Top 5 favorite works of literature

>top 5 favorite works of literature
>age
>other anons r8

No order
>Growth of the soil
>Pale fire
>Herzog
>The Sparrow
>Dead Souls
Why is my age relevant?

>18
The Trial, The Death of Ivan Ilitch, Perto do Coração Selvagem, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mensagem

>top 5
Zukofsky
Trakl
Desnos
Pavese
Agee
>age
25

You're supposed to say you are 18 yo to make the other older anons jeaulous.

Sons and Lovers
Sorrows of Young Werther
The Winter of Our Discontent
Voss
Portrait of an Artist
>22

Paradise Lost
Origins and History of Consciousness, Neumann
History of Religious Ideas vol. 1, Eliade
Don Quixote
Unironically Maps of Meaning, Peterson
Vent-wheat

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I couldn't finish Herzog. It seemed bourgeoisie as all hell.
Oh and I've had the same feeling from Nabokov. I haven't read Pale Fire, but Glory had essentially the same effect as Herzog for me.
I put those books down over two years ago btw.
I'm curious, do you happen to be upper middle class/filthy rich? Because that's why I put those books down, they seemed to pertain mostly to that audience with little to no knowledge about any form of living outside of it. They bored me with occasional good lines.

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These are just authors
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7. You lost points for maps of meaning

>i never want to leave my comfort zone googoo gaga
Have you at least cut the umbilical cord yet?

>do you happen to be upper middle class/filthy rich? Because that's why I put those books down, they seemed to pertain mostly to that audience with little to no knowledge about any form of living outside of it.
Well I'll be damned. Your right about damn near all of it

lol I'd argue that the two authors I read were more in that zone.
I grew up around Richie Riches'. Imo most of the greats come from that domain, but if it's all they know then it's boring to read.

That's cool.
Yeah I wish I could've enjoyed them more just for the time spent reading, but eh, it's a little outside of my class and interests *tips fedora from Goodwill*

>these are just authors
I know

>Anna Karenina
>War and Peace
>Crime and Punishment
>The Idiot
>Demons
>62

The USSR is over dude, no need for russian propaganda.

Anna Karenina
The Book of the New Sun
Paradise Lost
Middlemarch
The Master and Margarita
>23

That thot lizard is really cute

>Epic of Gilgamesh
>Faerie Queene
>Divine Comedy
>Ovid's Metamorphoses
>Something Pynchon but I can’t decide which book. Let’s say “V.”
>21

Gilgamesh
Samuel, Kings, or Job (I can't decide)
Republic
Aeneid
Brothers Karamozov

27 years old. I'm not saying these are the top 5 in all literature, only my favorites that I've read so far.

>absalom, absalom!
>either/or
>phenomenology of spirit
>eugene onegin
>a shropshire lad
Im 20

Der Zauerberg
Cain by bryon
Crime and punishement
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Thus spoke zarathustra

>19

>book of the new sun
>heart of darkness
>blood meridian
>moby dick
>general of the dead army

I'm 29

Correction (Bernhard), Dantons Tod (Büchner), Faust II (Goethe), Die Verwandlung (Kafka), As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)

Moby Dick
Anna Karenina
Don Quijote
Crime and Punishment
Return of Filip Latinovicz

pretty basic shit, everything except for Moby Dick was required reading in high school
I'm 19

Boring pretentious cocksuckers.

>In Search of Lost Time by Proust
>Ulysses by Joyce
>Complete Stories by Kafka
>The Odyssey by Homer
>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

>26

You should kys

okay

Now we're good. Leave a timestamp behind so we know it was you.

okay i killed myself now what

You have to post a pic of your lifeless body with a timestamp

what kind of fuckng high school you went to for gods sake?!

no particular order:
-on the road (kerouac)
-the joy of folly (erasmus)
-dao de ching (lao tzu)
- the alchemist (paolo coelho)
- sex at dawn (christopher ryan)
age 21

The Evil Demiurge
Book of Disquiet
Beyond Good and Evil
Lotus Sutra
Symbolism of the Cross
18

you havent actually read all of those all the way through, go stand in the corner for lying on the internet

a Croatian one, our humanities education is pretty archaic (we were also taught latin, logic and philosophy)
admittedly, we only had to read certain chapters of Don Quijote and the prof didn't actually expect us to read Anna Karenina, but I sperged out and read both

queres ser minha namorada?

hahaha that last part sounds familiar

Childish af. 5/10

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7/10

9,5/10
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Brothers Karamazov
Doktor Faustus
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Faust

Brazilian scum, twenty one

poser

100 Years of Solitude
Sons and Lovers
Fathers and Sons
2666
The Metamorphosis

20

Infinite Jest
Stoner
Frankenstein
The Bell Jar
Franny and Zooey

20

>all 5 of his favourite books have been on a Veeky Forums top 100

what kind of fucking retard do you have to be to like the alchemist

microserfs
the divine comedy
the hobbit
the library of babel
norwegian wood

27

Marcovaldo
The Crying of Lot 49
The Magician (maugham)
The Count of Monte Cristo
No Longer Human
I'm 26

>On the Road
>Brothers K
>Beloved
>East of Eden
>The Sun Also Rises
age 21

I only started reading like a year ago though and I've mostly read American novels, I expect this list to change in the coming years

I still haven't read the sun also rises but I have a copy. I should crack into it after I finish my current book.

