Can you just fucking tell me which 20 books I need to read?

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Anonymous Tue Jun 13 18:46:59 2023 No.22143589 [Reply] [Original]

Can you just fucking tell me which 20 books I need to read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 18:48:52 2023 No.22143594 >>22143589 bible

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 18:51:04 2023 No.22143603 >>22143589 The 50 volumes of Kim Il-Sung's collected works

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 18:52:22 2023 No.22143608 I can tell you to drink 20 drinks but it doesn't mean you'll get drunk

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 18:52:55 2023 No.22143611 >>22143589 kys

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 18:57:35 2023 No.22143619 20? Pffft hahaha

Anonymous Tue Jun 13 18:58:38 2023 No.22143621

>>22143589
1. The Odyssey
2. Ramayana
3. Beowulf
4. The Tale of Genji
5. Masnavi
6. The Divine Comedy
7. The Canterbury Tales
8. Journey to the West
9. Julius Caesar
10. Don Quixote
11. Paradise Lost
12. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
13. Pride and Prejudice
14. Moby-Dick
15. Les Miserables
16. Crime and Punishment
17. War and Peace
18. In Search of Lost Time
19. Giovanni's Room
20. Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 19:01:25 2023 No.22143626 >>22143589 The Turner Diaries The Turner Diaries 2: Returner The Turn3r Diaries ...

Anonymous Tue Jun 13 19:02:41 2023 No.22143631

>>22143608
As long as you're not suggesting anything NA, then 20 drinks is enough to get anyone drunk, whether it's 20 beers or 20 exactly measured mixers(not doubles, not overserved like you are at your local bar).

It doesn't mean you'll black out though. I unfortunately never blacked out. I say unfortunately because that means I remember everything I said. Embarrassing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 19:03:11 2023 No.22143632 >>22143621 NWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAWWWAAB

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 19:31:15 2023 No.22143711 Great Books of the Western World, volumes 4-54. https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabritannicagreatbooksofthewesternworld/ Thank me later.

Anonymous Tue Jun 13 20:54:30 2023 No.22144206

>>22143589
>tao te ching
>borges collected fictions
>in search of lost time
>leaves of grass
>as many bukowski poetry volumes as possible
>death of ivan ilyich
dont waste time with the rest of literature just spend that time lifting and kitesurfing instead

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 22:58:21 2023 No.22144891 File: 32 KB, 657x527, c4f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22143608 >Missed the point And this mfka what to read books huh...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 22:58:28 2023 No.22144892 >>22143589 Euclid's Elements IN GREEK The Holy Bible IN GREEK The Complete Works of Plato IN GREEK The Collected Works of Aristotle IN GREEK A playboy magazine IN GREEK A gayboy magazine IN GREEK

Anonymous Tue Jun 13 23:04:45 2023 No.22144914

1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid
2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
4 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
5 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
6 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
7 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
8 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
9 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
11 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
12 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway
13 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown
14 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
15 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
16 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot
17 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde
18 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
19 The Iliad
20 Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 23:05:03 2023 No.22144917 >>22143621 Solid

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 23:55:26 2023 No.22145092 >>22144914 >upvoted

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 13 23:56:03 2023 No.22145097 >>22143621 Pretty decent list. Do you have a definitive version of Journey to the West to recc? Either complete or abridged, that's a lot of shit to read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 01:29:16 2023 No.22145440 >>22145097 NTA but try the Anthony Yu translation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 02:03:41 2023 No.22145576 >>22143589 start with the greeks

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 10:05:38 2023 No.22146733 >>22144914 Shut up and take my Reddit gold

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 11:54:58 2023 No.22146957 File: 63 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault (30).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22143589 Why not read them all?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 12:20:27 2023 No.22147051 >>22143621 Solid list but I'd add Lolita somewhere in there

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 12:21:08 2023 No.22147054 >>22143621 >Giovanni's Room GAAAAAAAYYYYY

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 12:29:05 2023 No.22147071 >>22143621 >Giovanni's Room No.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 13:09:14 2023 No.22147189 >>22144914 BASED

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 13:40:44 2023 No.22147280 >>22144892 LLPSI IN GREEK

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 14 14:45:02 2023 No.22147501 File: 537 KB, 1080x1256, 1686753814737.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22144914 My screen is TEARING REEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Voluntary Fool Wed Jun 14 20:57:48 2023 No.22149004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 06:23:50 2023 No.22150593 >>22147501 haha you have a shitty monitor

