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>>9200179
What age?

>>9200195
Middle/highscool

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>>9200179
>encourage independent thought by making everyone read the same books

>>9200135
If you have a Plan B you don't have a Plan A.

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The voice of a lost generation

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>>9200057
Hay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes...yo no se!

Well, Cervantes is like their Shakespeare. When I took Spanish we had some "required reading" as the classes got more advanced too.

>>9200057
Lope de Vega
El Cantar de Mio Cid (if you're willing to learn Old Spanish)
Cervantes

Then learn French because Spanish lit is shit-tier

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>>9199823
Read a couple of them years ago and enjoyed them. Fun fantasy/adventure.

Hard to find good electronic copies.

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yes.

he was particularly funny in "Elric at the End of Time".

>>9199870
>electronic copies.
Heresy.

But in all seriousness, orion publishing has the entire work
https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780575114388

>>9199796
>non fiction
>takes place over 3 months
Why would anyone want to read that

>>9199814
What?

>>9199796
care to tell us a little more? non-fiction, on what subject? 150,000 words in three months is kind of rapid, unless you're tweaking.

First you have to open the book Anon

It's really not that big of a book desu.

Sort yourself out first

>>9199550
>He called Greek a single language without specification
>He doesn't know any form of Greek
Pleb.

>>9200829
Don't bump shit threads you dumbass.

>>9200829
Attic/Koine Greek are far more similar than most people think.

They are even very similar to modern Greek aside from a few pronunciation changes and dropped verb forms. It's not anything like comparing Italian to Medieval Latin even.

hey but what about Kafka.

>>9199477
Barely counts. Died without any recognition and didn't finish dick

>>9199457
well you're forgetting about every professor who has published fiction ever. But we won't count that because we'll assume you will be stubborn and rigid.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-anthony-jones/famous-author-day-jobs_b_5724482.html

pleb list but still counts: https://www.bustle.com/articles/101251-the-jobs-13-famous-writers-had-before-they-became-best-selling-authors

patrician list: http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/03/03/when_we_rise_review_it_s_a_mess_but_maybe_the_mess_we_need.html

pretty good writers list: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/nov/26/writers-other-careers

mixed bag, some repeats: http://www.businessinsider.com/first-jobs-of-famous-writers-2012-10#after-his-father-was-arrested-charles-dickens-was-sent-to-work-in-a-shoe-polish-factory-14

repeats: http://mentalfloss.com/article/31026/early-jobs-24-famous-writers

There's this guy I know named chuckie, he used to be like 500 pounds, but he had a stroke and a bunch of health programs, and I think they removed his stomach and a lot of intestines. He's also an alcoholic and drinks at least a case a day. Man, when this guy blasts one...it can knock one of your senses out. It's no joke. Look him up sometime.

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Get a whiff of this action.

>>9199367
>>9199400
>>9199475
I fucking hate this board

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

>>9198731
This.

>>9198701
>>9198731

Chamber of Secrets > all

It perfectly captured that spooky, mysterious and dangerous aspect of Hogwarts.

Honestly I still think its a pretty great example of modern genre fiction.

A bust? Are you fucking serious?

Get a bust of O.J. Simpson.

Like, contact a sculpture and get it custom made and everything.

>>9198583
This. Then get a bust of Althusser. Start a bust collection of famous men who murdered their wives

>>9197988
Nah it was the other way around actually, nice spot though

Actually they were both referencing the concept of jest, a lot of it

>>9197988
bump.

He wrote a pretty good book once.

>>9193279
I really liked Of Walking in Ice. He's just such an interesting and inspiring human being, it was interesting seeing the way he thinks

>tfw Werner Herzog will never walk from Munich to Paris in a half-symbolic gesture to save you from your sickness

>>9193270
He's pretty spectacular, I can't think of anyone who matches the consistently high quality of his documentaries

>people contradicting my completely wrong point of view

the author is dead anyway, read what you want into it

>>9204631
I don;t care what the authors politics are if its a good book

that being said, lots of commie authors feel the need to make their socialism the main theme

your diary desu

My diary desu