ITT You describe a book you want to read, and someone suggests a book that fits that description

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

If by ocean you mean another planet that itself is an ocean, this should fit the bill. It was a pleasurable read.

Came here to post this but i will say the movie was better.

Lolita but for bestiality.

I want a book that explains the relationship between qualia and the material world, and helps me develop a way to effortlessly change the physical world by way of changing my thought patterns and hence qualia perception.

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Revenge porn that isn't The Count of Montecristo.

solyaris
the 'memories of siri' part of hyperion

the stars my destination although it's pretty much the count of monte cristo in space

A book that contains pieces of sub-books patched together in a somewhat meaningful order. A mixture between a commonplace book, an imageboard and Persona 3, in other words

Alright motherfucker here you go:
Spatterjay by Neal Asher. Get to it. No I won't tell you what it's about but it fulfills your criteria.

Children of Dune might fit that, actually.

All novels are about that.

Sounds like you need Buddhism or Daoism. Probably Daoism. Taoism. people spell it differently. I prefer the T.

There is probably a russian novel somewhere that speaks on revenge as gloriously and gluttonously as CoMC but I couldn't tell you what it is. I'd look there though.

I want a book that will change the way I think

amazon.com/Straight-Jesus-Christian-Conversions-Movement/dp/0520245822

I want a book with a good atmosphere and a wacky but not impossible setting, if possible in the XX century.

A book that praises terrorism.

I want a book where the main character, convinced of the meaningless of life, decides to commit a great atrocity in order to achieve greatness and to put himself above the herd.

There's an alternate universe Batman who decides that since there's infinite parallel universes, any action you take is ultimately meaningless since you also don't take it. Therefor the only meaningful action is to destroy the multiverse.

OWLMAN

Trials in Tainted Space

Something that gets the constant dread of your own subjectivity down. Horrified by your inability to accurately get down the psychological forces at work in yourself. Feeling like you can never actually be self-aware.

Not Kafka though

Have you read Shattered?

Ignore the memes, Hubbard's life time of research was literally dedicated to the issue you talk about. Its also one of the reasons he was so heavily opposed.

life of pi

"A Face of Another" by Kobo Abe, sounds exactly like what you're looking for. A bit wordy

>life time of research
that's a euphemism for popping vistaril

I want a book about meaningful relationships. (Anything, friends, family, and/or lover)

looking for a book that turns you into a bird when you read it

Something that is like a temple made of crystal, a structure so immense you can forget how to get back outside, in which the sunlight, coming through several layers of transparent walls inscribed with holy symbols, forms an intricate pattern around you

sumthin' your extremely limited knowledge of literature can appreciate

hard mode: YA, harry potter and infinite jest are out

If you're a native english speaker, I would say Shakespeare. If you just take it slow as you read it, ans try not to get hung up on individual, archaic words, his plays can be a good time.

If you like fantasy at all, or are interested in the medieval period, I would also suggest Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian romances. They're pretty simple stories but are fun to read in how much of a "precursor" they are to modern fantasy.

The Crime and the Punishment.

Flowers for Algernon
I want a book where the main character decides to become a hermit
>inb4 Thus spoke Zarathustra

Gravity's Rainbow

Alexandria quartet is precisely what you're looking for, start with Justine or Balthazar (all the parts but the last, are sister novels rather than sequels)

Perfume, by Patrick Süskind.
Pretty good novel with interesting premise

Sphere by Michael Crichton

A City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer

>a Sci-Fi book which takes place in a huge ocean
"Cachalot" by Allan Dean Foster.

Dune

Moby Dick

I remembet a pretty good DCAU film about Owlman with James Woods doing magnificent voicework. Can't remember the name tho.

Something dark, poetic, biblical.
Hard mode: no BotNS or Blood Meridian

beelzebub's tales to his grandson, by gurdjieff

Thank you for your serious answer to my unserious request. I've read Macbeth recently, even though I'm not a native English speaker. Don't underrate me

Pokemon black and white vol 3

The Waste Land

The Master and Margarita, or One Hundred Years of Solitude

Well if you've ordered the assassination of multiple people then its not surprising that you'd be more on guard in the public eye, Hillhog.

