Age

19
F scott fitzy
The stranger
Meditations on First philosophy-Descartes

31
knausgaard
the hobbit
the disaster artist

Whenever people say their favourite book is War and Peace I usually assume they inflate their praises of long books, out of (perhaps subconcious(?)) fear of having wasted time. Or maybe you just really liked it. 4/10

This is exactly the kind of answer that most 18 year olds who frequent this board would provide. Keep reading and develop some underground/novel tastes. 4.5/10

I don't like that you're trying to count Fear and Loathing as non-fiction. 6/10

10/10. If I had to guess you probably live in Kentucky

>20
>Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
>Georges Perec-Life an user's manual
>Walter Benjamin- The Arcades Project

No, I really liked it, I waste time remorselessly

You're not really rating people's tastes, but rather assessing how likely you are to like someone who has the given tastes--is that your intent?

>20.
>Tolstoy.
>W&P or Infinite Jest.
>Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I need to read more NF, history and philosophy stuff.

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Plato
Moby-Dick
Bible

>i guess

meme nonfic pick

cringe

niceeee

'just graduated from reddit'-tier

>Bible
nice

awful

awful

awful

awful

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James Salter
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen

The anecdote I attached was in some cases a critique of taste, in others not, but the ascribed number was an appraisal of taste. Don't conflate the two because the come in the same package

Nice

>22
>Shakespeare
>Ulysses
>Bible

Oh, so it isn't your intent? You've conflated the two!

>People only like thick books because they're pseuds who try to impress people.

Fuck off. Tolstoy is objectively the greatest writer of all time. W&P and AK are universally considered two of (or the two) greatest books ever written. Really long books like W&P can be difficult to see through to the end for anyone, but it deserves all the appreciation it gets.

You have to really want to read any 750+ page literary classic. Even the most avid readers will find some sections of long books a drag to get through.

>Bible
>.t victim of fantastic credulity

... brutal

>21
>
>Don Quixote
>Iliad

The number is an appraisal of taste. I don't see the confusion, user, please try to keep up. The corollary anecdote was just that, an anecdote, not a factor/justification for the number

>20
>Pynchon
>Dharma Bums
>Perceptions of Heaven and Hell

I'm very new to all this

>People only like thick books because they're pseuds who try to impress people.
Does this strawman keep away many crows?

>Tolstoy is objectively the greatest writer of all time
You're right, this fact slipped my mind, I rescind my comment

>Iliad
patrician nonfic pick

>22
>Salinger
>Crime and Punishment, I suppose
>Holy Bible

r8

bbut its long and has lots of characters

>19
>William Faulkner
>The Sound and the Fury
>Does philosophy count? If yes then I would say The Confessions or the consolation of philosophy...though i guess that isnt, by any stretch of the imagination, "non fiction"

War and Peace. A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome messages, didactic interludes, artificial coincidences. Uncritical of its historical sources.

You sound like a fucking faggot. If I ever saw you in real life, I'd beat your ass.

Nabokov says a lot of stupid things in that book, you'll notice

>name:OP
>age:12
>Favorite author:Hemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmingway (he's so dreamy he makes my virgin boipvcci wet Favorite novel:The old man and the sea
>Favorite nonfiction:Mein Kampf (XDDDDD)

Do you think Nabokov liked inhaling his own farts?

kek

Not as much as Joyce, but probably slightly more than Leo

yes but why are you really mad?

20
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
The Bible

>25
>Virginia Woolf
>Crime and Punishment, Mrs. Dalloway, As I Lay Dying
>Ecclesiastes, The Last Interview with James Baldwin, Autobio of Helen Keller

nice try but im not scared of white people. if you even touched me your entire race would crucify you lmao.

>Bible as nonfiction

Just kys, you're going to hell anyway

...

>19
>Alan Moore
>Book of the New Sun
>Hitler's Revolution

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Gaddis
The Recognitions
Naked Lunch

>>age
25
>>favorite writer
Terry Prachett
>>favorite fiction novel
A scanner darkly
>>favorite nonfiction book
Lel
>And other anons attempt to discern how much of a faggot you truly are.
I've sucked cock, but I'm most certain,oh not a faggamund.

