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Altered Carbon is pretty good, if you're ok with some transhumanism with your cyberpunk.

Wow a cyberpunk thread cool. Uh read the rest of the sprawl trilogy, it's good. Idoru was ok. If you like the dystopia, current state taken to logical extreme perspective you might like space opera, Reynolds was good to read after I read Gibson. But in the vein of cyberpunk, read altered carbon. Don't read the rest of the trilogy.
It's shit cash in garbage.

At least read Count Zero

Indoeuropean Poetry and Myth by M.L. West
Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives: Origins, Changes, and Interactions - Andrén et al.
Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton
Greek Religion by Walter Burkert
Religions of Rome (2 volumes) by Beard, North and Price

Fuck that chart btw

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>>9557041
thanks m8 I was also wondering about the chart and why it contained African folk religion but no European paganism.It has to be revised and redone and i'm not the man to do it.

>>9557041
>>9557041

Seconding Burkert, probably the most important scholar in the field.

Most of the sources are secondary, i havent read it but id imagine some of this would be found in Julius Caesars Gallic wars writing

It still exists but we have a Pareto distribution now where only ~5 authors are making like 85% of the sales (patterson, clancy, brown, etc)

Pulp fiction is more accurately called airport fiction nowadays

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>>9556975
nothing
>>9557004
wrong

you can still find them all over in magazine shops.
example.

>>9557018
Campy books written to recall pulp fiction nostalgia don't count

Fuck off Cliff

his hymen is fully intact

>>9556805
The 40 year old melting goblin face man anons grandad Eustace

He Kant write

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>not being Kant

>>9556068
I just kan't do it.

good night sweet ee13db15 man, we hardly knew ye

>>9555624
>he can't recognise Donna Tartt by sight

>>9555627
Ha!

What the fuck do you think this website is, your personal grammar teacher? Fuck off and look it up on google.

if you would use him/her, use whom; if you would use he/she, use who

don't use it colloquially or you'll come off as an autist

whom is when it's used as an object

"To whom did you give the ball?"

who is when it's used as a subject

"Who threw the ball at Jeffrey?"

At least that's how I think it works. Now if I could only figure out when to use which/that

>>9554505
Space Runaway Ideon is objectively the only good thing to come out of /m/ as a genre.

>>9554508
this

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>>9554508
Nothing beats Aquarion Logos

>>9554330
Chinese novels like Water Margin can be pretty comfy too.

>>9554330
This >>9554434 also Tristram Shandy.

>>9554330
Guilvers travels

>>9581170
>best university
The Earthsea one is better

>No friendship surpasses that of Harry, Ron and Hermione
A good number of Chinese cartoons are better.

>No plot surpasses the plot in HP
Nah,


>No catalogue of names is more meaningful and symbolic than those in HP.
I don't know what this means.

>There is no variety of objects and locations superior to the broomsticks, chocolate frogs, every-flavor beans, cloaks, wands, deserted shacks, huts, invisible hideaways, underground vaults, hidden rooms etc as in the Harry Potter universe.
This is true. Harry Potter has a very unique kind of whimsy that continues in every book. Like Roald Dahl on crack.

>>9581182
I think he meant "iconic and well-known" rather than "meaningful and symbolic."

>>9581170
Dylan?

Tire.

>>9580850
Other animals probably spoke words long before humans did

>>9580861
What were the first words of other animals?

>>9580141
>Implying these are not also fiction
Wew

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>>9580141
>>9580142

we tend to think of the fictional as a special kind of writing that deviates from fact. but i want to propose to you that this kind of writing, that reintroduces a difference between the content of the signified and its form of reality, once introduced into the structure of written signification, in fact necessarily and always becomes a fundamental element in the functioning of that very structure, such that it is no stretch to say that all writing partakes of its fictional intensity.

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>mfw I read fiction
>mfw I know what people think and why, because I know the stories those thoughts originated from

>>9580059

killed himself

Became the president of the United States

>>9580059
Frogposted on /lit/

>>9579623
We start with the Greeks

>>9579628
this book starts with the greeks as well

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>>9579623
If you ever want to read for pleasure disregard 80% of the recommendations on /lit/. Pic is related if you want to read a general overview of philosophy that has its problems but is easy to get through.

What?

post'd he baitingly

I am a firm believer that the only reason anyone should learn grammar is to know the rules to break.