Reading chronologicly

I have never read a piece of literature in my life. I know Veeky Forums says I should start with the greeks but would reading important pieces of literature chronologicly be interesting? Starting with pre-historic stories and ending with modern. Has anyone done this?

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OP... easy on the pizzazz

>[Jezebel Intensifies]

duh

You should read whatever interests you, there's no point in forcing yourself to enjoy intellectual wankery.

Intellectual wankery IS my interest.

vajina

It can be richly rewarding.
I'd suggest finding a decent reading list.
You could then strike off some of the items to make the list manageable.
As you go through it all, you'll start to see themes and ideas being reworked again and again.
This multifaceted historical exploration gives you a depth of understanding that is difficult to acquire otherwise.

You said you never read anything before, it's a lot more boring than you think and you will give up pretty quickly if you try reading "literature essentials" before reading what you want for pleasure.

You don't have to read everything chronologically, just be aware of the fact that writers have always built on each other, and that if you haven't at least read the "big hitters" of the western canon, then you're not going to get the deeper meaning of most later works.
For example, all of science fiction owes its existence to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and a major plot point in that book is Frankenstein's Monster getting ahold of a copy of Milton's Paradise Lost, and greatly relating to the protagonist (Satan), with the monster taking revenge on Frankenstein for creating, then abandoning him forcing him to live a life of cruelty, and misery, and seeing him essentially as a god in need of dethroning.
While you can obviously read Frankenstein without reading Paradise Lost, and still understand the plot, and relate to a couple of the characters, a lot of the deeper meaning of the book will be lost on you if you.
Likewise, you definitely won't appreciate Paradise Lost itself anywhere near as much if you aren't reasonably familiar with the teachings of Christianity, which would mean not only reading the Bible, but also Paradise Lost, considering how much of an impact that's had on the way that most Christians actually think about shit.
And it goes on like that.

At the very least, before reading anything from ~1800 onwards, you should read:
Apollodorus's Bibliotecha

The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Oedipus Trilogy
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Bible
Beowulf
The Poetic Eda
The Niebelungenlied
L'Morte D'Arthur
The Canterbury Tales
Dante's Inferno
Shakespeare - Othello
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Shakespeare - Macbeth
Shakespeare - King Lear
Paradise Lost
Don Quixote

(Note, this only includes fiction & Mythology, there's also a bunch of Philosophy & History you should read up on if you're serious about becoming well-read).

Fuck, meant to say "Not only reading the Bible, but also Dante's Inferno"

while I can appreciate the theoretical value of "start with the greeks", it's basically a meme, premised on the wishful notion that there is some chronologically driven rational structure to the development of insight and understanding in the human mind. appreciating literature on a personal level is a very different thing than e.g. understanding math (in which case we all literally start with the greeks/persians/etc. when we're learning basic arithmetic, geometry and algebra).

if you're really this much of a newfag, just jump in by reading something that sounds interesting to you. if you're truly desperate for knowledge and inspiration, you'll start with whatever the fuck the closest book is and go from there

>multifaceted historical exploration gives you a depth of understanding that is difficult to acquire otherwise
true

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Life is a constant hell. Day in and out the tired red eyes glaze in some attempt to shield me from these images. I am floating in the blistering heat of my id's vacuum, castrated and blinded by my wretched libido. No wonder I resent women so.

here you go:

mental age 6 - 13

>ASTERIX (26 comics)
>TINTIN (24 comics)
>THE LITTLE PRINCE
>CONAN THE CIMMERIAN (COMPLETE TALES)
>THE STARS MY DESTINATION
>THE CALL OF THE WILD

mental age 13-17

>DON QUIXOTE
>ROBINSON CRUSOE
>MOBY DICK
>ANNA KARENINA
>MIDDLEMARCH


mental age 17-25

>MACBETH
>CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
>THE PRINCE
>MEDITATIONS
>THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

mental age 25-35
>BABYLONIAN TALMUD, KABBALAH
>HOLY BIBLE (KJV 1611), APOCRYPHA
>QURAN, HADITH
>RIG-VEDA, MAHABHARATA
>TAO-TE CHING, FIVE CLASSICS (SHU CHING, SHIH CHING, I CHING, LI KA, CH'UN CH'IU)


mental age 35+
>free to choose

should take you about 3 years to complete. we can discuss why i have chosen some over others, but it's all about giving you a well rounded perspective on human civilization and the various stories people have told for the past 4000 thousand years. as you get down the list more is required of you in terms of reading, such as expanding vocabulary or learning a little about the historical period the text was written in.

