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I am an illiterate idiot afraid of death, I live without any purpose or benefit, what books would you recommend this idiot read?

>> No.23127165
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>>23127141
The bible

>> No.23127191

>>23127165
I would like to read the Bible, the Quran, and the Torah, but I don't know where to start.

>> No.23127201

>>23127191
The book of genesis. Stop after revelation.

>> No.23127207

>>23127141
Start with something light and fun just to learn to enjoy the activity of reading and build your vocabulary up. Then go from there depending on what your interests are.

>> No.23127252

>>23127141
>she's the man
twelfth night would be a good start

>> No.23127437

>>23127141
Read Camus, I dealt with similar issues and his work helped me tremendously.

>> No.23127533

>>23127141
You're not illiterate since you were able to write that sentence.
1) If you really struggle with reading and staying concentrated for more than 40mins I would have you listen to someone reading To Kill a Mockingbird while you read along. Then read a few short essays about it.
2) Then do the same with Hamlet.
3) If you feel confident and want more of a challenge developed a lot after then I would get you to read some poetry - Larkin, Bronte, and Shelley would be good to start.
OR
If you didn't feel confident to move on to poetry I'd have you read Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, or Dubliners - whichever seemed to appeal more.

>> No.23128114

>>23127165
fpbp

>>23127191
The Torah is the first five books of the Bible, also called the Pentateuch. The Quran is pointless fanfiction, but if you want to understand the Muslim world you can read it.

>> No.23128127

>>23127437
i read the stranger it was OK is the rebel good i just bought it but have not started it

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confront your fears

>> No.23128682

Thank you all for the good advice, I thought you were going to be more hostile, but in reality, you are too kind. :')

>> No.23128722

>>23127165
worst book ever. 80% of it is about the racial supremacy of the Jews.

>> No.23128731

>>23127141

Illiterate idiot- I would pick a different hobby than reading. I think you would be better suited to something like woodwork. Woodwork is pretty cool and you can make some cool things.

>> No.23128919

>>23127141
I may not be a smart man but i know what love is

>> No.23128952

I feel the Russians would probably benefit you in some way, if only because aimless loser wandering around is an entire subgenre in that tradition.

Evelyn Waugh was a big writer when I was just starting out and I remember rushing home from uni to continue with whatever book of his I was reading at the time. He was funny in a way movies and games hadn't been up until that point and made me realize that there might be something to this whole literature thing.(Decline and Fall is a good place to start)

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>>23127141

>> No.23128979

>>23127141
Tell us more about yourself

>> No.23129039

>>23128731
>Woodwork
Nah, it's fucking gay

>> No.23129046

>>23127141
KJV Bible (read the four Gospels)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare

This will be the greatest foundation.

>> No.23129052

>>23127141
>>23127165
This

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>>23129046
This. And get All of Thomas Taylor's translations of the Greeks.

You have a very nice tight core collection to revisit and study. Make sure the Shakespeare has notes for the archaic words and context.


>I am an illiterate idiot afraid of death

You are not that which dies. Picrel.

>> No.23129093

>>23127141
why are you afraid of death when you live without a purpose or benefit? Wouldn't having things just make you more afraid of losing them?

>> No.23129723

>>23129093
Life goes by slower if you do nothing and just keep things simple.

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>>23127141
no one has the cure for that one
all that type of stuff though, dying and so on, is a long way off, not such a long way off as it had once been, admitted, and no doubt the time when it wouldn’t be such a long way off wasn’t such a long way off, but still (still what?)

>> No.23129837

>>23128970
This, unironically

>> No.23129890

>>23128722
The fuck are you talking about? 98% of the book is about the jews disobeying God and doing everything wrong and then they get punished/killed.