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 06:26:40 2023 No.22150597 >>22144914 lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 06:30:56 2023 No.22150605 >>22143621 Good list until >19. Giovanni's Room >20. Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 11:09:55 2023 No.22150990 File: 19 KB, 400x400, LqGIy_Wt_400x400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22143621 >no classics

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 11:12:35 2023 No.22150997 I hate those threads and people like you, OP. >omg give me shortcut, surely only reading those 10 or 20 greatest books will be enough for me I would never have to read anything else for the rest of my life!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 11:18:46 2023 No.22151006 >>22144914 shit list, didn't include Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do It Yourself Book

Anonymous Thu Jun 15 12:25:52 2023 No.22151173

>>22143589

Here is a list of books that will actually change the way you see the world:

1. Tao Te Ching
2. Zhuangzi
3. Upanishads
4. The Master and his Emissary
5. The Matter with Things
6. The Conscious Mind
7. The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times
8. In Search of Lost Time
9. Simulacra and Simulation
10. Fear and Trembling
11. War and Peace
12. Germs, Guns and Steel
13. Ulysses
14. Fathers and Sons
15. Mind & Cosmos
16. Basic Writings - Heideggar
17. The Experience of God
18. The Case Against Reality
19. The Genealogy of Morals
20. Consciousness and Its Place in Nature

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 12:32:46 2023 No.22151200 >>22151173 >7. The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times Stopped reading your list right there

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 12:37:42 2023 No.22151208 >>22151200 OK

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 13:07:47 2023 No.22151252 File: 46 KB, 667x1000, CD14ED3A-343F-4B44-A90F-44814D9F0EE3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22143589

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 13:40:24 2023 No.22151312 >>22143589 Depends, are you a Graeco-Latin chad or a barbarian?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 13:56:10 2023 No.22151345 >>22143589 >1. The Odyssey I can't follow these kind of Greek god books. They're always hopping around between dozens of different characters every other sentence.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 14:04:23 2023 No.22151370 >>22151252 Why bother to read this when you could just read all the books that either refuted it or improved on it? It's like reading Origin of Species rather than a modern work on evolution by James Shapiro or Simon Conway Morris.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 14:11:43 2023 No.22151385 >>22143621 Substitute Ramayana with Mahabharata. Mahabharata contains Ramayana in it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 17:11:37 2023 No.22151930 >>22151173 Based.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 17:54:01 2023 No.22152060 >>22143621 *tips fedora

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 17:57:35 2023 No.22152068 the twenty books you're most interested in, then the next twenty books you're most interested in, and so on and so forth

Anonymous Thu Jun 15 17:58:01 2023 No.22152070

>>22143626
The Quattuorner Diaries
The Turner Diaries 5: this one's a real pageturner
The Turner Diaries 666
The Seventh Circle Turner Diaries
The Turner Diaries ∞
The Turner Diaries 6 but reversed
The Turner Diaries One-Zero
The Turner Diaries Up To Eleven
...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 17:58:43 2023 No.22152073 >>22143589 do you have a mind of your own or better yet,a personality?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 20:57:41 2023 No.22152602 >>22151370 >Critique of Pure Reason >refuted Pick one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 15 22:08:36 2023 No.22152792 >>22152602 It was retroactively refuted by Hume. Or more accurately Kant tried to refute Hume and failed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 00:28:03 2023 No.22153197 >>22151370 knowing the foundations of a theory is essential to be able to properly understand modern developments

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 00:30:27 2023 No.22153205 I'm going to be honest I'm not sure if anybody on /lit/ has ever even seen a book, let alone read one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 00:36:17 2023 No.22153224 File: 6 KB, 256x267, low key jej.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22152070 >The Turner Diaries 5: this one's a real pageturner

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 01:14:09 2023 No.22153332

>>22153205
Not easy, but for an English/American reader, here goes:
1. Homer, Illiad
2. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
3. Plato, Republic
4. Aeschylus, Oresteia
5. Tacitus, Annals and Histories
6. JPS TANAKH
7. KJV NT (+ Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs)
8. Dante, Divine Comedy
9. Cervantes, Don Quixote
10. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
11. Montaigne, Essays
12. Shakespeare 10 plays (to include Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry IV I & 2, Henry V) + sonnets
13. Milton, Paradise Lost
14. Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (very important)
15. Spinoza, Ethics
16. Cellini, Autobiography
17. Boswell's Life of Johnson
18. Melville, Moby Dick
19. Tolstoy, Anna K
20. Kafka, complete short works including Metamorphosis
*agonized over this last one; Kafka or Proust?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 01:18:37 2023 No.22153348 >>22143621 jesus christ how pedestrian. i guarantee this is from some subreddit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 01:34:17 2023 No.22153391 >>22153332 >Cellini Love seeing someone else mention it besides myself

