Give me your top 5 /lit/ approved books/meme books.
Infinite jest
Blood meridian
Ulysses
Gravities rainbow
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These 5 books make a skill rainbow starting at amazing peaking at cannon masterwork, and back down to amazing
>>8277415
harry potter series
a song of ice and fire series
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
ready player one
the martian
>>8277415
saved. Golden picture
right here bby, the true /lit/ starter pack
>>8277552
That's the Reddit starter pack.
>>8277415
>The Greeks
>The Greeks
>The Greeks
>My diary desu
>The Greeks
Most importantly, the Greeks.
>>8277588
This, to be frank with you my relative
>>8277588
> No Moby Dick
>>8277588
Nigga where is Infinite Jest?
>>8277588
>kant
>not schelling
I thought this is a place for intelectuals, not a memeing board
>>8277552
There is nothing wrong with Hitchhikers Guide you jaded pissant
>>8277463
>4 decent/good books
>corncobs tortillas yecarthy mixed in
who are you trying to ruse
>>8277855
>Infinite Jest>Blood Meridian
Good job undermining your own forced meme
>>8277415
Blood Meridian
Collected works of Borges
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
The Ego and Its Own
You also have to not read/flick through Infinite Jest and tell everyone who seems new to read it.
>>8277912
they're both bad actually but his point stands
at least people know ij is bad. have to make sure the corncobbers don't meme anyone else into tortilla land
If I were doing a /lit/ starter pack it would be something like:
20th century English novels: Lolita, Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, As I Lay Dying
Pre 20th century: Werther, Hadji Murat, The Odyssey, Great Expectations
Poems: Shakespeare, Blake, Dickinson, TS Eliot
Short stories: Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver
>>8277829
I could see how a person who says things like "jaded pissant" would think that
>>8277943
>Short stories of Thomas Hardy
Direct me sempai
>>8277935
Nobody cares about your opinions
>>8277415
Memes aside, the actual 5 most approved modern /lit/erary works(pre-summer)
1. Ulysses
2. Moby Dick
3. Anna Karenina
4. Middlemarch
5. The Brothers Karamazov
honorable mention to Don Quixote
>>8277953
Wessex Tales. Comfiest book I've ever read .
>>8277935
>people will take my word over Harold Bloom's
>>8277829
It's terrible.
>>8277976
OP here. I'm about 10 pages away from finishing The Picture of Dorian Gray and its pretty lame tbqh. The middle part of the book was a struggle to get through.
The book itself is well written, but its not "wow" good. If this book was written in the current year people would call Oscar Wilde pretentious.
>>8278011
>they wont accepted my forced meme! damage control!
>>8278073
does yecarthy/yecarthy's publisher pay you to shill the corncob chronicles or are you just that big of a pleb?
>>8278010
And if you went around in current year speaking like they did in 1890, people would have plenty of names for you. What a pointlessthing to say.
Catch-22
Walden
Inherent Vice
Lolita
Infinite Jest
>>8278161
I just finished it. I would give it a light 7.
>>8277588
I like how the one with the moon runes is implied to be the quran but for all I know of arabic it could be a princess from mars
>>8277976
>I Served the King of England
>A River Runs Through It
>The Postman Always Rings Twice
Absolutely nobody on /lit/ talks about these, why are they on here? Remarque and that specific Hesse book are also questionable.
Don't listen to any of them. Start with the Greeks; I'm not even meming.
Excuse me, but hasn't this list been /lit/'s starter pack for YEARS? When did you guys chenge it?
>>8277915
I'm sure you mean 'read/kino through'
>>8278317
It looks like a joke to me. Or what someone wishes was the /lit/ starter kit. Hrabal is GOAT btw.
>>8277588
>no hegel
>>8278096
stick to dfw redditor
>>8277415
The starter pack shouldn't be the major meme books. Most of them are fairly complex and require at least some basic familiarity with advanced techniques and devices. So books like Ulysses, BM, IJ, GR aren't recommended.
I don't have a chart, but if you are just beginning, I'd recommend a few of the following:
>The Republic-Plato
>The Illiad-Homer
>The Odyssey-Homer
>Nicomachean Ethics-Aristotle
>The Divine Comedy-Dante
>Any of Shakespeare's tragedies
>As I Lay Dying
>Crime and Punishment
>Short stories of Flannery O'Connor
>The Holy Bible-KJV or Douay-Rheims only
>Dubliners-Joyce
there's a lot more I could list, but these are pretty comfy and necessary reads if you're just starting out.
>>8278498
dfw is even worse than corncobman but they're both so bad it's no point comparing them
yecarthy is redditcore btw.
>>8277829
It's gay and evre1 knows it
the wiki article to DFW
google image search: harold bloom
skim the bible memorize something that seems significant and like a good argument to shoehorn into literally anything
find a /lit/ infographic and take note of some of the titles, decide which ones you like / will shit on based on author name and cover
remember that absolutely fucking everything is a spook authors you dont like are hacks existentialists are teenage faggots and tao lin must go to bed
>>8278524
>>As I Lay Dying
Why does this always get rec'd over The Sound and the Fury and Light in August? They're both superior imo
>>8278662
Go Down, Moses is his best.
>>8277415
Few years out of date but
Crying of Lot 49
Master and Margarita
Stoner
Siddhartha
Hunger
Those were some of the few that people on here seemed to have actually read, most other books tended to have more unspecific shitposting than discussion
>>8277415
As a seasoned /lit/ meme veteran, you want some good 'ol /lit/core.
5 i think are THE /lit/core memes (meme trilogy included obviously)
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Moby Dick
The Brothers Karamazov / Lolita
>>8278412
this is the high school starter pack
Here's a starter pack for ya
*garbs crotch*
>>8277588
Are Self and Adler just to ruse everyone who recognizes the ruse? They seem like completely random choices.
These, but they have to be read in the proper order. Don't think you can just jump into Belly Button Book until you've read Caesar's Conquest of Gaul and The Anne Rice Reader.
>>8277588
everyone pointing out memes but no one even addresses elliot rodger
>>8277692
>4chan
>intellectuals
starter pack for what?
you want to get into philosophy? the greeks
you want to understand western literature as a whole? start with the greeks
you just want to read good books for entertainment and thoughts? go to the wiki and browse the recommendation images, pick things that sound interesting to you, read. collect a more focused reading list once you have some idea of what you want (if it is either of the things mentioned above, the greeks are your list)
>>8279438
>>8278412
that /lit/core is pretty good if you just want something good to read, without caring too much about becoming cultured/acquiring understanding about the history of literature (or literature itself)
