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Are they ALL worth reading?

>> No.19880069

Just Don Quijote.

>> No.19880072
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>>19880061
idk decide for yourself

>> No.19880073

Few, in fact, are.

>> No.19880082

>>19880061
>99% fiction
No

>> No.19880093

>>19880061
No lol. This list is pretty boring imo. All classics and therefore meritorious, but it's mostly books you're forced to read in school.

>> No.19880181

>>19880082
>non-fiction
>worth reading

>> No.19880286

Just Ficciones

>> No.19880297

>>19880082
>non-fiction
lmao

>> No.19880307

>>19880061
yes, pretty much

>> No.19880320

>>19880082
actually only 96% fiction

>> No.19880336

>>19880061
From a quick look yes, they're all worth reading (even harry potter...). The more important issue is what order to read them in, and what pre-requisites are not captured on this chart. For example, I would say read them chronologically since it's hard to go wrong that way, but if you don't know anything at all about Ancient Greece or Ancient Greek Mythology, the Iliad is going to confuse the hell out of you and you won't get much out of it (other than awesome fight scenes and funny stories of the gods getting up to mischief).

>> No.19880419

>>19880061
Mostly. Couple of high school tier entries that won't do much for an adult approaching them for the first time, couple of just alright picks that are grossly overrated on this board, overall a solid and safe list

>> No.19880428

>>19880082
Only fiction can be Literature. You can have your threads on >>>/his/

>> No.19880433

>>19880082
>non-fiction
gtfo lol

>> No.19880443

https://letterboxd.com/smoothhands/list/lbg-top-50-kinos-of-all-time/
are they ALL worth watching?

>> No.19880473

>>19880443
You can skip Koyaanisqatsi

>> No.19880476

>>19880443
Movies/videos are brainwashing propaganda, you shouldn't watch them. Your brain can't tell the difference between the movie and reality and you can't keep up the effort to think critically because the medium is designed to hypnotize you into passive acceptance of what is being portrayed. Stick to books.

>> No.19880558

>>19880336
What other books on the list have this problem?

>> No.19880600

>>19880061
How the fuck is moby dick number 1?

It was the most boring thing I ever read. He spends an entire chapter describing cobblestones, literally bored me to treats.

>> No.19880624

>>19880061
Of course christfags gotta shill their boring ass historical fiction, don't read it

>> No.19880625

>>19880600
dubs won't save you from getting filtered

>> No.19880638

>>19880625
Dude it was fucking boring. And then there next chapter he describes the inn and the food. For a fucking chapter

>> No.19880660

>>19880558
I don't think Pynchon is really that readable raw.

>> No.19880679

>>19880660
How so? To be honest I tried to read V and got filtered hard. So I want insight

Like I didn’t get the point of the r book. You just follow some people and the book ends? I don’t get it.

>> No.19880727

>>19880558
I haven't read everything on the list myself, but my strat is to do some research on the book first, find out what it's about, and decide from there if I need more background information. I knew a bit about Greece and mythology from college and childhood, so I felt comfortable going straight into Homer, but Great Gatsby filtered me hard when I read it in high school because I didn't know shit about the 1920s historically.

I think you'd also be fine if you went in blind, did research after the fact, and then did a re-read. All the books on the list should be good enough to re-read anyway, given that that's the mark of a classic.

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>>19880624
What do atheists read besides normalfag shit?

>> No.19880865

>anglosphere fiction
into the trash

>> No.19880907

>>19880061
A few are very overrated (The Stranger, Brave New World, and Heart of Darkness in my opinion) but none I've read on here are outright bad. I'm convinced /lit/core as a whole is consistently better than /mu/core because it takes a lot more dedication and time to read rather than to simply listen to an album.

>> No.19882121

>>19880839
damn, Matt fell so hard he started dating men. you hate to see it

>> No.19882506

>>19880061
W-w-what are you g-guys feeling when you rank loita number 5 what are you feeling? W-why is it so high?

>> No.19882515

>>19880061
My favorite novel I've read so far is number six! Some of these feel like lower tier "pop" books like say dune or harry Potter i don't think they really are on the same level as something like the holy bible or marcus Aurelius's private diary? What's so great about the g*ddamn hobbit?

>> No.19882546

>>19880061
Yes. Except Infinite Jest

>> No.19882558

>>19880476
Pretty based reality shows are quite effective on audiences i noticed how jon oliver a comedic political talk show host uses laugh tracks and sighs quite heavily to urge his liberal audience to conform and agree with the views and thoughts presented

>> No.19882572

>>19880624
Okay stop. First off extremely bigoted second it is one of THE most impactful religions on earth it has shaped life so much your little noggen cannot rp around it and its morals have guided men and nations and led to many of the values YOU YOURSELF HAVE about life and society how dare you you ignorant monkey throwing your shit how DARE you

>> No.19882604

>>19880061
what would happen if i read these in order? do i have to start with the geeks

>> No.19883229

>>19882604
I just don’t see why I need to start with the Greeks if I just want to read Anna Karina or blood meridian or moby dick

Doesn’t make sense

>> No.19883249

>>19880061
I read 14 books on the list so far. How am I doing?

