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11430021 No.11430021 [Reply] [Original]

>want to explore literature and have a breadth of reading
>keep re-reading hamlet and Moby-Dick instead

>> No.11430042

*trigger warning: women*
Read some Austen or Eliot.

>> No.11430305

Well, they’re good works to re-read, if nothing else. It’s not that bad to re-read your favorite/the best possible works over and over, but eventually/every once in a while, you should try getting to other stuff. Faulkner said in an interview he re-read Don Quixote every year.

>> No.11430349

>>11430021
Hamlet I can see, why Moby-Dick?

>> No.11430571

>>11430349
Because it is the best book ever written

>> No.11430790

>>11430021
Hamlet is true genius

>> No.11430915

>>11430349
If you have to ask such a question then you are lost.

>> No.11431534

>>11430021
Just read the rest of Shakespeare. Coriolanus is better than Hamlet anyway.

>> No.11431543

>>11430042
yeah pride and prejudice and middlemarch are just incredible, especially for someone who likes moby dick and hamlet

>> No.11432129

>>11430021
Read only shit you Enjoy, the rest is death

>> No.11432153

Honestly anon it's better to read the same book 100 times than to read 100 books once each.

>> No.11432221

>>11432129
How do I expand expand my literary taste then?

>> No.11432232

>>11432221
By asking for recommendations that could improve your breadth of reading on a literature board, presumably on 4chan.

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11433638

>Reading through Moby Dick for the first time

God this book is fucking fantastic. Also feels like I'm learning a lot about how old timey ships worked.

>> No.11433670

There are hundreds of thousands of books out there. Youll probably read <10,000 books in your lifetime. You got to make those few books you read count, and if reading Moby dick and hamlet is what works for you, go for it