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Any of you guys ever thought about limiting your reading to a few specific authors and works that you would read and reread over and over in order to improve your writing?
I’m considering doing this semi-permanently. I’ve read a shit ton of books, especially over the last three or so years, but I’ve also realized it would probably take a lifetime for me to read every single classic even one time through, and that saddens me.
This is my list of books I feel would be worth repeated reading and internalizing over the long term. Is it a good idea? What would your list look like?
>Homer – The Iliad and The Odyssey
>Virgil – Aeneid
>Ovid – Metamorphoses
>Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron
>Complete Shakespeare
>King James Bible
>Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
>Robert Burton – The Anatomy of Melancholy
>John Milton – Paradise Lost
>Laurence Stern – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
>Victor Hugo – Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
>Herman Melville – Moby Dick; or, The Whale
>George Eliot – Middlemarch
>Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov
>Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace and Anna Karenina
>Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time
>James Joyce – Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses
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>>9931340
>Any of you guys ever thought about limiting your reading to a few specific authors and works that you would read and reread over and over in order to improve your writing?
no
>posting women and gay jews
kill yourself
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those are classic books and all, but you probably won't sell much by picking up their habits. That isn't what sells, aka it isn't what normies want. Read some Pynchon or Stephen King or some shit like that, not the ancient works people study for school.
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>>9931360
>literally one woman
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>>9931340
I have been doing this for three years and coupled with writing regularly it has improved my writing tremendously. My list of authors I return to if different than yours,with some overlap of course (and a little shorter). But yeah, I would say go for it.
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>>9931379
One too many, libcuck
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