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Is Fagles really that bad?

>>9951946
> I have read parts of the Fagles translation and hated it
I think you just hate the Iliad

why are bunnies so cute?

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You're have shit taste op, American Psycho is boring as fuck.

>>9951929
maybe a SECOND reading will change your mind you should CHECK it out

Lord of the Rings. Once raw and then once after getting woke on Christian scripture and European pagan myths.

kill you're self

what do you mean by civil disobedience

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>>9951889

maybe he wants to be a little girl

>>9951870
definitely a possibility

99% of textbooks writen in the past ~10 years do this. Sometimes it makes absolutely no sense, but hey gotta be pc.

sumatrapdf

just get a used kobo you goof

I use the firefox plugin "epubreader".

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>the prologue is 2000 pages

>Implying Jesus wasn't introduced on page 1

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>>9951809
>it takes the book 1000 pages before it gets interesting

>>9951786

Hi Steve. Here's the thing: we mostly discuss people who died before 1800 AD. I'm delighted the minotaur never vaped.

Have a nice day

>>9951858
>/r/eddit

>>9951786
at leas tell us what is about you fucking shill

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This is the only book you need desu.
If you don't uncover life's meaning and how to live after reading it, by yourself, then you're probably retarded.

>>9951959
if this amounts to masturbating over a tiny section of society in an overly romantic fashion i am going to be very angry desu

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>>9951774
>Reading Epicurus instead of Marcus Aurelius and the like
Get outta here, you lazy pseud

The man was way ahead of his time.

>>9951749
Anything between 1000-20,000 words really. Anything less than 1000 is flash fiction imho, anything more than 20,000 seems like a novelette.

>>9951749
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story#Length
>>9952370
that is beat for beat what the wiki says.

>>9952386
Lol, I must have looked it up before

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>>9951717

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>>9951710
what's that quote from?

>>9951721
Ecclesiastes

>>9951651

All other forms of artistic expression are inferior to music in their ability to convey emotion and story and real A E S T H E T I C meaning. Honest writers, filmmakers, potters and internet people are happy to put their arts at the service of music in the character of a supporting capacity.

Witness (again?) the editing which gave rise to this perfect emotion which informed you, OP. Did you see it before? If not, then how did you come to pick your OP image? If so, then what does the image mean to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmWmvR_PwXA

Fear & Loathing jumps to mind.

>>9951651
It used be pretty common because the grand tour was common. It's a way to make money from the experience too.

Sterne has a travelogue from when war was breaking out across Europe and he was travelling with a diplomatic party. It's called something like Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, but he doesn't get as far as the title lets on IIRC

There's an early near stream of consciousness one by Beckford called Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents which is closer to the standard Grand Tour.

Robert Louis Stevenson did a lot of these. Travels with a Donkey goes back over the same territory, but if you want a great book on frontier California when they were setting up resort towns and building competing railways to be the first way back east, get Silverado Squatters. It was pretty scandalous at the time because it's about Stevenson's honeymoon with his previously married wife, and he gets fed up with paying for a hotel so they go live in an abandoned native's hut, and Stevenson probably isn't the weirdest person in the town even then.

The mainstream has Bryson, but there's definitely a long history of these and they were often the works the public most read from literary authors/artists who travelled.

>>9951642
Cute frog.

>>9951642
Your friends are probably embarrassed whenever they're around you irl.

>>9951660
>friends

>>9951590
Why hasn't it all been published? What the fuck?

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Are there any books like Andrei Rublev? I wanna find something in the same vein, doesn't have to be 1:1. I think Gaddis's Recognitions sounds abut right.

>>9951944
Laurus by Eugene Vodalozkin