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If it was up to you what books would be required reading to be able to post on /lit/?

>> No.14568799

>>14568766
Illiad

>> No.14568887

Minimum 50% of the western canon

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14568892

>>14568766
Classic European essays, poetry, and satire. Read novels for fun. I'm only chiming in to say that 1 and 5 are straight NOs and 4 is the best.

>> No.14568909

>>14568892
>I'm only chiming in to say that 1 and 5 are straight NOs and 4 is the best.
they're all bad, whores are bad and bookish quasi-men are bad too (who actually also tend to be whores)

>> No.14568927

>>14568766
Unironically, the Illiad, the Odyssey, the Bible, and the Meme Trilogy.

>> No.14568942

>>14568887
Is there a definitive list of which books constitute the western canon? Seems like depending on where you draw the line that requirement can vary greatly.

>> No.14568944

>>14568942
Bloom

>> No.14568956

>>14568766
4>5>2>1>3

>> No.14568966

>>14568766
At this point fucking any requirement would be an improvement
But I would choose the major plays of Shakespeare

>> No.14568977

>>14568766
Illiad, Odyssey, Dhammapada, Bhahavad Gita, Ego and Its Own

>> No.14569113

Illiad
Shakespeare's plays
Letters to a Young Poet-- Rilke

>> No.14569147

>>14568766
>she turns white after grabbing a book
what did the artist mean by this?

>> No.14569155

>>14568766
4>3>5>2>1

>> No.14569160

>>14568766
is there evidence that reading decreases one's breast size?

>> No.14569164

>>14568766
I love how she gets whiter

>> No.14569177

>>14569113
>Letters to a Young Poet-- Rilke
I've been meaning to read Rilke for a while now, what would you say of him?

>> No.14569483

>>14568766
The reversed image is canon.

>> No.14569557

>>14568887
T. Someone who hasnt read 5%

>> No.14569714

>>14568956
>>14569155
its 2>1>3>4>5 you plebs. the book literally turned her into a man. literacy causes feminism. female literacy was a mistake

>> No.14569799

>>14568766
something to help with you'll niggas low self esteem

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>>14569483

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>>1456876
>If it was up to you what books would be required reading to be able to post on /lit/?
Amusing Ourselves to Death

>> No.14569875

>>14568766
Euthyphro
Apology of Socrates
Crito
These >>14568927

>> No.14569894

>>14568766
Illiad, Odyssey. Minimum half of Shakespeare's works. Divine Comedy. At least two works by Dosto and Tolstoy each. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the Meme Trilogy, unironically.

>> No.14569933

>she gets uglier

>> No.14569935

>>14568956
You're probably gay

>> No.14569941

>>14569860
I like you.

>> No.14569979

>>14568944
RIP colossal B

>> No.14570088

>>14568887
Damn, you must really like cowboys and shit.

>> No.14570150

The C programming language

>> No.14570728

>>14568766
Lucifer

The comic

>> No.14571623

>>14568956
>>14569155
>>14569714
Nah nah nah.
4 wins cause she's hot and she reads.
2 next cause she's bending over very nicely.
3 has got a nice belly but her face is too dumb.
4 next just cause fuck bimbos
1 cause fuck bimbos

>> No.14571718

>>14568766
1, 2 and 3 are God-tier
4 is start-a-family-with-tier
5 is a sickly-degenerate-tier

>> No.14571786

>>14569933
>Makeup is what I really like

>>14569147
Not tanned

>> No.14572595

>>14571623
you forgot 5

>> No.14572754

>>14569860
This is the way

>> No.14572763

Guenon