/lit/ - Literature

>>9392249

Camus
The Stranger
The Plague

>>9392253
Thanks, I've read the Stranger which I liked a lot and plan on reading more by Camus. I'll try The Plague next.

>>9392249
Demian by Hermann Hesse

The Bible.

I don't care how fedora.com you are, read it and you'll be happy in the long run.

It is beautifully written
Full of history
Full of badass fight and plagues
Will open doors for the many references to it by the great authors
Will provide a good impetus for theology
Instills morals possibly without you directly following its conduct

>>9392283
>It is beautifully written

>>9392291
you never read the bible.

>learned biblical hebrew
>can now appreciate the bible in ways I could have never imagined

>>9392275
I read Siddhartha and liked it. What's that like compared to Siddhartha?

t. another 18 y/o

>>9392283
kill yourself memephagous

>>9392275
Looks very interesting and sounds like something I was looking for, I'll check it out, thanks.

>>9392283
I'm definitely interested in reading the bible but I'm a bit turned off by how it's written and fear that I won't understand much of it. Is there a good modern translation?

>>9392315
*unsheathes katana*

>>9392308
Nothing like Sidddhartha. Demian is about two boys, one of whom teaches the other to accept himself without so much judgmentalness - less morality, less fear of his dark side.

>>9392299

>>9392249
Another 18 year old here, I'd recommend Eco. Not only is he patrician, he's also straight up fun to read (which tbqh can be rare amongst the best books)

>>9392327
oxford annotated NRSV with apocrypha

>>9392308

Dhammapada

>>9392283

Rereading the Bible for the first time as an adult atm. I think my biggest takeaway this time is just how petty and human most of the characters are, I love it. It's a whole lot of lying, cheating, and stealing and then a genuinely good guy like Enoch gets about two lines and then we're right back to the juicy stuff.

You're an adult now, it's time to start engaging with the N-god.

When I was your age I fell in love with Tim O'Brien and The Things They Carried. Give him a try?

>>9392266
I'm reading The Plague now, as a 21-year-old. The Fall is also a really great book, if you're into Camus.

>>9392249
A Rebours, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Tristram Shandy, Revolt Against the Modern World, The Technological Society, The Magical Revival, Oblomov, The Master and Margarita, Don Quixote

Those should prepare you well to be a fully realized adult /b/tard dark magus like me. Something all youngsters should aspire to.

>>9392249

I'm 18 and here are the things I have read or want to read this year:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
>read 1/4
Jane Eyre
>read
Stoner by John Williams
>read
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
>read
Animal Farm by George Orwell
>read
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
>read first chapter
The Outsider by Albert Camus
>read first 3 chapters
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
>not read
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
>not read
Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
>read 1st book and half of 2nd
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
>not read
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
>not read
The Lord of the Rings trilogy + The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
>not read
Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
>read 1st, 2nd and 3rd book out of 7
Fahrrnheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
>not read
1984 by George Orwell
>not read
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
>not read

I have a lot of reading to do

>>9392327
Depends if you prefer ease of reading or accuracy.

Don't get KJV if you're avoiding difficult language.

Also ignore anyone who tells you read the whole thing cover-to-cover, it's a collection of books written over 100s of years, not a continuous story.

>>9392249
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

post bp

>>9392933
is there a guide of some sort which outlines the order in which the books should be read and which to be skipped?

>>9392360
get out of this board please

>>9392249
Any depressing, introspective book is good. Even better if it has bildungsroman elements.

I was really into Confessions of a Mask and Hunger when I was 18.

>>9392924
what a meme list

>>9392924
You digging the rand so far?

>>9393004

I put it down because I wasn't really liking it so I'll try it again later on.

>>9392980
There's a million of them, depends what you want to get out of it. What I did was read the narrative sections in chronological order, and came up with this list:

Genesis
Exodus 1-24, 32-40
Numbers 9-36
Deuteronomy 34
Joshua
Judges
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
Daniel 1-6
Ezra
Nehemiah
Luke
Acts

Or if you want an intro to Christianity specifically, the four gospels and Romans would be good. Some other highlights are Ecclestiastes for philosophy, Job for a morality story, and Revelation for a psychadelic trip.

>>9392980
Cover to cover

>>9392283
Unironically this. To top it off most of the stories are actually interesting, and you see some neat archetypes in there.

Oh, and you get to sound smart by referencing the Bible too.

>>9393054
Thank anon.

>>9392266
Try his last book, First Man or what it's called

>>9392924
>randt
ugh
>eyre
no, no no...
>hunger games
please don't go any further
>LOTR
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA

Don't read anything else on that list but Huxley you faggot

>>9392249
Water Margin - quick pace, eventful, quirky characters.

Fante did it better