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hi lit, I fell through the cracks of the school system.

Last year I read Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, I really loved it but I want to read more, what should I read now?

>> No.10507096

>>10507070

Donald Keene's The Pleasures of Japanese Literature. Get some recs from that plus some education.

Also suggest: In the Miso Soup, 6/4, Naomi, anything by Soeseki, more Murakami, A Personal Matter,

>> No.10507110

>>10507096
Alright, I'll start with Keene.

Do you recommend audiobooks? I like books when I'm in a state where I'm so sleepy opening my eyes sucks but where I'm not tired enough to fall asleep (lasts several hours for me.)

I've heard that many people frown upon the practice of listening to books.

>> No.10507118

Well atleast you can only go up from there
>/lit/ answer
Homer
>Reddit answer
Vonnegut
>Imo
Hemingway and Dostoevsky are good intros with different style and setting

>> No.10507133

>>10507118
I tried reading Homer last year, but it was very heavy.

I didn't really understand the language use, and it felt like I was missing a lot of background, how am I supposed to follow?

I heard Vonnegut is very good from my girlfriend, she also says I should probably read Infinite Jest.

>> No.10507149

How would school have helped you here? All we were made to read in highschool was young adult fiction.

>> No.10507151

>>10507070
Who is this cumshot kumquat?

>> No.10507168

>>10507149
I was under the impression that school made you read literature.

>> No.10507179

>>10507133
>I didn't really understand the language use
Depends on the translation, if it was Pope than that makes sense, he presupposes familiarity with the Roman names, titles and it's difficult to into epic couplet at first. Fitzgerald or Lattimore are easier to understand, just get the general titles of characters like Phoebus Apollo, Pallas Athene, Agammenon as Son of Atreus ect
You should start with novels though
>I heard Vonnegut is very good from my girlfriend, she also says I should probably read Infinite Jest.
The memes are real

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>> No.10507330

>>10507070
Behead All Satans
Cinderella's Concrete Shoes
Pandemonium of The Sun
On Women
Der Hexenhammer
On the jews and their lies
Green Eggs and Ham
Ulysses

>> No.10507341

>>10507168
Mine didn't.