to get into poetry, I think one of the most important things is to start with the greats of your own language, not classics that have been translated by middling academics
>Posthomerica
I have been browsing Wikipedia and goodreads for over a year to find more resources on Classical mythology and epic literature.
Why am I just now hearing about this?
Flannery O'Connor wrote some wild stuff. Sweet, young, Southern Catholic lady and yet her short stories and novels are filled with violence, deceit, mayhem, and despair. And all by her death at 39.
Right.
Remind me again why Sylvia Plath was sperging out and whining about how she is not allowed to be a female writer in 1950s?
Both are from middle class single mother families (Plath's is more wealthy). Both studied literature and received literature degree in a "patriarchal" society. Both won some prestigious young writer competition.
My guess is O'Conner - rural girl, Plath - urban girl.
The world lost so much more with O'Conner's death. Plath kinda saw herself out when her novel which is 90% autobiographical and not creative writing didn't become the biggest thing in the world since Ulysses even though it received positive reviews.
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
Dostoevsky has more humanity and beauty in his little pinky than Nabokov does throughout the entirety of his oeuvre
11 months ago
Anonymous
Dosto is essentially sadomasochistic, he loves dwelling on characters who revel in how depraved they are, but who also prostrate themselves in the just punishment or humiliation of their depravity. Again, sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes imply the exact situation he adored, all the violence and sexual intrigue he desired so much, but with the approval of his super ego since they ritualistically degrade themselves in a kind of spiritual fetishistic pleasure in confessing, being punished, and then being "redeemed". It's lurid and partakes of a sick kind of gratification in self flagellation.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Your pessimism gets you nowhere, and a refusal to admit these types of people exist in the world betrays your naivete. There's a reason he named the most benevolent character across his entire novels after his deceased son, Alexei. Grow up some, maybe you'll come to understand his work better.
11 months ago
Anonymous
across his entire literary catalogue*
11 months ago
Anonymous
Nice, thanks
11 months ago
Anonymous
I've accurately described Dosto's style and subject matter. I'm not being pessimistic, I'm commenting on the demented nature of Dosto's work and the perverse reasons why a person would enjoy it. Yes, I'm sure there are people out there who enjoy wiener and ball torture or it's literary equivalent (Dosto's work), but I find it hilariously Freudian and probably requires quite a bit of work exploring why such a person has this deep need for a parental figure to punish them for their naughty behavior, all the while pining more and more to engage in that naughty behavior and relish the subsequent ministrations of justice and the submissive role of the penitent. If you enjoy this kind of thing, unironically, get help.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>soulful prostitutes
Oh, you mean Mary Magdalene? >sensitive murderers
Like Moses?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Like Moses?
Moses was a genocidal general who took young women as sex slaves and claimed it was God's will. Draw your own conclusions.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Ohhh so youre just a simpering moralist homosexual. Reddit is that way:
[...]
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Defending Moses
11 months ago
Anonymous
In 20 minutes I'll stop being upset but you'll remain an ignorant moron forever.
11 months ago
Anonymous
kek, homie, you upset by posts on IQfy?
11 months ago
Anonymous
I'm upset that evil is this stupid and deranged in the modern age.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Plank in your own eye Christcuck
11 months ago
Anonymous
Freud is a hack israelite whose pseudoscience set us back thousands of years, and your philistinic and puerile outlook on humility and guilt, as well as passion and inner toil indicates just how little you truly know. But go ahead, get your daily dosage of feelgood consumerist goyslop, it's about high time you inundate yourself with cheap thrills and wash your dulled serotonin receptors with another feelgood nothingburger. Go frick yourself, you absolute child.
11 months ago
Anonymous
You seem... upset. Could it be that I accurately called out your personal fetish and now you have to grapple with how lurid and shallow it really is and can no longer deceive yourself about how deep and meaningful it is to be such a naughty boy that you deserve divine punishment from celestial daddy? The supreme irony is that you would benefit immensely from reading and applying Freud's work.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I've been meaning to make a "intro to freud" chart for fricking ever
11 months ago
Anonymous
why is the manuscript found in saragossa exit-level IQfycore? it's not depressing at all unlike other books on that list like melancholy resistance
did the author of this chart just look at the cover of the book and judge it by that?
