/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8492806]

what book sparked your interest/passion/obsession with literature and philosophy?

[Anonymous No.8492823]

>>8492806
The Great Gatsby because it revealed to me how beautiful and creative an author can be with just words. Previously, I had thought that writing was a dull and uninspired profession.

[Anonymous No.8492825]

Kafka's short-short fiction

nothing else like it in the world

[Anonymous No.8492830]

Catcher in the Rye. I know, I'm a fucking pleb, but you don't understand. It was like an encyclopedia of human experience when I was a kid. Also Kierkegaard and Mishima. One was about the choices and the other was about style.

[Anonymous No.8492845]

>>8492830
A pleb is someone whose choice is shaped and forced by outside factors instead of himself. You're not a pleb.

[Anonymous No.8492893]

Blood meridian

[Anonymous No.8492913]

>>8492806
The Kalevala

[Anonymous No.8492915]

>>8492825
my gf loves it, i love kafka, and its the only thing of his havent read yet, which are the best, cause i got a lot of study materials and cant really read them all until october

[Anonymous No.8492922]

I think forwards not backwards.

[Anonymous No.8492924]

>>8492893
same

[Anonymous No.8492930]

>>8492825
It's pretty awesome, I bought a book with the metamorphosis in it, and all his short and "short short" stories in it compiled.

[Anonymous No.8492933]

>>8492924
To expand though, I stopped choosing books based on how interesting the plot synopsis sounded or how funny it was supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.8492936]

Almost precisely one year ago I decided to read Crime and Punishment after not reading a book for 4 years. I've read about 30 books since then

[Anonymous No.8492939]

>>8492936
And since then I also gained an appreciation for arts. I go watch plays now and gained an appreciation for classical music.

[Anonymous No.8492941]

>>8492806

Philosophy: Sophie's World by Jostein Garder when I was 13.
Literature: Steinbeck and Vonnegut when I was 16

Go ahead and fight me.

[Anonymous No.8493184]

The Greeks

[Anonymous No.8493342]

>>8492806
>sparked your interest/passion/obsession with literature and philosophy?

I could only narrow it down to 5 books that sparked my interest with literature.

[Anonymous No.8493345]

>>8493342
>6 books
fixed

[Anonymous No.8493364]

Wasn't a specific book but a lack of books. I got out of high school and was no longer exposed to good literature. Kept picking up awful trashy books because I listened to reviews and people with low standards for books. Got extremely frustrated and came back to /lit/. Voila, problem solved.

[Anonymous No.8493371]

Reading the Tell Tale Heart by Poe in middle school did the trick.

[Anonymous No.8493377]

I think first a friend convinced me to check out Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which led me to read regularly after years of never doing so, then I went on to entry-level contemporary shit that still had a little more attention to theme and style like A Scanner Darkly, and then eventually I ended up reading Lolita which sparked a love for "real" literary and classic fiction.

[Anonymous No.8493378]

A high school English teacher recommended a Prayer For Owen Meany for me when I wasn't that interested in books. I look back and realize certain pleb qualities, but it got me interested in reading more critically and making real-world connections with text. Also helped me learn more about the concept of faith and literature which is mostly what I study/read about now

[Anonymous No.8493396]

[Anonymous No.8493404]

>>8493396
That's not a book.

[Anonymous No.8493414]

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Made me appreciate style rather than solely story.

[Anonymous No.8493418]

>>8493404
https://www.scribd.com/doc/40637689/Deathconsciousness-Booklet

[Anonymous No.8493427]

>>8493418
Oh ok. Looks interesting, I might give it a read.

[Anonymous No.8493445]

>>8492806
Dubliners was the first book with literary merit that I read of my own will, and that book you posted is the second, but I think the book that led to my discovery of the immense enjoyment that can result from literature is this one.

[Anonymous No.8493447]

>>8492845
Wrong

[Anonymous No.8493453]

>>8493342
>getting the metamorphoses and other stories
>not getting the complete stories
Why ?

[Anonymous No.8494531]

>>8493453
what's the best translation?

[Anonymous No.8494538]

>>8494531
I don't know. The one I posted seems fine, but I haven't compared it to the original German version.

[Anonymous No.8494579]

>>8492806
The Stranger, I could empathize with Meursault's completely apathy.

[FOXE !!2rslAUKg/1u No.8494610]

>>8492806
why is it transliterated as dostoevskij in italian
why is the j there

[Anonymous No.8494742]

>>8494579
underrated
v ironic gg

[Anonymous No.8494749]

No Longer Human

[Anonymous No.8494754]

The Hardy Boys The Tower Treasure
by Franklin W. Dixon.

[Anonymous No.8494761]

A number of books I had to read in high school: A Prayer for Owen Meany, Fahrenheit 451, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Hamlet.
It was more my lit teacher who showed me all that books could be. Thank you Mr. Feyk.

[Anonymous No.8494762]

>>8492936
>>8492939
>30 books

wew lad, u r just such a REEL READER

[Anonymous No.8494821]

The Things They Carried, tbhfam.

[Anonymous No.8494837]

>>8494821
>humping
>mfw we read that in freshman year of high school

[Anonymous No.8494920]

My mum made me read Shakespeare when I was ten. The first few times it just flew right past me because I was ten. But after a while I got to grips with it and that felt good, so I started reading.

I've never really liked philosophy.

[Anonymous No.8494925]

>>8492825
Not his longer fiction?

[Anonymous No.8494975]