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 02:08:14 2023 No.22153480 >>22151173 >Basic Writings - Heideggar >phenomenology is the study of the self-showing of things in how they show themselves in themselves >truth is the disclosing the undisclosedness of things as they disclose themselves Cool?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 02:09:39 2023 No.22153482 >>22152792 >Kant tried to refute Hume and failed Say more. I’m genuinely interested in the thought process behind this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 03:00:54 2023 No.22153631 >>22143594 that's 73 books retard

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 03:16:33 2023 No.22153657

>>22143589
[1] Marienbad My Love - Mark Leach
[2] The Blah Story - Nigel Tomm
[3] The Story of the Vivian Girls - Henry Darger
[4] The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan et Brandon Sanderson
[5] Trial by Tenderness - Cevn McGuire
[6] Artamène - Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry
[7] À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
[8] Mission Terre - L. Ron Hubbard
[9] Sironia, Texas - Madison Cooper
[10] Les Mohicans de Paris - Alexandre Dumas
[11] A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
[12] Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
[13] Poor Fellow My Country - Xavier Herbert
[14] Miss MacIntosh, My Darling - Marguerite Young
[15] La Grève - Ayn Rand
[16] Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas
[17] Un garçon convenable - Vikram Seth
[18] Guerre et Paix - Leo Tolstoy
[19] Le Moulin du Pô - Riccardo Bacchelli
[20] Remembrance Rock - Carl Sandburg

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 03:29:24 2023 No.22153679 >>22143589 There are lists in the "welcome to /lit/" sticky. Just pick one at random and read it.

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 03:39:56 2023 No.22153693
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>>22153391
It's a wonderful book. Because I was thinking not just in terms of 'classic' but in terms of 'form,' I figured it was either Cellini or St. Augustine --or maybe even Rousseau-- as repping the 'autobiographic' mode.
I first read it in a Penguin but have since picked up pic'd Phaidon which has 50+ plates of the author's work, a really nice little volume. Surprised that the 'serial killer' reading community hasn't discovered Cellini yet! --Happy Bloom's Day, m8

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 05:15:22 2023 No.22153873

1 Hamlet
2 King Lear
3 Othello
4 Macbeth
5 Julius Caesar
6 Antony and Cleopatra
7 Coriolanus
8 Measure for Measure
9 Richard III
10 Richard II
11 Henry IV part 1
12 Henry IV part 2
13 Henry V
14 The Tempest
15 Measure for Measure
16 Romeo and Juliet
17 A Midsummer Nights Dream
18 As You Like It
19 Timon of Athens
20 Finnegans Wake

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 06:53:29 2023 No.22154085

>>22143589
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian

Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
Bloom, Paul

Pump Six and Other Stories
Bacigalupi, Paolo

Seven Nights
Reyes, Quinn

Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)
Porter, Eleanor H.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Zevin, Gabrielle

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Le Guin, Ursula K.

San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo
Fowler, Edward

Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day
Blomerth, Brian

Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
Wilson, Rainn

Escape from Incel Island
Killjoy, Margaret

Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
Lane-McKinley, Madelin

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 07:02:29 2023 No.22154107

>>22143589
Depends what you're after. Here's some survey shit while you decide:

>Copelston's History of Western Philosophy
>Gibbon's History of Rome
>Spengler & Toynbee
>Beiser's German Idealism histories

That said keep it simple and do Plato through the late Neoplatonics. Have to have a grounding somewhere in the canon/tradition, may as well be there (snag the old Thomas Taylor translations).

>Nonfiction (Philosophy)
>Nonfiction (History)
>Classic literature
>Modern/Contemporary literature
>Essays/short fiction or Poets

Structure your reading queues and float between them in an Active Queue of the next 5 things you're reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 08:17:11 2023 No.22154241 >>22143589 Which Way Western Man? by Simpson

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 08:27:52 2023 No.22154258

>>22143589
1. The God Delusion
2. God is Not Great
3. Infidel
4. On the Nature of the Universe
5. The Golden Bough
6. The End of Faith
7. The Future of an Illusion
8. The Problems of Philosophy
9. God and the State
10. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
11. Utilitarianism
12. The Age of Reason
13. The Doors of Perception
14. On Liberty
15. The Selfish Gene
16. The Art of Living (Epictetus)
17. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
18. Why I am Not a Christian
19. The Nicomachean Ethics
20. The Trial and Death of Socrates

