/lit/ - Literature

OK, asking for wisdom literature recs, close orient and the likes.

>>21959009
east, vedas, yogi, Bhagavad gita? is that what you talking about?

I need a book that's more difficult than the Phenomenology of Spirit.

>>21959027
More like middle east or northern afrika

>>21959053
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

>>21958946
>call of the crocodile
Hi Frank

>>21959126
hey john

>>>/r/

>>21958946
>Lenin
Reminder that the opinions of homosexuals dont matter on this site.

>>21959144
retard

>>21959144
>no questions about literature on /lit/
>go back to /r/ NOW!

Frogs mad

>>21959165
kek

>book 101 has 6 votes
Do these charts even matter if the votes are so few?

>>21959172
Discord faggots probably set this up for themselves and thought that anyone here would care. Pretty sad.

>>21959172
no, those are arbitrary numbers

>>21959185
what in the fuck are you on about lad?

>>21958946
Could someone give me the best start with the Greeks chart. And maybe also romans/latins?

Also I want to read Dante again but I was wondering what are some required readings before hand to better understand it. Actually, what are some required reading for western Canon in general? I know the Bible but what else?

Also could someone give me french and Spanish language book recommendations? I want to improve in those languages. Some of my favorite books have been catch 22, lord of the flies, LOTR, blood meridian,Watership down, enders game, three body problem, and history in general, but I know this isn't the board for it

>>21959198
Oh also loved slaughter house 5 so if anyone has something similar from france/spain/LA. It's been over a decade since I've read it though.

>>21959198
>homer
>illiad
>100 years of solitude (in Spanish)
>the stranger (in French)

>>21959198
Bah, forget the chart. Here's what you do.
1. The Iliad, The Odyssey
2. Theogony, Work and Days
3. Herodotus - Histories
4. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
5. Plays - Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes
6. Plato
7. Aristotle

>>21959221
this could work

>>21959059
but why tho

i just started moby dick if anyone wants to join

>>21959254
I'm reading a chapter per week, so I'll be making a thread on Saturday for the discussion, if I'm not able to make it, can you make it for me? can I trust you with that anon

>>21959221
>>21959218
Thanks. Those french and Spanish books are on my list as well

>>21959291
what else is on your list?

What are some western books that don't have great drama or conflict, just childhood fun.
I already read the Petit Nicholas series and Tom Sawyer.

>>21959397
Read Mark Twain's other books.
I really enjoy Jules Verne's stuff too.

Dubs decide my next book. Paradise Lost is fun, but I'm tired of it by now I will return to it in the future.

>>21959441
Mein kampf

>>21959441
The talmud.

>>21959441
phenomenology of spirit

>>21959441
House Of Leaves

>>21959445
Alaready read it anyway

Any good dreamlike books for midwits?
You know, something oneiric, but not too hard, because I'm retarded. Something like Lovecraft's Dream Cycle or Bruno Schulz short stories or The Man Who Was Thursday.

>>21959505
>solenoid
>the plains

>>21959009
Check Sufi literature

i need a book that covers the origins of christianity

are there any more recs like turgenevs fathers and sons that cover the generational gap?

>>21959441
Molloy

>>21959578
really nigga?

>>21959578
MacCulloch's "A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years."

>>21959594
im not looking for religious texts. i need something with historical and geographical details

>>21959510
Retard

>>21959617
ok, dominion by Tom Holland

>>21958946
Based, I suggested this general the other day.

>>21959009
The Book of Sirach
The Book of Wisdom
Ecclesiastes
Proverbs

>>21959381
I don't know the plot of most of them. And some of them seem like stories I might not have read if it was in English. Like around the world in 80 days. Which is why I was asking for some more recommendations. But I guess I won't know until I read them.
French
Un petit prince (almost finished but honestly it did take a good amount of effort)
Les Soirées de Médan
Un roi sans divertissement
Pierre et Jean
Le comte de monté cristo
Jean de floret, manon des sources
Trois mousquetaires
A lupin book
Persepolis
L'étranger
L'arabe du futur
La horde du contrevant /the wind walkers
And a French and English translation book which contains short stories by French authors and philosophers like Voltaire

Spanish
El Jardín de los Siete Crepúsculos
Pedro Páramo
Cien años de soledad
El túnel
Hombres de maíz
El presidente
2666
El lazarillo de tomes
Los detectives salvajes

In no particular order

hi bros, im new here O_O
and im new to books also, I didn't like them as kid (im from poland so we got some shitty boring fart to read)
I read only a song of ice and fire and now I need more.
Is there any recommendation infographic like OP posted?
I would like to read some fantasy or sci-fi. Something for begginers ofc.
I was thinking about hyperion.
Please help me book-chads.

>>21958946
I recommend you kill yourself

>>21960046
that's not a book recommendation

Who is the Buddhist translator that sends out his books for free? I had the list saved but I lost it.

>>21959505
the hill of dreams Arthur Machen

Hello /rg/, I am searching for any book recommendation that will help me overcome my risk aversion. These books will probably be in the realm of self-help or pop psych, and I'm not opposed to that, but I'm having trouble finding anything outside the financial realm. My risk aversion comes principally from a scarcity mindset and fear rather than trauma. Like most people on /lit/ I have a tendency to intellectualize personal problems and convince myself out of things, usually resulting in inaction.

