You're only allowed to read 5 books for the rest of your life or you get sent to a gulag in Siberia (without any books)...

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Praise Kek my noncolored brother.
In search of lost time
The Bible
Divine comedy
Plato's complete works
Das Kapital

The Bible
The Iliad
Don Quixote
The Need for Roots
Divine Comedy

>t. reads translations

Only Iliad and the Bible, not everyone is a dumb monolingual americant like you.

>my favring books aer tramslatien

Lolita
Zazie dans le metro
Tampa
Alice's Adventures
Lamb
This. Embarrassing.

I actually speak 7 languages, including (but not limited to): French, German, Ancient Greek, Italian, Latin, Swahili.

The Bible
Imitation of Jesus-Christ
Complete Aristotle
Summa Theologica
Complete plays of Jean Racine

I want to fuck that ball

lol, get a life

>brothers kara
>Ulysses
>blood meridian
>infinite jest
>the sound and the fury
So long as I can still watch films I guess

Get rid of your 'life' by killing yourself. Your parents will be relieved.

lol, you're embarrassing. Go read Cuck Aquinas, you creepy faggot haha

It was not the guy you answered to that told you that

is the theologian LARP'ing the christfaggotry or the fact that he wants to read all of that for the rest of his life in gulag that's so grotesque to you? Outsider just curious as to the origin of your disdain, which i share, but I think for different reasons.

Bhagavad Gita
The Iliad
Plato's complete works
Don Quixote
Stoner

Don't talk to me like that, okay kid?

>1. SPACE
>2. TIGERS
>3. SPACE
>4. TIGERS
>5. S P A C E

I'm just going to deliberately list really long or complicated works because if I am stuck there I want a lifetimes worth of re-readability.

Complete Works of Plato
Complete Works of Aristotle
In Search of Lost Time
The History of Civilization
Phenomenology of the Spirit

>kids calling others kids
Americans really need to be nuked this century.

The Bible
Calvin's Institutes
Barth's Church Dogmatics
The Brothers Karamazov
In Search of Lost Time

I could happily spend the rest of my life with only these to read.

>Bottom's Dream - Arno Schmidt
>Unabridged 1001 Arabian Nights
>The Mahabharata
>Romance of the Three Kingdoms
>In Search of Lost Time

That should keep me going for a while.

How will you do without frogposting on the 'redpill' boards?

>I'm redpilled, moron. I'm right-wing

Stop reading Christian literature.

>spotted the anti-semite
Jewish religion is the greatest, /pol/ retard

Atheists BTFO

Buddha has the most effective teachings

>3000 years later and nobody else has gotten to enlightenment
i think not

Finnegans wake
Complete works of Shakespeare
In search of lost time
Lolita
Ulysses

>t. 18 year old

Brothers Karazmov
Bible
Moby Dick
Complete works of Plato
Count of Monte Cristo

Given I don't do that, I will do rather fine.

>Bottom's Dream - Arno Schmidt
>Don't know what this is
>look it up
>holy shit, I want this.

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one of these things is not like the others

only good answer itt. the books would need to be really long and/or rereadable. classics and major philosophy works are a must.

>t. 14 year old

the Gita was one of very few works that actually gave me genuine feelings of awe and wonder of the universe

Finnegans Wake could definitely keep you occupied for a while. Honestly, you could probably read it alone for the rest of your life. You'd go insane, but you could do it.

Even if you dont reach enlightenment, you still feel much more happy, calm and peaceful.

Meanwhile the Abrahamic religions promise a heaven beyond this world and lead a lot of angry and frustrated people to the grave using the hope of the afterlife as a walking stick.

Nah, I just can’t be bothered with picking things I don’t enjoy or don’t want to read more than once

>thinks Dumas is for kids

underrated

Divine Comedy
Bible (Douay-Rheims)
Moby-Dick
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Tales from the 1001 Nights

The Complete Novels of James Joyce (why does no one on Veeky Forums know this exists?)
The Brothers Karamazov
In Search of Lost Time
Complete Works of Aristotle
The Bible

you need to unironically read more of Jordan Peterson's work

>Finnegan's Wake
>Infinite Jest
>Gravitys Rainbow
>House of Leaves
>The Turner Diaries

Me too user, but it's hard to find and I don't know if my Ikea Billy shelf is up to the task.

>House of leaves
Kek you'd honestly rather than say, a math textbook (or biology/neuroscience, or some other science, although I mainly like math/neuroscience/cognitive science), Wittgenstein, St. Augustine, Dostoevsky, Kiekegaard, Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, or dozen of other guys?

The same person who mentioned gulags mentioned Peterson

Yikes please be bait.

From Dawn to Decadence
Alan Ryan On Politics
Shakespeare's collected works (volumes count as one, obviously)
The Major Works by Samuel Johnson
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

So you are one of those who thinks enlightenment is some kind of super power

no there've been thousands of people who've been enlightened Maitreya isn't supposed to come for a long fucking time man
you dumb fucking know-nothing shut the fuck up
>durr epic poetry
have either of you read the Puranas, Vedas or Upanishads or Brahmasutras? Its funny everyone loves the epics but doesn't actually read any of the sacred texts at all

The Bible
The Quran
The Bhagavad Gita
The Lotus Sutra
The Enneads

shut the fuck up you dumb fucking faggot the Bhagavad Gita is not the fucking holy book of Hinduism I'm gonna fucking decapitate all of you stop being pseuds READ THE FUCKING VEDAS AND UPANISHADS OR KILL YOURSELVES

>Vedas, Upanishads, or Brahmasutras?
Upanishads and some of the Vedas, yes.

