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Hey /lit/, I have a deep rooted inferiority complex towards people who like reading and I just can't shrug it off, so I'd like to start reading more.

Can you suggest me some non fiction to build up babbys' first reading list?
Thanks anon, love you...

>> No.12318336
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START WITH THE FUCKING GREEKS

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>>12318315
Like stuff that should be general knowledge but is hard to find outside of print?
e.g. book pictured also creates an interest in European philosophers.
Author is an Egyptian that studied German and married a Japanese (also studying German), he frequently compares Islamic principles with the enlightenment movement we take for granted.

>> No.12318495

Start with the Greeks

>> No.12318497

>>12318315
Like any attractive woman would read a subversive and poorly written jewish sperg book like this.

>> No.12318591

read the iliad and the odyssey to start

>> No.12318622

>>12318495
>>12318591
>>12318336

Here in Europe we read the greeks during highschool.

>> No.12318641

>>12318622
lucky boy, now read the bible cover to cover and continue with the romans (Ovid, Virgil), then read Dante

>> No.12318654

>>12318641

Do you mean that in hamburgerland you don't read greek and latin literature in highschool?

>> No.12318703

>>12318654
I can't speak for burgerland since im canadian, but I hadn't read anything substantial until my last year of high school when i started reading on my own time, outside of classes. The most "sophisticated" thing i had read in my classes in high school was camus, which even for high schoolers is pretty basic

>> No.12318722

But then you'll feel inferior to yourself! You'll ruin your life OP, just run! Run away from this nightmare!!

>> No.12318723

>>12318622
third world latin american here, we do too.
I'm pretty sure it's just the good old US education system being shit.

>> No.12318742

>>12318315
>sleeve tattoo
FALLEN GELASSEN

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>>12318497

>subversion is bad

>everyone else is a sheep

Boy, goys sure are retarded.

>> No.12320717

>>12318654
here in mickeyDland at least for my all white high school we were given the option of latin as a language but language was an elective course, meaning you didn't need to take it. English was basic grammar/spelling/essays, for the actual books we read it was stuff like jane austin charlotte bronte shelley OP pic related book, some african child soldier thing, war of the worlds, east of eden, that kind of thing. One could spark note all of them though so that's what happened with most of us.

I didn't know what 1984 or brave new world was till college

>23

>> No.12320760

>>12318622
>>highschool
NO we don't do that enought. Go back and start with the greeks.

>> No.12320891

>>12318315
That picture is really hot.

>> No.12320919

>>12318622
US here. We read a lot of the Greeks in school. Just don't be in normie classes. Those are essentially remedial now because the school system can't have any more dropouts without revealing its worthlessness.

>> No.12320923

>>12320919
It doesn't get any more normie than gr**ks

>> No.12320941

>>12320923
I feel like that speaks more about the education system than anything. Nice try with the condescending tone though.

>> No.12322205

>>12318622
Did you read the Pre-Socratic fragments, all of Plato, and all of Aristotle in highschool?

>> No.12322255

>>12322205
have you read all extant plato?
would you consider it all worthwhile?

>> No.12322277

>>12318315
Well, if that's you in the pic, I'd like to say: there's no reason to put any snide old books in your hands! Books are for the shy, the stupid. A pretty young female like yourself has no need for books or complexes. Hows about you give me your number, you know, your phone number, and I can tell you everything one would learn in a book at dinner! Then you can tell me everything you've learned being such a pretty model. We can put aside our differences and learn from each other, and maybe have a drink or two and you can find out there's nothing to be ashamed of in being bookless, and I'll find that the modelling life is not what it's really cut out to be, and that the model is much like the reader, and vice versa, and though we collide in our class differences, we really aren't all that different in the center, the kernel that makes us human.

>> No.12322284

>>12318315
my dick ill read to you while making you my cum slut

>> No.12322537

>>12318622
Then wait until you go to highschool.

>> No.12322566

>>12318459
i don't remember a lot of Enlightenment-era clitoridectomies. perhaps i'm reading the wrong books.

>> No.12322576

Please validate my dick with your baby oven

>> No.12322617

>>12318315
Don't listen to a word the elitist circlejerkers on this board say desu