I have hundreds of unread books in my room. I want to fucking read some. Read one. But which one?
I have some greeks, and I know how the sticky goes but i don't feel like going into it chronologically necessarily. I've got some presocratics, most of Plato and Aristotle, some other greek's philosophy and plays.
I've got some latins. I've got Shakespeare, Dante and Buzzati. I have Baudelaire, Voltaire, Moliere. Celine, Textbooks on french lit, Huysmans, Maupassant, Montaigne, Zola.
I have Goethe, Mann, Hesse.
I have Stoker, Marlowe, Mishima, Milton, Toole, Gurdjieff. Vizinczey, Jung, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Thoreau.
I've got Dickens, Austen, Bronte, St. Agustine, London, Collodi, Hemingway.
I have Pessoa, C.S. Lewis, Homer, Cervantes, Bulgakov, Dostoevskij, Tolstoy. Faulkner, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, Dumas. Rabelais.
What the fuck do I read? I'm overwhelmed. Can you guys help me out? Thanks.
What buying books without reading them does to a mf
>>24541898Yes. I strongly advise against it nowadays.
nigga just pick whichever interests you and read
if i want to learn about language i read Wittgenstein, that simple
>>24541893 (OP)Philosophy: Plato
Poetry: Iliad & Odyssey, Aeneid, Metamorphoses, Bible, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost
>>24541893 (OP)just keep looking through them. there are so many books to read that you can afford to be very picky. you can be so discriminating thT you only read books that astound you, if you like. have you read moby-dick? read the first ten pages. if it doesn't astound you, tell yourself you may come back to it some day, and switch to something else. you'll eventually find a book you can't keep from reading. remember, this is media, it's supposed to be enjoyed. you wouldn't force yourself to sit through a mediocre show or movie because of some external obligation, so don't treat books any differently.
>>24541893 (OP)Well if I were you I would go for something light like Shakespeare, Pessoa, Maupassant, Moliere, Voltaire, Hesse, or hopefully Horace, Martial, Seneca, or Aurelius. You have sabotaged yourself because you have a lot of heavy or moody authors who are not easy to read at hand. I would figure out what inspires you to purchase the difficult works and read/watch stuff that will inspire you more until you are curious & interested in what you have now
You should new books to add to your collection of all you wish you were and will never be. This is what you get for wanting to be a reader but lacking the courage to read. The unopened books run their tongues along their spines and laugh at you.
>>24542375this. i'm ineffably picky. having this much access has pigeonholed me into maybe enjoying 10 books ever written. the only way to enjoy literature is to have this perspective. this vantage escapes all who are on lower elevations, and forces them to argue about the ranks of thousands of inferior works because they simply can't see the wheat from the chaff. even at significantly higher positions than the non-reader, without a mirthless and agonizing relationship with the notion that almost all that has been written would be better suited to the midden or the fire, you simply do not know what literature is.
similarly, from the peak of any art is disillusionment, and therefore, god.
>>24541893 (OP)read? why in the world would you subject yourself to that? books are building materials and were invented for a scholar's safety. maybe you should look into paintings.
Just pick one at random OP. It’s not that hard
Thank you for the answers, /lit/. I wanted you to pick something for me just for fun and not an explanation of how I should just start one but ok. I am now reading One Piece volume 60.
>>24542916wew lad
In that case, Shakespeare, Richard III
>>24542916Put down the children's comic book and real like an adult
Pick up Faulkner. There's your answer.
>>24541893 (OP)just read the shortest one
>>24542809This. Pick one at random and read 20 pages. If you like, keep reading.
>>24543273>>24543280>>24543287>>24543323Thank you guys. I'm actually anticipating Reading Gargantua and Pantagruele a great deal, maybe I'll go into it slowly plus another short book at random. Faulkner is tough especially since I'm ESL and I've got As I Lay Dying in original english.
For clarity, I'm an ex weeb getting into lit, I've sold all my manga collection but I still have One Piece, I still see value in it and it brings me joy. It's not like I haven't read a book, I've read about 40 in the last year and a half, but I feel It's time to get serious.
>>24541893 (OP)Throw all of that poofy self-important bullshit into the trash. All of it.
Then read a comic book. Like picrel.
>>24543375all depends on how you like enter pool.
some jump in pool and brace for shock
some ease into pool slow and adjust
