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What are you guys reading?
I'm reading this because I've decided literature is my next step in life. I might as well start off pleb

>> No.5059984

prepare for a shitstorm OP

>> No.5060016
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>>5059969
No excuses for starting off with bad lit on purpose.

I'm reading Invisible Man

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I'm reading pic related and Girl with Curious Hair by DFW (short stories) I just finished a much shorter novel so now I can't decide if I want to start The Road or All the Pretty Horses as well.

>> No.5060048

>>5060016
What because feminester keeps blowing out her cunt about it

When will you find time to read Le Guin if you're masturbating over The Second Sex? I know you only read 4 books a year, are you willing to give up reading what you love for this idolatrous quasi relationship with a faceless tripfag?

>> No.5060057

>>5060033
All the Pretty Horses puts The Road to shame.

>> No.5060082

>>5060016
did you mean to post the same cover as the OP?

>> No.5060086

>>5060057
So The Road it is then

>> No.5060123

>>5060048
I already read The Dispossessed, couldn't find Second Sex at my book store and I am in the middle of several books atm (The Kingdom of Armenia, A History of Civilization, Against Interpretation and Other Essays, My Past & Thoughts, and I've read the forwards to a bunch more) I've finished eight this year. Too bad.

Invisible Man is damn good. What other reason is there to reading it? I owned it before she came into my purview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEyFz8XIaw

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>>5060033
hey I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow too. 167 pages in, it's fantastic; i'm making slow progress though because I'm researching lots of things I stumble across and don't know; words, people, places, concepts, etc.

I found All the Pretty Horses to be torturous, and The Road to be solid

also reading pic related on the side, he's such a bitter little man

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>his smile and optimism: gone

>> No.5060163

>>5060152
That book is seriously good. It's well written and even if you don't like it, it's at least a good introduction to Lovecraft, Schopenhauer, Zappfe, Mainländer and a bunch of other thinkers.

Literally all the arguments against it on this board consist of "lol pleb" which solidifies my belief that /lit/ actually just sucks.

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>>5059969
>I'll get into literature by picking out the fucking shittiest books I can find!
>I'll grow up a stupid ass motherfucker throughout my literary life because the first shit I was exposed to was YA garbage.
Put the book down and punch yourself in the face, then find anything else to read.

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>>5060163
GRRM sucks, all his books are for plebs, lets just have 3 threads up constantly about him though.

>> No.5060181

>>5060152
hilariously stupid bitter trash

>> No.5060193

>>5060175
I also read the Bible good sir
I have picked good choices in literature

>> No.5060200

>Autobiography of Malcolm X
>Collected Novellas - Arno Schmidt

>> No.5060772

LOOKING FOR BEST /LIT/ STARTER BOOKS THAT AREN'T SELECTIONS ON THE AWFUL STARTER KIT; SHOULD BE SOMETHING GUD.

SPECIFICALLY INTERESTED IN NOVELLAS AND OTHER SHORT WORKS.

>INB4 TBK
>INB4 GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
>INB4 FINNEGAN'S WAKE

>> No.5060788

IM reading this, not because in a 'pleb' on a journey, but because why cant i enjoy the finer things and still enjoy cheap beer? Only plebs read 'high brow' lit exclusively.

>> No.5060789

>>5060772
Journey to the centre of the earth - Jules Verne
The Cossacks - Tolstoy
Anything by Virginia Woolf
The picture of Dorian Gray
The Passionfruit (by Glastra van Loon)

>> No.5060790

>>5060789
Anon

Please

Kill yourself

>> No.5060795

>>5060789
Mrs Dalloway is the best woolf, its what Joyce wanted to do with his stream of consciousness bullshit.

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>>5060788
forgot pic

>> No.5060803

>>5059969
Going to start Heart of Darkness right now.

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Moby dick by you know whom and 'the classical world' by Robin Lane Fox

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>>5060193
>I also read the Bible
>picked good choices in literature
Pick one

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It only cosists of intviews of fictional people. I am still at the beginning but so far it's good.
It's a bit hard imagining a voice for every character, especially with those many characters it's hard to remember their specific voice

>> No.5060819

A Confederacy of Dunces. It's a tragedy about a man with a huge potential for writing political and historical works of immense importance but cannot due to unfortunate circumstances and the aforementioned confederacy who seem intent on preventing him putting pen to paper out of everyday idiocy.

>> No.5060842

>>5060819
Go to bed Ignatius.

>> No.5060862

How the States Got Their Shapes.
It's unabashedly popular history that interests only Ameriboos. But it's full of little stories that make all the meaningless degrees worth while.