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ITT: essential redditcore
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>>7573331
Mein Kampf
Schopenhauer's epic 'On Women'
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Just go take a look at your bookshelf.
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>>7573350
>bookshelf
Jesus, grandpa
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Hey /lit/ I'm just starting out a collection of books because I recently found out how much I truly love reading. I have a list of books I want to get but other than that I really don't know any great books I should read. So far I have in my ownership 1984 (favorite), Farenheit 451, Heart of The Sea, Hunger Games Trilogy, and some other short novels.
>TLDR: What are some must read books I should use to start my collection
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>>7573199
Also I'm not asking for beginner books I can read advanced and have read a lot more books than this, but this is what I currently own in my collection
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Have you been on the wiki?
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Hey /lit/. Just wanted your recommendation on The Asian Saga by James Clavell, and what books to read and avoid.
I've heard that Shōgun is really good but I don't know.
Thanks again.
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>>7573194
Shogun is worth a read, IDK bout the rest though.
Its not high-quality literature but definitely upper-tier genre fiction. You could read a lot worse.
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>>7573217
Thank you, anon!
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I've reserved a few books from the local library. Please rate them, /lit/, and tell me if I've chosen any duds.
-Game of Thrones
-The Seven Basic Plots (Pic related)
-The Once and Future King
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>-Game of Thrones
BAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>7573201
It's a magnificent waste of time.
You'll enjoy it OP
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>>7573201
Never so much as touched it, neither the show nor the books. You can't blame me for being curious as to what it's all about. It's like not knowing what Harry Potter's all about circa mid 2000s, it drives you crazy.
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List books written after the internet was invented that critique consumerism, instant gratification, and advocate asceticism.
I want to cut myself off from the internet and spend the rest of my life studying. I want to get to the point where I put ashes on my food in order to dull the taste so I don't commit the sin of gluttony.
It seems as if this belief system is dead. The only recent pieces of "art" that I have found advocating this are the movie "Black Snake Moan" which I really thought would be a soft-core porno. It turns out it is a very decent movie, and a little different from the "be yourself" bullshit preached in most movies. I almost think that the marketing was bad on purpose so that people wouldn't see it, because it might cause people to think a little bit more about indulging their desires.
I found some Christian blog on the internet that was condemning sin written by this very attractive 20something girl, but she continually deletes my comments on her blog asking for advice, so I have decided to leave her alone and come here.
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>>7572790
"Society of the Spectacle" was written before the internet but is still probably the best answer.
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>>7572819
Mass Media no longer holds the same sway over the populous that it used to. It used to be a moderating influence. The internet seems to have radicalized everyone.
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>>7572790
Infinite Jest fits to a good degree
"Crippled America" by Donald Trump- is it the new "Mein Kampf"?
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>>7572760
badly written ramblings?
Probably.
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maybe, mein kampf is just a demagogue's unremarkable book, but trump strikes me as more marketing savvy.
What is your favourite Ancient Greek story/myth?
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>>7572720
Antigone
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>>7572720
When my nigga Perseus killed that triflin bitch Medusa cuz
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narcissus and echo
daedalus as a whole
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What are some good pro-suicide works?
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>>7572421
Suicide by Edouard Levé
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>>7572421
My diary tbqh
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Reminder that suicide is wrong and life always gets better
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In order to impress them, which obscure book would you choose to give someone?
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>he thinks obscurity for obscurity's sake is impressive
back to reddit with you
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>>7572335
It depends a lot on the person tbqh, maybe if you described you person you are thinking of I could give an answer
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Not OP, but I think it would help considerably if there were some rules.
>You've heard the person is "well read"
>You have to choose a book you own now
How deep of a knowledge of mythology is needed to understand Plato and the rest of the Greeks? I pic related back in September but I can't say how much it stuck. Is Plato going to be making specific callouts to characters like Iphicles or is it more general (i.e. themes and archetypes), and if the former case is true than is it worth rereading Hamilton?
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Hamilton will have almost zero help with reading Greeks, especially on the philosophy side of things. You need very little/no mythology knowledge beyond what you probably already have to read le Greeks.
