/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19892669]

Somebody told me "read a book you stupid fucking nigger" so I am here to ask about a book to read

[Anonymous No.19892670]

[Anonymous No.19892671]

>>19892669
Start with the Greeks

[Anonymous No.19892673]

>>19892669
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

[Anonymous No.19892677]

Two Treatises of Government

[Anonymous No.19892687]

Start with Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.19892692]

>>19892669
Honestly, start with genre fiction like PKD or Tolkein. They generally aren't too dense and are easy to digest; this is good for you to get into a habit of reading. Then, once you've read a few, you can move into classics which is all /lit/ would recommend.

[Anonymous No.19892694]

>>19892669
Start with the 'Bumps

[Anonymous No.19892775]

>>19892669
The Odyssey is very nice

[Anonymous No.19892990]

>>19892669
Try Pick-Up by Charles Willeford, or The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. They're both quick and easy reads.

[Anonymous No.19893008]

>>19892669
unironically the Bible.

[Rick Vigorous !!MMwVgUrCHqf No.19893053]

>>19892694
Based Steinposter

[Anonymous No.19893061]

>>19892669
Bible, Greeks, and Shakespeare. Unironically.

[Anonymous No.19893063]

>>19892692
No I don’t recommend this at all OP
>>19893008
I second this Anon. Don’t read it like with a sarcastic attitude though. Read it giving the authors the benefit of the doubt, like go into it with the mind set of “well let me see what God is like and how Him and humans interact together”

[Anonymous No.19893190]

Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising. The USSR tries to invade Germany and Iceland, but they are put to a stop by the entire US military's combined forces.

Frank Herbert's The White Plague. After an attack by the IRA on a molecular scientist killing his wife, he creates a vengeful plague seeking to kill all women on Earth.

Leon Uris's Exodus. The amazing story of the foundation of Israel. An epic novel of neo-biblical proportions!

[Anonymous No.19893197]

>>19892669
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Anonymous No.19893400]

>>19893190
>Frank Herbert's The White Plague. After an attack by the IRA on a molecular scientist killing his wife, he creates a vengeful plague seeking to kill all women on Earth.
I highly recommend this one, never seen anyone else acknowledge its existence before. Good book. Notable for being published before the structure of DNA was known, so Herbert gives it his best guess describing the modification of the pathogen which is interesting to read in retrospect. Relevant today given how easy it is to do CRISPR gene editing at home.

Also there's a reversed version of this story airing in anime form right now. In Shuumatsu no Harem, a virus killed off almost all the men except those who were in cryostasis. When the MC is woken up after five years asleep, the women who are running things are desperate to get him to breed to save the species (you can guess how a typical harem MC would respond to this).

[Anonymous No.19893451]

>>19892669
read The Bible KJV

[Anonymous No.19893459]

>>19892669
watch pewdiepies book reviews
here is my progress with lits advice

[Anonymous No.19893463]

[Anonymous No.19893467]

>>19893063
Dont do this. The bible is literature like any other. Read everything with a critical eye. Never give an author the "benefit of the doubt". Only enjoy what deserves to be enjoyed. You may enjoy the Bible, and you may not. But don't let anons tell you how to read it.

[Anonymous No.19893472]

[Anonymous No.19893481]

>>19892669
What was the context where he told you to read you stupid fucking nigger(sic) ? What do you think you could gain by reading? What would you like to say/do/think after reading?

[Anonymous No.19893525]

>>19893481
it's 4chan speak for "go read a book or something kid" which he was smart enough to go do

[Anonymous No.19893539]

>>19893467
>don’t give the author the benefit of the doubt
This is stupid advice that no one lives by.
Let say you receive a plane ticket, it was written with information that tells you stuff that informs you of how to live your life. You don’t read it with a critical eye
>oh gate 4 how do I really know it’s gate 4 and not gate 2 or 3.
Idk though it you said you read to enjoy, so that’s different than reading to understand or be changed by a work.
If you want to be changed or affected by literature you have to give the author the benefit of the doubt. I’ve done this with everything I read and I’m not accepting if everything as truth.

[Anonymous No.19894037]

>>19892669
Start with the Illiad.

[Anonymous No.19894071]

>>19892669
illiad by homer, good start

[Anonymous No.19894309]

>>19892669
These guys here are recommending fucking complex ass literature, just read the basics: fight club, animal farm,some stephen king, the hitchhikers huide to the galxy, lord of the flies etc etc. Those are simple, short and sweet books (except for stephen king his books r kinda long) and have fun reading

[Anonymous No.19894468]

>>19893539
A plane ticket does say "trust me, bro," it's true. You have to read it and give it the benefit of the doubt. I'm personally okay with this, because if I am given a plane ticket with the incorrect information, I can go to the airline company and get compensated. Eventually, I will be provided with the plane ticket which puts me in the objectively correct destination. There is finitude, in that I won't spend the rest of my life bouncing around from wrong flight to wrong flight. The plane ticket is testable. If I get off the plane in Bangkok instead of Bangor, I know that the information presented to me was wrong. You see, in these simple ways, the Bible is actually inferior to a plane ticket. For what it's worth, I'd rather read a plane ticket than the Bible any day. At least the plane ticket means I'm going somewhere.

By the way, did you know that the oldest known Bible is centuries younger than Jesus? How do you account for that lack of direct, lineal continuity? Since we're on the subject, who's to say that even if some higher power exists and whose power is indistinguishable from God, that it has any relationship whatsoever to its depiction within the Bible?

[Anonymous No.19894490]

>>19894309
Bump
If you're a weeabo might even start with the Japs
Will recommend kokoro by soseki or the setting sun by dazai

[Anonymous No.19894499]

Start with the Geeks

[Anonymous No.19894500]

>>19893197
Seconded. DADoES is what got me back into reading after high school made me stop.

[Anonymous No.19894518]

>>19892669
Maus. It's literature with funny animal pictures and is a hot topic.

[Anonymous No.19894541]

>>19893061
>>19893063
A pro tip reading hack for stupid people like me is to get a good audio book to follow along with when you read. I only recommend this for books with older styles of syntax, at least until you get used to it.

Especially with Shakespeare, but the Bible and the Greeks as well. They were all meant to be read out loud and are most effective that way. Hearing a good performer read the text brings it to life and connects you to its meaning.

[Anonymous No.19894579]

>>19893053

[Anonymous No.19894588]

>>19892669
The Elements of Style

[Anonymous No.19894591]

>>19892669
OP, I can't think of a better place for you to start your journey in literature than Call of the Crocodile.

[Anonymous No.19894642]

>>19892669
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.19894649]

>>19892692
This

[Anonymous No.19894715]

>>19892669

[Anonymous No.19894740]

>>19893008
Unironically the Greeks

[Anonymous No.19895513]

>>19893463
Why is sound and fury high tier.

Falkner didnt even like it himself.

It wasnt a particularly bad book per se, but it wasnt very deep or thought provoking either.

>whore daughter
>loss of innocence felt by everyone but the whore daughter
>retardation, suicide
>nigger endured