Hello, Yea Forums here, I want to start reading

Hello, Yea Forums here, I want to start reading.

Which books should I start with.

I know there is a sticky, but I want to hear from the people. Give me the best.

Thank,
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>fleshpilled pic
>Hello, Yea Forums here
nope gb2 Yea Forums your attention span is too small to read shit

Depends on what kind of books you want to read, because starting points for fiction and nonfiction are obviously different
Why would you ever bump a thread with 0 replies if you don't like it for reasons other than attentionwhoring your enlightenment mind? Ever thought you could be a slave to the flesh yourself?

can't wait for this gnostic larp period to end desu

Fiction.

I want OP to know their is no hope for him, plus the thread is pretty new.
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moby dick and thats it

Then assuming your native language is English start with the brief overlook on the Medieval English literature, then move to Shakespeare, then to some authors of baroque period (e.g. Milton), after get an understanding of what classicist literature looks like but don't overpay attention to it since due to common dogmas many pieces have very alike structure; then read some romantic authors with Byron being the most important among them, then go on to realism (Melville is essential here) and then to modernism. Also pay attention to linguistic build up of each text you read and learn to analyse it so you can get a better understanding of the language's evolution and diverse use of its specialities. Or, alternatively, read anything you want on the topics that excite you the most
I don't think that OP will suddenly leave his intentions and get back to Yea Forums just because some stranger on the internet told him to, and I bet you know that as well. So, what you are really doing is feeding your own ego at the expense of less spiritually developed individuals

Don't listen to this guy His advice isn't bad if you're interested in a genuine liberal arts education, but if you're looking to get into reading for the first time in your life I would highly recommend reading some novellas that still have some literary merit. If you really think you're interested in that kind of thing you could very well start with Chaucer and Shakespeare and all that fun stuff, but I'd recommend against it if you're not really sure of your goals and interests because it can be needlessly challenging unless you are genuinely intending to be in pursuit of "higher" literature.

Start with something simple but still containing some literary merit like Phillip K. Dick, John Williams, maybe Tolkien or Cormac McCarthy or something like that. Once you've actually found your rhythm with reading stuff that's fairly casually written then it's not a bad idea to move to something more serious. Also, it's not a race to add as many books to your imaginary achievement count. It's much better to read relatively few profound works that deeply impact your life and way of thinking than to speedily fly through a million works on the more challenging end of the Western Canon while getting very little out of it and effectively not understanding the significance of what you're reading. Shakespeare has a few fairly accessible plays like Hamlet, Othello, and there's quite a lot to get out of Canterbury tales, but don't feel you need to read them as some prerequisite to higher enlightenment or something like that. Sure if you want to be able to have informed opinions about literature and it's impact on Anglosphere culture, reading the significant mythology of the English culture is fairly important, but it doesn't need to be a starting point. Start with something you genuinely enjoy, and work gradually towards enjoying more "difficult" works.

Don't listen to anybody else in this thread.

There is no book you should start with. There's no carefully curated reading order. Trying to follow one will almost certainly result in burnout and failure.

Reading isn't a chore, or a duty. It's a pastime. You need to pick a book you like the sound of -- something that catches your interest -- and simply start reading it. By looking into connected books you'll find more things to read, or maybe you'll have found some other interesting books. Any other strategy will give you the wrong impression about reading. It's an exploration, not work.

For example, I started with Don Quixote, then read a bestiary by Borges, then moved on to Gilgamesh then Homer then some Chinese short stories then joined the Yea Forums War and Peace readalong etc.

i will bet my soul this whole thread is useless, by the time the book he orders comes through he will be back to playing vidya and jerking off to big titty anime girls, or maybe even later today

this guy is correct. don’t read “classics” just because lit tell you they’re the best. diving in head first will likely just rob you of your appreciation of them. find books you like. read those. find more books you like. read those. then go back and see which “classics” interest you

Go away

If you've never read anything, start with what interests you already; video games.

You're probably gonna like Enders Game, which is very easy to digest, doesn't require much previous knowledge of anything literature, and has some very babbys first ideology put in there. It might train your attention span enough to move on to better books.

If you like it but it was a bit too easy and a bit too young adult, step up a notch and read Fahrenheit 451. Somehow it's considered a classic, but it's honestly a YA book disguised as classic literature.

From there read the essential stuff that's still kinda entry level: 1984 and Animal Farm, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse Five, Lord of the Flies, The Stranger, Old Man and the Sea, Of Mice and Men etc (see sticky for this).

Once you've read some of that, you'll probably have an idea of what you like reading and can go in directions that are more Yea Forums. But it'll take time.
Aim at finishing about one book a month to begin with, do 30 min reading before you go to bed, or 30 min in the morning with your breakfast, or both.

If and when that time comes, you can start reading the top tier Yea Forums stuff. Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Meville, Kafka etc. All of those can be read early as well, since their writing is fairly forgiving, but most of the themes, ideology and ideas will go right over your head. You wont be able to apprechiate the prose, history and significance of it either, but I started with Dostoyevsky and then re-read most of it years later, and had a completely different apprechiation for it.

>fleshpilled
You faggots and your retarded terminology crack me up.

Based
I don't believe in God, don't believe in gnosticism.
I still hate fleshpilled porn addict retards.

Since you're new to reading, I'd recommend something light like "The Hunger Games" series. If you don't like action, "The Green Mile" by Stephen King is a fine choice, it's a heart wrenching story. After that read some popular picks you see being recommended around social media, and pick what truly interests you. You can transition to most of the books recommended here, once you've built the basic skill of reading.

Note that you can read more than one book at a time. The important thing is inculcating the habit of reading. Don't get too caught up trying to finish a book for the sake of it, if you really hate it. You'll just negatively impact your reading experience. I wish you the best of luck user.

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you are a gnostics whether you know it or not, poor soul

Why do faggots who post on Yea Forums think they have free will?

Whether or not people have free will depends on how much they've reinforced primal drives that take agency away from them.

By that logic all people are slaves to a different degree since some primal urges like hunger or thirst can't be completely ignored

I actually started out with H.P Lovecraft's the call of Cthulhu, if you're into horror I'd recommend it since it's short but still pretty chilling and will give you a feel for older literature

I actually started reading recently too. Start with the books that interest you. For example, I like Fateshit, so I started with the Count of Monte Cristo. It was quite long, but I really enjoyed it. Now I just recently finished Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet and proceeding to read The Sign of Four since I like Sherlock Holmes in Fate.

Start hating women if you wanna make it on this board

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