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My answer is the same for both: fifty shades of grey

>>8424100
;_;

>>8424093
no time? i could easily have a few books in my arms. at least if i'm in a proper section to get a stack of russian lit that was censored or destroyed during the soviet regime, or what gogol burned. i don't really feel historically qualified to choose which books that should be saved, besides, most of them aren't going to be the only copy of the book in question. and...
>most big
cmon, anon.

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>>8424042
Oh yeah, I hate when books are introduced in the introduction.

>>8424065
You are truly retarded.

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>The introduction is the author praising his own work

>King Lear
>Book of Genesis
>Absalom, Absalom!
>Paradise Lost

Just off the top of my head.

Oh, and The Brothers Karamazov.

>>8423940
Thanks anon, I've been meaning to read Faulkner for a while, I'll definitely do it very soon now

>>8423922
A Room of One's Own

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>>8423922
I haven't read any one history book on it, but most recently I've read and can recommend De Beauvoir and Wollstonecraft

>>8423944
>>8423953
thanks

>>8423852
mongolian spear-fishing image boards

All of your examples are examples of literature

>>8423852
Its a catchall term for all fiction books. But for books that have no set genre, people just call them literature.

:)_

>>8423846
The Brothers Karamazov.

>>8423846
A lot of them.

>>8423856
Ya m8 which ones though

Anon, this is /lit/. We talk about books here.

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>>8423822
Frogger. Please.

>>8423822
Girls only like muscular and outgoing guys. It's a painful truth that I'm learning to accept. I know that no girl could ever possibly like me, so I'm just trying to make a good living for myself and hopefully help my family.

The medieval period encompasses quite a large span of time and the entire globe.

There was a small renaiscance during the dark ages in Europe, it also was the classical period for Arabic culture, there was byzantium which kept many Greek and Roman traditions and knowledge alive.

So, I say that depiction is not entirely correct nor entirely incorrect, it's just a matter of where and when.

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>>8423820
Read something on it.

>>8423843
Yeah, your typical shitty medieval era novel is just based off real life England at the time where they keep going into wars for the dumbest reasons.

but that opinion is correct?

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>>8423733
It's quite simple, really.

>>8423746
But this isn't accurate, he read profusely (which is how you get to be a better writer) from boyhood. It's not like he just randomly had a talent. If he just had a talent and wasn't actually a serious study of literature this would apply, but in fact he must have made a very strenuous study of literature. That's why his awful opinions (which aren't even written in the great prose he uses when opining on anything outside of literature), are so puzzling.

I create gods constantly

>>8423684
what would that make me if I did?

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>>8423723
a Titan, and look what happened to them.

>>8423616
fuck. *is

got me curious now

>>8423616
>it's art really dead?
kek. this is something a faggot like Gaddis would say. What a fucking whiny dweeb. Grown up Holden.

Myself, writing my diary desu

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idk. Celan, Cummings, Shakes maybe.

Borges, Woolf, Dostoyevsky

Camus' The Plague. His prose is so fucking boring it hurts.

>>8423587
Foucault is a hack there is nothing to understand

Never happened to me.

Roosevelt's reputation as a good writer is well-deserved; as your screencap shows, he's got a wonderful style and really makes you feel grounded in the places he describes.

He also famously read an insane amount. I'm not sure if he was the last romantic, but he was a romantic, no doubt of that.

>>8423545
Yeah, not only was he a speed-reader, but he had a photographic memory, which is a dangerous combination. There are stories of Roosevelt reading a handful of books a day, turning multiple pages per minute. If asked about the books, to test if he really read them, he could easily give any piece of specification, and he could even cite entire paragraphs as if he had memorized them in the span of a few seconds.

He was an incredible reader.

There is a story about the President traveling by train to deliver a speech somewhere. When the train landed, no one could find him. They finally found him locked in the bathroom, standing, reading under the light, with Sherlock Holmes in one hand and The History of the Mongols in the other hand.

>>8423521
hey, this is actually pretty good

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/edit?pli=1

glhf

Start with the works of philosophers who are famous for laying the foundation of western cultural and philsophical development. Yes, you go it, i'm referencing the Phoenicians.

>>8423510
Analytic metaphysics my man. Fuck those gay French faggots and outdated Greeks. Read some Lewis, Armstrong, Sider, Inwagen, Hawthorne, and Zimmerman. After that you're pretty much done