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Dearest /lit/,

I won't bore you with tl;dr about my life, but in short: I don't fucking read, and I want to fucking start.

Please provide me with some good, must-read titles any self-respecting reader would have under their belt. Preferably stuff that isn't high-school shit--I've already read most of the 'classics' in school. Shakespeare, Wuthering Heights, etc.

>> No.478719

Are you interested in Middle Ages shit?

Then Pillars of the Earth.

That shit will rock you.

>> No.478721

A confederacy of Dunces
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Iliad
Moby-Dick
House of Leaves
Motorman
Don Quixote
The Sound and the Fury
Inferno
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Candide
Story of the Eye
Macbeth
On the Road
A Season in Hell
The Picture of Dorian Gray

>> No.478723

Don't listen to anything anyone has to say in this thread because they are all stupid and wrong.

>> No.478740

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>> No.478750

First off if your out of the habit of reading I would recommend putting off the classics. Start with some enjoyable light reading just to get used to it. Force your way though War and Peace or Infinite Jest too soon and you will just put yourself off reading. Read some enjoyable fluffy stuff for now and work your way up.

>> No.479385

I always liked Sherlock Holmes.

>> No.479410

start off by reading three goosebumps a day to get you in the hang of reading.

>> No.479419

>>478721
Gargantua and Pantagruel trumps Confederacy of Dunces. Get House of Leaves off of there. If you're going to read Inferno, read the rest of the Commedia.

>> No.479429

>>479385
Right here. Sherlock is amazing.

>> No.479441

>>479419
It maybe a better book, but it's not as good for getting back into reading.

Confederacy of Dunces is great for this, so is Sherlock Holmes, Hunter S Thompson, stuff like that. Read shorter things first, don't try and slog your way through a long-ass book right away.

>> No.479628

Welcome to the Monkey House - Vonnegut.
Take it one short story at a time. Trust me.

>> No.479656

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk specifically Choke, Rant or Diary

>> No.479666

>>479656
lol

>> No.479667

Stranger in a Strange Land

>> No.479669

>>479656
We want him to read more, not less.

>> No.479672

gravity's rainbow is a pretty cool place to start

>> No.479690

>>479656

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>> No.479699

>>479672

This

>> No.479704

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Chocolate War

>> No.479723

>>479672

the thing is though, (and I've never read Gravity's Rainbow) I read a lot, and I'm currently 100 pages into my first Pynchon novel, and I'm constantly going "wut". Maybe I'm just stupid, but it seems like a bit much to start with if one never really reads.

Maybe he should start with some Murakami?

>> No.479740

>>478707

Hunger by Knut Hamson. The Stranger by Albert Camus. Come back when you're done.

>> No.479742

The Count of Monte Cristo's good. I vaguely remember Frankenstein being good too.

>> No.479744
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>>479723
But think of it this way.
You stick with Pynchon, read Gravity's Rainbow, maybe you start to get used to the style.
Literature ain't got shit on you now, you've stared one of the hardest motherfuckers going and didn't blink.

>> No.479772

1984
animal farm
siddhartha
demian
journey to the east
all quiet on the western front
anything kafka
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
brave new world
the old man and the sea
one-hundred years of solitude


here are some brilliant intro-level books, op.