I have a decent backlog of things that don't particularly interest me should be read so you can look down on people who haven't read them and scoff at how they aren't even familiar with the classics. It's time to start ticking more off of that list and none of them sound particularly enjoyable, so I'm crowdsourcing this to !bookworms and other homosexuals.
What first? This is by no means an exhaustive list but I've narrowed it down to what seems least unappealing.
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@X you voted for the Chinese mountain of a book
I know nothing about it but I bought the set because it seemed enticing at the time and I was interested in broadening my horizons but when it arrived it got shelved and I forgot all about it and it doesn't spark joy anymore
Redpill me on the marsh
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lol it wasnt a serious vote but TIL Outlaws of the Marsh = Water Margin which is what we call it
Have you played the RPG Suikoden on the Playstation? it's something like that 108 heroes blah blah yada yada
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I haven't :( it always seemed too confusing
108 heroes seems like an exciting book though and I feel better about it now
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Read The Civil Servants Notebook, insane chinese novel based off their gov office politics.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131580-the-civil-servant-s-notebook
@X are chinese office politics as bloodthirsty as Singapores?
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i mean there's a lot of sucking up and balls to carry so
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lol i honestly can't remember the plot but every knows of the hero in the story who beats a tiger
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Oh yeah,
It's Chinese fiction time!
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I only remember Wu Song lol I didn't pay attention in class
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Shakespeare, start with Coriolanus
!neolibs that should be part of our mandatory reading as The Bard trashes both populoids and dangerous military caudillos.
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Get "shakespeare the invention of the human" by Harold bloom carp. You once mentioned you read the unbearable lightness of being and didn't get it so you should read classic lit commentary. Also plz let me block you thanks
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I've never mentioned nor heard of that and I neurodivergentally just combed through the handful of comments on-site mentioning it to see what you misunderstood and there is nothing I've even replied to.
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Hmm maybe it was in search of lost time
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Yes lol
It wasn't a lack of understanding though. It's just BORING.
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Count of Monte Cristo is based. If you start now you'll finish around the time GTA6 comes out
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https://www.amazon.com/Hairy-Pothead-Marijuana-Stone-Larsen/dp/095596850X
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!writecel
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Cuck fic
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I dont see Harry Potter on this list wtf
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i only voted for the count of monte cristo because its 958 pages
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Buddy I've read the entirety of WoT more times than I can remember.
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I hate to say it but you should talk to my mom. If you're as into it as she is you'll definitely have a lot to talk about.
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I'm not sure we're at the meeting parents stage yet but I'll consider it
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World of Tanks?
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Shakespeare is downright bad. I am not at all enthused by that mid English mush that he makes up on the fly.
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Rare overseether garbage take. Have you read any Shakespeare outside of Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet? If you keep in mind when it was written, it's much easier to look over what seems like pretentiousness.
Henry V, Othello, and King Lear are my favorites.
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I bought a big book of all his stuff, and I just couldn't. I'm so so sorry.
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Othecko I'm Iago
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easily my favorite required reading book I ever had. I'm surprised they let us read it to be honest, dude went savage mode. I had to read it summer going into 9th grade so it changed how I look at required reading from that point on. So maybe that's why they did it
Movie was decent but the book was rad
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Read Outlaws of the marsh and romance of the three kingdoms or you're an uncultured loser
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Okay so I just skimmed the wiki for the Chinese story and learned that
Surely this is the rdrama choice, especially considering, uh, recent events.
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La Morte d'Arthur because it's cuck fiction like about a tenth of the posts on this site
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Merry Christmas Carp
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J. Aust is funny and could have been written yesterday, start with that if you've never read her.
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Les Mis is not a thing you burger headed cute twink, it's Les Misérables.
With that being said, you can't go wrong with a french author. Both Les Misérables and Le Comte de Monte-Cristo are good but there are tons of other books by the same authors which are great too and nobody talks about in the anglosphere.
From Victor Hugo, you can read Claude Gueux, which is a short story about two gay lovers in Prison. Very easy to read and moving.
Germinal from Zola, it's pretty much everyone's introduction to Zola in France and his most famous novel, it's a great story about love and work in the mines in the 19th century.
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, is really good too, about a woman in the 19th century who pretends to be rich but is destitute.
All three of these are realists, with strong characters and vivid descriptions of the life of commoners at that time, they're the kind of books you remember for the rest of your life.
Something else entirely, if you're looking for something a bit more light, I've been recommending the Judge Dee novels to everyone, they're fricking great. It's about a chinese detective solving murders in the 7th century, if you read it start with The Chinese Gold Murders.
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lay mizz
less miss
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parlor vows francis
a certain jenny say what
joy dee vive
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Burgers speaking foreign languages:
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Horror is a good way to get an easy win in this vein, Dracula/Frankenstein sorta thing
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This is for things I HAVENT READ
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Yeah I voted for Austen because delusional conservatives talk about her as a writer with a theory of virtue and that's dramatic, but I also wanted to throw out some darts.
Also don't do complete works all the time take a natural unit of one book
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Winter reading? @Merryvann ban carp hes underage
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You are doing this all wrong. You only need to read one book: How to talk about books you haven't read. Then you can scoff at people whether you or they have read any book or not.
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Monte Cristo is the best sandwich on the list
I'd start there
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How masochistic are you feeling?
The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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I dont think even YOU are neurodivergent enough to slog through la morte d'arthur.
Charlotte bronte's Jane Eyre is good, jane austen slightly less so (try either pride and prejudice or sense and sensibilily)
Anyone who reads more than one shakespeare play in succession has something wrong with them.
Havent read the other books.
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I recommend count of monte cristo but get ready to read for about 20 hours. It's a good book but definitely a lengthy one.
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I read the Oxford complete works of Shakespeare with annotations every so often and I think it's very important to have a general understanding and appreciative of the works of the Bard. It's a real zeitgeist of the times he lived in, the interpretation of history from them and some of the most well documented early pop culture. It also gives you better understanding of any performances you see in the future.
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I only read nonfiction
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Count of monte cristo hands down.
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I voted count of Monte Cristo, but next read Austen and then watch the BBC () tv adaptations
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Count of Monte Cristo is a great jumping off point if you don't like literature in the first place. It's a slow start but once he escapes prison the book is a real page turner. Highly recommend it.
Leave Les Mis last until you've built up a tolerance. I love long old books but even I'm having a hard time getting through it.
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What are these trash options? Where is the junk food adventure fantasy?
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That's what @X just said too but the covers of all the volumes all say outlaws of the marsh 😭
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Woolf is a based schizo, Keates rules
Idk if I'll ever find the time for Austen and Bronte
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