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ITT: Your top 5-10 books

What books fit any or all of the following: - Personal fa...
Abusive Stage
  11/02/17
Confederacy of Dunces Master and Margarita I'm very well...
scarlet locale
  11/02/17
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
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love M&M so much I named my cat after it
Trip out-of-control set
  11/02/17
No Latinx and queer lit? If not you’re functionally illitera...
odious forum
  11/03/17
Master and Margarita is some of the most overrated shit of a...
Milky charismatic water buffalo
  11/05/17
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets C...
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These made me laugh my ass off as an early teen. My parents ...
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18000
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Histrionic Foreskin Mother
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What's wrong with the original Captain Underpants?
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insane lay
  11/05/17
Don't forget Dogman and Dogman: Unleashed. Two of the great...
Mint Party Of The First Part
  11/06/17
Feel like I've only read like 5 books in my life In no part...
Electric selfie
  11/02/17
Read all but Dune. All are good, Crime and Punishment is...
Abusive Stage
  11/02/17
youre not missing out. i basically read for vanitys sake
Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea
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That's the only reason I'd want to do it again. Upper level ...
Electric selfie
  11/02/17
i used to bang out books like nbd. since being on xo, it's a...
Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea
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ljl at our BLOWN OUT dopamine receptors
Electric selfie
  11/02/17
have you ever taken a girl to a museum and realised you know...
Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea
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Still really don't get visual art. Statues, pictures, etc. a...
Abusive Stage
  11/02/17
(Jew)
Sadistic French Chef
  11/03/17
Nah, Anglo-Saxon and German ancestry
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
Lmao I've had this exact thought after taking a girl to an a...
Electric selfie
  11/02/17
this series is a good primer https://www.youtube.com/watc...
Brilliant Piazza Indirect Expression
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I've had this problem as well but I think it's just an Inter...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/02/17
wow
Twisted gas station
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Dune is the greatest science fiction
Submissive alpha
  11/06/17
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
  11/02/17
None of these seem particularly enjoyable
Electric selfie
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
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BNW is awesome bro, give it a shot
Heady buck-toothed halford
  11/02/17
Brave New World is cr. Read it many times
coral field
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
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Not a Crichton fan but cr
coral field
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like the reading list of a guy who went to catholic high sch...
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
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adding all but BNW to reading list
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
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Cryptonomicon was pretty good. Only managed to sit through 2...
Maroon fragrant cumskin
  11/03/17
Fuck man, some of those are good books but you're not doing ...
Milky charismatic water buffalo
  11/05/17
Brave New World. Ball Four. White Fang The call o...
coral field
  11/02/17
Jack London is 180^180
Abusive Stage
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dead range
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This is all ad-hoc because I'm not big on top X lists for th...
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
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Glad to hear it, hope you enjoy.
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
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thoughts on chaucer?
Vengeful awkward state pistol
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No deep thoughts. I've only read portions of the Tales, back...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
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One that I forgot: My favorite lulzy pulp story, The High Cr...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/02/17
ever read hyperion?
zombie-like clown cuckold
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No, though I'm familiar with the basic plot outline. An a...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/02/17
i highly, highly recommend hyperion (and its sequel, fall of...
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Noted. In the next year I'd really like to go and read a dec...
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The Sparrow: Jesuits IN SPACE
Azure flatulent business firm
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Speaker for the Dead: Brazilian Catholics IN SPACE.
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
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Favorite Aristophanes work? Read Clouds last semester.
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
Probably also Clouds, but it was the first one I read. I lik...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/03/17
What made Lord of the World particularly compelling?
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
It's both a dystopian work and an apocalypse, set after a ce...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/03/17
Just ordered it
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
a confederacy of dunces moby dick the world as will an...
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personal fave - The Prize (changed the way I see the world) ...
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all very CR
Abusive Stage
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American Psycho LA confidential Bhagavad Gita Catch...
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Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency
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No particular order: Hyperion (whole cantos) by Dan Simmo...
Maroon fragrant cumskin
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Brave New World was incredibly thought-provoking and insight...
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ITT: Soulless 115 IQ office drones recall their AP lit sylla...
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joke's on you faggot, I never did the assigned reading
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(soulless 95 IQ drone who thinks literacy is for the enjoyme...
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
Alas, Babylon: I love post-apocalyptic stuff, this is one of...
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Why, in a few sentences, do you find Kant persuasive?
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
a list of a few of my favorites. note that these arent neces...
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house of leaves was pretty cool
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house of leaves was 18000000
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Seemed cool at first, but the postmodern schtick wore on me ...
shivering theater roast beef
  11/03/17
it really wasn't helpful but the actual story being told mad...
galvanic coiffed personal credit line
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American psycho is full of turgid descriptive sections. He w...
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  11/15/17
Kant--Groundwork of the Metaphysics of the Morals Kant--P...
Cream Floppy Knife Hissy Fit
  11/03/17
*acknowledges Kant*
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
  11/03/17
What makes Foucault and Kant persuasive to you?
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
i forget what i've read
beady-eyed flesh dragon
  11/03/17
http://www.artgarfunkel.com/books.html
Contagious Prole Base
  11/03/17
London Fields (Amis) Underworld (Delillo) Remains of the D...
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
  11/03/17
you inspired me to finally read remains of the day - thx
Contagious Prole Base
  11/06/17
It's great, and quite short. Very clean and elegant writing.
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
  11/06/17
mal also told me to read it so that combo of reccos sealed.t...
Contagious Prole Base
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update: picked up at used book store for $7 here we gooOo...
Contagious Prole Base
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The Blank Slate Dying Every Day The Swerve The Moviegoer...
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  11/03/17
Thus Spoke Zarathustra The Gay Science Blood Meridian The...
citrine aphrodisiac chad
  11/03/17
Read all but The Gay Science, very good list.
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
GTFO with these lies. No one like Tractatus more than Invest...
Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge
  11/04/17
I read the Investigations a while ago, brehlet
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  11/05/17
you are 18000
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Great thread OP I really like Fantasy books but trying to...
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  11/03/17
I copped Red Mars for $.50 at a charity book sale a few week...
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  11/04/17
Did you finish the series? I really loved it. Would make a...
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  11/04/17
I have a a hard time believing the classic books are actuall...
primrose adventurous pit tattoo
  11/03/17
...alternatively, the reason they're classics is cause a lot...
Abusive Stage
  11/03/17
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  11/04/17
Crime and Punishment is a brilliant portrait of madness and ...
shivering theater roast beef
  11/05/17
Cr. Crime and Punishment is gripping and a joy to read.
olive arrogant headpube mood
  11/06/17
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Abusive Stage
  11/15/17
I can't give top 5–10 all time, so I'll give some I read for...
Sadistic French Chef
  11/04/17
