Literature

Start with the Greeks just like you would with anything else

Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. Literally r9k the book.

>tfw ordered a Kindle Paperwhite today
gonna get comfy in two days

1984 is better than Brave New World

>>34852792
Your post is only original because nobody else had the gall to post such total bullshit

>>34852747
Thanks friend. Will get.
>>34852792
I have read both already

God's War.

I think Bernard from Brave New World is prerty much every robot here.

>>34852810
There's objectively no way one can think of Brave New World as a finer piece of literature than 1984. One can argue BNW is closer to the current state of the world and thus Huxley "was right" in some way, but the book as a novel is overshadowed by 1984 in every conceivable way.

Also Orwell was a disgusting commie but hey even subhumans can make good books right?

Oblomov

It captures the laziness and excessive procrastination that plagues the average robot perfectly. I'd easily recommend it above Notes.

>>34852907
I like reading but, I'm not reading all that shit.

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>>34852792
>>34852974
In terms of pure prose 1984 is better written than BNW, but Huxley admits to the fact that it was rushed and this is pretty apparent. However, the latter is far more prescient with regards to today's world, despite whatever the 'Trump is a literal fascist' memers would have you believe.

Also Huxley said he would've changed the ending if he rewrite it, and that the Savage killing himself was a cop out because he couldn't think of anything better before the deadline

>>34852939
Bernard is Wojack, the Savage is Pepe. You know it's true

>>34853116
I would say it's not only the prose but the characters, the character development and the depth of the descriptions that make 1984 a better book. But yeah, you're right.

Get Germinal by Emile Zola. Very nice read

Also check out Cat's Cradle or Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut, he's got an really enjoyable writing style and always has a good story

Lastly, the foundation series by Asimov is grade A science fiction.

>reading anything but subtitles

David Mitchell (not that one, the other one) isn't terribly prestigious if you're trying to impress /lit/ but he's honestly one of the best novelists of the past 20 years. Plus, his protagonists tend to be cyborgs. You kinda get the feeling he wants them to have a tougher time/be bigger failures but he has to curtail himself due to commercial sensibilities of normies having to be able to relate to them.

Check out Number 9 Dream and then Black Swan Green if you liked it

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>>34852626
Literally anything by Michel Houellebecq. One of the only upsides of living a life of social alienation, mental illness and involuntary celibacy is it gives you a delicious appreciation for his books that those poor normies will never know

The Consumer, by Michael Gira. Thank me later

No Longer Human- Osamu Dazai
Very robot and a pretty quick read.
I also recently read Audition by Ryu Murakami which i would also recommend. It's not very literary but its fun and also a quick read.