/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21828825]

How do you choose which book to read next?
I decided to read books from the image.
My problem is I don't know if the books are for beginners or not, from the list. Idk how reliable goodreads is.
What is your method of choosing what to read next?

[Anonymous No.21828855]

Bruh, those are all for beginners (maybe except Ulysses).
Just start with something that looks interesting to you.

[Anonymous No.21828878]

>>21828825
The lIiad.

[Anonymous No.21828972]

>>21828825
I pay attention to synchronicities that collide with my current interests and feelings and lead me further down the road I am currently treading.

[Anonymous No.21828990]

>>21828825
>What is your method of choosing what to read next?
I picked a genre (novel), now I pick a country (France), I make a list, and I read the major works chronologically. Then I move to the next country. It's going to take years to get anywhere, but at least it gives me a sense of direction and purpose.

[Anonymous No.21829072]

>>21828825
What ever the last book inspired me to read.
Then after a while I switch it up.

[Anonymous No.21829444]

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[Anonymous No.21829481]

>>21828825
There is a /lit/ starter kit, you ciuld start there, all of the starter kits bools are in the top 100

[Anonymous No.21829739]

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[Voluntary Fool No.21831155]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

[Anonymous No.21831167]

>>21828825
If you're a beginner, try starting with short-ish books. If they are too hard, then leave them on the side and go back to them later. From that pic most should be doable. Stoner is a pretty good one to start.

[Anonymous No.21831291]

>books for beginners
what the heck does it mean?

[Anonymous No.21831404]

You could be like me and try to read Infinite Jest, Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Brothers Karamazov, Catch 22 and Book of the New Sun at the same time. Just read the one you feel like that day. You'll eventually finish them.

[Anonymousn No.21831408]

I just persue my stack, pull out a few who look especially eager or who have been pestering me for far too long, lay them side by side on my bed, and submit to a Sovereign Whim.

[Anonymous No.21831413]

>>21828825
I have so much shit piled up on my reading stack that it simply becomes a matter of picking what interests me most in that moment

[Anonymous No.21832082]

>>21831404
just the idea of that fucks me up

I read a book. Then write down when I finished it and what it was about/what I took away from it.
Then on to the next

[Anonymous No.21832145]

Usually some idea or a different book piques my curiosity, I come on here and ask for a book of a similar kind, and I read the most promising recommendation(s) from the thread.

[Anonymous No.21832194]

>>21828825
Read for fun. You can try pretentious, preachy, "philosophical" novels once you enjoy reading and it's an habit. It is not a competition, or a race, no one cares. Just read what you like, DNF what you don't like.

[Anonymous No.21832231]

>>21828825
>My problem is I don't know if the books are for beginners or not, from the list.
If you're worrying about something being too difficult for you then look at the other works the author has, or maybe search for something like "Where to start with (author)" and you may find a good guide. If you're strictly sticking to that list then you shouldn't have too much trouble. Download a PDF of the book you're interested in, read a few pages, and if you like it then keep going/buy it if you want.
>What is your method of choosing what to read next?
Seek out what books or writers inspired the writers I like the most, if any of them align with my interests then I try them out.

[Anonymous No.21832299]

>>21828825
6 of the top 7 on that chart are absolute dogshit books. Don't get tricked by "le meme" charts like this.

[Anonymous No.21832379]

>>21828825
>Bible at #11

[Anonymous No.21832381]

>>21832379
It wouldn't break top 100 on reddit's list.

[Anonymous No.21832388]

>>21832381
It didn't even break the top 10 on this list and they put fucking Lolita as #5. Also fuck them for putting Portrait of an Artist more than 20 places higher than Finnegan's Wake.

[Anonymous No.21832401]

>>21831291
children's books

[Anonymous No.21832825]

>>21832379
Shouldn't even be on the list

[Anonymous No.21832833]

roll

[Anonymous No.21832972]

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[Anonymous No.21833057]

I keep a list of what I want to read sorted by interest level, and when I want a new book I scroll through the list and pick one on a whim.

[Anonymous No.21833071]

I have only read 21 books from this list

[Anonymous No.21833099]

>>21832388
im reading lolita and i think im getting filtered, it is pretty but i can't gather any sympathy for Humbert , i just don't see how the book is meant to "make you empathize with a horrible person" when i just see what he does as simply wrong.
im reading Portrait of an Artist soon since i heard that nabokov took a inspiration from it.

[Anonymous No.21833130]

>>21833099
I don't know if you're really supposed to sympathize with Humbert, just gain insight into his depraved mind and learn about one extreme end of the human condition. Maybe your sympathy or lack thereof will also give you insight into yourself and how you view humanity in it's various forms.

[Anonymous No.21833161]

>>21833099
You're not supposed to sympathize with Humbert... who the hell told you that? The narrator isn't reliable either, he paints the whole thing as a love story between him and Lolita and then at the very end when he visits her when she's older, he means absolutely nothing to her. It's the separation between what the narrator is telling you (beautiful prose, his own justifications, self-pity, misreading situations and Lolita herself) and the reality (he killed her mother and kidnapped Lolita, bringing her across the country so he could sexually abuse her in privacy) its interesting in that regard, of people are thinking the book is meant to make you empathize with Humbert they're really misreading it

[Anonymous No.21833662]

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[Anonymous No.21833684]

>>21828825
The stranger is a good one. I read the whole thing while smoking a cigar and drinking whiskey in my backyard one summer day.

