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Descend to slumber posted:What is with all the love for Kafka on the Shore? I read some Murakami short stories and liked them, then I read KotS and pretty much stopped reading Murakami thereafter. What did I miss or fail to understand that made that book so good? I didn't like Kafka on the Shore. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is awesome though.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I don't re-read books very often because there are at least a hundred on my shelves I haven't gotten around to yet, but these are exceptions: The Epic of Gilgamesh is undoubtedly a great work. It's interesting to note how different the prose (?) style is from what we're used to. Ecclesiastes is definitely in my top 3 Bible books. Another book from that list would be Samuel. I advise everyone to read it, it's like an account of early Roman Empire intrigue, but with God as the main character.
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H.H posted:The Epic of Gilgamesh is undoubtedly a great work. It's interesting to note how different the prose (?) style is from what we're used to. samuel rules
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yoloer420 posted:Windows 95 for Dummies Windows 98 for Moderators
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H.H posted:Windows 98 for Moderators lol i bet he still keeps that book next to his bed
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Descend to slumber posted:What is with all the love for Kafka on the Shore? I read some Murakami short stories and liked them, then I read KotS and pretty much stopped reading Murakami thereafter. What did I miss or fail to understand that made that book so good? I don't think it's a great book or anything but I do think that a) You can transition from a history of reading fantasy and scifi garbage directly to KotS and like it b) Once you do that you should be cured of being able to read fantasy and scifi without seeing how it's utter poo poo with maybe just a few relapses in the ensuing years, and this is a fundamental good
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Oct 11, 2016 22:12
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The Dregs posted:I have to admit, a lot of Stephen King's stuff, mostly before the accident, is eminently re-readable. Stephen King is actually well respected for his short stories. All of his longer novels are real garbo though.
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Sheep-Goats posted:Stephen King is actually well respected for his short stories. well he shouldn't be!
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Oct 11, 2016 22:17
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I would pick Infinite Jest, a printout of every thread on the SA forums in a ring binder, and a book called "how to twerk".
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"I can't believe I'm reading this thing again!" - me, reading "how to twerk" again
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I'm changing my vote to Infinite Jest, the Ring binder full of SA threads and a book called "How to Twerk, again."
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Where's Wally in Hollywood The Vagina Monologues
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I can't imagine being stuck on a desert island or whatever with Lord of the Rings because that would mean having to spend that time with Tom Bombadil, which is unacceptable. E: Gargantua and Pantagruel is a good choice. Props to that goon.
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Oct 11, 2016 22:26
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I am going to return from that island a twerk master.
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Oct 11, 2016 22:32
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I'm going to assume that you mean fiction only; if I could no longer read non-fiction books my life would be over personally and professionally so I would need to die. Anyway, so for fiction: Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut) Inferno (Dante) Pride & Prejudice (Austen)
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Oct 11, 2016 22:34
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Minimalist Program posted:I'm changing my vote to Infinite Jest, the Ring binder full of SA threads and a book called "How to Twerk, again." Same, but Infinite Jest three times
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Squashing Machine posted:Same, but Infinite Jest three times Same but I'm actually changing mine to "How to Twerk", "How to Twerk, again" and "Learn to Twerk".
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Oct 11, 2016 22:59
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They are "Redwall", "The Color of her Panties", and "Twilight". I've read each of them once a day, every single day, since 2006.
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Pick posted:I'm going to assume that you mean fiction only; if I could no longer read non-fiction books my life would be over personally and professionally so I would need to die. Anyway, so for fiction: Pick, you're kind of annoying a lot of the time, but these are Good Books. 
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I don't like to reread big thick books but I like to reread shorter action packed books sometimes The Hunter by Richard Stark The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
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1 - The Complete Sherlock Holmes vol. 1. - The most satisfying collection of novellas & stories ever, Ever 2 - Blood Meridian - hard to get through the first time, multiple reads reveal substantial new & horrific perspectives 3 - Storm of Swords - the best high fantasy novel ever written, Tolkien wept
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Pick posted:I'm going to assume that you mean fiction only; if I could no longer read non-fiction books my life would be over personally and professionally so I would need to die. Anyway, so for fiction: I actually meant non-fiction as well, so go ahead.
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Supreme Allah posted:2 - Blood Meridian - hard to get through the first time, multiple reads reveal substantial new & horrific perspectives The only reason I haven't read this several times is because I lent it to a friend in college and he still has it as far as I know. quote:It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
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Journey to the End of the Night Borges' Collected Fictions (or just Ficciones if that doesn't count) Book of the New Sun
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Sex Falcon posted:Book of the New Sun Botns deserves all the credit it gets. They are basically written to be read at the very least 3 times.
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The idiot, Johnathan strange and Mr norrell, book of the new sun if I'm allowed to count that since I own it as one compiled book
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Jimlit posted:Botns deserves all the credit it gets. They are basically written to be read at the very least 3 times. It's quite excellent, but do you include the 5th book as well? I just have them all in random editions--is there an omnibus with all 5?
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A Strange Aeon posted:It's quite excellent, but do you include the 5th book as well? I just have them all in random editions--is there an omnibus with all 5? You mean Urth of the new sun? I personally see that as more of its own thing. The first four books are the ones I read over and over.
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Sex Falcon posted:Book of the New Sun I tried reading the first one and I just didn't get it. It meandered around showing me a world that wasn't too interesting and then some dudes hit each other with flowers. What was I missing?
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Jimlit posted:You mean Urth of the new sun? I personally see that as more of its own thing. The first four books are the ones I read over and over. Interesting, I thought Urth--especially the last 2/3rds or so--threw the other books into perspective. I should reread the whole series again.
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The Dregs posted:I tried reading the first one and I just didn't get it. It meandered around showing me a world that wasn't too interesting and then some dudes hit each other with flowers. What was I missing? I fell in love with the writing style: "I have found always that the pattern of our guild is repeated [...] in the societies of every trade, so that they are all of them torturers, just as we. His quarry stands to the hunter as our clients to us; those who buy to the tradesman; the enemies of the Commonwealth to the soldier; the governed to the governors; men to women. All love what they destroy." "There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men—all are dead. Their bodies repose in caskets, in sarcophagi, beneath arches of rude stone, everywhere under the earth. Their spirits haunt our minds, ears pressed to the bones of our foreheads. Who can say how intently they listen as we speak, or for what word?" A Strange Aeon fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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The Dregs posted:I tried reading the first one and I just didn't get it. It meandered around showing me a world that wasn't too interesting and then some dudes hit each other with flowers. What was I missing? The writing style as mentioned is beautiful but also a lot isn't quite as it seems at face value when reading for the first time/not paying enough attention and trying to figure out the reality along with what you misunderstood vs what was misrepresented intentionally by the narrator vs what was misrepresented due to the narrator's lack of understanding is fun and rewarding. The world is also pretty interesting, to me anyways.
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i'd pick 3 RL Stein choose your own adventure goosebumps books cause you can do all the permutations of the adventures and it's like having more than 3 
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weak wrists big dick posted:Well, I'm fifteen IRL and haven't read anything outside of lovely YA series, but I have heard that Blood Meridian is a super cool in violent book, so I say its my favorite. Also the Hobbit because I've seen the movie, so I might as well have read the book. good username haha apparently 15 yo humor is right up my alley
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thathonkey posted:i'd pick 3 RL Stein choose your own adventure goosebumps books cause you can do all the permutations of the adventures and it's like having more than 3 If you pet the dog, turn to page 62... ok, yes... ... No! turn back, turn back!
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