite author

Twilight series, arcanines love it

the road catcher in the rye great gortsby for whom the bell tolls world war z

Ham on Rye - Bukowski

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

>>2740339
They love Stephenie Meyer almost as much as The Catcher in the Rye.

We also very much like Lolita, Dubliners, and The Brothers Karamazov.

eragon! love it!

Blood Meridian, The Crying of Lot 49, and Steppenwolf might pass inspection.

sure smells like troll in here

ill just pitch ishmael by daniel quinn out there

Harry Potter, no troll. Yeah, shit is cliche, but damn it made my childhood good.

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

till this day I can't really put my hands on this one

from a robot who turned 23 today

The Number of the Beast - Robert A. Heinlein

World War Z - Max Brooks

Anything to do with the Enderverse whatsoever - Orson Scott Card

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

>>2740346
Get that Bukowski shit outta here!

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Can't say anything about the series, but that book was and still is amazing. I'm thinking about reading it again.

>>2740392
haha, didn't expect that. I've never actually met anyone who's read it.

Put it on the list, OP. There's sex and wife-swapping and alternate dimensions.

>>2740379
get out. Harry Potter is not literature.

The Sirens of Titan/Cat's Cradle/Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

>>2740399

Surely you jest. Bukowski was a king among men.

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

>>2740414

>My purpose here is to compile a list of /r9k/-approved books. Without further ado, I'll start. Let's also try to keep it fairly recent.
>>list of /r9k/-approved books
>>>books

NOT LITERATURE, BOOKS. HARRY POTTER=BOOKS.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey

>>2740434
open up Harry Potter, now open up either of the two books the OP suggested. One of these three books does not belong.

>>2740437

i second this. one of my favorites

anything by vonnegut

>>2740411
don't forget sentient computers who get human bodies, and a spaceship that gets an extradimensional bathroom as part of a remodel by the Wizard of Oz.

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Nothing like a book about a loner living out in a trailer on the Arches National Park, writing about the beauty of the desert and ranting about the follies of the National Park Development system.

I second House of Leaves.

Also The Kite Runner. It made me cry twice.

Amerika by Franz Kafka and Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

>>2740385
http://www.truly-free.org/#fS

it's there.

Get fight club up on there, robots love that shit.

and The Road.

>>2740449

Yes, you're right. It's The Stranger, by Albert Camus.

Watership Down a (albeit classic) childrens/young adult's novel. Great book. I'm not denying the legitimacy of any of the previously mentioned works, just that Harry Potter is a well crafted story that gave me a lot of enjoyment growing up (and still does, not ashamed to admit it) and should therefore be approved. I'm sure a lot of robots are Harry Potter fans.

>>2740392
6^6^6. TEE TAU TAE! Quick, make an illegal takeoff in your FLYING CAR! TANGO = MARRIAGE.

>>2740432
And also Cryptonomicon please.

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clark).

>>2740345
lrn2comma

>>2740521
I thought we were talking about great books, not great movies.

>>2740561

Motherfucker you best be trollin.

>>2740550

Obligatory fuck yeah for Catch 22.

>>2740533
btw, I need to find the book. My father says he bought it, but I've only read it in his old Omni magazines.

>>2740585
http://www.anonib.com/bookchan/images/598/The_Number_of_the_Beast_anonib.jpg

here you go, in jpg-rar form

hunter s thompson - fear and loathing in las vegas, the rum diaries

philip k. dick - a scanner darkly, VALIS

william gibson - neuromancer

alan moore - watchmen

herman hesse - siddhartha

do short story collections count?

labyrinths - jorge luis borges

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

Anything by Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchet gets my vote. That shit is bananas.

the green mile- King

alfred bester - the stars my destination

sergei lukyanenko - night watch series

The Stand - King

>>2740832
couldn't get though it.

>>2740771
Anything my Terry Pratchett, Neal Stephenson, Douglas Adams, or Warren Ellis.

>>2740885
How far did you make it?

jPod - Douglas Coupland.

The Four Seasons - Vivaldi

>>2740958
This cannot possibly be right.

