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Is this a good starter kit?

>> No.14914219

Start with the Holy Bible.

>> No.14914222

>>14914209
Yes but add some non English literature too.

>> No.14914225

>>14914222
Yes, I have some German books here.

>> No.14914228

The good starter kit is reading something you pick up and go 'Hey, this looks awesome'
That list is basically high school English

>> No.14914241

>>14914228
How does one really develop a taste for books? I'm new to reading. With music it's obvious but with books it would seem you'd like a certain type of storytelling/expression/whatever that to me seems like something you'd only get from the same author.

>> No.14914248

>>14914228
>high school English
We read 'Of Mice and Men' and 'The Merchant of Venice' at our school.
Are they shit tier?

>> No.14914253

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokklubben_World_Library

This is the best one I know

>> No.14914272

>>14914228
Are kids even allowed to read Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer in school anymore? I think we covered those while I was in elementary school, but that was a long time ago.

>> No.14914277

>>14914228
Ah yes, I loved reading Lolita, American Psycho, and Hunter S. Thompson in high school.

>> No.14914285

>>14914253
bookmarked, ty

>> No.14914374

>>14914248
They're both good for different reasons
>>14914241
By reading
Read something you like? Read about the author, their influences, genre, style, and so on, and try to branch out from there
Like with music, the best way into it is through what actually speaks to you
>>14914272
>>14914277
I read all of those in high school

>> No.14914774

>>14914219
>read a bunch of jewish laws and family trees
pass

>> No.14914835

>>14914272
it's no longer required as far as I'm aware

>> No.14914874

>>14914374
Yeah, but you didn't read them in your English class, did you?

>> No.14915626

>>14914874
I read Fear and Loathing and Lolita in 8th grade English.

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>>14914209
This is the new official one the board made about a month ago.

>> No.14916563

>>14915626
there's no way they would teach either of those books to eighth graders

>> No.14917342

>>14915626
they taught you Lolita in 8th grade English?
bullshit

>> No.14917899

>>14916488
Well done /lit/, this is a much better chart.

>> No.14918776

>>14916488

Much better. Maybe replace Great Gatsby with Labyrinths

>> No.14918781

Start with The Greeks...

>> No.14918883
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>>14914209
>The /lit/ Starter Kit
>contains no books that actually get discussed here

>> No.14918898

>>14916488
replace The Republic with Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno and Phaedo.

>> No.14918913

>>14914228
I've had more fun reading ever since I started walking up and down the library just looking for something new. I like having no expectations.

>> No.14918917

>>14914228
>That list is basically high school English

That's the point. These are novels which easily lend themselves to analysis and are straightforward in their themes. This is meant to be an introduction to reading literature as an artform, not reading in general.

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no this is

>> No.14919498

>>14918918
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