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Little over halfway through Ulysses, the first 200 pages were fun but now this is getting just tedious.
I'm hoping it's not this dull until the end, when does it start getting really good?

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/lit/ help me get into Roman history and literature. I have this Roman itch that it's been eating at me for years now. Where do I start? Anything Roman (even Byzantine) related is welcome.

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Join me in creating these stupid hierarchies, /lit/.

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What is the book equivalent of 8½ by Fellini ?

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wtf i hate other people now

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Yeah, why haven't you guys read this yet? It's basically /lit/'s fantasy come true. This guy Eckermann, who is a wannabe poet and literary scholar meets his hero Goethe when the latter is 70 years old and still livin the high Lit-life as one of humanity's artistic giants. Eckermann befriend's Goethe, becomes his editor and close friend, and ends up writing this book about his visits and conversations with Goethe that becomes one of the greatest literary documents we have. Eckermann, through his humble nature, knack for observations, and sheer love of Goethe, ends up producing one of the most extraordinary written portraits of a great artists, giving the world access to Goethe's intimate thoughts and ideas about a slew of subjects ranging from art to religion to manners, and many more.

The conversations between Eckermann and Goethe are beautiful and fascinating, and Eckermann, an introvert /lit/ geek, through his acquaintance with Goethe, ends up mingling with the high society of Goethe's day, going to parties, and the theatre, and to country retreats, etc. Eckermann's book was recognized as a great achievement by people who knew him and had read the book, but he did not gain wide-spread fame during his lifetime. History vindicated him though, and Nietzsche considered Eckermann's book "the best German book there is", ranking it higher in value even than Goethe's own works because of the invaluable access that Eckermann's book gives us to the mind of the great master, and the beautiful manner in which Eckermann records the scenes and impressions of his friendship with Goethe.

I am currently halfway through the book. It is really one of the best books ever written. It contains so many small moments of nobility and so much wisdom. Read it now. You will be jelly of Eckermann and your mind and spirit will be much improved.

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If you could try this right now, you would need no more books for the rest of your days, because you would understand the meaning of life.

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soon to be neet here

I recently realised that I stopped learning after finishing school.
I want to start learning again and was wondering if you guys could point me in the direction of usefull & free resources.

I want to spend the next 6 months learning about 2 subjects, starting with Logic & Grammar/writing and then see where that takes me.

Could you help me out?
I could only find websites with either lacking content or paywalls.

(yeah, you got to pay for value, i know but I cant afford to spend much money rn)

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>reading pic related
>Realize I need to read the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, Confucius, all Greek mythology, Aristotle, Homer, Socrates, the Pali canon, jainist scripts, the Apocrypha, the New York times from years 1820-1840, Algonquin sun calendars, and have a complete understanding of the history and culture of Rome, ancient Greece, modern Greece, china, central Asia, Europe, Britain, pre Columbian America and post Columbian America, as well as intimate knowledge of topography, geology, weather patterns of new england, climatology, watershed ecology, biology and extensive knowledge of flauna and flora of Western New England, and the complete works of Charles Dickens, and ancient Hindu vedic texts that have been lost in time, in order to simply glimpse the ideas presented in this work

This is severely demoralizing. How am I ever going to be well read enough to understand what any author is saying?

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Stop living apart from nature.

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If you were writing a shitty, deplorable human being for a character that also read books, what would be their favorite book?

Pic related.

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How do I write catchy lyrics ? Can you point me to a book. Is it an easy way to earn monies writing catchy lyrics and posting them on you-tube with a shit-ton auto-tune make my ugly voice angelic ? Pls halp I want to do something productive with my mediocre poetry skills and also impress some ladies.

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Is this the greatest fantasy series ever written?

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Is this the best feminist play of all time?