/lit/ - Literature

>>15742954
Why is everyone so concerned with what [name]wit reads? Who cares? Read what you what to read. The least intelligent people on this board have to consist of everyone so concerned with what's considered "midwit-tier".

I read The Bible, Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolkien

>>15742954
4channel threads

interesting that Mein Kampf isn't on that picture, I wonder who's behind this

>>15742954

>>15742954
Jim Goad

>>15742954
What you read does not determine wit level. How you read does.

>>15743215
>What you read does not determine wit level. How you read does.
DFW liked a lot Carrie of King, a big surprise to me, I dont like him at all, but I felt inclined to read it more deeply trough his eyes.

Eric Gans and Dennis Bouvard (Adam Katz)

>>15742981
dickens was a hack

>>15742954
my own thoughts

>>15742993
What are his best works?

>>15742966
Insecurity

>>15742954
>Brave new world in
>Not Fahrenheit 451

>>15743677
ISAIF
Technological Slavery

They read Pearse.

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>>15743581
midwit comment

>>15742981

Nope. Besides the Bible and Shakespeare, you're still a midwit.

>>15742954

Reminder to ignore all pseudointellectual rhetoricians and instead go and read the complete works of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Arrian, Thucydides, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Bruno, Boccaccio, Leopardi, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Herbert, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegels, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Potocki, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Thackeray, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Hughes, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Anderson, Ford, Maugham, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Pinter, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Moravia, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Queneau, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xingjian, Mo Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, de Man, Kristeva, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Davenport, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Arno Schmidt, Therouxs, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Robinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara

>>15744040
why does the list get so bad towards the end

>>15744048

Because everything went to shit Post-Blanchot.

In fact, from best to worst, it's more like:

>Burke - Peake
>Heany-Blanchot
>Novalis-Emerson
>Homer-Browne

Everyone else should be taken with a grain of salt.

>>15742954
Whatever they read, it certainly isn't 4Chan threads. Nor would they care about being a highwit.

>>15742954
Stephen King novels

>>15742954
Highwits read Joseph Campbell

Whatever is unpopular you contrarian faggot

They read niche and less-know theoretical and specialistic publications

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Roger Scruton, Edmund Burke, Thomas Sowell, P. J. O'Rourke, Mário Ferreira dos Santos, Ludwig von Mises, Michael Oakeshott, Willmoore Kendall, Eric Voegelin, Nikolai Berdyaev, Richard M. Weaver, George Grant, Vladimir Nabokov, Lew Rockwell, Alain Peyrefitte, Václav Havel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Vladimir Solovyov, Olavo de Carvalho, Roger Kimball, Xavier Zubiri, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Constantin Noica, Lucian Blaga, T. S. Eliot, Ayn Rand, Franz Rosenzweig, William F. Buckley Jr., G. K. Chesterton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Louis Lavelle, H. L. Mencken, , Paul Johnson, Russell Kirk, Miguel Reale, René Girard, Mortimer J. Adler, Marshall McLuhan, C. S. Lewis, Bernard Lonergan, Frédéric Bastiat, Jorge Luis Borges, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Orlando Figes, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Benedetto Croce, Viktor Frankl, Judith Reisman, Vilém Flusser, Hossein Nasr, George Santayana, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Bertrand de Jouvenel, José Ortega y Gasset, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Andrzej Łobaczewski, Leo Strauss, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Carl Schmitt, Thomas Woods, Carl Menger, Jean-Baptiste Say, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, David Horowitz, Murray Rothbard, Peter Hitchens, Henry Hazlitt, Vladimir Bukovsky, René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Friedrich Hayek, Mario Vargas Llosa, Vladimir Tismăneanu, Irving Babbitt, Charles E. Lindblom, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, Robert Michels, Mikhail Sholokhov, Gaetano Mosca, David Hume, Adam Smith, José Guilherme Merquior, Isaiah Berlin, Arnold Toynbee, Johan Huizinga, Christopher Dawson, Modris Ekstein, John Lukacs, Jacques Barzun, Niall Ferguson, Bernard Lewis, David Stove, Theodore Dalrymple, Leopold von Ranke, François de Chateaubriand, Robert Nisbet, John Henry Newman, Werner Sombart, F. W. Maitland, Raymond Aron, Karl Popper, Julien Benda, Leszek Kołakowski, Alexander Solzhenítsyn, Arthur Koestler, Joseph de Maistre, Rivarol, Pat Buchanan, Samuel P. Huntington, Konstantin Leontiev, Vilfredo Pareto, Edmund Husserl, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Giuliano Gentile, Willard Van Orman Quine, François Mauriac, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, François Furet, Czesław Miłosz, Hillaire Belloc, Henri Massis, Ivan Ilyin, Edgar Julius Jung, Juan Vázquez de Mella, Juan Donoso Cortés, Masahiro Morioka, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Jacob Burckhardt, Christopher Lasch, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Richard Pipes, Hans Trevor Roper, Petre Țuțea, Paul Gottfried, T. E. Hulme, Ernst Jünger, John Kekes, Arnold Lunn, Alasdair MacIntyre, Gabriel Marcel, Julio Meinvielle, E. F. Schumacher, Igor Shafarevich, Karl Ludwig von Haller, Evelyn Waugh, Thomas Fleming, Karl Jaspers, Jean-François Revel, Philip Rieff, Oswald Spengler, Gustav Le Bon, Peter Kreeft, Alain de Benoist, Víctor Pradera, Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola, Jaime Guzmán...