[Anonymous No.21834077]

>>21832194
This.
Just read what interests you and don't be a pretentious pseud about it.

[Anonymous No.21834258]

>>21833071
Don't feel bad anon I've only read 11. Keep plugging

[Anonymous No.21834856]

I have a similar problem
>start reading book
>read first chapter/20-30 pages
>think 'man, this is really good. I love this writing style and it's very engaging'
>stop reading for the night
>lose any and all interest in finishing it or continuing
I've barely read this year, even stuff that I usually like. My interests change a lot and by the time I get a book I'm interested in I'm already on to something else

[Anonymous No.21834865]

>>21828825
rolling

[Anonymous No.21834913]

>>21828825
Don't worry if it's for "beginners." Take everything a sentence at a time, and even the "tough" books will be readable. Care more about if it actually sounds like something you want to read, and the more you read the more you'll know what you like or don't like. I'd say start with genre fiction, it might be easier to discover your tastes. Think about what movies you like, and find a book that's similar.
I have enough books stacked around my house that if I'm really stuck for what to read next I basically just grab one at random. I almost never make plans for what to read next, it's either that or based on my mood.

[Anonymous No.21834936]

>>21828855
Eat shit and die

[Anonymous No.21834983]

>>21834936
???

[Anonymous No.21834990]

>>21828855
Stop calling all books easy, they aren't. These aren't all "beginner" books.

[Anonymous No.21835120]

>>21834990
But they are. What are beginners books if not those? The Very Hungry Caterpillar?

[Anonymous No.21835594]

>>21831404
Mindbroken by /lit/, tragic.

[Anonymous No.21835631]

>>21828972 this
One book will definitely reference another book whether it was inspired by or historically related to it or whatever. So read that book. Or read another book by the same other. Or sane time period. Or same place. Or same theme. Something in common, some kind of overlap is what I’m saying here.

[Anonymous No.21835657]

>>21835631
Just don't read Moby Dick because that would just lead to (even more) interracial gay stuff.

[Anonymous No.21835676]

>>21828825
I add random books that goodreads recommends me based on my already read books to my reading list, go to a bookstore to buy them and pick up other books that I think might be interesting in the process
I also watch a lot of movies so if a movie I like is based on a book I read the book as well

[Anonymous No.21837486]

>>21834983
>All for beginners
I guarantee you've not even read 25% of them and you're spouting off your psuedo take.

[Anonymous No.21837506]

I check the scaruffi books section

[Anonymous No.21837563]

what i've read

lolita - nice language. I wasn't super into it, it's good though.

Don Quixote - I have a copy I think I read some of it but got distracted

The Stranger - I read the whole thing in a single sitting in Barnes and Nobles. I remember not really getting it

1984 - I've read this 4 times. I really really like it, his writing hits the sweet spot of not over the top but still beautiful. Something about the world in it hits my brain just right. I'm really into surveillance states. If I could live in one for just maybe 3 weeks I would. Everytime I think about this book I'd like to read it again.

Catcher in the Rye - one of my favorites

The Metamorphosis - I like it.

Siddartha- My dad bought me a copy of this when I graduated highschool. I read it, I remember absolutely nothing about it.

Brave New World - I didn't like it as much as 1984, kind of a dissapointment. Less about surveillance and more about colonization.

A Confederacy of Dunces- I remember enjoying it, I didn't finish it for some reason. I think I got bored near the end where he's in the hospital bed.

American Psycho - It's not good. At all. I have no idea how this book got a movie. I'm glad it did. That cover is sick

The Naked Lunch - Reading it now. Kind of reminds me of a scanner darkly, but better. It's decent.

The Great Gatesby - very good.

Dune - overrated but good

As I lay dying - fantastic, visceral, made me feel a lot of intense feelings.

A Clockwork Orange - it's gimmick is the best part about it. Enjoyed the book more than the movie.

[Anonymous No.21837886]

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[Anonymous No.21837924]

>>21831291
Im fond of pictures personally

[Anonymous No.21838217]

>>21828825
I have a stack of 20 books at any given time, plus 50 books from the canon. I alternate between easy and hard reading, and regularly work in non-fiction. That schedule leaves me a pretty small selection to choose from every time I finish a book. Combined with a monthly book club, the choice is never very hard.

How I refill the stack of 20 is simply chaotic.

For example, I'm currently starting the Gaunt's Ghost series because my friends want to get into 40k. Next, I will be reading the Faust play for the book club. After that, one of the non-fic books I have such as Haidt's The Righteous Mind.

[Anonymous No.21838227]

> hear of a book
> like the concept
> read it
> like it

[Anonymous No.21838234]

>>21837924
I love illustrations in (adult) books. I wish more publishers did it.

[Anonymous No.21838471]

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