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>>7624031

nee
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wordsworthus magnus poeta erat

>>7624829
hoc vere, familia.

>>7627979
>more or less anything Blake Butler
Spare yourself the cringe and never read his review of your pic.

>>7627991
Been there, done that. Like everything he puts out on VICE, I found it mostly harmless if a bit idiotic and endearing - basically, the essence of VICE itself.

You read Dreams of Amputation?

>>7628001
>VICE
>endearing

Homeboy needed money.

Back to mlp

>>7627857
Well that was his inspiration

>>7627854
imo The Crossing is even better.

That's a good idea

That's a defensible position for a conservative to take.

I prefer my books nice and sanitary like Hogg, Dhalgren, Blood Meridian and Naked Lunch instead of that pre-World War II degenerate filth like Pride & Prejudice. Ugh, disgusting.

>>7627819

Not sure I'm understanding the question entirely. There's inherently going to be bias in viewing the Bible, depending on whom you ask, along with what part of the Bible you're talking about. Some of the 'wisdom writings' from the Old Testament, for example, like Proverbs or Ecclesiastes, will likely sound pretty good/credible even to an atheist, whereas they're going to reject something like an account of the resurrection of Jesus. Also A Christian and a Jew will both see the Torah/Old Testament as valid, although in somewhat different ways. A Jew will reject the New Testament. And only a Muslim, and not a Christian or a Jew, will see the Qur'an as valid, nor a Muslim the Hebrew or Christian Bible (since Islam holds them to be corrupted and the Qur'an the uncorrupted version).

Just read one book on either side of the argument and they'll balance each other out.

Best: Finnegan, Stephen Daedalus, Leopold Bloom

Honorable mention: Ishmael

Worst: John

just think on juliet's line a bit

she says a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

but she doesn't say a sweet flower by any name would smell just as like a rose

Oedipa Maas
K
Dedalus
Mersault
Humbert Humbert
José Arcadio Buendía
Ada
Lolita
John Shade
Glanton

>>7627504
>christian mystic
i dunno he looks pretty skeptic in that pic

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>>7627641
He's just old

I think
You're pretty lame

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>>7627416
AHAHAHAH BURN EPIC RETORT xD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>7627411
My name is Anon
I've got something to say
I think you should fuck off
Because you're fucking lame and gay

Peace

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>>7626433
Sticky next time

>>7626433
>Should he be read in any particular order?
Italian here so I don't know about translation but his prose is pretty simple (even if it's great), I read The Baron In The Trees, The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount when I was 12 yo.
Don't worry about the order, you can start even from his more avantgarde stuff without any problem. But do it, it's great.

>>7626433
I just finished On a Winter's Night this weekend...It was a nice introduction to Calvino I suppose...

I particularly don't like the idea of reading fast for the sake of it.
Find it way better to read slow and meaningfully than rushed and superficially, especially if you're talking about the great books.

>>7625753
But they say only autistic boys read with a internal voice inside the head.

Also, i want to be productive. Capable of engage intelectual conversation in anoymous anime boards without spending precious % of my life just to be at same level of another senpais.

Btw, i wanna have more time to post on 4chan and help my mom, because she complain alot of the mess i made when i get out of the basement.

>>7625714
It can be useful if you don't go much higher than your normal reader speed.
I would use it for non-fiction, but not so much for fiction and let alone poetry.

>why should I care about fictional situations?

You've got to immerse yourself m8.

>>7625411
I know, the problem is that I can't be immersed in this book. Other fictional stories had me entranced. I'm just confused as to why Dune has the reputation it has.

>>7625465
Well, in the sea of shit that is fantasy, Dune holds up pretty well. The writing is solid, the pacing is solid, even if it's a transparently-veiled political commentary.

>>7621496
women is inferior to a man

>>7621496
>that anal scene

wut.

I missed the anal scene desu

Cut your nails and use post-it notes like everybody else.

Highlighting is for fucking children who can't just read a book and digest it.

>IF I HIGHLIGHT THIS, I'LL KNOW IT'S A CRITICAL SENTENCE! AND THIS ONE.. AND THIS ONE.. AND THIS ONE.. WAIT, I'D BETTER START UNDERLINING EVERY NOUN SO I DON'T FORGET WHAT A NOUN IS. HOLY SHIT THIS PARAGRAPH BEGINS WITH A DECLARATIVE SENTENCE! WE'RE GONNA NEED SOME BIG SHADED ARROWS FOR THIS ONE!

Actually kill yourself.

>>7621230

is that spilled coffee on the page?

first ~10 chapters of journey to the west.

then read the rest too.

he's not a myth character with a lot of loose stories, he's just an original character from the book with some loose attributes taken from myths.

Whatever else is said to you on this board after this point, remember that simply desiring to read and learn makes you not a faggot.

Sun Wukong is a character from the book "Journey to the West." The Illiad is about the entire Trojan War, not just Achilles, and Achilles (as with many Greek figures) is mentioned in multiple mythss. Happy reading!