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is it time to update picrel?
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>>24746695
Yes, there are way too many Americans.
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>>24746695
Hard 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.

>>24746705
The "books Americans have to read in highschool" category is very overrepresented.
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>>24746695
Modern /lit/ has no culture or collective personality. It would be a glib facsimile.
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>>24746705
Americans dominated 20th century literature.
>>24746695
>to kill a mockingbird
lmao
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>>24746695
>replace invisible man with THE invisible man
>replace huckleberry finn with tom sawyer
problem?
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>>24746742
Some American writers were good. But continental European literature dominated the 20th century.
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>>24746695
>no Moby-Dick
>no Ulysses
>no Finnegans Wake
>no Gravity's Rainbow
>no Blood Meridian
>no Infinite Jest
Trash
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I don't see it
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>>24746718
>books Americans have to read in highschool
Honestly, some kind of chart for collected high school core of various countries could prove interesting desu.
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>>24746753
It’s a starter kit. That should get you interested in literature and not torture you for 700 pages.
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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
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>>24746695
Is this a real list? Looks like a high school recommended summer reading list
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>>24746742
lolno
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>>24746695
That's legitimately awful. How could this have once been considered acceptable by /lit/? I'm embarrassed.
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I think Bakemonogatari should be in there.
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>>24746948
This but unironically
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>>24746987
It'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.
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>>24746874
It's a starter kit for people who have never read a book before. What would you put on it, homo?
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>>24746730
You know what, it's finally true, the anti-culture tirade, all of it.
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>>24746695
I read those books
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>>24746766
If 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
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>>24746779
>>Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
I 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



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