/lit/ - Literature

>>21810166
Bottom right should be a bank card.
Top left should be a propaganda poster (or TV)

Read these in order:
Mason & Dixon by Pynchon
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather
Pale Fire by Nabokov
100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
Libra by DeLillo
The Recognitions by Gaddis
Franny and Zooey by Salinger
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Not all proper classics, almost all American, but that list will teach you to read properly.

>>21810190
Ok thank you, I plan to read a lot of these anyway.

In Order:

The Bible
Greek Mythology (especially Homer)
Shakespeare
Dante's Inferno

From there read Russian and German literature. They all build off of each other.

>>21810195
lol I plan to read the major books of the bible, and the rest. I am thinking about taking up the bible as a special side project.

>>21810166
Start with the 'preets
Continue with the Greeks
End with the chinks

>freedom of the working class and an end to war and injustice means dildos!!,!!!,!

Liberals got you turkeys beat and trained real good, bootlicker

The Holy Bible

>>21810807
why would you take such dumb bait

>>21810177
I'm bottom center and I have all 4 of these weapons.

>>21810190

Disagree with this list.

All good books but Pynchon, Navokov, Marquez and Gaddis are for semi-seasoned readers (i.e. readers with half and erection).

I would say start with things they teach in high school being:

Steinbeck
Hemmingway
Vonnegut
Fitzgerald

They teach those books because they are entertaining in a service level and can be explored at deeper levels as well. Way better intro.

>>21812624
I've read some Steinbeck, Hemmingway and Vonnegut. Need to read some Fitzgerald.

>>21810166
The lIiad

>>21812818
>>21810166
and then odyssey

>>21812624
That list is a crash course. Anyone with a "college reading level" /can/ get through it, and it prepares the reader, subconsciously, for real and earnest analysis. If someone is self-studying, they can't rely on curricula designed for seminar or lecture, because the books chosen for that are easy, but deep, so a layperson can easily skim over thematic discourse and the lecturer can demonstrate those things they missed without anyone feeling dumb.
Besides, OP is already trying to tackle Gravity's Rainbow, the only thing /maybe/ more difficult on that list is the Recognitions.

>>21810166
Throwing some varied stuff, so you can see by yourself what sticks. None of them is particularly hard, but they are all genuinely good literature.

Journey to the end of the night, by Celine
Sailor who fell from grace with the sea, by Mishima
Kokoro, by Sōseki
Tender is the Night, by Fitzgerald
Dead Souls, by Gogol
American Pastoral, by Roth
Franny and Zooey, by Salinger
Growth of the Soil, by Hamsun

>>21810177
You're a faggot biased retard NPC
Top two and bottom right are correct
Bottom left should be Molotov cocktai

>>21813280
I will read these. I've read Journey. That and Death On Credit are fucking awesome.

>>21813222
>Besides, OP is already trying to tackle Gravity's Rainbow, the only thing /maybe/ more difficult on that list is the Recognitions.
I will admit, me trying to read GR was kind of dumb. Still, I'm enjoying it, even if I am not getting alot.

>>21813297
Hush, you're fucking up my argument.
But also, that list does communicate something specific, deep, and nuanced about what literature is. It isn't just hard for hard's sake. Notice that Don Quixote, the simplest novel on that list, is the last to read.

>>21811001
Why would such a dumb bait be left on the literature board?

>>21813348
good point, I take it back, sorry

Go here https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts
There's a lot of charts dedicated to people that want to get into reading

>>21812818
>>21813130
>>21810166

And then the Aneid

>>21810807
lol

>>21815049
>look guys! Look! these are Antifa!
>[random drug diving mugshots]
>"/pol/ cuz hear"

>>21815122
those are all people arrested during the Seattle antifa riots

>>21815201
NTA but what do you expect from Seattle?

>>21815205
leftists look like that everywhere

>>21815209
Maybe in the faggiest cities on earth

>>21815210
yes, that's where leftists live

>>21813348
because it got you, yes you, specifically, riled up. it has served its purpose.

>>21810190
>almost all American
Why would I read novels from a country that has no culture and is not even 300 years old?

>>21810166
Just read what you think is interesting.

>>21816482
I bet your mom has a lot of culture between her legs and looks 300 years old

>>21816526
stay mad amerifag

>>21816482
Because "culture" was made up for eurofags to cope with fumbling the bag. Cultural secularism is inevitable, art is international, reads get fucked.