I am 21 and have never read a book from start to finish. Is it too late to join the /lit/erati? Where do I even begin?

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Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:44:45 2020 No.17134827 [Reply] [Original]

I am 21 and have never read a book from start to finish. Is it too late to join the /lit/erati? Where do I even begin?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:45:22 2020 No.17134832 start with the greeks

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:47:17 2020 No.17134848 >>17134827 Seinfeld pilled

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:47:29 2020 No.17134850 >>17134827 try something kinda basic like the hobbit or ender's game

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:52:32 2020 No.17134885 The Holy Bible

Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:54:04 2020 No.17134892

Not too late, start with the classics or with the Greeks (which you should read anyway) and read every day, whether it'll be 5 pages or 50.
The most important thing is to make reading a routine and read at your own pace. Then just be patient and you're going to finish the book. Also don't skip the introductions, there is no such thing as "spoilers" in literature. The introductions usually briefly go through the whole book and analyze it, and after you're done with it you have the raw book with yourself and you can focus on details while seeing the big picture

Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:54:35 2020 No.17134896

It'll be an uphill battle, but maybe one day you will develop the necessary ability to read the great works. However, it will take years, so for now you can start with Beatrix Potter, Grimm bros, or Curious George. By the end of the year, you might be able to graduate to the Hobbit, Alice, or Wind In The Willows.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:56:08 2020 No.17134900 File: 1.23 MB, 1820x4348, Top100lit2014.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17134827 I would suggest you pick something from pic related. If you can't decide then roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 22:56:13 2020 No.17134902 >>17134827 Not even for school?

Anonymous Sun Dec 27 23:01:07 2020 No.17134922

>>17134850
Way better advice than "start with the greeks". If someone wants to read you ease them into it. Starting with the greeks is more likely to put them off the whole idea.

They can come back to the greeks once they've found stuff they enjoy reading something and want to try something new.

Anonymous Sun Dec 27 23:12:47 2020 No.17134973 [SPOILER]

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>>17134827
I always add all the manga/hentai I read to my book tally, so when people asked me how much I’ve read recently I can say “oh, not much, you know, just 521 books this month.” And then they’re all like “Wow! You must be very dedicated!” And am just like “Yep”

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 23:14:27 2020 No.17134983 >>17134827 26 and never read a book even in school always faked it and i cleared 40 books this year because i found /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 27 23:15:13 2020 No.17134987 >>17134900 Don't start with infinite jest it's shit, probably start with the second and go right.

Anonymous Sun Dec 27 23:17:49 2020 No.17135000

Read what you’re interested in. It doesn’t matter what at first. Get skilled at reading. Recognize patterns in the things you read, try to feel the author’s voice. To appreciate literature you first have to become glutted with the mechanics of storytelling, be able to tell good prose from average, and be able to really lose yourself to books.

Eventually you’ll notice that even after putting down the book you’ll still be stuck thinking in the author’s voice. You’ll feel the novel living inside you. At that point you’ll receive the full benefits from literature. When you read something where the style is so developed that it changes you as you read it, takes you over, when you’re so attuned to the writer that you feel the spark of their consciousness inside you, that is literature.

You can read a Sanderson novel or whatever, and a movie will play in your head, but it’s still your movie. When you are a skilled enough reader to experience that shift, you’ll know it isn’t your movie, and that you’re no longer the same for having read the work.

But that solipsistic leap (or the illusion of it) is very rare, a miracle of art. It only happens when a writer has a highly developed style. It is the true essence of literature. But to experience it you have to already be a strong reader. So read.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 00:30:29 2020 No.17135440

It’s never too late to pick up new hobbies, especially one as accessible and varied as reading. Don’t let anyone dissuade you, but at the same time start small. Lots of newly minted “readers” think they need to tackle the big cerebral works in order to understand what the medium is all about, but that can have the backfire effect of turning you off from it completely. Start with stuff you know you’ll probably enjoy

