What was your best read of 2016?

What was your best read of 2016?

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Hard to say really but probably A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man.

>reading Roachshit

The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark.

The Chess Story.

either pic related or Sabbath's Theater

V had some great moments I was sick of the Whole Sick Crew by the end. Southwest Africa parts were pretty intense.

A tough call between Portrait of the Artist and Orlando

The seventh function of language by Laurent Binet.

Prometheus Bound

Blindsight

McGregor lookin all cute like some IRA doo in the 80's

Moby Dick or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

>tfw too smart for a title defense

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The one I liked most: Confederacy of Dunces
The msot important one for me: Letters from a Stoic
The best one: Pride and Prejudice

Moby Dick and the Bible, can't really decide.

Akutagawa for me too. There's really no-one like him.

I read the Rashomon collection & Mandarins though.

I can't really decide but top 3:The Tartar Steppe, Great Expectations and Crime and Punishment.

Illary Clinton Scandolls by Poll Joseph Wotson

Hunger

By far the best read in 2016 for me is: London for Immigrant suckers; So long Yugoslavia

Pic Related??

Dune desu. I started with the first book and now I'm up to God Emperor. Dog bless Frank Herbert for getting me back into regular reading.

I read too many good books this year to claim one above the rest. But Slaughterhouse-Five might have edged forward partly due to how easy of a read it was, and how unexpectedly good it was. It was nothing like I thought it would be. Since everyone always recommends it, I expected it to be a very dry, boring read best suited for school classes or teenage readers, but it was really enjoyable and has skyrocketed to one of my favorite books.

lol

One of the best reads this year is the first two Hyperion novels. The first one in particular is one of the best books I've ever read.

Is this really the best boom you read this year? What the fuck is your problem?

Either Zero K by Don Delillo or The Design of Everyday Things.

This is why I don't post on lit troll threads.

Here's some lit-approved books I read this year. You pick which one I should have said: Siddhartha, Slaughterhouse-Five, Lord of the Rings (all 3 volumes), The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Rex, Hippolytus, The Medea. Also read genre fiction I know lit would not approve of, and a bunch of Sherlock Holmes short stories.

>lists a bunch of trash genre fiction
>Also read genre fiction

Probably candide, though I still enjoyed it.

Sorry, I was rude and shouldn't have said that. Are you new to reading?
All those Greek plays are really good and important. Ivan Ilyich is one of my favorites. Everything else is really good except maybe Conan Doyle who I don't find enjoyable anymore (loved it when I was a kid). To be honest, the book you picked is the one I'd label as the worst, but that's me.
Sorry user.

Isn't everyone new to reading? There are far more books I've not read than I have.

Well if you started one year ago I'd say you're new. If you're a 32, sad, lonely fuck like me and you've been reading since you were a kid like me, I wouldn't say you're new.
I don't think new is the word you're looking for user and I still feel bad for the way I treated you. I'm a peace of shit.

If you read under 20 books in a year you shouldn't be on a lit board.

Fucking phone keyboard fucking up my words

>peace

go read more faggot

Well that depends on what type of books you're reading.

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This, so many times this.

It's so hard to choose since I've read quite a few great books but I'll go with Robin Hobb.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Sirens of Titan for me, probably.

Not my favorite of Vonnegut, but it's surprising how good it is, isn't it?

Time regained

get a grip man

Hey guys. I'm an outsider. I don't typically read, but have read some books on my own before that are sometimes mentioned on here. I found them all boring as fuck. So I want to know what exactly do you guys find so fascinating about reading?

A simple Google search gives me some examples of why some people find reading fun including escape, to learn, to gain different perspectives, and reading for aesthetic pleasure. I don't have the urge to escape since I enjoy life. I like learning about what interests me which currently is programming and other tech stuff. Gaining a different perspective just sounds gay desu, senpai. And what the fuck does aesthetic pleasure mean?

Do you guys seriously use any of these reasons to base your love of reading on?

Also on an unrelated topic. How can I be less self-conscious while reading? Every time I read anything I'm disrupted by me struggling to pronounce a word right even when I'm trying to simply learn something. This bugs the shit out of me.

Also, why are books often associated with beta faggot nu-males? Also why do women like to pretend to read. I've heard the phrase "cuddling up with a good book" too much that it just pisses me off at this point. Also why do liberals use the # of books they've read as a trophy or status thing?

WAR AND PEACE
>better than Ulysses
>better than Brothers K
>better than Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear...
>better than Don Q
>better than Proust

God being a STEM fag sounds so depressing

Why does it sound depressing? To me, I see Veeky Forumsfags or whatever as the true fags. Basically anything artistic. It seems people are always judging you based on tone and how you come off. It seems like the game with most arts is to simply portray what class you belong to. But this is what it seems like and I'd like to know what I'm missing out on. Programming is pretty fun though.

Like I like listening to music and that's considered an aesthetic thing, no? Like I like listening to music that I think sounds good. This is why I tend to prefer deep house music. Do people who read for aesthetic reasons get the same feeling or something when they read a good book? And if that's the case, is it an interesting story that creates that good feeling or is it the structure of the words?

Why isn't anyone responding? Respond to me.

Paradise Lost and other Milton work

A real gem of a book

yes

>Gaining a different perspective just sounds gay
>So I want to know what exactly do you guys find so fascinating about reading
Hmm.

