/lit/ - Literature

>>18616031
>Hereticus
>None
>intj

>>18616031
The Quran (unironically)
Great Gatsby
ENTP-A

>>18616031
Simulacra and Simulation
Beyond Good and Evil
ENFP-T

>>18616031
>The Castle
>Poetry book of Ben Jonson
>INTP

>>18616031
I think it was Titus Andronicus, but I'm not sure;
Some textbook of anything;
INFP-A.

>>18616137
>Poetry book of Ben Jonson
Why?

>>18616146
Frankly, I think it's unfortunate that a lot of people don't read the English Renaissance writers beyond Shakespeare, and as /lit/ tends to prefer novels and philosophy to poetry, I thought I may as well give a slightly unorthodox answer in one of my personal favorites of that era. Other anons are going to give the normal recs of like C&P or The Republic or whatever.

>>18616225
C&P or The Republic are usually given as reccs because they challenge commonly held views in very thought provoking ways. If you give people who generally dislike poetry a poetry book to read wouldnt they form a negative opinion of the book/writer? Barring that the nuance of the work as well as the period itself would go over the readers head given that they are totally uninitiated to both the genre and the period. Not to discredit or disqualify your recommendation I just found it odd.

>>18616031
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Slaughterhouse-Five
INFJ-T

>>18616031
Brave New World
Paradise Lost
Infp

>>18616317
chill out

>The last book you read

«RINCÓN DE HAIKUS», BY: MARIO BENEDETTI.


>a book which you think everyone should read atleast once

THE HOLY BIBLE.


>your personality [TYPE]

MY MYERS – BRIGGS PERSONALITY TYPE IS: «I N T P».


ADDENDVM:

https://ryzhknd.tumblr.com/psy

>>18616341
based schizo

>currently reading gravity's rainbow, part 2 is some of the best shit I've ever read
>sound and the fury or ulysses, I'd say absalom absalom but that shit's not for everyone, even if it's fun. There's also a good argument for dubliners and piazza tales
>INTJ

>>18616317
>If you give people who generally dislike poetry a poetry book
If you give someone who generally doesn't like to read a book, wouldn't they form a negative opinion of the book/writer? This is the eternal conundrum of all literature. There's no point in asking a question like this. Either they like it or they don't.

>>18616395
Poetry is a genre. If you dislike Drama and I give you a Drama book to read to give it exposure its not so far fetched to think you would not enjoy it. Someone wo doesnt read wouldn't necessarily dislike reading a specific book given that their likes and dislikes are undefined

>The Last and First Men
>Prometheus Rising
>Astrology for hiring managers

>>18616332
>blank verse for everyone
You'd sow such hatred for poetry.

>>18616031
Philosophy of the boudoir
Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander
INTJ

>>18616418
Poetry is no more of a genre of literature than literature is a genre of art. In which case it's completely valid for someone to simply not like reading books, as established by your own parameters. But in a way that's besides the point. Poetry is not a 'genre', it's simply a technical form, nothing more. What can be said in a poem can just as easily be said in a prose passage and vice versa. I'm not even sure hoe you came to the conclusion that poetry os something unique and hard to access. If there's anything you should be taking gripes with, it's that he recommended an elizabethian, not a poet.

>>18616317
I'm the anon you replied to.
I'll admit I haven't thought about it this way, but Jonson in particular has some has many humorous epigrams (pic related is a good example) that someone who doesn't really care "get" or care for poetry can read and find amusing as long as they can parse a "thy," "thee," or "thou" once in a while. John Donne, on the other hand, would probably be a bit much, yes.
Also, I didn't mean to seem dismissive of C&P or The Republic, or the anons who rec them, as I love those books as much as anyone else, but they're probable to mentioned by some anon in this thread. I wanted to spice it up a bit, dude

>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>Brothers Karamazov or Cat's Cradle
>ENFP-T

>Naomi by tanizaki (generally good)
>venus in furs
>based femoid power-bottom

>>18616031
>Bronze Age Mindset
>Trifles for a Massacre
>INTP-T

>>18616591
Hey faggot, how's bluelight pussy?
O wait u just watch the gae shit.

Jajaajajajjajajajajajaj

>In The Dream House
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
>INTJ

>>18616341
wtf do you this shit? meaningless personality test and such. are you a woman?

>I hate women

>>18616031
The Day of The Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
The Open Society and its Enemies - Karl Popper
ISFP-A

>>18616031
Macbeth
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
INFP

>>18616031
>Dead Space: Martyr
>Swiss Family Robinson
>ENTJ

Silas Marner (beautiful book, very genuine and heartfelt)
Discourses of Epictetus (if nothing else, because Epictetus can be very funny, but I use his advice a fair amount in everyday life)
Pesonality tests are for chumps.

>>18616031
>Moby Dick
>Moby Dick
>ISTP

>Crazy Rich Asians
>Romans
>

These threads are just to mine data retards. Stop wasting your life.