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 01:42:56 2020 No.17135744

>>17134827
I think Arabian Nights is a good book to start off with. It's a short story collection, but the stories are often loosely tied together and there's an overarching plot. This means you can finish an individual story pretty quickly, and you'll feel a good sense of progress, but there's still a larger plot you haven't finished.
I think this makes it good for people who are used to mediums like video games, where you achieve very quick senses of accomplishment and the dopamine rushes that come with that. With Arabian Nights, you don't need to long of an attention span to finish a story, and for a video game brain you won't feel like picking up the book and reading it is too daunting a task, as you can just finish one story pretty quickly and easily.
Plus the book is just a fun, lighthearted read, with fantasy elements and a good bit of historical value. A lot of people would consider it as part of Western Canon. It's a good stepping stone from "easier" mediums like video games to more advanced literature in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 01:56:36 2020 No.17135817 >>17134850 >>17135000 >>17135440 >>17135744 Thanks. Guess I’ll start easy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 01:57:02 2020 No.17135819 >>17134900 Wow houellebecq really has only been here for a few years. I thought people had been spamming him since forever

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 01:57:10 2020 No.17135821 >>17134827 Start with asoiaf

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 01:59:57 2020 No.17135842

>>17134827
Do you even want to read? Try a book if it seems interesting to you. If you don't like reading after trying it, just don't read. Despite what everyone on here will tell you, you don't have to read books. However, you must refrain from posting here if you don't read 2bh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 02:04:58 2020 No.17135874 >>17135842 It's a shame so many still post on here when they don't even read anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 02:10:33 2020 No.17135911 >>17134827 just read bro like read anything like open a book and look at the words with your eyes like flip the pages with your hands it's easy

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 02:25:50 2020 No.17135986

>>17134827

1) Think about something that you're interested in. If it's a genre of fiction, then try reading a book in that genre and see if you like it. If it's something in the real world, try reading a non-fiction book on the subject. If it's something else, find a text relating to it. For conventional "books", make it a shorter book your first few times so that you can work through it without too much trouble and so that you don't get discouraged with reading in general.

2) Take a few notes about what you're reading. Try to pick out the major themes and "big picture" stuff in what you're reading. Don't take meticulous notes, just keep the basic ideas of "what is the big picture? How do these details relate to the big picture (in the fictional narrative or non-fictional account)" in mind. Maybe a page or two of notes. Consider re-writing them as a short reflection or book report that you think has decent language and doesn't suck to read itself.

3) Think about something that you're interested in. If it's the same thing as in 1), get another book on the same subject. If it's something else, get a different sort or book.

4) Take a few notes again. Even if the genres or subjects are very different, consider the possibility that they may have links, or connections: the same author did different such-and-such, or the same person was involved in different non-fiction things A and B, etc. This is the art of memory: building memory of things which hold personal interest for you in a different way.

5) Feel free to discuss your literary activity with loved ones and friends, as appropriate. Of course, don't annoy acquaintances with it if they don't want to be bothered, but if someone asks, just tell them what you're doing and why (if you read edgy/controversial literature, keep that to yourself and don't do it out in public unless you want to be a Chad and/or lose your job and so on).

6) In sum, read, write, repeat, and socialize. Consoom, create, again, tell story.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 02:30:36 2020 No.17136006 I would recommend starting with gravity's rainbow or ulysses, both very easy to pick up but have interesting themes that you can easily pick up into other literary/philosophical interests.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 02:55:25 2020 No.17136119 Why would it be too late? You're not in your late 50s trying competitive bodybuilding after struggling with osteoporosis. Just pick up a random book.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 03:20:10 2020 No.17136264 >>17134827 Read Marx's communist manifesto

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 03:22:12 2020 No.17136274 >>17134885 bases

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 04:02:09 2020 No.17136435 >>17134827 Try the Martian, it should be simple enough and keep your ape brain entertained.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 04:44:26 2020 No.17136608 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 05:52:09 2020 No.17136887 >>17134900 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 06:07:44 2020 No.17136939 >>17136264 Good idea. Always start with easy fantasy books to get a grasp on reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 06:10:11 2020 No.17136946 >>17134900 Rawl

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 06:31:59 2020 No.17137015 I didn't start reading until 26. Now I'm 34 with over 500 books read and I'm working on becoming fluent in Greek.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 07:07:48 2020 No.17137174 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 07:23:02 2020 No.17137241 >>17134900 Rolllll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 07:28:26 2020 No.17137262 >>17134900 fuck it roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 07:30:24 2020 No.17137274 >>17134900 fine

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 07:42:55 2020 No.17137299 >>17134900 Roll it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 07:44:20 2020 No.17137302 >>17134900 imma roll nigger

