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>>8926096
Found them on Amazon too, still don't understand the difference. But the price difference is rather big.

>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Odyssey-Everymans-Library-Classics/dp/1857150945

>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Odyssey-Everymans-Library-Classics-Contemporary/dp/0679410473

>>8926096
I don't get why this board has an obsession with Fitzgerald. I'm currently reading his translation of the Iliad and I kinda regret not having bought the more modern Fagles translation. He needlessly uses archaic and obscure words when other more simple words could have been used.

It's just no fun having to turn to the dictionary all the time. I'm getting Fagles' Odyssey for sure now.

>>8926167
Well I was considering Fagles and Fitzgerald too but seeing how it's actually cheaper to get the hardbacks from Everyman than it is from Penguin boxset, I decided on the Fitzgerald Everyman.

And like you said, people on /lit/ keeps recommending Fitzgerald over Fagles but did not realize it might have really archaic English... More so than Moby-Dick for example?

hectic boner. im a grower btw

>>8926068
'I hope these books aren't a meme'.

'but i've read these already'

>>8926014
holy shit epic thread xdDD

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>>8926014
>"Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast food?"
>"Hazel, eat."
>"But why?" I asked. "I mean, seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck in with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has eggs, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."
>Dad answered with his mouth full. "When you come back, we'll have breakfast for dinner. Deal?"
>"I don't want to have 'breakfast for dinner,'" I answered, crossing knife and fork over my mostly full plate. "I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that a scrambled eggs-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it occurs at dinnertime."
>"You've gotta pick your battles in this world, Hazel," my mom said. "But if this is the issue you want to champion, we stand behind you."
>"Quite a bit behind you," my dad added, and Mom laughed.
>Anyway, I knew it was stupid, but I felt kind of bad for scrambled eggs.

>>8928114
What? Is this actual writing from the book?

You know what somebody with a sac says?

They say, "ok that's cool, cheat if you want. I'll even fight you with one hand behind my back, but I'm willing to get so damn good I'll beat you anyway."

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>>8925996
>he cares about book "ratings"

Maybe stick to movies buddy

>>8926004
good post

What'd you learn from that book, OP?

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>>8926007

Well, he explains what memory is and how it works in the first part of the book, so I got that from it.

Then come learning and memnonic techniques which I, to my own disadvantage, only partly and rarely used because I was too lazy and didn't think about improving my learning habits.

It helped me memorize nonsensical facts I sometimes have to learn, language learning and learning in general I would like to think.

To put it more generally, spend some time thinking about your learning habits.

>>8925990
Milton Friedman and John Stossel books. I wish Stossel would try a fiction novel though.

Once you read Schoppy and then spend a few years reading other philosophy, you come to realize the guy was really limited and dumb.

>>8925902
But he introduced the Upanishads and similar Indian concepts to Europe

>>8925918
he did but weirdly they didn't seem to make him less fucking crusty about everything. he was still hung up on art and suffering without actually going full brahman

kind of a compromised place to be. hating the world of will and representation and being essentially given a guidebook that says all things are one but not going there. he could have written a cool book on the Upanishads but instead he wrote shitty things about women and people less intelligent than him

schopenhauer had a keys-to-the-kingdom calibre brain and the good fortune to discover eastern mysticism. and with all that he managed to die in his living room with his poodle probably feeling compromised in ways he couldn't even understand and maybe dimly intimating that only a divinely inspired madman could draw the conclusions he was going to leave alone because reasons

interesting guy as super-smart critics are but still

>>8925850
Google sci-hub.io

Do you not get alumni access?

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>>8925858
>Do you not get alumni access?
Nope

>>8925811
What is "pre-Christian Europe"?
What is "good"?

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>>8925829
this

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>>8925846
>tfw you realize all reifications are not real

I love the Morrels, lads. The only good-hearted people in this story.

>>8925724
I just happen to be in chapter 49.
That reveal by Nortier though.

Checking in.

>guy who defected to the nazis makes anti-communist propaganda

wow no way what a fucking masterwork

>>8925696
Holy shit. Totally opened my eyes to the dangers of libcucks. I want more

>>8925696
What's the novel on leftist academics visiting the soviet union to ogle while their counterpart where in Gulags?

>>8925671
Tolstoi, Dostoevski if you misread him, Stirner, Nietzsche, The God Delusion, Aristotle's Hefty Organ

>>8925671
Start with the Greeks

>>8925780
>Stirner
fedora-lord whose ideas could only work in a world populated entirely by Stirners

>Nietzsche
>leftist
lol

>>8925657
Never rred it and never will.

>>8925657
I just bought it but I haven't started reading it yet.

>>8925657
i want to read this but got no book atm.

That's not being racist that's just word association. It'd be racist if you were disappointed when you realised it said Niagara.

Look, /lit/ - I put a lot of effort into this thread. You better not fucking ruin it for me.

>>8925638
Shut up and write me that blue-pill script, doc.

FUk you guys

>>8925549
Man, for real, fuck you, you niggers, you don't know SHIT

Yeah, m8, it's just called a fallacy for no reason.

water

nigger cum desu family

Drumpfkin tears