/lit/ - Literature

I read Existentialist themes in books that were written before the onset of the philosophical movement.

I occasionally read books I hate because I want to be able to impress my literary friends and brag that I've finished it; but still decline to just cliffnote / wiki them (the books).

I used to consider P.K. Dick a serious literary figure and not a batsoid armchair philosopher.

I've tried (and failed) on several occasions to get into modern French philosophers without first comprehending their precedents because they seem sexier and more hip than the established canon.

The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
War and Peace
The Divine Comedy
Beowulf
Faust
Paradise Lost