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 09:20:29 2023 No.22154349

>>22154258
This is like when a child is playing a trick on people and everyone knows they're playing a trick but the child is too retarded to realise how obvious it is and everyone is just going along with it to humour him. How retarded must you be to think this is good bait? Do you think you were being really clever when you sprinkled in a couple of good books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 09:25:38 2023 No.22154361 >>22154258 Holy based >>22154349 Seethe christcuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 09:32:36 2023 No.22154369 >>22143589 You need to read to be truly happy, but you won't be happy due to reading alone. As for the specific books, the problem is that you rely on others' opinions. While you formulate the question like that, you haven't even started.

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 09:34:29 2023 No.22154375

1. Based on a true story
2. American psycho
3. Alaskan bear tales
4. Huck Finn
5. Happy slapped by a jellyfish
6. John Lennon the life
7. The book of Job
8. The death of Ivan ilyich
9. Endgame by frank brady
10. Bobby Fischer vs the rest of the world
11. All the kings men
12. Swing your sword
13. The godfather
14. The adventures of captain underpants 1
15. Born standing up
16. Saturday night backstage weingrad
17. The holiness of God
18. Gravity’s rainbow
19. Life on the Mississippi
20. Bounce

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 09:38:22 2023 No.22154382 >>22154361 Samefagging won't make anyone fall for your bait

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 16:24:16 2023 No.22155433

>>22154375
Some interesting titles, anon. Recently picked up a copy of Twain's Joan of Arc having read somewhere that it was of all his books his personal favorite (have yet to read it, however). Of the Twain I've read I liked Life on the Mississippi best

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 16:27:34 2023 No.22155449

>>22143589
Hello there. As Thomas Pynchon, I understand your desire to cut through the noise and get to the heart of the matter. However, when it comes to recommending books, it's important to recognize that everyone's tastes and interests are different. What might be a transformative read for one person could be a snooze-fest for another.

That being said, I can offer a few suggestions for books that have had a profound impact on me personally, and that I believe are worth reading for anyone interested in literature and the human experience:

1. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
2. "Ulysses" by James Joyce
3. "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon (shameless self-promotion, I know)
4. "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
5. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
8. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
9. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
11. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
12. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
13. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
14. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
15. "1984" by George Orwell
16. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
17. "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
18. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
20. "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

Of course, this is just a small sampling of the countless great works of literature out there. I encourage you to explore on your own and find the books that speak to you personally. Happy reading!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 16:43:46 2023 No.22155511 >>22155449 Prove you're Thomas Pynchon. Send a pic of yourself holding a handwritten note saying "hey /lit/"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 16:44:36 2023 No.22155514 >>22155449 This is frighteningly plausible in its devil-may-care blithe-spirited grandfatherliness..

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 16:52:54 2023 No.22155546 >>22155449 Is it ok to be in love with V., despite? Her dismantling by children ripped my guts out!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 16:54:52 2023 No.22155558 >>22155511 Shut up nerd

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 17:05:27 2023 No.22155593 >>22155449 based

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 18:36:17 2023 No.22155938 >>22155449 more like gravity's pride rainbow KEK

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 18:58:13 2023 No.22156012 >>22154349 >Taking the bait Imagine ranting about something being bait while giving it a (You) kek Also, it's a solid list.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 19:00:26 2023 No.22156021 >>22143621 >Odyssey instead of Iliad >poojet texts Kindly kys

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 19:00:32 2023 No.22156022 >>22155449 >ChatGPT, acting as Thomas Pynchon, give me a list of the best 20 books in a casual friendly manner.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 19:31:44 2023 No.22156115 >>22154258 Best list ITT

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 19:49:21 2023 No.22156186 >>22153631 Catholic chads win cus we have more books than the puny 66

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 20:10:59 2023 No.22156255 >>22151173 >Tao Te Ching Bought this book today, what a coincidence. Know nothing about it, but I know if I like a book by reading just a few sentences and skimming through real quick to random pages.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 20:48:49 2023 No.22156369 >>22156012 >>22156022 It's hilarious that /lit/ has contrarianed itself into being contrarian to the contrarian positions it used to have so that it's ended up full-circling to just being Reddit in about 2010.

