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but why, it's the same shit everytime

just check the archive

>>7856982
Just go and look at the wiki. They're all collected over there.

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tell me what to read next lads

Can someone post the Shakespeare chat or his top 3

>>7857452
journey to the end of night.

Could someone post the top 100 authors chart?

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>>7857513
here. memorize it

>>7857525
much obliged

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captcha: patrician piedmont

>>7857444
there's so many books here, what one do I pick if I want to get into criticising and understanding literature?

>>7856982
Do we have a chart with notable works from each literary period to peruse? I want to do a survey of all lit. Bonus points if it's only British and American lit. Even more points if it includes specific sub genres

>>7857751
Contrary to the popular belief it takes a lot more than reading a few books to be a good literature critic.

>>7857722
Never seen that one before, thanks, that's actually very helpful.

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>>7857452

now do me

>i really dont read much

>>7857923
journey to the end of night

>>7857452
DUNE

>>7856982
>>>/mu/

>>7857923
stoner by john williams

>>7857482
Bump

The list might not be shit if it didn't have a memebook at the start

>>7857452
Dorian gray

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i'm still reading crying lot (hence the line) but i'm also reading lord jim

/lit help me decide what to read next on the list

also do you go through authors works or do you just jump around different books/genres/movements?

>>7857452
Dune, American Psycho, and Roadside Picnic

>>7857452
Obviously Borges you uneducated cretan

>>7857525
I'd fuck Camus and Calvino

>>7857668
i liek u m8

>>7860043
> tfw no Hamlet
You're not going anywhere without it, read it next for sure, than maybe Crime And Punishment.

>>7860080
would you suggest reading anything before hamlet?

i'm quite new to reading

>>7856982
i've read 45 of these. not bad, i guess. Infinite Jest and V. are my next two.

>>7857923
Avoid the meme trinity. It's really a waste of time unless you're an exit level reader. The books are way too dense and jumping into them without prior knowledge will just lead to confusion and misunderstanding. I really don't think they're good recommendations at all

>>7860164
not anon you're talking to, but i'd suggest reading all the major Shakespeare tragedies and comedies (also watching them) before going on and reading anything else, if you haven't done so either in school or on your own. really amazing stuff.

>>7860613
What is the meme trinity??

>>7857751
Just read a fuck ton of Harold Bloom, my friend.

>>7857444
Has anyone read the Nabokov lectures? I've been thinking about picking that up.

>>7860679
Infinite Jest, Ulysses, and gravity's Rainbow. Go with borges

>>7860679
the meme trilogy are the three books people who have spent too much time on /lit/ pretend to have read. they are

Infinite Jest
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow

each one is an education in and of itself and worth reading and rereading. if anyone tells you to avoid them, avoid that person instead.

>>7860718
yes, by all means do so. it gives you an idea of how he conducted his lectures. the bit about tearing the covers off Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde gave me a good laugh.

>>7860731
IJ is shit and others are masterworks of style and prose over content.

>>7857525
>DFW that high
>Lev that low
>Asimov present at all
>Flaubert, Whitman, Mann, Yeats, Pound AFTER Alan Moore, PKD, Delillo, AND STEPHEN KING
>a woman anywhere on that list
>Melville AFTER Vonnegut

This board. Christ on a cracker.

>>7860735
Cool, thanks. I'll check it out.

>>7860739

Actual patrician detected

>>7857923
The brothers karamazov

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Just made this one

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>>7856982
I refuse to read any book before 1920.

>>7860840
I bet you're a smart, sensible person

>>7860739
correct

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>>7860847
Life is too short. It takes a long time to finish a book. There is nothing worth reading in any book before 1920 that hasn't been rehashed anbd improved in a book after that period.

You're welcome.

>>7860749
Influx of actual reddit. They spawned during that time, not sure in how high numbers they stayed.

>>7860880
go ahead and list your top 10 favorite books

>>7860880
lmao, tragic

>>7860888
Can't rank in particular order but these are the top 10 books I have read.

Stoner- John Williamson

The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown

The Road- Cormac McCarthy

The Wolf of Wall Street- Jordan Belfort

Mud, Swear and Tears- Bear Grylls

1984- George Orwell

Casual Vacancy- JK Rowling

The Stand- Stephen King

Breakfast at Tiffanys- Truman Capote

Ulysses- James Joyce

>>7860910
subtle

>>7857668
nice!

I think I'll go all in on Kmart Realism or even better, diet-pepsi minimalism this year.

-it's something I can write and relate to
-there are a lot of straitforward marxist/critical themes to explore
-it still feels really relevant

>>7860910
You should've just gone with HP 1 to 7 and LoTR 1-3.

That way your bait would've taken less time to write.

>>7860739
>masterworks of style and prose over content
So basically the literary equivalent of vapourwave? Fug

>>7860951
Not bait, the only one that might not hold up there is the Bear Grylls autobiography but that was included because I'm interested in mountaineering and think his account of climbing Everest is one of the best I have read.

>>7860739
>IJ is shit and others are masterworks of style and prose over content.
excellent bait laddy

>>7857751
For an absolute beginner I liked How To Read a Book by Adler. It helped me and I never took the time before that to seriously analyze anything.

>>7856985
>that Crime & Punishment cover
why

are there any essential books that'd make me treat people like shit I should read

>>7857810
Sounds interesting. I would love to see such a chart if you ever make one.

>>7860837
Visually appealing and it looks interesting. Saved.

>>7857444
>Kundera
no thanks

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>>7860840
>>7860880
>>7860910
>>7861000
>not reading Tolstoy
I don't even want to know you.

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50/100

Gravity's Rainbow being the best by FAR
followed by The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales

>>7856982
Frankly speaking I'm here because in my life I have never fully read a book that is not an science or biography book.