11 months ago
Anonymous
I mean, the Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas aren't melancholic either, but some of the most joyous, life-affirming work I've ever read. Stoner's also quietly radiant in its own way. They're not all depressing. The American Language isn't even fiction lmao
11 months ago
Anonymous
I've accurately described Dosto's style and subject matter. I'm not being pessimistic, I'm commenting on the demented nature of Dosto's work and the perverse reasons why a person would enjoy it. Yes, I'm sure there are people out there who enjoy wiener and ball torture or it's literary equivalent (Dosto's work), but I find it hilariously Freudian and probably requires quite a bit of work exploring why such a person has this deep need for a parental figure to punish them for their naughty behavior, all the while pining more and more to engage in that naughty behavior and relish the subsequent ministrations of justice and the submissive role of the penitent. If you enjoy this kind of thing, unironically, get help.
maybe Conan the Barbarian is more your speed?
10 months ago
Anonymous
>than Nabokov does throughout the entirety of his oeuvre
well done.
>Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
There is no thing I care less about than what Russians think.
>I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov
Having just finished this, I agree.
Parts of it are brilliant, but it is far too long, as sections that are irrelevant to the story, and is mostly just fricking over-rated.
I am thoroughly disappointed.
Kek at the hipster anon with rustled jimmies because Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Faulkner and Joyce are popular on a board dedicated to literature. I guess I’m cool and a real reader though because none of the books I voted for made the list
Any charts on Medieval History? Not sure exactly what I want but I feel I want more than just the crusades or the like. I'm also afraid reading a straight up textbook would be too dry and I'd drop it
>israelite York Times >among the upper ranks in culture
There’s no actual way people actually consider NYT to be high culture right? Nobody reads an article about “whiteness” and concludes it’s a craft on a comparable artistic level to Citizen Kane or Agartha right?
I disagree with a lot of these but I guess it’s all perspective. A lot can be taken as cautionary tales, like The Tartar Steppe. I posted somewhere else today that Pessoa is actually fairly inspiring if you view the narrator as extremely unaware of gift he has of making life into art. The Road is a book of perseverance and hope, just to name a few
Here's the best IQfy chart I've ever come across. It's no longer on the wiki as it used to be so I assume one of you moronic woke homosexuals removed it at one point. I still have it, so FRICK YOU.
>anyone have a chart for DFW? >I know he didn't write much but still
I'm a IQfy noob, I read trash and I'm happy to read trash but!
Wouldn't a DFW chart be more interesting if it contained similar books, books influenced by his works and his main influences rather than his limited library?
>Wouldn't a DFW chart be more interesting if it contained similar books, books influenced by his works and his main influences rather than his limited library?
absolutely. i believe some other charts have that as well. then again, Kafka's chart is only 4-5 books since that's all he wrote. it also highlights certain short stories to make sure to read and I'm sure something similar could be done for DFW's articles
Read his essays if you haven't. He has a shit ton published. His cruise ship essay is one of my favourites. The one about the county fair is funny too.
What's a good list of books to read for morons like me who can't get into classical literature because I don't understand the writing? I like books about atrocities in the world, such as books on north Korea , the holocaust, I also like fiction but it has to be written in a way that people talk today.
Someone once asked what core the >boys walking around flaneur-like during a summer's eve
novels are. Some anon whose name was Ryan said this is his favourite kind of novel, so the chart was named Ryan-core.
This is full on imbecilic, and actually embarrassing to boot. Can you imagine being so dumb that you just list thirty books as if they're great, when in fact they prove you're an illiterate moron? I mean look at the chart, it's not even a collection of the best works of particular authors, instead the chart creator was so poorly read that he repeated a ton of authors, sometimes blatantly inferior to popular alternatives. Hilbig's Old Rendering Plant? Wow, congrats on shouting to the world that you've never read any László Krasznahorkai. Kafka's The Castle, but not In The Penal Colony, or The Hunger Artist, or The Trial? What an embarrassing choice. This chart is an almost impressive amalgam of moronic shit.
