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>>8950701

Because God so loved the world.

>>8950711
Yea but he obviously didn't care about maximizing the amount of people saved.
>>8950716
But apparently not enough to give definitive proof for the skeptics during Jesus' life.

Have either of y'all read that chapter in BK

>>8950720

Yes we fucking read that chapter.
Don't argue with me like I'm an apologist, you can find plenty of those on reddit. I'm simply telling you what is believed.

"Maximizing the amount of people saved" is autistic speak. You aren't approaching this in the right state of mind. You're talking about salvation. It's a profound mystery, not an engineering problem.

>>8950572
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chocolat
That's literally the only books that I can think of that are even about that topic, to say nothing of quality. Why do you ask anon?

Dune if you think spice is chocolates

Huckleberry Finn if you think Jim is chocolate

>>8950437
Ha ha ha tiptop meme my friend ;)

>>8950437
at least youre qt

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me too. probably going to trunk this novel, even though i had been working on it for five years and was certain it would be my "big break."

personal rejections and comments about how they enjoyed it make the final sting of "but i'm going to pass" all the more painful. on to novel #3, i suppose, although the passion that infused #2 isn't quite there yet. i hope it shows up in editing.

>>>/pol/

>>8950402

ay, let me hit that bump REAL quick

>>8950394
>unto

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should have written a song, fatboy

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William Gass literally looks exactly like the townspeople in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

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GASSBOMBED

>>8950362
no

>>8950294
he's a genius logician. If you're looking for someone to tell you how to live your life he's not the guy.

>>8950294
He's good if you care about metaphysics. If you think ethics should = philosophy then you're likely to dismiss him as many are apt to o

>>8950199
Homosex not even once.

not an argument

>>8950199
You catch HIV and you don't exactly die of AIDS either. But I see your point.

It's nice that he found something that made him happy though

If reading bullshit ya and fantasy fiction, which surprisingly most of the mfa students i have met read almost exclusively, then, yes, americans are more well read than europeans.

The average person is probably just as pleb in either place.

>>8949919
thisssssss

i feel like i've seen more people reading on the subway in NYC than here but that's probably mostly because we're private people horrified of seeming pretentius whereas NYC is full of artsy libruls

Software or hardware?

You can upload your shit to Google Play Books and it stores bookmarks, highlights, etc.

>>8949843
Um, software maybe? Like, I have a Kindle, and I have a laptop, so how do I use those two things (either/and/or) to read files?

>>8949847
Oh, that's cool. Even if I didn't get the books through Google Play?

>>8949756
>Tamburlaine
woah, interesting choice for marlowe!
i don't know if i could call it a favourite, but i love the grinding repetition of the play + how the structure reinforces the content. really phenomenal achievement~

>>8949769
His Fausto his great indeed, a real melodrama, not like that boring shit made by Goethe.
However, Tamburlaine is my favorite because it's just like an epic adventure super-hero movie... but done in theater. I can't recall anything like this besides Marco Polo's Millions or Peer Gynt... but still, the thing about Tamburlaine is the super hero thing.

Godot and Endgame, by Beckett
La vida es sueño, El mayor monstruo del mundo, by Calderón de la Barca
Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles

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>>8948239
Are David Gemmell's standalone fantasy books worth reading?

As far as I know he only wrote four:
>Knights of Dark Renown
>Morningstar
>Dark Moon
>Echoes of the Great Song

>>8949727
What are books with evil protagonist? Not necessary full sauron-evil-for-the-sake-of-evil but defiantly not a good person. Also victims of circumstances don't count, person should clearly should make choices of bad path him/herself, not "choose" between dick in the ass and becoming assassin (Brent Week, you are disappointment).

>>8949777
Mark Lawrence. Two trilogies, same universe, same time period in fact. First one is edgy murderous asshole protagonist, second one is funny lying asshole protagonist.

twilight?

>>8949654
Start with the Greeks you'll find it eventually

>>8950158
lol

>>8949537
>Caring about what figments of your imagination think about the decaying flesh-vessel that your mind temporarily occupies

Women, amirite?

>>8949537
i wonder what these sjws would think about a fully haired dick

>>8949537
>makes me think it's time for a new bitch
>fucking a squatch
>not ever once

>>8949478
>19th
The Count of Montecristo
>20th
100 Years of Solitude
>21th
I can't recall anything.

>>8949501
>>21th
teehee

>>8949478
>19th
Jude the Obscure Les Mis has too many tangents
>20th
Kim
>21st
Laurus or A Brief History of Seven Killings

>>8949398
harry potter

>>8949408
I'm being serious. In the book, she read almost exclusively magic-related books that don't actually exist, so I'm curious as to what her real bookshelf would look like.

Her actress has the taste of a tween fangirl so that's no help.

>>8949419
Well she's a girl so she'd probably have a bunch of Murakami and Vonnegut books she'd never read