Reddit came up with a list of books everyone should read before they die:
>The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky >The Phantom Toll Booth - Norton Juster >The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien >Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes >The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman >Meditations - Marcus Aurelius >Brave New World - Aldous Huxley >Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut >The Stand - Stephen King >Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck >Catch 22 - Joseph Heller >Maus - Art Spiegelman >The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain >The Stranger - Albert Camus >The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: a Calvin and Hobbes treasury - Bill Waterson >Religious Texts (Bible, The Quran, Shruti and others) >The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas >To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee >1984 - George Orwell >The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien >Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams >Siddhartha - Herman Hesse >Night - Elie Wiesel >The Last Question - Isaac Asimov >One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez >East of Eden - John Steinbeck >All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
>most of these appear on those list of Veeky Forums's 100 favorites
But we sure are better and superior guys!
Austin Brown
Didn't expect any more or any less. Reddit-tier, is how I would describe it.
Jonathan Nguyen
>comics >"religious texts" in an attempt to be pc >only 1 book in spanish and it is not don quixote >stephen king >no shakespeare >no homer
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Christian Wilson
>no Tolstoy
Why are they so fucking stupid and yet so arrogant?
How can someone be both elitist and plebeian?
Calvin & Hobbes isn't even the best American newspaper comic strip. Where is Peanuts, Krazy Kat, Lil Abner, and KRAZY KAT?!?!?
They're a fucking cancer.
Owen Torres
Lacking some heavy weight
Jaxson Ortiz
>Where is Peanuts, Krazy Kat, Lil Abner, and KRAZY KAT?!?!?
They didn't grow up reading them so they don't count.
Elijah Bennett
>before they die:
More like before they finish high school
Isaiah Gomez
>Maus >Implying comics are literature
Hudson Hall
I wish I had read more of these while I was getting my BA. Instead, we'd read Heart of Darkness, Achebe's essay about how racist Heart of Darkness is, and then some contemporary African fiction, we'd do it like it was a sacred rite that kept the funding flowing from the gods of progressive liberalism.
there's at least seven truly excellent books in that list, it's not that bad
Leo Barnes
Pathetic.
But really, it's their loss. I have no affection for niche things, I wish Krazy Kat was more popular, but it isn't, and that doesn't keep me up at night either. Anyone who can't appreciate its beauty, its poetry, its humour, its incredible artwork, is missing out.
Elijah Sanders
For god's sake, add in some non-fiction.
Anthony Baker
>Reddit came up with a list of books Haha maybe you should go back to check on them I'm sure we'll be okay without you for a while ;) xoxox
Ayden Butler
>theres at least seven truly exellent books in that list Yeah, nobody is denying that. Some of the books are legitimately good. The problem is that they're all entry tier books that you read in high school. The only books in that list that are arguably life-changing are The Brothers Karamazov and Meditations.
Any list that doesn't at least have the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost in it are objectively garbage.
He was upset someone posts The Art Of Manliness's top 100 list (which is a decent entry level list for the average normie)
>I saw a post this morning that linked to the 100 books every man should read, and upon going through the list, I was unimpressed. Some of the picks were ridiculous (The Bible?), and some a little heavy-handed (The Prince?). I guess my problem with lists like these is that they are so long and sprawling. What do I do when I read them all Grow a beard and barbecue a pig? What's the end goal?
>I think these sorts of lists should be smaller and less preachy. So what I am going to do is share a list of books that profoundly influence me as the human being, adult, and man I am. My goal is to share some good stuff. Hopefully people read this, get into these books and writers, and are touched by these stories and ideas. One of my professors said we read fiction to learn how to live better, which is kinda corny but also a little true. So here is my list. Trying not to go too far into summaries.
Then he lists
>Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. >Ask the Dust by John Fante. >East of Eden by John Steinbeck. >"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T >Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
This fucking retard lists Fight Club in his reading list of 5 books but thinks the inclusion of THE BIBLE is ridiculous. THE BIBLE. But Fight Club is essential.