>>2740934
They're all gathered somewhere and the young fat bastard just switched sides and the older guy has some woman begging him on her knees and King has one of his suddenly sexuality moments. I hate it when king injects sudden 200% sexuality into his stories. It's like an ero-manga stuffed inside a pretty good story, sometimes even just tacked to the very end of a pretty good story. I swear once he ended a story and then when to tell you the main charecter died an old man in his sleep while having an erotic dream and then described the erotic dream. AFTER THE END OF THE STORY.

Anyway, I don't think that's why I acctually closed the book it's just that after all that time getting together I forsaw alot of "and now the forces of good do battle against the forces of evil".

I always feel like I am the only person who loves The Catcher in The Rye. I think it gets a lot of unwarranted hate because kids are forced to read it and go about disliking it for the wrong reasons.

"whats your favorite book?"

"Catcher in The Rye"

"lol that book sucks and is boring"

"=("

>>2740385
what does that mean? can't force yourself to read it?

it's alright, can give validation to someone who sees themselves as a 'loner'

JD is still alive and is still a recluse. given the source you know this book is channeling a special type of isolation that many a 4channer identify with

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Shining by Stephen King

>>2741078

Um isnt it more about how being a loner isnt all that hot?

The guy ends up in a psych hospital.

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

>>2740684
valis was kind of a nice ... idea? but i think it sucked generally

>>2740946
fukk yeah that one was so awesome
like most of coupland`s books

Has anyone in this thread tried to read something NOT nerdy or sterotypical pretenticous highschool first two years of college books?

Cathedral-Raymond Carver
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting- Kundera
The Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller
The Book Thief-Zusak
People's History of the United States-Zinn
The Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway
SlaughterHouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut
The Painted Bird-Kosinski
How to Think about The Great Ideas-Adler

Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

not pretentious, both are brilliant. pretentious would be insisting you don't read them in translation

Magician

>>2741153
on that note the brothers karamazov is a funny book, should be read as well... those archtypes will show up in every video game or soap opera you ever watch again, EVER

The Riftwar Saga<3

>>2741069
nah, don't worry it is a good book. People are just faggots

the moviegoer, walker percy
pleasant hell, john dolan
a confederacy of dunces

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is always praised in /r9k/.

Hop on Pop

>>2741184
or, and I'm just throwing this possibility out here, taste isn't stagnant and people have opinions

I would reccomend this book (and author) to anyone that can read!

>>2741130
dare you to spell pretentious right :P

>>2741217
spelling is _so_ pretentious

A big boy did it and ran away - forgotten the auther

You will all love The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. I guarantee it.

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Currently reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Seeing non-fiction is a bit underrepresented at the moment, I might add God Is Not Great.
In the fiction department, I'm reading a fanlation of Haruhi.

thirding 1984 - greatest book or greatest book etc
American Gods
Neuromancer
Lolita
song of ice and fire
The Stand - admit it, shit was cash.

Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel.
Jack London - Call of the Wild.

>>2741153
Anna is the only book I couldn't finish.
My list:
Moby Dick
Frankenstein
Life of Pi
Vernon God Little (still under the impression, it could fade away perhaps)
Anything by Erlend Loe
Haunted

Ilium, Olympos by Dan Simmons
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Dawkins' God Delusion and Selfish Gene propably fit in quite well with /r9k/'s beliefs too, to add to the small amount of non-fiction listed.

>a list of the /r9k/-approved books

don't give me all that crap. It's Isaac Asimov, StarWars/Trek novels and/or teen-angst-fueling philosophy, preferably expressed via fiction.

Why would I need the approval of /r9k/ for my reading? Am I a socially awkward teen that browses 4chan because IRL is full of terrible things and only e-friends are distanced enough to feel safe? oh, wait...

>>2742897
life of pi any good?
my friend has it and has suggested it too me..

this is the saddest, most sheltered collection of books i've ever seen. it's a bunch of shut in malefaggot reading. its like people here are less than human, and can't read about great physical trevails or moments of human triumph. Books like "Saturday" or "Underworld" don't even registers as blips on the radar.

fuck you faggos

>>2743379
life of pi is my favorite book ever. It's such a good read, interesting, weird, and you're kinda like wtf at points. wonderful.

>>2743401
you are on /r9k/....
so you are a faggot too

Breakfast in the Ruins by Moorcock

>>2743379
It's pretty good. Probably not worth all the hype it gets however, but it's entertaining.

