theres a lot of stuff everyone always talks about but is some combo of archaic, long, proselytizing and dense
> Joyce
> Pynchon
> Homer
> Hegel
> Kant
> Atlas Shrugged
> Paradife Lost
> Divine Comedy
> stemfag masturbation GEB, ANKOS
> probably others i forgot
what of those are just obscure pretentious academic bullcrap and which are actually worth reading in current year
>> Joyce
It's Joyce desu
>> Pynchon
Meme
>> Homer
Must
>> Hegel
Know what you're getting into
>> Kant
Phil must
>> Atlas Shrugged
Awful, why is it even here
>> Paradife Lost
Great
>> Divine Comedy
Great, draws on so much
Those are all masterpieces you stupid fuck.
Maybe you should go FUCKING READ THEM and find out
thank
bc im brainlet slowreader and these are each a massive time investment
chit, i better get reading desu
I agree. If I'm gonna read something, it better be worth my time if I'm going to be wasting a good amount of my life staring at dead tree's and hallucinating. It's either STEM related or fucking Cat in the Hat for me.
none of them dude. they are all boring trash.
Atlas Shrugged (or any of Rand's books really) reads like a comic book, so I'm not sure why you're intimidated by it.
Because it's long as f and I have heard the prose is preachy and condescending
makes it sound like a root canal desu
>In 19XX, some guy LAYS RAILROAD TRACKS so that he can SAVE AMERICA
it's not for everyone
>tree's
For the love of God, go sit down and read anything.
good thread. fuck off.
In the middle of "The Crying of Lot 49". While I have the emotional and mental intelligence of a rotten apple, I like it.
not gonna make it
IDIO
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YOU ARE
IDIOT
when you see the frog poster remember to sage and insult
cunt.
It’s joyce, you either recognize his genius or you are a idiot or a feminist. Read his works in the order he wrote them. Understand who he’s responding to.
Pynchon, idk, maybe a meme, if you find a cheap copy find out for yourself.
Homer, absolute must. There are audiobooks on YouTube, listen to it all. And before somebody jumps on me for ‘not reading it’ Homer is MEANT to be listened to, every scholar emphases the works’ aural quality. As Pope says ‘Homer makes us Hearers’.
Hegel, honestly I’d say stick to the secondary lit. Good luck to you trying to actually read him first hand. Read Charles Taylor’s book on him, it should suffice unless you are committed to become a scholar.
Kant, essential, the most important philosopher since Aristotle. After him we are all kantians.
Atlas Shrugged, skip
Divine comedy, another I’d be happy to listen to somebody read to me, requires either that or an annotated version.
I just finished Paradise lost, if you can read that style of English then there is hardly a single passage of it that is not beautifully written and brilliantly sublime: especially with respect to the many cunning dialogues, while even Satan is worthy for mention as a cruel rhetorician. There's nothing pretentious about it. Here is the beginning of Adam's speech about his recollection of his creation, which I particularly enjoyed.
So spake the Godlike Power, and thus our Sire (Adam).
For Man to tell how human Life began
Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
Desire with thee still longer to converse
Induc'd me. As new wak't from soundest sleep
Soft on the flourie herb I found me laid
In Balmie Sweat, which with his Beames the Sun
Soon dri'd, and on the reaking moisture fed.
Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd,
And gaz'd a while the ample Skie, till rais'd
By quick instinctive motion up I sprung,
As thitherward endevoring, and upright
Stood on my feet; about me round I saw
Hill, Dale, and shadie Woods, and sunnie Plaines,
And liquid Lapse of murmuring Streams; by these,
Creatures that livd, and movd, and walk'd, or flew,
Birds on the branches warbling; all things smil'd,
With fragrance and with joy my heart oreflow'd.
My self I then perus'd, and Limb by Limb
Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran
With supple joints, as lively vigour led:
But who I was, or where, or from what cause,
Knew not; to speak I tri'd, and forthwith spake,
My Tongue obey'd and readily could name
What e're I saw. Thou Sun, said I, faire Light,
And thou enlight'nd Earth, so fresh and gay,
Ye Hills and Dales, ye Rivers, Woods, and Plaines,
And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell,
Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Not of my self; by some great Maker then,
In goodness and in power præeminent;
Tell me, how may I know him, how adore,
From whom I have that thus I move and live,
And feel that I am happier then I know.
you forgot Society of the Spectacle
mfw have read half this list
OP you fucking moron even if you read a meme book its better than all your friends which are watching the bachelor
now fuck off
read Homer and Dante
I like Pynchon, come at me.