Hey /lit/, today is my birthday and you have been my favorite board since ever, so as a birthday present recommend me your best books.

>>24549038 (OP)
I don't know what you enjoy, your literacy level or what you've already read so I'm going with Alice in Wonderland.

Happy birthday OP. I recommend The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson if you like cosmic horror and schlocky speculative scifi with esoteric subtext.

>>24549038 (OP)
Works best if you don’t worry too much about what it means. To quote Mr. Plinkett: Your brain will understand it, even if you don’t.

He did sometimes go too far in preferring sound over sense. But not as often as you might think and not as far as you might think. There's usually some sense buried under there somewhere. And lots of the pieces are pretty straightforward, and they're mostly the best pieces. In My Craft Or Sullen Art, Fern Hill, The Hunchback In The Park, Lament, etc.

Happy birthday, OP. Conan the Barbarian is always a good time. If you want something more obscure, John C. Wright's Golden Oecumene trilogy. If you want my favorite short story, Chekhov's The Bet. Philosophy: The Essential Kierkegaard or Sloterdijk's You Must Change Your Life. Religious: Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Enjoy.

>>24549055
Alice in Wonderland really is special. Enjoyable to both young children and to Joyceheads. Great book.

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy Birthday. Give Charles Dickens a shot, Bleak House has been my most recent read.

>>24549038 (OP)
If you Japanese lit I am a Cat is surprisingly funny

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>>24549038 (OP)
Happy Birthday. Read the Glass Bead Game.

>>24549038 (OP)
The Way of the Fight by Georges St Pierre. Former UFC two time, two division champion, but the man is also articulate and well-thought considering his profession as a fighter. It goes over his childhood introduction into martial arts all through his career and the life lessons he picked up. You don't have to be a fan of MMA or any sport to be honest. It's concise, fun to read.

>>24549038 (OP)
Gender Trouble

Best book about a birthday is the sci fi young adult series "The Tripods" by John Christopher. But Sci fi in general is full of doomed birthdays

>>24549038 (OP)
Walter Scott's Waverley.

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy birthday anon
> Meditations On The Peaks - by Julius Evola
> Ride The Tiger - by Julius Evola
>The Turner Diaries - by William Luther Pierce
> Hunter - by William Luther Pierce
> Mein Kampf - by Adolf Hitler
> The International Jew - by Henry Ford

Happy birthday anon, treat yourself to something nice.
Non-fiction rec:
>LSD: My Probem Child by Albert Hofmann
>Discovered LSD25 as a chemist in a swiss lab (Sandoz) after strange intuitions, and tells the story of the following decades, the influence of his invention on the culture at large, his status among the hippie crowd, his insights, recalls conversations with friends such as Aldous Huxley on such topics. Fascinating read.
Fiction rec:
>Why not My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante ?
>It's never seriously recommended here, but it's a window into the mind of a girl in the napolitan lower class of the 50s. It actually opened my mind to the adolescent girl's perspective, gave my empathy a good stretch which I continue to benefit from as I read other women from other times, other places. I will read the three other books of the series at some point.

Happy birthday anon!
Favorite book is Don Quixote, then I like Sherlock Holmes or Conan the Barbarian, and for non-fiction the History of the Conquest of New Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo (John Ingram Lockhart translation), Sir Richard Burton's Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca, and the Memoirs of Francois Rene de Chateaubriand.

>>24549898

not OP but i just started this yesterday. feels serendipitous since i never see it talked about. it worth it?

>>24549038 (OP)
I haven’t written any, so I can’t recommend even one. Happy birthday, though!

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy belated Birthday anon!!!
Here are two books for you:
> Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
> Tao Te Ching - Laozu

I learned a lot about myself through reading these and maybe you've read them already. So happy birthday, may this year be a better one.

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy birthday Anon! I recommend Dracula

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy birthday, Anon! Have some rats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdVnnMOTe3Q
and more importantly check out pic related. It's the best book I've ever read!

>>24551331
It gets better and better as you read it

Thanks everybody. Cheers.

>>24549038 (OP)
Not a best book but you shall go read "Hilda hurricane by roberto drummond. However ,watching the tv series adaptation is much better.

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy birthday anon, the 15th is my birthday and I have just had my worst birthday so far. I hope yours was good.

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy Birthday, Anon. I recommend The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh.

>>24549075
The Bet is by far my favourite Chekhov story. Insightful, transcendent, and short.

>>24549038 (OP)
Uh I'd recommend picrel if you're interested in how science becomes institutionalized

>>24549038 (OP)
Happy Birthday OP.

Here's some books I enjoyed:
John Williams - Stoner / Butcher's Crossing
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays
Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Cervantes - Don Quixote

Just some off the top of my head.

happy birthday

>>24549038 (OP)
happy birthday fren
>space trilogy by cs lewis
>lord of the rings
>100 yrs of solitude
>alamut

>>24551987
Lol

Fritz Leiber's Fafhnr & Grey Mouser series
P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series
A. Bertram Chandler's Rimworld series
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe books
George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books

I think you'll find something you like with these.

>>24549038 (OP)

>>24549038 (OP)
hhappy birday