Lincoln Cooper
>Asimov, Stephen King and Douglas Adams >two graphic novels
I occasionally like to relax with genre fiction and comics too, but they're not literature, more like escapism; and less deserving of being on this list than the other sci-fi esque works here which do approach being literary (Vonnegut, Keyes, Huxley, Tolkein). This is while Tolstoy and Shakespeare are nowhere to be found.
I confess I don't know who O'Brien, Gilman, Wiesel are.
Oliver Reyes
I feel like adding that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein seems like a big omission.
Liam Clark
By the way, the guy who is posting advice on books that "profoundly influenced me as the human being, adult, and man I am" has a user history that consists of posting on Pokemon, Professional Wrestling, Advice Animals, and Rick & Morty. I'm sure his list is better than Harold Bloom's.
Joseph Foster
reddit is better than Veeky Forums. so is 420chan and goodreads
Charles Reed
stop making lists
make ternary trees
Owen Brooks
>no Italian authors reddit you fucking suck so much
Brody Stewart
>night >to kill a mockingbird It's even worse than I would expect of reddito
Owen Myers
This list is so American it hurts
Samuel Lee
That reminds me, here are two essential articles from Kantbot:
>Advice on Beginning a Serious Study of Literature
1. Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot
2. The Exemplary Novels by Cervantes
3. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
4. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
5. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
6. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
7. Heinrich von Ofterdingen by Novalis
>If you would like to extend this list a bit, I would also recommend the following works:
>The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson >The Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette >The Tales of Hoffmann >An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus >The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
Sebastian Sanchez
This. At least put Puzo on there.
Andrew King
Fuck you. I know you're joking but just fuck you.
Xavier Smith
>The Last Question - Isaac Asimov >a fucking three page short story
Nicholas Bennett
>he thinks the bible is ridiculous to include in a top 100 list Ok, I usually don't let these reddit retards get to me, but that's legitimately triggering. Anyone who disregards the bible as one of the greatest pieces of literature should be rounded up and sent to re-education camps in Serbia.
Bentley Gutierrez
guy thinks the Bible is a ridiculous inclusion before listing East of Eden, a book that couldn't exist without the Bible.
Jayden James
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
If I could burn a book and all the people who love it, it would be this fucking piece of shit.
>A Preliminary Talk With the Reader >"I have assumed that anyone who would read this book is already familiar with the Bible." — Fadiman
Also, the fucking retard listed EAST OF EDEN in this book, how the fuck is he able to understand the story's references to Cain and Abel, or EDEN? It's in the title.
Biblical literacy is the most important part of literary literacy.
Nathaniel Cox
the difference is that Veeky Forums reads them to tell everyone they are shit
Chase Wood
What'd you get, and where'd you go?
Angel Harris
>a user history that consists of posting on Pokemon, Professional Wrestling, Advice Animals, and Rick & Morty
Internet 'manliness' is a joke.
Juan Rodriguez
Maddox is a cuck
Josiah Ward
Here's the difference between Reddit and Veeky Forums.
Veeky Forums reads the best books and we all get called faggots, retards, and kids for liking them. We have high quality but low praise. Veeky Forums is humbling.
Reddit reads the shittiest books on the planet and they call each other geniuses for liking them. They have low quality and high praise. Reddit is arrogant.
James Garcia
The indexes on that sonic site is much better than any individual list
James Cruz
I agree, but it's too much for someone just starting out.
A nice classic top ten or top 50 list is enough.
Caleb Rivera
More or less the same
Ayden Lewis
>It's always a mistake to overestimate Reddit's taste.
It's just the average normie taste though, i don't know why people treat reddit like it's some specific taste. It's one of the biggest sites on the net and /r/books is one of the biggest subreddits.
Of course it's going to default to entry level milquetoast works. The demographic is too big for anything else. Most aren't even interested in books, beyond a sort of cursory glance. Almost everytime it get's mentioned here and i go on there you will see a post on the front page about someone just getting into reading, or reading their first book as an adult.
It just seems kind of silly belittling them.