Good suggestions across the board. Have you read Wolfe's ...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/04/17
Yes, Peace is 180^180, and I loved the first two Latro books...
Sadistic French Chef
  11/04/17
100% not flame we should do an XO Gene Wolfe book club. He's...
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yeah, I didn't know u had a classics background—  I fel...
Sadistic French Chef
  11/04/17
180. Hoping to go on a Wolfe bender soon; might make some su...
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...
Sadistic French Chef
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i love wolfe, brah
multi-colored tank haunted graveyard
  11/05/17
have you read Castle of the Otter, his book on writing + The...
Sadistic French Chef
  11/04/17
I own it but have not read it, unfortunately (it's probably ...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/04/17
well if we weren't all thoughtcriminals practicing good terr...
Sadistic French Chef
  11/04/17
Don't sweat it. Tbh I need to reread BOTNS first, because I ...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
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Finnegan's Wake On Being and Nothingness Gravity's Rai...
Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge
  11/04/17
I don't believe you actually read or actually like Finnegan'...
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  11/05/17
guaranteed 100% flame except for perhaps Gravity's Rainbow
Trip out-of-control set
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The whole list is so called 'flame'. But I've read 2 plus th...
Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge
  11/05/17
artful execution, especially the false misdirection in the i...
Trip out-of-control set
  11/05/17
lol
hideous trailer park volcanic crater
  11/08/17
apostrophe in Finnegans? PROLE TELL!
citrine aphrodisiac chad
  11/05/17
fuck my ass. aka, my moniker
Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge
  11/05/17
I have not read a book for at least a decade. How prole?
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  11/04/17
if your net worth is under nine figures, you're basically a ...
Sadistic French Chef
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Gravitys Rainbow Snopes Triology Recognitions Moby Dick ...
hideous trailer park volcanic crater
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a bend in the river: beautiful writing about ugly subject ma...
appetizing lemon nowag
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count of monte cristo - 180
splenetic bateful church deer antler
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Journey to the End of the Night Brave New World Americ...
vibrant gold rigor point
  11/05/17
Crazy amount of love for American Psycho in here.
Milky charismatic water buffalo
  11/05/17
Odd case
vibrant gold rigor point
  11/05/17
American Psycho and A Confederacy of Dunces reliably signal ...
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Chocolate kitchen
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I don’t think that’s fair. American Psycho is a classic nihi...
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Of the two books, you chose the wrong one to defend
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Sadistic French Chef
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I used to be obsessed with American psycho and read the book...
doobsian stead
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"I used to be obsessed with American psycho" lo...
Abusive Stage
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Stoner Farewell my Lovely American Caesar Dance Dance Dan...
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the best of the heinlein juveniles: have space suit will tr...
dead range
  11/05/17
No Farmer in the Sky?
Sadistic French Chef
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3rd tier heinlein
dead range
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Azn or Jew?
Sadistic French Chef
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scots irish
dead range
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1. American Sniper 2. The Mouse and the Motorcycle 3. Crim...
Saffron gaping
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Read all but Casino Royale. Not a bad list.
Abusive Stage
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1. Lord Of The Rings (Tolkien) This is probably my favorit...
obsidian boiling water
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It's an oddball take but I think my favorite Card novel migh...
stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian
  11/06/17
No, it does seem like an oddball story, though. Worth it?
obsidian boiling water
  11/06/17
You'd probably like it. At the least it's quite original.
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I agree with most peoples’ lists. Here are some I didn’t see...
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Hesse - The Glass Bead Game Borges - Ficciones Hemingway -...
cyan passionate box office
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I couldn’t get into Tropic of Cancer.
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It might still be my favorite. I recall it as an almost pure...
cyan passionate box office
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I didn’t get very far into it. Maybe 1 chapter. To me it see...
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translation... too spicy. Date: November 6th, 2017 3:44 P...
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i just started ficciones
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
  11/06/17
180 Hope you enjoy it thoroughly
cyan passionate box office
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ty, although tbf, i think i'm only reading it because it's o...
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
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Yeh, but it’s actually great. Most “great” books are, so no ...
cyan passionate box office
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try-hard college reading list BS and not remotely true. i wo...
Laughsome crackhouse
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Confederacy of Dunces Rabbit Redux Rabbit is Rich The Sun...
Mint Party Of The First Part
  11/06/17
I could see myself making this exact list. Are you by chance...
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
  11/06/17
I am a late Gen-Xer in the craft beer capital.
Mint Party Of The First Part
  11/08/17
White Noise is so bad. Fuck. It was a good premise (academic...
swashbuckling rambunctious shrine boistinker
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Lolita A Moveable Feast Sun Also Rises Crime and Punishme...
olive arrogant headpube mood
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these books formed my worldview more than any others 1....
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Shelby Foote's trilogy is so so 180. Learned so much from it...
Abusive Stage
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Surprisingly little Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Krakauer, Kerouac, ...
swashbuckling rambunctious shrine boistinker
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The road, NCFOM, all the pretty horses, suttree... all very...
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Labyrinths - Borges Sophie's Choice - William Styron ...
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Godfather movies get all the attention, but the book is also...
Abusive Stage
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most of these were made into movies. thats interesting.
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Filthy Jet Hospital
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The Decline of the West HP Lovecraft - Collected Works Tho...
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Don’t read books at all. Watch movies, TV, listen to music,...
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My favorite reading experience of all-time was The Murder of...
Comical Blood Rage
  11/08/17
Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a good one
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Agatha Christie writes like a child, but some of her plots/m...
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
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i always thought her writing was underrated: she was wri...
Comical Blood Rage
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I read most of her books from age 10-17. Picked one up I had...
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
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she wrote a TON of books, so i don't want to use one of her ...
Comical Blood Rage
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Cards on the Table was shockingly bad. Surprised to see it l...
narrow-minded new version gaming laptop
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i'm going to have to do that, too. we can revisit when we...
Comical Blood Rage
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I pretty much only read non-fiction but I really liked these...
Drab Ceo Potus
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180 list
obsidian boiling water
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I'm surprised For Whom the Bell Tolls didn't make anyone els...
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Heart of Darkness, Napoleon: A Political Life, White Guard, ...
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Disgrace Light in August Moby Dick Crime & Punishment...
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Embarrassing thread
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very underwhelming indeed
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Why don't you regale us with your list, grandmaster faggot?
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this poast incorrectly assumes that he's literate above a 50...
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Date: November 2nd, 2017 1:44 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

What books fit any or all of the following:

- Personal favorites

- Influential in your life

- Philosophically profound

- Highly compelling writing

Pick your top 5-10, please include explanation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585541)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 1:45 AM
Author: scarlet locale

Confederacy of Dunces

Master and Margarita

I'm very well read in Anglo-American, French, German, Russian, Greco-Roman literature, but I return to these two again and again. Magna opera of characterization, vivid portraits of their times and cultures, just funny.

