Which book is your "the one"? Which one made you fall in love with literature?

Montaigne’s Essais or Lolita

The first confirmed my love the second started it in earnest

probably moby-dick, read a lot before that but something about this great work just inspired me

>“STRAIGHT UP, LEAPS THY APOTHEOSIS!”
irrevocably based tbqf

Pewdiepie

alice in wonderland

Bolaño's oeuvre.
Mostly his non-fiction stuff.

Same desu. Reading Joyce was what made me reconsider what I wanted to take at Uni (from Film to Engish) and truly made me fall in love with literature. Without Joyce, I really do think i'd be in a totally different, and much worse, path of life, and for that I'll always hold a special place in my heart for that Irishman.

You consider it "the one" for you and you don't even know the actual title of it?
That's a bit strange to me.

I know what the books are called. Do you know that autistic vermin such as yourself should commit suicide?

I can barely read it. I'm currently at chapter where some rednecks tease Bloom and talk about WE WUZ whatever Ireland. It's my second time reading it, I must admit, I detest it. It kills my love for lit.

>It's my second time reading it
so you've finished it completely once and still there's difficulty getting thru it? whys that? are you not enjoying it?

the biggest thing for me the first time was the intimidation and confidence

Since I've read this one, I'm always reading at least 2 books.

Oops

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the divine comedy.
but I'm always thinking about ulysses, gravity's rainbow, finnegans wake, the gospels...

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Fear and loathing in las vegas or the call of cthulu

None. I was raised in a literature-loving family and loved literature from the start.

Unless you consider reading a children's book version of the Wizard Apprentice to be falling in love with literature, in which case, that one.

A-animal farm. Why?

What should be read before Ulysses in order to enhance the experience of reading Ulysses and understand its references? Presumably the Odyssey, anything else?

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>I remember little or nothing of these lectures. I cannot have understood a great deal. But I seem to have retained certain descriptions, in spite of myself. They gave me courses on love, on intelligence, most precious, most precious. They also taught me to count, and even to reason. Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.

moby dick. when I read "moby" "dick" I was like, "WOAH..."

The Sound and the Fury

Does the rest of the book read like this? I've read this extract, pic related and the one with the moving buildings that people use to compare it and NGE and they all unironically have fantastic prose. Haven't read any Pynch, should I read Lot 49?

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Hamlet, also read Dubliners and Portrait first.

Be irish

Definitely the Odyssey, and maybe read up on late 19th-early 20th century Irish history on Wikipedia. There are so many historical and literary allusions the in Ulysses that it would take a lifetime to fully "prepare" for it. Still, the book's plenty enjoyable even if you don't pick up on every detail your first go around.

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Does it only portrays normies?

There are no "normies" in a novel written about Russian aristocrats. But Tolstoy has an appreciation for the "normies" of his time.

Absolutely not. I think you will like Pierre.

I mean i have hard time relating to mentally normal people.
oh okay, i'll check it out.

Lot49 is definitely worth a read before GR

Madame Bovary, all the way.

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>pic related
>movie was merely half as good

>pic related

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Budenbrooks. What can I say, I like books with characters that I can empathize with.

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1984

Mrs. Dalloway was my first "holy shit" novel

Lol nope

Same. The Magic Mountain too.

Nabokov's Ada

I never understood how prose could be fun before I read that book

Dr Zhivago I guess. That or Lolita

inb4 muh filler and muh pretension

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Lol

I didn't fall in love with literature, but I did fall in love with Joyce, after reading that. Literautre is a medium, the way movies are. Most of it really sucks.

>be me
>weather not all that great but go hiking anyways
>take the well maintained mountain path because why not
>kinda stuffy in my coat so i take it off
>path takes me all sorta ways through the mountains
>walk past a river and past some rails
>for a second wonder if the mountains think of me on the mountain path the same way they think of the water in the river and the train on its rails
>still cloudy
>run into a normie and walk away before he can trick me into some small talk bullshit
>run into two more normies, blaring some normie music
>reach some village and walk through it
>get home
>tfw actually go outside but still dont meet any girls
>tfw no gf
why live bros?

Sawkon Mai - Dick

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The rock, my darling, my font of unerring conceptual integration and source of aesthetic romantic realism.
The first-time actually correct science of aesthetics. I love you.

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East of Eden

1984 by George Orwell
So deep and scary that he predicted Trump’s America

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Wtf orange man... good?

Absalom, Absalom! made me drop vidya and movies and spend all my time reading. Maybe that counts. But then the Bacchae convinced me to major in Classics and learn Latin and Greek, which propelled me through "western canon."

Teaching is a comfy life, bros, but sometimes I wish I had some money

BR literature classes are largely shit, but one of my teachers told the kids to read Frankenstein, and that was probably the first "real" book I enjoyed.

motherfucker, why do you have to shit on my dreams of redemption

None, as any book as made me feel things as deep as classical music has made to me

Same

The Trial by Kafka

the masterpiece novel snippets user posted here a while back where 1/3 of the book was the n word

Same here! The Trial was my first 'holy shit' book, followed by Nineteen Eighty-Four and One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Also had an english teacher that let me read the boondocks comics for our "at the start of class read the newspaper and talk about it" thing

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Didnt mean to (you) you whoops

There's something weird about BR literature classes. Nobody likes Machado de Assis at school, everybody loves him later on life.

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What is BR?

Brazil/Brazilian

Unironcally fear and loathing and 1984 in high school

As one of BRs I can tell that there´s something fucked up with us