I'm putting together a reading list for a class I'm taking in fall

[Anonymous No.6581364]

I need ten books
What are your suggestions?
I know I'm including pic-related

[Anonymous No.6581389]

[Anonymous No.6581396]

What kind of class
What kind of books

But I suggest pic related anyway

[Anonymous No.6581397]

Plutarch's Lives (excerpts)
Gargantua and Pantegruel
Montaigne's Essays (excerpts)
Canterbury Tales
As You Like It
Henry IV pt 1
Hamlet
Lear
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest

[Anonymous No.6581414]

>>6581397
You're too gay to live.

[Anonymous No.6581425]

>>6581397
I was gonna do Plutarch's Lives along with the other books the monster in Frankenstein read to get inside the characterization. Does that sound like a good idea?

>>6581396
A creative writing class (it's for fun, plz don't bully)
I'm not really sure what I'm looking for at this point. I'm just trying to feel things out.

[Anonymous No.6581427]

>>6581414
I don't think any of those books were written by or contains any faggots.

[Anonymous No.6581444]

>>6581425
Oh, well if it's creative writing then obviously you should go with the widest variety of styles, and also do short writing exercises where you take a simple prompt and try to write something in the style of whatever author you happen to be reading.

Get at modernist like Joyce in there, some poetry in your native language from wildly different eras, Chandler or any other "American realist," and so on.

[Anonymous No.6581459]

>>6581444
I'm interested in Joyce, but also a little intimidated. Is there an author I can use to work up to him, or does he have simpler works that I can start with?

[Anonymous No.6581462]

>>6581397
Trying hard: the post

[Anonymous No.6581466]

>>6581425
Okay, but what do you need the books for? Are they something you want to read beforehand to get a feel and get inspired? Are you going to need to rewrite them?

Anyway, the single best thing for creative writing is Borges. Fictions, the Aleph, everything.

[Anonymous No.6581473]

>>6581397
Half of these aren't really even books, they're plays.

[Anonymous No.6581484]

>>6581459
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Anonymous No.6581490]

>>6581466
I guess to dissect their writing to the point that I could write a short piece someone could believe cam from the author themselves. Eventually picking up the tools they used and putting it to work for me. Does that make sense?

[Anonymous No.6581493]

>>6581484
Ah yes, the patrician version of Catcher.

[Anonymous No.6581510]

>>6581490
In that case you'd probably be better off reading 10 books by one author. But I assume that what you're getting at is not merely learning how to write like one good author, but as a good author in general? If so, as far as I can tell the only solution is just to read any good literature you can get your hands on.

[Anonymous No.6581514]

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selbey
Black Tickets by Jayne Ann Phillips
Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop by Danny Hooch
Blood and Guts in HighSchool by Kathy Acher
An Episode in the Life of a Painter by Cesar Aira
The Tales of Neveryon by Samuel Delany
(I would also suggest since it's a creative writing class you include other literary genres:)
Venus (The Play) by Suzan Parks
Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth by Ware (Graphic Novel) or if that's too long of a text 100 Demons by Lynda Barry (Graphic Novel)

[Anonymous No.6581515]

>>6581510
Oh, and then keep reading until you're dead, basically.

[Anonymous No.6581520]

Also Hard Rain Falling

[Anonymous No.6581521]

>>6581490
Yeah, I get it now. I've never done this kind of classes, so I don't know how they work. Still, my suggestions:

Borges - Fictions
Ellroy - Anything really
Blake Butler - Scorch Atlas
Negarestani - Cyclonopedia
McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
DFW - A Supposedly Fun Thing / Consider The Lobster
Hesse - Siddharta // Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Shipley - Dreams of Amputation

They are wildly different, and some are far worse than the others, but I feel they represent well enough the style they embody. See if anyone tickles your fancy.

[Anonymous No.6581541]

>>6581510
Yeah, I'm interested in a particular style though (I think, unfortunately I'm not as well read as I'd like)
I grew up Pentecostal and am now atheistic. My writing (almost exclusively poetry) seems to revolve around astronomy and old testament mythology. I'm trying to expand, but those seem to be the focus areas.
Pic-related and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf are my most recent reads. I loved both of them.
I want to develop a style that fetishizes Pentecostalism while being a bit of a futurist.
That's probably the best explanation i have.

[Anonymous No.6581571]

>>6581364
is edith grossman, the translation to get?

[Anonymous No.6581593]

To The Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Pederson Kid- William H Gass
Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
Mao II - Don DeLillo
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathaniel West
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Dubliners - James Joyce
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

[Anonymous No.6581751]

East of Eden

Also, good look reading Don quijote during the duration of the semester. It's over a thousand pages long.

[Anonymous No.6581990]

>>6581751
I'm a very slow reader but read an 800 page book in a couple of weeks earlier this year, for a deadline. It can be done if you're methodical about it

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[Anonymous No.6583470]

>>6581593
>>6581521
>>6581444
>>6581397

Some great recs here. Especially cosigning Woolf, Joyce, Beckett, Borges, Kafka and Gass. Very challenging but not entirely inaccessible. Also, as >>6581751 said, Quixote might be a bit too hefty to cram into a semester along with other books.

[Anonymous No.6584839]

>>6583470
I'm starting on Quixote this summer.

Thanks everyone!!

[Anonymous No.6584893]

>>6581427
>>6581427
>I don't think any of those books were written by or contains any faggots.
>Shakespeare
all my keks. you're a dumb faggot, stick to pleb shit.

[Anonymous No.6584945]

>reading Don Quijote in english
Plebeyos.

[Anonymous No.6584967]

>>6584945
>reading Don I'm a fucking retard Quixote at all
plebs