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 07:59:22 2020 No.17137360 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 08:27:45 2020 No.17137491 >>17137360 >>17137302 >>17137299 >>17137274 >>17137262 >>17137241 >>17137174 You motherfuckers are retarded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 08:33:16 2020 No.17137517 >>17134900 lets go

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 09:52:20 2020 No.17137856 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 09:55:45 2020 No.17137881 >>17134900 Rola o dado

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 09:57:06 2020 No.17137894 File: 112 KB, 633x1024, camus-the-fall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Start with Albert Camus' The Fall, it's the book that got me into literature

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 09:58:26 2020 No.17137903 >>17134827 read books people would be made to read in highschool that are actually genuinely good books too like animal farm, 1984, the hobbit etc. books that are easy to read, understand and are fun

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 09:59:46 2020 No.17137914 File: 64 KB, 534x712, supergirl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 10:00:14 2020 No.17137917 >>17134827 Read Brandon Sanderson if you like World of Warcraft.

Anonymous Mon Dec 28 10:02:17 2020 No.17137930
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>>17134827
Dude, just read anything that appeals to you. It's like walking into a gym and asking how much you should lift. Reading is a muscle, start small, move on to more challenging works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 10:08:50 2020 No.17137961 >>17136236 OP this is actually quite good for a start. 1984, Brave New World and Siddharta are usually were people start off

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 11:55:06 2020 No.17138724 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:10:28 2020 No.17139332 >>17134827 Start with Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:19:55 2020 No.17139421 >>17134900 rolling.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:20:45 2020 No.17139432 >>17134987 >t. Hasn’t read a book since middle school

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:21:33 2020 No.17139443 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:22:42 2020 No.17139458 >>17139443 >>17134900 rerolling because i got the one fucking book i've already read on this list

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:23:15 2020 No.17139462 >>17134827 Read The King in Yellow. Super easy to get into, short (and consists of short stories) and will get you in the mood to read more. The Catcher in the Rye is also great and will probably get you hooked.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:58:04 2020 No.17139754 >>17134900 rollan

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 13:59:54 2020 No.17139774 >>17134827 I started reading consistently at 22 so not really although I read Dostoy at 15. I didn't even know who he was.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 14:00:36 2020 No.17139780 >>17134827 Graham Greene. Short, simple, intelligent

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:07:51 2020 No.17140334 >>17134885 unironically this

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:08:37 2020 No.17140344 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:17:21 2020 No.17140404 >>17134900 Roll nigger rolll!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:18:43 2020 No.17140413 >>17134900 Rol

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:21:16 2020 No.17140434 >>17134827 If you enjoy some fandom read a large non erotic fanfic from begging to end. I'm not joking, this is how I got into reading when I was 13.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:22:07 2020 No.17140441 >>17134900 Infinite jest is cringe

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:25:31 2020 No.17140477 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:27:26 2020 No.17140493 >>17134827 Harry Potter then Lotr then Poe. Read fun stuff so first so that you are getting used to it. People say start with Greeks but you literally cannot right now. Take it one step at a time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:28:28 2020 No.17140500 >>17134900 Rollo

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:29:29 2020 No.17140506 >>17140500 Damn

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:31:08 2020 No.17140518 >>17134827 I didn't read my first book until I was 20 and I bought 1984. It's never too late, I've read probably 250 books since then. Better late than never.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:31:22 2020 No.17140519 >>17134827 Start with the decadents, you'll feel at home.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:43:42 2020 No.17140605 >>17134885 Disgusting

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:55:03 2020 No.17140697 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 15:59:24 2020 No.17140730 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 18:36:36 2020 No.17141985 >>17134827 don't read books if you do you'll turn into someone who reads books

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 20:37:24 2020 No.17142844 >>17141985 Hopefully they don't become a person who reads bools just because they want to appear as someone who reads books and for no other reason.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 21:17:44 2020 No.17143124 File: 1.47 MB, 2708x2853, fat toad pepe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17134900 Rolling even though I already have my reading plan laid out for the next six months.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 21:23:08 2020 No.17143160 >>17134900 Nevermore

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 21:30:41 2020 No.17143217 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 21:47:32 2020 No.17143323 >>17134900 .

