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Thank God for gay white men is all I'll say.

>>8826064
Start with the Greeks!

>>8825608
The Cats of Ulthar

I like The Rats in the Walls.

>>8825608
At the Mountains of Madness. Also what is the story with the German submarine?

If the topic interests you, yes. I'd trust Elaine Pagels. She's studied this stuff most her life.

>>8825596
if you're a heretic

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I have this, put together by some of the same people. There's essays introducing every book, extensive footnotes, and they let you know when they're guessing on translations when things are missing/unclear in the original. A minor complaint I have is that they attempt to introduce gender neutrality when it wasn't in the original, which leads to awkward phrases like "child of humanity" instead of "son of man," but at least they're transparent about it and footnote it.

>>8825589
>taking the my diary posts seriously
I bet you started with the Greeks as well.

>>8825595
what's wrong with starting with the Greeks anon?

>>8825595
You don't fit in here.

>>8825482
he leaves the crazy chick that's a dead end for the safe bet? I'm ok with it.

>>8825482
yeah it was really dramatic and essenceless shit for teenagers

>reading a literal hack

you deserve it I've read 2 books by him too and won't ever touch any more

>>8825479
Empty laundromats.
Honestly my favourite place to read

Tell me about it, senpai. My city's library is going to get closed. And it's a fucking important city in my state!

Goddamned Brazil.

>>8825479
>he needs silence to read

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It's an early '60s anthology of sci-fi short stories from Brazilian writers.

I don't even like science fiction, but since this was R$1 I bought it anyway. It's quite amusing too, in a ridiculous, dated way.

>>8825449
And yours, man. What's that about?

>>8825548
Outdated, provinciale science fiction is a blast. I have a few cyberpunk books written in Italy in the eighties, the way they try to localize the inherently English and/or Japanese words of the genre is incredibly amusing.

My book is the originale version (plus translation, notes and commentary) of a book published in Venice circa 1499, whose title roughly translates to "The Erotic Dream Battle of Poliphilius" - it's a but like the Divine Comedy rewritten by Pynchon.

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>be at the club
>dancing/grinding with drunk girl, music blaring
>lean my head in close to hers, and whisper into her ear;
>"I've read Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, and my ethics are strictly deontological"
>promptly takes me by the hand, leads me to an uninhabited corner and gives me extremely passionate head

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>The Roman writer Aelian accused the seal of being a ‘malignant creature’, since a seal will ‘vomit up the curdled milk from its stomach so that epileptics may not cured thereby’. 22 Ah, the perfidy of seals.

thats the most retarded flowchart ive seen in my life. just say "read joyce chronologically" you dont need a flowchart lmao

>>8825259
But how would I know if I have to take breaks inbetween books?

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1/2 for Nabokov, Don't have a dosto. Just read whatever you want then C&p, demons, the idiot and end with brothers.

>>8825223
Taras Bulba
The Old Testament

>>8825223
Herodotus wrote extensively on the Scythians, their customs, and Persia's punitive expedition into their land. He was probably informed by Greeks living around the Black Sea, and it is colourful stuff.

>>8825435
>Taras Bulba
Sounds interesting, thanks.

chopin

Any music that is without words, preferably something "classical"

Maybe sacred choral music

>>8824942
>Also, is the 2nd part of Faust worth reading?
Yes, I don't know why it's so common to only read the first part

>>8824762
Dearest

>>8824766

Slavy Slav,

Fist me, daddy and so on.

Wodehouse is about as comfy as it gets.

>>8824936
thanks man. Just skimmed over a bit of it and it's really good

Dubliners

>>8824727
can almost garuantee I'm more intelligent than you, the fact you have to brag and try and make others feel shitty because you read about tacitus and the peloponnesian war just shows how much of a fucking retard you are.

Actual smart people arent so insecure about their intelligence to project as hard as you just did you fucking weapon

Reading is one of the easiest things to do, so you probably shouldn't.

>>8824740
lol. this is why I use 4chan and not plebbit.

I'm reading the first book but it's pretty boring so far. Nothing at all seems to be going on.

Is it worth continuing?

>>8824843
Uh, it depends how patient you are.

I think it is definitely worth it to read the entire thing because it's doing some interesting things with narrative construction and foreshadowing but I'm just going to warn you that you'll probably feel the same way up until half way through the third book.

And then on top of that, to get the most out of it you probably have to read the whole thing twice.

>>8824581
I'll be doing a 3rd read from next week with some litizens, should be fun. Wolfe is a superb author, read 15 or so of his novels + rereads, never gets dull.