Why the fuck are there people posting on this board who haven't read >The Iliad, The Odyssey >Plato's dialogues >Aristotle's works >The Aeneid >The Holy Bible >The Divine Comedy >The Canterbury Tales >Shakespeare's works >Paradise Lost >Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses >Lolita, Pale Fire >V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow >Infinite Jest ?
This shit takes at most year to read and you can't expect others to take your opinions seriously if you haven't read it. This is the bare minimum required to be Yea Forumserate.
Mods, can we implement a system whereby you have to earn the right to post on Yea Forums by passing a test on the above works?
Some chartfag, make a chart of this shit. Fellow patricians, shame anyone who hasn't read these works.
>MUH WESTERN KENNAN I'm not gonna read your fucking Bible and it's many fanfics cause that shit's retarded and irrelevant to me. Aristotle is based and redpilled though.
Hunter Sullivan
There are people on this board who haven’t read >The annalects >The Daodejing >The Zhuangzi >The Mengzi >The book of odes >The book of rites >The book of changes >The four great classic novels >The scholars >Jin Ping Mei >The art of war >The other works of the Canon of Strategy >Spring and Autumn annals This shit takes at most year to read and you can't expect others to take your opinions seriously if you haven't read it. This is the bare minimum required to be Yea Forumserate.
Mods, can we implement a system whereby you have to earn the right to post on Yea Forums by passing a test on the above works?
Some chartfag, make a chart of this shit. Fellow patricians, shame anyone who hasn't read these works.
Ayden Nguyen
They seem pretty fucking boring besides Shakes, Pynchon, and Dubliners.
Levi Peterson
>The crying of lot 49 That one is a joke right OP?
Kayden Cooper
>The Holy Bible Was with you until this. I don't want to read desert Jew indoctrination manifesto.
Dominic Harris
All books are indoctrination.
Daniel Thompson
But not all are Jew indoctrination.
Robert Diaz
Why do you hate Jews?
Jackson Cruz
The Bible literally says Jews are children of the Devil, larpagan
Mason Nguyen
Because the evidence is overwhelming.
Henry Rivera
But I want to read for fun, fun books like Frankenstein or The Savage Detectives or Inherent Vice. Can't I just have fun?
Jeremiah Evans
Reading isn't about having fun. If you read for fun, you're probably an incel, so forget fun. Your life is suffering. You need to become intimately acquainted with the classics so that you can write a book about your misery and, in 100 years, other incels can meme about your magnus opus on the contemporary equivalent of Yea Forums.
Joseph Ward
*magnum opus
Jackson Wilson
>Joyce,Pynchon and Lolita/Pale Fire anong Shakespeare works and aristotle/plato.
Shows me how little of this you have read and are just naming shit out if your ass. Listing Paradise Lost among only fucking novels is that the only epic poem you know? Pathetic after Shakespeares works you go full psued, missing centries of works lmao.
(only reason I didnt list DFW was because he is a required read to be on this board as he is constantly brought up and is the ayn rand of todays age but not as autistic)
He lists 5 other epic poems (6 if you include Pale Fire)
Nolan Lee
>V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow >Infinite Jest
Only absolute plebs (i.e. Americans) care about these.
Ethan King
No, postmodernists care about them, brainlet.
Nathan Morgan
listing them among the rest of the shit he listed is a fucking meme and absolute psued shit lol
Brody Roberts
For its literary value, of course. >implying The Bible isn't fun
Justin Clark
Pale Fire isn't worth the read
Adam Foster
kys my friend. :^)
Nolan Lopez
>implying books have intrinsic value
Alexander Williams
well, Pale Fire sure doesn't
Bentley Morris
>>Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses >>Lolita, Pale Fire >>V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow >>Infinite Jest
All negligible.
Caleb Bell
What an embarrassing thread.
Lucas Lewis
Ulysses and Lolita/Pale Fire have literary value. The others are just burger wankery.
Jaxson Lopez
>Britbongs seething because US literature is actually decent unlike their purple prose
Christian Thompson
brit literature < us literature
Luis Martinez
Wrong on all accounts. I'm not bong and I'm not seething. But if Infinite Jest counts as literary then so does Ulysses.
Matthew Flores
>>The Canterbury Tales >>Shakespeare's works >>Paradise Lost >>Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses >>Lolita, Pale Fire >>V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow >>Infinite Jest A nice display of your cultural limitations. Every single one of these half-relevant faggots is an *nglo. Of them, only Shakespeare and Joyce, and maybe Milton, are truly relevant to the art of literature. If you wanted good to this board, you'd propose more important but less memetic works, and seek to expand people's horizons rather than focus them even more on the circlejerk that this board is. >This shit takes at most year to read If you read well and carefully, no.
Evan Morgan
/thread
Jason Miller
>Implying the non-Anglos on Yea Forums have any choice but to submit to the Anglo canon >Implying your shitty cultures are relevant