>>15742954
Goosebumps

>>15742954
sun tzu is good

>>15743581
soulless form connoisseur

>>15742954
you've never listened to an Alan Watts lecture have you, and if you have, you're too closed minded to understand it

if you think Chomsky is a midwit you're smoking crack

>>15745378

>>15742954
They read subjects that interest them, with a general inclination towards contemporary works with a grounding in the classics.

>>15742954
My posts

>>15742954
I was a huge fan of Douglas Murray when I was 18. I even read Neoconservatism, Why We Need it lol. He still seems like a decent guy though.

>>15745378
Chomsky isn't a midwit. He's a dimwit.

t. Lingfag

>>15745500
he's so pessimistic I thought he had to be a genius

>>15745525
No, that's part of being a linguist in general.

>>15742954

>>15745500
[Walks in and btfo's your entire argument with little more than armchair philosophy]

>>15742954
Who the fuck has time to read all of that utter crap? Why would you read the entirety of the communist manifesto? I enjoyed hero with a thousand faces, but christ... some of that stuff looks like a real drag to read.

>>15742954
dave rubin is dimwit tier

>>15745565
>Who the fuck has time to read all of that utter crap?
Autists

>>15742954
Oswald Spengler- Der Untergang des Abendlandes

>>15745627
There's that bell curve book again.. is.. what is it? I trust it's not just a weird self-fellating ideological take on what it means to be at each point of the bell curve on intelligence/class, right? 'Cause that shit is basically astrology for pseuds.

Whoa man, it says here people between 115 and 130 IQ end up depressed because they're so smart! I'm depressed, that must mean I'm smart! Fuck. What a horrible reading list.

>>15745339
>Theodore Dalyrmple
Excellent choice, never seen him mentioned on here before

>>15744040
>t. only read three of those himself

>>15745681
He's essential midwit core though

>>15745708
incorrect, he's had in interesting series of travels and reports on them honestly. like kapuscinsky did. a good author

>>15742954
The Art of the Deal

>>15742954
this is a pretty scattered list tierwise, I don't think the person who made this knows what they're doing

>>15745378
I do like Alan Watts, and the philosophy faculty at my university liked him too. People make a punching bag out of him in the way they do anyone who gets too popular among laymen, but if you ever put them on the spot to explain what the issue is they always give a weak case. Usually it's just "he said Buddhism was good but then he also drank alcohol" and "he generalizes".
If you're actually smart you shouldn't let the fact that your grandma posts Alan Watts quotes with a cosmic backdrop on facebook deter you from being able to enjoy him. He knows what he's talking about and he is an excellent speaker.

>>15744040
good list, but snubbing bolaño makes me sad

>>15745500
based

>>15743581
based.

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