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Quick reads Anonymous Wed Oct 25 14:08:21 2023 No.22640183 [Reply] [Original]

What are some essential classics that a moderately fast reader can read within a day or two? What are some of your favorites?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 14:19:28 2023 No.22640220 Please, don't turn this into /mu/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 14:26:55 2023 No.22640241 >>22640183 The Art of War

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 14:28:29 2023 No.22640245 Ecclesiastes

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 14:30:35 2023 No.22640248 >>22640183 fuck off coomer

Anonymous Wed Oct 25 14:35:22 2023 No.22640263

>>22640183
don't know about essential, but a lot of iconic classic horror stories are very short. Like Frankenstein, Turn of the Screw, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Invisible Man, Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Grey etc.
Other than that, can't go wrong with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Kafka short stories either.

Anonymouṡ Wed Oct 25 15:18:23 2023 No.22640412

>>22640183
>Essential classics
>Can read fast

You need to break out of the novel mindset.

Read poetry.
Read drama.
Read short stories.
Read essays.

Here's one example of each:

— Crow by Ted Hughes
— Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
— Cathedral by Raymond Carver
— In Defence Of Penny Dreadfuls by G. K. Chesterton

All classics, and the whole lot together take less time than the Preface to Portrait of a Lady.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 15:21:14 2023 No.22640423 File: 490 KB, 1366x2048, 1647678036225.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22640183 Breakfast at tiffanys >>22640220 See picrel

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 17:06:12 2023 No.22640741 >>22640183 All the Goosebumps books

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 17:15:32 2023 No.22640763 File: 168 KB, 1080x2100, GYbbx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Notes from Underground

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 17:19:03 2023 No.22640773 File: 112 KB, 1247x1559, 1650464805007.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22640183 Most of shakespeare's plays can be read in a day sister.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 18:53:44 2023 No.22641056 >>22640183 Brokeback mountain

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 19:57:01 2023 No.22641234 File: 207 KB, 960x1189, 4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You should read Childe Roland to Dark Tower Came, one of the greatest, most re-readable poems ever

>>	sage Wed Oct 25 19:58:08 2023 No.22641237 Return of the Sage by Sagian Sagelleron

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 20:21:33 2023 No.22641335 File: 98 KB, 736x736, 1655740976690.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What does your stan like to read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 20:41:06 2023 No.22641396 File: 65 KB, 1000x600, IMG_7164.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22640183 >>22640423 >>22640763 >>22640773 >>22641234 >>22641335

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 20:45:21 2023 No.22641412 >>22640183 Don't know if you meant short stories, but I found "Helping" by Robert Stone to be really profound for reasons I can't articulate. You can read the whole thing here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/06/08/helping-2

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 20:47:47 2023 No.22641422 >>22641396 >Doesn't contribute Classic

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 23:36:00 2023 No.22641945 >>22641412 >>22640763 >>22641234 >>22640412 >>22640263 >>22640245 >>22640241 Thanks. Already read a few of these but will check out the rest

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 01:43:32 2023 No.22642370 File: 188 KB, 1080x2400, Screenshot_20231026-033417.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I will post the table of contents of a an anthology of classic novellas I just bought. I have read Tolstoy- The Death of Ivan Illych and Siddharta

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 01:45:02 2023 No.22642373 File: 194 KB, 1080x2400, Screenshot_20231026-033457.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22642370

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 01:46:07 2023 No.22642381 File: 183 KB, 1080x2400, Screenshot_20231026-033439.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22642373

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 01:49:47 2023 No.22642391 File: 50 KB, 1080x2400, Screenshot_20231026-033533.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22642381

Anonymous Thu Oct 26 01:59:50 2023 No.22642420

>>22640183
A Simple Heart by Flaubert
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder by Henry Miller
Wind, Sand, and Stars by St. Exupery
The Prophet by Gibran
Siddhartha by Hesse
Tao Te Ching
Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
Jesus’ Son by Johnson
Mrs Dalloway by Woolf
Nightwood by Barnes
The Dharma Bums by Kerouac
The Bhagavad Gita
Any of Sallust
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Death in Venice by Mann
The Road by McCarthy
By Night in Chile by Bolano

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 02:49:19 2023 No.22642556 >>22640183 Picture of Dorian Grey

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 05:36:56 2023 No.22643111 >>22640183 Frankenstein

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 05:48:03 2023 No.22643140 >>22640183 Any Platonic dialogue and most of the Hippocratic corpus.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 11:35:08 2023 No.22643699 >>22640183 any Yasunari Kawabata book any Osamu Dazai book

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 11:46:58 2023 No.22643722 >>22640183 The Prince. In Praise of Folly >>22640423 >>22640763 >>22640773 >>22641234 >>22641335 BWC

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 15:59:51 2023 No.22644354 >>22641412 That one is great

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 22:53:27 2023 No.22645623 Seconding Goosebumps

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 10:39:22 2023 No.22647070 >>22642420 shitdartha sucks

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 21:45:20 2023 No.22648938 >>22640183 just read poor folk by dostoevsky yesterday. shit was p good

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