I'm sorry, but having just finished BK, $3 is WAY too high!! I might not even put it in the top half of this list. I give it a 6/10. 7/10 if someone would edit about 200 pages out if it.
this chart is objective proof that you should not take recommendations on here seriously
the Harry Potter series is rated higher than the Iliad and boring pseuds like Nabokov or McCarthy or Camus and annoying christcucks like Dostoevsky are at the top
you know, im over depression. ive seen the lowest low. im now afraid that im going stagnant, a kind of existential fatigue where depression or vitality both dont seem to phase me. yeah you can say its a kind of depression but not as chaotic anymore as the pic in my previous post would suggest. i am now looking to slowly but surely get myself out of this after coming to acceptance about my past. its why i liked your chart, practical without any kind of motivational doomer bloomer crap. slowly but surely anon, we will make it
10 months ago
Anonymous
allow me to rant more. ive been thinking, some people are more adept at conceptualizing and philosophizing about life, meaning, theory in a particular field. i think it shows up in MBTI scores consistently. anyway, its a blessing and a curse in that you see through the facade of everyday material life but it doesnt do you any good to daydream and especially form some kind of theory about it all. i think it ruins your unique experience (phenomenology) and you are more inclined to feel depressed about life and its purpose. you have to be relatively intelligent to make that observation though and so you should be smart enough to bring yourself back. instead of being depressed about seeing whats behind the curtains, you have to then use that knowledge to get back into the game. if you wanna be blunt you can say 'to delude yourself again' but thats stupid and naive. you have to be clever about approaching life back after something like this and find your niche. i brought this up in an archetypal way because i see it in other people who have the same burning questions about life and i thnik they are more inclined to end up on websites like this. to give you the opposite person, its someone who is living in the moment, creating a history, however temporary, without questioning its grand meaning. they are intune with their 5 sense and have no need to look beyond, they will find it boring actually to debate these questions. there are advantages to both types (this is not an absolute dichotomy) but there are also weaknesses and each has to understand how to manage their weaknesses, especially if its causing them existential crises (former cases), or complete lack of direction and then heavy consequences (latter case).
I really like this one. Very balanced one
Yeah I was just about to say
Classic
>Vincent van Gogh's letters
Really?
Yes? It absolutely is life affirming
>Sentimental Education
Chart maker was feeling a bit cheeky when he threw that one in there I guess.
Definitely, I've read the book recently and it's definitely not blooming and loving.
90/100
wew lad.
ikr
Coping together at least.
Why does the Bible inspire you so much?
I'm not against religion but I just want to understand why?
Explain please? 🙂
How many m's are going to put in Hemingway, homosexual?
hello newbie, how's your visit?
IQfy is so tryhard, Jesus Christ
this list is like... the opposite of having a personality
me-WOW
Theyre good books lad
And here anon begins hemmming and hawing
this is a moronic way to get into poetry. "start with the greeks" is stupid meme advice
to get into poetry, I think one of the most important things is to start with the greats of your own language, not classics that have been translated by middling academics
It's a consensus, not a personal list you mong.
Anons can’t understand this. Consensus lists will never have obscure books, in fact it’s not even worth voting for obscure books.
dirty little secret is that the last 3 rows have below single digit votes every year
Why vote for a book if it will only get 1 or 2 votes?
>Why vote for a book if it will only get 1 or 2 votes?
The vote thing is just your top 3 books
Here's a person with personality
when you point a finger there's three on your own hand pointing back at you
Any pre-2017 list is miles better
The Silmarrion, really? An incomplete collection of notes?
The ironic part is that this list is literally a 2014 list with the current year edited over it.
You’re a pretentious homosexual.
If you Chart, you're not gonna make it
you think Chad needs a Chart?
