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Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 05:55:27 No.22394866 [Reply] [Original]

Television and film as a medium have gotten boring as of late, I think I've seen everything worth seeing in it. So I've decided to switch h to books but I don't know where to start what are some books for a TV brain such as myself that aren't to challenging and will ease me into learning to read recreationally?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 05:59:13 No.22394873 Jules Verne and HG Wells are good places to start.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:01:15 No.22394880 File: 499 KB, 700x700, homer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Start with the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:01:44 No.22394881 >>22394873 They seem like good picks but I've seen most of their books in movie form won't that ruin the story for me or are they different enough that it won't be an issue?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:03:04 No.22394883 >>22394880 Had to read this in HS and found it pretty dense.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:03:19 No.22394884 >>22394866 sorry, would love to help but just dont want to

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:03:38 No.22394885 >>22394866 The L. A. Quartet The Killer Inside Me Lonesome Dove Crime and Punishment

Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:05:06 No.22394889
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>>22394881
If you saw the movies and you are over 18 then you won’t get much enjoyment out of the books. They’re really lame. They’re recommended often for beginners because they’re easy to read and fun adventure but as books they are not that /lit/. I would recommend Canterbury Tales, Decameron and the Arabian Nights. Short crass stories with deeper messages. Those were my first foray into literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:06:08 No.22394894 >>22394889 Shit advice. Wells is a good writer and worth reading.

Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:08:35 No.22394899

>>22394894
Wells is fun if you are in HS. Chaucer’s erotic tales of vagrants and thieves were much more exciting to me than lame sci fi moralism and they are of higher poetic quality. My recs are actual recs for /lit/ users. It is called gatekeeping.

>>	Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:10:40 No.22394901 >>22394894 All the “HS reading list” tier recommendations like Verne and Wells and Great Gatsby should be dumped out. That kind of stuff is fine for kids but it won’t get an ADULT into reading.

Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:20:26 No.22394914
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I trust Nabokov over a derangedd homosexual cuck and you guys should do the same.
>With regard to science fiction, Nabokov does express "the deepest admiration" for H.G. Wells; and he names as special favorites five of Wells's stories, all of which had been identified, generically, as science-fiction works well before Ada came to be written. The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and "The Country of the Blind"

Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:24:25 No.22394922

>>22394914
If you want to take the Nabokov route he also said Phileas Fogg>>22394873 was a “childhood hero” but that he had a lesser opinion of Verne as an adult. He called him a kids writer. On that point, I would not differentiate far from him. I think Verne is a kids writer but I would add Wells to their ranks as well.

I do not hate either but that are more academic and /lit/ tier stuff you could rec to him besides genre fic you read in hs.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:24:33 No.22394923 >>22394866 If you want a book that’s like an 80’s action movie, read Neuromancer. If you want a book that’s good read Stoner.

Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:28:45 No.22394931

>>22394914
Personally, the beginner recs in the sticky and the stuff usually said here (Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Call of the Wild, Verne) upsets me because I never would’ve gotten into lot with that stuff plus most people already read that in HS. Don’t be afraid to rec Petronius or something. Idk I never would’ve picked up a book if Time Machines by Wells were the only thing I read.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:32:18 No.22394938 >>22394922 I'm not talking about Verne. I'm talking about Wells for whom Nabokov have the deepest admiration. More so than certain other writers.

>>	Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:34:10 No.22394944 >>22394938 Well I am not the Wells fan he was. I know for a fact we read Time Machine in the 8th grade and I know for a fact I couldn’t give less of a shit about it, then or now.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:35:02 No.22394948 >>22394931 Yea why should a beginner reader read famous easy and entertaining books when he could read Middle English poetry from the 1300s lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:36:35 No.22394952 read Oedipus Rex

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:37:46 No.22394957 >>22394944 Your mistake is thinking I care what some faggot cuck like you thinks. I care what Nabokov thinks.

Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 06:58:17 No.22395000

>>22394901
>All the “HS reading list” tier recommendations like Verne and Wells and Great Gatsby should be dumped out
Wells writes simply but that doesn't make him a bad writer. Despite his naive socialism, he delves into some complex themes r.e the transition to modern socities.
In "War of the Worlds" he delivers a rather prophetic account of global carnage prior to either of the world wars, and carries a somewhat interesting and entertaining critique of mass media.