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 21:51:35 2020 No.17143350 >>17137894 how do you know the missing letter is an A

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 21:56:16 2020 No.17143386 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 28 22:00:35 2020 No.17143424 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:19:25 2020 No.17144784 >>17134900 I don't want to

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:29:04 2020 No.17144818 >>17134900 Rowling

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:34:19 2020 No.17144841 >>17134900 ロール

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 01:56:48 2020 No.17144945 >>17134900 Hope it's not infinite fuck XDDDD

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 02:05:43 2020 No.17144983 >>17134900 Rerl

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:08:37 2020 No.17145737 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:56:59 2020 No.17145917 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 05:58:02 2020 No.17145921 >>17134900 rolling

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 06:01:37 2020 No.17145931 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 06:14:39 2020 No.17145964 >>17134900 .

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 06:15:41 2020 No.17145968 >>17145964 read, another

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 07:12:46 2020 No.17146167 >>17134885 very nice

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 07:26:47 2020 No.17146220 >>17134900 .

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 07:29:41 2020 No.17146234 >>17134900 Roll 'em

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 07:35:14 2020 No.17146259 >>17134900 Here i com

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 08:32:58 2020 No.17146545 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 08:40:23 2020 No.17146581 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 09:00:52 2020 No.17146650 >>17134900 rolling

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 09:01:20 2020 No.17146656 >>17134900 time to roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 09:08:03 2020 No.17146694 >>17134900 well why not

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 09:09:05 2020 No.17146701 >>17134900

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 10:02:48 2020 No.17147024 >>17134900 role

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 10:32:07 2020 No.17147180 >>17134900 roll???

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 10:59:43 2020 No.17147346 >>17134900 shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 11:36:42 2020 No.17147596 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 12:11:14 2020 No.17147808 >>17134900 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 12:15:50 2020 No.17147847 >>17134827 It's marginal. Just start reading about some topic you like.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 12:44:59 2020 No.17148093 File: 283 KB, 1816x2446, 1497285470477.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17134900 Roll initiative

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 12:55:02 2020 No.17148167 >>17134900 roller

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 14:17:08 2020 No.17148766 >>17134900 Rollan

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 14:19:11 2020 No.17148780 >>17134827 what a weird meme

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 14:41:50 2020 No.17148962 >>17134827 How the actual fuck have you never read a book before?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 14:43:42 2020 No.17148977 >>17134900 The Wasp Factory is just edgy cringe desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 14:43:42 2020 No.17148978 >>17134900 I was wondering how this thread kept going for so long when the OP seemed so uninteresting.

Anonymous Tue Dec 29 14:50:19 2020 No.17149027

>>17135000
>You can read a Sanderson novel or whatever, and a movie will play in your head, but it’s still your movie. When you are a skilled enough reader to experience that shift, you’ll know it isn’t your movie, and that you’re no longer the same for having read the work
Please explain this further. What is the difference between “your” movie and the author’s movie? How does the mind of someone reading “the author’s movie” look like?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 14:55:33 2020 No.17149065 >>17134827 If you can't read, there are thousands of audiobooks available online. Youtube alone contains the classics.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 15:36:36 2020 No.17149398 >>17134900 rolland

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 16:13:49 2020 No.17149677 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 16:18:48 2020 No.17149724 >>17134900 Bumping this gen

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 16:23:17 2020 No.17149762 >>17134892 Disagree on the part about introductions. Unless it’s written by the author, dont read intro until after you finished the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 17:04:56 2020 No.17150058 >>17149762 brainlet

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 17:06:36 2020 No.17150069 >>17134900 Rawling

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 17:08:12 2020 No.17150080 >>17134900 i dont know how roll works. is it my last digit?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 17:11:31 2020 No.17150104 >>17134900 roll

Anonymous Tue Dec 29 17:31:02 2020 No.17150221

>>17149027
When a writer’s style is developed enough, it’s like they gain this distance from Das Man or the big Other or whatever. You can’t absorb their prose until you become attuned to them (and you become attuned by absorbing their prose). So when you’re reading them it can’t be from an everyday or ‘neutral’ standpoint, you have to sort of become them in the process of reading them. In that shift you feel other to yourself. But you’re also comforted having such closeness to another person in all their relatable particularity.

