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You seem to be a person with a great sense of empathy. You do not have prejudices against poor people and the people who suffer in third world countries. You also don’t have anything against women and trusts that, with the right education and care, anyone can achieve meaningful things.

On the other hand, you are probably not very confident and you feel that you might not have enough talent to actually achieve something in your life.

You like poetry and is pretending to write, in the future, a literature with highly inventive and metaphorical prose.

You are still discovering what you like in literature, and the suggestions of Veeky Forums are still very meaningful to you, although you are not sure if you really feel the same enthusiasm as the people here pretend to feel for contemporary post-modernist fiction..

You want to like Pynchon and Joyce, but you sense that there is something lacking in their style. On the other hand, you would love to read more books with the same poetic intensity of Pedro Páramo, but with a more consistent story (this is an enterprise that you feel that you might do it yourself).

I should think that's quite accurate, yes, though sometimes I feel my empathy comes from a selfish place.

>You like poetry and is pretending to write

You like poetry and and are planning to write

>lists only 4 books

>19
>Ready, Player One
>Slaughterhouse Five
>Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
>V For Vendetta
>The Communist Manifesto

>he hasn't read 18

Literally Rebbit: The Post

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>The Master of Go
>The Summer Book
>Little, Big
>The Once and Future King
>Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine

Some researchers say that all empathic and altruistic behavior is actually a way of self-realization, or self-protection, or self-help.

For example: one might support social justice programs to see people of lower classes being able to buy more things, study, be treated in free-clinics and eventually achieving a degree in University, but all the time supporting that with this altruistic view only because one believes that in this way the streets will be safer and cleaner and the country as a whole will be more economic and culturally significant.

Fuck off

Quit reading memes, then, you fucking faggot.

made me chuckle

Yep, fucked up there.

The sun also rises

Fundie detected lol...fuck off

Still haven't had the balls to read Joyce. But other than that i'll take it. Any advice on the same poetic intensity but a more consistent story? Right now im reading Rayuela and I think it might be that.

El Quijote
Pedro Paramo
La familia Pascual Duarte
The Bible
The Hobbit

I am 19 btw.Don't bully

My advice for you, when it comes to poetic diction, would be, first, to read a lot of Shakespeare. Much of his work is in verse, in iambic pentameter, but he also writes prose. Also: anything you learn by reading poetry can be used in prose. So I would suggest Shakespeare first.

If you want to have a look on Shakespeare’s handle of metaphors and imagery (something that might help you) you might read this book: “Shakespeare’s Imagery and What it Tells Us”, by Caroline Spurgeon. Her conclusions about Shakespeare are not that important, but she does a wonderful job by collecting and presenting the metaphors of the plays to the reader, in a way that you can taste many of them before you actually read the plays.

Nabokov is also a great master of prose poetry. Lolita is a good starting point: it is a book that offers you everything, from interesting characters to great language to an engaging and touching-scary story.

Memoirs of Hadrian is also a sublime work of poetic prose. It is much more classical, it has a more balanced and precise kind of beauty, like a great temple of marble. I thing you would like it a lot.

Isaac Babel has some very poetic short-stories.

As for Joyce, I was expecting more of his poetic prose, especially after I read the magnificent ending of “The Dead”. However, Joyce is more preoccupied with other kinds of experiments, and poetry for itself is not much his thing.

Virginia Wolf also has a prose of very poetic texture, but her books are quite static; they don’t focus that much in an engaging story.

Extreme tool
Child
Child
Why is a great book like At Swim sitting next to One Hundred Years of Solitude and Grapes of Wrath?
Giant tool
Boring
Must be a child for thinking this bait is even halfway decent
Why even go on Veeky Forums?

>The master of Go

my man why aren't we friends

dick

...

>22

In no particular order:
>Moby Dick
>Franny and Zooey
>Crime and Punishment
>Metamorphosis
>Don Quixote

>Boring

At least you got me right :(

You're a fucking jerk, dude.

post yours pal

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
EE Cummings Collected Poems
The Catcher in the Rye

savage AF

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Moby Dick
The book of the New Sun
1984
Blood Meridian
Mother Night

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An Armenian Sketchbook
No Longer Human
Stoner
The Screwtape Letters
Hard Rain Falling

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The Recognitions
Springer's Progress
Pale Fire
Ulysses
You Can't Go Home Again

Roast me.

why am I an extreme tool

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Great Gatsby
Hobbit
The never-ending story
Song of Solomon
Moby Dick

>Hard Rain Falling

A man of refined tastes

No
Typical for an 18 year old
When you get a house, if you don't already have one, you'll have an old rifle hanging on your wall. Everyone will come over and ask about it but you won't know what to say because you've never fired it.
I'm surprised The Old Man and the Sea or some Jack London shit isn't on this list.
You are very lonely.
This is a great "books I've never read but Veeky Forums says they're the best" list. Minus "Springer's Progress". That was a nice touch.

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the divergent series
the great gatsby
catcher in the rye

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Crime and Punishment
Steppenwolf
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Count of Monte Cristo
Invisible Cities

I feel you and I would get along...and eventually end up fucking

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>The Journal of Albion Moonlight
>King Lear
>2666
>Memoirs of Hadrian
>Rooms for Rent on the Outer Planets

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Anna Karenina
Moby Dick
Don Quijote
Return of Filip Latinovicz
Crime and Punishment

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Tommy Pinecone - Mason & Dixon
Don Delillo - Libra
William S. Burroughs - Soft Machine
Gary Snyder - Mountains and Rivers Without End
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun

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Chess Story - Zweig
The Sot-Weed Factor - Barth
Lolita - Nabokov
Infinite Jest - Wallace
The Long Ships - Bengtsson

Prediction: 5/10 tool

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Lolita
The Sun Also Rises
The Magic Mountain
Catch-22
We

how was the long ships?

