Thread 24664501

1.
Holy Bible
Finnegan's Wake
Infinite Jest

These are undisputed.

2.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

These are old-core and should be considered as equal for posterity's sake.
There are actually a great deal many volumes which 4chan.org/lit has come to a sort of consensus about.

The making of a new-core is not designed to replace the old-core, but to expand the knowledge as written down and accumulated over the course of so many years' discourses.

I suppose the britannica Great Books be used as a model; Harold Bloom's Western Canon should be accepted not as comprehensive but as part of the conversation as well. There are two versions of it also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

>>24664504
The original great books author wanted there to be Koran references like there are with the Bible

>religious text
>>24337195
>>>/his/17648779

>>24664512
Academic consensus says the book of Mormon is fiction

>GRRM: A Song of Ice and Fire
>Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
>Robert Jordan: Wheel of Time
Any else?

>>24664504
Those are the two most disputed books on the planet.

>Confessions of St. Augustine
I feel like Rousseau is underrepresented

>>24664527
Harry Potter and the Lightning Thief

Asimov.

>>24664512
Thoughts?

Any biographies in this /lit/?

>>24664527
Brandon Sanderson's Elantris.

>>24664534
He was immensely influential up until contempary times where he's basically never read. They've got Tristram Shandy (which is good) from the same century but no Julie, Emile or his Confessions who were all a thousand times more popular and influential (and are some of the best books of the XVIIIth century). But I guess having 6 books by the same author would have been too much, but in this case just remove the two discourses and replace them Emile and his Confessions

Start with the greeks.

>>24664596
They don't teach French literature and philosophy any more, kind of a missing link. And a lot of the Britannica set is representative to be branched away from.

>>24664607
Xenophon?

>>24664544
love me some sifi

>>24664553
Tankie GTFO

>>24664544
How much of this is canon? I made it to book 4 but 5 and 6 seem unfinished. Is the DLC that bad?

>>24664633
Christopher Tolkien.

>>24664510
>the original author
God?

>>24664535
>woman core

>>24664421

Ulysses is part 3 in a trilogy; Pynchon is still writing and may yet make something more memeable.

>>24664616
THIS should be canon.

>>24664628
>distributing cult literature
>in My 4chan
SHYGDDT.

>>24664504
>500 pages of retarded garbage
YAWN. This fanfic is much better

>>24664549
Start with him if you want to understand Eastern philosophy. He was before Socrates, so it follows you could read him after the Hebrews and before the proverbial Greeks.

I would have you know that Muhammad stands as par for one of the great prophets with Jesus and Moses.

>>24664501 (OP)
>These are undisputed.
>Posts 3 most disputed books in the canon

>>24664553
Kotkin has surpassed all other Stalin biographies

>>24664711
>>24664711
>the third volume remains to be published
I sure hope you don't reccommend people something without warning them about that

>>24664699
Nemelka's a heretic. The real sealed portions remain unpublished.

>>24664642
>1 Silmarillion
vs.
>100,000 pages of nothing
You decide.

>>24664719
Both of those statements may be true, or one true and the other false, or both.

>>24664504
>>24664616
The Holy Trinity

3.
Everything written by James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon
Everything written by David Foster Wallace
Everything in the Britannica Great Books
These are the pruning grounds, subject to much expansion. A solid canon to set next to the core three volumes >>24664707 and they are undisputed is what is desired of this thread. Spaggheti

>>24664501 (OP)
>>24664501 (OP)
>>24664741
4.
Anons know I love poetry and languages are no issue, the language barrier is being broken in the English language, so it should be that the finest wisdom to be gathered be gathered all over the world.

>>24664746
are you the guy who keeps posting this thread:
>>24655294

>>24664752
Yes.

>>24664578
>KJAV
SHYGDDT. NRSV4Lyfe

>>24664551
>able
>not willing
>benevolent
The evil comes from our free will; free agency allows malice to make work in the world, of course God overturns all evil things.

