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>>7825481
Is this legit?

>>7826402
Yep

>>7825481
looks kind of cool. seems closer to crime and punishment than american psycho though

>>7825463
Bumpity

>>7825463
Self-Bump

I'm sure someone here knows a thing or two about the Bible

>>7825463

>I've already decided on the first 5 books of the Old Testament (Torah)

Those are the only ones I've read in full. I started off doing exactly what you are (and for the same purpose) late last year.

Bumping because I am interested as well.

I am assuming the whole New Testament since it's quite short.

>The Scavpet Gospeh

Anyone?

>>7825506
sorry, still trying to make out the title... scarvel goipili? something like that.

it's painfully american (muh individualism, muh society is bad, muh do what i want), but it was done in a very sympathetic way. the chief character narration was done very well and the book was fun to read.

it's praised because it captures a certain time period/attitude of american culture extremely well. few serious readers would laud it as a timeless global masterpiece, but it does what it does well.

>>7825234
>muh individualism, muh society is bad, muh do what i want

We've got a live berniecuck over here, folks

>>7825240
that's a negative ghostrider

>taking 4chan memeing as indicative of someone's views

wew lad, this your first day here?

What i love about RtT is that dumb "fascists" are physically unable to read it.
God bless Evola, who trolls pseudo intellectuals since 1961.

>>7825053
*tips copy of communist manifesto*

ebola was the original diaper furry after being hit by that shrapnel

It's like an Oscar's Speech. No one really cares, but it's there anyway. Although, everyone loosely pays attention to it, halfassedly, but so if something amazing happens they can catch it. Rarely ever happens though.

>>7825034
>thanking for ghostwriting
I always laugh when it comes out

Because it's nice to give credit to those who made the novel possible but otherwise would go unacknowledged. Why does it bother you?

then put it on hold?

>>7825021
The chimp is Jesus

>>7825021
>author of LIFE OF PI
>read
>has
>wants to
>literature
>implications

It is. Truth is in me. The truth of art is only in how I bend it to my use. There is no truth in art external to me and so it's truth is objective.

>>7825005
did you just look at recent threads to come up with an idea of the current userbase, then try to troll as many people as possible?

>no this is a real and literary thread :^)

here's your (you)

Homer sure went to Oxford.

It's an interesting story with interesting characters and an extremely economical use of language for the kind of character and class portraits that it's able to make.

This thread is posted every week. Are people really expecting the book to be stellar because it's taught in high schools so much? It's taught so much because it's easy to read and short and good and American history.

>>7824991
I didn't say it was a bad book, I was just wondering why it's taught in American schools because I'm from Canada. I don't think Canada has a book like the Great Gatsby which is a shame because I like the simplicity of the story and the short length.

>>7824986
The ending was silly.

read whatever you want. come back when you want to discuss something you've read

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>>7824980
>Sor are there any Mythology you would recommend reading and why?

Yes. Get the D'aulaires' books on Greek and Norse mythology. They are wonderful.

>>7825384
Does this book delve into the esoteric and allegorical meaning of mythology?

Not Faust. I'd actually suggest Death in Venice.

>>7824833
Either >>7824837
or Buddenbrooks. The Magic Mountain is comfy but pretty rooted in pre-WWI political and cultural theory.

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>>7824837
>>7824841
Thanks. I still have some books to finish, and after reading them I'll go to the library and probably borrow Buddenbrooks because they don't have Death in Venice. What about his short stories?

Thornton Wilder, Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Federico Garcia Lorca, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde; those are just some names if you're going off of introductory-level plays.

>>7824830
Also, A Doll's House was pretty underwhelming as far as the ability of a playwright goes.

>>7824854
no one considers A Doll's House to be his greatest work. It's just his most famous. It would be like criticising Shakespeare with the assumption that Romeo and Juliet is his greatest play. I'd agree that A Doll's House is more significant in terms of social context than his abilities as a playwright. Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, When We Dead Awaken, and Peer Gynt speak much more of his abilities. Not that I am accusing you of having judged him before reading anything else. I would be interested to know how much of his work you have read.

>>7824682
for the love of god don't even do this ironically fucking christ

>>7824657
WRITING THE MOTHER OF ALL POMO HERE JACK

Well meme'd, sirrah

>>7824644
I, too, would like to know about this.

what is this

>>7824677
it is book

>fantasy/scifi book is bad
stop the presses

>>7824891
It was Really bad.