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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
Shogun, James Clavell
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The first two volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
Beowulf, the Seamus Heaney translation
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

What's the deal with Shogun being number 1? That book is 40 years old.

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Weaponized Autism
Mar 26, 2006

All aboard the Gravy train!
Hair Elf
46. The 9/11 Commission Report

The best novel in this list.

voting third party
Sep 5, 2006
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Planarch posted:

also which ones are actually good?


Beef Turret posted:

All those books suck rear end except 2,3,9,16 and 75

Cyberball 2072
Feb 17, 2014

by Lowtax
Here is a list of books all non-white men have...






























































































Minorities refuse to read is the punchline

Monday_
Feb 18, 2006

Worked-up silent dork without sex ability seeks oblivion and demise.
The Great Twist
I only own one of those books, do I lose my white status?

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
please do not racialise against the welsh

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

pentyne posted:

Shogun, James Clavell
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The first two volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
Beowulf, the Seamus Heaney translation
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

What's the deal with Shogun being number 1? That book is 40 years old.

Ironically I picked it up for free last month.

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.
I only own 2 books: The Holy Bible and The Holy Bible for Dummies.

necroid
May 14, 2009

wait you rear end in a top hat the linke to the list wasn't there in the first place, this was all a repost

get hosed

reading OWNS Ii've been reading all my life and I ain't white and you can all suck my literate balls

lonelylikezoidberg
Dec 19, 2007

XMNN posted:

please do not racialise against the welsh

lonelylikezoidberg
Dec 19, 2007

necroid posted:

wait you rear end in a top hat the linke to the list wasn't there in the first place, this was all a repost

get hosed

reading OWNS Ii've been reading all my life and I ain't white and you can all suck my literate balls

you're a steampunk

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

i got a doom book as a gift. the only book were I read two pages, went outside, and burnt it

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
That reminds me I should read the John Adams book I hear it's good.

Also I would expect the biography of Steve Jobs.

Kyrie eleison
Jan 26, 2013

by Ralp
Not gonna lie I read Shogun. Even watched the mini-series

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

these bath mats
are
GORGEOUS
lol if you're a white male and you own a book

Cyberball 2072
Feb 17, 2014

by Lowtax

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

i got a doom book as a gift. the only book were I read two pages, went outside, and burnt it

Satan appreciates your sacrifice

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Who curated this list, and with what intent? My masulinity and racial purity has been seriously challenged.

cthulusnewzulubbq
Jan 26, 2009

I saw something
NASTY
in the woodshed.
where's the big bathroom book

cthulusnewzulubbq
Jan 26, 2009

I saw something
NASTY
in the woodshed.
white men also poop

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Cyberball 2072 posted:

Satan appreciates your sacrifice

he's gonna be pissed if he actually reads it like doing that is leaving a big steamy turd in his library

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

OP why didn't you post the much superior followup article of said white dudes melting the gently caress down over being profiled

http://the-toast.net/2015/05/13/my-favourite-deleted-comments-from-the-white-dude-book-list/

ps extreme lol at the people proud that they don't read books itt

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp
Didn't read through the entire list, but a quick scan reveals that "There's a Monster at the End of this Book" is not on the list. That's a book everyone should own I don't even care about your race/gender.

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

OP why didn't you post the much superior followup article of said white dudes melting the gently caress down over being profiled

http://the-toast.net/2015/05/13/my-favourite-deleted-comments-from-the-white-dude-book-list/

ps extreme lol at the people proud that they don't read books itt

What meltdown

lonelylikezoidberg
Dec 19, 2007

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

OP why didn't you post the much superior followup article of said white dudes melting the gently caress down over being profiled

http://the-toast.net/2015/05/13/my-favourite-deleted-comments-from-the-white-dude-book-list/

ps extreme lol at the people proud that they don't read books itt

Its true I'm sorry

The Dregs
Dec 29, 2005

MY TREEEEEEEE!
gently caress you guys, Shogun owns. And I even hate anime.

lonelylikezoidberg
Dec 19, 2007

The Dregs posted:

gently caress you guys, Shogun owns. And I even hate anime.

Prove it.

FreshCutFries
Sep 15, 2007

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

OP why didn't you post the much superior followup article of said white dudes melting the gently caress down over being profiled

http://the-toast.net/2015/05/13/my-favourite-deleted-comments-from-the-white-dude-book-list/

ps extreme lol at the people proud that they don't read books itt

lmao

Redleg
Jul 7, 2003

What an odd looking.....Figurine
All I have is Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and Jomini but none of these are on this list.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
a lot of those books are p decent tho

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Planarch posted:

also which ones are actually good?

confederacy of dunces

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Mariana Horchata posted:

a lot of those books are p decent tho

yeah but like...... white men!!!

The Dregs
Dec 29, 2005

MY TREEEEEEEE!

My platform for GBS mod was banning everyone with an anime av or sig. You dicks didn't vote me in, though.

GastonEatTheEggs
Nov 7, 2012

Beef Turret posted:

All those books suck rear end except 2,3,9,16 and 75

what about infinite jest is bad?

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

Planarch posted:

what about infinite jest is bad?

This piece comes to mind http://exiledonline.com/david-foster-wallace-portrait-of-an-infinitely-limited-mind/

Lee Harvey Oswald
Mar 17, 2007

by exmarx
"Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
How does Rising Sun make the list but not Jurassic Park?

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009
No true crime?

never seen again
Jan 25, 2008
what's the point in owning books anymore? Anything you can't get an electronic version of just borrow from the library.

FreshCutFries
Sep 15, 2007

Qvindtar posted:

what's the point in owning books anymore? Anything you can't get an electronic version of just borrow from the library.

to show off your books

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Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
I annotate and underline in some of my physical books :shrug:

Edit: and my ebooks evidently.

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