/lit/ - Literature

Check out Lex Fridman's reading list.

>>21470752
kek this is what I'm trying to avoid

>>21470748
https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts
The /lit/ wiki has a lot of good information in general but this page specifically has a ton of charts to help guide you. I like pic rel specifically for beginners.

>>21470748
>(pic unrelated burger I made last night)

>>21470748
The way to find books on /lit/ is to ignore the bulk of discussion and look for those two autists who actually read the book and are having a discussion despite everyone and their memes. If their discussion interests you than the book their are discussing will probably interest you.
>that aren't pseud or pozzed?
But you should probably just find your herd and follow it.

>>21470771
its actually my best work (without the fixins)
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>>21470764
thx bros

You need to collect a lot of books that you think you are interested it. Some will be classics, or heavily recommended, so society places value there that you should be interested to understand/experience. The rest should speak to you and your own peculiar persuasions.

The way that helped me grow was ebooks. I was able to download thousands of titles that I had gathered from lists like >>21470764. When I read a book I enjoy I also have information to find more like it on Goodreads, or the author/genre etc.

With ebooks too, you can read the first paragraph of 100 books with no great cost of money or time (walking through a physical library).

Exposure, experience, is best. Read the first page of a 100 books and at some point you will not be able to stop at just the first page and that is what you have to read.

If you think about books in the same way you browse Netflix or something for instance . . . you need access to variety so that your current desire can be satisfied. A lot of new readers, I believe, fail because they think reading will be a good hobby to have so they order two or three classic books like Dickens, Melville, Dostoevsky, and then they sit down and they are bored as fuck. Because they have no other books, that's it, experiment over, books suck, fuck that, put Netflix back on.

Another pitfall for new readers is long as shit books. There are so many good books that are under 200 pages and can be read in an afternoon and that speed and size really makes the process much more amenable to the modern mind. So, look for novellas as your primary reading material, I would suggest.

>>21470748
>how to find good books?
surprisingly, by reading books

As you read more (both in variety and volume) you will gain a keener sense for the sort of books you find worthwhile, and eventually you'll find yourself making increasingly accurate intuitive judgements about a book just based on just a chapter, passage, extract or even a blurb. Charts like >>21470764 ultimately serve as a starting point.

>>21470748
You have interest -> google interest -> google search inevitably recommends entry level overview lit on the subject -> buy google suggestion -> google suggestion references source material in overview -> get source material -> source material mentions obscure materials -> hunt down obscure materials -> the infinite wheel turns
happy hunting

we should make cheeseburger threads more often

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>>21470851
thanks guys really good suggestions

>>21470748
My advice is to go to a library or used book store and browse their collection. I'll pick a book at random and read a random page, usually that's enough to gauge interest, otherwise if you lurk here you'll usually see one or two works by meme authors on the shelves that are worth reading.

>>21470748
You have come to the most hostile place on the internet to ask this question.

Don't read books that you think are for people who are smart. That is a great way to lose motivation and bore yourself. Instead read what you are interested in. Instead, pick a topic you are interested in and start a thread about it here, if you insist on staying in this hellhole.

>"Rec me some good sci-fi books that are also funny, anons"
>Someone replies with "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"

Proceed from there.