Shall we play a productive game?

Shall we play a productive game?

Post your three favorite books, user has to recommend you a fourth based on your choices.

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McCarthy's The Road
Beloved
The Sound and the Fury

...

The Stranger
The Catcher In the Rye
The Trial

Call it Sleep, Henry Roth

Dream story, Arthur Schnitzler
Brave new world, Huxley
Richard III, Shakespeare

Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Roadside Picnic
A confederacy of Dunces
Brave New World

Stoner
Lolita
Kokoro

Blood Meridian
The Brothers Karamazov
Mistborn: The Hero of Ages

The Kingkiller Chronicle
Infinite Jest
The Stormlight Archive

I fell in love with A Confederacy of Dunces recently.

Your rec- DOGBOYS: A Farce in Two Acts

Mine-
Pynchon's V
Joyce's Portrait of the Artist
Sartre's The Age of Reason

A fat cat hehehe

Naomi by Tanizaki

Magic Mountain
The Waves
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Ulysses
Ferdydurke
Last Exit to Brooklyn

have yall read Nightwood?

Primeval And Other Times

The Apes of God my dude

Also William Gaddis

Have you read The Tempest yet?

I don't have favorite books.

How do you decide?

I guess my top 3 will be

Ulysses
Moby Dick
Agape Agapē

I tried to narrow it down, but it's impossible to choose between The Recognitions and JR, or Molloy and Murphy and Texts for Nothing. Instead, I'll say
William Gaddis
Samuel Beckett
Juan Carlos Onetti
are my favourite authors.

Books that resonate the most with you as a person, the kind that you remember being blown away with as you read

think of three books that get you excited over the idea of rereading them anytime

It's time fir Moby Dick my friend

That's actually one of my favourite novels of all time; but I expected it to appear in half of all these responses so I tried to avoid including it in my own list.

Any other, preferably more modern, recommendations?

I don't look for books I agree with.

I don't need to re-read them. I get them the first time around.

it's not needing to, it's wanting to.

In fact, I was rereading The Sermon before I posted in this thread.

There's no wanting to do a needless activity.

Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
The Waves

I'm another one who doesn't really have favorites, I'll just pick three I really like and are unlikely to appear elsewhere in this thread.

Heller - Something Happened
Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
Steinbeck - Travels with Charley

thinking that you get books in their entirety the first time around is symptomatic of immaturity in readership, and same with not admitting that you enjoy books that provide some sort of world-view affirmation. Sorry, user, but you sound autistic.

you must be a blast at parties

Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

I was planning on reading The Recognitions next year but I also have A Frolic of His Own on my shelf, should I just jump into that since I have it?

Using memes belies your intelligence.

There's more great books than one has time to read in a lifetime.

I'll always gain more out of reading two great books once than one great book twice.

Of course, that requires more work.

Using memes doesn't hide yours.

>I'll always gain more out of reading two great books once than one great book twice.
This is said by a person who doesn't reread?
Or a person who has never tried reading philosophy?

Thanks dude, I'll check it out!

Anna Karenina
Don Quijote
Moby Dick

You don't read very well if you think that rereading is useless.

I'm sure you can spare the two fucking days it takes to reread something.

Not extremely useless, no. Not the most useful, either.

Thanks for not disagreeing.

Is philosophy difficult for you?

The Magicians
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Brothers Karamazov

>Is philosophy difficult for you?
It is for everyone. That's why if you study it you have to take notes and read it over and over again, just like anything else.

So, you approach it with the idea to memorize it.

The Black Company

I have a long backlog of books I need to read, and hopefully this will all change soon.. busy with school atm.

Chronicles of Narnia, Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
The Mist
IT
also The Art of the Deal

Book of the New Sun

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

How do you understand something if you can't repeat in a meaningful way?

Larva
Finnegans Wake
The Tunnel

Looking for something poetic, long, and full of the one who wrote it.
Angela's ashes

rote memorization is meaningful

The Overcoat -- Gogol

Thought: you don't have favorites because you never for a second think about or digest what you've read, you let it flow through you like water and never stop to absorb anything. I reccomend Schopenhauer's On Thinking For Oneself

In that case, probably The Apes of God

Nah, go chronologically

Recommending a book to someone who has "short term memory loss" makes you look silly.

This is something stupid people ask or say that makes them think they're real damn clever. All it does it goes to show that you're socially retarded. All people are asking here is to give three books you really like. Hell, give more if you want. Go ahead and pseud it up with rhetoric if you want, feel free to say ohh I don't think someone as brilliant and with such eclectic taste as me can limit myself to three books, so here's four.
Just stop being such an annoying pedant.

Will check, thanks :)

Barthelme

In Watermelon Sugar
The Blind Owl
Pedro Paramo

Saunders

Which one fag

Iliad
The Sound and the Fury
Moby Dick

Additional Qualifier: Suggestions can't be by the same author. Obviously The Odyssey and Absalom are complimentary to my picks.

I tried to narrow it down, but it's impossible to choose

don't have a top 3, but these come very close:
Gödel's Proof
The Waste Books
anything from Michel de Montaigne

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
it's really evocative, i didn't expect to appreciate this as much as i do

The only one that matters: Donald Duck

We're not a bunch of Tao Lin K Mart fuckbois around here

You bring to mind Gollum, and his precious.

Principlia Mathematica
All of Turing
Letters of a Stoic, Descartes Meditations, or stick to the pretty French writing and go with Proust

Song of Solomon

Principlia Mathematica
All of Turing
Letters from a Stoic, Descartes Meditations, or stock with pretty French writing and go with Proust

Morrison is Faulkner derivative muh black woman trash

Metamorphoses -- Ovid
No Long Human -- Dazai
The Divine Comedy - Dante

I don't have the best taste, I know. Would like suggestions though.

The Decameron
Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel
Canterbury Tales

Alternate: Don Quixote or the Faerie Queen

I think he was referring to the literal Song of Solomon.

*Principia, shit for brains. Nice recs though.

nah she's good

Yikes

Nope

Yup

ah, I did really enjoy the Canterbury Tales and Don Quixote. Will check out the other 3. Thank you.

seconding for Faerie Queen


thank you! you're good- i love turing and seneca. principia mathematica is a behemoth i ambitiously want to finish but have yet to.

i've been meaning to read more proust, do you have some suggestions outside of ISOLT?

The Inquisitor's Manual
Meant which Bartheleme. Also, if you can't narrow it down to one, give more than one you stupid little shit.

1. The Quiet American, Greene.
2. Inherent Vice, Pynchon.
3. Cakes and Ale, Maugham.

Speedboat by Renata Adler

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Gravitys Rainbow

Norwegian Wood
Gold
Taiko

>kafka in general
>narcis and goldmund - hesse
>picture of dorian gray - wilde

my diary desu

Ubik
100 Years of Solitude
Lonesome Dove

Heinrich Von Kleist

Ulysses
Moby Dick
Absalom Absalom

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger

Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars

oh god. i hated Michael Kohlhaas. Some stupid fag burning down villages and shit, just because some dude took his horses or something.

The Recognitions
Don Quixote
Moby Dick

Midnight's Children

East Of Eden

Not really into black literature. Can you suggest something else.

rushdie's a black guy?

>I don't look for books I agree with
Nothing that person said is even remotely like this

Nice try, though

Infinite Jest
The Fountainhead
The Soft Machine

My two favorites:

Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

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