Elijah Brown
Is there a decent collection of the strips?
Hunter Watson
I unironically have to agree, Hitchiker's Guide is one of the main reasons cancerous nerd culture is so popular nowadays
Jackson Wright
They're arrogant retards and it's fun to laugh at them for being so.
Jonathan Lee
Fantagraphic's large print Sundays. They're called "Krazy & Ignatz"
The best decade is the 1920s. Each book is one year. Get the black & white sundays before getting colour sundays or daily strips.
Ian White
they actually don't?
Kayden Diaz
I just found out about this, published a few months ago.
Parker Thomas
So they collect all the strips? Somewhere I read that there is no complete collection...
Ryan Russell
His life and racial issues are secondary to me.
All the Sundays have been released. Still waiting on dailies.
Cooper Parker
Are you sure they didn't mean before you turn 15?
Christian Garcia
>Dosty, Camus, and Aurelius on the same list as Calvin and Hobbes, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Steven King Thanks Reddit
in all my years of reading, this book was the single biggest waste of my time. I strongly encourage everyone to read *anything* else instead. (You can listen to Anthrax's "Among the Living" to get the story, that's worth it)
Leo Wright
>all this hatred
list 5 books everyone should read then
Lincoln Rodriguez
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Joseph Sanders
5 books everyone should read? Well, reading is not for everyone, but 5 books that a reader should read:
The Bible Plato's Complete Works Shakespeare's Complete Works Divine Comedy Anna Karenina
Jacob Moore
IMO everyone should read at least 50 books in their lifetime so I can't really answer your question.
Noah Perez
At a glace it's like maybe half and that's hardly relevant since there are some classics that are obviously make it on any list (Brothers Karamazov, The Stranger, etc). The top 100 list from Veeky Forums is also a pretty poor indicator of the actual taste here as it's hugely influenced by memes there's so little participation that it only takes like 4 votes to make it on. I have confidence that contributors on this board, at least those who actually read, wouldn't seriously propose the literal high-school curriculum mediocrity that makes up a majority of this list, let alone the, at best guilty pleasure, fluff like The Stand and Hitchhiker's Guide.
Jaxson Campbell
the "Religious Texts" part is hysterical. on some buried psychological level reddit recognizes that its taste is nonexistent, reducible only to the books forcibly heaped on them during school and by well-meaning relatives, but seeing the suffocatingly bland list laid out before them, they had no choice but to add "Religious Texts" to maintain some semblance of the worldliness they hoped to project in the first place. no one will ever read the quaran because reddit suggested it, but at the same time, the list wouldn't look "worthy" of taking seriously if it lacked the perfunctory gesture toward "Ancient History" and "Religion" and "Places Outside the Western World." so we have this little bluff in the form of "Religious Texts," an empty promise everyone will nod their head to without ever intending to even google what the religious text of Buddhism is called, but nonetheless something they can point to on the list and assure themselves that "look! it really covers all the bases! isn't great that whoever made this is so educated?"
Brody Brooks
The yellow wallpaper is my favorite short story ever
Owen Hall
If you could all ignore the fact that I used like twice in such retarded succession I'd really appreciate it.
Lucas Hill
You seem a bit too insecure. I can assure you that nobody noticed your mistake because nobody reads your posts anyway.
Nathan Phillips
1. Pentateuch 2. Nevi'im 3. Ketuvim 4. New Testament 5. The Iliad
Blake Walker
Should've put the Apocrypha instead of the Iliad.
Nicholas Hernandez
>questions why anyone should read the bible >tells people to read east of eden
Dylan Morales
At the end of the day, though, you're all just nerds who get/got bullied and will never function as real humans.
