God-tier books thread

god-tier books thread

Give your top-3 book recommendations
Let's see the taste of anonz here

mine
- to kill a mockingbird
- 1984/animal farm
- ready player one

You have shit taste in books.

you tell me what to read then mate, I've read so few in my life, my biggest regret :(

Regret? Pick up a book. Read the book. It's not like there's a fucking time limit.

not that easy tho, life has pretty hectic as it is, not much time to chill and read anything, otherwise of fucking course mate

-East of Eden
-The Name of the Wind
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Requiem for a Dream was really good. It takes a while for things to really get started but if you stick it out, the last 60 pages or so are insanely good. The book impacted me emotionally way more so than the movie, and as someone who used to hate reading it made me want to get into it. The next book I plan on reading is Stephen King's: It

Rothfuss is never gonna finish that fucking series.

this HAS to be bait, right?

>on Sup Forums
>not enough time to read words written on paper
I'm case you're too dumb to get the connection. Go read a book right now instead of talking about books on an Extraterrestrial Mountaineering Scrawl.

Dubliners
The Crying of Lot 49
Fiasko

Don't bother lad. It's not that great

Holy shit autocorrect. That's supposed to be:
>in the case that you're too dumb to get the connection, go
etc

>to kill a mockingbird
>god-tier
wewlad

I've heard this before and made me not want to start it. Is it worth it anyway?

How about "the expanse" series, are they any good? I was planning to start the journey

> cringe

Really? That fucking blows. So it's not as good as the movie (1990) then I'm assuming

It's good writing but the man just seems to wanna do everything but keep fucking writing.

Yes, I know.

It's still worth it. And it's not that he won't, it's just that if he does it'll be years from now. Or rather, he's already finished them all (back in the 90s, I believe), but he's a perfectionist and serial procrastinator.

>i don't know how to greentext
you have to go back

To be fair, OP probably made this thread to find new reading material.

2666 (Bolaño)
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)
The Evenings (Reve)

Nice.

> doesn't know how to greentext, but tells others they don't know how to greentext

I was tempted to put V, for the bar scene. Haven't gotten around to Mason & Dixon.

>Catch-22
>Cat's Cradle
>Metro 2033

>still doesn't greentext correctly
>still implying things
>still retarded
you trying to beat a retard world record or something? come at me, faggot

Seriously, user? Learn to greentext.

you're b8 is bad and you should feel bad.

In the book they at least gang bang the girl. I would read the stand instead if you want some good SK

> pet snoopy
> the boxcar children
> momcest manga

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Antic Hay

The Brothers Karamazov

Wealth of Nations (its not a story book, but I quote it like once a month)

Also OP has plebian taste in books.

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Pretty good choices, though they definitely suggest that you're very young
Steinbeck, okay, but Thompson? Come on.
Holy Shit, that Pynchon book is incredible. Nice.
good list

I recomment the following 3:
Jude the Obscure (Hardy)
Book of Laughter and Forgetting or Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

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Moby dick
Anna Karenina
The Iliad

how is illiad a good read? It is total rubbish, unless you read it in its original language. In English it is listing a bunch of names 75% of the time

>The Gunslinger
>The Outsider
>Childhood's End

1984, what a ride.

Shogun
Fight Club
Meditations

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archipelago gulag

crime & punishment

ordinary men

>reading books
lol

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>reading

agreed. lmao what a faggot amirite?

glad 2 see fellow americans here

Imhotep...

Can it be that you just read 3 books in you entire life ?

>read it in its original language. In English it is listing a bunch of names 75% of the time
holy shit

OP listed 4 books, so I think you're off by 1

Can it be that you just read 3 books in your life ?

thank you edgelord

Here is a list instead of me posting a million book covers. Books I've enjoyed:
>1984
>A Capitalist in North Korea
>Atlas Shrugged
>Bhagavad-Gītā as It Is
>Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
>Brave New World
>Catch-22
>Chariots of the Gods?
>Childhood's End
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>Ender's Game
>Ender's Shadow
>Foundation (series)
>Hagakure
>Halo: First Strike
>Halo: The Fall of Reach
>Halo: The Flood
>Hamlet
>Hatchet
>I, Robot
>Interview with the Vampire
>Norwegian Wood
>Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
>Ringworld
>Ringworld Engineers
>Ringworld Throne
>Robot Dreams
>Romeo and Juliet
>Slaughterhouse-Five (The Children's Crusade)
>Tales of Known Space
>The Art of War
>The Book of Five Rings
>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night->Time
>The Da Vinci Code
>The Doors of Perception
>The Fountainhead
>The Iliad
>The Illustrated Man
>The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (series)
>The Mote in God's Eye
>The Neverending Story
>The Selected Works of Kim Il Sung
>The Tibetan Book of the Dead
>Twilight (series)

> Halo books next to Hamlet
kek

It's just how my spreadsheet is organized. But kek indeed.

hey don't judge a book by its cover. they read like they were written by the infallible master chief himself.

