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bump in the name of Chkrrloth, God of blood and broken bones !

>>8624758
did he write those book about the dragontails?

>>8624796

I don't think so, which books ?

>/philosophymajors/
If you're not going to discuss literary corpus of Plato, please fuck off

That's a big question, OP.

There wouldn't be even if truth independent of human interpretation was actually a thing.

Geneva Bible > King James Bible > NRSV > all others

fight me

>>8624640

The Geneva Bible contains slanted translations with even more slanted marginal notes which are distracting to readers.

NSRV is one of the "gender" neutered version of the bible. NRSV removes the very important messianic phrase “Son of Man” from the entire Old Testament (feminists are offended at having two gender distinctions). And so when we read Daniel 7:13, in the NRSV, we find the "Son of Man" is taken out of the prophecy referring to Jesus and replaced with "one like a human being".

>>8624637
I'm sorry, I just can't take anybody claiming an English translation is the best product of literature seriously. You people have no idea how poor your language is grammar-wise. Feel free to produce great literature in your own language, but refrain from praising your translations, because they are all botched. Get real.

>>8624634
Nah, you actually have to have experienced love and sex to get him.

I quite liked Sons and Lovers, but it's a bit unpolished.

>>8624634
he got me into poetry.

this one by him is amazing

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/L/LawrenceDH/AndOhThatThe/index.html

Not a great novelist but pretty nifty at verse, as exemplified by >>8624801

>>8624631
It sucks

Haven't read it btw

>>8624631
the bookchemist liked it.

>>8624631
it's pynchon, you know it sucks

Pamuk is shit tier. If you genuinly liked his writing, there is no hope for you but you should try Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with "Saat Ayarlama Enstitüsü"

>>8624572
Life is a Caravanserai.

>>8624572
Tutunamaynlar and then kill yourself

Yes.

>>8624486
depends what you enjoyed them for

>>8624486

>Am I a hopeless pleb?

you're only starting out.

you'll find yourself naturally progressing to more difficult books as you continue. don't get meme'd on just read.

>>8624477
>when

*where

>>8624477
>>8624480
read the pastebin you useless nigger

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>>8624483

?

penguin

>>8624429
>folio
tacky trash for idiots with a lot of money and no class

Thus Spoke Zarathustra folio print looks pretty good

>>8624408
white nights
it lets you know that all women are lying whores

>>8624408
My.. -wait.... :(

>>8624408
Catcher in the Rye

also: Ada by Nabokov

Start by growing up

Raine you’re one of the first girls I met in in Bryn Athyn. I clearly remember you and Nick coming up to me as I first walked out of the dorm at summer camp and asking if I was Austin Grubb and then introducing yourselves. I don’t remember being as struck by your beauty then as I was once school actually started. I suppose being the new kid I had a lot to take in and the details weren't all sticking yet. That’s actually all I remember of you from camp off the top of my head but i’m sure my memory could be jogged by pictures of stories.
Fast forward 2 months and school had started. Charter day was coming up and I knew who my date would be. I hardly talked to you before that but you were friendly and now I knew how freaking gorgeous you were. Oh my goodness I didn’t want to take my eyes off you. Another rare super clear memory was asking you to the dance. I walked to your house picking random flowers along the way to for a makeshift bouquet, somewhere along the walk I remember noticing I had lost the best looking flower in the bunch. Oh well. Oh yeah I was walking with Nick this whole time and maybe Brandon Russell? Looking back I bet she was texting you the whole time. Anyway I got to your house and took what seemed like forever getting a pep talk from Nick but eventually I walked up to your door and knocked. Your mom answered. I asked for you and your mom said you weren't expecting anyone and that it might be a minute. I sat down on a chair outside your door. A few minutes later you were at the door. Fuck you were pretty. I forgot to stand up out of the chair and remember just leaning forward towards you to give you the flowers and ask if you would go to the dance with me. I wouldn’t surprised if you told me that I mumbled the whole thing. I think I finally got up and you gave me a hug. That was that and I walked by to the dorm with Nick.
That was 8 years ago. I was too young then. Other times when things seemed like they could work in our favor something always happened. You were dating someone, I was dating someone, we never truly became more than friends and we both were very aware we should be more. So many times I could’ve made a move but something always got in the way. You are the most frustrating person I can’t escape in my life. You’re the biggest regret in my life right now but in the back of my mind I still hope that because we didn’t date in highschool or college that when things finally work out it will be real, long, and loving. I’m willing wait quite awhile for you Raine.

i don't understand how it's possible to enjoy reading thrillers or YA fiction or other such things. care to explain?

>>8624379
Is that a glass of semen?

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>get published
>get famous
>scholars dig through and collect every 4chan post made from your ip addresses for posthumous release

>that bulge shop

You have to love /tv/ sometimes.

>>8624379
No.

Also
>200000 posts in 10 years
>averages about 55 posts per day, each and every day

It's bizarre how easy that could be to reach, especially via shitposting...

I suppose, if you copy and paste each comment you make into a separate word document (perhaps with context; perhaps not), you might have a real work in your hands.

>>8624360
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/4/42/The_Legacy_of_Totalitarianism_in_a_Tundra.pdf

>>8624485
Mfw this shit is real, did any of you guys actually read that? What did thinked?

>>8624360
prior conflict to the story: /lit/ thinks it can write a novel

>>8624323
Drop it, it's shit

idk never read the book

>>8624323
I'm reading it too. Like 250 pages in, it gets a little better, but doesn't really go anywhere. Maybe I'm a pleb but I liked CLO49 a lot more since at least it was easy to follow where the plot went. Here it's hard to remember since there's so many characters and so many time jumps

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>>8624254
homer :3

>>8624254
Well there's Shakespeare of course.

>>8624254
Gaddis went to Harvard but got expelled before graduating.