I felt bad when I realized that I haven't read a book outside

>>7597192
Ready Player One

>>7597192
the greek.

>>7597192
why did you cover that book up

Infinite Jest probably

>>7597192
Lolita, Iliad, Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow.

>>7597192
throw away lolita. or take it in for a refund. worthless book. also, infinite jest. take both of those back. really no reason to read them whatsoever. neither have any discernible talent.

>>7597206
nice meme

>>7597192
Good job at catching our interest op, now tell us whats behind that black rectangle

>>7597201
shit
now I really want to know what book he covered up.
>>7597192
Hey OP, what fuckin book did you cover up?

>>7597210
it's not a meme. neither are very good. hell, even gravity's rainbow is a bit much. OP should have bought the odyssey (to go with his iliad) as well as a copy of moby dick, anna karenina, crime and punishment, and a collection of short stories like borges.

You always start with the greeks.

>>7597233
God you people are grating.

>>7597233
> no fun allowed
> need 2 punish self
dont forget the whip to mash your face in while you shiver in excitement

What did you cover up there OP?
Is that fucking ready player one or something?

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>>7597192
What's behind door #4

>>7597240
grating?
>>7597242
no fun allowed? tolstoy and dostoevsky arent fun now? moby dick might not be incredibly fun but it's leaps and bounds better as a novel than infinite jest or lolita. and what of borges? his short stories are gems and fun and enlightening and awe inspiring and absolutely fun. but i guess you'd rather have OP trudge through the memes for your pleasure.

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>>7597192

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>>7597192
What's the fourth book?
And what's below Iliad?

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>>7597211
>>7597212
>>7597276
pretty sure it says VISUAL on top

idk

>>7597192

Was blacking out that book part of your plan?

>>7597287
You missed some of the last letter. Sort of looks like an O

>hasn't read in 10 years
>expects to just pick up GR

You got seriously meme'd op. You haven't read in 10 years, start with the [greeks] illiad and go from there.

>>7597302
no, zoom in. it looks more it's been punched out or whatever

>>7597309
The other last letter.

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>>7597287
There is something reflected in the cover of the jest, but I can't read what it says

I think it's Dick's The Man in the High Castle

>>7597316
i have no idea what you mean

just mark it in paint

>>7597322
yeh i noticed but i can't make anything out :/

i think it might just be like a notebook

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>>7597287
I think you have it in the wrong direction

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Might be this

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>>7597352
That's it

>>7597352
LOL OP, are you 12?

>>7597352
THIS.

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>>7597352
Damn, you're good.

>>7597365
What does that even mean?

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>>7597352
>OP's a manchild
I can see why you wanted to cover that up.

>>7597352
Why would he hide this?

Why would he even put it in the picture if he doesn't want it seen?

What a stupid thread. Kill yourself OP.

>>7597352
Op here, you got it man.

This thread had me in tears. I covered it because it's just a dictionary. I didn't think anyone would care... I got it because I'm going to Taiwan in a couple months, so I'm studying up on Chinese and pictures are cool. :)

>>7597352
what the fuck

>>7597383
>>7597365
What is your problem with this? I don't understand

>>7597388
>I covered it because it's just a dictionary. I didn't think anyone would care
A VISUAL dictionary, holy fuck

>>7597388
You're a fucking child, get out of here.

>>7597206
Anon, No. 7597192. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.

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>>7597192
OP can I lick your feet? :)

>>7597387
I took the picture of everything I bought tonight. I was too lazy to take another one after I remembered the dictionary was in it.

Lol you guys take this really seriously, huh? Pictures make learning vocab more interest, childish or not. SORRY

>>7597352
Impressive work

>>7597388
Enjoy your trip OP. Think nothing of people's negative comments about your learning resource. Also I vote for The Iliad, then IJ.