>> No.19883253

>>19883249
read less, you need time and life experience to digest many of those books.

>> No.19883291

>>19880061
Yes except Dosto and the Bible

>> No.19883304

>>19882604
Start with Norwegian wood

>> No.19883338

Why is the idiot ranked so low when compared to other dost titles? Is it because it's less read than the other works?

>> No.19883379

>mostly white people fiction
Read it all put "white people fiction reader" on your twitter profile (next to your pronoun)

>> No.19883470

>>19880061
>Are they ALL worth reading?
Misleading question.

Almost all of them have at least *some* merit. So if it's a question of "read this or nothing", sure, go ahead and read it.

But you only have a finite number of hours on earth for reading fiction. [I know there are a few non-fiction works on the list but that just throws it open way too wide, so let's ignore those, and pretend it was restricted to fiction, as it should have been.] Every book you read means another you won't have time for. So the real question is not "SHOULD I READ X?" but "SHOULD I READ X RATHER THAN Y?"

Once you think in those terms, the issue is whether these 100 books are the 100 you should read above anything else. And the answer is no, obviously. There's perhaps a dozen or so here you should definitely read as a matter of course. But there are also dozens (hundreds) of absurd omissions.

You've got Kafka on the Shore and no Othello? Where's Dickens? Where's Jane Austen? Where's George Eliot? Where's Mark Twain? Where's Henry James?

If I recall correctly, that Kantbot bloke, annoying and pretentious as he is, said something sensible about this list (or another iteration of it). He said, all the books on it have some merit, but they're just picked at random. No thought has gone into the selection. The glaring omissions are one aspect of that.

>> No.19883489

>>19880638
>>19880600
cringe

>> No.19883542

>>19883470
There just a bunch of randoms peopes favorite books. Favorites and what is best do not always overlap.

>> No.19883543

>>19883542
>randoms peopes
Fuck

>> No.19883576

>>19880061
>IJ, lolita, blood meridian in top 10
>divine comedy 14
>iliad in 24
>recognitions in 28
always makes me laff.

>> No.19883579

>>19880061
look at each book's wikipedia to see if it interests you. dont read shit that doesnt appeal to you--there are too many books in the world

>> No.19883594

suck it and see

>> No.19883598

>>19883576
Newfag npc

>> No.19883602

How is the Bible there? I know children who could improve on both the moral teachings and the pride of the Bible. What nonsense.

>> No.19883619

>>19880061
>Harry Potter
Absolutely not.
>Finnegans Wake
While you can certainly appreciate the beauty of the language and the concept of the book, msot of the people who pretend to like it are pseudo-intellectuals snobs who just want to wear it as a badge. "Look, I've finished what passes for the hardest book to read". They just did it for the intellectual masturbation. Don't read it just so you can be pretentious about it. Read it if you really want to, enjoy the wild ride and the beauty of the writing, don't spend 3 day trying to find some deep-meaning to each sentences. Don't be a fuckwit.

>> No.19883775

>>19883470
lol retard

>> No.19883897

>>19883598
i've read more than you, nigger.

>> No.19884025

>>19880907
/Lit/ although it as bad times is overall one of the best boards with consistently good threads about the hobby /mu/ has a horde of non 4chan personalities and leftists and spams low quality Anthony fntano tier garbage sex spam of singers and kpop spam it's rare for me to find actual good music being shared

>> No.19884146

I read Moby Dick four years ago because it was high on the /lit/ chart and I literally think about it every single day

>> No.19884163

>>19883897
YA doesn't count, retard.

>> No.19884286

>>19883619
>>Harry Potter
>Absolutely not.
It takes like 3 days to read the entire series and it's been massively influential on an entire generation globally. There are references to the series all over the place. You may not consider it "good" but it's certainly popular and if you want to write a popular story you could do a lot worse than ripping off Harry Potter.

>> No.19884322

>>19880473
No you cannot

>> No.19884466

>>19884322
it’s shit. call me a pleb all you want, but baraka, samsara and even sans soleil are much better

>> No.19884507

>>19880082
All literature is fiction.

>> No.19884689

>>19880061
If only I had the time to read all of them, I envy you NEETs

>> No.19885957

>>19884322
>an overrated composer playing over screensavers
just go to an electronics shop and watch the footage they play to show off colors on hd tvs. play your playlist while you do so and you're set

>> No.19885986

>>19883338
Yes.