I have a $100 gift card to Amazon, I've read almost nothing

American Psycho
Some Thomas Pynchon
I suppose a few classics (Lolita, Catch 22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Honestly the /lit/ entry core is bullshit, just get in the habit of reading literature, not young adult.

Also avoid penguin editions if you can, they fall apart rather quickly

>>7532513
yeah not a bad suggestion. i just gave a coworker of mine an old paperback of catch 22. i figured its a good way to get someone into stuff with a little more substance.

OP you would probably enjoy david foster wallace. maybe Mccarthy if you want some stuff with a little more "Oomph" (blood meridian is an ultra violent western and all around classic) Don Delillo is also good and White Noise is fairly easy to read and deals with some interesting themes.

oh and Kafka. Definitely read some Kafka.

>>7532513
>>7532527
Thanks m8s

List of the Lost

>I have a $100 gift card to Amazon

Great, I want one too now :(

I will help you out OP.

>>7532513
Thomas Pynchon is a great rec, skip the rest except Lolita.

>>7532527
*yawn.* Oh and don't read Kafka, unless you can read German.

>>7532537
no.

Read Ulysses or any other (except Exiles) Joyce novel. He is the most studied writer since Shakespeare.

>>7532576
Kafka's german is really simple

>>7532576
Ulysses would be a horrible recommendation for a starter, OP would not understand half the references. Also you seem to be taking the meme trilogy way too seriously

>>7532576
I do know German

>>7532603
No, you don't

>>7532596
I hear Ulysses is awfully boring

>>7532607
I just studied in Germany for a whole year, my degree is German, I'm not great but I can read it with help well enough

>>7532615
Deception.

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>>7532576
yawn yourself faggot

>>7532639
You have very unevolved taste.

>>7532654
fuck me daddy