Nigga what

>26
>Waltari
>The Brothers K
>Uber Gewissheit

>20
>Camus
>The Plague
>A History of Philosophy vol 1-11 by Copleston

>19
>Tom Wolfe
>Le Petit Prince
>The Hero With a Thousand Faces

>24
>JD Salinger, Dostoevsky and Tove Jansson
>Middlemarch
>The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys

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Wallace
The Recognitions
Either Dummit and Foote or Reasons and Persons

>34
>Hermes the Thrice
>The Dictionary
>Playboy

meme'd

no, those are perfectly good choices

>18
>Bolano
>Brief History of Seven Killings
>A History of the World in Six Glasses

23
DFW
1984
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

>age
18
>favorite writer
Joyce (havent read anything of his yet)
>favorite fiction novel
Ulysses
>favorite nonfiction book
Infinite Jest

They're mostly nostalgic choices. Each of them inspired some sort of big shift in my thinking. Not really indicative of my recent reading or anything.

20
Hemmmingway
Heart of Darkness
On Writing

26
Thomas Bernhard
Correction
The Closing of the American Mind

Salter is a great choice, what's your favorite work of his?
For me it's Solo Faces, probably.

A Sport and a Pastime, tbqh. I know it's a pretty basic choice but it's the first of his I read and it still has that magic for me.

24
William Golding
Book of the New Sun
Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Breddy good.
>ageless
>Pessoa
>Werther
>Divine Comedy

I'm not surprised you liked ecclesiastes since you seem chronically unable to pick one thing.
Moore, meaning you're attracted to big abstract ideas and inconsistent lunatical raving. Of course you're interested in Hitler.
Dull.
19 and already pining so desperately for the simplicities of youth. Sad.
>look at how existentialist I am

I give you all a 7/10, more than most people in this thread

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Pynchon
The crying of lot 49
Ethical intuitionism by Michael huemer

>28
>Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>The Triuph of Death
>Industrial society and it's future

>20
>Joyce
>Swann's Way - Proust
>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wittgenstein

>Early Wittgenstein
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EVEN WITTGENSTEIN DISLIKED EARLY WITTGENSTEIN

>25
>Dostoevsky
>Crime & Punishment
>Sculpting in Time

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Tom Robbins - funniest and funnest writer I ever
Illusions - Richard Bach still quoting it after 34 years
Modern Primitives (RESearch compilation, sorta old, but hey, so am I)

Usually only lurk, but sure, roast that if you wish

Bretty gud.

Underrated post.

kek

Careful with that hook, friendo. I almost nicked myself.

Bolaño is sublime.

>20
>José Saramago
>Blindness
>A Causa das Coisas - Miguel Esteves Cardoso

>18
>lovecraft
>necronomicon (lovecraft collection)
>"Genghis khan" by John Man
am fashy, that probably explains a few things

>20
>Murakami
>Kafka by the Shore
>Meditations

I know all the problems with Murakami's work but it's comfy and I always return to it

>19
>Thomas Mann
>Musil - The Man Without Qualities
>Spinoza - Ethics

19
>pynchon
>notes from underground
>the conspiracy against the human race

You have undiagnosed autism

23
De Sade
Silence by Endo
Meditations

I really hope there a few layers of irony here since I'm unironically paranoid about that exact thing and those are unironically my favorites

>18
>Tolstoy
>War and Peace
>Fear and Trembling

>20
>Umberto Eco
>Foucault's Pendulum
>The Collected Works of William Blake

I would like to change my favourite non-fiction to The Tao Te Ching. It had slipped my mind during the initial post

19
Hunter Thompson
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Tie between Hell's Angels and How to Win Friends and Influence People

>20
> Yukio Mishima
> Runaway Horses
> A Rumor of War

20
Ernest Hemingway
Norwegian Wood
In Cold Blood

18
- Either ive read too many, or not enough, because I don't know
- The Guns of the South
- The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schlitberger

R8 me m8

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Currently, L.F. Celine or Houellebecq
The Brothers Karamazov
R.D. Laing's corpus...?

>18
>Camus
>The Tin Drum
>In Cold Blood

>25
>Tolkien
>The Once and Future King
>none come to mind

21
Wallace
The Pale King
Chaos by James Gleich

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Kafka or Nabokov
Lolita
Peter the Great, his life and world by Robert Massie

18
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Meditations

>Age
23
>Favorite written
Italo Svevo / Hilda Doolittle / José Emilio Pacheco
>Favorite fiction novel
The Alexandria quartet
>Favorite nonfiction book
Leviathan

>22
>Shakespeare
>Abaddon el exterminador
>Montaigne's Essays

22, Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Brave new world, The Plantagenets (by Dan Jones)

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Kadare
Blood Meridian
Conspiracy against the human race

I like turtles