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>What other works are referenced?
Anything written in or translated to Latin, Aristotle, Tristan and Iseult, tons of Greek myths, Dante had an encyclopedic culture.

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>>9987267
Always NIV for best prose

Huh.

>>9987201
Why is there so much SU watersports porn? What could possibly explain this cultural phenomenon?

>>9987344
human nature

100 years of solitude

The Shahnameh

The Spoonfeeder

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Ted Hughs was such a fucking chad. Look at that fucking jawline. And he was, what, 6'5"? Seriously, how much more chadder can you get than making a 10/10 literary genius qt kill herself because she missed your cock so much?

>>9985861

The entirety of Rupi's work isn't worth the WORST poem from Ariel.

Heresy. And fuck this weeaboo too: >>9985864

>>>/a/

>>9985573
It's great

Best Post-Modern opening has gotta be
>A screaming comes across the sky.

>>9985580
I kinda agree with you. But I'm also kinda partial to the "It was love at first sight" in Catch-22.
Whatever, I don't think there's anything out there that has given me the chillbumps I got when I first read the opening line of Underworld.

Each Underworld thread I see gives me recollective goosebumps thinking about DeLillo's prose... ungh.

>>9985518
The unbearable lapses between the war scenes and the suffering stemming from those scenes, and the shitty family of academics was insufferable.

>>9985529
you must be completely insufferable irl.

i bet your ;parents are proud.... i hope they're dead

>>9985518
Life is war.

>>9985467
i got into a writing course by noting that the head of the department was a big fan of Jane Austen, and then writing a cyberpunk version of a chapter from "Persuasion" in my entrance test.

I end up regretting most of the books I buy because they're boring or I just lose interest in finishing them

The Alchemist is one of my favorite books

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Occult Memetics: Reality Manipulation by Tarl Warwick

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>>9985437

>>9985048
Read Doubt my nigga

Just get a collection of Aischylos tragedies

>>9985048
nigga I started with shake spears in highschool and to bh wichu senpai I ain't never reading no fuckin plays again, the fuck they even talkin bout. Ain even english nigga.

One of the unappreciated geniuses of the 20th century and an incredible essayist on top of that

If he were French, he'd be as famous as the best of them

>>9985032
idgaf

>>9985032
which one?

A novel, by Kenji Miyazawa.

It'd probably help if you could read moon, senpai.

It's in fucking japanese, how did you want to understand anything?

sounds like you need to make your own analysis :)

>>9984921
tom leclair analyzes it somewhere. cant help you find it though. although i think it is in something called the 'art of excess'. dalkey archive also has a whole book dedicated to essays on mcelroys work, im sure smuggler is talked about somewhere in there.

>>9984926
I know I know. I have I just want to hear what others think of the last chapter that david writes about his father.

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For stuff that most Americans will have read in High School, and therefore stuff you'll likely be able to discuss with people, You have Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men. There are other books that are covered in High School, but those (especially Catcher and Mockingbird) are the most likely to be useful in Conersation.

Beyond that You'll want to read some Hemmingway (try The Old Man and the Sea to see if you like his style), some more of Steinbeck and possibly Stoner (as it's getting popular nowadays).

Of course, no list of American literature would be complete without the best book the country has ever put out: Moby Dick. It goes a little bit beyond basic literature, but it's definitely worth a read.

Hope this list has helped.

>>9984775
Good to have ya here ya guid

Start with the great gatsby. Then the catcher in the rye and the grapes of wrath. You'll have understood high school American lit by then. If you want to, try huckleberry finn but that will be hard for a non-native speaker [though I assume you aren't a shit-tier brainlet so maybe give it a shot.] The rest depends upon region. You asked for basic so I assume you don't want the memier stuff. Where are ya currently?

High school staples not mentioned so far:
Great Gatsby
As I Lay Dying
Scarlett Letter (least recommended)
and possibly The Awakening
Most of these are easy reads and everyone and their brother has read them.

>>9984622
I just finished Stoner, and I found it pretty comfy. No stream of consciousness or postmodern techniques, just a brilliantly executed portrait of a man's life.

>>9984727
Preciate ya anon. Seems to be the next move for a lot of people right now.

>>9984747
Yeah, it's getting pushed a lot recently. I took the plunge after having my eye on it for ages because my local bookstore was promoting it at reduced price.

Plus, if you like it, it's being adapted into a film.

I'm honestly curious about the subject of this book

Also, is the cover taken from Realms of the Unreal? Looks like it

>>9984500
It's kind of an examination of the psychology and instincts of children. Basically, some kids get kidnapped by pirates and completely adjust to the change. They repress everything that makes them feel uncomfortable,like the death of their oldest brother and eventually one of the kids murders the captain from a ship the pirates captured,
something even the pirates don't do The narration is top-notch. Would recommend.

>>9984544
I'll try and check it out if I can find a copy, thank you for taking the time to write that out!