>his 5 favorite books, which he has likely listed in Veeky Forums top 100 surveys every year for several years, have made it into the Veeky Forums top 100 list (a list where often just 1 submission of a book title - the submission he made himself - gets the book on the list)

what a fucking loser

>Don Quixote, Cervantes
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
>Prometheus Unbound, Shelley
>L'Éducation Sentimentale, Flaubert
>Illuminations, Rimbaud
>21

East of Eden
Vineland (srsly)
Savage Dicks
You Bright and Risen Angels
Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
The Deptford Trilogy
37

>he doesn't know how to count

The Hobbit
Revolt Against the Modern World
The Road to Wigan Pier
Meditations
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

24

>works of literature
>meditations
>ratmw

Infinite Jest
The Stranger
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nausea
The Castle

forgot to add that i'm 19

Be nice to the elderly, user

You didnt need to add that.

Master and Margarita
Perfume
Metamorphosis
Idiot
Stranger

> 17

well i'm one year older than my fav books imply so...

Lost it

sorry you're intimidated

also have to mention all that fantasy fiesta called Kingkiller Chronicle, coz it contains fucking everything

Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Master and Margarita
1984
Dubliners

22, I haven’t read that many books desu. I bought Brothers Karamazov recently along with some Kafkas

whats ur life like--jw
i can't get into Kafka, really, but I love everything else on your list

>22

>Martial - Epigrams
>Ovid - Art of Love
>Montaigne - Essays
>Shakespeare - Works
>Finnegans Wake

>Notes from the underground
>War and Peace
>Lolita
>Fathers and sons
>Coming up for air

Age >18

Read metamorphosis and the stranger
Both were good, the stranger was better

And reading the idiot, really enjoying it

Mysteries by Hamsun
Pan by Hamsun
Dead Souls by Gogol
The August Trilogy by Hamsun
Growth of the Soil by Hamsun

Mid-twenties.

Are you saying those works are boring?

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My post

Great taste

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1. Blade of Tyshalle
2. Also Sprach Zarathustra
3. King Lear
4. Malazan
5. The Iliad

Why do people like The stranger it's trash

I only like The Stranger insofar as it was for me, as a young high schooler, the book that fomented a passion for literature, which has carried over to me nearly completing a PhD.

tablet lagging shit

PhD in what and at what tier uni?

> crime and punishment
> moby dick
> slaughterhouse 5
> memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
> livro do desassossego

Turned 24 last month.

Dream of the Red Chamber
Ulysses
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Divine Comedy
Little, Big

Comparative Literature at one of the top public universities in the US

age: 30

Infinite Jest
The Martian Chronicles
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
East of Eden
Maddaddam trilogy

24

>Samuel Beckett - Molloy
>Mike McCormack - Solar Bones
>Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
>Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
>Michel Houellebecq - Atomised

>20

No doubt I've forgotten something. It was hard not to include 'Gravity' by Erica Wagner or 'Good Morning, Midnight' by Jean Rhys.

>tfw don't have 5 favorite books even though I've read a fair number
What did I mean by this

Schuld und Sühne (Crime and Punishment)
Alexanderplatz
Schwarze Spiegel
Der Untertan
Die Verwandlung

25

Hans raus

I vil stay rrite heerr, anglo Schwein!

Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Slaughterhouse Five
The Fall of the House of Usher
22

Nein du solltest gehen du schwache kartoffel, wir tolerieren krauts nicht
Aber die bücher die du ausgewählt hast sind ziemlich gut. Geh jetzt

Well it's not like I wanted to hang with you guys. I have a short-story to finish anyway!

I'm just kidding bb I feel bad now, feel free to stay and talk to the other pseuds. What short story are you reading

>Winesburg, Ohio
>Leaves of Grass
>The Mountains of California
>Collected Poems of Hart Crane
>Moby Dick

26


Who else here /deep-american-soul/?

I plan on reading all of these this year, where should I start

there is only one truly great and original book, so I can't mention five books
>Crime and Punishment

>Petersburg
>Being and Time
>Titus Groan
>The Castle
>Life and Fate

27

It's okay. I'm writing one. It's nearly finished but I don't want the ending to be dumb so I'm a wee bit stuck currently.

Paradise Lost
Endgame
Finnegans Wake
The Myth of Sisyphus
Waiting For Godot

24

Don't like including two works from one author, but Godot has a special place in my heart.

>Crime and Punishment
>The myth of Sisyphus
>Divine Comedy
>Brothers Karamazov
No clear 5th favourite, maybe the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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shit its almost as if I had alzheimers
either Onegin or East of Eden would be the fifth now that they popped into my mind

start by eating your moms dick, then give up

You're goal me, what has it been like? What are your career prospects? What languages did you focus in? What level of international experiences were you offered? What was your GRE? I just applied for 6 schools in comparative lit, would love your responses/any advice