Which book got you into /lit/?

Thus spoke Zarathustra and history of western philosophy by Russell

I don't actually read, I come here for the memes

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Dr. Seuss taught me to read, then the next big one was HG Wells. My cousin got me a set of The Time Machine, Invisible Man, and War of the Worlds for my 9th or 10th birthday, and that was pretty much that... branched out into Jules Verne, Three Musketeers, King Arthur stories, etc. There was also some Wishbone involved at some point.

>>9744126
Dorian Gray and some brazillian authors.

>>9744126
>Thus spoke Zarathustra
are you me?

>>9744126
I got myself into /lit/
the first book I read after making this commitment was Lolita, but I can assure you that that didn't convince me to love literature. I just kept kind of force-reading books until I ended up liking them.

The first book I read on my own that was really good was probably portrait of a lady.

love in the time of cholera

Fantasy stuff like Lord of the Rings and Terry Brooks, as well as Greek and Roman mythology, always interested me as kid. I actually stopped reading during high school and then picked it up zealously when I started university.

I was reading Agatha Christie and Steven King for a while, 10th grade English class I read A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. They probably got me more into lit than anything.

>>9744126
Notes from the underground

Poetry by Homer.

I am multilingual, but I don't know Shakespeare off by heart.

Fernando Pessoa.

He was a poet from Portugal, which had dozens of personas. He had real mental illness, and each one of his personalities was a single genius poet, with totally different attributes.

When I saw that, I realized theres was something else to discover in literature.

>>9744126
Infinite Jest summer after junior year. recommended by some crossposter on /v/

>>9744555
>each
But anon Reis sucks.

>>9744126
I started by reading the ol bukowski when my life was shit and only went downhill with Dostoyevsky and other such authors

The Closing of the American Mind. My grandfather had an old copy lying around that I used to read. Got me on the Straussian track in college, which was a drag in the end but I read a lot of cool shit.

tbqh, i rarely read, and the only things I've read besides some fantasy when I was younger are Beowulf, Illiad, and some Lovecraft short stories

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