Best book

In your opinion what is the best book ever written.
Give at least one reason

Gravity's Rainbow

Because there are a lot of popculture references which I think is the highest form of art. Practically like memes.

Infinite Jest


Because there are a lot of popculture references which I think is the highest form of art. Practically like memes

My diary desu

I was about to post this

Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

s'good

I agree with this. For me though it's because I like drugs and I like Pinecone's sense of humor.

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
It's like he began and ended all that needed to be written.

kys

Watsons Go To Birmingham- 1963. Read it in gradeschool and it remains one of my favorites to this day. It focuses on a blue collar black family that lives in Michigan who decide to drive down to Birmingham, Alabama to visit some relatives. Unfortunately for them, civil rights movement was going on

Sickness Unto Death/ Fear and Trembling

Convinced me nihilism, relativism and all philosophy is an extension of imperfect psychological and metaphysical belief, and necessarily requires a perfect, or most importantly, a belief in a deity for any absolute value or importance. I'm still an aesthete, but a begrudging one.

*tips*

>It's like he began and ended all that needed to be written.
>ends the book years before the war he is covering concludes

hope you read the greeks.

The Brothers Karamazov

Ficciones, because Borges is literally me.

Looking for Alaska

Because all authors mentioned above would barely break the 100 subscribers mark on YouTube.

Jorge come back.

let me summarize looking for alaska:

>> muh teen drama
>> undesirable beta can't pull the trigger with desirable hottie
>> girls kills self
>> muh feels she's gone

Ha! You've read John Green! Pleb user! Ha!

YASSSS

i had a ya phase at 14 ok

i read five of his books

did keirks just pick religion by default? his reasoning for it just seemed lazy

the bible

can tell people i read the bible despite not being christian, which makes them think im profound and mysterious,like kurt cobain,

I really like this post

His diary
It's really, really good.

I haven't finished writing it yet, fool.

Because there are a lot popculture references which I think is the highest form of art. Practically like memes.

And more.

You know a board is awful when 90% of the posts in a thread are shitposts. Fuck you.

Thanks for the spoiler, motherfucker.

You don't spoil books. Ever. Even if its John Green.

Where's your honor, cumrag?

Mahabharata.

Make a shit thread, and you'll get exactly as much effort back as you put in.