>>2740745
Should warn people: only the first 4 books of the Dark Tower series are worth a damn. The 4th one starts going downhill, and the rest are complete utter shit.

Oh lawdy, I spy some trolls.

However, seconding:
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kessey
Anything written by Kafka

The His Dark Materials series. I loved them.

Good job gentlemen. Everything I was going to suggest has been covered.

A Prayer for Owen Meany, if you can put up with the Christianity.

Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
(On my copy it says Dostoyevsky.)

Great little book. I can see myself in it, so it really does make a good read.

Don't come to a student chatroom for book recommendations if you really want to get into literature.

Harry Potter

No, I'm not fucking trolling.

Hey /r9k/. Where's a good place to get E-books? I was thinking of getting a Sony Reader.

As for a suggestion, I'll say "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle".

>>2743919

I got the older sony reader (PRS-505) and have enjoyed it immensely. Try Anon-ib for books.

Fahrenheit 451 is pretty spectacular.

I know you said recent, but anything written by Vladimir Nabokov is very decent.

But as for recent, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a psychological mindfuck, but I loved it nonetheless.

>>2744016

Gods, House of Leaves is friggin overrated. It's nice, not good.
Vellum and Ink by Hal Duncan are real postmodern mindfucks.

Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont

any - Thomas Ligotti

Aaron Cometbus- Double Duce

White Noise by Don DeLillo is my nomination

Catch-22, obv. Insanely good and rereadable to the max.

>>2743935
That's the one I'm thinking of getting. The 700 will probably be too expensive to be worth it. It's not like I'll be using it to annotate books or anything. Is it easy enough to use?

>>2744033
Vellum was meaningless boring directionless shit. It had no plot, no characters, and no setting. No fucking lie. Duncan is a faggot who thought that with a first shitty novel he could break the conventions of what sci-fi/fantasy could be by being a furry faggot who poured his tastes and opinions on everything into it with no regard for narration.

the idiot - dostoyevsky
I may not like the guy but it's not a waste to read
war and peace - tolstoy

>>2744065

It's hard to read but you are wrong in almost every aspect. One of the greatest aspects of those books are the permutations of topics and characters. if you didn't get the plot or what it is all about you are a fucking moron.

>>2741153

Anna is a little bit meh. C&P (wolol) is a very good book, though. I like Gogol's Dead Houses, too, if we're talking Russian literature. Brothers Karamazov, The Liar (Dostoevsky)

>>2744033

I feel that House of Leaves was at least a different sort of story from what I would normally pick up at a bookstore. It was interesting, even if overrated as you say. And from what >>2744065 said about your choice, I'm disinclined to believe your opinion is unbiased.

metamorphosis - franz kafka
if on a winter's night a traveller - italo calvino

>>2741069

By the way, wonderful book. I read it when I was in middle school and enjoyed it immensely. Don't listen to what other people say. :D

>>2744078

War and Peace is so much reading, though. Honestly, it'll keep you busy for a month or two.

>>2744109

Well, House of Leaves is interesting if you didn't read anything with metatextuality before. I give you that. And it's not badly written. But to me it's like an overblown Weird Tales story that got more hype than it was due.
The books by Duncan are, as I said before, not an easy read. But they are worthwhile in my opinion. What you make of that is your own thing of course.

>>2744168
I'm one page in

>>2744191

gratz, brosef.

>>2744091
Duncan tried to make his books about absolutely everything at once. Constant and complete permutation of plot and character isn't a literary device, it's fucking retarded. Deny this, asshole. The kid was way too fucking ambitious. Maybe if he could write for shit it would've helped but the whole time I was completely aware that what I was reading was some furry faggot fanboy's ode to himself.

Maybe you buy into everyday sci-fi/fantasy bullshit and that's why you liked it, because that's what the book basically was--a condensed anthology of really shitty postmod fantasy pulp that tried to be a novel.

The Lord of the rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Don't forget his other works completed/compiled by his son Christopher Tolkien.

>>2740418
yeah l know he's a pretty good read but why would you wanna be such an asshole?

>>2744170

See, I never saw any hype about House of Leaves. It just has my IRL name in it, which made a friend buy it for me for my birthday. He told me it was different to see my name as a character in a book because its a fairly unique name.

