Help someone to get into literature

>>8355934
Wow, you sound deep as shit

Start with the Greeks

>>8355934
The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women by Hemingway

>>8355934
The Greeks

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Patrician here.
>entry level music
>entry level vidya
>entry level movies
>entry level series
Read some YA, you fucking pleb.

>>8355934
Read the /lit/ starter kit and go from there.

>>8355945
Start with the Greeks

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wow what u wrote about the relativity of time really hit me... really makes you go hmm

sticky, faggot

You may add well start with The Virgin Suicides if you like the film so much.

>>8355934
Start with the Illiad and the Odyssey, then read Bertrand Russel's "A history of Western Philosophy". Then read the greeks and work your way in chronological order. Or don't, it's your prerrogative. That's if you're interested in Philosophy which i assume you are.
If you're here only for fiction start with Homer anyway.

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How often do you get threads like this, /lit/?

>>8355934
what I got from your post is that you are an insecure 18 year old nu male

I don't know, I would need to see more aspects of your personality to determine the best works from canon to recommend to you. Could you send me clips of your favorite porno videos? Maybe pictures of your tattoos? What are your results from the Myers Briggs personality test? What is your favorite thing to order off of the Carl Jr's menu?

>>8355934

Starred are ones i think you'll really like, but they are all recommendations based off of your other tastes.

Novels:
The Sun Also Rises/The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
*The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
Roadside Picnic - Strugatsky
*Metamorphosis/The Trial - Franz Kafka
Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Poetry:
*The Divine Comedy - Dante Aligheri
*Paradise Lost - John Milton
*Lyrical Ballads - Wordsworth and Coleridge

Plays:
*Hamlet/King Lear/Richard II - William Shakespeare
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
*Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

>>8355934
>Radiohead
I'd say work on developing better taste in music first but otherwise start with the Greeks.

>>8355934
without a doubt you would enjoy Haruki Murakami.
start with After the Quake, a short story collection to get the ball rolling.
Then read Kafka on the Shore

Wish you're a pretty deep intellectual dude.

Just read some Tolstoy ya fag.

The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy (Maude translation)

>>8355934
>I love what makes me think about life itself, and how sometimes time can stop on very simple and short moments of everyday's life beauty.
The Stranger

>>8355934
>I love what makes me think about life itself, and how sometimes time can stop on very simple and short moments of everyday's life beauty.
>Thank you very much for any recommendation, however I think I will need something "fairly easy" to start of reading as I've almost never read besides in school.

This is the cutest thing, no really, it sounds so adorably innocent. I would say go back over whatever essentials pic you have and look at the corresponding wiki page until you find one that sounds interesting to you.

>>8356070
DORSET

Unless you're a lad, in which case, fuck off ya poof

>>8356111
>Dorset /ˈdɔːrsᵻt/ (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England
>lad
>poof
Yeah, please go hang yourself. Thanks. Also, Loveless is an extremely overrated record.

>>8356143
Fuck off ya poof

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>>8356168

>>8356183
I don't want your (You)'s ya big willy

>>8355934
go read Camus, lol

>>8356187
You really seem like you do though, what with this shitposting you're doing now.

You can't have patrician tastes in music, videogames, movies, TV series and literature. We all have twenty-four hours in our day and you won't get any literary knowledge—nor even achieve a single book, frankly—while playing, watching TV and listening to music simultaneously. Either drop these uselessly time-consuming media or simply talk about “The Stranger” wherever you go to sound “cool” and well-read, because twenty minutes a day isn't enough to go through a introduction chart (that you should already know, by the way).

What are you? French?

>>8356192
No I don't dude, back off I'm warning ya

Trying to attempt nobodies on an anonymous shitposting website is probably the saddest thing you could do with your time.

>>8356197
Here's another one, you annoying cunt.

>>8355934
>I am more of a /mu/ guy
your taste is basic as fuck, nothing but /mu/core

Start with the Greeks

>>8356196
What? Man, I don't understand you guys. OP wants to get into reading and all you do is shit on him. Anyway OP, read some Vonnegut, either Slaughterhouse-Five or The Sirens of Titan. Fun stuff for beginners.

>>8356208
*touches your bum*

>>8356248
>all you do is shit on him
Because it's impossible to rec something to someone with such basic taste.
First he should try to delve into random deeper works before wanting specialized recs.
Also
THERE IS A FUCKING STICKY

>>8356262
Whoa, ya fookin poof, touch me again and I'll fookin bash ye ead in m8, you got meh?


innit

>>8356222
This. I'm so glad I stopped browsing that place

>>8355934
Just look for the starter kit, since you're basic as fuck anyway

>>8356248
>"Man, I don't understand you guys. OP wants to get into reading and all you do is shit on him."
>le my teacher is the only one who gets me and I'm much smarter than my ignorant peers, the literal middle-school-tier maymay

>"Man, I don't understand you guys."
>"Anyway OP, [if you want to get into reading, try with] some Vonnegut, either Slaughterhouse-Five or The Sirens of Titan."
this is why you don't understand "us guys"

Ahah op hère, you guys are hilarious !
I do know other music and stuff and so what if loveless is well known on /mu./ ? I love the emotion it procures, it is m'y favorite album, I dont care if it's mucore or whatever I actually came on /mû/ because it was m'y favorite album and people there liked it.
And I dont think I'm deep or anything, I never talk about what I like in public, neither did I say my taste were "patrician" or anything, you really are insecure about your tastes.
Anyway thanks to everyone who gave recommandations I will definitively give a look :)