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>>9332600
dance music is cool desu

but if i had to guess, the russians. dostoevsky probably wouldn't like edm

>>9332600
any baptists

>>9332600
Adorno hated jazz, so I'd have to imagine he hated dancing too

>>9332568
Yeah I mean if homosexual orgies are your thing have at it

>>9332578
was more interested in the historical stuff but i mean hey the greeks and romans did it so it must be /lit/ amirite

burr was fucking amazing., lincoln paled in comparison imo but lincoln is more recognized and over rated imo.

only two books i read by him, but burr is fucking a brilliant book.

havent read any of his other stuff... good writer though. his insight into american politics is really enlightening imo.

he's of a long lineage of american politicians and of the aristocracy. im sure he's heard a lot of gossip and rumors about some of our leaders we may view as myth

read burr though. its one of the best books ive ever read.

>>9332455
obviously meant books not pics

"SPQR" by Mary Beard and "Pax Roma" by Adrian Goldsworthy will do you good and give you a great introduction to the background and institutions from the early founding of Rome to the mid-unified Imperial Empire.

For primary sources after reading those, here's my recommended reading:
Livy Ab Urbe Condita Books 1 - 10, 21-45
Polybius: Histories
Cicero: The Republic, Laws, Defense Speeches, Political Speeches
Sallust: Catiline's Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
Caesar: the Gallic War, Civil War
Appian: Civil Wars
Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars
Tacitus: Annals, Agricola and Germany
Josephus: The Jewish War
Plutarch: Greek and Roman Lives
Anon: Lives of the later Caesar
Ammianus Marcellinus: the Later Roman Empire

>>9332583
>anon

no. we're not "all gonna make it". you started too late and have wasted your time picking up heavy things. go back to your cavern of ignominy. reading isn't about gainz. this isn't a hugbox for idiots. it's a haven for ridicule and hatred.

You should familiarize yourself, at least briefly, which Greek god's and cultures so you're not frustrated reading the Iliad. And seeing you got the Fagles translation for it, it shouldn't be bad, though you will undoubtedly notice the shift in writing in the Odyssey. Start with the Iliad at any rate.

And you may surprise yourself. Well-written poetry keeps your attention a lot better than prose does. Just sit yourself down for an hour or two every day and try not to overdo it. Don't listen to music or anything like that, but maybe have something to drink nearby

>>9332393
Read the Odyssey first, it's the better one. Think of the movie 300 and all the fit warrior types with rippled muscles, and that's Ulysses.

>>9332384
>wants to read the author go on about his life instead of cool stories

im sorry anon, but that's just boring

>>9332391
Biography, not autobiography

>>9332395
>wants to read about what other people have to say about [author] rather than his works himself

im sorry anon, but that's just boring

>>9332377
analog TV, next

>>9332385
what do you mean

>>9332444
i haven't read 1q84. i guess i didn't convey anything that you could really understand. i knew i was just an observer.

>>9332357
citation is a spook

>>9333120
got a source for that?

>>9332357
Footnote citations boi.

>>9332317
Have you read The Castle?

You'd need to read Kafka's biography son.

>>9332325

I'm on chapter 6.
I've read The Judgement, The Trial, The Metamorphosis, and his letter to his father.

>>9332254
first

third

third person, gives me plausible deniability. "I don't fantasize about being turned into a girl myself, I just think it's hot when it happens to other people."

just kidding literally kill me.

>>9332219
First share with us the definition of a meme.

Literally came up with this when I was 13

>>9332420
He's (hopefully) referring to the sense in which Dawkins coined the word.

>>9332154
If you can get a hold of a copy, Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman.

But you might want to ask /biz/ instead of /lit/.

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You'll probably get better answers on /biz/ but I think pic related (Michael Lewis) is a very good place to start. Liar's poker is really good.

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>>9332154
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>>9332079
Don't be a mental curlbro, read literature about other stuff. Maybe read another book from Mishima if you liked him.

>>9332079
>Steppenwolf - Hesse
>Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
>The Iliad

Im feeling like a funky monkey

>>9331982
Gnostic America by Peter Burfeind. Then you'll see it for the vapid escapism it is.
Also go to http://fauux.neocities.org/login.html

>>9332198
>http://fauux.neocities.org/login.html

wtf is this website

>>9332198

>Gnostic America by Peter Burfeind
No offense, but this seems like a typical christian nutjob who is making witches just so he can hunt them. It's not that a Christian can't grasp the state of ideology in America, but this dude seems blinded by his own brand of witchhunting.

>>9332198
>vapid escapism
honestly made me kek

>>9331876
>its modern day status as the most influential, entertaining, innovative and rewarding national literature on the planet?
>modern day status
The state of US literature has been abysmal for decades

>>9331893
If that were the case then explain how an American author just won the Nobel prize

>>9331902
Swedes are a senseless people intent on being the first national suicide of the 21st century

Well, I flat out would not recommend starting out with Tractatus.

Maybe look into On Certainty as a starting point, and if you like what you see there move onto PI?

PV is probably the easiest philosophy book known to man, just go for it.

Someone give me a quick rundown