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Start with Borges.

the handmaid's tale

>>8330489

My diary desu

>Reading a translation.
>It counts as "reading the book".

Where did this delusion originate from?

>>8330486
Only have six years of Russian behind me, I've lost most of it
Also a good part of the dialogues is in French in the original
Wish I could read it in Russian though

>>8330478
It gets better.

>>8330472
Not very popular here, but The Swerve: How the World Became Modern is an interesting work that looks at the pre-modern recovery of Ancient works of knowledge and literature, often by rich benefactors sending young priests and university students to monasteries. The second part dwells almost entirely on Lucretius. I have seen many complaints about it on here, and am not knowledgeable enough to answer them, but the complainers probably arent either so take it as you will.

Also, if you look into Gaza Vermes latest works on the dead sea scrolls and Elaine Pagels work on the Nag Hammadi Codices, the work shows how biblical textual archaeology adds to our own knowledge of the corpus of biblical texts, as well as the interesting work done in Iceland over the last 200 years recovering the edda corpus.

>>8330643
*Geza

>>8330643
Interesting, thanks!

>>8330364
>it's an '/ressentiment9k/ frog person wants a circle jerk thread to talk about how women are all big whores' episode

If not, kill yourself, homewrecking rancid swine

>>8330387
But he didn't tell me. How is he not the home-wrecker in this?

>>8330390
Men don't cheat.

Also this isn't /adv/.

Delete this thread and create a new one where you leave out the boring story, only asking for people's experience with sending poetry etc

Sanderson, Reckoners.

Peter Clines had a series of superhero zombie novels, really didn't like the first one very much.

Austin Grossman had a book that sounded ok, Soon I Will Be Invincible, didn't read it, I'd imagine it's solid mediocre shit.

New book came out to solid buzz, The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, think it's by Manuel Gonzalez.

Its definitely the best thing ive ever read

Could benefit from few more 'niggers' perhaps

>>8330328
>as?seat rz,it's TD;f;rs;ASSR Asa's astd;asti TD;,z ra,se;e,r"
I don't get this part

>>8330268
Yes. It's why I enjoy favourite poem threads on /lit/ and I've read there a number of poems that I found amazing, yet I've never read one actual poetry book or anthology.

>>8330275
Do you want to post any liens of poetry you got into thanks to lit?

that's what introductions are for

>>8330266
i haven't even read these books, but i'm going to guess earth's children series

>>8330270
Nah, I don't think it was any of those. I just read all the plot summaries and none of them sounded familiar at all

>>8330266
Sounds like The Kin by Peter Dickinson, though I don't remember any glacier part.

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Yes, Yes, Yes.

Just start reading anything reasonably important that also catches your eye, so that it's easy to get through and then you feel like you're making progress once you do

Seriously, just pick anything that sounds neat and isn't ultra-high concept, but is also famous enough to make you feel like "yeah I'm doing this!" when you're done. Try some 19th century realism or naturalism. Try Stendhal or Dickens

Okay, thanks. I have every book in the image above and a fair amount of Dickens' work too, so I'll start there.

kill yourself you entitled cunt

Pull head out of ass?

>>8330223
>>8330224
Looks like you've got two options, OP.

Oh so this is a faggot thread.

Lolita

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Hard mode: Erotica

>A venom cock, they're called. I'd heard the words grunted respectfully among pottery clan men. I'd also heard the words mentioned by women wearing a carefully blank expression cultivated to hide opinion. Understand, women do not revere the venom cock as men do. They see it for what it is: an uncontrollable reaction to an impending event, and a slightly foolish reaction at that.

>Dono's reverence was a mystery to me back then, made all the more mysterious by his assertions about what a venom cock could do: slay a woman! Cripple a baby! Turn pleasurers into deaf, blind, barren idiots!

>The only truth I knew about the subject was what my eyes told me: The veteran apprentices looked mighty silly waddling up the lane to the whipping bar, their penises pointing the way.

>The dragonmaster, the cinai komikon himself, came last, a suitable distance from his underlings. He wore no Temple finery, just a loincloth and a multitude of furious white scars. In his arms lay the venom whips, oily black in the sun's rays.

>The noise of the crowd died to respectful murmurs as he strode down the lane. Even Dono stopped capering. The eerie wong of the water bowls reigned supreme.

>He was grinning, the dragonmaster. A big, gap-toothed grin. Occasionally, he cackled, his sinewy neck taut with rivers of veins. He looked demented despite his awesome tolerance of venom, built up from years of contact with uncut dragons; he was clearly intoxicated by the venom- soaked whips that lay in his bare arms.

>Now and then he paused and nodded to someone in the crowd; everyone in the vicinity of the nod looked at each other in panic. You? Me? Was he nodding at me? What does it mean?

>>8330104
>hurr durr muh objectively correct factual outlook

atheism and all other beliefs that pull this "its just so explained bro" schlick are intellectually lazy

>>8330106
>atheism
8/8 m8

in b4
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>>8330106
>Schlick
>literally explaining the world every day using a method pioneered by an early philosopher
Sure, philosophy was like the cocoon that kept science warm through human infancy, but here we are now.

It's convenient to say that most people that hate her don't understand her. It distracts from the fact that many people do understand her, and hate her more because of it.

>>8330132
It's convenient to say that many people do understand her, and hate her more because of it. It distracts from the fact that most people who hate her don't understand her.

>>8330084
>It's convenient to say that many people don't understand that others do understand her, and hate her more because of it. It distracts from the fact that most people who hate her don't understand her.

>>8330065
The books are worse in that they take more time to get less done because of the endless tangents the fat man goes on and being deliberately drawn out as a cheap way of making them more "epic". I don't mind tangents or uneventful books if the author can actually write and has something to say, but glorified pulp shouldn't outstay its welcome.

The show is fine for cheap entertainment, the books aren't even good for that.

>>8330082
>deliberately drawn out to make things more "epic"

what are some examples of this?

There's a fucking containment board for this shit.
I wouldn't even mind if you made a general, but I don't like seeing one of these on every page.

>>8330036
It had a happy ending though

>asking /lit/ for literary advice to help you cope with being the handler of second-hand used goods

>>8330037
Aware. Hence
>> (contrary to intention)
Not sure what it was about it. Probably out my mind to thinking seriously about what it means to give yourself to someone, broke me out of that ambivalent complacency toward partnership. Or maybe something else. But either way, watching my own thoughts now is like watching Othello and I'm maddened by it.