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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:03 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:09 AM
Author: Trip out-of-control set

love M&M so much I named my cat after it

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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:31 AM
Author: odious forum

No Latinx and queer lit? If not you’re functionally illiterate

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Date: November 5th, 2017 8:37 PM
Author: Milky charismatic water buffalo

Master and Margarita is some of the most overrated shit of all time. It's good, no doubt, but the worship of this book has never made sense to me.



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 1:52 AM
Author: Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea

Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds)

Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants

Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman

Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets

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Date: November 2nd, 2017 1:54 AM
Author: scarlet locale

These made me laugh my ass off as an early teen. My parents were driving through Times Square once, and my father was screaming at me because I refused to look up at the flashing billboards. I was reading Captain Underpants.

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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:00 AM
Author: Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:50 AM
Author: pearly travel guidebook feces



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:01 AM
Author: Claret vivacious toaster affirmative action

18000

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Date: November 4th, 2017 12:46 PM
Author: motley parlour ratface



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:53 PM
Author: Histrionic Foreskin Mother



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 1:55 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

What's wrong with the original Captain Underpants?

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Date: November 5th, 2017 6:58 PM
Author: insane lay



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:47 PM
Author: Mint Party Of The First Part

Don't forget Dogman and Dogman: Unleashed. Two of the greatest pieces of American literature.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618333)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 1:56 AM
Author: Electric selfie

Feel like I've only read like 5 books in my life

In no particular order

Dune

Crime and punishment

Storm of swords

Prisoner of Azkaban or order of the phoenix

Jfc its worse than I've thought. Those/those series are the only books I've read since college, jfc

And actually, I read crime and punishment and Harry Potter in college. Loool

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585580)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:00 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

Read all but Dune.

All are good, Crime and Punishment is especially cr.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585590)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:03 AM
Author: Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea

youre not missing out. i basically read for vanitys sake

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585601)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:04 AM
Author: Electric selfie

That's the only reason I'd want to do it again. Upper level high school classes + striving convinced me I had to enjoy high literature or I was a retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585602)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:06 AM
Author: Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea

i used to bang out books like nbd. since being on xo, it's a long painful slog

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585609)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:07 AM
Author: Electric selfie

ljl at our BLOWN OUT dopamine receptors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585613)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:09 AM
Author: Amber Fiercely-loyal Whorehouse Marketing Idea

have you ever taken a girl to a museum and realised you know jackshit about art? you're just an ape staring at some pretty pictures? thankfully english class taught me to bullshit effectively and even earnestly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585622)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:11 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

Still really don't get visual art. Statues, pictures, etc. are entirely unmoving. Books and music, I really get. But visual art does nothing for me. Never been able to figure out why.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585631)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 5:15 AM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

(Jew)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594151)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:56 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

Nah, Anglo-Saxon and German ancestry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596195)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:11 AM
Author: Electric selfie

Lmao I've had this exact thought after taking a girl to an art museum and do the same bullshitting (which I'm convinced actually gives it meaning, even if it's drawn ironically). When I picture civilization, I basically imagine us as chimps in a suit and tie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585633)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:33 PM
Author: Brilliant Piazza Indirect Expression

this series is a good primer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhNiJaoVow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621028)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:16 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

I've had this problem as well but I think it's just an Internet/smartphone thing in general. Harder to focus on one thing without distraction for hours on end.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585659)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 6:27 AM
Author: Twisted gas station

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594208)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:51 PM
Author: Submissive alpha

Dune is the greatest science fiction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621226)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:02 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585596)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:13 AM
Author: Electric selfie

None of these seem particularly enjoyable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585643)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:41 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585714)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:43 AM
Author: Heady buck-toothed halford

BNW is awesome bro, give it a shot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585721)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:42 AM
Author: coral field

Brave New World is cr. Read it many times

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585717)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:43 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585723)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:44 AM
Author: coral field

Not a Crichton fan but cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585726)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:43 AM
Author: zombie-like clown cuckold

like the reading list of a guy who went to catholic high school then to a service academy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585722)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:44 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585725)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 3:49 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

adding all but BNW to reading list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594062)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 3:57 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594081)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 6:18 AM
Author: Maroon fragrant cumskin

Cryptonomicon was pretty good. Only managed to sit through 2 of that guy's books (was it Stephenson?) and that one was the most engrossing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594203)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 8:39 PM
Author: Milky charismatic water buffalo

Fuck man, some of those are good books but you're not doing much to put off those would accuse you of being a level 10 neckbeard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612203)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:43 AM
Author: coral field

Brave New World.

Ball Four.

White Fang

The call of the wild

Matterhorn.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585724)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 3:49 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

Jack London is 180^180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594065)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:24 PM
Author: dead range



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613108)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:57 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

This is all ad-hoc because I'm not big on top X lists for this sort of thing, but just for discussion's sake:

Lord of the World: Probably my favorite Christian novel. Very influential to my own life in that I experienced a surge of religious commitment after reading it. It helped me grapple with my feelings on trying to follow a worldview that seems perpetually in decline and more ignored/despised with each passing day.

A Canticle for Leibowitz: My favorite science fiction book, and it also doubles as an interesting religious work.

The Civil War, A Narrative: Probably the best work of narrative history I've read, and certainly the most epic. Not really a work of scholarship (no bibliography, for one) but a great read if you have the time for it.

The Campaigns of Napoleon: Fascinating analysis of the career and mind of one of the greatest soldiers in history.

Plays of Aristophanes (not a 'book' but w/e): My favorite classical writer.

Montaillou: Fascinating work of "micro-history," focused on the daily lives of Occitan peasants who were interviewed in exhaustive detail by the Papal Inquisition. I recommend this book on XO a lot.

Flash for Freedom!: The best and funniest Flashman book. Probably my favorite work of historical fiction (I, Claudius is a more conventional contender).

Christian Nation: This book has certainly provided me with more entertainment than any other.

Notably while I have read and enjoyed quite a few "Great Novels," none of them really stand out as books I look back on as personal favorites.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585768)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 2:59 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585777)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:03 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

Glad to hear it, hope you enjoy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585785)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:06 AM
Author: Vengeful awkward state pistol

thoughts on chaucer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585791)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:12 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

No deep thoughts. I've only read portions of the Tales, back in high school.

