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because it's the P&V translation

I hope you have seen at least several russian movies
Have drunk russian wodka before
If not, you can't comprehend

>>7811501
Oxford is good and unexpensive. Hackett is a little bit more expensive but is also more scholarly. Don't know about the Penguin, but wouldn't trust it when you can access the other too. I have the Oxford one, I like it, although if I could I'd buy the Hackett edition.

>>7811569
cheers anon

the Hackett one seems to be definitive in content with the Latin additions - I think it's completely modernized in language with extensive citations/glossary etc.

Oxford apparently is too, but I heard a reviewer saying it kept anachronisms like "thou" and so on, if I were going to choose the cheaper one with the bonus of original language, I'd rather go all the way with it rather than some inbetween

sorry if I'm rambling a bit, it's pretty late here

>>7811611
so oxford is the way to go?

Which one will be cooler to show your young, book-loving nephews and nieces in 20 or 30 years?

/lit/ - muh materialism

>>7811523
he could be asking because of potential typos and print errors 2bh

no one non-fiction here
/lit/ is only plebs and fags

I find that I like the idea of reading and studying textbooks (or any rigorous didactic nonfiction) more than the reality of actually doing it.

>>7811886
reading textbooks doesn't make you cool or smart. Textbooks are for passing a course, not getting to the truth of anything

you're just a pretentious faggot

what did you like about it?

If you want more like Dune, read its sequels I guess.

>>7811383
Only the sequels Herbert wrote. The rest is fanfic, and not even good fanfic.

>>7811383
I really liked the world building and coming of age story with Paul. Liked the Fremen culture and stuff.

It was 10x better than Ender's Shadow, that is for sure.

A Month in Sweden: A Day By Day of Islam and Multiculturalism

Start with the Qu-ran

The Dwarf by Pär Lagerqvist is great. August Strindberg is great, too.

- "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown

-I enjoy it so far. I've been making shit progress though

-Not sure what I'll read next

>IJ
>pretty good, I understand why it's memed so much here but I still like it. I've been reading it very slowly and I think it will take me a long time to finish
>kafka's complete stories or no one writes to the colonel

>>7811306
>Ulysses
>Almost done with it though. I'll read Molly's monologue tonight. It's undoubtedly a masterpiece. I never thought a novel could be so great and inventive at the same time. I feel like I should reread with supplemental material later.
>I have Mason & Dixon, Lolita and Blood Meridian to read, not sure which one I should pick up first.

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>>7811274
>What are your thoughts on book

>>7811274
book is opinion

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Interesting concepts with often mediocre execution

>>7811269
>What's /lit/'s opinion on lovecraft threads?

an identification number
a players identification number
You write an if the VERY next word begins with an I, A, E, O
Fuck you

>>7811267

Actually if the SOUND is a vowel. It's an hour, not a hour.

>>7811275
It's easier to remember this way, but you are right

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>Go Set a Watch, Man

I liked Go! Set a watch? Man!

The striking tale of a man who mistakenly enters a race to set a watch at the correct time but realises he has no idea how to do so

I haven't read it. I've heard people were upset because Atticus "Jesus" Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird is now an old racist. Some also claimed Go Set a Watchman solidified the theory that Capote took Harper Lee's drafts of her novel and rewrote it for her.

>>7811195
She wrote it you anti-Semite

what makes you say that?

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Entry #731
>If Coleridge is right in ascribing to Schelling a wish to denude the active intellect of its sclerotic vestments, then.. hang on, I need to diddle my cooter to some sick lesbian action.

the lit wiki philosophy guide

>>7811122
lol he's not gonna read those hundreds of books. yeah just read that text, even though it's abridged af. if you're into ethics check out the nicomachean ethics and groundwork of the metaphysic of morals

maybe even j.s. mill's on liberty though i'm biased because i hate it

>he actually fell for the 'translations' meme

kek

just read it in english retard

>>7811102

The >translation thing is largely a meme. It's obviously impractical in general to learn other languages for the sole purpose of reading literature in the original. Surely the optimal choice is to seek out the best translations.
As for choice of language for reading, I have some familiarity (if not fluency) with Japanese and I can say it would be a tough choice for reading because of the thousands of kanji, along with how they combine. It would involve a comparatively high degree of effort relative to the literary payoff.

>>7811126
>>7811151

While it's undoubtely a meme, I'd say it has some truth to it. Reading the original is miles better than reading a translation, but only if your comprehension of the language is on par with your first one.

And of course, to reach that level you would need to study even the most basic of languages for quite some time. I'd say go for it if you really love Japanese culture and literature, but if you are just curious about it, then don't bother.

the one me and your mom wrote where the words are all different sounding sexual grunts

I'm reading an online translation by Ian Johnston and I like it so far. Took out a copy of one by Richard Lattimore from the library and found it much more difficult so I went back to the online one. Something about the phrases and sentence structure just makes it easier to follow

There is none.

My favourites are Fagles for the Iliad and Fitzgerald for the Odyssey