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One more rule: can also be something you've written but the minimum word count is 100,000.

>The Bible
>Hamlet
>White Noise

Honestly, if the person has no memories at all, there's no point. He has to live first.
There's definitely no point in starting with the Greeks, especially philosophical works.
If I still had to make a recommendation, I'd probably go for some Shakespeare.

>>8740413

It was a favorite as a child, but when I reread it a few years ago I thought it didn't hold up as literature

>>8740413
The Martian of its time.

Enjoyed it

Really? Which ones. I've experienced little homophobia in classic works and the veiled allusions are usually ambiguous

>>8740803
Not that old, I guess there was a pretty small window where a writer might talk openly and negatively about homos.

I'm reading The Big Sleep currently.

>>8740384
Fuck off

you are a fag. just keep living until nature runs its due course. try not to verbalize too much, just enjoy your body and shut up.

>>8740291
Its not great. The fun relationship dynamics of the anime are lost in navel gazing monologues and rambling conspiracy theories.

>>8740291
Someone I knew characterized it as darker and far superior, since it doesn't get into humor or a conventional plot.
I rred it (I didn't watch more than an episode of the anime). It was interesting but not exceptionally remarkable, and my taste isn't that refined, so /lit/ might find the brief autobiographical novel less than stellar.

>>8740267
Either read on your phone or read real books, ereaders are waste of money.

>>8740268
I should add this is only my opinion, if you think you will read more by buying ereader then go for it mate. It's personal. Added bonus is probably that you can download ebooks for free on bookzz.org

>>8740268
but phones are too glossy and hurt my eyes after long reading

anything jane austen.. or by any women probably

>>8740250
I tried reading Emma but that was way too much. It was the most condescending tea party I could ever imagine.

>>8740244

If you're trying to be more social and make friends, this isn't going to work. Acting "high class" is just gonna make you look like an asshole.

i know nothing about literature. im not even a psued cause i cant fake it. that being said, Tokyo Ghoul in its entirety is based off Kafka's work, with a lot of emphasis on metamorphosis. Id give that a wack first.

not sure if this is bait, but that "liked" list is underage anime faggot 101. absolute trash.

>>8740228

1. Google "best sf/mystery books" or something and see what's popular and acclaimed
2. Read something that looks interesting and read the amazon preview to see if you can get into it
3. use Goodreads to find similar books

very plebby way i know but desu don't know better for you

I wanted to agree with your post, but then you had to type
>This is proof of how long novels, in general, fail.
Kys, faggot.

>>8740150
I don't believe you have actually read the book.

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>>8740150

>plot going anywhere

maybe you should stick to soap operas. the plots go places.

>>8740147
Is there a built-in correction for the fact that it's mostly Anglo trash?

28.

I don't think it has much to do with how /lit/ you are at all. /lit/ has boners for canon authors and postmodernists. This list is mostly mainstream contemporary fiction.

>>8740137

I HEREBY ORDER YOU TO READ SHAKESPEARE, AS YOU SHOULD

>>8740137
Starter pack:
A Comedy of Errors
Macbeth
Henry V
Romeo & Juliet

In my opinion, these are the easiest comedy, easiest tragedy, easiest history, and Romeo & Juliet.

>>8740137
I think there was a chart here. Can't seem to find it, though.

>>8740100

Writing dialect is a skill and a balancing act that can easily be overdone and become a distraction to the reader. Dickens was very good at it, and Twain was good too. It's best though to avoid it, beyond maybe giving a description or one or two examples to give the reader a taste

>>8740132
twain was the best. flannery O'Connor is another that did it well.

I enjoy the preservation of the accurate portrayal of an area's vernacular. I will say it's probably best to keep it in quotes and to provide a reliable narrator unless you're going for the huck finn thing which can be great too.

but as anon said it's so easily overdone it can be annoying, pretentious etc etc

Alice Walker is pretty damn good at bringing nigger speak to the written word. TCP contains top tier syntax.

>inb4 ur a fag

It is.
Whatever in creationexists without my knowledge exists without myconsent.

>confusing ethics with morality

/thread

>morality

Requesting the Hegel edit of the Navy seal pasta.

>>8740040
I don't get it.

>>8740130
>>8740040
Wait, was it because Deleuze fell/jumped out the window to his death?

>And after all was said and done I guess you could truly say it was All Quiet on the Western Front.
!!!

why the fuck is the illiad called the illiad i wanted to make fun of homer but this makes no sense.

>>8740018
>His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly

How did he get away with this shit?

No, except for some political programs supporting the arts, and the arts entertaining politicians—theoretically there is no overlap.

Furthermore, politics is at its best cold, hard logic (also at its worst but decisions are judged by reasonable policy).

And art is free form. It can be shit, it can be great, it can be ironically political in format/presentation, but the bottom line is that the field of art cannot replace politics. I guess you weren't asking for that, but whatever.

>>8740063
Sorry of
I meant more along the line of inclusion of political conviction or ideology if you prefer, in a given work of art

>>8740017
M8 Dadaism is expressly political. People are inherently political as politics is nothing more that believing a certain way of life is preferable to another, which is influenced by how you interpret the world. So even if you were to read a novel without a pronounced political ideology the interactions of the characters would still betray (or create the impression in the reader of; see the anti-socialist interpretations of animal farm that the stunted come up with) some political belief.
You could try reading some theory on this, maybe then you'll be more at ease.
https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Benjamin_Walter_1929_1978_Surrealism_The_Last_Snapshot_of_the_European_Intelligentsia.pdf