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>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>George Orwell's Collected Essays
>The Tempest
>The Sound and the Fury
>Everything That Rises Must Converge

This is either bait or the most hellacious innocence/naivete I've ever seen. You're taste will get better as you get older and read more

You don't make any sense to me, if I had to guess you feel obliged to give long garrulous books praise but deep down you know they don't always deserve it

Checked just for Pale Fire, nice

You at least have a clear "style/taste" which is nice cause it doesn't immediately reek of parroting other Anons opinions

I don't even have 5 favorite books because none of them ever live up to these two. Plus I mostly read political and religious books and they don't really count for these sorts of lists.

The Count of Monte Cristo
Lord of the Rings

Wonderful, like the foreword predicted I now "love it immoderately"

Fuck, your taste**

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Lolita
To the Lighthouse
The Map and the Territory
Hopscotch
Honeymoon

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Complete Poems by John Keats
The Cantos by Ezra Pound
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Crime and Punishment
Faust
The Tragedy of Man
Candide
Paradise Lost

>20

Infinite Jest
the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (all of them)
This Side of Paradise
LotR
Dom Quixote

>post yours
>no
And that's why you're the biggest tool of all.

I did:

I'm and

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The Aeneid
Paradife Loft
The Recognitions
Portrait of the Artist
Moby Dick

How can Infinite Jest honestly be among someone's top 5 favorite books

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Starship Troopers
Ben-Hur
The Road Back
The Catcher in the Rye
The Bible

in no particular order

Well favourite doesn't imply best, there are lots of reasons for calling a book a favourite. In IJs case it's almost a teleological reason in that it was the first "non-pulpy" book I read at a certain past point in my life, which pushed me to read more seriously.

Kind of like how someone could say their grade 11 math teacher was their favourite, cause he turned them onto math, even though he undoubtably had "better" teachers in university and thereafter

this

>Paradife Loft
check out this tool

favorite books
I just watch cartoons and films and read webcomics desu. No prizes for guessing my age.

I'll try and redeem my 'tool' status:
>(Anything by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki)
>Hitchhiker's Guide
>The Collected Works of M.C. Escher
>Boffinology by Justin Pollard
>1984 (>inb4)

>Hamlet
If plays count, Julius Caesar would be up there.

>The Catcher in the Rye
I remember my anti-American Canadian teacher got our class to read that. Everyone except me and a friend were bitching about Caulfield being a whiny annnoying hypocrite.

east of eden
stoner
the name of the rose
mason & dixon
the old man and the sea

>implying it already doesnt have all the information about you

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>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
>A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bryson
>Dune - Herbert
>The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds
>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John LeCarre

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Crime and Punishment
Ficciones (all of his short stories really, whatever)
Stoner
The Flowers of Evil
Pedro Páramo

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Petersburg
Being and Time
Titus Groan
Mason & Dixon
Journey to the End of the Night

>implying Holden isn't right

Thanks user. Will definitely check them out. In about 10 years look for a book with a highly inventive and metaphorical prose and you will surely find a dedication from my part.

>at swim

>This is a great "books I've never read but Veeky Forums says they're the best" list. Minus "Springer's Progress". That was a nice touch.

haha

le "if lit talks about it then it's bad" face

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sorrows of satan
tractacus logico philosophicus
on the road
alice in wonderland
mona lisa overdrive

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Under the Volcano
L'Écume des Jours
Ὀδύσσεια
Leaves of Grass
Le Voyage au Bout de la Nuit

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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
Über den Schmerz
Der Brief des Lord Chandos
The Courage to Be
Austerlitz

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Blood Meridian
The Master and Margarita
The Things They Carried
The Old Man and the Sea
The Joke

You're a bummer.

The Secret History-Donna Tartt
A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
To the Lighthouse-Virginia Woolf
The Man in the High Castle-Philip K. Dick
White Noise-Don DeLillo

>24
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Anna Karenina
>Brideshead Revisited
>Apologia Pro Vita Sua
>The Count of Monte Cristo

>The Man in the High Castle

>19
>crime and punishment
>catch 22
>roadside picnic
>the trial
>lolita

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The Satanic Verses
Heart of Darkness
The Amulet of Samarkand
The Golem's Eye
Ptolemey's Gate

I like adventure books don't hate me

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Asturias' Mulata
Milton's Paradise Lost
Nabokov's Lolita
Schopenhauer's Parerga and Paralipomena
Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich

...

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Paradise Lost
Macbeth
In a Glass Darkly
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)
The Picture of Dorian Grey

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East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Dangling Man (Bellow)
Portnoy's Complaint (Roth)
Despair (Nabokov)
No Longer Human (Dazai)

Not my favorite of all time, just my favorite out of the books I've read this year

What did you like about The Satanic Verses?

21.

Rodolfo Usigli - Crown of Shadows, Crown of Fire, Crown of Light
Joseph Campbell - The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Christopher Marlowe - Tameburlaine, the great.
Eugene O'Neill - The Great God Brown
Gabriel García Márquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Honestly a pretty good list, including children's books is fine.

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A Treatise of Human Nature, specifically part 3
Julian
Flowers for Algernon
Bicentennial Man
Matilda

It's a favorites thread guys no reason to be dicks

numale

How the fuck based Whitman is in the same list taht fuckin' Nietzsche?

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in no order:
>temple of the golden pavilion
>plato's collected works (ed. hamilton)
>the brothers karamazov
>three stigmata of palmer eldritch
>kafka's "the castle"