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>>7618392

I've never heard of any big criticism of that book itself, but I've heard us talking about how its author is a huge pleb (see his essay on Gaddis for more).

Sold a lot, author's a dweeb, domestic realism, American

oprah

>>7618193

I hate his short stories. Great Gatsby is a good if not somewhat simpleminded novel. This Side of Paradise is imo his strongest, you get the breakdown of a Gatsby-type in a much more personal manner (largely autobiographical)

How Petite Was My Manhood? Co-authored by Hemingway

Obviously Gatsby

that yale course

>>7614742
http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies

This one? Should I treat the two testaments as completely separate?

>>7614749
Yes, New Testament studies is completely different, and the more you study the more you realize its a different world. The associated Ehrman book with the New Testament class is a primer, and an excellent one at that that is widely available to pirate.

As far as reading the bible as literature, of course you should read it all but for enjoyment, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Matthew, and James are masterpieces.

OPs:

Good:
>Captain Fracasse, by Theophile Gautier
Some frenchanon recommended it years ago and it's now one of my favourite books. Light adventure with amazing descriptions.

Bad:
de Bello Gallico
I love historical work, even more if it's 'original', but I just couldn't get into this one.

watched but the more you know it the more you'll get from it

>>7620797
That's not me at all. I'm pretty sure Bloom is an idiot. Pynchon a hack. MacCarthy a bigger hack. And the only thing I struggle to read is old English.

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Is Philip Roth a meme now?

>>7620797
Disagree with Bloom on a lot of things
Not really fond of DFW
Pynchon is my favourite book
Didn't really care for White Noise, though I'll probably read Libra and Underworld soon
I'm pretty sure I've got most of it, it isn't that hard
Yes I did
I don't even try, have no interest in reading A Recherche any time soon
I probably am smarter than I think I am, but hardly as smart as other people think I am

Morelike MenexANUS, amirite?

>>7620722
>wastes his mundane life on 4chan of all places

top pleb lel

I'm French, and I refuse to even touch the English language. Don't bother reading it, it is a disgusting monger language.

>>7620665
If they were written originally in my own language, I read them in my own language. The same with English. For languages I cannot read I use either an English or Spanish (my mother tongue) translation depending on the edition and how close the other language is to either English or Spanish (e.g. I read Pessoa in a Spanish translation, but I would read Goethe in an English one).

Only books originally written on english

Write a play about a play

Two men wait for God.

God arrives, then leaves.

The men then try to explain to others how God was just there, but nobody believes them.

two broads who read nabokov wait for godot while romeo and juliet kill themselves

I've heard this a few times, don't get it, it didn't even strike me as something intended to be gross.

Personally Naked Lunch made me ill the first time I read it. I think the chapter Hassan's Rumpus Room, whichever is the first regarding mugwumps killing and sodomizing young boys. Just didn't jive with me.

>>7620593
Naked Lunch made me horny
Push was actually difficult to read despite being a mediocre novel

>girl getting raped with a bottle full of dirt then having the bottle broken inside of her vagina, after which she is beaten to death with pitchforks and shovels
i was twelve years old man, not ready for that shit

Waterfield is a damn good translator imo. Not Greek, but Mandelbaum's Ovid's Metamorphoses is damn good.

>>7620137
Is that Vintage Publishing? I can't find it on Amazon in my country. What else did you discard?

>>7620137
Pope didn't even write half of his Odyssey. It's shit.

Fitzgerald's Odyssey is a great work of art in English alone. His Aeneid is excellent as well (not so much his Iliad).

Depends on the book.

I've never read a 1,000 page work a fiction where you couldn't have cut 200 pages of fat from it and lost nothing.

Lots of negatives, I know. Think it through, Junior, you'll make it to fifth grade yet.

>>7620066
The novella is my ideal form. You can sit down and read it in one or two sittings, like watching a film.

>>7619814
>skype
No webcam discussion I hope

>>7619830
voice/text

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Keep talking shit, lil faggot. U just jelly cuz u will never b in the western canon

>>7617785
But you're right.

Rousseau is the overrated one t b h

>>7616450
We never read anything when i was in HS.

All that I can remember:

Stig of the Dump
Great Expectations
The Crucible
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men

Pretty standard desu. It was kind of merged into media, so we also analysed some films in the same way we'd do so for a book. We did Shrek & The Fifth Element and something else I forget

And there were a bunch of poems by some British poets I can't even remember the names of. One of them is currently the poet laureate if I recall though. I thought their poems stunk

is Beowulf a novel?

english is pretty kool in my bok