Could you guys please recommend me a book from that chart or should I just go with the one with the highest rating ?

>>7857211
the wiki is shit desu

>>7860880
More like there's nothing in any book after 1920 that hasn't been done simple and better in a book before.

You're like those retards who won't watch black and white films, I hate you.

>>7856987
I fell for the meme but the Iliad is actually quite good. On book 9 now.

>>7862047
atlas shrugged

>>7861073
>illiterate ij fanboys think this is bait

lmao stay pleb faggot

>>7857482
ANYONE

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>>7864409
No.

Are there any charts to guide someone starting w plato and Aristotle in reading philosophy from the greeks til now? I just have to get the law now to read then idk where to go from there

>>7856982
nah

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What should I read next, friends?
The circled numbers are my absolute favorite books.

>>7864887
Seems like a lot of your favorites are longer works, often older classics, so I guess I'd recommend Dante. Or Borges, damn near everyone likes Borges.

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Anyone have dubsys chart?

>>7864848
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/edit?pref=2&pli=1
Less chart, more of a thorough introductory guide

Really? This is the best you guys got? There are at least a hundred video games better (in every conceivable dimension) than any one of the overly pretentious wastes of paper on that list and dozens of masterpiece games that outdoes all of your one dimensional cave scribbles the same way the sun outshines the stars.

>2016
>reading

Thanks for confirming that I'm enjoying the superior medium. Papercucks btfo.

Where is Beat the Reaper???

>>7867585
Show me a few then laddie!
Over half of videogame writings were stolen from books.
The other half come from movies

>>7867631
Mother. Mother 2. Mother 3. Mother 4. Undertale.

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>>7867637
Now you are just shitposting.

>>7867631
Can books engage your auditory and visual senses, allow for user interaction and agency, AND improve hand eye coordination?

Video games 2 papercucks 0

>>7867736
no,books are not interactive.
Books make your mind fresher,and they also help improving your imagination.
Not to mention you can't live without books unlike videogames.

Are videogames art?
No.

Videogames are not the next stop for the art train,deal with it.

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>>7860910
>Dan Brown

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Anyone got a jap literature guide?

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>>7867585

>>7867905
No shit detective conan

>>7857814
I didn't say I wanted to be a good literature critique, I just want to understand literary critique
>>7862014
>>7860711
thanks

I feel triggered seeing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ahead of A Scanner Darkly. IMHO Do Androids Dream... was highly overrated but I found it to still being an enjoyable read.
(They have same amount of votes so whatever)

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>>7862038
>that Crime & Punishment translation
why

>>7867891
I'm gonna need that jap lit guide too senpaitachi

>>7868928
isn't it one of the most recent ones there are?

has anyone here read it? What is it like?

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>>7862038
Would you prefer this one?

>>7868954
greatest cover to any book ever. Raskolnikov would be proud

Serious question

Do you guys buy all your books as physical copies or just download them for free somewhere? Trying to get into /lit/ so plz no bully.

>>7868990
physical copies of novels
get distracted on PC and reading off the screen makes me feel like shit after a while.

>>7868990
Physical copies every time, screens hurt my eyes after a while. I tend to read one book at a time and save up for the next one while I read. What stuff have you read so far?

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>>7869168

Political right wing stuff
>/pol/tard

>>7869199
who the christ thinks HL Mencken was a conservative

>>7869296
Everyone's a conservative if you just go far enough left, my friend.

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>>7868946
Gonna dump what I`ve got

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>>7869692

>>7860962
where can I read Internet Dreams?

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>>7869695
this is all senpai

>>7860749
/lit/ is shit. Leave while you can.

>>7860910
This is good bait.

>>7869700
You don't: just like half the things in that image, it doesn't exist.

>>7857452
American Psycho

>>7864809
too much russia

>>7857525
>Tao " Bret Easton Ellis" Lin

How did a twitter celebrity end up on a list of authors?

>>7860739

Infinite b8, all three are great

Can I get /lit/'s guide to Harry Potter?

>>7870031
read 5 first, then continue in descending order (4, 3, 2), then alternate chapters between 6 and 7 before finishing with 1, read backwards, word by word. If you haven't read HP this way you have no business criticizing it.

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>>7870052
I found it on my own.

>>7863774
If you aren't totally sure, you can grab a random number generator and generate a number from there.

Or you can try out a book from the least colorful cover on that list. It's hard to go wrong if you end up reading an epic poem or a sombre play by mistake.

>>7868990
I'm fine with digital copies.

Since I have a stock of chart pictures in my hard drive, I tend to keep chart recommendations in mind if I find physical books.

>>7870114
lol

>>7856982
What should I read by Camus?

>>7870295
None of it.

What should I start with of Kerouac/Burroughs and what book?

>>7870295
The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.

Is there a starter kit for philosophy? Or some kind of road map of where to start. Maybe one for political theory too, or maybe mixing the two.

>>7867891
mang Freud is outdated psychology.
get with the times.

Read about the Milgram experiment or the Kitty Genovese case if you wanna read about social (mass) psychology with scientific backing to it.

>>7870884
Philosophy? Politics?
Just start with the Greeks. I'm not even kidding, starting with the Greeks is very relevant to both philosophy and politics.

Is there any updated chart for fantasy/magic kind of thing, genre fiction.
Things like: "Magicians", "Mistborn", "Way of Kings", "Warbreaker", Dungeon series by Cherryh etc

>>7856982
# 7 stoner
One of my favorite books of all time.
Some of the most emotionally tugging non Sci-fi novels i ever read.

>>7857525
george r.r. martin fucking spare me

>>7869199
at least u have Demons by Dostoevsky

>>7871480
Is this a joke?

>>7872585
What do you think?

>>7868928
>>7868948
I've read it and it's actually great. I think it's better than C&V.