Must-reads for undergrads

[Anonymous No.20532299]

>t. College kid wanting to get cultured

[Anonymous No.20532303]

>>20532299
Call of the Crocodile

[Anonymous No.20532307]

>>20532303
/thread

[Anonymous No.20532315]

For example, these are the only books I have read so far:
>Infinite Jest
>The corrections
>Fahrenheit 451
>Pale Fire
>The trial

[Anonymous No.20532323]

>>20532299
Johnny the warlord.

[Anonymous No.20532330]

>>20532299
You must learn philosophy.
Start with Plato (The Republic, the trial and death of Socrates).

[Anonymous No.20532405]

The Dunciad will blow your shorts off

[Anonymous No.20532416]

>>20532299
if you dont talk as loud as a jet engine and allow others in the conversation to get at least two or three sentences in, you will already be more articulate and bearable then 60% of college students who "read"

[Anonymous No.20532444]

>>20532315
If you really read Infinite Jest then you've already consumed enough literature to act like an asshole for the rest of your life.

[Anonymous No.20532487]

>>20532444
While that may be true, I still want to enrich my library with quality reads. Sure, I can already impress or provoke envy from my coworkers, but I want more

[Anonymous No.20532499]

>>20532487
The Rape of the Lock

[Anonymous No.20532508]

>>20532405
What makes it so great?

>>20532330
How is Kant? Is he seen as cool or boring?

>>20532416
I prefer to listen a lot and then drop a well crafted sentence periodically, aiming to compliment their ideas or expand the conversation to further topics. However, I also like going on your monologues with friends, who now just hang-up the phone or feign a phone call any time i approach with a topic above superficial small talk

[Anonymous No.20532550]

Personally, I remember that Penrose's "The emperor's new clothes" opened my mind to the weird world of quantum mechanics and to what complex forces and mechanisms are behind our everyday lives. Pretty interesting and I wish anyone in my compsci class had read it so I could have discussed it with them
Also, Marvin Minsky

Besides these, I think just learning about every possible culture and country in the world, even just a little. I recommend those "Short history of..." books and watching a ton of documentaries.

[Anonymous No.20532566]

>>20532508
>What makes it so great?
The Dunciad begins by showing what can happen when a poet (a "Dunciad," for "a writer on small things") turns out to be more of a bumbler at the job he excels at doing and less of a master-mind to rival Dr. Johnson, of whom Johnson speaks thus: "Though I say so I know not much to add; only an Author's knowledge of himself is always greater than ours; I always thought his Poem [i.e. The Gentleman-Bachelor, of which more hereafter] weak because his head was full of it, his ears too full, and his pen too idle."

[Anonymous No.20532567]

>>20532299
pic related

[Anonymous No.20532569]

>>20532508
in one of my philosophy classes, i was the only one who had read kant before taking the course. so boring

[Anonymous No.20532581]

>>20532550
>opened my mind to the weird world of quantum mechanics and to what complex forces and mechanisms
Have you read any other good books on this? Can you recommend more?

[Anonymous No.20532589]

>>20532567
Bros why didn’t I go here? Literally /lit/ the school. Never even knew about it.

[Anonymous No.20532616]

>>20532567
What an awful and asinine list and reading order.

[Anonymous No.20533328]

Two biggest coals in soi history linked up? Bump that shit WAY up my dude!

[Anonymous No.20533409]

>>20532299
nothing you are a debt slave now

[Anonymous No.20533558]

>>20532299
Hey, kids, catch this!

[Anonymous No.20533692]

>>20532303
Fpbp

[Anonymous No.20533695]

1. The Iliad
2. The odyssey
3. The Aeneid
4. Oedipus Rex
5. Clouds
6. Prometheus Bound
7. Medea
8. The Bacchae
9. The Canterbury tales
10. Candide
11. Madame Bovary
12. The sorrows of young werther
13. Faust
14. Moby dick
15. Jane eyre
16. Wuthering heights
17. Walden
18. Fahrenheit 451
19. Catcher in the rye
20. The divine comedy
21. Paradise lost
22. Ulysses
23. Dubliners
24. To the lighthouse
25. Mrs Dalloway
26. Frankenstein
27. Dracula
28. The turn of the screw
29. A tale of two cities
30. Hard times
31. Les miserables
32. Infinite jest
33. One hundred years of solitude
34. Catch 22
35. On the road
36. Notes from underground
37. Crime and punishment
38. The devils
39. The idiot
40. War and peace
41. Anna karenina
42. Stoner
43. Collected stories anton Chekhov
44. The sound and the fury
45. Don Quixote
46. Master and margarita
47. Swann’s way
48. The count of Monte Cristo
49. Tom Sawyer
50. Huckleberry Finn

[Anonymous No.20533696]