>i don't need to synchronize my reading with other people
>i cultivate quirk
lol
>has to fit in with other littards instead of reading whatever he wants and filtering by himself
>literally sheep behavior, but o so erudite
lol
fit in? u ok?
What do synchronizing your reading with other people mean besides literally being a hallmark for fitting into a group of literates?
>can't write a sentence properly
u not ok =^) also: dropped
>Posthomerica
I have been browsing Wikipedia and goodreads for over a year to find more resources on Classical mythology and epic literature.
Why am I just now hearing about this?
>Wikipedia
>goodreads
stop embarrassing yourself
in what order do I read Faulkner?
I would say
A Rose for Emily -> As I Lay Dying -> the Sound and the Fury -> Light in August -> Snopes Trilogy -> Absalom Absalom
Thank you, I'll check those out
Flannery O'Connor wrote some wild stuff. Sweet, young, Southern Catholic lady and yet her short stories and novels are filled with violence, deceit, mayhem, and despair. And all by her death at 39.
Right.
Remind me again why Sylvia Plath was sperging out and whining about how she is not allowed to be a female writer in 1950s?
Both are from middle class single mother families (Plath's is more wealthy). Both studied literature and received literature degree in a "patriarchal" society. Both won some prestigious young writer competition.
My guess is O'Conner - rural girl, Plath - urban girl.
The world lost so much more with O'Conner's death. Plath kinda saw herself out when her novel which is 90% autobiographical and not creative writing didn't become the biggest thing in the world since Ulysses even though it received positive reviews.
plath more like blahth
This is hilariously uninsightful. Why did you type this all out? Where does this pass as conversation?
>90% autobiographical and not creative writing
lelz
>Where does this pass as conversation?
Inside an autistic head where the only possible problem with a statement is inaccuracy.
Have you read any Sylvia Plath? She doesn’t complain about not being allowed to be a writer at all. She was a prolific writer for her whole life
good list but needs Capote, Erskine Caldwell and Jean Toomer
Why do y'all homies never vote for Demons, despite always having Dosto in there? Did none of you read it?
C&P is more straightforward and TBK is easily his magnum opus
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
Dostoevsky has more humanity and beauty in his little pinky than Nabokov does throughout the entirety of his oeuvre
Dosto is essentially sadomasochistic, he loves dwelling on characters who revel in how depraved they are, but who also prostrate themselves in the just punishment or humiliation of their depravity. Again, sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes imply the exact situation he adored, all the violence and sexual intrigue he desired so much, but with the approval of his super ego since they ritualistically degrade themselves in a kind of spiritual fetishistic pleasure in confessing, being punished, and then being "redeemed". It's lurid and partakes of a sick kind of gratification in self flagellation.
Your pessimism gets you nowhere, and a refusal to admit these types of people exist in the world betrays your naivete. There's a reason he named the most benevolent character across his entire novels after his deceased son, Alexei. Grow up some, maybe you'll come to understand his work better.
across his entire literary catalogue*
Nice, thanks
I've accurately described Dosto's style and subject matter. I'm not being pessimistic, I'm commenting on the demented nature of Dosto's work and the perverse reasons why a person would enjoy it. Yes, I'm sure there are people out there who enjoy wiener and ball torture or it's literary equivalent (Dosto's work), but I find it hilariously Freudian and probably requires quite a bit of work exploring why such a person has this deep need for a parental figure to punish them for their naughty behavior, all the while pining more and more to engage in that naughty behavior and relish the subsequent ministrations of justice and the submissive role of the penitent. If you enjoy this kind of thing, unironically, get help.
>soulful prostitutes
Oh, you mean Mary Magdalene?
>sensitive murderers
Like Moses?
>Like Moses?
Moses was a genocidal general who took young women as sex slaves and claimed it was God's will. Draw your own conclusions.
Ohhh so youre just a simpering moralist homosexual. Reddit is that way:
>Defending Moses
In 20 minutes I'll stop being upset but you'll remain an ignorant moron forever.
kek, homie, you upset by posts on IQfy?
I'm upset that evil is this stupid and deranged in the modern age.