What do you actually get from reading the Greeks

What difference does it make in you

I'm sorry sir, but this is a Christian forum. If your post isn't removed within 6000 seconds, I will not hesitate to give you a one hour ban.

>implying the average 25yo could understand the glorious miracle that is the Quran

>people don't change
>lead don't follow
>stay humble
>create something
>pick good friends


cant ignore 21% of population.

Dude I'm on 3 weeks nofap don't post this shit on a blue board.

Name of this titted queen?

She's my sister you asshole.

She's german. Name is Mein Tagebuch desu

I wish to court her

>get chrome
>right click, "Search Google for image"
>???
>profit!!!

It’s from her blacked kino.

>tfw she got blacked

>BLACKEDRAW BLONDE GIRLFIREND CHEATING AT AFTER PARTY WITH BLACK PROMOTER
nice

Who gives a fuck what a stupid meme can we start calling reading the Greeks getting GREEKED lmao

>bauss bunny
ma nigga

Don't set a rigid reading list, especially if you've never read literature regularly before. People post here everyday resolving to read The Canon from the start but I would bet anything that none of them ever get beyond the 2nd or 3rd book they've told themselves they have to read.

Let curiosity guide you - don't do it in a pre-arranged order. If you're generally interested then you'll fill in the gaps eventually.

>I would bet anything that none of them ever get beyond the 2nd or 3rd book
Speak for yourself complete pleb

>>ASTERIX (26 comics)
what do you have against asterix and son you shitlord

never speak of it again.

How to be a pseud 101

This only includes western canon items.

missing things like the upinashads, bhagavad gitq, tao te ching, etc.

Beautiful women keep me going

well, good news, my libido isn't dead, bad news, i have no idea what you asked OP. thank you for asking it though

>botnet

cuck

Lol faggot

>starting with pre-historic stories

gee willikers i sure wanna read fucking cave paintings, what planet did you crash from

Start with the Gravettians

>prehistoric
yeah we should read those

pick up a dictionary

The stories comprising Gilgamesh are pre-Historic.

>not Perigordian
>he autistically relies on bashing things with rocks instead of developing proper saws
laughingneanderthals.mammothhide

>While you can obviously read Frankenstein without reading Paradise Lost, and still understand the plot, and relate to a couple of the characters, a lot of the deeper meaning of the book will be lost on you if you.
What? Did you actually read Frankenstein? If you did you would know those references are written within reasonable context.

Why do people act like you need "get" the references in order to "get" the work. Anything that can't hold up on it's own because you didn't read [something completely unrelated but the author liked it so it's here as a reference] is just bad writing

nice quotes faggot

who is this jizz jinn?

kylie page (or paige, idk)

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any poetry about how big tiddies hang in tight tops as illustrated by OP's pic related?

Pendulous Melons
Pleas Induce Friction Upon
My Wee Penor

would any kind gentleman here be able to point me to a pornographic work where a white man is cucked by a glorious black bull, whom the white man then proceeds to ass fuck for revenge
The idea of an aryan man reaming some nigger's babboon butt while he grunts in his deep, lusty voice seems too primal to not have been adapted to video

I could point you to two separate videos which you could watch in sequence and would produce that effect, as long as you don’t look at the characters too closely.

We had to read Crime and Punishment in School when I was about 17. If you're not on some Prussian regime when it comes to learning classics and lit from the moment you can read you won't understand shit and the implications of the book. Same with the Meditations. I openly admit I was to stupid to appreciate these books when I was 17 and I read them both at that age. I had an easier time with the Meditations that got me interested in stoicism, but I at least had some background and vivid interest in Greece and Rome even back then.

I could point to about 6 other boards that'd be more appropiate than a fucking literature one

Exactly my reaction. I can't concentrate when seeing small blond girls with big tits who are a little chubby and have a nice face.

Shame she does porn.