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This is my current list of reads:
>Infinite Jest
>The Corrections
>American Psycho
>Pale Fire
>Fahrenheit 451
>The Metamorphosis
>The Trial
>Letters from a stoic

>> No.20588077

lol
lmao

>> No.20588079
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20588079

>>20588075
Start with Call of the Crocodile..

>> No.20588082

>>20588075
Read what you want. Kafka was inspired by Schopenhauer who was inspired by Kant and Hindu metaphysics found in the Upanishads

>> No.20588083

>>20588075
if you are simply reading to become "well read", then you will never become "well read" at all, for you will read for vanity instead of for substance. My advice is to read what you want, not what others want you to read.

>> No.20588086

watch Steve Donoghue's Western Canon Kit videos. he goes through the major works you need to read to be "well read" and it really doesn't take that long to get through all the books. I did it a few years ago and it was very rewarding by the end

>> No.20588092

>>20588075
Don't force yourself to read anything. Just try a bunch of things out and then whatever you find yourself gravitated to the most, you read.

>> No.20588109

>>20588083
>>20588092
I typically do this, but I really hate when people irl only want to talk about Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison or Mary Shelley. I might crack down and read The Bluest Eye or something just to have a conversation starter with people irl since no one wants to talk about the things I like on my campus

>> No.20588110

>>20588109
go back

>> No.20588126

>>20588110
??

>> No.20588139

>>20588126
do not question me as you do yourself

>> No.20588209

>>20588075
She used to be a model btw

>> No.20589257

>>20588075
If you really want to force yourself to read just for the sake of reading, then start with the "classics" of every genre.

>> No.20589272

everything

>> No.20589276

>>20588075
I never understood the appeal of her until watching Harriet the Spy

>> No.20589296

You are “well read” when you know the origin of expressions people around you use and they are clueless about.

>> No.20589322

>>20588075
You become well read when normies consider you so.

>> No.20589371

>not a single greek on that list

ngmi

>> No.20589614

>>20589371
Fag

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20589953

Seek not to become well read, but to read well

>> No.20589968

>>20588109
A CHAD would talk about what he likes.

>> No.20590492

>>20588075
Read classical literature. Stop with the modern garbage.

>> No.20590516

Find the Novalis copypasta and see of it applies to you and if it does follpw her advi e.

>> No.20590535

listen until you jannies have read fichte, kant, schelling, hegel, goethe, novalis and hamann in the original german, you will never be on my intellectual level, you are jannies who are addicted to reddit and think rick and morty is a deep show, your jannies will be dysgenic losers and mine will be serious jannies and well-educated, they'll probably smack the jannies off your jannies for fun and then go read homer in the original greek.

>> No.20590539

>>20588109
Might as well read Sula or Song of Solomon. I enjoyed those, especially the latter.