It just arrived, /lit/ What am I in for?

>>8968412

you're in for about 200 pages

>>8968412
Read in public, look smart

Extreme bardolatry and a great list.

how t h i c c is it?

why do people waste their money on this shit when you can just download it for free and read it in 2 minutes

http://bookzz.org/book/2516040/c5affc

>>8968412
you're in for several hundred pages of Bloom recommending you read something else.

>>8968506

That's fine by me.

>>8968412
Shakespeare is everything.

>>8968506
This. If Bloom had written blurbs for a living he'd be in the Forbes 500 by now.

>>8968446
Thanks for this cutie pie

>>8968412
a phantasm of phantasmagoric Shakespearean wit

>>8968412
Really enjoyable and well-written book imo - hope you like it.

>>8968412
having little girl hands

>>8968412
If CliffNotes are too long for you, or you havent got access to wikipedia, it is a decent summary of a few steady bestsellers.

>>8968412
Fucking White Males

I'm a few chapters in myself, OP. Forget what the memers say about the "lists." The ones at the end Bloom later discredited, and the core 26 authors are each treated in their own right, in the interlocking chapters that make up most of the book.

If you're on /lit/, you probably don't need to be convinced that it's better to read Whitman or Tolstoy than some pseud garbage. Really, "The Western Canon" is useful in that it gives you introductory essays to the books and authors you probably would have wanted to read anyway, but from Bloom's wonky, sometimes iconoclastic perspective, e.g.,
>Dante is a secular writer.
His essay on Montaigne gave me goosebumps, but that was probably because I already love Montaigne.

But as anons have previously said, yes, expect extreme levels of
>bardolatry
and several jousts from the early '90s culture wars.