My favorite medieval poem is probably the Song of Roland.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585804)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:32 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

One that I forgot: My favorite lulzy pulp story, The High Crusade.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585837)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:34 AM
Author: zombie-like clown cuckold

ever read hyperion?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585839)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:35 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

No, though I'm familiar with the basic plot outline.

An amusingly significant amount of top sci-fi revolves around Catholics IN SPACE.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585840)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:36 AM
Author: zombie-like clown cuckold

i highly, highly recommend hyperion (and its sequel, fall of hyperion).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585842)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:39 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

Noted. In the next year I'd really like to go and read a decent amount of classic sci-fi I never got around to. My other significant reading project is to become an expert on ISLAM so that I can more effectively hate on it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585844)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:46 AM
Author: zombie-like clown cuckold



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585852)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:12 AM
Author: Azure flatulent business firm

The Sparrow: Jesuits IN SPACE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594889)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 11:39 AM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

Speaker for the Dead: Brazilian Catholics IN SPACE.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595661)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 3:50 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

Favorite Aristophanes work? Read Clouds last semester.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594069)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:25 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

Probably also Clouds, but it was the first one I read. I like The Knights a good bit too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595949)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 3:52 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

What made Lord of the World particularly compelling?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594072)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:30 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

It's both a dystopian work and an apocalypse, set after a century of shitlib rule has turned Christianity into a tiny, persecuted, heavily-mocked sect. In contrast to lame shit like Left Behind, where persons of perfect faith simply battle the forces of evil, the greatest struggles in LOTW are internal, about holding on to faith and avoiding despair when everything in the world pushes against doing so.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595977)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:46 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

Just ordered it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596102)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 3:11 AM
Author: splenetic bateful church deer antler

a confederacy of dunces

moby dick

the world as will and representation

elective affinities

naked lunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585800)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 4:39 AM
Author: violent at-the-ready boltzmann rehab

personal fave - The Prize (changed the way I see the world)

for writing - Lolita (a fucking ESL wrote that???)

for psychological aspect - Crime and Punishment

for the history and adventure story - Moby Dick (four fucking doods in a dinghy taking down a fucking whale?)

current events - 1984

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585888)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 3:48 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

all very CR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594058)



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Date: November 2nd, 2017 5:14 AM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone tripping cruise ship laser beams

American Psycho

LA confidential

Bhagavad Gita

Catch 22

English August

Untethered Soul - kind of basic but sometimes you forget the basics

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia

Confederacy of the Dunces

Q clearance



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34585911)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 2:22 AM
Author: Mauve Idiotic Market International Law Enforcement Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34593873)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 6:26 AM
Author: Maroon fragrant cumskin

No particular order:

Hyperion (whole cantos) by Dan Simmons

Gridlinked by Neal Asher

Magician's nephew by Lewis (haven't read in years, but still)

Starfish by Watts

All my other top 10s are science fiction anthologies, either collections of Dick stories or best of 1980s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594207)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:07 AM
Author: shivering theater roast beef

Brave New World was incredibly thought-provoking and insightful, and Huxley was frighteningly on-point in many ways. But it was a pretty dull, uninteresting story. Would never put it in my top books, but still glad I read it.

Infinite Jest

Confederacy of Dunces

Redwall

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Crime and Punishment

The Civil War: A Narrative (in progress)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594857)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:13 AM
Author: Impressive sable national old irish cottage

ITT: Soulless 115 IQ office drones recall their AP lit syllabus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594899)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:14 AM
Author: shivering theater roast beef

joke's on you faggot, I never did the assigned reading

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594907)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:44 PM
Author: canary theatre electric furnace



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603388)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:47 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

(soulless 95 IQ drone who thinks literacy is for the enjoyment of the weak)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596110)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:15 AM
Author: galvanic coiffed personal credit line

Alas, Babylon: I love post-apocalyptic stuff, this is one of the best examples of the genre from a literary POV. The Road is very good but that's not post-apocalyptic fiction, it's fiction set in a post-apocalyptic world.

Jurassic Park: Haven't read it since I was a kid, but I read it 6 times in a week the summer the movie came out.

Critique of Pure Reason: Obvious.

Sex and Character: Obvious (well maybe not but when you Google it you'll see it's a very XO book).

Gulag Archipelago: Obvious.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594915)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:48 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

Why, in a few sentences, do you find Kant persuasive?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596128)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:22 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle judgmental gunner

a list of a few of my favorites. note that these arent necessarily the best books ive ever read, just a few i liked a lot. this is a hard list for me to make, though, because ive read a lot of really entertaining but questionable shit (in terms of quality) throughout my life

house of leaves- i love everything about this book

american psycho- self explanatory

an instance of the fingerpost- my favorite historical novel

the mummy- probably my favorite anne rice novel. this isnt great literature but i find the story genuinely entertaining. i liked it a lot as a teenager; it has a lot of sentimental value for me

quincunx- when i read this book it absorbed me into its universe in a way i had never experienced when reading a novel. it was spellbinding. i loved it.

the season of passage- this is a weird book because its written by a successful YA author but is geared toward adults. its similar to the mummy for me in that i read it when i was young, really really loved it, and periodically read it every few years as an adult.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594961)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:23 AM
Author: galvanic coiffed personal credit line

house of leaves was pretty cool

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594967)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:23 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle judgmental gunner

house of leaves was 18000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594973)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:26 AM
Author: shivering theater roast beef

Seemed cool at first, but the postmodern schtick wore on me after a while. Couldn't finish it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34594999)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:27 AM
Author: galvanic coiffed personal credit line

it really wasn't helpful but the actual story being told made it worth it. it was a great horror story, like lovecraftian level, that was made difficult by its pretensions to art. it needs to be a miniseries

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595008)



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Date: November 15th, 2017 8:46 AM
Author: brindle trump supporter scourge upon the earth

American psycho is full of turgid descriptive sections. He was taking the piss

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34691366)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 10:31 AM
Author: Cream Floppy Knife Hissy Fit

Kant--Groundwork of the Metaphysics of the Morals

Kant--Perpetual Peace and other Political Writings

Eliot--Middlemarch

Herbert--The Fog

Bradbury--Something Wicked This Way Comes

Hayek--The Road to Serfdom

Dickens--David Copperfield

Ballard--Crash

Foucault--The Birth of Biopolitics (Lectures at the College de France 1978-79)

Selby--Last Exit to Brooklyn

Runners Up:

*Dickens--Our Mutual Friend

*Twain--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

*Clover--Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

*Sconce, ed.--Sleaze Artists

*Lacan--Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

*Barker--The Books of Blood

*Ligotti--Teatro Grottesco

*Negrarestani--Cyclonopedia

*Ellis--American Psycho

*Portis--The Masters of Atlantis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595036)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 11:45 AM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

*acknowledges Kant*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595696)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:53 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

What makes Foucault and Kant persuasive to you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596167)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 11:42 AM
Author: beady-eyed flesh dragon

i forget what i've read

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595682)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 11:47 AM
Author: Contagious Prole Base

http://www.artgarfunkel.com/books.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595713)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 11:49 AM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

London Fields (Amis)

Underworld (Delillo)

Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)

Herzog (Bellow)

Independence Day (Ford)

Atonement (McEwan)

Stories of John Cheever

The Counterlife (Roth)

Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem)

Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)

Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Doyle)

Farwell, My Lovely (Chandler)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595725)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:15 PM
Author: Contagious Prole Base

you inspired me to finally read remains of the day - thx

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618027)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:36 PM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

It's great, and quite short. Very clean and elegant writing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618234)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:36 PM
Author: Contagious Prole Base

mal also told me to read it so that combo of reccos sealed.the.deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618241)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:22 PM
Author: Contagious Prole Base

update: picked up at used book store for $7

here we gooOoOOoOOooo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34636725)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 11:57 AM
Author: primrose adventurous pit tattoo

The Blank Slate

Dying Every Day

The Swerve

The Moviegoer

The Right Stuff

The Master and Margarita

The Beginning of Infinity

Blindsight

Cryptonomicon

The Sleepwalkers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34595778)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:42 PM
Author: citrine aphrodisiac chad

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Gay Science

Blood Meridian

The Sound and the Fury

The Brothers Karamazov

edit: others I've read recently and enjoyed:

A Portrait of the Artist

As I Lay Dying

V.

Either/Or

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Parerga and Paralipomena

The Old Man and the Sea

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596071)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 12:55 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

Read all but The Gay Science, very good list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596187)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:25 PM
Author: Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge

GTFO with these lies. No one like Tractatus more than Investigations.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603304)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 6:51 PM
Author: citrine aphrodisiac chad

I read the Investigations a while ago, brehlet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34611303)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 6:19 PM
Author: irradiated wagecucks sound barrier

you are 18000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34610979)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 1:42 PM
Author: lime therapy masturbator

Great thread OP

I really like Fantasy books but trying to get more into non-fiction

The Lions of Al-Rassan (set in Spain during reconquista and el-cid)

Red Mars (great story on colonization of mars)

Confederacy of Dunces

Napoleon: a Life

Claudius the God (really enjoyed reading about his time as emperor)

Storm of Swords

The Blade Itself (just really good dark Fantasy. Main character is a torturer worming for the inquisition. 3 book series. Abercrombie is great)

Sailing to Sarantium!(set in constantinople during justinian’s reign. Theodora, Belisarius, precopius are all major characters. Painting of the mosaics on the Hagia Sophia and Ravenna, and gambling on chariot races,are major parts of the plot)

Only Yesterday (was cool to read a contemporary history of the 20s)

Infinite Jest (feel douchy listing this but I really liked it)

Blood Meridian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596546)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:29 PM
Author: marvelous brethren hall

I copped Red Mars for $.50 at a charity book sale a few weeks ago. Aww yiss.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603324)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 10:00 PM
Author: lime therapy masturbator

Did you finish the series? I really loved it. Would make a great three season HBO series.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34606155)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 1:49 PM
Author: primrose adventurous pit tattoo

I have a a hard time believing the classic books are actually people's favorite books. Anytime someone ONLY lists books like Crime and Punishment and Blood Meridian it tells me that this person likely doesn't read books. It is more of a list of the 10 books they have read part of.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34596611)



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Date: November 3rd, 2017 5:51 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

...alternatively, the reason they're classics is cause a lot of people liked them, and people like them now for the same reasons.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34598240)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 12:05 PM
Author: lime therapy masturbator



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34602551)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 3:00 PM
Author: shivering theater roast beef

Crime and Punishment is a brilliant portrait of madness and paranoia with beautifully written set pieces (the lead-up to the murder, the murder itself, the dinner scene with the shitbag fiancé, others I won't mention), and a 180 detective character mercilessly trolling Raskolnikov the entire time. It's a joy to read and I don't think I even read the best translation. Have you read it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34609573)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:56 PM
Author: olive arrogant headpube mood

Cr. Crime and Punishment is gripping and a joy to read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618426)



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Date: November 15th, 2017 3:51 AM
Author: Abusive Stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34690845)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 12:45 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

I can't give top 5–10 all time, so I'll give some I read for the first time in the last year or so that really stood out that are (mostly) outside of my research interests:

- Nabokov, Lolita

I love Pale Fire and have read other Nabokov, but I hadn't read Lolita before, and well, there's a reason it lands on so many best novels lists. I don't want to spoil it for you, just read it.

- Graham Priest, One

Priest is best known for his defense of dialetheism, but he actually presses that theory into service here. It's a really open work of analytic philosophy that takes seriously Plato, Mahayana Buddhism, and Heidegger. I don't know how convinced I am, but I know I'll read this book every few years for a long time until I really digest it. It's short, and while it does contain some formal logic it isn't brutal about it, I promise.

- Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought

This was a book where I had seen pieces of the argument in tons of places before, but had never seen them altogether and it was eye-opening. McEvilley talks about the likelihood and evidence of transmission between the intellectual cultures of East and West in the ancient world. Individual instances, like Heraclitus, will be known to people who are interested in this stuff, but McEvilley really gives context to a lot of disparate weird facts.

- Gene Wolfe, Book of the Long Sun

Book of the Long Sun might be more immediately crowd-pleasing than Book of the New Sun. It doesn't hide its central mysteries as much, and Silk is a charming protagonist compared to Severian. But it's still excellently crafted, imaginative and well, there's nothing else like Gene Wolfe. If you like SF/F at all and haven't read any Wolfe DO SO NOW.

- Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar

There are, oddly, a lot of good books about Augustus from the past century, but not as many about Julius Caesar. Goldsworthy is a great narrative historian, and the subject here is perfectly suited for his talents.

- another thing

I've been reading all the Shakespeare plays I hadn't read before slowly over the past few years. Even the minor plays have amazing stuff in them, read Constance's sorrow for the lost Arthur in A3.S4 of King John:

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,

Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,

Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,

Remembers me of all his gracious parts,

Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;

Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34602794)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:20 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

Good suggestions across the board.