Gavin Mitchell
Fixed it for you:
>The Iliad >Plato's Complete Works (Oxford's Platonis Opera) >Shakespeare's Complete Works >Racine's Complete Works >The Divine Comedy
Josiah Watson
>quran Opinion dismissed right there >night, maus They couldn't pick one book about the Holocaust, what a surprise coming from (((reddit)))
Thomas Powell
Reddit users should have to wear a special identifying star on their clothes
Sebastian Jenkins
The Fourth K The Stand Where Did The Towers Go Dianetics Crossfire
Levi Brooks
> all quiet on the western front > not Storm of Steel > (((Night))) > Maus >The Yellow Wallpaper > hitchhikers > Huck Fin > Siddhartha
Weeeeeeeeew what a shit list
Austin Reyes
Ulysses Gravity's Rainbow Infinite Jest Moby-Dick Women and Men
Cameron Gray
To be fair if everyone read the Quran the public would be a lot more against Islam than it currently is.
Alexander Jones
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Joshua Sanchez
>The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fuck this book, hated it >The Stand - Stephen King Ending was shit, but otherwise good King story. >Maus - Art Spiegelman Read it in comic form as a child. As well as the sequels. Meh. >Religious Texts (Bible, The Quran, Shruti and others) They didn't specify the fucking VERSION >Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams A good laff, but not supposed to be in this list. >Night - Elie Wiesel Same as Maus but without pictures.
Can't believe Don Quixote wasn't on there. My pick for Shakespeare prob would've been The Tempest, but fuck me, right?
kek'd holy shit
Speaking of John Steinbeck, my lit teacher in high school wrote her masters paper thingy (fuck me whats the name) on why Steinbeck was the antichrist.
:) kys
Brandon Nguyen
I don't see anything wrong with it. Other than a couple childhood and king books, it's a completely standard best books list.
William James
Meanwhile evangelists burn more bibles on accident then they actually read
David Reyes
I think you're looking for "thesis" there, friend.
Leo Myers
The odyssey War and peace Quiet flows the Don All quiet on the western front Divine comedy
Grayson Price
Also missing from the list: >Snow Crash >Ready Player One >Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Asher Hall
>why Steinbeck was the antichrist
Go on
Evan Taylor
Hitchhikers is on the list.
Christian Roberts
>no Homer >no Paradise Lost >no Don Quixote >no Divine Comedy >no Shakespeare >no Tolstoy >no Dickens >no Joyce >no Melville Sad!
Jackson Evans
>no American Gods swing and a miss
Robert Kelly
>The Prince >heavy-handed Jesus christ, has he even read it?
Justin Evans
The fans and the subculture can be obnoxious, but I still enjoy the first four books.
Noah Edwards
>Infinite Jest >Infinite Jest >Infinite Jest >Infinite Jest >My diary, desu
Caleb Powell
Protip: read all the books that you like before you die
Nolan Hill
A canticle for Leibowitz On certainty Tao te Ching The Canterbury Tales The Odyssey
Jayden Johnson
I think it's more like they wanted to put the Bible in, because it's important to the Western canon, but they couldn't put in the Bible without reference to all the other religious texts to be politically correct and tolerant :)
Landon Gomez
no >pynchon >david foster wallace >italo calvino >tolstoy >fucking james joyce for christs sake Veeky Forums can be a shithole but sometimes im genuinely glad i fell in with you guys rather than ending up as one of these redditors
Carter Scott
Glad someone else on this goddamn board figured the irony in this
Liam Ortiz
Tribalism user. Fuck the other tribe,ours is so much better. But I don't blame you, I feel right at home here too.
John Rivera
Why are you here? >BOOKS ARE FOR NERDS, NON-FAGGOT!
Robert Sanders
>Religious Texts What, all that of them?
Christian Nelson
Books are for nerds? Reading is as much a basic human function as getting laid.
Jordan Cruz
>The Tempest
Hamlet is the best Shakespearean work you fucking pleb
Robert Butler
>Why are they so fucking stupid and yet so arrogant? >How can someone be both elitist and plebeian?
Literally Veeky Forums
Bentley Peterson
Has anyone read On Nature by Parmenides? The surviving fragments, anyway. I'd argue that it's necessary reading, personally. At least for anyone interested in metaphysics or pre-Socratic philosophy.
Kevin Howard
Liking Dosto gives you more pseud and contrarian points. Tolstoy just can't compete.