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Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:06:45 2023 No.22893299 [Reply] [Original]

I don't know what the hell to read :(. Please, give me a list thst I can just follow along and be on the right track, bros

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:09:53 2023 No.22893306 >>22893299 What do you like to read? Or what would you like to be reading?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:10:18 2023 No.22893309 >>22893299 Bible.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:11:38 2023 No.22893311 >>22893299 Read the sticky dude

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:12:03 2023 No.22893314 >>22893299 >be on the right track You need to understand metaphysics before you can understand anything else, otherwise you will parse things incorrectly or not at all. It is a lot more work than you think, maybe you are better off just fucking off.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:14:38 2023 No.22893320 >>22893314 Fake and gay

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:20:08 2023 No.22893330 >>22893320 Most authors including authors of classics are ignorant, better not to learn this the hard way.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:25:05 2023 No.22893345 >books to unfuck my life the fucking redditization and video gamifying of your mind has destroyed you. you don't gain XP by reading books faggot

Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:39:30 2023 No.22893380

>>22893306
I would like to be a more knowledgeable person in terms of literature and philosophy
>>22893311
Why? What's there?
>>22893314
All right, what books should I read bro?
>>22893345
Man, I just want a list so I don't have to overthink about it... I've been trying to decide where to start and how to plan things for 2 days already...

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:43:23 2023 No.22893389 >>22893299 just pick a book with a nice cover you like

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:43:40 2023 No.22893391 >>22893299 Start with genre fiction and self-help books >But those aren’t deep! Doesn’t matter. Start here. The deep and difficult texts aren’t going anywhere.

Anonymous Sun Dec 31 16:52:16 2023 No.22893422

>>22893380
>needs quest list to know he is making progress
life isn't a video game, mr redditor. just pick a book and start reading if you want to read. but i doubt you want to read. your mind is redditized and video gamified to the point that you think reading books will unlock some hidden super power that will level up the RPG build-like conception you have of yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:06:36 2023 No.22893463 >>22893389 there are way too many to choose from >>22893391 I dont like self help bro >>22893422 Can you stop jugding me so much? You don't know me bro. I just want a list to organize things

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:09:24 2023 No.22893470 >>22893463 Somebody already directed you to the sticky. That's the first checkbox on your HUD. Select that mission and an arrow will show up at the top of your vision pointing you towards the /lit/ sticky.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:16:18 2023 No.22893503 >>22893299 Since you've been retarded and resistant to every real suggestion you've received so far I'll just tell you to read don Quixote because I liked it and I think most people would

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:26:01 2023 No.22893548 >>22893470 whats on the sticky >>22893503 is don quixote a good start? what should i read next?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:26:57 2023 No.22893553 >>22893299 Just read a book, life's not a fucking videogame you need to minmax. There's a sticky, open it and read whatever sounds nice, I recomend Hunger by Hamsun

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:27:51 2023 No.22893559 >>22893548 >whats on the sticky Read it and find out, moron. It's at the top of the page and is only a couple paragraphs with some links

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:31:17 2023 No.22893576 >>22893553 whats hunger about bro >>22893559 i dont think a couple of links is a good start

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:33:01 2023 No.22893583 >>22893576 kill yourself

Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:35:23 2023 No.22893592

>>22893576
It's about a narcissitic man living in absolute poverty, complaining about society as of he wasn't the dregs of it and claiming to be an eminent philosopher. A manchild and his fun misadventures, I expect anyone terminally online to be able to relate to him. Just read something man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:38:21 2023 No.22893609 >>22893576 Begone, troll

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:40:46 2023 No.22893618 File: 33 KB, 512x468, 1691442127741828.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22893380 >Why? What's there? >I just want a list so I don't have to overthink about it are you like extremely low IQ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 17:45:17 2023 No.22893635 >>22893583 >>22893609 get off my thread already, all you want is to offend me everytime >>22893592 sounds nice, what would you recommend reading afterwards >>22893618 no, I just tend to overthink stuff

Anonymous Sun Dec 31 18:05:31 2023 No.22893742

Brave new world, lord of the flies, 1984, the picture of Dorian Gray, Fahrenheit, Kafka (metamorfosis and the trial), the stranger.
Those books in that order. Here you go. Should be easy and enjoyable. if there are books you don't like, just skip them. If you're done with those, you will have unlocked the perk that allows you to pick your own books.