Have you read Wolfe's non-science fiction stuff? As a Classics nut I enjoyed the Latro books a good deal. The Devil in the Forest was one of the most effective troll jobs by an author I've ever seen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603277)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:37 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

Yes, Peace is 180^180, and I loved the first two Latro books (haven't bothered with the third yet, heard it's not as good), and I thought Devil in the Forest was great.

I also loved Wizard Knight; it's pulp, but it's Wolfe doing pulp and all the better for it. His recent SF detective novel, A Borrowed Man was also very clever (I like that his recent books are less ambitious, shows he is aging gracefully as an author imo).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603359)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:40 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

100% not flame we should do an XO Gene Wolfe book club. He's such a cool writer but there's so much beneath the surface I always find myself wishing I had people to talk his books over with.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603370)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:44 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

yeah, I didn't know u had a classics background—  I felt like knowing Greek was a "hack" in BotNS after talking to other people about their first experience reading it

there's a bit in Castle of the Otter where he talks about the Book of Gold bit in BotNS, and how he hopes that with BotNS he was able to write a book that was at least the Book of Gold for one person— and that's how I felt about it. Reading it for the first time was like reading a book I had always wanted to read but never knew it.

I would honestly be shit @ keeping up with a book club right now, school means I read for pleasure more erratically (like I won't at all for a few weeks and then I'll suddenly read 4-5 books for fun in a couple weeks), but I'd be very happy to talk about BotNS or any other Wolfe I've read w/ ppl going through it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603387)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 3:46 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

180. Hoping to go on a Wolfe bender soon; might make some summon threads just to talk about shit.

I don't want to overstate my classics knowledge; I did history, archaeology, and literature but not languages (I can read Greek script but that's about it), hence Latro having a lot of appeal since it's basically set during the obscure period between Plataea and the Peloponnesian War.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603700)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 4:21 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603868)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 9:59 PM
Author: multi-colored tank haunted graveyard

i love wolfe, brah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612896)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:39 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

have you read Castle of the Otter, his book on writing + The Book of the New Sun?

it's really good, and I think it's collected in another book now— my copy is an original hardback

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603367)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:56 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

I own it but have not read it, unfortunately (it's probably in a box at my parents' place, too). I need to read more Wolfe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603429)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 3:06 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

well if we weren't all thoughtcriminals practicing good terrorist cell hygiene, I'd offer to loan you my copy by mail

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603486)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 3:24 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

Don't sweat it. Tbh I need to reread BOTNS first, because I was a shithead high schooler the first time and couldn't grok a lot of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603602)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 2:27 PM
Author: Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge

Finnegan's Wake

On Being and Nothingness

Gravity's Rainbow

In Search of Lost Time

Philosophical Investigations

The Art of the Deal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34603313)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 5:39 AM
Author: hideous trailer park volcanic crater

I don't believe you actually read or actually like Finnegan's Wake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34607599)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 6:21 PM
Author: Trip out-of-control set

guaranteed 100% flame except for perhaps Gravity's Rainbow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34610997)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 6:23 PM
Author: irradiated wagecucks sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34611016)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 8:32 PM
Author: Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge

The whole list is so called 'flame'. But I've read 2 plus the first two books in ISOLT.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612128)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 9:54 PM
Author: Trip out-of-control set

artful execution, especially the false misdirection in the inclusion of the Trump book

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612854)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:49 AM
Author: hideous trailer park volcanic crater

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34632688)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 6:52 PM
Author: citrine aphrodisiac chad

apostrophe in Finnegans? PROLE TELL!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34611317)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 8:33 PM
Author: Indecent Elastic Band Indian Lodge

fuck my ass. aka, my moniker

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612137)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 10:03 PM
Author: provocative maniacal jewess

I have not read a book for at least a decade. How prole?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34606168)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 10:21 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

if your net worth is under nine figures, you're basically a welfare mom of the soul

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34606287)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 10:22 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34606298)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 5:44 AM
Author: hideous trailer park volcanic crater

Gravitys Rainbow

Snopes Triology

Recognitions

Moby Dick

Brave New World

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34607602)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 6:57 PM
Author: appetizing lemon nowag

a bend in the river: beautiful writing about ugly subject matter

thus spake zarathrusta: a timely wake-up call for a backwards boy

caesar's gallic war journals: a haunting glimpse into the mind of another kind

on rhetoric by aristotle: his distilled writings on logic and poetics

the count of monte cristo: just damn fun reading



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34611363)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 7:01 PM
Author: splenetic bateful church deer antler

count of monte cristo - 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34611389)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 7:05 PM
Author: vibrant gold rigor point

Journey to the End of the Night

Brave New World

American Psycho

Devils/The Possessed

Notes from Underground

Death on the Installment Plan/Death on Credit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34611428)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 9:04 PM
Author: Milky charismatic water buffalo

Crazy amount of love for American Psycho in here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612396)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 9:05 PM
Author: vibrant gold rigor point

Odd case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612403)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 9:07 PM
Author: Aqua ticket booth

American Psycho and A Confederacy of Dunces reliably signal an even mix of low IQ, low social skills, and high mental illness.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612441)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 9:09 PM
Author: Chocolate kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612463)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 9:10 PM
Author: irradiated wagecucks sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34612473)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:20 PM
Author: doobsian stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613062)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:26 PM
Author: vibrant gold rigor point

I don’t think that’s fair. American Psycho is a classic nihilist novel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613125)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:35 PM
Author: swollen preventive strike digit ratio

Of the two books, you chose the wrong one to defend

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613216)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:45 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613329)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:59 PM
Author: shivering theater roast beef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618445)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:18 PM
Author: doobsian stead

I used to be obsessed with American psycho and read the book multiple times.

It's fucking godawful lmao. Listing it as a *favorite* book seems like an awful attempt to signal you're cool or some shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613051)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:09 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

"I used to be obsessed with American psycho"

lol or they're just in that kinda phase. chill bruh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34617963)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:21 PM
Author: supple bawdyhouse

Stoner

Farewell my Lovely

American Caesar

Dance Dance Dance

I can't think of a fifth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613080)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:23 PM
Author: dead range

the best of the heinlein juveniles:

have space suit will travel

starman jones

tunnel in the sky

rocket ship galileo

citizen of the galaxy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613103)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:34 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

No Farmer in the Sky?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613205)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:35 PM
Author: dead range

3rd tier heinlein

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613211)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:46 PM
Author: Sadistic French Chef

Azn or Jew?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613338)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:55 PM
Author: dead range

scots irish

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613445)



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Date: November 5th, 2017 10:30 PM
Author: Saffron gaping

1. American Sniper

2. The Mouse and the Motorcycle

3. Crime and Punishment

4. Casino Royale

5. How to win friends and influence people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34613165)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:08 PM
Author: Abusive Stage

Read all but Casino Royale. Not a bad list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34617956)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:14 PM
Author: obsidian boiling water

1. Lord Of The Rings (Tolkien)

This is probably my favorite, every page is full of a lust for life and respect for goodness, while at the same time reading almost like a beautiful epic poem. It is also one of the few books that really inspires courage and yet doesn't make the heroes out to be anything more than regular types that could just as well be you. It is inspiring and makes you want to be a better person, and lets you know you can be.