When it’s “your movie” the book is guiding you to generate the scene. In literature the prose style also generates the standpoint from which you view the scene.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 17:36:21 2020 No.17150253 >>17150080 You take your last digit and multiply by what day of the month you were born. If its over 100 (or whatever is the max amount you are rolling for) then divide by 2 until you get a number in the roll range

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 17:50:41 2020 No.17150355 >>17134900 Rollin'

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 18:30:32 2020 No.17150638 >>17134900 Interesting list! When was the poll?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 18:35:28 2020 No.17150679 >>17134827 It's not difficult to read a book from start to finish, it's just reading one word after another until there are no more.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 29 20:24:01 2020 No.17151449 >>17134973 Lol, imagine being a man (male) and wearing that hahahha that would be funny

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 00:20:19 2020 No.17152719 >>17134900 rolll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 03:12:35 2020 No.17153563 >>17134827 Brothers Karamazov

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 03:19:31 2020 No.17153591 >>17134900 rolling

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 03:29:30 2020 No.17153622 File: 200 KB, 400x534, 1590678781641.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17135000 >You can read a Sanderson novel or whatever, and a movie will play in your head, but it’s still your movie. >tfw I have a aphantasia so I never had this happen

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 03:57:45 2020 No.17153717 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 04:30:44 2020 No.17153814 >>17134900 y not

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 04:34:11 2020 No.17153824 >>17134983 dude. nice. I just discovered the colored glasses dyslexia thing (don't care about doubters) and am mowing through books like never in my life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 04:40:15 2020 No.17153838 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 06:37:12 2020 No.17154249 >>17134900 Rollo

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 06:39:11 2020 No.17154258 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 06:41:28 2020 No.17154265 >>17134900 roolan

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 09:26:46 2020 No.17154987 >>17134900 pog

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 09:33:00 2020 No.17155016 >>17134900 Rollin n I g g e r

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 10:08:15 2020 No.17155217 >>17134900 rollerino

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 10:11:50 2020 No.17155238 >>17134900 rol

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 10:36:10 2020 No.17155406 >>17134900 again

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 10:40:03 2020 No.17155433 File: 1.74 MB, 2448x3264, IMG_20201223_120841593.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Start with a certified 4chan classic

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 10:40:54 2020 No.17155440 >>17134900 role

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 11:43:21 2020 No.17155901 >>17134900 Nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 12:22:38 2020 No.17156224 >>17134900 rollin'

Anonymous Wed Dec 30 13:38:48 2020 No.17157074

>>17134827
You can start from top:
Old man and the sea
Camús' The Stranger
Bataille's Story Of The Eye
Blake's Songs of innocence and experience
And then Homer's Illiad and Oddissey
Then Greek plays
Rimbaud's a season in hell
Virgil's aenid
The bible
Then dante's divine comedy
Milton's Paradise lost
Blake's marriage of heaven and hell
shakespeare
Goethe's faust
The rest of Blake's works
Percy Shelley's works

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 13:42:31 2020 No.17157138 >>17157074 Then w b yeats and then start with James Joyce Furthermore read Pojman's classics of philosophy by the side

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 13:46:33 2020 No.17157195 >>17157074 I've made it so you progress from easy to harder material

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 13:51:23 2020 No.17157256 >>17134900 I never considered rolling for this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 13:54:14 2020 No.17157291 >>17134900 >literally ONE book by a woman Pretty embarrassing for this board that its taste is so narrow. Makes us look like incels

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 13:58:43 2020 No.17157329 >>17157291 Name some good femoid books then

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:33:28 2020 No.17157693 >>17134900 yep

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:38:56 2020 No.17157738 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 15:28:26 2020 No.17158250 >>17134900 Roll

Anonymous Wed Dec 30 16:20:14 2020 No.17158726

Start with 1984.
If you never read a book, it is not a shame. Do not start with high IQ books because they are boring and you won't understand them and you'll quit.

