/lit/ - Literature

>>12326129
>plebbit spacing
>"long time 4channer"
you come from the r/books post, don't you?

>>12326145
I wouldn't be posting here if I did.

>>12326129
just watch zizek videos and call petersonfags incels.

start with the greeks

>>12326161
Mythology by edith hamilton?

>>12326129
>Long time 4channer, never been on this side of the shitfest.
>I want to start getting into reading books.
You'll fit in with all of the Christposters on this board

>>12326169
Sure

>Anything you can recommend someone who only finished like two books in his entire life?

the answer is always Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño

>>12326129
read the picture of dorian gray

>>12326184
>this

Alright OP here, just bought Mythology by Edith Hamilton.

Anything else?

>>12326129
Start with these. Roll.

>>12326234
Alright let's see what I get.

Roll

>>12326234
for No. 4, the author is wrong

>>12326239
>#39 The Republic by Plato
See? Start with the Greeks.

>>12326234
Rolling

>>12326249
it isn't, though.

>>12326258
Reroll

>>12326256
Yeah, saw it aswel lol. Rolling again so I do not have to pay shipping.

>>12326234

>>12326265
>meditations - Aurelius
What am I in for?

>>12326264
please change No. 4’s author to God Word

>>12326271
>Mason & Dixon
Oh boy this guy is about to get a crash course in Western literature

1984 but don't be a faggot about it and promise never to say 'it was a warning not a guide'
Of Mice And Men, everyone likes it and it's probably the easiest good book ever other than maybe 1984
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, much better than the film

>>12326129

Ulysses by James Joyce, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, The Recognitions by William Gaddis, Women & Men by Joseph McElroy, Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel, Anti-Oedipus by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri, Beowulf and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

>>12326289
What am I in for lol.

Bought these:

Mythologie by Edith Hamilton
The Republic by Plato
Mason And Dixon By Thomas Pychon

>>12326354
Good starters, they should last a little while.

>>12326129
lurk like everyone else????

>>12326354
What you're in for with Pynchon depends on how good your English is. Of course if you're Dutch I expect your education in English to be pretty good + the experience you've gained with slang and all that from 4chan. Even from Pynchon Mason & Dixon is a tricky piece of work not just for its length and pomo shenanigans but also in how he imitates 18th century English prose that, in addition to using old vocabulary and abbreviations, he also strives to imitate the difference in subject/object sentence structure where to an unpracticed reader the subject of the sentence might be lost due to the lengthy and digressive grammatical structure of the 18th century English sentence, similar to the one I'm writing right now. I found one of the best ways to practice reading prose from the 1700's is to read Shakespeare, or rather Pynchon will seem like somewhat of a cakewalk in comparison.

Don't be daunted though, Mason & Dixon is a wild ride and considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written past WWII, and in the running for the greatest American-based novel of all time. Plus it's clear that Pynchon couldn't keep up the writing style the whole book, the point is he never does no matter what the book is, so if you can get past the dense pleb-filter early on in the book you're in for a treat that spans all of colonized and uncolonized pre-Revolutionary American ideals and the Age of Enlightenment told from a 20th century context

>During a conversation with Leonard Pierce of the A.V. Club, Harold Bloom said, "I don't know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of sublime fiction from the last century... it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would probably be The Crying Of Lot 49. Pynchon has the same relation to fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is beyond compare."

>hey /lit/ I want to start reading
>doesn't read the sticky

>>12326129
Here. I hope it's useful

>>12326234
Rollerino

>>12326426
Thank you. Spoken English is a cakewalk for me, reading not so much.

I'm going to start with Mythology because the other books weren't in stock.

>>12326429
Read the thread, you'll see that I read the sticky ;)

>>12326432
Lmao get out

>>12326145
what /r/books post?

>>12326457
?

>>12326234
roll