2. Master and Commander (O'Brian)

This is about an Irish surgeon and an English ship's captain who become friends in the napoleonic era british navy. They get into a bunch of hijinks while fighting the french, sailing around, and dealing with british military bureaucracy. It is extremely well written with tons of historical references, poetry, etc. and is an epic saga about the bonds of brotherhood and friendships, especially amongst very different types of men. It is about relationships and marriage, and about how men deal with careers, war- everything really. This is the first book in a series and was a profound insight into the time period, but in itself is a top tier swashbuckling slice of life story with the most fleshed out characters that I have ever seen in literature.

3. Ender's Game (Scott Card)

This book shaped my views of conflict and violence growing up, what it means to achieve, disgust towards striving, etc. It deals with the question of how we can keep our humanity despite going through harrowing experiences, and how to find our inner strength and independence. Great science fiction tale- the very introspective protagonist makes for a good read. But it is not a very positive book if that is what you are looking for. It is gritty and realistic and addresses the devils in our nature.

4. Starship Troopers (Heinlein)

A sci-fi tale about a young upper class guy learning about duty and patriotism through his service in the space marines. It is a bit of a philosophical lecture by Heinlein wrapped in a story, but I felt it imparted a good deal of martial virtue in me that I had never reflected on before. It made me realize the significance of self-sacrifice and moral toughness and how they are needed to retain our society's vitality, and how these virtues are most needed at the top.

5. Whatever (Houellebecq)

A well written takedown of the modern sexual marketplace, set in the France of the 1980s/90s. Great characters, you will feel a lot of emotions reading this, not all positive ones. It is a critique of modernism and makes you ask while reading "Where did it all go so wrong?" Houellebecq was decades ahead of his time, and this novel will (and most agree now) go down as one of the best descriptions of post-modernist hell that is the life of the late 20th and early 21st century man.

6. A Wizard of Earthsea (LeGuin)

Similar to Tolkien in capturing the beauty of the natural world. Through the misadventures and hardships of a young wizard, LeGuin teaches us that the only way to truly appreciate the gifts we have been given in life, and to come to understand the world around us, is through patience, endurance, effort, and kindness. This book has shaped my worldview and made me more tolerant towards others and made me realize that there is no easy way out of learning all the things we need to to carry out our work faithfully. You observe and you gain a little bit each day, and add to your wisdom, and do your best to avoid failure- but learn what you can from it and try to live without regret. Very well written, and a good reminder to take notice (and respect) of the humanity in ourselves and others, and to value life in general.

Now that I think of it, the theme for my favorite books are that, primarily, they are well written and enjoyable stories with fun and interesting characters, but secondarily, there are lessons and examples to glean on how we might live a better life. The first definitely taking precedence. I like other books like ones other posters mentioned above, but a lot of them are purely entertainment and great reads as one-offs, but not books I would reread like the favorites I've posted above that continue to inspire my thoughts and actions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618015)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:21 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

It's an oddball take but I think my favorite Card novel might be Treason. Ever read it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618076)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:46 PM
Author: obsidian boiling water

No, it does seem like an oddball story, though. Worth it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618315)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:53 PM
Author: stubborn thriller orchestra pit persian

You'd probably like it. At the least it's quite original.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618396)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:27 PM
Author: swashbuckling rambunctious shrine boistinker

I agree with most peoples’ lists. Here are some I didn’t see above that I liked:

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (the one I had included some other Maclean stories which were also really good)

East of Eden by Steinbeck

Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut

On the Road by Kerouac (I’ll probably get shit for this, and it was overrated,but I still enjoyed it).

Seek: Reports from the edges of America & Beyond by Johnson

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618151)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:41 PM
Author: cyan passionate box office

Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

Borges - Ficciones

Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude

Camus - The Plague

Nabokov - Pale Fire

Nabokov - Short Stories

Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer

Anais Nin - Henry and June

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618279)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:42 PM
Author: swashbuckling rambunctious shrine boistinker

I couldn’t get into Tropic of Cancer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618287)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:44 PM
Author: cyan passionate box office

It might still be my favorite. I recall it as an almost purely sensuous experience.

Was it too emotive/ sexual for your tastes? I remember almoist being overwhelmed by its intensity at times, but the undertones are clearly French/Latin and probably far removed from and too fanciful for Anglo- American tastes. None of my American friends seems to like it, but all the Latin people do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618300)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:09 PM
Author: swashbuckling rambunctious shrine boistinker

I didn’t get very far into it. Maybe 1 chapter. To me it seemed like the guy just said a bunch of bad words and dirty shit for shock value. It didn’t seem to be going anywhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34620872)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:40 PM
Author: Shaky exciting place of business keepsake machete

translation... too spicy.

Date: November 6th, 2017 3:44 PM

Author: J-J-J-JULIA!

It might still be my favorite. I recall it as an almost purely sensuous experience.

Was it too emotive/ sexual for your tastes? I remember almoist being overwhelmed by its intensity at times, but the undertones are clearly French/Latin and probably far removed from and too fanciful for Anglo- American tastes. None of my American friends seems to like it, but all the Latin people do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618300)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621096)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:45 PM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

i just started ficciones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618313)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:46 PM
Author: cyan passionate box office

180

Hope you enjoy it thoroughly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618321)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:48 PM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

ty, although tbf, i think i'm only reading it because it's one of those books you're expected to have read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618348)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:49 PM
Author: cyan passionate box office

Yeh, but it’s actually great. Most “great” books are, so no shame in reading and enjoying them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618362)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 10:04 PM
Author: Laughsome crackhouse

try-hard college reading list BS and not remotely true. i would be shocked if you have read a literary novel for pleasure in the last 10 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621382)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:51 PM
Author: Mint Party Of The First Part

Confederacy of Dunces

Rabbit Redux

Rabbit is Rich

The Sun Also Rises

White Noise

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618373)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:56 PM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