>>18616031
>Meditations
>Don Quixote
>INTJ

>>18616031
>East of Eden
>The Gospel of John
>INFP

>American Psycho
>Idk something that forces people to have an existential crisis. I think it would be funny. Alternatively, Catch-22 because I enjoyed it a lot.
>INTP

>>18616031
>Clive Barker's Books of Blood
>Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
I'm ISTP
Go take a cognitive funtions test, retard.

>A Christmas carol
>The holy bible
>ENTP

>Shopie's World (I regret nothing)
>The Western Canon
So at least everyone develops some grade of taste when it comes to Literature, and even if that isn't the case, learning about these writers and the value of their work would suffice.
>INTP

>>18616031
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Malazan Book of the Fallen

>The Idiot
>The Bible
>INTP-A
Big 5 is better

>>18617334
Forgot my image

>>18617339
Big 5 is basically the same shit.
Openness is basically Intuition
Conscientiousness is Judging vs Perceiving
Extroversion is self-explanatory
Agreeableness is thinking vs feeling
Neuroticism is also thinking vs feeling

If you go through the SLOAN method of Big 5 it entirely correlates to MBTI. INTP there would stereotypically be Reserved (introvert) - Calm (thinker rather than feeler) - Unorganized (perceiver rather than judger) - Egocentric (thinker rather than feeler although INTPs are very laid back in this respect) - and Inquisitive (rather than non-curious)

Go on personality database and check the RCUEI typed characters and people and they have more than half of them as INTPs.

https://www.personality-database.com/personality_type/287

Addendum: I do know about the cognitive functions, I'm just showing the dichotomies between both systems are functionally the same.

>>18617365
The words Reserved - Calm - Unorganized - Egocentric and Inquisitive forming the acronym RCUEI, of course.

>>18617365
>Openness is basically Intuition
>Conscientiousness is Judging vs Perceiving
>Agreeableness is thinking vs feeling
>Neuroticism is also thinking vs feeling
Rofl no, all of these are completely different. You didn't even bother to google it.

>The Holographic Universe by Talbot
>Phaedo
>INFJ

>Heretics
>The Little Prince
xNFJ, I always seem to get a different result, but I'm semi consistently NFJ.

>>18616031
>Sitens of Titan
>The underground history of american education
>INTP

>>18616031
>Metaphysics of war by julius evola
>The quran
>intj

>House of Leaves
>Anatomy of the State
ENFP

>>18616031
>Lolita
>brothers karamazov
No, I won't take it. It's a waste of time but my judgement tells me I'm ISFJ.

>>18616031
>Crime and Punishment
>1984 (I don't like it that much as a narrative, but I think it's a great introduction to some political concepts that are relevant now)
>INTP

>>18616031
Brecht and Method
To Live (by yu hua)
INFP

>>18617173
>>18618331
Correct
>>18617339
>>18617275
>>18617251
>>18617220
Faggots

>>18616031
> How to disappear - Akiko Bush (would not recommend)
> any 3 plato dialogues
> Nigger

>>18616031
>Currently reading Serotonin by Houellebecq
>The Iliad
>INFP

>>18617211
Catch 22 was one of the dullest books I’ve ever tried to read.

I bet the INTP on this thread are /pol/cucks and the ENFP are bunkertrannies.

>>18619005
I thought it was amusing.
>>18619056
Nah I'm just a regular retard.

>>18617056
Same

>>18616031
> Easy Game: Making Sense of No Limit Hold'Em 3rd Edition: Adaptations
> "must-read" books don't exist, but Metaphysical Horror is nice
> ENTJ

>>18619056
/pol/ is where the intelligent control the simpleminded

>>18616031
>Leviathan by Hobbes
>Revolt Against the Modern World by Evola
>INTJ/INTP

>>18616031
Templars Dan Jones
The Old Man and the Sea
ENTP

>Romance of the Three Kingdoms
>Stand on Zanzibar
>INFP-T

>>18616031
House of Leaves
Old Man and the Sea
INTJ but the Meyers-Briggs personality types are literally just astrology for men

>>18618359
Your fag opinion doesn't matter though.

>>18616591
I want to rhythmically assfuck you while we have having a deep discussion and then disregard your opinion

t. Entj

>>18619793
*we have

>notes on BM
>the Oresteia
>INFP-A

>>18616443
But what's your type anon

>>18619819
Type A-

>>18616031
>Book of the new Sun
>Graeber's 5000 years of debt
>ENFP

>>18619820
A- what

Grandad's Wonderful Book of Chemistry
The Stargate Dataset
INTP-T

>>18616031
* The Right of Wolf 21
* Stirner's "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum"
* ENTP / Commander (consistently, actually, I took it 3 times over the years with the same result)

>>18616031
* The Right of Wolf 21
* Stirner's "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum"
* ENTJ / Commander (consistently, actually, I took it 3 times over the years with the same result)

>>18616478
>has some has many
I enjoy these types of typos. Which did anon originally write, some or many? What prompted him to make this minor edit? Did he pause after "has some", get the image, then resume his post, forgetting he'd already declared the relative amount of humorous epigrams Jonson has? Did he rediscover epigrams he'd long forgotten, prompting the change from some to many? Perhaps he was disappointed during his review and changed from many to some, forgetting to delete the characterization from his prior draft. So much mystery in something so small.

