Stupidity of Yea Forums

>These charts are advertised as the beginners material for people who are brand new to Yea Forums
Where are they advertised as such?

desu I always had the impression these are books you are supposed to pick a few from to see if you care at all.

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What does "start with the.." mean to you?

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No, most people on here don't read

None of the links in that ss go to sumerian. In fact, the starter kit is a bunch of novels. Please go back

why do you want everything dumbed down? how basic should it be to appease you? those charts are for adults. if you don't want to read books then don't.

most would have trouble reading any of this, let alone these "start with these people who fucked young boys and didn't wipe their asses 2,500 years ago" charts.

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It's asking to go from never doing a pushup in your life to 100. What is wrong with you?

You know half of the books on that list are commonly assigned to 14 year olds right? Go back

>Yea Forums
????

The typical user doesn't read at all.

He doesn't know Yea Forums doesn't exist anymore. All hail 4channel!

But the starter kit is not the Greeks or Sumerians chart....?

ok, thanks for sharing

They are all "starter kits".

Now you're intentionally being dense. The nominal "Yea Forums starter kit" is obviously constructed for people trying to develop a general reading habit. They're not academic or niche. That's not the case with the more specialized charts, which, if you don't get that they're not geared towards the neophyte, you might want to reconsider whether you're even capable for reading recreationally.

There are threads daily where people recommend beginning their reading with one of these ridiculous charts. Why lie? Nobody recommendw the dumb nominal chart. They always use the idiotic greeks, romans, bronze age charts.

Reeeeee

This.

How the fuck is that relevant, you wank-stain? The starter kit is for someone who wants to start reading properly, not for literally every retard who visits this site and can only read /x/ or /pol/ infographics.

see

People like to meme
Plus everything on the Greek chart is definitely worth reading

>taking memes too serious
Anyone who takes stuff and images on Yea Forums at face value without second guessing it at least a little bit is a complete fucking brainlet.
Always been this way and will be.
Just fucking kill yourself if that concept is too complex for you.
Maybe you can search on reddit for harry potter rec chart. That seems more up your alley.

I always thought it was a chart for fictionfags who are trying to get into philosophy

starting to read is a meme

i never met anyone who reads books habitually who started reading as an adult

if you haven't been reading continuously since childhood you might as well just kys

How do we get rid of Yea Forums migrants?

>100 pushups is a lot
Lmao'ing @ ur life rn

Did you just take OP seriously? Cringe... Maybe r*ddit is your speed.

>t. doesnt lift
There's no way a novice can do 100 pushups in a row, it isn't easy. Poser

>I'm literally unable to understand a joke on my own

are you retarded or new or what that's obviously a joke
don't take Yea Forums images at face value read between the lines
this is just a shart about ancient near eastern literatue, the "start with" part is just a tongue in cheek reference to the greeks meme why do i have to explain this
do you think the indo-aryan chart is unironic too

"jokes" are normalfag shit
walk up to a group of normals, 60% chance they are "joking around"

have sex

>sex
peak normality

Exactly, NEETs are unable to joke as it's a social activity.

Not the same user
That is a chart for people who want to get into literature seriously and you do that by reading the greeks
theres the Yea Forums start kit if you just want to get into reading in general

...

is serous literature. This isn't Green Eggs And Ham or The Hungry Caterpiller.

fpbp

>Start with the Sumerians is advertised as reading material for people new to Yea Forums
No it's not. On the other hand it's absolutely hilarious that you think so, and that other people new to Yea Forums probably do the same. Lurk moar.

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Anyone who takes charts literally
>a. will not read
>b. will not want to read
>c. doesn't deserve to read

didn't say it isn't

Are Sumerians worth delving into? I've got a thing for Mesopotamia.

>Harry Potter rec chart
Yea Forums can provide that too

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why should board culture cater to the "brand new"? you seem to want this board to be Yea Forums with books

This but unironically

They're memes, nobody is forcing you to read these. But the message is clear, move your way up from old to new. It started with the start with Greeks and morphed into start with the oldest text available.
The meme has merit though because literature has evolved overtime and there are countless of references to literature that came before. Also the charts are nicely curated lists (even if the curation is done by a retard user) and can help people choose something but don't get lost in the almost endless possible books to read.

Lurk moar and stop making a fool out of yourself on a Mongolian basket weaving forum.

ideally one should start with the greeks and end with the sumerians

>doesn't find early history interesting
Why, because there's no way to victimize yourself with it?

>That's probably the worst possible idea.

