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just started reading because I'm bored of video games and movies what are some good shit to get started on?

>> No.19698184

>>19698179
Start with the Greeks

>> No.19698188

start with the classics:
harry potter
harry potter 2
harry potter 3
and so on

>> No.19698189

>>19698184
I think you need to be more specific

>> No.19698196

>>19698179
Heart of darkness is good if a bit heavy.

>> No.19698209

>>19698189
not fpop but there's a greek chart in the sticky

>> No.19698236

>>19698209
thank you

>> No.19698238

read the black company

>> No.19698248

>>19698179
I Am a Cat

>> No.19698266
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19698266

>>19698179

>> No.19698272

Harry Potter, the founding mythology of modern western civilization

>> No.19698283

>>19698189
Read the Iliad and Odyssey and the Greek tragedians.

>> No.19698334

>>19698266
kek

>> No.19698344

What's your favorite game story wise?

>> No.19698346

>>19698236
Do NOT follow charts.

>> No.19698364

>>19698346
This. Make one of your own.

>> No.19698367

>>19698179
Master and Margarita, The Three Musketeers, The Godfather - These are classics.

Philip K. Dick, if you like crazy sci-fi, mixed with drugs.

Agatha Christie, Chandlor, Conan Doyle, you can get hooked on crime.

Pratchet or The Myth saga - comedy fantasy.

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood - for true crime, the killing of the Kansas family, it's a very, i mean very good book. Top pick for me during the previous year.

Right now i am Leaviatan Awakes, sci-fi opera.

>Everything of the top recommendations is top!

>> No.19698419

the postmodernists are bad and only a sectioned off teen section of this board rates them. I wouldnt advise venturing much further past yukio mishima or Kenzaburo oe who are very worth reading. Also try to take value in the languages you know. While russian and jap and greek writers might have more exotic names, if you only know english, english literature will be more enjoyable. Its a tough pill to swallow but its how it is. settle in and read yeats

>> No.19698545

>>19698179
Classic novles.

You should start with the Greeks but only once you've developed a love for reading, so pick up with the classic novels of the 19th century, like Dostoevsky.

>> No.19698593

>>19698179
>bored of video games
Good for you anon, I too abandoned them recently, they have gotten way too shit.
I suggest The Same Old Story by Goncharov. He's much more famous for Oblomov i.e. the original NEET but I found TSOS to be educational even in regards to personal expectations, what you should realistically expect when interfacing yourself with other people, when working, with this mysterious little thing called "love"... It's a light, enjoyable novel.

For tragedy, I recommend The Golovlyov Family. It revolves around greed and how it destroys a family. It kicks you real hard in the balls with its soulcrushing depressiveness, so keep that in mind

>> No.19698611

>>19698545
>but only once you've developed a love for reading
For sure. It's absolutely inane advice to anyone who isn't actually interested in exploring the western literary tradition in his entirety.

>> No.19698634

Since you're a gamer, I assume you want to read books that have the n word in them?

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>>19698283
Anon should read them eventually but starting with them if they just came from video games and capeshit movies is retarded. Just start with pic rel

>> No.19698681

>>19698666
They're not particularly hard to read.