/lit/ - Literature

The Iliad/Odyssey

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

>>431229
/r/ing an ebook or audio tape.

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>>431252
Undernet.

#bookz

don quixote (i think on the back of my copy dostoevsky is quoted saying its the most important book)

i also loved brothers k and les mis. :)

count of monte cristo

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>>431588
I love Don Quixote so much. I remember reading it in middle school and crying at the end...

Anything by Flaubert, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, or Rimbaud.

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>>431229
4000 years of literature. And all you faggots choose is crap from the 19th century. Shame on you.

>>434760
Name something else then, yah?

>>434748
Flaubert forever.

>>434760

Fine, "Tale of Genji".

Geez.

>>434760
well sorry, karamazov was listed already. add the divine comedy, the epic of gilgamesh, beowulf, the tain bo cuailnge, the death of ivan ilyich, the republic, etc etc etc

the oldest shit i've read is probably augustine. it's ok~

aquinas is better

>>431258
Fuck. Shit's crazy dude. Thought I'd read it first, since it was short and I wanted to get a taste of what Dostoevsky was all about. This book is definitely not a book to start with.

I'm gonna say all of Kafka's work, but read something biographical first, makes the shit make a lot more sense.

You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe. Any other book by him is fine, but I just liked that one. I started with The Hills Beyond, but that's just me.

I loved War and Peace.

I don't get the pop culture that's its huge and boring.

It was very entertaining and I wish it was longer.

>>434767
Beowulf
Shakespeare's plays
Paradise Lost
The Divine Comedy
Shanameh
Mahabharata
Ramayana
Epic of Gilgamesh
Tales of Genji
Water Margin
Dream of Red Chamber
Journey to the West
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

>>434807
I agree with this list.

>>434760

Simple explanation for that:

The farther back you go the shittier all literature gets.

>>434807
this but without the shitty asian shit

>>434826

So basically only the first four stories? lol

>>434807
Aurelius' Meditations
Aristotle's Poetics
Tristan
The Song of Roland
Canterbury Tales
Arabian Nights

>>434815

The Bible.
Not even funny how many professors have told us to go out and read it because of it's historical/cultural significance & impact.

I've got a copy in my room I found waiting for me to get cracking.

>>434865
It's a damn good piece of literature.

Don't let hipsters tell you its shit.

>>434892

>Implying hipsters are people.

>>434892
Trolling aside, considering that the Bible is a mixture of the best Persian, Indian, and Mediterranean folklore, that's technically true.

>>434894
My apologies.

>>434892
I think you have hipsters confused with smug atheists. They are entirely different kinds of people

>>434907
>Implying religion has anything to do with enjoying one of the greatest pieces of literature known to man.

>>434922
The idea is that hipsters probably would not tell you that the Bible is shit.

>>434925
Some of them.

But the majority of Hipsters are mindless sheep.

Why do half the threads on /lit/ turn into a discussion hipsters. Are y'all projecting or something?

>>434932
A discussion is not projecting.

>>434932
It happens because they are mentioned out of nowhere by retards like Palpatine

so, i just spent 5 minutes googling hipster. i demand my time back.

>>434807

is Beowulf really that essential? I read part of it in high school and it was very underwhelming.

>>434944
Sorry. There's no need to know what the word means. It's only used by old people and huge nerds

>>434946
Without Beowulf there would be no Tolkien, no high fantasy.

>>434941
Wow, we resort to insults because we can keep a discussion.

Go to bed, you must be tired.

>>434952
And the world would be a better place

>>434953
Did you just call people ''nerds'' while on 4chan?

This,gentleman is what a fool acts like.

>>434935
Either way, you're reducing a perfectly good thread into this base shit of ridiculing hipsters. It gets old.

>>434966
If people are willing to retort.

Then it must be a good topic for debate

>>434974
No. That just means they are just as dull as you.

>>434993
Ugh. I'm going to stop replying to you now. This thread is already far enough off topic.

Leviathan, A Letter on Toleration, & other major Enlightenment works would also be pretty essential.

>>434993
Dull is subjective.

You are losing hard so, I would just give up if I were you.

Phantastes, by MacDonald. can't recall if it's 19th century or early, early 20th century, but don't give a shit either.

MOBY DICK

>>435009

yeah. it's a pretty good one. I read a couple of summers ago when I was half crazy. I should probably read it again.

You want all the answers OP...?

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Pere Goriot by Balzac

Penguin Island by Anatole France. So good the Catholic Church STILL has it on its list of banned books.