>>21958946
I recommend you kys

>>21960308
that's not a book recommendation

I want to illustrate a story
preferably pre-modern and not illustrated elsewhere
though i suppose I cant just piggy back off old poetry can I...

Any book recommendations huh?
Okay asking for books with Tomboys, can be any genre.

>>21958946
>art of the deal
>4

>leaves of grass
>3

>>21960433
why tomboy anon?

>>21959059
I picked this up the other day

>>21960893
what's it about anon?

>>21958946
Give me a book that sparks childhood wonder. This is broad request, and I hope you guys can give me your personal picks or popular picks you think might suffice

>>21961081
Alice in wonderland

>>21961081
Calvin and Hobbes

>>21961081
Watership Down
Foundation

>>21961081
The hobbit, watership
Three body problem too believe it or not

>>21961081
I loved Howl's Moving Castle (much better than the Ghibli film) a few years ago.

kino books like the stranger

>>21959009
Robert Alter translation for Book of Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

Looking for a book on the history and origin of psychoanalysis

>>21961513
just read sigmund freud

>>21959578
Pick up some Elaine Pagels books.

>>21960019
Don't know, but check the sticky

I want the style of "The stranger", the story of "gravity's rainbow" and the atmosphere of "blood meridian"

>>21958946
what was the original top 100?

>>21958946
Need a book that deeply explains every facet of buddhism

Running out of obvious next choices of /lit/. My favorites are Hamsun, Strindberg and Mann, and I have almost finished their respective authorships. Looking for something slightly more obscure that might fit the profile of someone who immensely enjoys those three.

>>21960019
>I read only a song of ice and fire and now I need more.
Check out the Count of Monte Cristo, it hits a lot of the same notes while also being big boy literature.

>>21962006
there is gonna be a reading of "the magic mountain" fyi

>>21962014
Yeah, I was considering giving it a re-read, but it's only been a few years since my last. Some discussion about it might be nice, so I think I'll drop into the threads nonetheless.

>>21959254
I found a 10/10 audiobook version and I was planning to read while listening to the audiobook for full immersion, even if it would probably take me way longer than if I was just reading it on my own. The issue is that the audiobook is a Spanish translation of moby dick and I can't find that exact translation in book format neither on bookshops, libraries or online. So in conclusion my comfy plan is in shambles and my day ruined.

>>21959262
>a chapter a week
The chapters are simply too short for this to not be a retarded idea

>>21958946
I've read eight of these.

>Call of The Crocodile
really, /lit/???

>>21962260
well then, make it two

>>21962260
first time reading it anon, gotta do all the research

>>21958946
Post apocaliptic novels set in the desert? (Besides Dune). References to point the style:
>Trigun
>Power rangers RPM

i need a schizophrenic read on the french revolution

>>21959111
How easy/hard would this be to read if I've read basically all of the history of philosophy up to that point?

>>21960019
https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmega.nz%2Ffolder%2Fkj5hWI6J%230cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ%2Ffolder%2FguIyhAzS

>>21960019
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/guIyhAzS

>>21958946
I need books about teenage hardship for to improve my writing craft, whether realistic or very idiosyncratic (no genre fiction unless its really worth recommending), very broad ask I know. Also, no Catcher in the Rye, can't stand that book

>>21960293
Butcher's Crossing

>>21959254
join this dick in your mouth lmao

>>21958946
I've already read collected fictions from Borges, 100 years, and pic related. where next for the greatest works of latin american literature?

>>21958946
This is the single worst chart I've ever seen.

>>21963849

>>21963941
this

Any book that is the equivalent of a slasher movie?

My coworkers found out I read and have been recommending I check out Sarah Maas. To be completely honest with you /lit/, her books like absolute trash. What would you all recommend I do in this situation?

>>21962980
>Power rangers RPM
anon...

>>21963453
pretty easy, if he's not rambling like a schizo

got 1 credit in my audible account, recommend me a good audiobook. also I was thinking that I should buy the "the magic mountain" one, there's gonna be a reading soon, what are your thoughts lit?

shameless bump

>>21959585
Buddenbrooks

>The Bible (Old and New Testament)
>Tao Te Ching
>Quran
>Kojiki and Nihongi
>Vedas
What are other books to add to this?

>>21965366
Also swap Vedas for Bhagavadgita or not?

>>21960889
First stupid idea that popped into my head

Bit of an odd request but I'm looking for something to give my gf to get her to explore outside her usual fantasy fem-coomer reading habits. Even something still in that vein but of higher quality would be nice. Female protag is also preferable of possible.

>>21965127
What kind of genres do you enjoy?

>>21966011
my year of rest and relaxation

>>21965366
is this the list of "books to avoid" conon?

>>21966026
short,spicy, adventurous bonus points for something literary

>>21966030
canon*

>>21966049
I'm not sure if it fully qualifies as literary but I'm inclined to recommend Conan. It's short enough in the sense that it's short stories. The writing can be a little spicy at times as he has encounters with plenty of beautiful lustful women who are more or less straight out of a Frazetta painting. And, if nothing else, being sword and sorcery it has a great sense of adventure, although nothing very long term due to format.

