What books have you only read because of Veeky Forums?

>Amidst the chaos of our times, it is a relief to have a brilliant and fearless critic like Angela Nagle to turn to. Unwilling to stomach the liberal shibboleths that fail to adequately explain the emergence and significance of right-wing subculture, she's the only one willing to descend into the grimiest of Internet grottos and give us the benefit of her incisive and cool-headed analysis. --Amber A'Lee Frost, Chapo Trap House

i wouldn't have known who thomas pynchon is if it weren't for Veeky Forums. thanks Veeky Forums i love ya

Storm of Steel. Thanks for the rec, Veeky Forums.

A good majority of them. Not that I'm shoving memes down my gullet, but I'm always keeping my eye out, and even if I branch out on my own it's with the knowledge that the names I've seen on here have led to that.

If you have a shitty taste in humor like me it may be the funniest thing you've ever read.

yeah i'm probably going to pick that up to. actually i was surprised to learn that the book itself is fairly highly regarded. i thought people only liked it because of the name.

All of them. I wouldn't be reading if it wasn't for Veeky Forums

american psycho, and i enjoyed it

The Crying of Lot 49
Bleeding Edge
Veeky Forums got me started with Pynchon

Murakami is womderful

>Trusting this website to suggest reading material

I did however google and read up on several far right authors and philosophies due to their propagation on this site. Strasserism, Mosley, Evola, and so on and so on *sniffs*.

This.

If you didn't have family and friends who were into literature when you were younger, and didn't get a decent schooling with regards to literature, Veeky Forums is a great place for guidance.

where do I start?

American Psycho which was a garbage book. On of the woest Ibe evrr read. I severely resent the faggots here that suggested it was good.

I often wondered who recommended this shit and where they ived. Who are they? What is their street address? Why did they like this book enough to recommend it? Do they have dogs that bark in their yard? What greater idea is conveyed by thjs novel? What hours do they keep? What drew them to this novel? How far is their home from a wooded area with with heavy concealment?

I feel so many questions unanswerable user.

i've found this to be unironically true as well. for all of the problems with this site, it excels at revealing new art to its users. whether that be anime, books, films, or video games.

>How can someone from Veeky Forums be tricked into buying this book?
I pirated it you dipshit. This site amazes me with its ever stupider stupidity. NO BOUNDARIES

>Unwilling to stomach the liberal shibboleths that fail to adequately explain the emergence and significance of right-wing subculture, she's the only one willing to descend into the grimiest of Internet grottos and give us the benefit of her incisive and cool-headed analysis
Yeah that was dialed up to undergrad newspaper. Must be all the branch swinging.

Im currently reading Norwegian wood & got about 100 pages left. What should I read next from Murakami? I hope it gets darker, if so, what else is dark in similiar tone?

I'm considering The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or kafka on the shore. What else?

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was fun enough

Hard-Boiled Wonderland. You can pretty much stop after that and pursue some post-war Jap authors who are quite a bit darker

John Dies at the End

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Most of them but Veeky Forums does actually have decent taste so fair fucks. It's not a good forum for actually discussing them but that's another point altogether.

Celine

tai pei

Listen to the Beatles song. It's basically the book in 2 minutes. I liked it because I've been unlucky in my affections for the most part. Frankly, Inliked the movie better, simply for the dissonant musical score.

Didn't anybody read Crystal Grader? I got a big download spike after mentioning it here about six months ago

this.

what a waste of my time it was.

Reading Crime and Punishment, and Veeky Forums saying I'm a shitter for only reading the one book is what got me into reading t b h.
All Veeky Forums boards oriented around an interest (like Veeky Forums, Veeky Forums, /v/, Veeky Forums, etc) are good for getting you into anything you're interested in.

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Same. Every book this board has recommended has been great.

A lot of great books actually.

Catch 22, Something Happened, Blood Meridian, Mythology by Hamilton and most of the classic literature that I would've probably ignored, Crime and Punishment, Dubliners etc.

Thanks lit

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