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snow crash candide the forever war actually these are the only books i've read more than once.
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Ibogaine posted:Incidentally, I also agree with anyone naming Dostoyesvky, Tolstoi or Chekhov. (Though with Chekhov, you would have to go for a compilation of short prose, I guess). Russian literature before the 19th century was much less accessible, and generally considered inferior. Your question is a very good one, though. I don't have an answer to it, but it is something that a lot of people wondered about over the years. The writers lived in a relatively repressive society and had to exercise a lot of self-censorship, but still produced amazing stuff. Russian history is basically a story of government restriction and extermination of the intelligentsia. How come that starting from Pushkin, they managed to create something that changed the way we read and think about literature? One answer which I particularly like was expressed by Dmitry Bykov, a well-known contemporary Russian writer. He said that God created 19th century Russian literature so he'd have something to read.
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If you are into it, Albert Hoffman's "LSD: My Problem Child" and "Pharmacotheon" are both excellent drug nerd books  e: clarification, Pharmacotheon is not Hoffman's work, it is Jonathan Ott's weak wrists big dick fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Oct 10, 2016 |
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Oct 10, 2016 13:46
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weak wrists big dick posted:If you are into it, Albert Hoffman's "LSD: My Problem Child" and "Pharmacotheon" are both excellent drug nerd books Hoffman wrote an LSD book? Why did no one tell me? I'll definitely put it on my list.
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Oct 10, 2016 13:52
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I've read Rules of Attraction like twenty-seven times.
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Oct 10, 2016 13:53
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Blood Meridian - By Cormac MacCarthy The Man in the High Castle - By Philip K. Dick Moby Dick - By Herman Melville
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Oct 10, 2016 14:03
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And honestly if you answered anything else you probably werent spanked enough as a child.
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Oct 10, 2016 14:04
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Tales of the Dying Earth Waiting for Godot + Hamlet + Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead Use of Weapons ---------------------- I'm proud of my garbage taste.
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Oct 10, 2016 14:21
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Go Dog Go by P.D. Eastman Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture by Uncle Fester Where's the Poop by Julie Markes B.H. Facials fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Oct 10, 2016 |
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Oct 10, 2016 14:24
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I think I would rather just die than choose three.
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Oct 10, 2016 14:26
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Chaucer's Tales, specifically the copy I have that is from the 20s and has a bunch of really gorgeous waterpaint illustrations. Anything by Mary Roach, who has yet to write a book that I don't love. I'll take a gamble and say the one I haven't read yet, so Grunt. Finally, a book that I know really well but translated into a language I don't know, so that I can teach myself that language. I'll say the collected Sherlock Holmes stories, which are now sold as a single work and are meant to stand together, translated into French, which I know slightly.
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Oct 10, 2016 14:30
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shove me like you do posted:What about compilation sorts of books that are published? (short stories but especially poetry since I feel like its one of the most re-readable forms of writing) Because I'd go Weird, I came into this thread to post #1 and #3 for exactly the same reasons, and I just minutes ago finished reading the wikipedia entry on Robert Burns because I've always meant to read more of his work. I don't think I'd pick that as my third choice though. I think if I could only read one more book for the rest of my life, it would have to be a cookbook, most likely The French Laundry since I already read that one the most.
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Oct 10, 2016 14:34
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Do the Aubrey/Maturin books count as one? Because if so, I would scratch one of my previous choices and take them.
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Oct 10, 2016 14:34
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The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño) Tree of Smoke (Denis Johnson) tie between Infinite Jest and Blood Meridian
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Oct 10, 2016 14:55
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realtalk: torah, nev'im and kethuvim
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Oct 10, 2016 15:03
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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:Moby-Dick Lookit this agreeable person 
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Oct 10, 2016 15:09
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:realtalk: torah, nev'im and kethuvim Same but the Anne Rice books you can get by dropping one letter each and maybe adding an (or another) apostrophe.
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Oct 10, 2016 15:11
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The Lord of the Rings is pretty much it. If we split it into the 3 component books, it's still pretty much it.
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Oct 10, 2016 15:11
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Trunko posted:Blood Meridian - By Cormac MacCarthy These are also good but Moby Dick is not good at all
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Oct 10, 2016 15:12
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Captain Yossarian posted:These are also good but Moby Dick is not good at all i will loving drown you in a lake
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Oct 10, 2016 15:12
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Captain Yossarian posted:These are also good but Moby Dick is not good at all I think it's good I'd rather have a lot of stuff but still it's pretty good If I'm limited to, like, American and foundational probably would be Leaves of Grass.
