Try to keep it in here.
'Where Do I Start With X?' General
That's actually a good idea .
Confining the "Where should I start threads" should be required by the Mods.
I'll post some charts later on as soon as I get home.
The Present Age is actually a nice short starting point for Kierkegaard.
Notes from Underground for Dostoevsky.
99% of the time you should start with their first published book
Where do I start with the Roman Empire?
Veeky Forums has a wiki that can pretty much answer to all your questions and is filled with various charts.
Just consult it, don't be lazy.
I don't know where you'd start, but you'd definitely finish with pic related.
Could someone post one for Henry James?
Name ninety-nine (99) cases where this is the case.
the Greeks.
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Nabokov?
nice
Gaddis, Evola, Faulkner?
As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, A Light in August. If you don't have them yet, there's a nice little box set of the three back when Oprah did her book club
Lolita
i would say that sanctuary is probably the easiest of his novels. He does not use stream of conciousness in the dialogues which makes it difficult for the average harry potter reader to follow the story.
I’m not a Harry Potter reader, can I start with The Sound of the Fury?
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>Gaddis
Carpenter's Gothic if you want to ease into him. The Recognitions if you don't need to.
>Evola
Revolt Against the Modern World
>Faulkner
Start with Light in August or As I Lay Dying
Daisy Miller and Turn of the Screw are two accessible novellas which encapsulate a lot of what James is about. Portrait of a Lady is his most readable novel.
I say jump right into Sound and the Fury. Its 4 sections provide a great variety of Faulkner's talents and styles.
The first and only Faulkner novel I read was Intruder in the Dust and I kind of hated it (reqd reading for a college course). Should I give one of the ones you all suggested a try or is he just not for me?
I've never read Dostoievski. Where should I start?
Crime and Punishment. Some people say to start with Notes from Underground, but I've seen to many plebs get scared off by the philosophizing first half.
Crime & Punishment or Notes from the Underground, read both before Brothers K
Mary Beard, SPQR. Or if you want to go old school, Rostovtzeff.
Intruder is one of his lesser novels. You should give one of the other ones a try.
Philosophy. I've read Meditations. Tried Nietzsche BG&E but just felt dumb. Any recommendations?
SWTG
then if you insist on kneechee you can at least read birth of tragedy after
Where should I begin with karl jaspers
Requesting Classical philosophy
From the two world's you've read, you seem interested in ethics. Try Nicomachean Ethics.