>>24664617
>no ceiling
The sky's the limit.

>>24664723
He and Anderson wrote Dune 7 in 2 volumes. But that's the back half of the series as a whole.

>>24664741
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW-BU6keEUw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UGXEgGHfvQ

>>24664578
Maps of Meaning is actually OK.

>>24664615
Xenophon is a missing link. From Socrates to Plato, a lot of people like to complain that there is a chain of transmission error. The Apology is consistent however and refutes all rival claimants.

>>24664501 (OP)
>There are actually a great deal many volumes which 4chan.org/lit has come to a sort of consensus abou
Such as?

>>24664501 (OP)
this 1 looks pretty good
freebie just internet search
lots of pics whew lad

>>24664833
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zFJ3yNVQ3v4

>>24664830
Consensus may be a joke. The whole point of /lit/ is to be absolutely without consensus imposition. So the actual consensus is unsummarizable.

Proverbs endure.
Memes of old are handed down in pure amber.
Lore dictates that the past must be cohered into the present and future.

I say truly that /lit/ has only one canon, and that is NOT reading Infinite Jest.

>>24664510
The Syntopicon should be one volume, and should have universal references.

>>2466470 2
>Muhammad stands as par for one of the great prophets
This is bait, right?

>>24665006
I am not saying AS great as Christ. But I do mean no less than Moses.

>>24664527
>Sandon Branderson: Mistborn
>Terry Pratchet: Discworld, Equal Rites, and Soul Music
>Garth Nix: Sabriel

>>24665322 in in stead of prose versions (nothing against varying editions however).

>>24664578
Replace that with maps of meaning

>>24665398
Human enough for cloudflare.

>>24664833
Should be deleted
Every board like it

>>24664501 (OP)
It's
1.
Holy Bible (KJV)
Paradise Lost
Divine Comedy
2.
Iliad & Odyssey (Pope)
Aeneid
3.
Metamorphoses
999.
Ulysses
Lolita

>>24664535
Based.

>alt-f4
>moby
>dick
>melv
>0 results

>>24665771
>Odyssey (Pope)
Half of it was self-admittedly half-assed by Pope, and the other half ghost-written by other poets.

>>24666584
Yet Samuel Johnson couldn't differentiate between them, plus one of them is a Greek scholar

>>24666584
Title "The Whale" should get you one result, commenting that it is included in the Britannica set.

>stoner - john williams
>something by tao lin
>the assemblywomen - aristophanes
>notes from the underground
>handbook of hate memes - some eu funded thing

>>24664702
If Muhammad was truly a prophet and came forward with God's true and final testament, why is every nation "blessed" with that religion plagued with governmental violence, corruption, and poor management?

>>24668702
They believe god tests his servants.
Life on earth in merely time to collect good deeds for the inevitable judgment.
So the harsher your conditions, the more the opportunity.

On the flip side, when they are rewarded; in confliction, it stills falls under the same claim that they are the chosen people, confirming confirmation bias.

>>24664551
I don't think anyone expects God to be able to make a 4 edged triangle. Similarly a world with free will and without evil is a contradiction. However there is still tragedy without evil (such as earth quakes) you could argue a all loving God would not have deigned. But then ask yourself, would you want your children to live absolutely peaceful lives without ever being challenged without ever feeling fear? Or do you wish them lives of great challenge and themselves great strength to overcome those challenges?

>>24668702
They replace the Bible which the Qur'an refers to with tradition that usurps the Word of God.

>>24668801
Then you agree with what the Book of Mormon teaches.

>>24665771
>999.
Visual novels shouldn't count

>>24664504
>The Quran is one of the best books

flaming dogshit of a book

>>24664723
Christopher did a good job overall. Sure people squabble about the Sil, but any published form was going to do violence to what existed. Autists should just stick to the History of Middle Earth.

>>24664504
>posts bible fan fiction
Which is worse?