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Oct 10, 2016 15:13
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Sheep-Goats posted:I think it's good I like the one with all the Rockwell Kent illustrations (he also did Moby-Dick).
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Oct 10, 2016 15:16
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Oct 10, 2016 15:19
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literally all i ever read is sci fi fantasy nerds gently caress off!!
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Oct 10, 2016 15:19
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A Gronking to Remember (I have this book)
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Oct 10, 2016 15:23
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I re-read a lot of Kerouac, Bukowski, HST, and Burroughs books. I've read Blood Meridian three times now and Stephen King's IT four times.
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Oct 10, 2016 15:30
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Moby Dick was good, just not the funnest thing in the world to read
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Oct 10, 2016 15:30
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Also, if you are unable to smoke weed and read, you are just a weak rear end lightweight that doesn't smoke frequently enough to mitigate the memory loss effects
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Oct 10, 2016 15:32
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weak wrists big dick posted:Also, if you are unable to smoke weed and read, you are just a weak rear end lightweight that doesn't smoke frequently enough to mitigate the memory loss effects I can't smoke and read law school case books but I can smoke and read fiction for fun.
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Oct 10, 2016 15:35
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I would take In Search of Lost Time (Not Remembrance of Times Past), all of it, for the strength and clarity in the exactitude of the language, the satire, the wit, and it would provide endless hours of such reading. Absalom, Absalom, as the perhaps #1 masterpiece of American literature, combining an epic narrative, expressive language, longstanding intrigues, romance, and destruction brought about by man's hubris Pynchon's Against the Day, because Pynchon is brilliant, and Day is longer than Gravitys Rainbow, and somehow even less clear, which would give me much to puzzle over through the long years
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Oct 10, 2016 15:36
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Doctor J Off posted:I would take In Search of Lost Time (Not Remembrance of Times Past), all of it, for the strength and clarity in the exactitude of the language, the satire, the wit, and it would provide endless hours of such reading. I'm reading against the day right now, my first Pynchon book. What the gently caress. Every time I pick it up I have no idea where I left off and can't remember any of the characters.
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Oct 10, 2016 15:38
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Trunko posted:Blood Meridian - By Cormac MacCarthy
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Oct 10, 2016 15:44
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Moby's Fat Cock
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Oct 10, 2016 15:45
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Moby Dick - the language is just so pretty and it flows so well. A few chapters are a slog each time (Cetology), but it has so many memorable lines. And the description of clam chowder in the Tri-Pots makes me hungry every time I read it. The Odyssey - Kind of a standby, but it's so readable and has some nice repetitive phrases ("the wine-dark sea"). I also really like the sophistication of having Odysseus built up by his friends and family into this legendary figure in the early chapters, but the first time we actually see him he's sitting at the shore and weeping. Command & Control by Eric Schlosser - basically just a catalog of accidents and near misses in the history of nuclear weapons, but it's riveting. I've read it three times already and it hasn't been out for very long. It always leaves me with a sense of awe that we've never had an accidental nuclear detonation or had a weapon stolen and detonated by a third party.
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Anderron Shi posted:I'm reading against the day right now, my first Pynchon book. What the gently caress. Every time I pick it up I have no idea where I left off and can't remember any of the characters. I recommend using post it notes or making some kind of word document to make little notes to remember characters and plot points
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Oct 10, 2016 15:54
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Doctor J Off posted:I recommend using post it notes or making some kind of word document to make little notes to remember characters and plot points Jeeze
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The kid stays in the picture Book of the new sun Once and future king Neuronancer in a real close fourth.
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Oct 10, 2016 16:54
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dogmother1776 posted:I would probably pick Ubik or the exegesis over The Man In The High Castle personally. I didn't like that one as much as a lot of his other books. I didn't read the Exegesis but I'm guessing it's similar to VALIS. I liked VALIS, so I should probably read this as well. How much of a mindfuck is it?
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Oct 10, 2016 17:29
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Slaughterhouse-Five was basically written by Vonnegut as a way of dealing with Dresden for him. Billy Pilgrim isn't actually a time traveller, any more than anyone else is. He's just suffering from a really bad case of PTSD which is causing him to have flashbacks and hallucinations. The Tralfamadorian's concept of how death isn't really death because they can see that person at any point of their life is exactly the kind of thing a PTSD war vet might come up with to deaden the impact of seeing people literally cooked in the streets. It's not really anti-war in its intent, even if it does have those messages. I don't think SH5 is Vonnegut's best book and it probably wouldn't be one I'd constantly want to reread.
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That's an interesting point, one that isn't stressed enough. My favourite book of his is probably the Sirens of Titan, but it's purely subjective. And I don't think his books are really suited for multiple readings.
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