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>>9623731
Count of Monte Christo is good NEET wish fulfillment literature.

>>9623731
You asked for it...

>Homer, Illiad
>Homer, Odyssey
>Hesiod, Theogeny
>Virgil, Aeneid
>Euclid, Elements
>Plato, Complete Works - especially, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Republic, for starters
>Aristotle, Complete Works - especially, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Physics, Metaphysics, and Poetics, for starters
>Apollodorus, Bibliotheca
>Epicurus, Letters
>Aurelius, Meditations
>Epictetus, The Golden Sayings
>Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans - especially volumes I and II.
>Augustine, Confessions
>Aquinas, Summa Theologica
>Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
>Shakespeare, Complete Works - especially Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Othello, and the sonnets, for starters
>Montaigne, Essays
>Descarte, Discourse on the Method
>Descarte, Meditations on First Philosophy
>Bacon, Essays
>Bacon, New Atlantis
>Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise
>Spinoza, Ethics
>Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
>Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
>Kant, Critique of Judgement
>Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
>Kierkegaard, Either/Or
>Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
>Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
>Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
>Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
>Whitman, Leaves of Grass - get a first edition replica, it has the prologue
>Freud, On Dreams
>Freud, Psychopathology of Everyday Life
>Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
>Jung, Psychological Types
>Jung, Man and His Symbols
>Borges, Labyrinths
>Borges, The Aleph
>Yeats, Complete Works - especially any collections which have The Magi, The Second Coming, Two Songs and a Play, Rosa Alchemica, Ego Dominus Tuus, and Leda and the Swan, for starters
>Eliot, Complete Works
>Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics
>Whitehead & Russell, Principia Mathematica - keep in mind Kurt Godel later annihilated this
>Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
>Eliot, Complete Works
>Proust, In Search of Lost Time
>Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Okay, I'm tired of typing. This is a start.

>>9623731
Mika Waltari's The Egyptian.

>>9623728
>250 word

Please be more inventive with your bait 0.1/10

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>100 words essay due for next year
>no inspiration

Any book for this feel?

they are stories which are short. some are good, some are not good. i think its a shame theres no real market for short literature to grow into besides overpriced journals run by people with mediocre taste.

>>9625112
Examples of good short stories?

>>9625133
Subspace Emissary

>>9623514
If the only thing compelling you to read a book is feeling you "should" because it's popular or culturally significant or shitposted about on /lit/ then just fucking put the book down and read something you actually like, my dude.

don't pay any attention to books you're "supposed" to read.

The faggot who said you were supposed to probably hasn't read it either.

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>>9623514
I enjoy the books I am "supposed" to read, because I am not a fucking pseud.

>>9623505
still life with woodpecker

only finished the first part. so far not really but now that they introduced the bomber im expecting the story to start moving along to something more interesting than just the life of a sheltered could-have-been mom

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Leave this board and never return if any one of these applies to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

Zarathustra

Yeah, turns out I'm more of a Nietzsche guy than expected. Sometimes wonder if I should worry about being too influenced by it given how few books I have under my belt, but luckily that's a meme.

Bridge on the Drina is one of my favourite books and a great insight into the balkans

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>>9623504
The Longman History of Russia is awesome. If you can find books by Ruslan G. Skrynnikov, he does some fantastic and grim narrative histories of the Troubles and Ivan the Terrible.

>>9623516
>>9623531
i should specify; i meant factual books rather than fictional accounts, even those which may be based in historic fact

>Tfw no millenial big shnoz gf with no discernible talent

Anyone have the ebook?

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The only book anyone needs to read about privileged people feeling angst about their "relationships" and committing adultery was written by a 19th century Russian aristocrat. Nothing this birdfaced slag writes is worth reading.

>>9623421
same things we've been doing since the Renaissance

the pascalian concept of divertissement.

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>>9623421
women can spread their legs and men can try to please them and deal with their rejections

There aren't any. Because it isn't.

>>9623423
atheistphobe

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>>9623416
> how tough it is to be an atheist in America

Can't tell if this is bait or just immensely stupid.

idk gimme a quick rundown

>>9623343
Huge fantasy author, has a lot of lectures online, focuses mostly on plotting and some world-building, dresses like an autist.

>>9623360
sounds like a waste of time t bh

No.

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>better

>>9623265
It is good enough as an introduction yes and Russel is very charming.

Read Trump's books.

>>9623110
i already have art of the deal so maybe i'll read that after i finish this

are any of his other books good

>>9623102
About just as this?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497

sisters > brothers

>I didn't get it.
>I didn't appreciate it.
>I'm an atheist so I didn't like it.

FUCK OFF.

>>9623007
I 'got it' perfectly, I just don't agree with it. Fuck you.

>>9622989
It should be as you want it to be.

>>9622989
Funny, I read that book in both Spanish and English (I don't know French) and thought the Spanish translation sounded way clearer but that the English translation was more lyrical.

>>9622989
I think they should use many small words carefully arranged so that the text cannot possibly be misinterpreted and to prove their reasoning beyond all doubt in the same sentence that they explain it.

>bonus if you're not pretentious as fuck
>house of leaves
???

>>9622994
never said I wasn't pretentious as fuck


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Joyce, Woolf and Pynchon.