1984 is a fun to read story, discussing interesting themes and it is relatively short.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 16:23:31 2020 No.17158761 >>17150221 >In that shift you feel other to yourself. But you’re also comforted having such closeness to another person in all their relatable particularity. I don't quite understand what you mean, but somehow crave it desperately.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 16:29:19 2020 No.17158820 >>17134827 you ALWAYS start with the stranger if you are a complete noob

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 16:51:07 2020 No.17159040 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 16:52:40 2020 No.17159056 >>17134827 >Is it too late to join the /lit/erati? Yes, 21 is way too old. Everyone who regularly posts on this board is under 12.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 16:53:37 2020 No.17159068 >>17134900 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 16:55:54 2020 No.17159080 >>17134892 Don't read the introductions until after, this anon is trying to be a memelord

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 17:05:47 2020 No.17159156 >>17134900 Ok test me

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 17:12:24 2020 No.17159228 >>17134900 rhollor

Anonymous Wed Dec 30 17:51:14 2020 No.17159677

Why are you retards recommending he read Faust or Paradise Lost to begin. Homies gonna get overwhelmed and quit day one . You wouldn’t tell someone who wants to start running to just start running 26.2 miles no matter how long it takes. Practice reading as an action , if you haven’t read a book honestly read something like The Giver , it’s short , it flows well , and there’s some interesting themes written at an accessible level . People are gonna talk shit on my recommendation but fuck em

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 17:59:46 2020 No.17159786 >>17134900 GOD PLEASE

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 18:01:27 2020 No.17159804 >>17134900 rolling

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 18:08:12 2020 No.17159886 >>17134900 rolei

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 18:13:51 2020 No.17159958 >>17134900 rolll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 20:12:59 2020 No.17161050 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 20:35:25 2020 No.17161246 >>17159677 If you refer to >>17157074 then i write that he should start from the top

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 20:40:59 2020 No.17161299 >>17134900 god dammit

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 20:51:43 2020 No.17161379 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 21:09:46 2020 No.17161503 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 22:06:42 2020 No.17161888 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 23:11:35 2020 No.17162233 >>17134900 Rrrrr

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 23:15:09 2020 No.17162255 how is this even possible? did you not go to school?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 23:21:57 2020 No.17162290 >>17134900 reroll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 23:27:55 2020 No.17162321 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 23:52:24 2020 No.17162454 >>17134900 Ok

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:02:43 2020 No.17163000 >>17162255 american education + the entirety of the internet making written word feel redundant

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:05:06 2020 No.17163005 File: 249 KB, 322x499, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17134827

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:07:39 2020 No.17163015 >>17134827 how dare you do the gentle giant artwork with the coomer

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:08:30 2020 No.17163018 >>17134900 roll

Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:13:50 2020 No.17163031

>>17134885
Pick one of the most boring and mediocre books ever. Nice.

>>17134832
If you want him to continue never finishing a book.

>>17134827
Just pick something on a topic you're semi-interested in. The only thing I suggest is to first pick something that's semi critically acclaimed. That's a big reason why you'll get a lot of the same recommendations on this board. The books picked on here are typically tried and true. But that doesn't mean other books can't be great as well.

And maybe pick something on the smaller side so it's easier to stay motivated.

No Country for Old Men is a great read that's not too long.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:28:30 2020 No.17163092 >>17134900 Rolling for the better if mankind.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:29:52 2020 No.17163098 >>17134900 Llor

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 02:33:31 2020 No.17163112 >>17134900 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 06:08:49 2020 No.17163929 >>17134900 roll

Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:12:18 2020 No.17164428

>>17163000
>american education
lol nice try, buddy. You were definitely assigned books in school. It's nobody's fault but your own and your parents' if you didn't read them and looked up summaries online instead.
>b-but bill clinton was supposed to personally teach me to read

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:28:05 2020 No.17164518 >>17134900 rool

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:34:39 2020 No.17164553 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:37:31 2020 No.17164564 >>17134900 REEEEEEE LET’S GO

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:37:31 2020 No.17164565 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:38:26 2020 No.17164568 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:39:46 2020 No.17164575 File: 29 KB, 1280x720, EDC37CC3-A675-40B3-9E38-37B0A8EA1E0B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17164564 >64 >The Bible BLESSED BE HIS NAME (I’ve only got up to Jeremiah and a couple gospels, and I’ve been procrastinating on it lately)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:46:33 2020 No.17164606 >>17134900 roll into 2020

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:48:06 2020 No.17164614 >>17164606 i meant 2021

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:49:13 2020 No.17164617 >>17134900 Mob mentality

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:50:18 2020 No.17164623 >>17134900 >>17164617 Refuckingroll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:54:40 2020 No.17164638 >>17134900 Rolling for something I've read already

