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Brainlet here. Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:24:10 2018 No.10548603 [Reply] [Original]

Haven't read a single book in my life and I'm 25 or something. I've been busy indulging in mainstream culture all this time. What would you recommend to an absolute neanderthal such as myself? Besides the hangman's noose of course, that's self-explanatory. I mean like a book, I don't care what genre.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:25:13 2018 No.10548607 >>10548603 >neanderthal neanderthal DNA is a sign of intelligence though, that is why niggers have less of it than everyone else

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:25:46 2018 No.10548610 read high school stuff like vonnegut, to kill a mockingbird, mark twain, catcher in the rye

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:28:21 2018 No.10548621 >>10548607 >>>/reddit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:29:06 2018 No.10548624 >>10548610 I actually began reading Mark Twain but literally every other sentence has the word ''negro'' or ''nigger'' in it. How do you take him seriously?

Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:30:28 2018 No.10548629
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Someone post the intro chart that isn't shitty hs tier
>>10548603
Vonnegut and are Murikami are easy but fucking lame
Try
Tolkien
Lovecraft
Dostoevsky
Hemingway
Steinbeck

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:31:30 2018 No.10548636 >>10548607 >>>/pol/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:32:52 2018 No.10548639 >>10548603 The Theban Cycle and Oresteia

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:37:14 2018 No.10548656 >>10548629 Thank you sir, I've got some catching up to do. Hypothetically speaking when would you say that I'd be ready to grasp existentialist literature? I tried getting into Jean Paul Sartre but I've no idea what the fuck he's talking about.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:40:53 2018 No.10548669 >>10548656 Start with the greeks, Sophocles is the first existentialist

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:43:53 2018 No.10548688 >>10548603 Babar goes to the zoo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:43:57 2018 No.10548689 >>10548624 read vonnegut then. easy, accessible, and fun

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:46:31 2018 No.10548698 >>10548603 Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 00:47:34 2018 No.10548702 the bibble

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 01:05:31 2018 No.10548770 >>10548603 I was in a similar situation. Just read slaughterhouse five, and I recommend it. By no means do I imagine it to be a masterpiece, but it was engaging, interesting, and made me think.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 01:11:02 2018 No.10548787 >>10548624 Didn't your edition have trigger warnings?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 01:12:24 2018 No.10548795 >>10548603 Finnegan’s Wake

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 01:16:08 2018 No.10548812 note that without a biblical foundation you wont really understand anything in the western canon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 03:05:16 2018 No.10549113 >>10548624 It's easy: just treat it like any other word. Not doing so would be prejudice

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 03:08:37 2018 No.10549120 >>10548603 There's a lot to choose from, just find something you enjoy

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 03:10:17 2018 No.10549122 >>10548656 This year, Sartre is pretty low tier desu, read some phenomology on SEP

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 03:12:31 2018 No.10549126 The Bible desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 03:20:53 2018 No.10549150 >>10548603 Tender is the Night is the perfect beginner book for an adult who hasn't read much.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 03:22:25 2018 No.10549154 >>10548603 The Swiss Family Robinson. Read it. I fucking mean it. DO IT. please

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 17 03:23:09 2018 No.10549157 >>10548603 Lots of short stories. I recommend Salinger, Joyce, Hemingway, and Carver. Kafka and Borges as well Do this until you find what you like, and then go looking for more like that

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