Plank in your own eye Christcuck
Freud is a hack israelite whose pseudoscience set us back thousands of years, and your philistinic and puerile outlook on humility and guilt, as well as passion and inner toil indicates just how little you truly know. But go ahead, get your daily dosage of feelgood consumerist goyslop, it's about high time you inundate yourself with cheap thrills and wash your dulled serotonin receptors with another feelgood nothingburger. Go frick yourself, you absolute child.
You seem... upset. Could it be that I accurately called out your personal fetish and now you have to grapple with how lurid and shallow it really is and can no longer deceive yourself about how deep and meaningful it is to be such a naughty boy that you deserve divine punishment from celestial daddy? The supreme irony is that you would benefit immensely from reading and applying Freud's work.
I've been meaning to make a "intro to freud" chart for fricking ever
why is the manuscript found in saragossa exit-level IQfycore? it's not depressing at all unlike other books on that list like melancholy resistance
did the author of this chart just look at the cover of the book and judge it by that?
I mean, the Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas aren't melancholic either, but some of the most joyous, life-affirming work I've ever read. Stoner's also quietly radiant in its own way. They're not all depressing. The American Language isn't even fiction lmao
maybe Conan the Barbarian is more your speed?
>than Nabokov does throughout the entirety of his oeuvre
well done.
tl;dr + filtered
huh?
>Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
There is no thing I care less about than what Russians think.
*"think"
slavey ukrainey
jk
Stfu redditgay
lurkmoar or goback
>I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov
Having just finished this, I agree.
Parts of it are brilliant, but it is far too long, as sections that are irrelevant to the story, and is mostly just fricking over-rated.
I am thoroughly disappointed.
Kek at the hipster anon with rustled jimmies because Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Faulkner and Joyce are popular on a board dedicated to literature. I guess I’m cool and a real reader though because none of the books I voted for made the list
tourists
Is there a chart/reading order for Kierkegaard? I've only read Fear and Trembling, but I want to read more from him.
Move onwards with Either/Or and then Sickness Unto Death
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Any charts on Medieval History? Not sure exactly what I want but I feel I want more than just the crusades or the like. I'm also afraid reading a straight up textbook would be too dry and I'd drop it
I have a few that I can dump, all of them are ancient though.
Absolutely disgusting chart. Almost no Print SF of value, bogged down with utter garbage. Never post again
>israelite York Times
>among the upper ranks in culture
There’s no actual way people actually consider NYT to be high culture right? Nobody reads an article about “whiteness” and concludes it’s a craft on a comparable artistic level to Citizen Kane or Agartha right?
>Grand Theft Auto below Modern Family and the Super Bowl
>Miles Davis near the top, above Frankenstein
What a joke.
>Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Don't they mean Percy Shelley's Frankenstein?
Damn, that image takes me back. We used to use the template as a bait on /b/ back in 2006 or thereabouts.
only 8 books of 100, is worthy continue reading the others?
A girl was reading rayuela to me, one chapter every day through voice notes. She was somekind of crazy, but pretty cool of her.
Did you fukk her?
Yes and I regret it.
>rayuela
how long did that take? Isn't that 700 pages or so lmao
Is that really a chart? Seems like a list or image sequence. Charts usually breakdown data like pie charts to show percentages.
Is there such a thing as depression core?
I want to kill myself
If you have a nice day I'm gonna go to your house and kick your ass
The day lasts more than one hundred years isn't very sad. It's very moving, but I wouldn't call it depressing at all
Consider 'The Evenings'
On the Beach bt Nevil Shute
I disagree with a lot of these but I guess it’s all perspective. A lot can be taken as cautionary tales, like The Tartar Steppe. I posted somewhere else today that Pessoa is actually fairly inspiring if you view the narrator as extremely unaware of gift he has of making life into art. The Road is a book of perseverance and hope, just to name a few
>doesn't include A Farewell To Arms
dropped
>The Crying of Lot 49
>DeLillo
Infinite Jest at 1? Based. e-girlta should be even higher, way better than Blood Meridian and the Stranger.