Anonymous Fri Jun 16 21:01:33 2023 No.22156417

>>22143589
Go read the epic of Gilgamesh and then read the Warmth of other suns, and then read infinite jest, then read the Dwarf, then read Carmella, then read the entire Ann Rice interview with a vampire series, then read the entire Sherlock Holmes collection, then read Moby Dick, then read Things Fall Apart, then read Scaramoche, then read the Barnes and Noble leather-bound western tales collection, then read War and Peace, then read the old man and the sea, then read the Night Lords Trilogy from 40K, then read Where the Wild things were, then read a natural history book on Spiders, then read the history of clowning, then read the Story of the Irish race, then Read the Viking wars about the Viking invasion of England, then read the Anglo Saxon Chronicles, then Read the Chronicles of Timbuktu, then read Ovids Metamorphosis, then read the Importance of being Earnest, then read The 30 years war: Europe's Tragedy, then read the Lesser Keys of Solomon by Alister Crowley, then Read the Roman Catholic Study bible, then read the Koran, then read the Sutras, then read the Gita, then read The German War. Then read some Fate light novels, then read the Darth Bane trilogy, then read the Count of Monte Crisco, then read Beyond good and evil, then read Might is Right, then read Canticle of brother sun, then read The Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward, then read the Centaur, then read the Divine Comedy, then read Gorillas in the Mist. That should be good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 22:42:08 2023 No.22156764 >>22156369 Also all the fedoras left Reddit for 4chan after it got overrun with troons and fat chicks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 23:07:24 2023 No.22156875 File: 49 KB, 550x543, Christcucks.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22156764 Religion has always been mocked on 4chan, but you're probably just a summerfag who wouldn't know that

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 23:20:19 2023 No.22156919 >>22156875 If you think The God Delusion has always been /lit/ approved then you must be a newfag.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 23:25:47 2023 No.22156942 File: 74 KB, 750x593, 1634403330879.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22156919 Not what I said, but I'd expect nothing less from you

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 23:26:22 2023 No.22156945 >>22150997 That's not what he said you lying jew faggot. Get vaxxed

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 23:36:40 2023 No.22156968 >>22156942 Well then what you said was irrelevant, given the discussion was concerning a list with The God Delusion in first place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 16 23:57:23 2023 No.22157010 1-4: Harry Potter books 1-4 5: The Divide 6: The Giver 7: Artemis Fowl 8: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9: The Phantom Tollbooth 10: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 11: Matilda 12: Hatchet 13: A Wrinkle In Time 14-20: Narnia series

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 00:33:30 2023 No.22157104 >>22156942 Holy fucking retard

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 02:21:33 2023 No.22157482
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>>22143589
Master and Commander
Post Captain
HMS Surprise
The Mauritius Command
Desolation Island
The Fortune of War
The Surgeon's Mate
The Ionian Mission
Treason's Harbour
The Far Side of the World
The Reverse of the Medal
The Letter of Marque
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
The Nutmeg of Consolation
Clarissa Oakes (The Truelove)
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Commodore
The Yellow Admiral
The Hundred Days
Blue at the Mizzen

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 03:57:56 2023 No.22157682 >>22156968 >>22157104 Imagine taking the book lists ITT seriously

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 04:36:21 2023 No.22157763
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1. THE PSALMS.
The Psalms remain, whether in the Latin version or in the authorized English translation, the most pathetic and poignant, as well as the most noble and dignified of all poetic literature. The rarest spirits of our race will always return to them at every epoch in their lives for consolation, for support and for repose.

2. HOMER. THE ODYSSEY. WHD Rouse for Prose, Robert Fitzgerald for Verse.
The Odyssey must continue to appeal to adventurous persons more powerfully than any other of the ancient stories because, blent with the classic quality of its pure Greek style, there can be found in it that magical element of thrilling romance, which belongs not to one age, but to all time.

3. DANTE 'S DIVINE COMEDY. Laurence Binyon translation.
Dante's poetry can legitimately be enjoyed in single great passages, of which there are more in the "Inferno" than in the other sections of the poem. His peculiar quality is a certain blending of mordant realism with a high and penetrating beauty. There is no need in reading him to vex oneself with symbolic interpretations. He is at his best, when from behind his scholastic philosophy, bursts forth, in direct personal betrayal, his pride, his humility, his passion, and his disdain.

4. RABELAIS. Find a verision with the Doré illustrations.
Rabelais is the philosopher's Bible and his book of outrageous jests. He is the recondite cult of wise and magnanimous spirits. He reconciles Nature with Art, Man with God, and religious piety with shameless enjoyment. His style restores to us our courage and our joy; and his noble buffoonery gives us back the sweet wantonness of our youth. Rabelais is the greatest intellect in literature. No one has ever had a humor so large; an imagination so creative, or a spirit so world-swallowing, so humane, so friendly.

