Start with the Greeks.

>>7353031

You'll be infinitely glad you did.

>>7353031
only you can know
give it a shot

Yeah it's fine. Example I use is my 60 year old mother read it as the first piece of literary fiction she'd picked up since high school and had no trouble.

>>7353033
What if I've already read The Iliad?

>>7353034
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>>7353045
Thanks guys.

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>>7353054
>the iliad

Rofl

>>7353031
Start with Gatsby, Lolita, and Dubliners.

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>>7353031
No, don't start with Infinite Jest.

Start with Crime and Punishment. You'll be glad you did because you'll never read anything better!

>>7353031
Start with DFW's Oblivion.

>>7353054
Then read the Odyssey

>>7353297
disorientedblackman.jpg

>>7353031
>>7353297

OP, unless you want to read Ulysses don't go for Dubliners. That would be a waste of time

Start with the phantom tollbooth.

Ignore James Joyce and DFW. They're bullshit

Seriously though, I think this guy is on the right path: >>7353297

Just ignore Dubliners, it sucks. The other two are good though.

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>>7353551
>Just ignore Dubliners, it sucks.

>>7353551
>Dubliners bad
>Gatsby good

Hi redit

There's no reason you can't read infinite jest. Just read hamlet first

>>7353612
He's right though, overall it's not worth reading. The Dead is good, and that one about the mom of the girl who sings. Every other story was meh

If anything, you have to read Hamlet first, otherwise you'll be lost

>>7353297
>>7353551
>>7353612
>>7353622
I would follow these guys' advice, and with Dubliners you can just read one or two stories and see how you get on and if not I would recommend Portrait of the Fartist as a Young Man instead

>>7354661
>that bathing scene
If there was ever a moment to masturbate to a book, that was it.

>>7354666
>If there was ever a moment to masturbate to a book, that was it.
That and the hell sermon are glued shut with semen on my edition (though for different reasons)

Josh Radnor loves Infinite Jest, it's his favorite book.

Start with Tristram Shandy

>>7353297
>>7353551
>>7353777
>>7354017
>>7354661

Thanks guys

>>7353054
Greek philosophy such as The Republic is more important than the Iliad.

start with bible

it will saved you later in life.

no need for thanks.

>>7353622
>implying reddit would call a book "bad."
Don't you know all books are beautiful in their own unique way?

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>>7353031
there are few images more disgusting than this.

>>7353293
>Rofl
Fuck off cancer.

>>7355231
is it bad if I read Absalom, Absalom! before As I Lay Dying?