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If you could force someone to read 5 books, with the goal of making them as /lit/ as possible, what would you pick?

>> No.12936170

>>12936145
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Harry Potter I-IV

>> No.12936188

the meme trilogy
Nick Land, Fanged Noumena
the first six chapters of the Illiad followed by the last six of the Odyssey

>> No.12936197

>>12936170
good job you couldn't have made a poorer post

>> No.12936214

>>12936145
The Bible
Ulysses
War and Peace
The Divine Comedy
Summa Theologica

>> No.12936219

>>12936145
The Bible
A History of Western Philosophy
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Iliad
Odyssey

>> No.12936222

>>12936214
What translation of the divine comedy?

>> No.12936229

The Bible
Plato's complete works
The Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare's complete works
Paradise Lost

>> No.12936249

>>12936222
Prose translation by Charles Eliot Norton

>> No.12936267

>>12936145
Les Miserables
East of Eden
Outlaws of the Marsh
Death of a Naturalist
The Tale of Genji

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>>12936222
>translation

>> No.12936294

>>12936145
Thucydides' Peloponesian War
Don Quixote
Montaigne's Essays
Wordsworth's 1805 Prelude
Auerbach's Mimesis (for a sampling of much of the great literature he's inevitably missed, plus a good critical initiation)

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>>12936273
>knowing Italian

>> No.12936415

Savage Detectives
Romance da Pedra do Reino
Dom Quixote
Crime & Punishment
The Trial

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>>12936145
That cover is a blatant thematic rip-off of this yaoi manga.

As per the original question though:
>De La Fontaine's complete works
>The 120 Days of Sodom
>The Phantom of the Opera
>The Barber of Seville
>The Three Musketeers
All in the original French, of course.

>> No.12937726

>>12936145
>with the goal of making them as /lit/ as possible
If that's the goal, reading books is a waste of time. They should just spend it here instead, transitioning from lurking to memeing

>> No.12937750

Quran
40 hadith
Nicomachean ethics
Plato's Republic
Masnavi

>> No.12937814

>>12936145
I think saying the bible is cheating because it's really lots of books
>Don Quixote
>Faust
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Nostromo
>Meditations

>> No.12937997

>>12936145
Ideally he wouldnt read any books at all