/lit/ - Literature

Rowling

>>16069688
Very Hungry Caterpillar

>>16069688
You're reading them in Greek right?

>>16069688
anywhere that isn't pleb shit, just read what interests you, there isn't one path anon. follow convention if it really gets you that hard, or don't

illiad is great.

you should read the homophonic translation of the illiad by this Berkeley guy, David Melnick. It's called Men in Aida, it's a bathhouse epic. Great stuff.

>>16069688
starting with greeks is retarded. read what you're interested in, have a philosophical dictionary hand and consult secondary sources. thats it you're a philosopher

Start with a general history of philosophy, and then read the primary texts for things you actually find interesting.

>>16069688
You don't have to understand it, read it so you can say you've read it. Who cares about understanding it?

>>16069688
whom

>>16069688
Just read Butler's prose version of the Iliad, it's a great read and good if you're not very good with poetry or knowledgeable on the Greeks at all.

starting with the greeks is a meme. you have no context for something that's thousands of years old.

>thinking you'll understand philosophy in the least bit your first go
baka, desu. You have to just power through it to actually gain the ability to read philosophy and make sense of it. How else can you get good at something without actually doing it? You could start a little easier on free lectures on youtube. Here's a good one on The Meno and Theaetetus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5G8_sU8GQ

>>16069688
How are they hard? Im currently in the process of starting with the Greeks and so far i haven't found anything too tough.
Iliad and Odyssey were both rad and i really liked reading about the Sophists.

>>16069688
Read introductory texts, then try again.

>>16069704
That's so fucking gay in so many ways. Thanks.

>>16069688
Start with Vedas

>>16069688
>he actually takes /lit's opinions and advices seriously
Don't do this.

Unironically start with "How To Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler.

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>>16069795
>>16070079
>philosophy
uh, cringe?

>>16070123
If you are reading ABOUT the sophists, you are likely reading denser text than you average translated Socratic dialogue by Plato, who is naturally your next major read.

>>16070301
Yeah im going for The Last Days of Socrates next. Hope i won't have my mind boggled like OP.

>>16069688
Try Descartes Discourse on Method and the Meditations
Thats a comfy stroll into the heart of scepticism. Simple to follow but with profound consequences

Classic Childrens' Literature. Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Lang's fairy books, the wind in the willows, Robert Louis Stevenson.

>Greeks are too hard
You’re not gonna make it bro

what greeks did you read?
please don't say the magic trio of faggotry.

>>16069688
Start with the Americans

imagine being filtered by Homer (9th grade reading level)

>>16069688
Start with yourself.

>>16069688
The Mesopotamians

bump. i read plato and didnt understand anything. what do i do?

Start with How To Read A Book

>>16072971
Based.

>>16072971
>jew explaining the best books of western civilization

no thanks I'll pass