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I want to get into literature, especially philosophy and classics, both fiction and non fiction. i really have no idea where to start. does anyone have a good starting point?

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>>10898574
which works?

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>>10898593
read the sticky: http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

I'm not going to post a book chart at you because that's asinine. Start with Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus. The Republic is fucking huge, save it for later when you know how to think. After the death of Socrates move on to Aristotle: Organon, Ethics, Metaphysics.

While you're reading philosophy take some breaks with the superhero classics: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Philostratus' Heroicus is a much later work, but it's good for getting an idea of Greek character. Read the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodicus while you're at it.

When you've read all that come back and make a new thread.

>> No.10898620

You can find all or most of that stuff at http://www.gutenberg.org

>> No.10898655

Start with My Diary Desu and work through the canon in reverse-chronological order

>> No.10898983

Don't start with the greeks, learn how to think and what's important first. Read "The Absurd" by Thomas Nagel, and some other intro level contemporary analytic stuff, then move on to the Phaedo and Gorgias by Plato, then read Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. People telling you to start with the Organon and Metaphysics are dumb, that stuff is dense and there is a ton of scholarly disagreement about the proper interpretation of Aristotle's metaphysics.