For someone completely new to this board, name 3 books that you wish they would have read before joining.
the sticky
>>8041524
Ulysses, Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow
Do it for the memes
>>8041539
>Ulysses
Does anyone actually understand that book in all of its complexity? Did Joyce even understand it?
>>8041524
Candide
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Heart of Darkness
Three easy short reads.
Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest. They need to be read in that order to be understood.No joke though I picked up Ulysses when I was a palahniuk gobbling pleb not knowing what I was getting into and as a result I fell in love with prose
>>8041524
The Stranger, Notes from the Underground, Dubliners
What do you mean join?
Anyway, if you want to participate in discussions on any meaningful level you're going to have to read widely. But you'll also want to develop your own taste, and read books recommended elsewhere and what not.
Start with the Greeks
>3
That's far too few. You should read everything from http://interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
>>8041528
this desu senpai
The End of Faith by Sam Harris, The God Delusion by Dick Dawkins, and Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
Women and Men
Zettels Traum
The Voynich Manuscript
Anatomy of Criticism - Northrup Frye
Masscult and Midcult - Dwight MacDonald
Hypershere - Anonymous
>>8041524
Odyssey
Iliad
Histories
History of peloponnesian war
Oedipus plays of Sophocles
Oresteia
The campaigns of Alexander
All of Plato
All of Aristotle
Aeneid
All of livys histories
The gallic war
Fuck it im tired somebody finish listing off the romans for me
>>8041802
Metamorphoses
The Bible
The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare
