/lit/ - Literature

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Anonymous Sun Mar 28 14:54:37 2010 No.487109 [Reply] [Original]

Does /lit/ have a "recommended" chart?
I want to fill my head with awesomeness, preferably really "begginer's" kind of things and gradually read my way up the "food chain".

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 14:57:37 2010 No.487114 I like how random faggots get the idea that /lit/ knows something their highschool English teachers didn't.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:01:37 2010 No.487129 >>487114 That doesn't help me at all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:01:37 2010 No.487131 >>487114 you, get the fuck out. shove >>487109 we had one, but I never bothered to save it

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:04:37 2010 No.487143 I have one for each genre/language, but not a general chart. I only saved the scifi one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:05:37 2010 No.487145 File: 2.36 MB, 1500x3688, quick guide.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>487109

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:05:37 2010 No.487146 File: 847 KB, 1500x3688, Classics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here you go.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:06:37 2010 No.487150 >>487145 >>487146 lolwat.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:07:37 2010 No.487154 >>487145 >>487146 Thanks. This will suffice in the meantime. Also>>487114 Fuck you, people like you ruin 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:10:37 2010 No.487166 >>487146 >implying that Joyce and Woolf are more modern than Proust.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:13:37 2010 No.487171 >>487154 people like you ruin 4chan. No, faggots who make useless "HURR TELL ME WHAT 2 REED SO I R KEWL" /r/ threads and the asshats who enable them "ruin" 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 28 15:15:37 2010 No.487179 File: 71 KB, 381x425, wonka_look.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>487171 >/lit/ >doesn't like talking about books lol wat. get out of here you pretentious prick

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 00:01:37 2010 No.489318 Hi, Dean from lulz.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 00:19:37 2010 No.489375 >>487146 odd, in all the threads I've been in, anon always recommends Joyce's Dubliners as the best by him. I guess Ulysses was the one that broke the most literary convention, won the pulitzer etc.. or was that finnegan's wake?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 00:21:37 2010 No.489386 Ulysses broke the most literary conventions, Dubliners is (for most) the more enjoyable read, and Finnegan's Wake is masturbatory gibberish.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 00:25:37 2010 No.489397 >>489375 >pulitzer >facepalm.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 00:25:37 2010 No.489400 >>487171 This. Sadly, these people are completely oblivious and there's just no use in talking to them. For example: >>487179

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 00:43:37 2010 No.489472 >>489405 No "Eaters of the Dead" by Crichton? I am disappoint.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 00:52:37 2010 No.489505 Tell us stuff you've read recently, OP, so we can help you out. Give us an idea of where you are.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 01:02:37 2010 No.489548 >>487145 >>487146 >>489405 No collection of H.P. Lovecraft's tales? Kinda disappointed

Anonymous Mon Mar 29 01:36:37 2010 No.489700

>>487145
>>487146

No Hemingway or Faulkner = no legitimacy. Scratch everything in the top half except Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Paradise Lost, Pride & Prejudice, and Brothers Karamazov. Maybe Huck Finn. If you like those books, you can always read more of the classics. Oh, and add the Odyssey.

As far as the "modern classics", that's a bit of a mess. Read Hemingway. "In Our Time" is a good starting point, but you might just want to pick up his collected short stories. Hemingway is the master of short stories. Short stories are severely underrated. Read Ray Carver. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is an amazing short story book. Read Amy Hempel. One of the best writers alive, and not many know who she is.

Read Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude is fantastic. If you like that, you can expand on it by reading stuff like Vonnegut, Murakami. All surreal writers. You've heard of Vonnegut; the man's reputation only grows. Murakami is something everyone who likes Vonnegut should read. He's a Japanese writer who shows a noticeable Vonnegut influence but writes gorgeous prose. He's Vonnegut with a sense of verbal poetry. Another of the best writers alive. A good intro to Murakami is the book After the Quake.

(cont.)