>>18616924
stop posting selfies

>>18619056
I'm INTP and a lefty you retard

>>18616591
>>18619793
I would film this for my personal collection.
t. ENTP

>The Unsettling of America
>The Symposium
>INFJ

I consider you an NPC if you are not INFJ. The Austrian painter was INFJ.

>>18620334
I consider you an NPC if you base your existence around role models.
t. Österreicher

>>18616031
> Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
> No Longer Human
Beautiful book, relatable in ways nothing else has been, although I'm pretty new to /lit/. Fucking adore this book, going to go into his other stuff soon. The first notebook feels incredibly real, the story is beautiful and feels real. Motivates me to make it as it reminds me of how low I can go, similar to the way Siddhartha does. Fucking love this. If you haven't read it, please do. Please.
>INTJ-A

>>18617959
based Qur'an recommendation, what's the best English translation? got a copy in Arabic + English but the English translation is very verbose, my Arabic isn't great as I can read it but no understanding. ideally a version that's floating on libgen as an epub so I can load it onto a kindle

>THE GREAT GATSBY
>THE DEATH OF IVAN ILITCH
>ESTP

>>18620373
try mishima

>>18616031
>Patriotism by Mishima
>Storm of Steel (in German ONLY)
>INFP-T

>>18616031
>Freud's Introductory Lectures
>The Bible and the Phenomenology of Spirit
>INTP-T

>The Storytelling animal
>Don Quixote
>INFP-T

I guess it should surprise me the high amount of INFP chads here

>>18620454
thank you anon
any books in particular to start off with? fucking loved what I read and if there's more stuff like it I'm happy asf

>>18616031
>Chinese for dummies
>Realistically; none. Idealistically; the Bible
>INTP

>>18620526
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea is usually a good starting point. From there I would suggest the temple of the golden pavilion. Depending how you feel about his works then you could either read his other works or go to the The Sea of Fertility tetralogy which is his magnum opis.

>>18620566
thank you anon, and checked. reading catch 22 now but when I'm done with it I'm gonna start on mishima alongside the uni reading I have to do :)

>>18616924
yes

>>18617593
Admit it. He blew you the fuck out

>>18619793
sure, if you are a girl.

>>18616031
>The Iliad
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>ENTP-T

>>18616031
>Hernan Cortes: Conqueror of Mexico
>Napoleon: A Life
>INTJ-A

>>18616031
Fear and Loathing
White Noise - Don Delillo
INFP

>>18616031
>Dawnshard
>Player of Games

>The Argonautica
>Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism
>INFP

Gravity and Grace
Siddhartha
INFJ-T

>>18619177
Based JP

For all my life up until like 6 months ago I got INFP then I took it again and it said I was INTP. I Take it again just now and get INTJ. What means?

>>18616031
>The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving
>Siddhartha
>INFP
Early Retirement Extreme is close second, but not everyone should read it

>>18617339
classic intp

>>18622986
forgot i was on literature board kek
dumpster diving book is awful btw

>>18618824
Are you r?

>>18622744
Same. It means the test is bullshit.
Only one of these tests worth shit is the Big Five.

>>18616031
Just finished Roadside Picnic
none, I don't recommend books

>>18616031
>Misquoting Jesus
>The Tale of Genji (i guess)
>INTP

>>18616031
The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
Meh
ISTJ-T

Based INFP chads in this thread

>>18616031
The Servile State - Hillaire Belloc
Summa Theologica - St. Thomas Aquinas
A very close INTJ-A

>>18616031
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1984
ENTP
>Yes, I will argue with you all day
>Yes, I do like it
>Yes, I am a masochist

>>18616031
Bible
Bible
INFJ

>>18623049
INFP 4w5 enneagram best combo

Are you guys mentally stable INFPs? It seems like most INFPs are suffering mentally from insecurity and tend to over analyze things. If so I want you all to stop giving a fuck about all that bullshit, none if matters.

>>18623271
>Are you guys mentally stable INFPs?
No.

>>18623271
Definte mentally stable, but I think I am. My mother died earlier this year, lost an uncle after that and my aunt some days ago. It is not like I'm super happy, but I'm ok. My house isn't turning into a fucking mess, my stuff is somewhat clean and I'm getting back to college and might also start a business.

>>18623271
no, I've reached the conclusion that humanity doesn't deserve to exist, such an uncaring race, the things we do to each other

>>18616031
>the dhammapada
>italo calvino - the invisible cities
>infp-a

>>18616031
> A cure for darkness
> No idea
> INTP

>>18623271
>Are you guys mentally stable INFPs

>The Labor Party: a marxist analysis
>East of Eden
>INFJ-A

>>18616031
>personality types

>>18619056
what about ISFJ?

>>18616031
Varieties of religious experience
Montaigne's essays
INFP

>>18616031
>The Bible
>The Bible
INTP

>>18616031
>Iliad
>Moralia - Plutarch (all of it)
>INTJ-A