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Is this the new IJ
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>>8523578
Nah, its not being recieved well by establishment pseuds
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HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY STARTED READING IT
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What is the best version of the Bible?
I have my doubts about KJV because it was made on Protestant England and Vatican II is some shady shit.
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>>8523567
the New International Version is a good one, easier to get through, not watered down however.
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The Pidgin Bible
http://www.pidginbible.org/Concindex.html
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>>8523567
The best version of the "Bible" is the original Hebrew and Greek texts. If you're too lazy to learn these languages then stop sperging about "best" versions.
Best/smartest post-apocalyptic literature?
No zombie shit pls
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>>8523555
The Road. It basically just /threaded the genre
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>>8523555
Lord of the Flies.
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Can someone give me recommendations on the best loeb latin books to order?
I'm learning latin and i'd like to read some more english/latin books outside of the obvious thing like marcus aurelius or the comedies and so on.
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2nd bump
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Marcus Aurelius wrote in Greek.
What are you interested in? Cicero's philosophical works are very interesting and easy to read. Suetonius is an entertaining historian.
You gotta narrow it down some, it's like asking "I'm learning French, what should I read in French?" There are Latin farming manuals, there are Latin architectural treatises, there's an interesting Latin work on the administration of aqueduct, there's all sorts of different kinds of poetry, there are historians, letters of different statesmen, etc. etc.
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>>8525480
Propertius or Ovid?
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I'm about to order a dictionary. Which one should I get? English only please.
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>>8523490
>buying a physical dictionary in 2016
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>>8523513
its useful you mongrel.
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Why do I never hear about Ellison here? Chime in /lit/.
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because we are /pol/ /lit/ /u/ /c/ /a/ -l
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>>8523472
he black
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>>8523472
I'm redpilled, kid.
I think you know what I think. You probably feel the same deep down
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I'm looking for a book that is extremely funny in an unfunny way. What I mean by that, is a book which tries purposefully to be as unfunny as possible, but does so in a way that comes off as if it were trying really hard to be funny, when it is intentionally trying to make the most terrible unfunny humor possible.
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>>8523434
Ayn Rand
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Are you high?
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>>8523434
Raising PG kids in an X-Rated World by Tipper Gore.
Just wondering lit. Did Kafka finish this book or was the strange ending written by someone else?
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>>8523433
kafka jacked it to sonic porn he was plenty capable of strangeness himself
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>>8523433
neither.
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>>8523447
sonic the hedgehog?
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Is it possible to read and understand being and time, a critique of pure reason, and phenominology of the spirit without any supplementary material or background on the books?
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Only if you're German.
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On that order?
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Ok. So I've got a working understanding of Hegel and German Idealism in general, have read some secondary material, the Manifesto and am well aware of the political and historical context in which it was written.
I'm now ready to start reading Capital I think. I'm looking for the most respected translation/edition that is currently in print for English. I'm not looking for anything abridged or annotated if possible.
What is it and why?
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>>8523402
Don't ever post leftist nonsense on here again, cuck.
Pick up Mein Kampf instead
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>>8523429
>say Josh, are you still working in McDonalds after leaving high school?
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>>> Marxists.org
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Alright bitch nigga, I just finished a book and it's time to help me choose what to read next. La bas, nausea, and notes from underground are too fucking difficult, but if you bequeef that I should return then them then I shall do so. However, there's other books which I was thinking about getting into, like I was gonna just get right into infinite jest. I was recently reading moby dick before I picked up another book so I could take a break from it, but if you bequeef that I shall pick up moby dick again from where I left off, then I shall do so.
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>>8523380
Start with the Greeks, you unfunny retard
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>>8523385
You think I'm unfunny, but the joke is on you. The ultimate prank :^)
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>>8523391
>upboated
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I just finished pic related and absolutely loved it. I don't even particularly like any other story Mark Twain wrote. My favorite thing about it is the Satan character. I loved reading his lectures on how shit humanity is, even if they did get a little repetitive after a while. That ending was "holy fucking shit" amazing. There is so many great quotes throughout the whole story. So /lit/, can you recommend me any books based off of this?
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>>8523368
bleak af
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Read Twain's Letters From the Earth. Very similar.
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>>8523368
https://youtu.be/BpaRouocBes
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>read The Things They Carried in english class
>make fun of the weird passages with friends
>two years later
>"I'm so smurt I'm gonna spend my money on books now!"
so this is just a phase yeah. last year i was doing the same thing with music, pirating literally thousands of albums and spending too much money on vinyl
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>>8523364
>le tortured soul of the upper middle class white male
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>>8523364
I do all of this, but the difference is I don't tell anybody, I don't think that makes me better than anyone, I just hold it in that I believe Infinite Jest and Gravitys Rainbow are the best novels of all time.
Pretty strange if you ask me
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>>8523378
>upper middle class
i'm on food stamps daoud
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>he was a real pussy magnet
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When you're as sloshed as he was nearly all the time, you probaby don't mind as much
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He was basically a kissless, acne scarred virgin before he was published. Then the groupie whores and random street trash moved in to get his monies. And he flaunted it the whole time, pathetic really.
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>>8523356
>tfw not allowed to post the pics where he's fingering a young naked qt instead
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If somebody could post me a cool haiku that would be really appreciated
Pic unrelated, but cool
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Go Basho:
his darkening autumn:
my neighbor,
how does he continue?
Let us arrange
these lovely flowers in the bowl
since there's no rice
An ancient pond,
the frog leaps:
the silver plop and gurgle of water
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
The first chill rain:
poor monkey, you too could use
a woven cape of straw
Lightning
shatters the darkness―
the night heron's shriek
Fever-felled mid-path
my dreams resurrect, to trek
into a hollow land
This snowy morning:
cries of the crow I despise
(ah, but so beautiful!)
Like a heavy fragrance
snow-flakes settle:
lilies on the rocks
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray autumn's gay,
contemptuous of frost
Whistle on, twilight whippoorwill,
solemn evangelist
of loneliness
The sea darkening,
the voices of the wild ducks:
my mysterious companions!
Will we meet again?
Here at your flowering grave:
two white butterflies
These brown summer grasses?
The only remains
of "invincible" warriors ...
An empty road
lonelier than abandonment:
this autumn evening
Spring has come:
the nameless hill
lies shrouded in mist
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Mention the seasons.
And then there's a hairpin turn.
That's the end, Senpai.
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You'll never be cool
enough to put your cock in
Christopher Walken