The alternative is skimming the wiki articles and watching crash course on youtube. Everyone already knows that. Why are you mad at people recommending books?

starting this soon but leaving out all the orange and theatreshit

the ironing

Explain

jumping to a negative interpretation based on nothing reminiscent of self-victimization seekers

These classes are idiotic. Nobody is going to go from not reading at all to reading long, dry textbooks about SQL, OOP, Algorithms, Web dev etc.. That's probably the worst possible idea. Most people have trouble reading a 200 page novel that is supposed to be entertaining and east to read, yet some people are recommending reading thousands of pages of this intensive work as if we're creating a CS degree. I doubt that anyone has ever read through all of the books in these "start with" classes.

college degrees have less reading than these charts.

Obviously you haven't met him irl but what about Pewdiepie? He seems to have a genuine love of literature (see the end of his video on The Republic where he says how glad he is that he is alive to read these books)

Yea but literature's main purpose isn't to be entertaining. Not all art forms or forms of information are meant to be entertaining. This is a silly argument and you're a silly little boy with a silly little weewee desu

>Most people have trouble reading a 200 page novel that is supposed to be entertaining and east to read
They should probably return to grade school, because they sure as hell won’t get through college.

Those charts are for people who want to learn about classical Greece or the bronze age. They're not meant for people who've never read before. There are several starter charts with accessible novels.

It is reminiscent of self victimizers because if they did care about early history they wouldn't be so assblasted by recent history because they'd actually have learned something.

This is LITERALLY what im doing right now. Just finished up on the mythology chapter. Just read with music

>It is reminiscent of self victimizers
>because
>if they did care about early history they wouldn't be so assblasted by recent history because they'd actually have learned something
I don't follow

Read at least half of those in high school

?

no they aren't, they are top tier pleb filters, start with the Greeks

you sure owned that post-modern neo-marxist epic style
fucking faggot

interest in early history isn't mentioned in the entire thread until your post

>How do we get rid of Yea Forums migrants?
We're here to stay, m80

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>. Nobody is going to go from not reading at all
these people arent welcome in the first place. 'Start with the greeks' is for people who read a lot but have had a retarded progressive 'education' in literature so far.

why would i ever read those books

cringe

you need to be older than 18 to be on this site
these charts are based on the assumption that you have already been familiarised with literature through proper schooling and are not a braindead moron

Where?

this is for people trying to either get into philosophy or who want to read through the origins of western cannon. the "must read" books will give you a pretty complete picture of who the greeks were literarily, but if youre just interested in history, or literary fiction, or philosophy, skip most of the chart.

charts like these are half meme half guides for laying a serious foundation. for people that havent read that much before you have the Yea Forums starterpack on the wiki which contains easy entry level books. this is far from hidden away or anything.
>read the sticky, follow the recommended reading link
>read the page
>Completely new to reading and feeling overwhelmed? Check out the Yea Forums starter kit
>click link
consider it a test to see if newfags can actually read before asking stupid shit

> (OP)
>Take what you need discard what you cannot
This allows you to start with a better selection; there is just too much junk that looks good out there

lmao I read through those "Start with the Greeks" charts and more. Never regretted it one bit.

This chart is a guide to which books to start with if you want to start learning about the Sumerians. If you go into a chart thread, you'll see charts made on every pointless topic under the sun. If for some reason you wanted to start learning about Sumerian literature and culture, these books are where you're recommended to start.

The only ones people might say that everyone should read is the "Start with the Greeks" chart. And that is 90% meme. Most of Yea Forums hasn't seen this chart, and it's very possible whoever made it hasn't read all of these.

Just read books you think might be interesting, dude. You're not graded.

gatekeeping is unironically good, and lit’s purpose was never to make the plebs read. we’re just a bunch of nerds discovering the magic of the canon together, and if you want to as well we’ll help you

You're right, to progress through one of these charts, you'd have to be doing as much reading as you would for a typical undergraduate degree. That's some serious reading, and we all know that nobody who posts here is a serious reader.

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Start with infinite jest, you'll know what to do next

The "start with x" is from "Start with the Greeks" which is used to understand and study Western history and philosophy, since you'd probably want to start where it originated from and the social, political, and ideological context behind it.
That's literally it, the rest of "Start with x" it's just memes

starting with the greeks is the best thing i ever got from this board

It means if you want to understand western philosophy, start with the greeks.
Not "if you want to start reading, pick up the fucking Iliad".

no russian literature?

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Tbf most people have trouble reading the sticky

>high school tier fluff

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Bravo

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this lol
if you don't wanna read it don't read it

this but unironically

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Where to get these type of recommendations of different civilizations? Link please!

this guy's right
OP is just a pussy brainlet

Lurk more.

Define proper schooling

pederasty

non-american

high test

Get rekt OP
Also back to whatever hugbox corner of the internet you came from