is it time to update picrel?
>>24746695Yes, there are way too many Americans.
>>24746695Hard to determine the criteria for what books were included. If it's going to be updated we'd need to work out some guiding principles first.>>24746705The "books Americans have to read in highschool" category is very overrepresented.
>>24746695Modern /lit/ has no culture or collective personality. It would be a glib facsimile.
>>24746705Americans dominated 20th century literature. >>24746695>to kill a mockingbird lmao
>>24746695>replace invisible man with THE invisible man>replace huckleberry finn with tom sawyerproblem?
>>24746742Some American writers were good. But continental European literature dominated the 20th century.
>>24746695>no Moby-Dick>no Ulysses>no Finnegans Wake>no Gravity's Rainbow >no Blood Meridian>no Infinite JestTrash
I don't see it
>>24746718>books Americans have to read in highschoolHonestly, some kind of chart for collected high school core of various countries could prove interesting desu.
>>24746753It’s a starter kit. That should get you interested in literature and not torture you for 700 pages.
This is some of what I think a modern /lit/ starter kit would include:>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mshima>Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges>Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky>Atomised - Michel Houellebecq>Stoner - John Williams>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce>The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati>Barabbas - Par Lagerkvist>Five Dialogues - Plato
>>24746695Is this a real list? Looks like a high school recommended summer reading list
>>24746742lolno
>>24746695That's legitimately awful. How could this have once been considered acceptable by /lit/? I'm embarrassed.
I think Bakemonogatari should be in there.
>>24746948This but unironically
>>24746987It's probably the best example of a light novel, and I would say probably the best work of "anime" literature. I unironically think it belongs in the intro if we want to diversify away from just american and british books.
>>24746874It's a starter kit for people who have never read a book before. What would you put on it, homo?
>>24746730You know what, it's finally true, the anti-culture tirade, all of it.
>>24746695I read those books
>>24746766If big books, or books with words you have to look up in a dictionary, are torture thats a you problem and not a problem with the book
>>24746779>>Notes from Underground - Fyodor DostoevskyI tried reading this as someone with almost no reading experience since 4th grade. I don't think really got it. The Underground Man is genuinely sick in the head>no ultimate ground for truth, no basis for my desire, therefore I can't do anything ever nigga just get up and apply at the nearest walmart theres nothing whatsoever stopping you from taking action in the world