Books for Yea Forums beginners?
The illiad and odyssey
the stranger
the myth of sisyphus
notes from the underground
the death of ivan ilyich
heart of darkness
a farewell to arms
the great gatsby
dubliners
the trial
1984
brave new world
the catcher in the rye
How to Read a Book
the intellectual life by sertillanges
really
How to become "well read"?
Do you just read more, or do you also read interpretations and discusdions about books?
This is helpful, thanks.
I think this is a joke, but "How to Read Literature like a Professor, revised" by Thomas C. Foster is genuinely helpful. It has some bullshit politics and can be a bit whimsical, but it was very helpful for getting me out of that "high schooler" reading mindset.
lolita
stoner
journey to the end of the night
of the Yea Forums canon those are all very accessible
>it was very helpful for getting me out of that "high schooler" reading mindset.
Please elaborate. I can't help but feel Foster's book is firmly stuck in "high schooler" mode. "This is a symbol for this, that is a symbol for that, this secretly means this, that secretly means that." It's a shallow shitty book, literary analysis for plebs.
this is some sick shit desu
the sticky
Depends how much of a beginner and your intentions behind reading. If you've never read a book since high school, start with stuff like Orwell and Hemingway. If you intend to become smarter, start with Plato's Republic and follow philosophy up to Nietzsche, should take a few years to reach it but it will be worth it.
please don't read what says, as you are a beginner.
find out what genre you are interested in, and then read whatever suits your interests; don't go blind into reading random books that might not even interest you.
read the sticky and fuck off.
those are beginner books.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Galahad and the Holy Grail
Beowulf
The Pilgrims Progress
The Way of a Pilgrim
Brave New World
look at bonnycastle's "in search of authority"
its a pretty easy read regarding theory
work on seeing books in one way or another
just read books though, that's the important thing
The books I'd recc are Lifetime Reading Plan by Fadiman. I'd also recc The First Philosophers by Waterfield.
Can't go wrong with the greeks, either. Homer, Hesoid, Eupidies, Aristophanes, ect.
Unironically.
No, I've read it and the revised version is actually very good.
It's not a joke. Adler was a very smart man.
If you don't wanna read it, here's the rules it reccs roughly;
>Write a list of books for the subject of choice
>Read all material outside of main text. Front/back cover, preface, appendix, index, table of contents, ect
>Read random paragraphs from main text
>Look up any word you don't know
>Speed read chapters before reading them regularly . Just scan your eyes over it when speed reading. Try to comprehend, but it's not about that.
At the half way point of the book;
>Write the following information about the books;
What it's genre, subject, publish date, author, ect.
What it's about as a whole in summery? What's it's main parts and how are they related? What issues or problems are discussed?
>Read entire book while taking notes
>Answer these;
What are most important words? What issues or statements of opinions are found in most important sentences? What were the main arguments in the most important paragraphs? What was solved or unsolved?
>Write questions and statements of opinion that are related to main subject from all authors
>Write about the answers that are conflicting between authors, attempt to settle the argument
>Re-review all the material you made in the process
this is pretty dope fwiw
making notes on a book is fun and worth it, not just to quiz yourself, but also to reflect on things that you read.
keep them with the book for later, too
are you unable to comprehend what I said?
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wrong translation desu
It's pretty shallow yeah. I just meant to say that it's what pushed me out of my "reading for plot" mindset. He's too married to certain rules, but I think there are some good habits in there (how to notice a Christ figure, vampirism in literature, Campbell intro). I haven't read it in years, so I'm not gonna say I'm married to the thing, but I found it helpful to get out of reading Harry Potter.