If you're into that space stuff, A Wrinkle In Time. Notes From Underground is a fantastic book and a short read. Where The Red Fern Grows, too.

If you're not into YA lit (making assumptions here), Master and Margarita, any of the top-line Shakespeare, any Sophecles, the actual Lord of the Rings, For Whom the Bells Tolls...

Gulag Archipelago bothers me because of the stream of consciousness writing. It's still good though.

For further reading on the topic, I highly recommend Anne Applebaum's Gulag.

Ready player one was good as fuck, i decided to read his other book armada, right now im reading IT by stephen king

The concepts of having no time to read and having time to find more reading material are mutually exclusive.

>Seeing The Tibetan Book of the Dead next to Twilight

double kek

>upside down picture of Aus
Nice.

The Grapes of Wrath

Sf version:

Babel 17
The Rediscovery of Man
Any of Theodore Sturgeon's short story collections

>Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
>Rant - Palahniuk
>The Gambler - Dostovesky
Nietszches' Thus Spoke Zarathustra was close to making it on there.

I give this list a 5/10, could do a lot worse than picking from here. Slaughterhouse 5 is the better Vonnegut work, true; Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet are good; Illiad is great but you would want to read it in a group or at least with a companion text; Da Vinci Code is a great book which I always forget. But I read about half of those YA scifi books and I can't recall anything from them, would skip.

That "of" feels erroneous. It sounds wrong in my head without it, though. Life is suffering.

Says it's finished but keeps rewriting cos his 'readers deserve the perfect book'. So yeah, you right.

Shantaram was a very good read for those not into hard lit

>Larry Niven, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke
>YA Sci-Fi
Do you even read Sci-Fi? That is such a bullshit claim. These three alone have pioneered sci-fi as we know it today. SOME of the authors are YA, but not all of them.

Philip K Dick, the man, the myth, the legend.
He was part of Vonneguts book Breakfast of Champions as the lead role.

Homo Deus
The Stranger
The Tao of Physics

Lol. Ready Player One is supermarket-tier.

Clarke pioneered, Niven and Dick were a later generation that helped develop it, and you're missing tons. Like Shelley, Verne and Wells, Kapek, Sturgeon, Bradbury, Lem, Le Guin, Anderson, Atwood, the Strugatskys, and many more.

The master and Margarita
Omon Ra
To have and to have not

My favourite ever

>supermarket tier

Thoughts on Heinlein?

Agreed, and good list of authors as well. But I was just going by authors on my list he was critiquing.

Are you in junior high? These are baby books

The Big Sleep by Chandler is very good.

Ham on Rye, Bukowski

Rant, Chuck Palahniuk

No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy

That's one of the little books I've read and seen the movie that both are quite good

>Ham on Rye
>Rant
I liek you user. Just finished Factotum, but wasnt nearly as good as Ham.

Crime and punishement by fyodor dostoevsky, best book i've ever read till now

Really, is it that good? I like Fyodor alot, but, holy fuck am I intimidated by how long it is.

who says fyodor? It is like referring shakespeare as william

>My reaction when i found this

mastergadget.doomstuff.com

The Guns of August
Demon Haunted World
Atlas Shrugged (sorry, but I love that shit)

Good for you for trying to learn!

The Red and the Black
Sentimental Education
The Magic Mountain

Heinlein, Clarke and Asimov were the ones who kicked off the resurgence of SF in the pulps. Of them, Heinlein might actually be the best writer, though his best writing tends to be minimalist and direct, like Hemingway, instead of florid. See any of his juveniles.

So, I haven't read RP1 and I don't know much about it, but I bet you'd like Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

You have used that reaction in 2 threads I am in now and I keep getting confused which tab i am currently in.

pic related, me

Moby Dick is one of the absolute best, but OP seems kind of young. You might want to build up to that.

Gonna answer the question or not?

-Tigana
-Everything by Jim Butcher, but especially The Dresden Files series

>Why you should read the Dresden Files.