5. SHAKESPEARE. Any play, you know the their names already.
It is time Shakespeare was read for the beauty of his poetry, and enjoyed without pedantry and with some imagination. The Shakespearean attitude of mind is quite a definite and articulate one. It is an attitude "compounded of many simples. But the essential secret of Shakespeare's genius is best apprehended in the felicity of certain isolated passionate speeches, and in the magic of his songs.
(cont.)

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 04:41:34 2023 No.22157772
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6. MILTON. Any edition.
No epicurean lover of the subtler delicacies in poetic rhythm or the exalted and translunar harmonies in the imaginative suggestiveness of words, can afford to leave Milton untouched. In sheer felicity of beauty—the beauty of suggestive words, each one carrying "a perfume in the mention," and together, by their arrangement in relation to one another, conveying a thrill of absolute and final satisfaction—no poem in our language surpasses Lycidas, and only the fine great odes of John Keats approach or equal it.
There are passages, too, in Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, which, for calm, flowing, and immortal loveliness, are not surpassed in any poetry in the world.
Milton's work witnesses to the value in art of what is ancient and traditional, but while he willingly uses every tradition of antiquity, he stamps all he writes with his own formidable image and superscription.

7. EMERSON. ESSAYS.
The clear and distinguished wisdom of Emerson with its preacher's wit and country humor, will always be of stirring and tonic value to certain minds. Others will prove him of little worth; but it is to be noted that Nietzsche found him a sane and noble influence principally on the ground of his serene detachment from the phenomena of sin and disease and death. He will always remain suggestive and stimulating to those who demand a spiritual interpretation of the Universe but reluct at committing themselves to any particular creed.

8. WALT WHITMAN. LEAVES OF GRASS.
The only true optimist and perhaps the only true prophet of Democracy. The beauty of his style has not yet received justice. He has the power of restoring us to courage and joy under circumstances of aggravated gloom. He puts us in contact with the large, cool, liquid spaces and with the immense and transparent depths.

9. CERVANTES. DON QUIXOTE. Any translation that isn't from the 18th century.
Cervantes' great, ironical, romantic story is written in a style so noble, so nervous, so humane, so branded with reality, that, as the wise critic has said, the mere touch and impact of it puts courage into our veins. It is not necessary to read every word of this old book. There are tedious passages. But not to have ever opened it; not to have caught the tone, the temper, the terrible courage, the infinite sadness of it, is to have missed being present at one of the "great gestures" of the undying, unconquerable spirit of humanity

10. DOSTOEVSKY. BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
He has a dark and sombre intensity and an imaginative vehemence only surpassed by Shakespeare. He teaches that out of weakness, abnormality, perversity, foolishness, desperation, abandonment, and a morbid pleasure in humiliation, it is possible to arrive at high and unutterable levels of spiritual ecstasy.
The strange Slavophil dream of the regeneration of the world by the power of the Russian soul could not be more arrestingly expressed than in these passionate and extraordinary works of art.

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11. STERNE. TRISTRAM SHANDY.
A shrewd and ironical wisdom, gentle and light-fingered and redolent of evasive sentiment, is evoked from these digressive and wanton pages.
At his best Sterne is capable of an imaginative interpretation of character which for delicacy and subtlety has never been surpassed. For the Epicurean in literature, his unfailing charm will be found in his style—a style so baffling in the furtive beauty of its disarming simplicity that even the greatest of literary critics have been unable to analyze its peculiar flavour.

12. CHARLES DICKENS. GREAT EXPECTATIONS
The most characteristic thing about this great genius is the power he possesses of breathing palpable life into what is often called the inanimate. Like Hans Andersen, the writer of fairy-stories, and, in a measure, like all children, Dickens endows with fantastic spirituality the most apparently dead things in our ordinary environment.
His imagination plays superb tricks with such objects and things, touching the most dilapidated of them with a magic such as the genius of a great poet uses, when dealing with nature—only the "nature" of Dickens is made of less lovely matters than leaves and flowers.

13. BALZAC. LOST ILLUSIONS. In any translation. Saintsbury's is as good as any.
A thundering tide of subterranean energy, furious and titanic, sweeps, with its weight of ponderous details, through every page of these dramatic volumes. Every character has its obsession, its secret vice, its spiritual drug.
Profoundly moral in its basic tendency, the "Human Comedy" seems to point, in its philosophical undercurrent, at the permanent need in our wayward and childish emotionalism, for wise and master-guides, both in the sphere of religion and in the sphere of politics.

