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What kind do books do you /lit/ folks read?

>> No.23448549
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>>23448539

>> No.23448550

>>23448539
>There are too many mediocre books which exist just to entertain your mind. Therefore, read only those books which are accepted without doubt as good.

>> No.23448552

>>23448539
Me?

>> No.23448565

I don't really read anymore. Not like I used to. I wouldn't call rereading, slowly making my way through Moby Dick by reading a chapter every other day in order to pretend I'm still a literary type "reading".

>> No.23448568

>>23448539
Complete Works of Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Lothrop Stoddard, Madison Grant, Leon Degrelle, Ernst Junger, Carl Schmitt, Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard and Samuel Edward Konkin III

>> No.23448592

>>23448539
I always wanted to read a magical realism book.

>> No.23448637

>>23448539
>What kind do books do you /lit/ folks read?

/lit/ books
Duh

>> No.23448722

>>23448539
Anything written before the 20th century.

>> No.23448723

>>23448722
What about anything written before 1900?

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i read almost exclusively books i have seen mentioned on /lit/ many times and am seldom disapointed. in addition to covering many of the classics you guys have turned me on to a lot of books i would probably never have heard of otherwise, such as The Peregrine, Pimp, and The Tartar Steppe.

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>>23448539
wouldn't you like to know, Mr. Frog Man?

>> No.23449160

>>23448723
come again?

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>>23448539
All kinds, but we who belong here read the Western Canon and, though to a lesser extent I should hope, Eastern equivalents.

Start with the Holy Bible, KJV/ESV/NASB1977 or some other RESPECTABLE translation, then move on to the Greeks (Hesiod, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, etc.,.) and Romans (Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Cicero, etc.,.). Afterwards, make sure you hit the big ten—Dante (yes, even in translation; he was too influential not to), Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, then do some research and work through other prominent men.

And don't forget non-fiction—philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, etc.,.), theology, history, history of art, math, and science. And there's something which perhaps others neglect, but you shouldn't—mythology. Read mythology and folktales from various places, but don't prioritize them necessarily. On the bright side, myth and folk legend tend to be light reading, especially the latter.

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>>23450131
>big ten
I shortened it to five and forgot to change what I had originally said.

Also, I meant to say that what I'm reading now is a textbook on Ancient Greek (I am a beginner) and Trollope's The Warden, of the Barsetshire Chronicles.

>> No.23450162

>>23448539
A man need not read more than these and in fact shouldn’t, as any more will pollute the mind. A man should read nothing but these books at least 5 times and be thoroughly informed on them:

Bible
Homer
Daodejing
Zhuangzi
Hindu scripture books
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Herodotus
Thucydides
Plato
Virgil
Ovid
Seneca
Plutarch
Dante
Chaucer
Rabelais
Montaigne
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Burton
Goethe
Emerson
Whitman
Nietzsche
Freud
Jung
Thomas Pynchon

>> No.23450177

>>23450162
It's a good list, but dreadfully, horribly too incomplete to pass as a complete literary diet. You could do with a bit of humility, you know.

>> No.23450183

>>23448539
if this forum is any indicator then mostly drivel
>kek

>> No.23450249

>>23448592
So...read one...

>> No.23450258

>>23448568
He said /Lit/, not /pol/. Rope. And stop telling people you read Rand, Mises, and Rothbard, if you're going to list that other trash. You're tarnishing their fucking reputations, gutter trash!

>> No.23450706

>>23448539
All of them.

>> No.23450726

>>23450258
>rand
>reputation
lol?

>> No.23451019

>>23450726
I didn't expect you to understand. You don't need to. Just obey.

>> No.23451395

>>23448539
Used to read a lot. Hate making notes. Forgot half the stuff. What's the point anyway?

>> No.23452649

>>23450706
Based and same.

>> No.23452667

>>23448539
creature horror genre fiction

>> No.23452793

>>23448539
I mainly just read stuff that reaffirms my pre-existing beliefs

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>> No.23453221

>>23450162
>Thomas Pynchon

>> No.23453306

>>23448539
Late 17th - mid 18th century Scottish theology texts.
t. autistic Calvinist