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Do you guys actually vouch for the /lit/ starter pack? Is there anything better out there?

>> No.6372955

>all fiction
Lol no

>> No.6372961

>>6372952
It's really only for people who have never read a book and need a place to start.

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>>6372952
That's the high school starter pack. THIS is the /lit/ starter pack.

>> No.6372973

both are fine if you just have no idea what to read. both provide some sense of shared literacy, though especially with the first it's more with American high school curricula than it really is with /lit/. I've read all but one or two on both lists just by reading generally, and I like to imagine the same is true of most people who post here regularly.
>>6372963
this one's better though

>> No.6373000

>>6372963
definitely consists of more /lit/ culture authors

>> No.6373034

>>6372952
You want a real /lit/ starter pack?

The Greeks. Special attention to the tragedies.
Bible (two or three times).
Mahabharata
Hume or Kant
Marx or Nietzsche OR Marx or Keynes
Either one of the CPGB Historians Group monographs (a specialist, not a survey work), or one of the Annales'.
Webber or Veblen

>> No.6373043

>>6372952
dystopia is shit

at least the kind that only exists to try to be prophetic or whatever

>> No.6373064

>>6372963
>vonnegut
>gatsby
>catcher
>all the others

Pretentious HS student.

>> No.6373071

>>6372952
they are good op... if you havent read those novels they are essential literature

>> No.6373143

>>6373064
>>gatsby
>HS tier
hey hey hey
calm it down

>> No.6373393

>>6373064
They don't just use those books in HS because they're easy, they use them because they're books everybody should read.

>> No.6373409

>>6373064
they are also books frequently mentioned on /lit/. Almost as if thats what the chart is for.

>> No.6373426

>>6372952
All of it's certainly worth reading. If you don't know how to read analytically most of it won't be as interesting to you. But almost everything on there is fun, well paced, and has a distinctive aesthetic approach to set each one apart. There's a lot going on in there. However, all of those novels are things high schoolers should have read (except American Psycho, Siddhartha, and Do Androids Dream...). Dig in.