Give me ONE (1) book that is an essential read

Give me ONE (1) book that is an essential read

Dante's Inferno.

Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy

my dairy desu

The Bible.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

This

Reading currently. Not essential. Entertaining but far from a must.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.

On arabic, of course

War & Peace.

I read it on prose and didn't care for dante's story. All the entertaining bits are references to better stuff. And there was that guelfos/gibelinos thing on the footnotes

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How To Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

I have it in Spanish but it's too fucking long

Well, you know how they say spanish is arabic's rape baby, so the spanish translation should retain most of it's nuances; i'd say do it, faggot. It's not really that long

Crime and Punishment

>more than 1000 pages
>not long

Thanks I will read none of these.

Well meme'd lad

if you read 70 pages a day (2 hours of reading) you can read it in two weeks

Lol ebin XD

This is the only correct answer. If you're only going to read one.

>religious dogma written by primitive peoples
>essential read

Gargantua and Pantagruel

>the starting point for most of western literature
>not an essential read

>the starting point for most of western literature
[Citation needed]

The Myth by Alfred Rosenberg

well now we all know what to call you.

Not that user but anything over 1000 pages is objectively a long book.

>essential read means essential for western literature

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t. pseud

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yes, dante's inferno is magnificent, but not inferno alone. you must choose 1 book, and without reading all the greek/roman/medieval lit and theology/philsophy references inferno wouldn't be that good/essential.

bible is the answer. the one book you can read cover to cover without any pre-requisites and the one book that influenced the whole canon

>everything there is to know in life is in the Brothers Karam

A good Grammar of one's native language.

>essential

As a man thinketh by James Allen

This or Hyperion/The Hermit in Greece