I could see myself making this exact list. Are you by chance a 30-something skinnyfat craft beer yupster?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618423)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 6:02 PM
Author: Mint Party Of The First Part

I am a late Gen-Xer in the craft beer capital.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34637077)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 4:28 PM
Author: swashbuckling rambunctious shrine boistinker

White Noise is so bad. Fuck. It was a good premise (academics and GC are fraud) but it never went anywhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618738)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 3:54 PM
Author: olive arrogant headpube mood

Lolita

A Moveable Feast

Sun Also Rises

Crime and Punishment

A Hero of Our Time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618403)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 4:06 PM
Author: deep sinister stage private investor

these books formed my worldview more than any others

1. Selfish Gene. Dawkins is lame but this depiction of nature red in tooth and claw is absolutely devastating.

2. Walter Kaufmann - Faith of a Heretic. Nietzsche biographer's personal statement of faith and meaning.

3. Blood Meridian. The judge's vision of life as a universal struggle of wills seems correct; that we, like the kid, can reject it is indeed incredible. Most interesting period of history imo.

4. Shelby Foote Civil War trilogy - Foote told the story of the wars from a perspective quickly becoming deeply foreign to us. Just as he saw his time as having lost something the men in the civil war possessed, I feel the same with respect to his willingness to treat the war in a manner that admired manly virtues above all.

5. Nicholas Wade - Before the Dawn. My liberal outlook did not survive reading this book a decade or so ago.

6. Lanterns on the Levee. Changed my perspective on the south and the virtues of industrial civilization



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34618508)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:35 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

Shelby Foote's trilogy is so so 180. Learned so much from it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34632658)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:13 PM
Author: swashbuckling rambunctious shrine boistinker

Surprisingly little Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Krakauer, Kerouac, and Jack London imo. Same with Hunter S. Thompson — that guy writes a unique book. Otherwise this thread seems right on.

Also, does Cormac Macarthy have anything good other than blood meridian?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34620895)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:31 PM
Author: hyperactive carmine center

The road, NCFOM, all the pretty horses, suttree... all very good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621011)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:45 PM
Author: infuriating cobalt faggot firefighter legend

Labyrinths - Borges

Sophie's Choice - William Styron

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera

The English Patient - Ondaatje

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Giovanni's Room- James Baldwin

Madame Bovary - Flaubert

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621150)



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Date: November 9th, 2017 5:09 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

Godfather movies get all the attention, but the book is also 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34641230)



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Date: November 9th, 2017 5:28 AM
Author: splenetic bateful church deer antler

most of these were made into movies. thats interesting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34641245)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:52 PM
Author: Filthy Jet Hospital



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621242)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 9:55 PM
Author: peach heaven shitlib

The Decline of the West

HP Lovecraft - Collected Works

Thomas Ligotti - The Nightmare Factory

Dead Souls



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621288)



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Date: November 6th, 2017 10:02 PM
Author: translucent very tactful dysfunction

Don’t read books at all. Watch movies, TV, listen to music, read magazines (if I’m on a plane), and do my work when I’m at work

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34621354)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:38 AM
Author: Comical Blood Rage

My favorite reading experience of all-time was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Also, any baseball fan who hasn't read Ball Four by Jim Bouton -- do it immediately. Immediately.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34632666)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 9:09 AM
Author: shivering theater roast beef

Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34633226)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 10:03 AM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

Agatha Christie writes like a child, but some of her plots/mysteries are clever as fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34633533)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:28 PM
Author: Comical Blood Rage

i always thought her writing was underrated:

she was writing to be accessible. her books were for a wide audience, not xo scholars only.

and she did that extremely well while still being smart. that's not as easy as it seems.

but i'm also a guy who, despite being an english major, over the years has really come to love brevity, simplicity, and dialogue over flowery descriptions.

to use an analogy, dave grohl has talked about how kurt cobain likened writing nirvana's songs to crafting children's music, or nursery rhymes. i think that's what christie innately did. you probably spit on nirvana, because of the childlike nature of the melodies, but i think it's genius.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34636776)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:37 PM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

I read most of her books from age 10-17. Picked one up I hadn't read last year (Cards on the Table) and was shocked by how simple and flat the writing was compared to her peers (Sayers, Allingham, Marsh). Although, tbf, I remember a few of her books having somewhat moodier, more complicated writing (The Hollow, Five Little Pigs aka Murder in Retrospect come to mind). She writes puzzles incredibly well though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34636870)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:44 PM
Author: Comical Blood Rage

she wrote a TON of books, so i don't want to use one of her worst to criticize her.

i haven't picked up one of Christie's in a while. maybe if i read it now i'd be unimpressed. but something tells me i'd be even more impressed.

also could be the smartphone and internet era influencing me. i don't have time to read flowery descriptions of the vines on the lattice. don't care.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34636923)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:45 PM
Author: narrow-minded new version gaming laptop

Cards on the Table was shockingly bad. Surprised to see it listed among her top 10ish by a lot of mystery dork lists.

I probably need to re-read some of her classics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34636936)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 6:04 PM
Author: Comical Blood Rage

i'm going to have to do that, too.

we can revisit when we do. could have some changed opinions.

i used to love notes from underground in HS. re-read it a couple of years ago. wasn't as good as i remembered. still liked the concept. but experiences change your perceptions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34637090)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 9:13 AM
Author: Drab Ceo Potus

I pretty much only read non-fiction but I really liked these:

Count of Monte Cristo

The Alchemist

Demian

Venus in Furs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34633239)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 4:37 PM
Author: obsidian boiling water

180 list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34636432)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 9:41 AM
Author: shivering theater roast beef

I'm surprised For Whom the Bell Tolls didn't make anyone else's list. Peak Hemingway for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34633403)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 5:57 PM
Author: bright codepig

Heart of Darkness, Napoleon: A Political Life, White Guard, Master and Margarita, Crime and Punishment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34637039)



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Date: November 8th, 2017 6:08 PM
Author: 180 stag film karate

Disgrace

Light in August

Moby Dick

Crime & Punishment

Heart of Darkness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34637108)



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Date: November 15th, 2017 3:54 AM
Author: Alcoholic fanboi bbw

Embarrassing thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34690848)



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Date: November 15th, 2017 3:58 AM
Author: Bespoke cracking messiness stain

very underwhelming indeed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34690851)



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Date: November 15th, 2017 9:08 AM
Author: shivering theater roast beef

Why don't you regale us with your list, grandmaster faggot?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34691466)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 10:01 AM
Author: Abusive Stage

this poast incorrectly assumes that he's literate above a 50 lexile level.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3783050&forum_id=2#34747255)