/lit/ - Literature

>>23295047
of what i've read...

>Moby Dick
masterpiece, not much more can be said - only worthy competitor I can think of is Don Quixote for the ideal novel

>BK
A fantastic family drama, though it's been a hot minute since I've read it - the more authors I read the farther Dosty starts to fall into the background for me.

>The Bible
the foundation of all Western literature? does this even need a rating?

>DQ
The other most perfect novel - just read the DQ/Nabokov pasta if you want a great summation

>BM
it's pretty perfect, I don't care how many annoying tiktokers "discover it" - can't be ruined

>Stoner
fun entry read but has slipped my mind these last couple of years

>Lolita
Overrated to an extent, great prose but even then doesn't compare to other titans in the language like Joyce or Melville. Speaking of...

>Ulysses
The novel taken to its logical conclusion - by far the most enjoyable work where the form exists at its experimental zenith

>C&P
Overrated, great introductory book for reading but every subsequent Dosty is better (idiot, demons, bk)

>Ficciones
Few titans of literature could account for a modicum of their own influence being comparable to borges - essential

>DC
Have only read inferno, feels idiotic to rate this one

>Paradise Lost
same for divine comedy

>Lord of the rings
great little epic, if there was to be one for the modern eras I'd say this one compiles only the best for a younger audience

>The Stranger
same case for stoner

>The Odyssey
Same for the bible

>GR
Given the title of "essential post-modern text" but I've personally found more enjoyment from his contemporaries (Barth, Gass, Gaddis, Hawkes)

>2666
Loved it when I first read it but am starting to find its brightness dimming for me the more I read, similar case for stoner/stranger but would read again over those

>Master and Margarita
read the burgin translation - wanted to like it more than I did

>Pale Fire
same case for lolita, though a hell of a lot more interesting

>S&F
amazing faulkner but not best faulkner

>Absalom, Absalom
best faulkner

>The Recognitions
Better than GR, ironically though reads far more like the fluid and elegant modernist tomes than it does a lot of the "post-modernist" drivel that unfortunately spawned from the likes of DFW, Eggers, Franzen, etc.

>The Idiot
Better than C&P, not as good as BK

>Suttree
Essential, criminally overlooked - better than BM

>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The greatest kunstlerroman - my personal fave book

>American Pyscho
Does this really belong on the same level as tartar steppe, les mis, to the lighthouse, and fucking gilgamesh? great movie but this is airport best-seller fiction, doesn't belong

>As I lay dying
second best faulkner, but on some days is best faulkner

>Brave New World
The only "high school curriculum" book I would still reread

Want to read:
Storm of steel
Bhagavad-gita
Book of disquiet
In Search of Lost Time
Man Without Qualities
Faerie-Queen

Who or what got you into reading anon?

My memory is kind of fuzzy but I remember being interested in the book fairs at my school. As well as when an author or two spoke at our elementary school library.

There was one author who wrote a series that was actively following that came to the school. I still remember the car ride home and trying to come up with a story in my head based on the things she said about writing.

This warms my heart, but I just remembered that my parent's told me that if I ever wanted a book that they would pay. Would never have to do chores or anything. That was actually really cool.

What about.you?