Hi /lit/. I'm a stem brainlet and only recently started

Read something by J Edgar Hoover

jk

I don't know I'll monitor thread

>>9770887
Definitely start with the existentialists, but I recommend The Stranger by Camus before Kafka or Dostoyevsky

Don't fall for the classics meme: they're classics and will always be with us, but remember that most of the cretins who post these must-read lists on here are simply fresh out of high school edgelords trying to get one up on the next anonymous poster.

My advice is to read more of the authors you've enjoyed, or on topics/periods/styles you've liked, and to randomly browse through some of the so-called classics until you find one you can get into. Work your way from there.

There's nothing worse than having people who are genuinely interested in reading and improving their culture being turned off by the faux-elitism of these dimwits masquerading as renaissance men.

ITT: PhD student who doesn't bother reading anymore. Trop de plaisir tue le plaisir.

Wouldn't be too much of a leap at all. Out of the authors you mentioned, I'd say read the Metamorphosis.

>>9770887
science doesn't have to stop at the classroom or laboratory
you can use all that stem knowledge to view everyday life

take some dumb shit like heating up a piece of fish
what the fuck is happening?

the heat breaks down protein's h-bonds, ionic bonds, and other bonds,
yet preserving peptide bonds and thus protein's amino acid order

now you know what else can break down h-bonds and ionic bonds?
that's right you guessed it: acid. lsd baby. ah the good stuff. invented by dr hunter s thompson.
and that's how you make ceviche

>>9770887
Monitoring

>>9771562
wtf has that shit got to do with literarture recommendations, you drug-addled degenerate?

>>9770887
Start with the Greeks dude

>>9771562
This is one of the best posts ive read in weeks