How to stop being a mediocre pleb /lit/? Recommend something

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Preferably a short novel. Attention span can't bother beyond ten pages an hour.

>>8329428
Voltaire's Candide is a really easy yet highly insightful read.

After that, just about anything old. Roman and Greek history, philosophy, comedy anything.

>>8329422
start with the greeks.

the bible

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I would love for a post of recommendation.

Heidegger

>>8329464
t. prottie who thinks bible was latin in original

>>8329473
this. Let the Black Forest Babbler grab hold of your soul

Diary of a Man in Despair. Not long, but super genteel and dense with references so you'll have to google stuff every page anyway

5 scoops of "kill it" and an eight hour arm workout

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>>8329422
Men who've seen war make for great authors. Read The Lord of the Rings, The Prince by Machiavelli, and The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I would say the less women women there are in the story, the better the book would be.

>>8329422
Nice dubs

>>8329422
>insightful and enlightening

>>8329021