Pedophile
the joke never dies
Does someone have the Avaita Vedanta chart?
I hope you remember me for this
Nta, but thank you
As long as this list includes woman authors, I'm not going to recognize it as the "officialIQfy top 100"
ulysses and gr are far and away my favorites (so far)
Is “Our Carnivore Diet” a real book and is that really the cover?
1. yes
2. yes
yeah, but it's not really written by the petersons.
They could probably take it down, but apparently the thought it was funny (her daughter twitted about it) so they just let it be.
>Introducing Jung
Let's add Jung for Beginners while we're at it.
buddhism
here's one from IQfy
It's they one which isn't so eurocentric?
>*Is *there one which isn't so eurocentric?
Fat fingered
This is extremely different from every other top 100, so I am going to claim its rigged or flawed in some manner.
Here's the best IQfy chart I've ever come across. It's no longer on the wiki as it used to be so I assume one of you moronic woke homosexuals removed it at one point. I still have it, so FRICK YOU.
You jerk off to femboys and that’s ok
Nah it ain’t
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mods? MODS?
>No Kaczynski books
lame
Underage b&
>anarchist cookbook
Are you excited for the 8th grade, buddy?
Le stranger is only so high because its the one book on the list you gay have actually read.
so?
> no one noticed that some anon made some goofy little edits to the top note
Nah I noticed it, but didn't really give a shit. Yes funny number ha ha
dude, this is the 2014 chart and you just changed the date. frick off
Thanks for the heads up, I knew something was off.
>Blood Meridian
>top 5
WELCOME TO 2023
>harry potter series
shut up morons
anyone have a chart for DFW? I'm surprised one hasn't been made already. I know he didn't write much but still
>anyone have a chart for DFW?
>I know he didn't write much but still
I'm a IQfy noob, I read trash and I'm happy to read trash but!
Wouldn't a DFW chart be more interesting if it contained similar books, books influenced by his works and his main influences rather than his limited library?
>Wouldn't a DFW chart be more interesting if it contained similar books, books influenced by his works and his main influences rather than his limited library?
absolutely. i believe some other charts have that as well. then again, Kafka's chart is only 4-5 books since that's all he wrote. it also highlights certain short stories to make sure to read and I'm sure something similar could be done for DFW's articles
A list of his library is online already.
>didn't write much
loooooooooool homie what
Read his essays if you haven't. He has a shit ton published. His cruise ship essay is one of my favourites. The one about the county fair is funny too.
>oh a new great list! time to read
>read the first four books
>satisfied.jpg
>look at the fifth book
>>>>
Wow, another list ruined by pedoshill bullshit. Never post this image again.
npc
thanks for the heads up anon
Requesting a surrealism chart plz. Thx
1 of 2 ive got
Numero Dos
Just read erotica and you'll get the same experience.
how do i make a chart
mspaint
Glad to see Catch-22 isn't as far up on the list as it used to be.
anyone got improovor chart? kinda need it, thanks
bloomer?
>94: The Iliad
What has happened to this fricking board
>Harry Potter
What the actual frick?
What's a good list of books to read for morons like me who can't get into classical literature because I don't understand the writing? I like books about atrocities in the world, such as books on north Korea , the holocaust, I also like fiction but it has to be written in a way that people talk today.
Some serious shill tier books on this. Where did it come from?
Thanks anon
>chart thread
>10 charts posted
Taking requests for any topic you'd like to see, and the books listed under them. Acts just like charts.
That chart sucks ass use mine instead
i refuse to believe that 1984 isn't up there ironically. abasolutely shite book
any recs to get into Late Roman Republic and Roman Empire series of books or book?
No one's born patrician, anon, they're made. Get started.
What do I read (preferably short) to invoke the feeling of pride, lust and desire?
the r/nofap getting started guide
Gimme a good one. Rollin
Rawlin
post the ryan-core chart
lol what is this chart?
>he wasn't here for the thread
what? please elaborate
Someone once asked what core the
>boys walking around flaneur-like during a summer's eve
novels are. Some anon whose name was Ryan said this is his favourite kind of novel, so the chart was named Ryan-core.
