>ask literary studies friend about what to read to get into

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books#Series

>>9282032
He's baiting you. You only need to read about 1000 books to gain an elementary understanding of literature.

>>9282282
The actual number is 319.

>>9282032
remember that you need to read them twice

You don't get a understanding of literature by reading literature, you "understand" literature by reading authors who couldn't make it as writers criticize writers who could.

As someone who read over a 1000 novels, I maintain that maybe 100 of them weren't completely fucking meaningless and wasteful

>>9282357
Mind making a list?

>>9282357
Have you considered the possibility that you just didn't understand them properly? Perhaps you should have learned how to read first.

Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare

The rest is fan fiction

>>9282960
is there a guide somewhere? that isn't a book itself?

>>9282960
It's also possible he just read a lot of shitty novels.