14. IBSEN. MAJOR PLAYS. Try and read Geoffrey Hill's translation of Brand too.
Ibsen is still the most formidable of obstinate individualists. Absolute self-reliance is the note he constantly strikes. He is obsessed by the psychology of moral problems; but for him there are no universal ethical laws—"the golden rule is that there is no golden rule"—thus while in the Pillars of Society he advocates candid confession and honest revelation of the truth of things; in the "Wild Duck" he attacks the pig-headed meddler, who comes "dunning us with claims of the Ideal." Ultimately, though absorbed in "matters of conscience," it is as an artist rather than as a philosopher that he visualizes the world.

15. GOETHE. THE ESSENTIAL GOETHE
The deep authority of his formidable insight can be best enjoyed, not without little side-lights of a laconic irony, in the "Conversations"; while in Wilhelm Meister we learn to become adepts in the art of living in the Beautiful and True, in Faust that abysmal doubt as to the whole mad business of life is undermined with a craft equal to his own in the delineation and defeat of "the queer son of Chaos."

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 04:59:40 2023 No.22157794 >>22143589 Six Days in the Life of David Vallejo

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 05:10:57 2023 No.22157811
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16. WILLIAM BLAKE. COMPLETE POETRY.
The child of Blake's imagination is the immortal child to be found in the heart of every man and every woman. It is the child spoken of in some of his most beautiful passages, by Nietzsche himself—the child who will come at the last, when the days of the Camel and the days of the Lion are over, and inaugurate the beginning of the "Great Noon."
With a noble blasphemy dearer to God than the slavishness of many evangelical pietists, he treats the Christian legend with the same sort of freedom that the old Greek poets used.
The figure of Christ becomes under his hands, a god among other gods; a power among other powers, but one possessed of a secret drawn from the hidden depths of the universe, which in the end is destined to prevail.

17. EMILY BRONTE. WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
The love of Heathcliff and Catherine breaks the bonds of ordinary sensual or sentimental relationship and hurls itself into that darker, stranger, more unearthly air, wherein one hears the voices of the great lovers; and where Sappho and Michaelangelo and Swift and Shelley and Nietzsche gasp forth their imprecations and their terrible ecstasies. Crude and rough and jagged and pitiless, the style of this astounding book seems to rend and tear, like a broken saw, at the very roots of existence.

18. STENDHAL. THE RED AND THE BLACK.
Stendhal is one of those who has not hesitated to propound the psychological a life based upon pagan ethics. A sly observer, Stendhal lived a life of absorbing emotions, most of them intellectual and erotic. No writer has ever lived with more contempt for mere sedentary theories or a fiercer mania for the jagged and multifarious edges of life's pluralistic eccentricity.

19. PASCAL. PENSEES.
Pascal was essentially a layman. There was nothing priestly in his mood; nothing scholastic in his reasoning; nothing sacerdotal in his conclusions. We breathe with him the clear sharp air of mathematics; and his imagination, shaking itself free from all controversial pettifogging, sweeps off into the stark and naked spaces of the true planetary situation.
The imagination of Pascal once more makes life terrible, beautiful and dramatic. It pushes back the marble walls of mechanical cause and effect, and opens up the deep places. It makes the universe porous again. It restores to life its strange and mysterious possibilities. It throws the human will once more into the foreground, and gives the drama of our days its rightful spaciousness and breadth.

20. SHELLEY. COMPLETE POETRY
He is a genuine philosopher, as well as a dreamer. Or shall we say he is the only kind of philosopher who must be taken seriously—the philosopher who creates the dreams of the young?
Shelley is, indeed, a most rare and invaluable thinker, as well as a most exquisite poet. His thought and his poetry can no more be separated than could the thought and poetry of the Book of Job. His poetry is the embodiment of his thought, its swift and splendid incarnation.

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 05:47:37 2023 No.22157863

>>22157772
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 05:52:21 2023 No.22157876 >>22151370 Same reason you read Adam Smith, if you only got his work through a game of telephone, you were cheated out of a western classic

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 05:53:50 2023 No.22157882 >>22157863 Nabakov never wrote a work worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 09:14:24 2023 No.22158293 File: 3.38 MB, 2452x3324, William_Blake_-_Albion_Rose_-_from_A_Large_Book_of_Designs_1793-6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22157763 >>22157772 >>22157786 >>22157811 Blessed effortposts.

