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give me some to read that require actual effort.

Nice Umineko reference

Ezra pound the cantos

jesus christ. why don't you just buy a book you're interested in instead of getting a bunch of books from "the 100 greatest classics of all time"?

I don't think I'm ready for Infinite Jest but thanks for the meme points desu

I'm avoiding books that require actual effort because I'm a brainlet who just started reading a short while ago. I know next to nothing about literature and I don't have any particular interests besides weebshit so I just relied on Veeky Forums's top 100 and various references I remember from other media to get started. I considered just reading more LNs, but I thought that I should try new things.

>>penguin classics deluxe edition
>>fagles
I went with Fagles for Homer because IIRC I've read that Fagles is supposed to be "easy to read". As for C&P, I've heard good things about Ready's translation and the end notes are a great help. Incidentally, the only other translation of C&P that my bookstore had was by Monas but it was a mass market paperback and my eyes were hurting 2 pages in; not to mention that it didn't have any endnotes.

>>Philip K. Dick
Orwell and Dick were referenced in Psycho Pass, just fuck my shit up. To specify, both Orwell and Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep were mentioned in that one scene where Makishima sperged out about paperbacks being better than ebooks IIRC.

>>all paperbacks
Get your eyes checked retard

Should've thrown in the Divine Comedy for good measure

See above desu

Just bought these the other day, can't wait for em to arrive. How'd I do?

These are the first 4 "real" books I've bought myself.
>21, neet
>got bored of video games
>realized all I was looking for was "story heavy" games, so why not just skip the whole boring gameplay part
Is Faulkner too stronk for a beginner?

First lesson
>never buy 400+ page books in paperback, corner dented on arrival

>nine stories
nice I bought that one a couple days ago, it's really good and oh god I didn't expect the bananafish ending

To be fair, Valis takes more effort to understand than any Pynchon or anything like that.

I agree, I love PKD but the farthest I've gotten through VALIS is only about halfway.