>>7597192
OP, it looks like it's up to me to give you a serious answer. If you've not read serious literature for 10 years then GR and IJ will alienate you. It's simple as that. I don't care for S-M-R-T you think you are, the fact is that these universes the authors create and the nature of their prose will make you toss them aside in frustration. That's not a bad thing that they're complex, they just have a learning curve.

My advice is to do Lolita first. It's a massive book for what it is; take your time and wring every sentence for all that they're worth. It will take a while to finish (I suggest reading it twice), but only tards read Lo for the plot, or for its prowess in being a 'page-turner' or what have you. Lolita is the perfect /lit/ introduction.

Then do Homer, and don't forget to read Odyssey, although I think Iliad is more rewarding if more challenging. For Pinecone, read V, then Mason & Dixon, then GR. It's just to ease into Pinecones hazy style of storytelling and expansive worlds he creates. IJ is a mixed experience, but save it for later to find out yourself.

>>7597410
seconding this

i know at least one girl is reading this post right now. let me lick your feet. fucking do it.

>>7597344
maybe so but that's definitely an S, not a P

>>7597413
interesting*. I can't type now with all of this hatred stressing me out. Forgive me

>>7597352
feck yes

inspector 4chan dunnit again

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>>7597422
Y'know you would be very less stressed if you just let me suck your toes

>>7597413
>Pictures make learning vocab more interest,
they sure makes

>>7597419
I disagree. IJ is very accessible. I have rec'd it to a lot of philistine people who enjoyed it.
But Gravity's Rainbow, yeah, bad choice.

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>>7597352
>tfw is lerarning Chinese
>tfw u cant even spek english

>>7597192
This is a terrible idea for someone who hasn't read a book in 10 years. Those aren't exactly entry level books. You're most likely going to pick one up, get frustrated and never return to reading again. That said, if you absolutely must read one of those I would go with Lolita since it's the easier read.

>>7597422
we just kidding anon, dont take us too seriously

>>7597436
i agree with
>>7597419

IJ is accessible but lolita is written in pretty plain, simple english and more importantly it has like 1% of the pagecount the IJ has, which is usually the reason i give up on books, if i do, personally (because at some point i just cant be fucked to read another 1000 pages of the same shit)

There's a german lit critic - Marcel Reich Ranicki - who used to say if you can't get your point across in 100 pages it's probably not gonna happen. Obviously this is a guy who reads and appreciates 1k page tomes and he was being polemic, but he has a point. May he rest in peace the ugly jew bastard. One of my favourite critics.

>>7597448
How does someone so stupid survive long enough to earn a title like that?

>>7597448
I didn't suggest he start with IJ, but I don't think he fucked up by buying it.

Besides, have you read IJ? It's hardly subtle about it's 'point', in fact it's unique in the stack of books OP has for even having one central 'point', and one that is basically hammered into the reader over and over from page ~50 onward.

Not to say it is a bad book, but certainly not an ambiguous one.

>>7597455
>but I don't think he fucked up by buying it.
yeah me neither, didnt mean to imply that

ive read IJ. i'm not even sure why i brought that anecdote up anymore i havent slept in like 40 hrs lol. i just like it.

all i really meant to say was prolly don't start with IJ b/c 2 many pages

The Iliad, of course.

>>7597461
you're like those parents who drag their kids to abstract art exhibitions

jesus fuck have you guys no empathy at all

>>7597192
Hey OP, that edition of Gravity's Rainbow is known to have many errors. I wouldn't reccomend reading it.

>>7597480
yeah I think Iliad will be tough to get into lit as a whole but once you're sorta accustomed to reading it really is a masterpiece and I don't disagree with the memes, The Greeks serve a good foundation for literature that follows

but you wanna suck someone into the medium with something a little cheap and saccharine like Infinite Jest.

