Past a certain age, a man without literature can be a bad thing

It takes no skill, it says nothing. Stuff like C&P is seen as the height of realism because a religious person wrote it and transferred meaning behind the realism. Legitimate realism is just worthless shit, see praust

what are some good stream of consciousness romantic literature?
i'm sick of bookfags obsession with sociologically and politically "important" trite. i want expressionism.

the opening chapter is a microcosm of the whole book, being that of an unreliable narrator coaxing you with his flowery language to empathize with his rationalizations. if a person has any literary-aesthetic sense at all, humbert is going to make them swoon right from the beginning

ok so it uses flowery wording to justify something incredibly basal and immoral, I can see why pseuds love it

For poetry, see george herbert.

These are all fiction, and outside of what I read in school, I don't read fiction. I stick to history/biographies and other stuff from smaller college presses.

Read philosophy if you want substantial writing that isn’t fiction (in the normal sense)

What are are some books about death being inevitable and life is worthless, bros?

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>I don't read fiction. I stick to history/biographies

Pleb tier

Most of those books are fairly cut and dry. You don't have to be a genius to understand what a book is mostly saying. Even if you don't, that's what discussion and speculation are for. Lose the superiority complex.

Nabokov was 100% a pedophile. People totally misinterpret that book as a monster being able to win you over with words, but in truth the writing is just that of a sociopath who wants you to sympathise with the main character. Nabokov was abused sexually as a child, and we can see this obsession with child sex and marriage in even his earliest works. Why would a man repeatedly write about and defend something in all his books, if he didn’t have sympathy with it? He was a pedophile, and people cope with this by pretending lolita is an anti pedophilia novel when it isn’t.

what exactly about art in general or lolita in particular necessitates that they be [justifying] the concepts they explore? conflating the aesthetic function of a work with its moral function makes both meaningless. the pseud here is the one who self-imposes tired moralizing restrictions that inhibit exploration of the range of human experience, not that one that inquires of human experience

>I can't read.

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t.roastie

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No she didn't.

>it’s an incel wants to fuck kids episode
shocker

>tired moralising
literally what the pseuds who love this shit are doing though
using intellectualism and naturalism to elevate the basal, they are themselves fundamentally taking a moral standpoint

If you read books for pleasure you are a pseud, there's no two ways about it.

>infinite jest is #1
Wow I'm shocked.

it's from a survey. obviously the common denominators are going to end up on top

I see Yea Forums copied our list.

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i'm surprised puritanical types even have the mental capacity to navigate the internet much less find themselves on Yea Forums desu

based chad, why read when you can watch movies and literally every worthy book has been made into a movie already

Concession accepted

>fiction
oh no no no

The best proof this is trash is the Bible in the ranking. It's pure trash, it's unreadable.
I get the muh history muh Christian culture muh Jesus but the book in itself is garbage and anyone saying people should read it is a retard

Why do you think the book is garbage?

It’s incredibly important if you want to understand the west at all

>the bible not at #1

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its good to read it to understand the many cultural reference we have from it in our language for example. also it shaped western morality greatly. not to mention the old testament is based in many ways. its not entertaining or beautifully written but whatever

wow. Yea Forums has shit taste.

the power of atheist intellectuals

>The best proof this is trash is the Bible in the ranking. It's pure trash, it's unreadable.
>I get the muh history muh Christian culture muh Jesus but the book in itself is garbage and anyone saying people should read it is a retard

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37/100
I need to step up my game

and for those who wonders, the top tier of those I've read are:

Moby Dick
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
The Trial
Lolita
The Sound and the Fury
Slaughterhouse Five
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Bible
Paradise Lost

>Mid tier:
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
The Great Gatsby
1984
Siddharta
Notes from Underground
Wuthering Heights
Heart of Darkness
The Hobbit
The Metamorphosis
Ubik
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
Walden
Steppenwolf

>Bottom tier:
Blood Meridian
The Catcher in the Rye
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Stranger
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Silmarillion
On the Road
The Old Man and the Sea
The Count of Monte Cristo

>Bad Tier
Harry Potter

>The Count of Monte Cristo
>bottom tier
Please have sex

Have sex

with you?
you do know that it's filled with gay pseudosymbolism, right?

>he doesn't like Proust
pleb status: filtered

If you think the Bible is a must read you're probably a fucking redneck, or a Louisiana nigger. It's neither a good story nor a good book. It's too heavy, and yes incels, it's unreadable. Because it's some night stories for teenagers to keep you awake thinking about how you'll end up dead in a car crash if you don't selflessly pray hard enough
It's worse than Harry potter (cue the pasta) and meme books like Salinger's