Anonymous Mon Mar 29 01:36:37 2010 No.489702

(pt. 2)

What else? Joyce and Faulkner you should read at some point. With Hemingway (and Eliot and Yeats) they're the cornerstones of modern lit. But unlike Hemingway, neither one is easy to read. Joyce loves loves loves the sound of his own voice (to be fair, it's easy to fall in love with if you like lit) and Faulkner... Faulkner's legitimately one of the hardest writers to read. But soooooo incredibly worth it. Just go with the flow, let the words wash over you and don't get caught up with trying to understand exactly who's talking or what's happening. It'll coalesce into sense at some point, but to really understand it, you might have to read it again. This may apply no matter how many times you read it.

What else? There's poetry, which is also easily underrated. Like I said, Eliot and Yeats are the foundation of modern poetry. They're a good starting place, but so are Plath, Bishop, and Walcott, all of which are more recent. Here's links to three great poems to start you off:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15212
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/midsummer-tobago/
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15293

Poetry's something not everyone gets into, but I think Plath's Ariel is an incredible introduction. I took that one like a punch to the face.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 01:54:37 2010 No.489757 >>489700 It's funny, because ever time I discuss Murakami, I just call him a Japanese Kurt Vonnegut.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 03:43:37 2010 No.490042 >>487109 /lit/ does not do /mu/ shit. We will provide recommendations specific to you and your next interest, but you have to come to the party with what you've recently read, genre, expectations, reading capacities.

Anonymous Mon Mar 29 10:32:37 2010 No.490567

>>490042
It boggles the mind how many people ask for "beginners" recommendations.

These people do not care what it is that they are reading so long as it is a book that is well received on /lit/

"hur dur hey guyz tell me what to read so I can be cool like you."

seriously, just go pick up a shitty warhammer, or halo book, or whateverthefuck shit you have been reading an enjoy it. Don't let some pretentious anonymous fagot tell you what you should be reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 10:34:37 2010 No.490571 "Beginner" recommendation threads are a fucking cancer. /lit/ is not your personal English teacher.

Anonymous Mon Mar 29 11:02:37 2010 No.490632

I don't get you, /lit/.

Most of the time you are like "Oh, yeah, let's discuss the classics, they're so good, unlike all that other literature, there are no other like those timeless masterpieces, etc.

But now someone asks (not impolitely, mind you) for some advice regarding those books. And now you yell "CANCER".

So, the next time someone posts about a book s/he likes and, in your opinion, it's utter garbage or a blatant ripoff of whatever book you've read and liked, remember that you refuse to help those same people where it's at.

Note: This is not directed at the people who are actually trying to help the OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 13:33:37 2010 No.490946 "Robinson Crusoe" is pretty good, it's entertaining and considered a classic or "basic read", so that fits your criteria.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 13:36:37 2010 No.490953 Read anything written by SD Perry. Shit's so cash. Eric Nylund, Steve Perry, Gav Thorp. It's all fuckin' good.

Anonymous Mon Mar 29 13:42:37 2010 No.490973
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>>490946
Sweet Christ no. Robinson Crusoe is so fucking boring I could hang myself. Labor attaches a man to property, isolation from man is like isolation from God, colonialism is good - we get it. Defoe is a tract-writing cockbag.

Needs moar of Friday doing backflips to kill bears.

Anonymous Mon Mar 29 13:45:37 2010 No.490983

Don't listen to these people. Everyone has their own taste.

I only started reading good books when I stopped reading "classics". They were science fiction classics, mind you, but I didn't find them thought-provoking in the least.

Just pick something that looks like you'll like, or like it will make you think. Read it, and find out. Repeat.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 13:46:37 2010 No.490985 >>490973 I just thought it was a good story.

epic poet/poetry thread else !L6xabslN96 Mon Mar 29 13:48:00 2010 No.490990 [DELETED]

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I cannot
and I will not
No, I cannot love you less
Like the flower to the butterfly
The corsage to the dress

She turns my love to dust
my destination empty
my beliefs scattered: Diaspora!

Who set this course - and why?
Now my wings beat -
without purpose
Yet they speed.............

- Spike Milligan's poem, "Eurolove"

inb4 ee cummings, t.s. eliot, silvia plath and usual suspects. but they're welcome too, of course.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 29 13:50:37 2010 No.490999 The Time Magazine 1923 - 2005 and the Modern Library Curated 100 are both great lists, if you don't have a problem accepting that Western canon dominates. Western canon is literature.

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