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Satyricon is like the ultimate goon/non-goon yin-yang book
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The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, The Road, Neuromancer, Last Exit To Brooklyn, The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Of Mice and Men, Brighton Rock , The Doors of Perception and the Spinal Tap companion book.
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frytechnician posted:The Grapes of Wrath just stick with the abbreviated version imo: 
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Sep 19, 2015 22:40
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Professor Shark posted:Any Marlowe novels are good, I read them all last summer and loved them. The Long Goodbye is peak Marlowe.
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Sep 19, 2015 23:27
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And another thing. Garry Shteyngart. Although he is somewhat goonish.
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Sep 19, 2015 23:30
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simon armitage's "little green man" is good for knotty male psychology stuff. also "the white stuff" is similar but more slow and suburban
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Sep 19, 2015 23:38
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frytechnician posted:The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, The Road, Neuromancer, Last Exit To Brooklyn, The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Of Mice and Men, Brighton Rock , The Doors of Perception and the Spinal Tap companion book. The Count of Monte Cristobis great. Ignore what that goon in the last GBS Book thread said about reading the abridged version. Three Musketeers stories are good too, at least the first few, if you just eant something light.
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Sep 20, 2015 00:22
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ThePriceIsRight posted:cryptonomicon really opened my eyes to how much of a weaboo autist neal stephenson is This book is goony as gently caress you goony gently caress
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Professor Shark posted:The Count of Monte Cristobis great. Ignore what that goon in the last GBS Book thread said about reading the abridged version. Don't listen to this fool. Dumas is boring as gently caress. Read a Russian novel if you want a long book that's actually well written and not full of overly verbose descriptions of 18th century interior decorating meant to pad out a novel that was originally published as a serial. Grapes of Wrath, On the Road, and Last Exit to Brooklyn are all legit as gently caress though. Wind Up and Neuromancer are just ok. All of the Raymond Chandler suggestions are also good. Hobohemian fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Sep 20, 2015 01:27
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Borneo Jimmy posted:Also any good suggestions for mystery series would be good too, thanks. Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafron was good
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Sep 20, 2015 01:36
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You lookin for non-goon books from the place where only goons will tell you about books, when there are like a million others ways to look for books. yo
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Aryu Kiddimeh posted:You lookin for non-goon books from the place where only goons will tell you about books, when there are like a million others ways to look for books. yo Oh yes let me consult the rest of the internet, I'm sure that will turn out better than asking SA
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Sep 20, 2015 03:54
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
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Sep 20, 2015 04:10
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Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler is a great novella. Basis for Eyes Wide Shut.
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Sep 20, 2015 04:18
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The City and The City, China Mieville Pale Fire, Nabakov (gently caress Lolita) Unreliable narrators are the best narrators.
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Sep 20, 2015 04:22
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I only read dusty old grimoires written in blood bound in human skin that contain knowledge no mortal man was ever meant to know. That and Star Wars EU books.
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Sep 20, 2015 05:04
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Ghaz posted:lol sorry if infinite jest is a little above your reading level
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Sep 20, 2015 06:05
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Sheep-Goats posted:This book is goony as gently caress you goony gently caress guess how i know you didn't read that post
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Sep 20, 2015 06:33
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Ryoshi posted:guess how i know you didn't read that post Hmmmm I'm guessing you read the post. LOL at reading posts.
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Gravity Pike posted:(gently caress Lolita) No, please do not gently caress lolita.
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The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners Or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book is what I recommend to this thread. 
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Hobohemian posted:Don't listen to this fool. Dumas is boring as gently caress. Read a Russian novel if you want a long book that's actually well written and not full of overly verbose descriptions of 18th century interior decorating meant to pad out a novel that was originally published as a serial. Ignore this guy, The Count of Monte Cristo is really, really good. If you're going to dismiss a book because it was serialized you're going to be dismissing a lot of great stuff.
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Sep 20, 2015 10:40
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I've been reading The Stand, its kinda slow but also really good like you don't even mind it being slow because it is so well written
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Sep 20, 2015 10:43
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Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time is really good and very short.
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Sep 20, 2015 10:49
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Punch Card posted:Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time is really Much like your weener lol
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Sep 20, 2015 10:55
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Here is a selection of books that I enjoyed recently perhaps you might enjoy them too. Don Quioxte -- Cervantes Spring Snow -- Yukio Mishima Petals of Blood -- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o WE -- Eugene Zamiatin The Golden rear end -- Apuleius Of these books I would probably most recommend The Golden rear end.
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Sep 20, 2015 11:01
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Jim Barris posted:Here is a selection of books that I enjoyed recently perhaps you might enjoy them too. These sound a lot like some sjw bullshit, what is your stance on gamergate "friend"
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Sep 20, 2015 11:04
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Nooner posted:Much like your weener lol Hey I'll admit my penis is garbage, but the book is fantastic! GORP
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Sep 20, 2015 11:08
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Nooner posted:These sound a lot like some sjw bullshit, what is your stance on gamergate "friend"
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Jim Barris posted:I think they should try to take over the government and then commit seppuku in the oval office upon realizing they're doomed to failure. Alternatively, they're a bunch of donkeys tilting at windmills. Petals of blood is about a murder in africa and im not sure how to fit that in as a joke about gamergate sorry Fag
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Sep 20, 2015 11:33
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Read The Haunting of Hill House, 'cause Shirley Jackson's writing style's buttery smooth.quote:No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. gently caress, yeah.
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Sep 20, 2015 11:40
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Zlata's Diary Kid writes a diary during the 90s bosnian war, shenanigans occur.
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catch-22 hard times anything by coleridge anything by john dos passos anything by mccarthy the fagles translations of odyssey/illiad/aeneid chandlers detective stories as i lay dying one hundred years of solitude a confederacy of dunces
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Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones is the best book that I ever read in English class.
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The life of a simple man by Emile Guillaumin about french peasant life in the 19th century written by a french peasant from the 19th century
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Blue Raider posted:one hundred years of solitude
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The General of the Dead Army – Ismail Kadare
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Professor Shark posted:Ignore this guy, The Count of Monte Cristo is really, really good. If you're going to dismiss a book because it was serialized you're going to be dismissing a lot of great stuff. Ulysses
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Das Boo posted:Read The Haunting of Hill House, 'cause Shirley Jackson's writing style's buttery smooth. haunted house == goony as gently caress
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Blue Raider posted:the fagles translations of odyssey/illiad/aeneid Lattimore's Iliad is so much better that you're a basal retard for reccn FAYGOTles over that
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