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...

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.

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The colour of magic
It's the book that started me on reading

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.

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what did you try and achieve with this post user

confusions of youg törless

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.

Kek. Homerposter BTFO'd.

>reading Homer for the plot

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> 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.

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1. Doesn't refute my point.
2. Are you gonna cry, dude?

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>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

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That's my boy

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ST0P WITH THE PETDRSON PICS

REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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.

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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.

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I love that book.
The movie didn't fuck up much, so that's a relief.

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Please. I beg of you..have you no mercy in your heart...

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.

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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.

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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.

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ok now i see why most of Veeky Forums hates Peterson posters

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>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

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Everything by pic related

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> all this samefagging

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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

Wait a minute...but she's considered a bad writer here...b- oh I see. Well done. Bravo.

Would you like a one-way ticket to Auschwitz?

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A reminder that some people on here genuinely have autism and require assistance.

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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.

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at least the book is giving them some

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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.

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It's so simple and yet so beautiful.

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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.

A brief life

Does it make you feel better about your shitty existence to make posts like this? because it shouldn't

From what I've read so far, which isn't much:
Moby-Dick, Don Quixote pt. 2, Wuthering Heights.

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umm try again sweetie...

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The Old Man and the Sea. Takes me back to fishing for halibut with my old man
>we'll never fish together again

Is there anything I need to have read before reading this?

Thats one of the worst covers from a major publisher that I've ever seen.

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Fuck I had a copy of the book with that cover.