>>	Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 07:09:25 No.22395019 >>22394948 Anyone can read a poem which is 50 something lines such as the Cooks Tale. I took it upon myself to gatekeep /lit/ and do the job at keeping the rabble at bay. We don’t need a starter chart which is stuff everyone should’ve read at 15.

Jon Kolner Sat, Aug 19, 2023 07:12:23 No.22395025
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>>22394957
My father was a Chaucerian scholar from Cambridge who wrote a dissertation on “cuckoldry, the highest of the arts” as he put it. His reverse reading of the Merchants tale as an early form of cuck porn rather than as it was traditionally marked as a critique of women was actually influential in its day, no joke. I will not link it here because I don’t need you doxxing and harassing me.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 09:59:47 No.22395321 File: 40 KB, 480x360, knk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22394866 Just read Manga, there is some pretty unique stuff out there.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 10:20:26 No.22395343 >>22395025 >>22395019 Op here, You seem like a massive faggot desu. I think I'll read Wells and Gatsby just spite you

Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 10:29:59 No.22395356
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Werner Herzog reading list:

Required reading
>Virgil’s “Georgics”
>Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
>Baker's "The Peregrine" (New York Review Books Edition published by HarperCollins)
Suggested reading
>The Warren Commission Report
>“The Poetic Edda”, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular The Prophecy of the Seeress)
>Bernal Diaz del Castillo “True History of the Conquest of New Spain”

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 13:01:17 No.22395661 File: 57 KB, 976x850, 1692395753502093.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is tv/film bad for you after a certain age?

Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 13:41:46 No.22395797

>>22394866
Newbies should be reading adventurous books.
>Jack London's short stories
>Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, Master of Ballantrae
>Stephen Crane's Open Boat etc
>Melville's Typee, Benito Cereno
>Conrad's Typhoon, End of the Tether
>Kipling
Throw in some horror like:
>Ambrose Bierce
>Algernon Blackwood
>M.R. James
>Poe's stories (some of which are also adventure, like the Gold-Bug)

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 13:43:10 No.22395802 >>22394866 Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 13:45:02 No.22395807 >>22395661 what do YOU mean bad for you.....

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 13:45:08 No.22395808 File: 47 KB, 1536x864, Oppenheimer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22395661 How are you going to quote the Bhagavad Gita during sex if you can't read?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 20:50:57 No.22397337 >>22395661 Probably not bad but if your a binge watcher like me then you've probably seen everything worth watching by your mid 20s

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 20:52:01 No.22397341 Start with Call of the Crocodile

sic itur...ad astra Sat, Aug 19, 2023 22:32:43 No.22397696

>>22395661
I'd say yes, at least for me. I enjoyed watching television and film when I was a teenager, but now that I'm 32, I think it's almost a worthless medium. There's maybe 30-40 good movies and a small handful of television shows, and the rest can be discarded. Literature has an enormous amount of great material, and the relatively good authors and their stuff that's far more obscure and nearly forgotten, is still better than the best of film and tv.
I've honestly lost almost all respect for visual mediums after discovering the greats of literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 23:23:32 No.22397866 File: 37 KB, 960x544, 1691610017622.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22394866 Have you watched every single kino movie from the 50s and 60s? I didnt fucking think so. Get back on the on couch anon and keep watching you fraud!

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 23:28:54 No.22397879 >>22395661 No...? You just get new perspectives on the things your watching. Maybe you feel this way because your watching goyslop made to be as consumable as possible?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 19, 2023 23:39:50 No.22397912 >>22394866 >as of late.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 20, 2023 00:05:48 No.22398009 >>22397866 >Have you watched every single kino movie from the 50s and 60s? Yes I have seen everything

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 20, 2023 00:11:30 No.22398019 >>22394866 >books for a TV brain Baby steps. Why don't you look into novels that were adapted into film (Godfather, the recent HEAT 2 follow up). These are solid as well >>22394873 >>22395356

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 20, 2023 01:02:33 No.22398170 >>22398009 Post your top 10 50-60s kino right now

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 20, 2023 01:28:39 No.22398234 >>22398170 Rear Window Lawrence of Arabia Dr. Zhivago Vertigo The searchers Kiss me deadly The quiet man Once upon a time in the west The man who shot liberty vance My fair lady

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 20, 2023 01:29:44 No.22398238 >>22394866 Start with Gene Wolfe. His books got me back into recreational reading.

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