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12302758 No.12302758 [Reply] [Original]

Hi guys, I am a dumb fuck and I want to get smart like you.

>what should I read?
>what should I avoid reading?
>how much and how often should I read?

help me ascend to patrician tier level /lit/ only you can help me.

>> No.12302789

>>12302758
Start with Shakespeare and Descartes.

>> No.12302794

>what should I read?
Books you find interesting
>what should I avoid reading?
Anything you dont find interesting
>how much and how often should I read?
Whenever you have nothing better to do

>> No.12302795

>>12302758
Easy answers to all questions:
>read what you like
>don’t read what you don’t like
>read at least 30 min. a day, but if you don’t read what you like you’ll find yourself far exceeding that.

There, don’t read books to get ‘smart’. That’s the stuff of self-conscious pseuds. Now this doesn’t necessarily mean I recommend you read YA for the rest of eternity, no, challenge yourself. But don’t bog yourself down in some giant purple prose nonsense book becuase you want to appear ‘smart’, that’s stupid. Now what would I recommend? Well you haven’t given much info, but I’ll assume you’re a beginner in literature, so I’ll recommend to you an accessible favorite; ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde. Then explore from there.

>> No.12302802

>>12302789
well, I already read Hamlet.
Should I read everything they published or are there specific books to read?

>> No.12302807

Start with stuff you enjoy. Remember the episode of Arthur where we find out Buster has never finished a book, but then he reads Robin Hood even faster than Arthur, and we learn that he just hadn't found anything he was interested in up till then? You get smart when you read a lot, and you read a lot when you're enjoying yourself.
Huck Finn, Beowulf, 100 Years of Solitude, and Dubliners are all both readable, fun, and highly regarded on /lit/ so you'll be shitposting about Pynchon in no time.
Starting with the Greeks is a meme here. Ignore anyone who tries to fool you into reading boring and useless rubbish. Read the Greeks later if you find they interest you.

>> No.12302814

>>12302758
Avoid reading self help bullshit.

>> No.12302815

>I want to get smart like you.
Anon, I...

>> No.12302832

>>12302758
>>what should I read?
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Plato
Lao Tzu
Confucius
Mencius
Bible
Spinoza
Quran
Hegel
Badiou
Alfred North Whitehead
Nagarjuna
Hui Neng
Dogen
pre-pop. tier Zizek
>what should I avoid reading?
Stirner
Nieztcuck
Zhuangzi
Mozi
Foucault
Wittgenstain
Heidegger
Schopenhauer
Russel
current Zizek
Stoics (sophists)
tibetian snake oil salesmen
>how much and how often should I read?
try to read at least an hour a day

>> No.12302866

>>12302832
why not stoics? I read pic related and i liked it.
Also read the Enchiridion by Epictetus and it was also good.

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12302870

>>12302866
ops, here is pic related

>> No.12302875

>>12302807
Solid Hey Arthur reference anon.

>> No.12302881

>>12302815
You are smarter than you think, anon.

>> No.12302965

>>12302794
The more the better. And quit gaming too.

>> No.12302977

>>12302881
How do you know how smart a particular anon is?

>> No.12302993

>>12302802
I'll try to recount all the important Shakespeare works, but I may miss one or two. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Julius Caesar I believe are most of the important ones. The rest of his work you read is up to you really. I would say Much Ado About Nothing and Merchant of Venice as well, but they aren't essential.

>> No.12303077

>>12302866
Stoicism has no beauty or meaning. It’s empty and soulless, like Buddhism.

>> No.12303267

>>12303077
Yeah don't listen to this guy. Read the stoics if you like them.

>> No.12303406

>>12302977
Divination.

>> No.12303443

>>12303077
Man you are truly not understanding nor Spengler nor Guenon

>> No.12303612

>>12302758
The Complete Works of Plato, start with the Apology

>> No.12303624

>>12302977
I give you all the benefit of the doubt.

>> No.12303832

>>12303077
I could argue that all true Christian saints achieved the highest beauty and the highest meaning through disciplines similar to that of the stoics.

>> No.12303874

>>12302758
Dostoevsky is what got me into higher-up literature. Crime and Punishment is great for this, though TBK is what I really got hooked on.

>> No.12303997

Reading isn’t a magic tonic you put on to become smart, even if it’s the right stuff.