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>>7572309
If you don't get a reference, you can always look it up in Hamilton's mythology or the internet.
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>>7572317
this.
Reading the Greeks involves actually reading their philosophy and theatrical works, not just a summary of their mythology.
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Someone please post the most recent top-100 book list that was complied just a few months ago.
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*compiled
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Lol wow! that ruined my childhood. xD
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Daily reminder: David Bowie will never write his memoirs.
As a consolation, he did leave us with his list of must-reads. Here:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/01/david-bowie-books-kerouac-milligan
Daily reminder: David Bowie will never write his memoirs.
As a consolation, he did leave us with his list of must-reads. Here:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/01/david-bowie-books-kerouac-milligan
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (2008)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2007)
The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard (2007)
Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage (2007)
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (2002)
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens (2001)
Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler (1997)
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes (1997)
The Insult, Rupert Thomson (1996)
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (1995)
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman (1994)
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard (1993)
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C Danto (1992)
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia (1990)
David Bomberg, Richard Cork (1988)
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick (1986)
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (1986)
Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd (1985)
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey (1984)
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter (1984)
Money, Martin Amis (1984)
White Noise, Don DeLillo (1984)
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes (1984)
The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White (1984)
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn (1980)
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (1980)
Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester (1980)
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1980)
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess (1980)
Raw, a "graphix magazine" (1980-91)
Viz, magazine (1979 –)
The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels (1979)
Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz (1978)
In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan (1978)
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed Malcolm Cowley (1977)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes (1976)
Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders (1975)
Mystery Train, Greil Marcus (1975)
Selected Poems, Frank O'Hara (1974)
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich (1972)
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner (1971)
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Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky (1971)
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillett(1970)
The Quest for Christa T, Christa Wolf (1968)
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn (1968)
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg (1967)
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr (1966)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (1965)
City of Night, John Rechy (1965)
Herzog, Saul Bellow (1964)
Puckoon, Spike Milligan (1963)
The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford (1963)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea, Yukio Mishima (1963)
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (1963)
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell (1962)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)
Private Eye, magazine (1961 –)
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding (1961)
Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage (1961)
Strange People, Frank Edwards (1961)
The Divided Self, RD Laing (1960)
All the Emperor's Horses, David Kidd (1960)
Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse (1959)
The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1958)
On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard (1957)
Room at the Top, John Braine (1957)
A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno (1956)
The Outsider, Colin Wilson (1956)
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (1949)
The Street, Ann Petry (1946)
Black Boy, Richard Wright (1945)
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>>7572077
Is that you Mira?
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>>7572077
That's a really no-must-read-in-a-must-read-list
I'm looking for some erotica.
I've only historically enjoyed philosophical erotica like de sade, Batialle, and the story of o- but I'm looking for something that can get me hot and bothered - I picked up and read ann rices beauty series - which I liked, but it was too much of "her sex quivered" and "his sword was as big as she imagined it"
I bought a copy of "the siren" by Tiffany reisz but I want more just in case this sucks too
What have you guys read that's hot and preferably kinky
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>>7571878
Why would you ever hope something is a PS4
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>>7571914
Also I can actually help a little bit, I haven't read any of these myself yet but it might be a solid starting point
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>>7571923
The problem is most of that shit isn't actually meant to be sexy or sensual - it's philosophy and art that is usually quite repulsive sexually
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>starting with the Greeks
>read the Oresteia of Aeschylus
>can't read any other Greek drama now because it all seems so incomplete
Did I done goof?
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Euripides > Aeschylus
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>>7572332
pleb
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>>7571843
Euripides' Oedipus stuff gives the illusion of being complete
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What kind of books does your girlfriend read /lit/?
Is she more patrician or less patrician than you?
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Do we really need three threads about what women read? Seriously, fuck off back to r9k.
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>>7571599
>need
Nice spook, son
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>tfw no qt gf who who reads at exactly the same pace as me
Instead I am stuck with a hairy man who reads just slow enough that I have to wait to turn the page