I'm using the aggregated chartSo we begin with Moby-Dick. For the first week we'll start slow because we want those who haven't read it, or haven't read it for a while, to get a good taste. Just "extracts" to the end of chapter 2. You can read more if you want of course but I'm not asking much as if now. Next Sunday we will discuss itIf you want to keep track of threads, they will be linked in the Criterion Club: https://discord.gg/t7K9Tu7vF
>>24933731Not associating with your discord
>>24933731Does anyone have the Mega link for /lit/ recommendations ? I had it a while ago but have since lost it
>>24934250i have it all downloaded. ask for it nicely and I'll provide
>>24934284Give it to me now you fucking faggot, please
>>24933731I read along with /lit/ when we did Blood Meridian. We didnt even make it the whole way through that. The threads just died. I doubt you can do 100 books. But good luck.
>>24933731Too many insipid Dosto sycophants vote his trash works into the top 100. Same with the Bible, they are voted in out of some perverse sense of obligation to an ideological cause, not because of literary merit.
>>24933731Where's this year's poll???
>>24934348Everybody's both afraid and unbothered to start it, cuz there's always mass hate for how it's done...
>>24934340I decided to finally bite the bullet and read TBK, and it's a great book. The Grand Inquisitor section alone puts it in the literary hall of fame. Of course it's no Melville/Joyce/Pynch, but I'd put it above Tolstoy, Cervantes and the like.
>>24934340The Bible actually has some great literature in it although the laws and genealogies are a drag. At the very least Genesis should be top 100
>>24934483I thought Genesis was a drag until the Joseph story. Job and Ecclesiastes are the real gems.
>>24933731Bro noone has ever read or has any intention to read any of those books. They only choose those books because they were told to do so
>>24934397And nu/lit/ doesn't read. Its over.
>>24934250It's in the pinned thread
>>24934486Abraham and Jacob are great arcs tho
>>24934513I can't find it, only the wiki (which doesn't have a lot). I remember a Mega folder with pretty much everything you could hope for, including recommendations from /mu/ and /tv/
anything that was/is assigned reading to boomers needs to be removed.
>>24934798Here you go anonhttps://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ>>24934434The idea that Pynchon is on the level of Melville and Joyce, and that Cervantes and fucking Tolstoy are somehow secondary to those is hilarious to me, what? Dostoevsky, too, has more to say in a single chapter than Pynchon has in his oeuvre.
>>24934823This is exactly it, thanks
>>24934823Tolstoy always seemed like an inferior version of Eliot to me.And did you actually try to read Pynchon? Or did you fall for le whacky writer pasta? While certainly an inferior stylist to Joyce and Melville, GR's thematic and symbolic density is unmatched.
>>24933731>Holy Bible behind Stoner
>>24935128More people have actually read Stoner than the Holy Bible
>>24933731Are we only going to read a few chapters from each book a week? Because it's gonna take like twenty years to get through all 100 books doing it like that.Also, why aren't we using the 10 year list?
>>24933731Are we doing a top 100 this year ?
>>24934434If 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.
>>24934483Genesis is mostly just a very basic creation myth affair. Honestly, something like the Bhagavad Gita or Lucretius's On the Nature of the Universe is far superior.
>>24935082Eliot is horrendously overrated. Middlemarch was a dreadful, plodding, contrived piece of drivel. The whole business with the two drafts of the will had me rolling my eyes and I knew which one would be presented based on the drama the author wanted to create. Most of the other relationships were equally poorly drawn.
>>24935560I'll be surprised if /lit/ finishes a whole book. I was tempted to just do a Chekhov reading group and one story a weekWe case use the new chart if you prefer it, but what pace did you have in mind?
>>24935843Something like a pace of 350 pages a week. So Moby Dick gets 2 weeks, Stoner 1 week, War and Peace a month, etc.Reading 3 chapters of Moby Dick in a week is nothing. I could do that in half an hour.
>>24933731>Finnegans Wake title typo
>>24936259I don't really think that's unreasonable, ideally 50 pages a day is what I would go for, but do you think it would last long before people dropping out? I'm open to this if other anons are down
>>24933731I need a top 100 non-fiction
