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Anonymous Thu Mar 23 13:30:07 2017 No.9282032 [Reply] [Original]

>ask literary studies friend about what to read to get into literature
>gives me a list
>3000 books

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 14:31:21 2017 No.9282271 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books#Series

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 14:33:53 2017 No.9282282 >>9282032 He's baiting you. You only need to read about 1000 books to gain an elementary understanding of literature.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 14:41:38 2017 No.9282307 >>9282282 The actual number is 319.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 14:48:17 2017 No.9282332 >>9282032 remember that you need to read them twice

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 14:48:55 2017 No.9282337 You don't get a understanding of literature by reading literature, you "understand" literature by reading authors who couldn't make it as writers criticize writers who could.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 14:52:32 2017 No.9282357 As someone who read over a 1000 novels, I maintain that maybe 100 of them weren't completely fucking meaningless and wasteful

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 17:23:01 2017 No.9282930 >>9282357 Mind making a list?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 17:29:25 2017 No.9282960 >>9282357 Have you considered the possibility that you just didn't understand them properly? Perhaps you should have learned how to read first.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 17:45:45 2017 No.9283021 Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare The rest is fan fiction

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 17:58:56 2017 No.9283075 >>9282960 is there a guide somewhere? that isn't a book itself?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 23 18:05:46 2017 No.9283105 >>9282960 It's also possible he just read a lot of shitty novels.