51. Venus in furs
52. A confederacy of dunces
53. Great expectations
54. The metamorphoses
55. Little women
56. The scarlet letter
57. Pride and prejudice
58. The red and the black
59. The charterhouse of Parma
60. The picture of Dorian grey
61. Narcissus and goldmund
62. Siddhartha
63. On the marble cliffs
64. Vanity fair
65. Enuma elish
66. The epic of Gilgamesh
67. The old man and the sea
68. Bhagvad Gita
69. The upanishads
70. Hamlet
71. Richard III
72. Antony and Cleopatra
73. Romeo and Juliet
74. Lolita
75. Beowulf
76. King Arthur
77. Pere goriot
78. The song of Roland
79. Sea of fertility 1
80. Sof 2
81. Sof 3
82. Sof 4
83. JR
84. Concrete
85. Brave new world
86. 1984
87. Against nature
88. Story of the eye
89. No longer human
90. The grapes of wrath
91. The brothers karamazov
92. To kill a mockingbird
93. Animal farm
94. The stranger
95. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
96. Hesiod’s theogony
97. Post office
98. Steppenwolf
99. Growth of the soil
100. The magic mountain

[Anonymous No.20533697]

>>20532299
Start with Being and time and Critique of pure reason, then move on to The hunger games series.

[Anonymous No.20533698]

Non fiction:

1. Literary theory AVSI (a very short introduction)
2. The great code
3. Anatomy of criticism
4. The hero with 1000 faces
5. Ego and archetype
6. Gnostic Jung
7. Maps of meaning
8. Industrial society and its future
9. Plato’s republic
10. Will Durant history of philosophy
11. The western canon
12. Myths to live by
13. The holy grail Joseph Campbell
14. Inner reaches of outer space
15. Thou art that
16. Sacred feminine Joseph Campbell
17. The diamond sutra
18. The heart sutra
19. The bible
20. Inner work
21. Answer to job
22. Synchronicity
23. Emotional intelligence
24. Creation myths
25. Alchemy
26. The inner world of trauma
27. The red book
28. The origins and history of consciousness
29. Cosmic serpent
30. Intelligence in nature
31. DMT the spirit molecule
32. food of the gods
33. The vedas
34. Kant a very short introduction
35. Hegel AVSI
36. Spinoza AVSI
37. Nietzsche AVSI
38. Kierkegaard AVSI
39. Schopenhauer AVSI
40. Plato AVSI
41. Socrates AVSI
42. Aristotle AVSI
43. God is nothingness
44. Pursuing consciousness
45. No-mind: realising your true nature
46. History of the west
47. Touching enlightenment
48. Spiritual enlightenment: the damndest thing
49. The doctrine of awakening
50. God: an anatomy

[Anonymous No.20533702]

51. Dominion (history of the Catholic Church)
52. The decline of the west
53. Jung on active imagination
54. Essays of Mark Twain
55. The feminine in fairy tales
56. Individuation in fairy tales
57. History of the federal reserve
58. The big short
59. The history of the ancient world
60. Plutarch’s lives
61. The crusades AVSI (a very short introduction)
62. Spqr
63. Guns germs and steel
64. Thomas aquinas AVSI
65. Theology AVSI
66. Buddhism AVSI
67. Islam AVSI
68. Hinduism AVSI
69. Quantum mechanics AVSI
70. Cosmology AVSI
71. Jung AVSI
72. Logic AVSI
73. Classics AVSI
74. Modernism AVSI
75. Postmodernism AVSI
76. Political philosophy AVSI
77. Nietzsche AVSI
78. Foucault AVSI
79. Derrida AVSI
80. Wittgenstein AVSI
81. Heidegger AVSI
82. Continental Philosophy AVSI
83. Analytical Philosophy AVSI
84. Capitalism AVSI
85. Socialism AVSI
86. The Celts AVSI
87. Geopolitics AVSI
88. Neoliberalism AVSI
89. Free will AVSI
90. Vikings AVSI
91. Anglo Saxon Britain AVSI
92. Critical thinking toolkit
93. Statistics AVSI
94. Time AVSI
95. Drugs AVSI
96. The bible: a very short introduction
97. The history of astronomy AVSI
98. Nicomachean Ethics
99. Critique of pure reason
100. Phenomenology of spirit

[Anonymous No.20533800]

The fate of empires by John Bagot Glubb

[Anonymous No.20534650]

>>20532299
Go to the sticky, pick a couple you like.

[Anonymous No.20534758]

Two biggest coals in soi history linked up? Bump that shit WAY up my dude!

[Anonymous No.20535700]

A few I read in college that I'd recommend:
1. Stoner
2. A Country Doctor's Notebook (especially Morphine)
3. Europe in Sepia
4. The Fall
5. The Tartar Steppe

[Anonymous No.20535714]

>>20532299
>stoner
>anything of the great pynchon books (gravity's rainbow, mason and dixon, and against the day), if you liked infinite jest, I think he's an easy choice for ya
>blood meridian
>miss lonelyhearts
>underworld
>the brothers karamazov
>crime and punishment
>junkie
>the recognitions
>100 years of solitude
>dante's inferno
>Shakespeare's great tragedies
>moby dick

[Anonymous No.20535720]

>>20533695
>>20533696
immaculate list, nothing wrong with it