Personal 10/10s. Books that feel perfect to you. Who gives a shit if it's a common favourite or a book only you've read? Just come share it with us.
Personal 10/10s. Books that feel perfect to you. Who gives a shit if it's a common favourite or a book only you've read...
Andrew Wood
Christopher Richardson
Grayson Smith
The colour of magic
It's the book that started me on reading
Kevin Murphy
The insanity and intensity of the battle, the constant backstabbing and squabbling between the Gods and which sides they're on, the thematic development of honour and will, Diomedes and Hector are based and the inevitable tragedy that is when Troy fails to win the war and now they just have to wait it out until their city, women and children are fucking wrecked to shit, especially the line from Hector's widow about their child never reaching adulthood. The book genuinely left me feeling a little shaken, it's amazing.
Easton Lee
what did you try and achieve with this post user
Henry Taylor
confusions of youg törless
Cooper Diaz
Ah, listing the Iliad/Odyssey as a fav book. Part of the "I've read 5 books but want to seen like I've read 500 books" kit.
Robert Garcia
Kek. Homerposter BTFO'd.
Grayson Turner
>reading Homer for the plot
Aiden Morales
Easton Collins
David Foster
> The Iliad
> not a 10/10
> implying OP isn't asking for people's personal favourites
I'm sure there's something more productive you could be doing with your time than trying to irritate people on the internet, but at the very least you could share the books you enjoy. I chose the Iliad because it's where I started with the Greeks and as I keep reading more and more Greeks, The Iliad still keeps a special place for me because it's what introduced me to them. I don't see any harm in that, user.
Gavin Wright
Ryder Butler
Justin Sanders
Mason Bell
1. Doesn't refute my point.
2. Are you gonna cry, dude?
Aiden Brown
Josiah Butler
>Lists the Iliad as a favourite but doesn't mention Ἀνάγkη
>Probably doesn't even appreciate the catalogue of ships
>Probably read a translation
plebbit
Leo Reed
Carter Kelly
Hunter Torres
That's my boy
Samuel Rodriguez
ST0P WITH THE PETDRSON PICS
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Robert Bennett
A little life by Hanya Yanagihara.
I just feel that this book captures the dullness of depression and pain, and it affects in people around them.
Wyatt Morgan
Infinite Jest seems perfect to me, despite not being my all-time favourite book. It's just so total and so imaginative and so faithfully rendered.
James Lewis
John Perez
I love that book.
The movie didn't fuck up much, so that's a relief.
Chase King
Carter Young
Aiden Ortiz
Owen Rivera
Please. I beg of you..have you no mercy in your heart...
Isaac Nguyen
When I started getting into Akira Kurosawa's films, somebody bought me his autobiography and said I needed to read it. I didn't know much about the guy apart from attempting suicide and kinda getting fucked over by Hollywood, so I read it and it's genuinely fascinating.
He explores his childhood fascination for silent films (he has a complete reference in the book for most of the films he saw as a kid and teenager and they're mostly wonderful films), the tragedy of his older brother who used to be a silent film narrator with theatre expertise but who later committed suicide, Kurosawa's experience with Toho and screenwriting (it's genuinely interesting to see how early japanese film studios used to operate) as well as quirky little stories about how he met his wife on the set of one of his films, how he let one of his colleagues sleep on set by hiding him (i hope i remember that correctly) and a weird fucking story about hearing a child scream, sneaking into the apartment to find the kid tied to a chair and then the kid is swearing at Kurosawa to fuck off. The stuff about the American occupation and Japanese censorship laws is interesting too, I swear it's not as dry as it sounds. He genuinely manages to make this engaging.
One of my favourite stories from the book is about how Kurosawa and one of his friends were seen as "slow" in school, but one of their teachers saw their potential and encouraged their creativity in art classes. Eventually Kurosawa and his buddy became screenwriters and invited their teacher - now an old man - to the screening of one of their films and their teacher just cried with how happy he was they succeeded. That genuinely made me feel quite emotional as I could relate to similar experiences in school and that there were definitely teachers who encouraged me.
It's a pretty short read, you could probably get through it on a weekend, but if you like Kurosawa or early cinema (he details his films up to the early 1950s), then it's great.
Eli Wood
Lucas Green
It didn't fuck up at all imho. All the changes were either necessary to have less details (like combining Collins and Westerby) or for more aesthetics (Budapest instead of Czech forest, Esterhase's interrogation). Even Bane was decent.
Colton Howard
Isaiah Lewis
I don't see why it doesn't, user. It's a personal favourite of mine and I've explained why. It's much better than just trying to derail a thread with Peterson pictures.
Jacob Anderson
Austin Wright
ok now i see why most of Veeky Forums hates Peterson posters
Samuel Reed
Nolan Hughes
Nicholas Allen
>and a weird fucking story about hearing a child scream, sneaking into the apartment to find the kid tied to a chair and then the kid is swearing at Kurosawa to fuck off
Sebastian Perry
Connor Jenkins
Everything by pic related
Ryder Scott
> all this samefagging
Ryan Jenkins
Andrew Bell
Ian Gutierrez
Aaron Flores
yeah man, there's not much info about it, like he didn't ask what was going on later, he just thought he heard a kid in distress and sort of got more than he expected, it's really fucking odd
Lucas Hernandez
Wait a minute...but she's considered a bad writer here...b- oh I see. Well done. Bravo.
Logan Brooks
Would you like a one-way ticket to Auschwitz?
Isaac Ward
Jonathan Torres
A reminder that some people on here genuinely have autism and require assistance.
Liam Robinson
Ethan Campbell
Gabriel Smith
Lincoln Moore
Logan Fisher
A great collection of stories by who I think is an underrated (when it comes to how often he's talked about on Veeky Forums) weird fiction writer.
Jonathan Carter
at least the book is giving them some
Caleb Campbell
Kayden Green
Leo Ward
Liam Wilson
Chase Perez
Adrian Johnson
Nicholas Ross
James James
William Hernandez
Liam Cook
Julian Hill
Isaac Wright
Zachary Miller
Dylan Morales
Noah Moore
Ayden Kelly
Daniel Scott
Dylan Hernandez
Caleb Robinson
Crime and Punishment Is my favorite book. I loved the story and all of the characters. The ending and the epilogue hit me hard in my heart.
Austin Howard
Christian Jenkins
Hunter Morgan
Isaac Turner
Asher Williams
It's so simple and yet so beautiful.
Caleb Kelly
Cooper Jones
Joshua Collins
Isaiah Garcia
Liam Price
Isaac Bell
Blake Cox
Christopher Price
Adam Young
Wyatt Powell
the Third Policeman.
it reflects that surreal element of dreams so well alongside a hilarious psuedophilosophical examination of a fake thinker. it's written so well, still makes me laugh (even though my reread count must be into the twenties) and just couldn't recommend it enough, even without knowing exactly how to describe what I'm recommending.
Christian Fisher
A brief life
Carson Barnes
Does it make you feel better about your shitty existence to make posts like this? because it shouldn't
Josiah Brown
From what I've read so far, which isn't much:
Moby-Dick, Don Quixote pt. 2, Wuthering Heights.
William Smith
umm try again sweetie...
Christian Hernandez
The Old Man and the Sea. Takes me back to fishing for halibut with my old man
>we'll never fish together again
Eli Flores
Is there anything I need to have read before reading this?
Asher Myers
Thats one of the worst covers from a major publisher that I've ever seen.
Angel Anderson
Nathan Garcia
Fuck I had a copy of the book with that cover.