Are you tough enough to list your top 10 books IN ORDER?

Are you tough enough to list your top 10 books IN ORDER?

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1. Invisible Cities
2. Augustus
3. Suttree (or Blood Meridian)
4. Paradise Lost
5. Dubliners
6. Journey to the End of the Night
7. The Epic of Gilgamesh
8. Aeneid
9. Madame Bovary
10. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

>IN ORDER?
Something like this is only possible if you've read around ten books, and even then it would be difficult. No one cares that a book is your favorite; when people talk about things like this, they're excited to find common ground, not pompous, empty expressions of superlativity.

wow you're cool

1. Jilly Cooper - Riders
2. Jean Racine - Athaliah
3. Gabriele D'Anunzio - Notturno
4. Ovid - Metamorphoses
5. Jean Genet - Querelle
6. God - The Bible
7. Alfred Doblin - Bright Magic
8. Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso
9. Samuel Beckett - Ill Seen Ill Said
10. Bill Shakeshafte - Richard II

What are your favorite stories from Metamorphoses?

The brilliance of Ovid's work isn't in the individual tales, it's in displacing the heroic-subject-as-protagonist with a theme--i.e. change--as the guiding principle of the epic. To look at the tales individually demeans the architectural genius and innovative feature of Ovid's masterpiece. Furthermore, the work is imperfectly divided into individual tales. If one were so inclined it's perhaps better to choose one's favorite book as they are more of a piece, though even then imperfectly; this is borne out in two respects by Book X: this section is perhaps the best fugue of recurrent characters, and echoed themes and imagery, but also in it being incomplete, as one would need to include the first tale of book XI to complete even that cycle.

I didn't say I had a problem with talking about "favorite books" in general, just this pointless and arbitrary ranking of artworks according to THE favorite. As if anyone could actually give an objective defense of why they put one above two, or three above four. Of course they could say which techniques, styles, etc. they liked, but if e.g. a person prefers stream of consciousness to magical realism, and are asked to "rank" two books employing the latter and former styles just as well, respectively, how could they give a defense of their ranking other than "this is what I prefer" or an appeal to something other than style? The "in order" is always just the order of personal preference, and I think that you will find that the good discussion in this thread will take the form of "what did you like about this" as in:
rather than "why did you rank this in such and such a way," because that question is essentially about why a person prefers. But preference is always the basis of a judgment: you do not prove to yourself what you ought to prefer, and if you do try something like this, see how far it gets you toward actually having that preference. "If I am a sensible human being, I ought to prefer remaining silent to making autistic posts like this one."

oh my god your guys' heads are so far up your own asses

all this bullshit when you could have just said "Book X is my favorite"

objective defense of their rankings? #1 is higher than #2 because the maker of the list enjoys #1 more. it's not that hard.

What order?

I love you common sense guys. You just 'get it.' You probably like work in a trade because it's more practical than getting burdened with student debt, and read crumpled paperbacks with the covers torn off (because, huh, who cares what you read but you) of the most literate shit on the bus. Like Good Will Hunting but in real life, ya know.

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1. The Book of Mormon
2. The Holy Bible
3. Fear and Trembling
4. The Odyssey
5. Ulysses
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
7. Dune
8. The Sickness Unto Death
9. Faust
10. The Trial
what kind of person do you imagine?

1. Haven't read it yet
2. Marcus Aurelius Meditations
3.Seneca's Letters
4.Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays
5.White Fang/ The Sea Wolf/ Call of the Wild
6.Calvin and Hobbes
7. Walden
8. Greek Mythology
9. Full Metal Alchemist
10. Chess Books

1. Mein Kampf, Vol. 1
2. Mein Kampf, Vol 2.
3-8. Min Kamp Vol. 1-6
9. The Holy Bible
10. Being & Time

a well-read mormon

your list is very cozy. you seem like an optimist

thanks hun

If you have a "favorite book" you're a mental child and should stick to Harry Potter.

1. Siddhartha
2. Small Apocalypse
3. Ferdydurke
4. The Doll
5. V.
6. Snow White and Russian Red
7. Adventures of Brave Soldier Švejk
8. Dead Souls
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls
10. Naked Lunch

Weenie Hut is over there sir.

>It's better to just name favorites with no explanation
Wrong. This is a literature board. We appreciate in depth opinions on the structure and analysis of great works. You can accuse people of a lot of dumb things here but you can't fault people for enjoying and overanalyzing the classics. Take that shit to r/books, where they hate the classics

1. Moby Dick
2. Being and Time
3. Complete Works of Plato
4. Anatomy of Melancholy
5. The Idiot
6. Heinrich von Ofterdingen
7. Demons
8. Brothers Karamazov
9. Resurrection (Tolstoy)
10. Anna Karenina

What do you like about Dead Souls so much? I could not get into his writing style at all. It was so garrulous.

Favorite Plato pieces?

>I could not get into his writing style at all. It was so garrulous.
you read russian?