This is full on imbecilic, and actually embarrassing to boot. Can you imagine being so dumb that you just list thirty books as if they're great, when in fact they prove you're an illiterate moron? I mean look at the chart, it's not even a collection of the best works of particular authors, instead the chart creator was so poorly read that he repeated a ton of authors, sometimes blatantly inferior to popular alternatives. Hilbig's Old Rendering Plant? Wow, congrats on shouting to the world that you've never read any László Krasznahorkai. Kafka's The Castle, but not In The Penal Colony, or The Hunger Artist, or The Trial? What an embarrassing choice. This chart is an almost impressive amalgam of moronic shit.
calm down anon, you're on 4chin
I'm sorry, but having just finished BK, $3 is WAY too high!! I might not even put it in the top half of this list. I give it a 6/10. 7/10 if someone would edit about 200 pages out if it.
...or did I get filtered?
>did I get filtered?
Yes
have a nice day
Die.
npc
this chart is objective proof that you should not take recommendations on here seriously
the Harry Potter series is rated higher than the Iliad and boring pseuds like Nabokov or McCarthy or Camus and annoying christcucks like Dostoevsky are at the top
It's actually a really old chart made to look like it just happened.
Give me a chart with JUST living authors.
Requesting a sci-fi and a high fantasy chart, pls
see
what is the meaning of sffg?
sissy fliggy floggy googy
the chart i need tyyyyyyy
being depressed is pretty reddit babe
you know, im over depression. ive seen the lowest low. im now afraid that im going stagnant, a kind of existential fatigue where depression or vitality both dont seem to phase me. yeah you can say its a kind of depression but not as chaotic anymore as the pic in my previous post would suggest. i am now looking to slowly but surely get myself out of this after coming to acceptance about my past. its why i liked your chart, practical without any kind of motivational doomer bloomer crap. slowly but surely anon, we will make it
allow me to rant more. ive been thinking, some people are more adept at conceptualizing and philosophizing about life, meaning, theory in a particular field. i think it shows up in MBTI scores consistently. anyway, its a blessing and a curse in that you see through the facade of everyday material life but it doesnt do you any good to daydream and especially form some kind of theory about it all. i think it ruins your unique experience (phenomenology) and you are more inclined to feel depressed about life and its purpose. you have to be relatively intelligent to make that observation though and so you should be smart enough to bring yourself back. instead of being depressed about seeing whats behind the curtains, you have to then use that knowledge to get back into the game. if you wanna be blunt you can say 'to delude yourself again' but thats stupid and naive. you have to be clever about approaching life back after something like this and find your niche. i brought this up in an archetypal way because i see it in other people who have the same burning questions about life and i thnik they are more inclined to end up on websites like this. to give you the opposite person, its someone who is living in the moment, creating a history, however temporary, without questioning its grand meaning. they are intune with their 5 sense and have no need to look beyond, they will find it boring actually to debate these questions. there are advantages to both types (this is not an absolute dichotomy) but there are also weaknesses and each has to understand how to manage their weaknesses, especially if its causing them existential crises (former cases), or complete lack of direction and then heavy consequences (latter case).
Who has the charts for the ancient Mediterranean, Greece and Rome?
I made this list last year for some tradcope warcucks on IQfy.
Rate
Are there charts for other eras of philosophy?
Anyone have the Discworld chart with the science books included?
Why is the color scheme in this char blue, white, and yellow? I don't get it.
Horror anthologies.
this looks pretty sick but my favorite horror anthologies are the ones compiled by Marvin Kaye
Anyone got a good horror books recs, anon?
I read Great God Pan and had nightmares 🙁
but I want to do it again 🙂
Any charts for humorous short stories? There's already an anthology but I'd like to see more. Thnx.
how many of these have you guys read? i’ve read 11
I’m almost done with 2666 and I honestly don’t understand why it’s so high on the list
b/c of part 5
>Illiad no.94
shit chart
Any good books about nihilism