As for the Duncan books, I'm always open to new suggestions. So for the sake of being overly skeptical and hypocritical, I'll read a few, and see what happens. :D

>>2744258

Well, maybe you'll see them as the raging other anon does. But I think he has a problem with the whole postmodern remix stuff.

Oh wow, a list of books.

Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
Old Man of the Sea (Hemingway)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Starship Troopers (Heinlein)
Life and Fate (Grossman)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
Friday (Heinlein)
The Wheel of Time (Jordan)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Calvino)
Counterfeit Unrealities (Dick)
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
The Trial (Kafka)
Ishmael (Quinn)
We (Zamyatin)
The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Sagan)
The Way of All Flesh (Butler)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)
Against Nature (Huysmans)
A History of Warfare (Keegan)
The Magus (Fowles)
A Canticle For Leibowitz (Miller)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
Vile Bodies (Waugh)
Berlin Stories (Isherwood)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby)
The Republic (Plato)
Politics (Aristotle)
Leviathan (Aristotle)
Origins of Inequality (Rousseau)
Brave New World (Huxley)
1984 (Orwell)
SlaughterHouse-five (Vonnegut)
Open society and its enemies (Popper)
Ender's Game ( Orson Scott Card)
Catch-22 (Heller)
The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
Illusions: Tales of a Reluctant Messiah (Bach)
Man in the High Castle (Philip K Dick)
Decline of the West (Spengler)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Gracian)
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Meditations (Aurelius)
The Wealth of Nations (Smith)
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Keynes)
Whither Socialism? (Stiglitz)
Neuromancer (Gibson)
The War of the World (Ferguson)
Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom (Marquis de Sade)
Something Happened (Heller)
Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)
The Wasp Factory (Banks)
The Outsider (Camus)
Blindness (Saramago)
Rules of Attraction (Easton Ellis)
The Dice Man (Rhinehart)
A Theory of Justice (Rawls)

Enjoy the lit list from several months ago.

Cum.

Someone mentioned Haunted by Palahniuk already, any other interesting books by him? Apart from Fight Club that is.

>>2744304

Mmmh, 'We'. Orwell ripped that off so fucking horrendously that it near disgusted me, since I read 1984 AFTER 'We'.

>>2744277
Actually, I have a problem with everything.

I'd just not recommend the book. Very amateur. But possibly to the tastes of anyone who has ever read fantasy.

>>2744277

There are very few books that make me rage.
There are however, a few books that I have to put down simply because they are irrelevant to my interests (i.e. they are boring.)
But until I read them, I will refrain from making a biased comment.

>>2744316
choke, lullaby

To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee

>>2744342

WAY too formulaic. And I seriously mean WAY too.

>>2744347
Does Atticus have to choke a bitch?

>>2744336

Well, I recommend getting Vellum from a library near you. The safest possible way.

Also this book list seems like it lists loads of "Classics" but not very many books that are absolutely unknown or novel.

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Magician by Raymond E Feist

>>2744354

Bitch, I'll have to choke you if you keep this up.

The Prince of Nothing trilogy by R. Scott Bakker.

the passover plot power shift by alvin toffler
the power of one
treasure island

>>2744370

i think it's impossible to appreciate the modern without knowing where it comes from (classics) but conversely there're so many classics it's hard to read them all and the moderns

THE CALL OF CTHULHU AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES

Shitty escapist/genre fiction and any non-obscure piece of shit from a commonly clique circlejerking group of authors (see "100 Years of Solitude" and magical realism).

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

A shadow over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft

This isn't list worthy but,

If you're an RPG fag like me and like the forgotten realms campaign, read the War of the Spider Queen series. Drow are fuckwin.

>>2744393
here:
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html

I'll recommend authors instead:

Shakespeare, James Joyce (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Robertson Davies, Cormac McCarthy, Andre Dubus, Raymond Carver, John Updike, John Cheever, John Kennedy Toole, Salman Rushdie

>>2744383
Treasure island was a pretty cool guy. Eh led a huge mutiny and didn't afraid of anything.

>>2744245
come on someone, i consider this to be the best reference i ever made, please someone comment me on my inventiveness

>>2744245

i give u 7/10 at best.

that's enough for me