/lit/ - Literature

>>12631799
say what you want about Bradbury, he's great entry level lit if you want to get into reading for prose

Babies last deep bool

>>12631810
Its funny because after you read it you kill yourself. Expect you don't, because Camus is entry level Doomer book.

Unironically though, 451 was the first novel I ever read.
>>12631809
Seriously, I first read it in 6th grade and definitely owe it for introducing me to literature. I read the Stranger and Story of the Eye the following year and never looked back.

>>12631799
Mine was animal farm.

Say I'm just starting to read, what are the best books to get going with?

>>12631810
The stranger is uplifting though

>>12632175
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant.

>>12632175
This chart gets posted often. I don't think I agree with some of the choices though: Lolita and Dorian Gray are too difficult first reads, and A Clockwork Orange/Catch-22/Slaughterhouse Five are all too weird/postmodern for first reads. 1984, Of Mice and Men, Brave New World, The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby would be my recommendations.

>>12632175
Harry potter

>>12632696
Yeah my boi harry doesnt get mentioned here often enough! :lit: lit senpai desu

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>>12631799
>he thought it was deep as a baby

Lol
>>12631835
Camus is uplifting at other times. Myth of sisyphus should be given to high-school as well as Siddhartha

>>12631799
"deep"

I've never read it, is it worth it at this point? I'm past entry level

>>12632666
Dorian Grey is complicated? Gee, I wonder why the Portrait keeps changing everytime he does a sinful deed.

Hmm.

>>12633386
I think "complicated" is his code word for "homoerotic"

>>12633386
Never said it was complicated, just that it was more difficult than the rest in terms of vocab. Even then, you've just described its premise in basic terms, and there is so much more to the novel than that. (Plus it's Gray, not Grey... Chart got it wrong too.)

>>12631799