Anonymous Sun Dec 31 18:53:34 2023 No.22893927

>>22893548
>is don quixote a good start?
Yes, it's generally considered the first modern novel and it pioneered the conventions of the medium. It's also fun.
>what should i read next?
See that's the great thing about actually READING A BOOK, NIGGER. Once you do it you should be able to easily discern what you liked and disliked about it and figure out what to read next based on that. Read more books by the same author! Read books by his contemporaries! Read books by his influences! Read books that he influenced! It's actually very easy!

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 19:37:55 2023 No.22894093 >>22893742 thsnks that's the first list anyone posted, i will read them all >>22893927 sounds like a lot of overthinking if you dont have a list

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 19:50:39 2023 No.22894159 >>22893299 The name of the rose The remains of the day Down and out in london and paris Pale Fire

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 19:54:30 2023 No.22894177 >>22894093 Are you literally retarded?

Anonymous Sun Dec 31 19:58:41 2023 No.22894204

OP you are little boy and I am a man.
So much of a man that your tiny presence overstimulates me and makes me want to hurt you
but I'm am so hyper-masculine and over-worked that in this instance of weakness I kind of want to tower over your shivering body with my pulsating cock
if you know what i'm fucking saying, yeah?

Anonymous Sun Dec 31 20:08:01 2023 No.22894251
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It's not worth making a new thread for this but I've got a sudden urge for a a certain kind of book and I need recommendations.
I want a book about self-destruction, preferably exclusively by alcohol but drugs or other addictions are acceptable. Similar things I can think off the top of my head are Moby Dick, No Longer Human, The Blind Owl, Disco Elysium.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 23:00:55 2023 No.22894784 >>22894177 No, are you? Where is your list?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 31 23:20:12 2023 No.22894858 >>22893299 Reverend Insanity

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 00:11:13 2024 No.22895020 >>22894784 Finnegans wake 12 rules for life Boku no pico The woman in me The scrolls of the learned elders of Zion

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 00:30:48 2024 No.22895094 File: 2.91 MB, 1000x3186, 1687999705377820 - copia.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22893380 >>22893422 Don't worry bro, here's your videogame quest list for literature, have a good journey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 01:50:13 2024 No.22895363 >>22895094 Man, it really took hours for someone get me a proper list, you're a real one, bro. I have know idea how these people manage to read without a list

Anonymous Mon Jan 1 01:51:41 2024 No.22895364
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>>22893299
19th century novels:
https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/books/greatest-novels-19th-century.html

20th century:
https://emery-pratt.com/top100/top100.php

21st century:
https://www.librarything.com/list/20102/all/Vultures-100-Best-Books-of-the-21st-Century-So-Far

You're welcome, OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 01:52:53 2024 No.22895370 >>22895364 thank you, this will be the part two following the previous poster's list :D

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 01:54:58 2024 No.22895373 File: 55 KB, 638x1000, 6BA9A123-BB2D-402E-A38B-F97648D9CB72.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You are ready brother.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 02:18:01 2024 No.22895426 >>22895363 No problem. Sadly, there's a lot of gatekeeping in literature. Here's another list in case you want to dwell in some ages: http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 02:48:56 2024 No.22895505 >>22895363 Don't forget the Bible. I don't know what retard made that list, but without reading the Bible, you're missing more than half of everything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 02:50:44 2024 No.22895514 >>22895094 Old Testament is older than Homer. The Torah was written way before.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 02:53:07 2024 No.22895524 >>22895363 You were literally directed to several lists by the third poster ITT

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 03:22:38 2024 No.22895614 >>22895514 Some books of the old testament is older than Homer. Other books aren't.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 04:40:37 2024 No.22895794 >>22895614 Yeah, I know, but it's about half. OT should be first.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 08:50:35 2024 No.22896252 >>22895094 >Inplying OP is even making it halfway through the Illiad

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 08:53:43 2024 No.22896255 test

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 11:01:54 2024 No.22896409 >>22896252 I'd like to proudly inform you that I, OP, have already read the Iliad in 2022. Not only that, I've read 32 pages of the Odyssey yesterday. This will be the year I finally become the /lit/ god by sticking to The List.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 11:04:11 2024 No.22896412 >>22895426 By the way, I saved The Link so I can go even deeper after finishing The List, thanks bro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 11:36:22 2024 No.22896458 >>22896409 Based then, I took your lack of drive for the mark of a dilettante but I see I was wrong. Godspeed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 1 11:38:22 2024 No.22896463 Plato ﴿ يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَاةِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الصَّابِرِينَ ﴾

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