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>>8246663
Pale Fire

>>8246663
2666
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Lots of Borges

>>8246663
The Recognitions
The New York Trilogy
Pale Fire

I'm curious: can you learn Latin in an American highschool?

>>8246642
Never heard of the Ovid text, heard exactly what you did about Wheelock and didn't like the sound of it.

I started Latin about a month ago, so I can't speak from any expertise, but can share my experience so far. I've been using Lingua Latina alongside Collar's "Beginner's Latin Book" (published 1891, free pdf online) and have found the process to be pretty rewarding.

Lingua is entirely in Latin and sort of forces you to "think" in Latin, and if you reread chapters (I do each one three times), grammar and vocab really start sticking, especially if you do some occasional note-taking on the side to nail down declensions and the like.

Collar's text is basically the opposite of Lingua: Very old school, introducing one grammar rule at a time and then throwing a ton of exercises at you. For example, one of the earliest chapters is the first noun declension, followed by ~150 exercises using what you just learned, to really beat it into you.

Frankly I think both styles are valuable, and considering the overlap in content, as they're both intro books, I often find material in one book that I've already been heavily exposed to in the other, but both texts still teach and challenge me daily; Lingua is more creative with sentences and is more fluid and conversational, while Collar throws more complex grammar at you from the beginning and doesn't let up.

As another example, Lingua's first verb conjugation chapter introduces you to only the present indicative forms of all regular verb stems. Collar's first conjugation chapter introduces you to all the forms of a single verb stem (indicative present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect; imperative preset, future; infinitive, etc.).

I just checked out Latin via Ovid and it seems like a cool text similar to Lingua Latina, but I'm not sure exactly how they compare. Worth looking into both, I'd say.

Hope that helped!

>>8246642
Use both and lingua latina per se illustrata, also take a look at Ritchies "fabulas faciles" for easy, early reading practice.

>and why

jesus christ op answer your own prompt

>>8246593
why that book might change his opinion of marriage is pretty obvious

>>8246593
Sorry I forgot

Stoner's wife made me contemplate the hellish possibilities of married life in a way that permanently soured my perception of the concept of marriage, no matter how uncommon his situation may be

>>8246556
La Princesse de Cleves


>Books like Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Brave new world and Nineteen Eighty Four
holy shit taste

>>8246556
I want to say Flannery O'Connor but you might not like her because you're taste is awfully juvenile

I realize this is a fiction, but I must ask this fiction, what the hell are you even doing in school? You have no business reading literature at all, really. You should be out ploughing the fields or picking up garbage. Learning is not for those of your type. Which is fine, but as it is you are perpetrating an abomination.

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OP,

You faggot, if you want to be a gentleman all you need do is to be born into the gentry. If you have not achieved this, then it is not your birthright, and you shall have to marry in, like the uncouth grasper that you are.

Cheers,
R. Hon. Biffo T Bear Esq.

PS You might quite enjoy PG Wodehouse

>>8246502
Holy fucking shit, please remove yourself from this board and website right now, if you are serious.
I wager that you´ll find some nice and supportive people on this cool website called Reddit, maybe you wanna visit them someday?

If troll, I give it a 7/10

>>8246502
be as degenerate as possible
be rich
congrats your an earl

your definitions are fucktarded and demonstrate a very low set of standards even for the categories you are trying to elevate.

>>8246486
It's better to just read whatever the fuck you want and stop being autistic over it.

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I'm "widely read," but that doesn't mean I haven't followed your other modes at times. This seems like an artificial categorization.

Read more short stories. The Judgement is the best.

>>8246402

Is there a complete short story collection?

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Also am I the only one who pictured Gregor more like a mirelurk without claws rather an a roach?

>>8246350
just take the redpill really

>asking about national sovereignty

>responsibilities in regards to its neighbors and the rest of the world

Are you retarded? Sovereignty deals with the responsability as nation and its people have first and foremost with itself, not the rest of the world. You wouldn't know this obviously, you lost your power as a citizen of a nation to a bunch of corporate fucks that only want money and went to believe that power and freedom is measured in how you can oppress others better.

Idk OP, but not Hobbes that's for damn sure

Please help!!!

When choosing a reseach plan it's essential that the subject exites and interests you personally. For that reason i can't help you

please don't pays penis

some good shit right there. Been thinking about re-reading it lately and going for the rest of the series. The protagonist reminds me of my parents

>>8246271
Well, well worth it. Updike is a fantastic writer. You just get more attached to the characters as you go along, especially to Rabbit's bastardly ways. It's just an American novel/series in every sense of the word. Fuckin' love it. In the Beauty of the Lilies is also very good. And his essays. Haven't read much of his other stuff. Some stories, which a lot of people think are his best stuff.

Good but uninteresting.

>>8246238
start with the greeks

>>8246249
Yeah i heard Apology of socrates by plato spoke about the topic, i just started reading it, any other specific book or author? ty

>>8246238
We might be in the same class. Let me guess... somewhere in Australia?

Try again on the weekend

Depends on where you're studying.

For med lit, read Chaucer in original language.

>>8246826

Why?

Arent there Medieval /lit/ charts to post?

Never post here again.

>implying the part where the sinners swim through the lava like dolphins and when trying to rest on the shore, get pushed back in by imps with spears, wasn't absolutely hilarious

>>8246123
Whoa the sticky moves Whoa

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

>>8246121
>7 years

No, because the only people who actually bother to read anything written by Pynchon are pseudfags who aren't actually casual readers, which is why it is commonly heard that it takes 7 years to read a book such as the one you listed.

>>8246133
pynchon took 7 years to write you fucking dumb moron

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this is either the most brilliant or most idiotic work in the history of art but I can't decide which.

The cat
Just Sat
On the mat

>>8246134
most brilliant, but likely not for the reasons you think