Favorite album + Favorite book

Post your favorite album and book.

Mine is

>Loveless
>Infinite jest

Tago Mago

Blood Meridian

Slaughterhouse Five

OP is literally me

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Breakfast at Tiffany's

I like u

I'm on a quest to read Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow over the winter break, Infinite Jest is phenomenal so far

Favorite album is Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack

less than zero by bret easton ellis

hot fuss by the killers, or because the internet by childish gambino

Can someone explain what the appeal in reading long ass novels like Infinite Jest? I'm no idiot and I have pretty good reading comprehension, but I get bored reading anything /lit/-tier. How the fuck are people entertained by books like that?

If something is good, it's natural to desire more of it

How is that hard to comprehend

Catch 22

Good book, decent album

Well what's so good about it at its core?

What are you even asking? Why people like long novels?

Lmfao

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Hell if I know, I haven't read the thing
Nice album, I prefer And Then Nothing... though.

Neat! You sound pretentious but that's also my favorite album and one of my favorite books.

I thought Infinite Jest was just a /lit/ meme, like the equivalent of Old Boots New Dirt here?

Patrick White - The Tree of Man

The count of monte cristo

It's the ITAOTS of /lit/

nah it's pretty well-regarded on the whole
essential I'm-a-young-humanities-major-without-significant-direction-in-life-core

The Idiot

Nice book. Why do you prefer Doolittle to surfer Rosa?

>Go Plastic - Squarepusher.

>Watership Down.

It's close, but I feel like Surfer Rosa drops off a little too much after Cactus. Doolittle is a little more consistent as a full album and doesn't have the lows that Surfer Rosa does imo,though the highs are higher on Surfer Rosa. Idk, I flip flop on which one I prefer

And The Idiot was the first Dostoyevsky book I read and I really connected with it. I hadn't really read a book like it before

Deadhouse Gates

>the stranger
>tago mago

>Glenn Branch - The Ascension
>pic related

less than zero, as well

really anything by these guys is good but def ocean rain if i had to pick

Either Naked Lunch or East of Eden
just finished reading Blood Meridian it was really good

>Pic related
>The Man in the High Castle

I refuse to watch the tv show because the book resonated with me so much.

>1984 by George Orwell
>In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

R plus 7
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>Choirs of the Eye
>Labyrinths - Borges or Amsterdam Stories - Nescio

Interesting SP album choice. I like it on the whole, but feel like it's pretty weak compared to Feed Me Weird Things or Hard Normal Daddy as an album. My Red Hot Car is a goat track tho

mum - Finally We Are No One
AnCo - Feels
Glow Pt. 2
Can't pick a favorite

>Bottomless Pit
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Or something close to that...

Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

Oy, I love mum and the little prince. Now that I think about it they're strangely complementary

Have you even read it? It's like 50% footnotes.
You're a walking cliché.

People's taste in books is more patrician ITT than people's taste in music.

Favourite album is:
Fausto Romitelli - An Index of Metals

>Soundtracks For the Blind
>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

>Fausto Romitelli - An Index of Metals

Now that's some interesting shit

moby dick or infinite jest. i know thats meme shit but whatever

nice

nice album pick, good band

yo la tengo may be the greatest band of all time

Completely agree :) The other albums fit nicely as well, I feel.

>The Fountain Head by Ayn Rand

>A confederacy of dunces
>Devo - New Traditionalists

the marble index
ada, or ardor

You fell for the meme, but you got lucky in the order you chose them - it'll only get better.

Ulysses is a book I strongly feel people only read to say they've read, and only like because it was difficult to read. The other two are sincerely enjoyable rides. Have fun.

moby dick or portrait of the artist

Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People
Tony Conrad w/ Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate

>People's taste in books is more patrician ITT than people's taste in music
This has a very simple answer. People skim the "best of the best" lists and develop their tastes exclusively from that. The reason there's such a power gap between literature and music in this thread is that most of the music lauded here is the sonic equivalent of a Harry Potter fanfiction.

>How to Win Friends and Influence People
kek

The Units - Ready for the House

Jest and gravity are Reddit tier. Both are full of dae reference, and freshman philosophy. Anyone that's actually tried to understand what Wallace is actually trying to say quickly finds out it's all very low effort, like he has a shelf full of books and reaches randomly for one every time he feels like being smart. He's the guy that over uses the thesaurus all grown up.

I'm too pleb to fully understand spectralism but it is amazing how many influences that album ties together and it's been one of the few times I've genuinely been shocked by a piece of music.

Yeah, I get the sense that a lot of the books here are merely /lit/core, but they are a much better selection than if you grabbed random people of the street which would name YA trash or whatever. And don't insult HP fanfiction, my second favourite book of all time is My Immortal, it is a work of genius social commentary.

The road

I got so confused and thought I clicked on /lit/ for a second there...

Strange choice considering the rest of Coltrane's output. Totally respect the choice, but why?

>Programmed to Kill
>Dialogue-Bobby Hutcherson

seems like you missed the point of postmodernists using difficult language

infinite jest

>50% footnotes
it's about 8% footnotes. and i really liked it.

fuck yall elitist nerdburgers

Edward Abbey -- Desert Solitaire

Pic related

this, it's held in high regard but it's memed to death. still a great book

I can't really pick a favorite album, how about:
The Locust - New Erections
>book
pic related

I need to read Borges. Love that album too.
Also need to read that Danish sonofabitch
I laughed

>Ulysses is a book I strongly feel people only read to say they've read, and only like because it was difficult to read.

not that user but i'm an oldfag reader and i genuinely like 'ulysses'. you are only saying this because you felt it too difficult for you personally, not because everyone else in the world has a penchant for lying to you about having liked it.

read it or don't - it's all the same - but stop lying.

>you sound pretentious but we have the same taste
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>grimes
>master and margarita

There are some really shit books itt too.

>Geogaddi

>The Master and Margarita
Nice to see Bulgakov getting some love. Definitely check out Heart of a Dog if you haven't already.