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No, because I have enough distance between my knowledge now and my knowledge a few years ago to know how much of a difference a few years of knowledge can make, and I thank God every single day that my books aren't filled with a retarded 16 year old's pointless ruminations and tryhard attempts to look like he noticed all the THEMES in the book.

>>7955858
What if it is a book where it is useful to point out arguments or ideas that you will have easier time finding out later and comparing them?

If I'm reading it for school, yes.

>>7955560
Iliad, duh.

>>7955575
Cant really go wrong with that one

Dune is also a good choice

>>7955560
could you give us an example of a book you're looking for? "epic, sweeping plotlines" that puts you in a state of awe seems very open.

None of them.

/thread

Now go on back to /r/books kiddo.

The stand probably.

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>posting a picture of stephen king
>not posting a picture of stephen king in which he's wearing his autism goggles

Because I'm not 14 anymore.

>>7955425
because it's not literature

>>7955439
Are you implying that the question is not suitably for this board?

>>7954600
>it's a "Britain person pretends they have an emotional connection with Ancient Rome" thread
The "muh heritage" of the United Kingdom

>>7954615
>The "muh heritage" of the United Kingdom
More like the "We Wuz Kngz" of the anglo-saxon barbarian

>>7954600

It's a lot of work. That's the thing about languages: they're all a shitload of work, and you have to spend years doing small (and not terribly difficult) things every day to get hold of them.

I did three years of Latin in high school/college. The nice thing is that you really just focus on learning to read it, as opposed to dialogue in it. The difficult thing is that it's highly inflected (nouns are declined for grammatical position, the verb conjugation is complicated, and there's a vast vocabulary to absorb, although many of these have English cognates).

If you're the sort of person who struggles to plow through a doorstopper, then you're probably not ready to take on a language yet. Most of us aren't.

>>7954337
Never heard of it

>>7954337
I think you should read something else.

Insipid piece, diatribe that keeps on going for too long, David masking his rather mediocre writing skills with throwing knowledge in, lacking any cohesion and generally blowing smoke in all directions. Deeply insincere work.


>The learning of many things does not teach understanding; otherwise, it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes and Hecataeus.

Baby shoes, Discarded.

Baby shoes on the floor, But nobody owns a baby..

That baby has another thing coming!

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I read this book.

Let me start off by saying that I've been posting on this board for quite a while, and a lot of the standard /lit/ snobbery has rubbed off on me. When information about this book began to spread, I shared everybody's understandable disdain. From where I was sitting it seemed to me like an embarrassing book designed to pander to nerds' nostalgia. As somebody whose reading time is mostly spent rereading my favorites by Joyce, Gaddis, and McElroy, I didn't think there was any chance that this book would be anything but pain for me to read.

Which is why I'm extremely surprised I'm about to give this book the assessment I'm about to give it. Honestly, I thought it was a staggeringly impressive debut that singles out Kline as *the* writer to watch right now. It's well-written, funny, ingeniously plotted and even (this is the big one) moving. As I was reading it, I couldn't believe my own reaction. And when I was finished, I was astonished at how powerfully the novel resonated.

I urge everyone who's skeptical to give this book a shot. You're bound to pleasantly surprised.

>>7953745
Honestly? Never read it.

I haven't read it, although I've read excerpts. The excerpts were quite bad, though it is easy to cherry pick shit and impress /lit/ with how superior you are. I'm not likely to read it because I'm not into video game culture anymore, though.

>>7979109
Bart Ehrman, William James and Tolstoy all really undermined my belief in orthodox (small o) christianity

>>7979109
Zizek

Dostoevsky and Homer.

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Start with the Quakers

Diogenes, Wittgentein, Austin, Rorty.

>>7972425
slavoj zizek

>>7969146

John Green, much like Coehlo, is what you get when you allow romanticist melodrama be expressed without any adherence to form or language. It's what you get when the rabble can read, but are not forced to read well.

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I really can't be the only one who dies a little when I read the wet musings of this closet pedophile.

>>7969146
If green had a sense of humor and wasnt a money whore he could parody modern society perfectly.

>>7969115
Today has been cancelled
Please return home
It's raining out

Out by the old, red-brick corner,
there's a gutter with old beer and cigarette butts
and some old, abandoned dream
left-over, still unfinished
Today is cancelled you know.

The sky grows dimmer
The day grows older
I'm heading for the corner
into an old dream I'd forgotten about

Tomorrow has been cancelled
please stay home
It's still raining out.

>>7969115
Today has been fucked
Please return your shithole
It's pooping out

Out by the gold, brown-brick corner,
there's a glutter with old pee and cigarette ass
and some old, abandoned Rick
leftistscum-over, still finished
Today is fucked you know.

The Mexicans grows Zimmer
The night grows older
I'm shitiing for the corner
into an old wet dream I'd forgotten about

Tomorrowland has been cancelled :( #imsad
please stay home in Facebook
It's still shitng out

>>7969142
>>7969565
very good critique tbqhwyfam

>>7979770
These are very strong opinions

>>7979770
Good job OP

Wow, OP. Those sure are some

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Sheltered white bougie no-talent. Hardly surprising.

>>7979612
This is how normal people with even a semblance of self-worth and racial awareness feel when they interact with non-whites to any extent.

>>7979624
Recant.
Tell us you're joking.

>>7979218
>mfw I was accepted, but couldn't afford to go.
Being middle-class sucks.

Seems like an exorbitant amount of time wasted on math/science, especially considering many of those texts will teach you outdated, needlessly difficult ways of solving problems.

>>7979218
>going to a school with an 85% aceptance rate
Poor show lad