/lit/ - Literature

Video games surpassed literature as an art form like 20 years ago. Why would you want to go backwards? There's no point in "getting into reading".

Start with Love In the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude, two absolute bangers

I bet it's nothing like a book. And it's amerifats Greek mythology witch has almost never been good.
Just read the real odyssey and illiad.

my girlfriend who is also my boss suggested it as a way to improve my performance in the office (I work as a data analyst for a large government agency) and to bond with her faggy son who is really into books or something.

>>14500223
Start with the Greeks.

>>14500245
>My girlfriend who is also my boss
>The office
>Her son

Holy yikes.

> it's a nestor is talking about if he was as strong as he was when he was younger and did something awsome episode
Comfy af.

On another note, I've been reading fall of troy to fill in between the Iliad and Odyssey. The Great Ajax committs suicide after losing out on Achillies armor because his strength and brave acts were less respected than Odysseus' deeds and cunning. Did he have a point? Is a society that views craftiness as greater than bravery not worth fighting for?

>>14500223
Maybe, just maybe, Thucydides is what you're looking for.

>>14500223
I thought this was a funny post, anon.

>>14500233
I know this is bait but it still upsets me that it's serviceable bait.

>>14500223
Odyssey is grossly historically inaccurate.

>>14500716
yeah, no fucking shit

>>14500716
are you retired?

>>14500223
read Homer.

>>14500223
read The King Must Die or Zorba the Greek

>>14500223
you could start with Good Night Moon

>>14500223
Here's my personal recommendation for very early readers.

>How To Read A Book by Adler (It's good, trust me,)
>Joy Of Reading by Doren (Collection of essays on 210 different significant authors. You could see if you're interested in any
>Siddhartha by Hesse (Quality, short, genre fiction. Philosophical but easy reading)
>Epic Of Gilgamesh (Great place to start a journey into classical literature.)

>>14500672
Refute it

>>14500287
>Did he have a point? Is a society that views craftiness as greater than bravery not worth fighting for?
yes. Based and Ajaxpilled.

>>14500828
People don't get interested in literature by starting with a "how to read" book. Also, the Epic of Gilgamesh? Jesus, the average non-reader will get confused by the lacunae, nevermind the actual content. This is the pseudest starter list I've ever seen.

I'd recommend something accessible like 1984

>>14501058
If people want to start old then that prose version of the Iliad that penguin has is pretty good.

>>14500233
not 20 years ago but 5 years ago around the invention of PS4 where they had the scope and graphics to rival real life

>>14500828
I vouch for How to read a book. I thought it was goi to be another non-fiction crap we see so much on these times but older, and it's not. The author packs every paragraph with valuable info and logic.

>>14500245
Bait but cuck if that's true.
>>14500247
This.

>>14500223
Mason & Dixon

TOP 7 BOOKS ANY LITERATE ADULT SHOULD READ
>Animal Farm - George Orwell
>Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
>The Aeneid - Virgil (you will definitely like this one)
>The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
>The Trial - Franz Kafka
>The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
>Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
>I, Claudius - Robin Graves (you may also like this one)

>>14500245
bruh

>>14500223
epic poetry probably isn't going to be very engaging for you if you haven't read a book in 5+ years or whatever. try starting with pic related

>>14500281
yikes

>>14501570

bruh

>>14500828
>>14501532
decent lists

>>14500223
If you liked it because of the history of the period, take a look at Herodotus & Thucydides, maybe with some of Plutarchs Greek Lives in there for biography. If you want fiction, there is no better place to start than Homer.

>>14500223
Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves

>>14501767
Sneed

Why did you like it, anon? Also, Odyssey isn't a very good game so your shitty taste in vidya will most likely translate into literature.

anon reading is a big waste of time, just listen to the witcher audiobooks it's all on youtube.

>>14500223
Pick something you're interested in and go from there.
You like Lord of the Rings movies? Read the books. Want more? Read the appendices and silmarillion. Want to see what influenced Tolkien? Norse mythology.
Want to read sci fi? Read star ship troopers and Asimovs robot books. Want to continue reading some of their ideas as they relate to the real world? Read some philosophy on government and humanity like Locke and Plato

It's not hard. Find what you like, and branch out.

>>14501767
Sneed

>>14500247
Anyone got the Roman one?

>>14501532
>The Aeneid - Virgil
It was ok, but it is not on the same level of Homer's works.

>>14500223
start with the hindus

>>14500233
Games aren't even art.