>>7597490
Pretty stale meme lad

>>7597497
http://www.bookerrata.com/index2.html

>>7597480
ugh i read the iliad these year, what a slog...reading that shit is like watching american football...six seconds of action and then ten minutes setting up the next play...

asklippius son of dickerous and dongria who hail from the plains of penia and whose great grandfather cocknor who was married to slutnia and who had a half cousin named fagamon that married bitchius hoew picked up his spear but right before he threw it his head got cut off...meanwhile another faglord by the name of fuckthisshitius son of blahblahblahius and boringia blah blah blha ..... shit i fell asleep again.

>>7597492
IJ is too fucking long and the illiad is too fucking boring for someone who doesnt read it the way you should (which someone new to reading won't)

>>7597500
They don't sell the version with a single sentence omitted anymore.

>>7597507
myb

>>7597502
why do they do that? i don't get it.

is it to make it seem real? like is it basically meant to be proof that they're telling a tru story

i would have started smaller, not gone for what lit says 'r da best'

siddhartha is a good start, maybe the outsider(stranger?)

some of chekovs short stories? Idk faggot just read somit

>>7597532
p sure because all the characters are either real people or previously established charatcers in the mythological canon
it would have meant more at the time

to us its kind of like someone from 2250 trying to watch family guy

>>7597585
No its like someone from 4500 watching Family Guy

>>7597591
maybe

>>7597597
Kek are you trying to say humanity will advance at such a rate that the next 150 years will be equal to the progress of the previous 2500?

>>7597352
well done!

>>7597617
well I used an off analogy.
but popular culture moves fast

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>>7597233
Yeah, those two that are some of the most well-received books in countless literary circles are just 'bad.'

Why even bother posting if you're going to give shitty advice? The rest of the literary world's consensus on those books trumps the fact that you didn't like them. You're a nobody and consequently, nobody cares about your opinion. Try writing a worthwhile explanation of your currently empty opinion if you want anyone to give the smallest amount of fucks. Otherwise, just stop posting and embarrassing yourself.

>>7597503
How do you read the Iliad "the way it should be read"

>>7597648
>critics like it so it must be good

B L A N K S L A T E
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>>7597401
kek

>>7597352
In that case, he should start with this work and move onto the impressive tomes of Daniel Webster next.

>>7597507
The --pens on pg. 140? I bought that edition like a month ago.

>>7597480
>those parents who drag their kids to abstract art exhibitions
sounds fun

>>7597192
The Fagles "translation" isn't the best, get either Rieu.

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>>7597352
oh my God, how did I miss this thread

>>7597203
this is the one OP

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>>7597352

holy shit, how

>>7597233
Lol the only good literature came out of the 1800s everything else is shit amirite? :^)))))))))

>>7597352
Professor Layton saves the day.

>>7597413

Here's some irony: several anons criticizing OP for getting a visual dictionary (instead of just words), when in fact they are responding to something in an image instead of discussing books.

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>>7597352
I hope this teach you not to hide things from us OP

>>7597192
I vote for that black rectangle.

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>>7597352
very nice

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>>7597192
It's somewhat comforting to know that I'm not the only one who was swayed by /lit/ memes. I wanted to start reading better shit so I went full on Start with the Greeks mode and bought Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Barry Strauss' The Trojan War, and the Iliad. I'd read the Iliad before but it was a different translation.

>>7597192
wonder what the cashier thinks when she rings all these up?

>>7601100
>wow, what a smart and sophisticated young man!
>Were I younger and much more attractive I would surely approach him since he appears to be so well cultured and intelligent!

>>7597388

Taiwan often uses traditional Chinese, the one you've got is in simplified. While the pronunciations remain the same (except for when the Taiwanese are speaking in Hokkien), many of the words will look a little different.

>>7597192
I can tell that you covered The Catcher in the Rye, faggot. Don't let anyone ridicule you for reading it.

>>7601115

Don't project too hard on yourself, mate

>>7601117
This. Slang in Taiwan is different from the mainland. For example, noodles are Jiang-Mian in Taiwan.

>>7601119
>>7597352

>>7597192
you got a bunch of memes