Anyone get into reading skip the Greeks and go straight into postmodernism? The past 2 years I've just read Gaddis...

Anyone get into reading skip the Greeks and go straight into postmodernism? The past 2 years I've just read Gaddis, Mcelroy, Pynchon, Barthelme, Coover, Federman, Stein, vollmann, Delilo and that sort. The only classic lit I've read is all of joyce, except wake and some woolf. Am I fucking up? I'll obviously get to that stuff once I'm done with this. I feel like reading is so easy now. Nothing challenges me.

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Finnegan's wake? More like Finnegan's piece of cake

nah its all good

when i got into reading in highschool i was mostly interested in contemporary and experimental stuff like DFW, Pynchon, and Bolano. I didn't even know what "postmodernism" was, that crass and eclectic style just made sense to me, and it's good i think, for a young boy's mind.

there's no right or wrong way to read. go with what you're enjoying. if you truly love the art you will naturally grow into a love of its roots

That girl is beautiful, who is she?

I have it and it sits on my coffee table and read passages aloud to piss off my girlfriend. Good times.

"What are you even saying?"
"Can you fucking stop I'm trying to watch rupaul"
"That's the worst Irish accent I've ever heard you don't even know what your doing"

You fucking reddit..

Yea, look at this normie trash with a gf, pssh

Haha XD

Read Borges and Cortazar next. Maybe Umberto Eco as well.

Go post some frogs and then rinse out your piss jars

Lol I have read foucaults, hopscotch and labyrinths. That was just a small couple authors off the top of my head. I really enjoy Gass but I don't see him as postmodern except for the tunnel. Omensetters was beautiful.

You've read postmodernism without any knowledge of pre-1900 literature? No Shakespeare, Bible, or Dante? You've just read nihilistic crap for years on end?

I pity you.

Kys, reading Finnegans Wake to your girlfriend is psuedish and cringy

Bud obviously. I do it to annoy her you retard. I will shout out a paragraph in broken Irish to get on her nerve. You an hero

cringe post normie

What is this cringe shit

Stop posting forever

>Am I fucking up?
Not sure what you mean by that, but you're cheating yourself.

This is the power of nu-chan teenagers.

tiny-head girl

can't be unseen

Lads I've been here so long that when u think of the word newfag it means some one who came here from newgrounds. My queen is the sky queen. Habeeb it.

Why why

shut the fuck up faggot
there is nothing more normie than defending your oldfag status

yes
YES

Well fuck this I'm gonna go watch stick death

bring back filez

A guy eats dill-pickle flavoured potato chips all his life.
Never had a steak.
Never had a greek salad.
Never had chocolate.
Never had fried mushrooms, hot dogs, truffles, caviar, cotton candy, raw vegetables, duck à la orange, liquorice, peaches, cheese, fennel, popcorn, oysters, poutine, fajitas, carrots, maple syrup, bibimbap, never had a cheeseburger.
He chooses to eat nothing but dill pickle flavoured potato chips.

Wouldn't you say he's cheating himself?

No, you're not fucking up, you're participating in your culture.

If you've read all of those books reading the Greeks now will give you a very pleasing sense of deja vu and compel you to contemplate the continuity of your culture.

read homer and the tragedians, greek philosophy is fucking dumb, unless you're doing a master's in history of philosophy or something, just skim some secondary sources

>stick death

Wow, that's something I haven't heard of in a while. My friends and I would play "Crack House Clean Up" on the school computers, we thought we were so cool and edgy.

Doesn't she get blacked?

This is how I picture lolita

Skip both and start with Rudin.

>says skip the greeks
>means skip everything but contemporary authors

That's not how this works user

Some porn actress who does videos for blacked.com.

Elsa Jean

>skip the Greeks and go straight into postmodernism

as pleb as it gets

HOLY...
Whom is this white goddess?

He reads "postmodern" """"""""""genre""""""""""

Literally nihilism with a sprinkle of faggotry. Consider suicide

The fuck is this reading order shit everyone on lit is obsessed with? I literally just pick up a book I think I'll like and I read it.

OP here. That's what I've been doing kek. Greek shit sounds mad gay

kek

>postmodernism

I too like that which destroys civilisation.

I mean I did read a bunch of greek stuff because I thought I'd like it. And I did like it mostly, if you're looking for recommendations then I liked Odyssey a lot but your enjoyment of Homer will vary greatly depending on which translation you read. I've read Illiad and Odyssey after like 3 failed attempts due to shit translations.

It just sounds like a super hero book to me. That's all Greek gods and shit are no?

There's a gross immaturity to this. You like what's complex sounding but you have no idea of genuine complexity. Read Dante, read Goethe, Read Shakespeare, Read Don Quixote, read the Story of the Stone, read poetry. Get out of your safe space.

>you guys dont read complex stuff
>you should be more like me you plebs
>proceeds to list only semi-complex literature

You don't understand literature.

>y-y-y-you just cant see the genuine depths

Great rebuttal.

>Great rebuttal.
Great rebuttal

Fuckin kek m8

There is nothing particuarly complex about the works of any authors you've posted

Fuck, Blood Meridian has denser,more biblical prose than anything Dantes done

Ah yes: Dante Alighieri, known all over the world for his prose.

You're sisters role-model.

*cringe*

*crunge*

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