/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18809688]

I will re-read the same 30 authors all my life. It doesn't matter if you read a lot when you retain so little.

[Anonymous No.18809713]

>>18809688
checked.
You could probably get away with even less.
Bruce Lee's 1000 punches and so on.

[Anonymous No.18809735]

I think this is a good approach. The difficulty is knowing which authors to read.

[Anonymous No.18809753]

>>18809688
I've been reading the same 8 authors (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Conrad, Melville, Joyce, Faulkner, Nabokov and McCarthy) for a long time now, don't ever plan on switching it up either

[Anonymous No.18809762]

>>18809713
Yes... I'll try to reduce the number, but with so few people it becomes more difficult to remove another author from the list.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.18809766]

>>18809762
What’s your list?

[Anonymous No.18809768]

what's essential repeat core
i would guess bible, shakespeare, homer, dante
i think these are all boring tho
in reality i could see myself reading oscar wilde forever

[Anonymous No.18809904]

>>18809766
it's incomplete, I'll post it when I'm done with possible candidates. I want to spend some more years making the selection. But yes, it's Dante, Cervantes, Plato, the Bible, and so on. Very classy classics.

[Anonymous No.18809910]

>>18809688
Based