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List your favorite book.

Jwar: No comics or pop-up books, please. Try to think of a book with minimal pictures and/or cartoons in it.

It's of course silly to narrow it down to just one (then why did I make this thread you stupid fuck?)

But I'll have to go with Bernard Williams's In the Beginning was the Deed. It's just a collection of political essays published posthumously under that title, but I keep coming back to it. Intensely rewarding.

It must be Neuromancer by Willliam Gibson, a mix of all the shit I enjoyed back then when I was a teenager, when I used to read for pleasure.

Also, The Sandman... it has lots of cool pictures and drawings but it's far from being considered a comic.

Super tough, not sure I could pick a fave. Big contenders:

The Master and Margarita
Catch-22
Breakfast of Champions
The Secret History
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Pretty much all Murakami as far as I can tell

Anything by Tom Clancy.

Invisible Man wrote:Anything by Tom Clancy.

Thought you were more of a James Patterson kind of guy?

City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers is rad, and I've yet to read a Clive Barker book I didn't love.

popvulture wrote:

Invisible Man wrote:Anything by Tom Clancy.

Thought you were more of a James Patterson kind of guy?

Oh right.

The Road. Or maybe Blood Meridian.
I've been searching for this short story I read once...it's about this dude whose job it is to burn books under an oppressive government. He stashes away old-ass books in the basement/cellar thingy that his furnace is in. I think.
Anyway, in the end he jumps into the furnace himself. I'm sure that's so helpful.

There was another one where mankind decides to send this colony ship to set up a base on another planet, and it'll take like 100 years to get there. In the mean time, science reaches the point where they can send a faster colony ship to the same planet, arriving 50 years ahead of the old one. So when the people from the original ship arrive, they're already outdated and treated as outcasts.

tremolo3 wrote:Also, The Sandman... it has lots of cool pictures and drawings but it's far from being considered a comic.

Sandman is 100% a comic book.

Also, I'm gonna take a hard pass on books with no pictures.

Pan sounds awesome, I need to get it.

I'm gonna be a basic bitch and say The Hobbit.

I had to get rid of nearly all my books a couple years ago, and it's one of the few that I kept. It goes with me when I go camping or traveling too.

Achtane wrote:Pan sounds awesome, I need to get it.

That cover looks insanely awesome.

Probably have to go with Notes From Underground if I really had to, but a little list of top contenders

Actual Air
Resurrection
And The Ass Saw The Angel
The Trial
The Melancholy of Resistance

This is tough though and I feel as though it changes year to year.