hi lit, i have a fucking philosophy degree. All i've read

>>9977218
nobody cares what you want faggot
>>>/r/books

>>9977218

First: read Shakespeare you cuck. He's the greatest writer in the language. At first you'll be like "hur dur I don't really know what's going on, poetry is whack, what's the point of these stories" but if you have anything inside you that isn't utterly plebeian, you'll come around to seeing him as the demigod he is. What Plato is to philosophy, Shakespeare is to English literature.

Second: are you more interested in fiction or poetry? If the former, short stories, novellas, novels?

For short stories, Borges is a lot of fun, especially for a student of philosophy. His stories feature tons of metaphysical conceits and and poetically-rendered paradoxes and stuff like that. Also, Joyce's Dubliners is basically mandatory reading if you want to get into literature.

For poetry, check out Shakespeare (sonnets), Donne, Wordsworth, Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. They are all in their own ways philosophically-minded, and arguably the greatest poets in the language.

For novels, there is almost too much to bother reducing it down to a shortlist, but the memed classics are memed classics for a reason. Joyce, Faulkner, Nabokov, and McCarthy are all amazing. They're a little more difficult than some other stuff you might want to start with for getting into novels, like Austen, Dickens, Steinbeck, etc., but not quite as huge a commitment and intellectual slog (minus Ulysses of course) as guys like Melville, Proust and Pynchon.

If you don't like this list, be more specific about the stuff that intrigues you.

Also, what's wrong with Garcia Marquez?

>>9977274

i love this list. Borges is one of my favourites.

lit has made me think sometimes that reading the memed classics is a waste of time because of being so memed, so maybe i'll change my opinion watching this...

I don't like Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, i don't like that kind of fantasy approach (it doesn't mean that i don't like fantasy, it's just this book) and i was really boring, i couldn't get anything meaningful of it.

File: ready player one.jpg (24KB, 313x475px) Image search: [Google]

24KB, 313x475px

Sounds like you don't want any stupid moralizing bullshit. You want a roller coaster ride filled with irreverence, badassness, and most of all, science. Well, I got just the book for you. Ready Player One will take you on a trip you'll never forget. Get ready, OP.

File: cover_277.jpg (46KB, 277x416px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 277x416px

>>9977300
Get that weeabo shit of my board

File: what the fuck am i reading.jpg (51KB, 720x400px) Image search: [Google]

51KB, 720x400px

>>9977218
>tfw no one has mentioned culture of critique