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 08:56:11 2020 No.17164648 File: 718 KB, 3464x3464, 1607209714796.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17163031

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 09:12:03 2020 No.17164704 >>17134900 rolling

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 09:31:40 2020 No.17164801 >>17134827 >I am 21 and have never read a book from start to finish. Is it too late to join the /lit/erati Yes because you’re making shit threads here asking about it rather than just reading, you should probably kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 10:40:11 2020 No.17165177 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 11:30:31 2020 No.17165527 >>17134900 rollerinooo

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 11:47:32 2020 No.17165653 >>17134900 roll

Anonymous Thu Dec 31 11:54:59 2020 No.17165690
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>>17134827
I never was into books, but since everyone was memeing Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, i decided to give it a try. It was pretty hard, i definitely think i shouldn't have started my journey into stoicism with it, like other people suggested.I finished it over the course of a month. The problem is that i dont remember even a single quote from the book...i know the gist of it..but i can`t recall a single quote form it.I feel like i don`t do any justice to the book, any advice ?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 11:55:24 2020 No.17165695 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 11:58:20 2020 No.17165710 >>17134900 faaaaa

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 12:33:44 2020 No.17165945 >>17165690 >open the book again >pick a line you like >memorize it Contrary to popular belief most people who quote from books, didn't just speedread the line they quote, once.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 12:40:14 2020 No.17165976 >>17134900 Roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 12:42:13 2020 No.17165992 >>17165690 keep the book around and have a look at it every now and then. it's not the type of book you read cover to cover. read and think about what it is saying.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 12:46:11 2020 No.17166019 >>17134900 El rollo

Anonymous Thu Dec 31 12:54:42 2020 No.17166066

>>17135000
>>17135000
OK, but what if you never get over reading baby-tier indulgent scifi / fantasy?

All I have time for is listening to audiobooks while wage-slaving (which makes it easy to have the movie play in my head), and the only thing I find myself able to pay attention to is that type of shit.

In the past five years, the only non-scifi / fantasy fiction I've completed (that I can remember) has been a few Poirot books, Sense and Sensibility, and Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 13:07:38 2020 No.17166157 >>17134900 guh

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 13:10:00 2020 No.17166174 >>17134900 LETS FUCKINGG GOOOOOOO

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 13:27:56 2020 No.17166305 >>17164648 I actually am, slav, comrade. But I hate Russia and communism. Communism destroyed my country.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 13:47:52 2020 No.17166442 >>17134900 Rick roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 13:48:25 2020 No.17166447 File: 54 KB, 700x876, 117074904_2459480944341937_7056957952429740992_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 13:53:00 2020 No.17166480 >>17134900 Rollerino

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 15:04:55 2020 No.17167003 >>17166066 Many are called, few are chosen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 15:13:56 2020 No.17167064 >>17134900 Rollentollen

Anonymous Thu Dec 31 15:32:12 2020 No.17167217

>>17134827
>I am 21 and have never read a book from start to finish. Is it too late to join the /lit/erati?
You're better prepared than anyone else. This is a great age to begin your intellectual development. If you have any religious beliefs, start by exploring that topic. Otherwise, start with Plato's dialogues.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 15:38:15 2020 No.17167283 >>17134900 rolling nigga

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 15:39:31 2020 No.17167292 >>17167283 rerolling , also wtf is that really no 83?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 15:45:09 2020 No.17167332 >>17134827 its a skill, you need to set a certain time every day to it until you can do it easier.

>>	Select all images with cars Thu Dec 31 15:55:38 2020 No.17167406 >>17134900 rollerino

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 16:24:53 2020 No.17167610 >>17134900 since everyone else is doing it, roll.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 17:27:01 2020 No.17167992 >>17134900 .

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 18:05:48 2020 No.17168268 >>17134900 rolling for it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 18:06:54 2020 No.17168280 >>17134900 reroll, already read one

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 18:23:02 2020 No.17168390 >>17134900 roll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 18:28:37 2020 No.17168440 >>17134900 give good book

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 20:33:09 2020 No.17169324 >>17134900 20 something rolleroomer AAAH IM ROOOLING

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 31 23:06:48 2020 No.17170233 >>17134900 rolling for something i havent read. out of these i have only read 13, 19, 20, 31, 54, 66, and i am reading 94

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