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Candide Mother Night Cancer Ward The Collected Works of William Blake They're all pretty good not-poo poo, not-goon books. Bonus tier: À la recherche du temps perdu
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lilljonas posted:You should start reading those 50 shades book on buses and trains. Every time a middle aged woman walks by, exchange glances with her and give a knowing nod while raising an eyebrow. i prefer manthers
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Ddraig posted:Candide lmfao look at this queer using the french tittle what a tard
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Ddraig posted:Candide I started Cancer Ward, but got way too depressed to continue. I liked what I read though. Proust is also good.
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lilljonas posted:You should start reading those 50 shades book on buses and trains. Every time a middle aged woman walks by, exchange glances with her and give a knowing nod while raising an eyebrow. Better yet, print out the cover of 50 shades and place it on whatever book you're reading. You'll be the king of cougars and your mind won't go to poo poo. And you won't be blowing loads every few pages during your commute.
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Lolita by Vlaadimir Naabotrek
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Altas shrugged
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Sep 19, 2015 20:13
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The Red and the Black by Stendhal.
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check out pounded in the butt by my own butt, street sword: practical use of the long blade for self-defense and your next-door neighbor is a dragon. should get you started, op
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BuckarooBanzai posted:Blood Meridian is unironically the best book written in the English language Hector Beerlioz posted:War & Peace is the best book I ever read. Two good posts in a row. I would add Anna Karenina , it's basically a spiritual sequel to W&P.
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Professor Shark posted:Two good posts in a row. I would add Anna Karenina , it's basically a spiritual sequel to W&P. I only remember about 35% of w&p but I still count it as the best book I've read.
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Stop what you are doing and read The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton. You can do this right now for free http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1695
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Lemon posted:Stop what you are doing and read The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton. You can do this right now for free I liked it.
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Suttree is very good and while Blood Meridian is probably better Suttree is not a book that idiot man children would appreciate and is therefore less goony.Ddraig posted:The Collected Works of William Blake 
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Sep 19, 2015 20:22
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Give Pat a Job posted:Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut is the best book you will ever read. Follow that up with most everything else he has written. My favorite is Sirens of Titan. Anyway, you should read that, and also The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski.
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Sep 19, 2015 20:22
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Bukowski, Knut Hamson, Henry Miller
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Journey to the End of Night by Celine or something like that.
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Trying to think of books that are a little off the "Goon Beaten" Path.   
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I don't really like Pynchon or DFW or any of those postmodern yahoos.
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a dog from hell posted:Journey to the End of Night by Celine or something like that. I've heard good things about this book.
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a dog from hell posted:I don't really like Pynchon or DFW or any of those postmodern yahoos. lol sorry if infinite jest is a little above your reading level
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A Canticle for Leibowitz Memoirs of General William T. Sherman Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. This, more than most writing, is unblinkingly fair about what change is and what it costs. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Ghaz posted:lol sorry if infinite jest is a little above your reading level the hal parts are very goony though don gately not so much
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Ghaz posted:lol sorry if infinite jest is a little above your reading level lol this is the author  not going to read
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Pride and Prejudice, op
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Mange Mite posted:Pride and Prejudice, op A Room of One's Own
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The Federalist Papers More Americans should read it
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The Big Sleep is good too
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a dog from hell posted:Journey to the End of Night by Celine or something like that. I read Death on the Installment Plan, because Kerouac talked about Celine. Well-written book, but wow, very bleak. Anyway, the op should read Sense and Sensibility.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I've heard good things about this book. It's a good book but a little too French and a little too "I'm 24." a dog from hell posted:Bukowski, Knut Hamson, Henry Miller Fante & Naked Lunch if you like those. raton fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Sep 19, 2015 21:02
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Mange Mite posted:The Big Sleep is good too Any Marlowe novels are good, I read them all last summer and loved them. The Big Sleep is first but I didn't like it as much as The Long Goodbye. The Black Eyed Blonde is garbage and no one should read it.
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http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294988470 e: also this http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-you-should-read-w-g-sebald
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Mange Mite posted:The Big Sleep is good too This book turned me onto rye whisky. Good book, imo.
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Yiddish Policemans Union was good
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Against Nature (A rebours) by Huysmans Pale Fire by Nabokov Life: A User's Manual (novel) by Perec Balcony In The Forest (Un balcon en forêt) by Gracq Or alternatively, go to your local library (I believe it's important to use public libraries) and ask the librarian to punch you in the face.
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The Plague by Albert Camus is pretty good op hth
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cryptonomicon really opened my eyes to how much of a weaboo autist neal stephenson is
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oncearoundaltair posted:Or alternatively, go to your local library (I believe it's important to use public libraries) and ask the librarian to punch you in the face.
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