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 15:26:24 2023 No.22159216

>>22158293
Can't disagree, although I found them a little precious, here and there. Feel he cites the wrong Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Keats, rather) and the preference for Pascal as opposed to Montaigne is just wrong-headed!
But everyone's entitled to their own wrong opinions, and I wound up appreciating anon despite these misgivings. He gets the A

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>>22155449
Even if it's chatGPT it's a genuinely good list - at least as a pleasant counter to /lit/'s endless
>only 20 books???
>quick! Recommend like 6 religious texts, 10 meme pseudbooks, and pad the rest out by cheating with compilations of "the complete collection of works by Author"!!!!
being real if I ever actually met someone who read any of these top 20s, I'd bet on them having been the weird kid on the playground who ate paint chips that fell off the fence and wouldn't actually want to spend time with them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 20:19:47 2023 No.22160456 >>22157882 How many of his have you read?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 20:21:50 2023 No.22160464 >>22159216 Your misgivings mean nothing to me.

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 20:26:51 2023 No.22160496

>>22159216
As you can see from my celebration of Milton, I compare him favourably to Keats. Keats was going to be included, but my list was forming in my fatigued mind as I was composing it. Keats and Wordsworth should indeed be added to that list.
I decided to use all my effort to compose it in a heightened style, because I wanted to counter the negativity and irony we continually see on /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 20:28:10 2023 No.22160501 >>22157682 Give it a year and the irony will become sincere.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 20:30:07 2023 No.22160507 >>22160456 I was being a tad fecetious, though I will indeed claim that Nabakov does not come close to the genius of Dostoevsky. Nabakov will be forgotten like Walter Pater or George Moore. Writers of exquisitely bloodless sentences.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 20:31:46 2023 No.22160518 >>22159216 >>22160496 Also, I actively loathe Montaigne.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 21:20:19 2023 No.22160726 NO, YOU UGLY FROG FAGGOT. LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELF YOU USELESS CUNT.

Anonymous Sat Jun 17 22:49:54 2023 No.22161107

>>22160518
>actively loathe Montaigne
Both you AND Pascal, m8! This however throws your inclusion of Emerson into question because I just can't see how any serious reader of both Emerson and Montaigne can fail to detect just how completely the former's entire 'Essays' project is all but completely absorbed by the latter's! I do like (even love) Emerson's verbal collages and high wrought turns of phrase, however, but of his volumes I think English Traits the most interesting --what comes to mind here is his early interview of Wordsworth when the green-bespectical'd old poet paces around his garden accurately prophesying what accurately became the next 20 years of American history! Like most accurate, uncanny happenings this rarely receives report outside the primary reporter's own pages.
I submitted a (no doubt just as mistaken) list an evening earlier; what I would defend to the nines would be the inclusion of Palgrave, Boswell, Spinoza; at the same time I'm sure hardly anyone here (even those who read!) would agree with these selections, yet I consider them hard among 6 or 7 soft ones, etc.
>>22153332
You'll note the potential here to read over the Psalms as many as 4x; on much we actually agree.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 17 23:48:55 2023 No.22161308 >>22153631 top kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 18 01:15:14 2023 No.22161546 >>22143621 what ramayana translation or edition?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 18 01:16:36 2023 No.22161551 >>22143589 Honestly just go to the book store or the library and get five books that have a cool title or cover. Bring them home and read them. If they suck bitch about them on /lit/ if they're awesome praise them on /lit/. What's the harm?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 18 02:49:26 2023 No.22161821 File: 2.45 MB, 4616x2269, 20230617_194725_(1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22157482 Based Aubrey/Maturin enjoyer.

Anonymous Sun Jun 18 02:54:19 2023 No.22161836

>>22147501
fixed
01 Diary of a Wimpy Kid
02 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
03 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
04 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
05 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
06 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
07 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
08 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
09 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
11 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
12 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway
13 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown
14 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
15 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
16 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot
17 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde
18 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
19 The Iliad
20 Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 18 03:00:30 2023 No.22161854 >>22144206 I've almost bought Borges collected fictions a dozen times. Is it really that good? What are the stories about it the genre? Don't want to get memed by lit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 18 03:46:46 2023 No.22161991 Fahrenheit 451 Peace of Soul Letters from a Stoic The Corrections The Trial Infinite Jest Suttree The Bluest Eye Gravity’s Rainbow Pale Fire The Metamorphosis Oblivion

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