I see your point in that sometimes the epics can be, uh, dry and meandering, but despite having a lot of ancient shit attached to it like outdated caste systems and meaningless names and classifications, there is still a very clear message in them, and there is a reason they have survived for over 2,500 years, and inspired billions of people. You just can't get that with postmodern shit made in the past century.

lol you mad

Poetry and Prose of William Blake
Complete Works of Poe
The Great Escape by Angus Deaton
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Dream Songs by John Berryman

>hurrr because he put the bibul and koran first it must mean he assumes all other religious texts are the equivalent of bibuls or korans

>I'm redpilled, moron. I'm right-wing
Fucking hell mate stop embarrassing us

Holy Bible
Confessions of St. Augustine
Paradise Lost
Moby Dick
Demons

that's probably just ultra-ironic posting
hopefully

Barbarians
True Allegiance
The Art of the Argument
The Art of the Deal
12 Rules of Life

I actually burst out laughing at the thought of some sperglord reading a neuroscience textbook on a tropical beech

Bhagawad Gita(Sanskrit)
Dhammapada
Bhagawad Gita(English)
Crime and Punishment
Don Quixote

That's in order of importance.

Plato - Complete Works
Aristotle - Complete Works
RSV-CE Bible
Marx - Capital, all 3 volumes
Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

I'd put Rigveda and Upanishads in there if I had the choice of more books.

Pretty good list, honestly. Mine would probably have to be:

the Thousand and One Nights
the Odyssey
the King James Bible
Moby Dick
the Complete Works of Borges

It tore me up inside to not pick something by Joyce or Twain but I thought about it a lot and these would be ny picks.

5 different translations of The Bible. Deus vult fuckers!

it's not the prominence of polacks but bible idiots that's funny.

My son's book (those books where you log in the info related to his "evolution" from a baby to a kid)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Os Maias
Rubaiyat
50 Grandes Discursos da História

No need to be a pretentious cunt, especially since that is the kind of person who will forever stay a friendless virgin, stuck with an empty life.

>The Bible
>Crime and Punishment
>Brothers Karamakov
>The Idiot
>The Devils

If I can't read any other books I want to at least become a psuedo specialist in Dostoevsky's classics.

>umm why do you believe something besides what I do??

The most patrician in the thread.

lick mein

no idea. 1 would be journey to the west

Awesome choices user

Disappointed.

Hamlet
Moby Dick
Dao De Jing
Oblomov
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

>1. The Iliad (In Greek, together with an English translation)
>2. The Odyssey (Same)
Now I can teach myself ancient Greek as I go, and then write the definitive sweeping poetic English translation myself. That's a decade of hard work right there.

>3. Complete Works Of Shakespeare

>4. King James Bible

>5. Thus Spake Zarathustra (in German, together with English translation)
(See 1 & 2 for how I will use this, except I already speak rudimentary German, so this shouldn't be more than a couple of years of work).

>1) The complete works of Shakespeare (in a single volume, so just one book):

amazon.com/Complete-Works-Shakespeare-William/dp/1981363386/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520367500&sr=1-1&keywords=shakespeare complete works

>2) 1001 Movies to watch before you die:

amazon.com/1001-Movies-You-Must-Before/dp/1438050062/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520367450&sr=1-1&keywords=1001 movies

>3) The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations:

amazon.com/Oxford-Dictionary-Quotations-Elizabeth-Knowles/dp/0199668701/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520367319&sr=1-6&keywords=quotations

I presume I would have paper and ink in the island too.

So here’s the thing, I would use the movie stories and plots to have ideas for plays that I would compose: that would be my main activity, aside from individual poems. Shakespeare would provide me with the ideas for structure and above all the language: his language is the greatest of all time and is more profitable to have his complete works than a single volume of collected world poems. The Oxford Dictionary of quotations is the most complete book of quotes currently in existence, and I would use it as a source for ideas on any theme that I was working on.

But moving on:

>4) The Mind Illuminated:

amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrating-Mindfulness-ebook/dp/B01INMZKAQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520367622&sr=1-1&keywords=the mind illuminated

This is the best book on meditation there is, and I guess that, if I were to live isolated, the best philosophy I could study is the one of self-realization, self-mastering and that teaches the mechanics of obtaining peace of mind.

>5) The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy:

amazon.com/Collected-Works-Leo-Tolstoy-PergamonMedia-ebook/dp/B01A6ZZOMM/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520368086&sr=1-15&keywords=tolstoy complete

The best novelist of all time. The greatest writer in the realist style. One of the greatest short-story and novella writers of all time.

So these are the five books I would pick.

Books that I would love to take with me, but since I can pick just five:

>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Memoirs of Hadrian
>The Poems of Wislawa Szymborska
>The Poems of Emily Dickinson
>The short stories of Chekhov
>The plays of Aeschylus
>Moby Dick
>Essays of Montaigne
>Meditations
>Lolita
>The Iliad
>The Odissey
>The discourses of the Buddha
>The poems of Hanshan

Bump

Why the frangoli would you want that pleb 1001 Movies book? You can look up the list online (or easily find a better one) and forgo the awful summaries.