Which should I read first?

The Hermenutics of Sailing — Paul Butfield

You should read Catch 22 first. Then you should read Moby Dick. Then you should punch yourself for even considering reading Brave New World.

Moby Dick is the best

>>8236593
What's wrong with Brave New World

>>8236584

Start with the Dick

>>8236596

Uninspiring

Don't read, do.

Top to bottom imo. chronological.

BNW

>>8236596
The first half of the book is an interesting thought experiment, and the second half of the book is the main character being a whiny teenager. There is no reason for what is basically a feral child to know Shakespeare, nor does Huxley's prose set the world alight.

Dick of Moby

None

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>>8236593
b-but I like Brave New World

>>8236666
Some people are dumb, and that's fine.

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>>8236678
So mean

>>8236678

Tell me what your favourite book is or you're a coward.

>>8236710
Blood Meridian. I can't imagine this conversation going anywhere, though.

in chronological order of course

In alphabetical order from the author's last name.

Moo

>>8236584
Moby Dick, then Catch-22. Brave New World I couldn't get into.

Haven't read Catch 22 myself, so can't speak for it. But in my view of the "general classics one should read", Moby Dick really transcends into a masterpiece in comparison of most literature.

>>8236584
Moby-Dick, or the Whale.

If you think the other two can compare to it, get off my board.

>>8236594
>>8236794
These, Moby Dick's the best. However, it doesn't fucking matter which order you read them in, moron.

Catch-22 is a pretty funny book and well-written (not stylistically, but just in the way its made), and Brave New World pretty important for its cultural impact and the fact that Huxley saw the way the world was going with a pretty good insight. There's definitely nothing wrong with reading them for entertainment, but Moby Dick is genuine genius and you should definitely read that one.

>>8236809
>nothing wrong with reading them
as in BNW and C-22, I mean, of course. Regardless of what other people may say about them being "pleb" or whatever the fuck these mouthbreathing memesters say nowadays.

>>8236584
Catch 22 .

One of my favorites.

>>8236809
>>8236816
Well said, I agree completely. Doesn't matter, just read them all (even if I to this day haven't read C-22) and you will be able to develop your own taste and preferences in literature. There's always some shitposter that goes on and say this and that is shir or "pleb".
Sure I would argue that anything I've ever read by Huxley, Faulkner, Conrad, Hemingway, Austen etc. in that list is "inferior" to the masterpiece Moby Dick. That doesn't say I didn't enjoy any of those readings.

>>8236729
Meme

>>8236584

Bottom to top

Moo

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In which order should I read these?

>>8237375
Backwards

>>8237375
BNW

>>8237375
Idk

Moby Dick

>>8237375
Is that the hardcover edition of Catch-22? I got the same one. Gorgeous!

>>8236584
read moby dick first

then catch 22, as a palate cleanser

then take BNW, and throw it in the trash.

I just started Moby Dick (I'm only on chapter 32) and it's already head and shoulders above anything else I've ever read except Shakespeare in a class where the teacher was a passionate lover of the Bard. What else actually can compare to it? I don't want to return from this literary high and need suggestions for the next couple books.

>>8238800
in american literature it really doesn't get much better than melville.

>>8238800
the old testament is p good.

various other ancient religious/philosophical texts

I finished Moby-Dick yesterday, and I feel like I don't really "get" the ending. It was still satisfying, but I don't understand the symbolism being things like the bird

>>8236584
what edition of moby dick is that?

>>8236584
Moby Dick. It's the one nobody finishes before the exam in high school. Seriously though it's a masterpiece, I've literally never read another book like it. Skip the Reddit-core bullshit for teenagers (Orwell, Huxley, Heller, Vonnegut, Sallinger)

>>8238800
Yeah wait untill you reach the 200 pages of whale encyclopaedia before you judge. Its still pretty great tho.

>>8237375
Only read every second page. Then, go back and read the pages you skipped.