Like I guess I should say I like reading since I read all the time on the internet. But I just don't get the appeal for books. I mean I'm part of the same culture as you most likely. The way I see of how books are seen by society is that books symbolize intelligence, education, knowledge, and status. And it should be obvious that too many people would like those things attributed to them. I also believe that we're all likely to like a thing simply because we believe everyone else likes them and because everyone else likes them its worth investing. Like for example art. You show a painting done by a baby and you tell the audience it was created by a genius artist, a lot of people would say it made them feel things. But then you reveal it was a baby and they feel embarrassed. So this is why I'm almost convinced reading literature today is something like that. People invest time into it because of the already high status it has in society. I mean why don't I get it? What am I missing? Why do people find this shit enjoyable?

>>better than Don Q
how you feel about war and peace is how i feel about the don.

Crime and Punishment!

>liked most and best one aren't the same
You need to go back.

Satantango was the best, followed by Melancholy of Resistance as a close second. I love Cormac McCarthy but my worst book was No Country for Old Men. Dune would be in the bottom too.

im almost done with white noise, so by default it would be that.

Haven't liked a book this much in a while.

I read eleven plays of Shakespeare over the final three months of 2016 and realized that he is the absolute GOAT and nobody will ever come close.

In order starting from absolute best:

>Hamlet
>King Lear
>Macbeth
>Othello
>Julius Caesar
>Antony and Cleopatra
>As You Like It
>The Tempest
>Midsummer's Night Dream
>Richard II
>Much Ado About Nothing
>Taming of the Shrew

Plan to read another 12 over next three months.

>implying Hamlet, Macbeth, and Lear don't make up the Holy Trinity of Literature.

>skylark

Absolute top-tier read. Only book that ever made me cry

I just started seriously reading, no bully
Top 5
>Inherent Vice
>The Iliad
>Lolita
>Candide
>Breakfast of Champions

>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Hamlet
>The Tempest
>The Waste Land
>Four Quartets
>Waiting for Godot
>Austerlitz
>A Room of One's Own
>The Oresteia

>Not reading White Noise in one sitting.

Not much fiction this year. Barely any.

The Divide by Matt Taibi got me a little more up to speed with what happened during the 2008 financial crisis since way more evidence has surfaced over the years. Taibi just couldn't get over no one going to prison for nearly bankrupting US, and then Lehman stealing 5 billion govt dollars in a shady deal. Also covers mass incarceration of non whites in US.

The Qur'an and inshallah you will all come to understand the majesty, uniquness and oneness of our God and his Holy Word.

My best was either C&P or Moby Dick. My favorite, however, was Franny & Zooey.

r8

I lost my shit when I blew that image up

Paul Bowles is a fucking hack.

A wasted year.

Moby dick was pretty good but so is the Iliad so far

As far as actively reading, Mrs. Dalloway.
I didn't expect it to be that good. I didn't expect any book to be that good.

Crime and Punishment is better looking back on it, analyzing it, discussing it. But Woolf redefined literature for me

in search of lost quads

Journey to the west

moby dick
steppenwolf
birth of tragedy
collected works of thoreau was ill

working on cancer ward now but between all of them...cant decide straight up

Hard to believe it isn't universally recognized as the greatest epic

To The Lighthouse was my introduction to her. Only time the description of an inanimate object made me cry.

I read this without reading what its about, I thought it was just going to be a war novel, the alien shit really through me off.

Read a lot of great books this year.

Oblomov was my favourite

Elaine Pagel's "The Gnostic Gospels." It was actually really good read.

Having a heck of a time finding a sample of Mandelbaum's Metamorphoses.

Hey! Have read. Feel the same

Best philosophical book: brothers karamasow
Most enjoyed read: moravagine

Out of 74 thus far my 5 star great reads were:

Laurus by Vodolazkin
The Aran Islands by Synge
The Erl-King by Tournier
Skylark by Kosztolányi
The Bridge on the Drina by Andric
The Dwarf by Lagerkvist
The Black Jacobins by James
Submission by Houellebecq
Silence by Endo
The Buried Giant by Ishiguro
My Antonia by Cather
The Neapolitan Novels by Ferrante

It was a really great year. I think Silence probably wins although they are all of equal quality.

Was it because it made you realize that your parents felt the same way.

it was for me

This year I read:

>The man in the High Castle
>Lolita
>Crime and Pushment
>Consolation of Philosophy

I think C&P was the best book by far

She is a smart cookie. If you want to see a masterful scholar laid low read her Origin of Satan and the Gospel of Thomas. Its completely twisted by the fact that her young son and husband both died within 20 months or so, and is pretty heavily criticized. But both are fun reads if you look at it as scholarship and grief mixed.

>why are books often associated with beta faggot nu-males
Consuming books is not physically active, whereas masculinity is often defined by action. That said, there is a significant Veeky Forumslit/ community.

>why do women like to pretend to read
Far more women read than men. They just read emotional pornography, novels which are steeped in scandal and dainty, easy prose that seek only to tickle the emotions that their mate cannot.

>why do liberals use the # of books they've read as a trophy or status thing
I dont know what being liberal has to do with it, I dont consider myself as such, and I keep track of what and how much I read so I dont fall into vidya and drinking.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (those prose)
Letters From a Stoic by Seneca
Siddhartha

fuckin this

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