Cloud Atlas sorta does something like this.

A novel that has something to do with the French Foreign Legion

OP here, that is one of my favourite books user

Bad things happen to people in a rural village.

Jünger - On the Marble Cliffs

I feel like what I want shouldn't be that difficult.

Something comfy. Should be a somewhat easy read, but not stupid. No normie shit. A little bit of thought provoking content is okay. But first and foremost, it should be enjoyable and contain good characters. Ideally, it should make me feel like the cat in my picture. Also, it should play in current times, not a history piece of science fiction.

The closest thing I can think of is something like "kitchen" by banana yoshimoto or "stoner" by john williams.

I know I'm shit at describing what I want, but if you can help me out I would be really grateful.

A book that makes me feel less wise than the author

C'mon, this can't be hard. Anyway you can try some of the books labeled as 'great classics'. That's a safe bet

Something as claustrophobic, intense and suspenseful as pic related. I at first thought it was based on a book by how good it was, but nope.

I remember asking this years ago on some other forum and was recommended Velocity by Dean Koontz, and while that book was okay, it just wasn't as good as this movie. Anyone got anything else?

>I at first thought it was based on a book
Ugh. That's the worst. Happened to me a few times. You hold out hope, think you've found a goddamn BOOK to read, but nope. It's original screenplay. Like, what are the chances?

I want a C O M F Y book

It's actually pretty difficult to find an author that didn't turn back around upon meeting the "oh no, calling yourself wise is unwise" wall

Howl's Moving Castle
The comfiest book I know

I want a book of short stories that deal with idealist outcasts

Works and Days, m8

I want something to hate, right now it's the Jews and the bourgeois.

I would like a graphic depiction of the grunt's point of view in Vietnam that isn't Matterhorn/Things They Carried/Dispatches. Iraq/Afghanistan is also acceptable.

Alternatively, an erotic lesbian romance with gratuitous sex scenes.

GUYS! Guys! Question! How do find a book when the only way you can describe what you're looking for is an utter shitpost? Like, I just saw a roy purdy video, but somebody swapped the audio for a DARE 12, and that's all I want for the next 8 hours.
Like, is there a book for that kind of feel?

like that what's you actually want to feel or you want the book to try to make you feel that way through its rhetoric? because I feel like the latter will not often be the former.

Self help books would fall into the latter for me. Power of Now, for instance.

I bet Eckhart is a nice dude.

Beats

The Communist Manifesto

A book written and published to great success by me

Higurashi.

Kagome?

Kagome
Kago no naka no tori

I want a book detailing the development of a group of people; maybe something ISOT-esque.

Look, I've watched enough anime that I know what kagome kagome is, but I can't tell you more than that. What were we talking about?

Also, Kagome is like, the perfect woman. As a kid, I hated her, but rewatching the fucking show, she's... just a perfectly sweet girl, and inuyasha is a little bitch. Fuck.

Shit, like I want to brag, because I also know that Kagome Kagome is about the fucking- whatsit, the awful famines following the sengoku era wars, and all that shit.

Like, fuck. I learned so much in my weeaboo phase, holy shit.

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Did you post something stupid, user?

there's a book by china mieville that is basically a pirate story, think it's the kraken

coetzee, waiting for the barbarians
adiga, white tiger
edward abbey, anything pretty much but monkeywrench gang might be most straightforward

I want a tale of lies, deception and revenge.

you read the obvious one yet? Count of Monte Cristo?

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The Magus by John Fowles

Honestly I still haven't read this one. I don't know why.
Sorry to disappoint.

Alright boys! I'm drunk again! You know what that means, right? I'm completely incompetent, but eager to help! Welcome to hell!

gonna have to be more specific there, chief.

The kamasutra is the kamasutra. Also, most cook books have pictures.

The Raw Shark Texts

Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs

Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson

See above

Most Chuck Palahniuk books. Survivor and Fight Club, specifically.

Shit, sorry. Hold on.

That's really broad. You're going to need to be more specific.

Something egyptian, since the egyptian "soul" was a bird with a human face.

Yeah.

Hmmm.
Horns by Joe Hill

Onee Hundred Years of Solitude

Thanks