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Of course

what are you doing that's so goddamn valuable you post about it on 4chan?

Fucking kys man, coming from a fellow atheist, also read the Bible (I read it along with the Vulgate to practice my Latin - I find reading the English and foreign versions very helpful)

Instead of asking random anonymous people on 4chan why you should be reading something; ask yourself faggot. use your own fucking mind.

>>9561991
Why are you so concerned about this?

What would you rather: people not reading at all or people reading mainstream literature?

Stop being hypocritical and push your shit back into your anus, thanks

>>9561991
she wishes she had a sister like unity/diana to be compared to. makes sense, but jessica's better than her even though jessica ain't great, and for a novelist, one really should say nancy.

>>9561556
Narnia

>>9561556
The Wind in the Willows.

The Tiger

Write about how useless it is to do anything ofc

>>9559613
probably just dedicate yourself to something.

>>9559613
kill yourself, then write about it if you survive

it's a win either way

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are you seeing it now?

Shakespeare was gay, rigth?

>>9559688
No, boys were women too in those days.

>>9559430
t. 13 year old who read the Communist Manifesto

>>9559431

>not seeing that this is desperate shit, no matter what your political views
>not seeing that, as a literary joke, it was fucking boring so it failed in every way
>not knowing that I am pol

Bump

Is anyone going to actually talk about the book or just use it as pretension fuel?

I FUCKING LOVE DEAD WHITE MEN

Also, to get the thread started, I recommend:
>Canon Alberic's Scrapbook
>The Mezzotint
to start with James.
Both short and sweet and tightly packed.

By Blackwood:
>The Willows
>The Wendigo

Lovecraft said The Willows was the best horror story of all time, followed by
>The White People
by Machen, which I'm really enjoying so far.

By Lovecraft himself, I would recommend avoiding the "Cthulhu mythos" stuff and reading
>The Colour out of Space
>The Haunter in the Dark
>The Rats in the Walls
or listening to audiobooks of them by Wayne June on Youtube, who is amazing.

>>9558918
As ghosts?

>>9558915
Clark Ashton Smith

you're right but you're about to get shit on by a bunch of anons who are desperate to cling to any excuse possible to not read a book and shit on people who do

>>9557503
Is the English translation that bad in comparison to the native text though?

>>9557503
My man if your first language is English just read all the works originally written in English. I guarantee you will never finish them by the time you die.

>tfw too scared of what happens after death that I couldn't kill myself unless shit got super bad
You tell me if this is a good thing

I'll leave before the new dawn. This carcass can't resist the temptation of the void and no treasures can it find lurking under the golden light.
His wounds weeps hopes and dreams. This corpse knows that there is no trascendence, and no waifus to implant the hot white fluid of life. His dried body crave for more than the day can bring. His gods are hanging on the distance, stripped off their divinity.
This cursed land can't give birth to his feverish desires, can't produce dragons and magic or BETAS and waifus. There is no worth in this cursed reality. Just the abyss and shades are close to what's beyond reach.
byebye, humans.

>>9556213
I am tired of trying

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> 1. 22
> 2. American
> 3. Full-time Student
> 4. data mine me
> 5. data mine me
> 6. Ulysses/Anna Karenina/Symposium/Complete Shakespeare/Fuck ever having to choose just one favorite book and fuck this thread I should get back to reading.
> 7. I don't hate any book I've read in the Western Canon and what's the point of me saying I hated Looking for Alaska a couple years ago.

>30 something
>French
>not your business
>31,000 (would have been more in my native tongue)
>Rimbaud's poems
>American Psycho

>25
>US
>eating boipussi
>33k
>stoner
>the alchemist

>>9553621
Finnegan's wake

>>9553621

read your stock portfolio out loud to them

>>9553621
S.C.U.M. Manifesto. Seriously.

>>9552414
Some Danish fantasy novel. Amazingly generic, only read it for school

>>9552414
JANE EYRE

Infinite Jest or Broom of the System. Or Celine in english translation

Catch22

>Purgatorio (already read Inferno)

Ye.

>Slaughterhouse-Five

Reddit-core.

>Fahrenheit 451

Garbage. Source: I have read it.

>>9546448
But why couldn't you read all three of them?
Finish what you started. Read Dante.

Learn the language you like best and the country you like best

Considering how to translate something you need to be completely fluid in that language, you will spend 10+ years learning it to fluidity. And you won't get anywhere without total immersion by living in the country

Tl;dr: wanting to be a translator in a language you don't yet know is a bad idea

>>9565359
/thread

>>9565359
I dont want to be a translator I was just wondering which language had the most texts which would be better read in the original rather than in translation.

He writes feel good books and likes to self insert a lot "he you see, this kid was very smart WAY MORE than all the kids his age ;)"

Do we? I don't

>>9564967
Isn't that essentially what you think at that age?

why would anybody hate hesse