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I wanted to take up reading for 2019 and started with the Greeks, as commanded by this board. Things is, this shit bores me to death so I gave up reading altogether. I really don't care about what Gorgias meant by "Nothing exists". Can I read other stuff or do I have to pull through with the Greeks?

>> No.12604022

>not liking the greeks

Gtfo pleb

>> No.12604045

If you want to acquire a sophisticated sense of literature you’ll need to read actual literary works. You can always admit defeat and follow the paths of teenage girls/basedboys and read YA. In this case i recommend /r/books for you and not /lit/

>> No.12604052

>>12604013
Try to nitpick the shit out of Plato

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>>12604013
Start with the Tartt
The Secret History

>> No.12604129

>>12604013
If your goal is to become a pseud and consider yourself "sophisticated" and "cultured", then there's no getting around the Greek meme.

Otherwise, just read whatever sounds interesting to you. They're just books, dude.

>> No.12604141

>>12604129
>"They're just books"
reductionist fag

>> No.12604151

>>12604013
This is like going to /g/ and then installing gentoo.
You will want to read the Greeks eventually, as well as various other fellows that came after them. But if you don't see any worth in them right now and don't have the drive to push through them, is there anything that would make you read them further, really?
What interests you in literature? It's not like going to the gym, you know, the benefits of literature will be quite abstract or even just nonexistent.

>> No.12604172

>>12604151
>What interests you in literature?
Politics, psychology, sociology, I'd also like to have an understanding of Nietzsche and other 19th century philosophers.

>> No.12604181

>>12604172
>Politics
Maybe you should just jump to certain Greek ones that focus on what you like to ease yourself into it first. The Histories is pretty good for politics.

>> No.12604184

>>12604172
Sorry, you really are going to have to read the Greks if those are your interests.

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>>12604181
thanks
>>12604184
well fug me then

>> No.12604218

>>12604172
Read Kierkegaard's the Present Age & Fear and Trembling (read every bible passage referenced). For me his easier works are far more accessible than Nietzche while tackling the same problems

>> No.12604268

>>12604013
I too fell for this meme kind of
I used to hate literacy
I was told to start with philosophy ' I went through nietzche book beyond good and evil was told to start with it , couldn't get through it (found it too boring /hard to understand) it almost made me give up literacy

Thank God I picked up some self help books which were bad ( in the sense no benefecial much you cant change your personality over night) but fun to read then picked up dostoevsky his style of writing is great.. and now im a literacy fan

>> No.12604269

Why not read what you want and after that read the supporting texts that are referenced.
If you're interested to know what Nietzsche says read Nietzsche and if through him you gain an interest to read the Greeks, read them.
Don't listen to the retards of this board that consider knowledge a linear process.
You're going to be fine and enjoy it a lot more if you focus on what you choose personally.

>> No.12604277

>>12604269
I hate People who recommend nietzche to beginners

>> No.12604297

>>12604141
pseud

>> No.12604329

>DUUUUU DA INTERNET TOLD ME TO DO SOMETHING SO I FOLLOW MASTER ORDERS HURRRR