1. Notes from Underground
2. Old Man and the Sea
3. Nicomaean ethics (i've only read the first 20 pages already)

I haven't read any other books.
Yet.

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Huh, maybe it's a love-or-hate thing, but I absolutely loved the writing style. Also, I was reading a new Polish translation, which captured the Russian feel pretty damn well (I think so, I don't know Russian)

1. Infinite Jest
2. Notes From the Underground
3. Dune
4. Lolita
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Gravitys Rainbow
7. Brave New World
8. Battle Royale
9. Never Let Me Go
10. Complete Works of HP Lovecraft

Was expecting better taste from this thread...so many fucking pseuds...jebus

the Doll as in Prus?
Also you have on your list many of the books from a guy I sort of know.

Pretty good list user.

Since I'm still here:

1. The Blind Owl
2. Woman in the Dunes
3. Golem
4. Prince Ehtejab
5. Journey to the End of the Night
6. Venus in Furs
7. Satantango
8. Blue of Noon
9. The Slynx
10. God was born in Exile

>1. Infinite Jest
>Was expecting better taste from this thread
bait

>Yea Forums
>Having read 10 or more books

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yep, Prus. Actually I only read it recently, and it was great

15. Burger King Foot Lettuce

last year's best read for me too.

When my dad came for a visit he began reading a little bit from it and took it with him home. He was hooked from the few passages he had read.

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Brave New World
3. Jane Eyre
4. Frankenstine
5. the Deer Park
6. Moby Dick
7. Faust
8. Walden
9. Lolita
10. Slaughterhouse Five

1. No Mud No Lotus
2. Industrial Society and its Future
3. Brave New World
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Cry the Beloved Country
8. Complete Works of HP Lovecraft
9. The Road
10. Metamorphosis

The Divine Comedy by Dante
War and Peace by Tolstoy
The Illiad by Homer
On Being and Essence by St. Thomas Aquinas
Confessions of St. Augustine
The Apology by Plato
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

funny, I saw the movie for Woman in the Dunes first, and it's one of my favorite films ever. I recently read the book, and I didn't find it anywhere near as good. one of the rare times I've felt the movie to be far superior to the book
What do you think of the movie?

I haven't been able to see any of Teshigahara's movies yet, though I know he has put most of Abe's novels on screen.

Amusing enough you are the second person that said the same thing about the movie and the book. I'll have to find some time to watch it.

>Industrial Society and its Failure

Based and Tedpilled.

Anheli by Słowacki
Ferdydurke by Gombrowicz
Nevsky Prospekt by Gogol

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke
Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak

Poems by Michaux
Poems by Mayakovsky

To The Lighthouse by Woolf
Medieval Spanish Poetry
Naked Lunch

something like this

>Favorite Plato pieces
Theatetus, Symposium, Phaedrus, Phaedo, Sophist, Republic

1. Ficciones - Borges
2. Don Quixote - Cervantes
3.Foucalt's Pendulum - Eco
4. The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
5.Oblomov - Goncharov
6. Confederacy of Dunces - Toole
7. If On a Winters Night a Traveler - Calvino
8. The Great Crash, 1929 - Galbraith
9. Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Mishima
10. Crash - Ballard

Cringe at mormons trying to force their book everywhere, even though it's so poorly written. Just a bunch of nineteen century evangelical vernacular thrown together in a complete mess of a narrative. "And it came to pass" so much that its in 25% of the book verses.

Not to speak of 25% of the book contents being directly taken from KJV Bible. And a whole chapter in 3rd Nephi copying whole passages ipsi literis from the sermon of the mountain from KJV, with a final text that does not correspond to the original in greek. Smith plagiarized it.

1. the unconsoled by kazuo ishiguro
2. skylark by dezso kosztolanyi
3. the waves by virginia woolf
4. mason & dixon by thomas pynchon
5. the stars my destination by alfred bester
6. moby dick; or, the whale by herman melville
7. fathers and sons by ivan turgenev
8. invisible cities by italo calvino
9. the two towers by jrr tolkien
10. anna karenina by leo tolstoy

1. The Communist Manifesto
2. Tao Te Ching
3. In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou
4. The whole Redwall series by Brian Jacques
5. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
7. Trilogy of Resistance by Antonio Negri
8. Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot
9. The Heights of Despair by Cioran
10. The New Testament and Psalms

>complete mess of a narrative
Confirmed for not having read it, one of its defining features is its narrative integrity. Yes, Mark Twain had a good joke about "and it came to pass."
It's not 25% but it is a lot; yes, the Sermon on the Mount, Isaiah 2-14, and Malachi 3-4 are reproduced in their entirety with some differences. This is to be expected though; the gospels of Luke and Matthew are way more than 25% plagiarism, for example. The differences in the Sermon on the Mount are intentional, since it's not quoting the original but a new presentation of the content aimed at a different audience.
There are legitimate criticisms of the Book of Mormon that can be made (I'll give you a hint: horses), but these are not them.