>>21958946
Recommend me books only based on their entertainment value, not their intellectual or literary one. I'm depressed and in a really shitty point in my life and I want to read something to escape for a bit.

>>21966095
thanks fren

>>21966157
critique of pure reason. it's a very light read

>>21965055
What?

>>21966157
Bukowski - Women

>>21958946
>Based on a True Story by Norm
only a couple chapters in and while its made me chuckle a few times, the book isn't really grabbing me. does it get better? i'll finish it regardless but a little unmotivated to pick it back up right now. love Norm though

Recommend me some McCarthy copycats who use biblical and/or sparse prose, concise word usage , run-on sentences, and macabre metaphysical philosophising

>>21966011
The Bell jar

>>21959821
>>21959198
Bumping for more

I want to start reading Hamsun so what’s the best translation of Growth of the Soil?

>>21959505
>Any good dreamlike books for midwits?
check out some of Borges heady dream shorts like 'The Circular Ruins'
http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/KafkaKierkegaardBible/BorgesTheCircularRuins.pdf
the opening
>-------------------------
No one saw him disembark in the unanimous night, no one saw the bamboo canoe sink into the sacred
mud, but in a few days there was no one who did not know that the taciturn man came from the South and
that his home had been one of those numberless villages upstream in the deeply cleft side of the
mountain, where the Zend language has not been contaminated by Greek and where leprosy is infrequent.
What is certain is that the grey man kissed the mud, climbed up the bank with pushing aside (probably,
without feeling) the blades which were lacerating his flesh, and crawled, nauseated and bloodstained, up
to the circular enclosure crowned with a stone tiger or horse, which sometimes was the color of flame and
now was that of ashes. This circle was a temple which had been devoured by ancient fires, profaned by the
miasmal jungle, and whose god no longer received the homage of men. The stranger stretched himself out
beneath the pedestal. He was awakened by the sun high overhead. He was not astonished to find that his
wounds had healed; he closed his pallid eyes and slept, not through weakness of flesh but through
determination of will. He knew that this temple was the place required for his invincible intent; he knew
that the incessant trees had not succeeded in strangling the ruins of another propitious temple
downstream which had once belonged to gods now burned and dead; he knew that his immediate
obligation was to dream. Toward midnight he was awakened by the inconsolable shriek of a bird. Tracks of
bare feet, some figs and a jug warned him that the men of the region had been spying respectfully on his
sleep, soliciting his protection or afraid of his magic. He felt a chill of fear, and sought out a sepulchral
niche in the dilapidated wall where he concealed himself among unfamiliar leaves.

>>21966157
the long ship
the hobbit
the chronological of Conan the barbarian
northwest passage
king Solomon's mines
they're all fun and written mostly in a simple language. they're comfy too. hope you do well anon

>>21965050
just say 'oh yeah, I checked it out but I'm not really into YA, I prefer xyz' and try, really try to not be pretentious dick about it and just be thankful somebody wants to talk about books with you. Maybe that curiousity extends to other vectors you can better relate on

Hey /lit/, I present you a a gem of a free ebook site with Downloads:

https://www.e-booksdirectory.com

Old school and easy pdf download

i need something on the surge of secret societies in the modern ages

>>21968892
>>>/x/

I just finished the first Dune and enjoyed it. Pick which book should I read next.
>continue with Dune Messiah
>Dubliners
>Rayuela
>Madame Bovary
>Steppenwolf
>Shakespeare tragedies (I've only read Hamlet and Macbeth)

>>21960433
No one answered you yet, so: The Deed of Paksenarrion.

I am looking for stories similar to The Collector but reporting true events. Basically anything surrounding touch deprived, social isolated people.

Recommend me a book that will get me out of my house to want to explore the world and not come back in years.

need a book that makes you look cool for reading it
also don't like reading because it takes too long
some of my favorites were old man and the sea, beowulf, jonathan livingston seagull, and the hobit

>>21970125
I haven't quite read it fully but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas works pretty well, espically good for people who don't read a lot of books since its very fun

>>21970044
The Snow leopard

>>21962004
Should be some charts you can find in the archive. Also, once a new chart thread is up theirs an archive of charts in the links they have, theirs a couple talking about Buddhist literature

>>21959009
Reality by Peter Kingsley

>>21959505
you're not as retarded as you think you are anon
Buddha's Little Finger by Pelevin

>>21961081
More personal than anything I can generalize, but reading Tomaz Salamun sparks immense joy. The energies, the images, the -juice- of the language, even in translation. Salamun's lines oscillate between the absolutely tangible and discreet to elaborately vivid nonsense, and my inner child loves him.

>>21963849
some personal favorites are the Savage Detectives & the Death of Artemio Cruz. I haven't finished The Craft of Verse by Borges, but I recommend it anyway

>>21966913
not quite what you want, but Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Listen to Haus Arafna's album You or anything from their other project November Novelet

>>21958946
ASOS was better than AGOT, Everyone just loves Eddard's POV.