/lit/ - Literature

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Anonymous Sun Oct 29 23:13:36 2017 No.10206545 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw to brainlet for /lit/
Where the fuck do I start my dudes? I want to have sophisticated conversations about literature and life with you guys.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 23:22:50 2017 No.10206579 >>10206545 You start with the Greeks, or evola, your choice.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 23:24:30 2017 No.10206587 >>10206545 Start with the high school curriculum from 60 years ago

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 23:29:42 2017 No.10206599 File: 143 KB, 640x1136, 1504047306902.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10206573 >>10206579 Will try >evola Isn't that the guy about esoteric nazi stuff? >>10206587 pic

Anonymous Sun Oct 29 23:32:54 2017 No.10206607
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Start with Greek mythology (I recommend Age of Fables by Thomas Bulfinch). Not only will a good knowledge of mythology allow you to understand millennia of allusions, you'll also gain a decent understanding of classical storytelling.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 23:42:24 2017 No.10206636 >>10206545 Do what everyone else on this board do (including me): act sophisticated

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 00:55:27 2017 No.10206826 File: 2 KB, 125x106, pepe happy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10206579 >Greeks, or evola Starting with evola could easily break a man

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 01:24:47 2017 No.10206889 >>10206579 Sounds contagious and life threatening, either way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:15:50 2017 No.10207058 >>10206826 I am already broken.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:19:59 2017 No.10207060 As long as you don't start with the greeks, you're good to go

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:20:06 2017 No.10207061 >>10206545 the ego and it's own by max stirner

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:27:04 2017 No.10207070 The Master and Margarita

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:30:07 2017 No.10207080 >>10206826 DESU any exposure to Ebola at any time can do that... i get genuinely scared of his work sometimes

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:30:07 2017 No.10207081
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If you are /lit/ at heart then the Greeks
Homer->Herodotus->Plato->Aeshylus,Sophocles at the minimum

If you are normal then Hemingway, Steinbeck, Camus or Dostoevsky (pick if your life is shitty)

If you are truly a brainlet then Vonnegut or Murikami
Also the meme trilogy is a meme, the recent big5 are legitimate

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:47:59 2017 No.10207110 >>10206545 There's honestly not that much sophistication to this board. It's a bunch of christfags pushing religious texts and some meme shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 03:55:15 2017 No.10207125 >>10207110 m'lord

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 10:35:07 2017 No.10207936 >>10207110 t.newfag

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 10:51:35 2017 No.10207972 File: 14 KB, 180x214, pardner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10207110 Hey take it easy fella! Some guy that pretends to be Pynchon posts here sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 10:52:45 2017 No.10207976 >>10206545 I have never once seen a sophisticated conversation on this board Where do I meet sophisticated literature fellows in real life?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 10:56:43 2017 No.10207985 >>10207972 that guy and people like him are the reason I browse this board >>10207976 if you haven't even seen ONE interesting debate on this board you're either a massive newfaggot or in denial

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 12:52:31 2017 No.10208304 >>10207081 The recent big five?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 13:04:22 2017 No.10208332 -Iliad+Odyssey -Divine Comedy -Paradise Lost -Hamlet (can change) -Faust Pretty much the pillars of the canon, no Bible because boring I guess

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 13:04:39 2017 No.10208334 >>10208304 some faggot decided that his reading list was important enough to be called "the big five"

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 13:06:09 2017 No.10208335 >>10208304 This ->>>10208332 >>10208334 Don't you have a YA- I mean SciFi backlog to be reading?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 13:08:09 2017 No.10208338 File: 72 KB, 359x359, 20170908_193637.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10208332 >reading any of those without the Bible

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 13:19:55 2017 No.10208388 >>10208338 The assumption is you've read it, like everyone should've before they even came here

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 13:29:23 2017 No.10208433 I've non ironically started with pleb kid fantasy such as hp and lord of the rings and evolved from there once I was used to reading every day

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 14:32:27 2017 No.10208647 >>10208338 You don't need the Bible for Iliad and Odyssey, retard. Kill yourself.

Anonymous Mon Oct 30 15:55:55 2017 No.10208956

>>10208647
Tbh Bible is more of a reference in my view, over a full liftetime you should expect to have read all of the individual sections (barring some of the true tedium in late Old Testament) and I do respect a good knowledge of it, but the idea it should be read to start like classics or Shakespeare etc is fucking retarded. Just read bits as you go along

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