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Ovid - The Metamorphoses

Petersburg - Bely

The man without qualities

Name one

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>the book you're reading references a book
>you read the book it referenced, and that book references three books
>you read the first book referenced, and that book references five books

>reading moby dick
>footnote a few chapters in states 'melville always intended for the whale to escape and the ship to sink'

>>7512813
No and no, but that's just my opinion. Hope that helps.

Never read one, no; but I've seen dozens of anime adaptations. From what I understand, light novels are "light" reads directed at youths, and thus probably aren't worthwhile literature.

>>7512815
If you could mention your reasons in detail, it would be cool.

Also if you didn't read any, how can you say for certain they're not worthwhile?

We don't talk about Catch-22 very often. I suggest you replace it with The Book of the New Sun or 2666.

>>7512669
What's the best book on there, lads?

It's Blood Meridian

>>7512676
it's moby dick
moby dick > brothers karamazov > lolita = catch-22 > infinite jest > blood meridian > gravity's rainbow > ulysses

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>Was Shakespeare actually good?

Mods delete this b8 thread please

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q9JMoLkUzA

If Shakespeare was born last year he'd still be a baby ya dingus

Pretty sure it was mostly just standard PiV.

Michel Foucault has a lot to say about Ancient Greece's culture around sex. I know that he speaks about it specifically in some of his later interviews, and if I'm remember correctly he touches on it a bit in the History of Sexuality.

>>7512637
Think OP meant more than just standard positions and the like. Greeks are known to have practiced forms of pederasty and egyptians were heavy on the incest. Don't know of any good books on the subject tho...

10pm to 4am

4-8pm

>>7512595
This. Reading made me a night owl.

>>7512552
EbookDroid

PDF

Vertical scroll

You are welcome my good friend.

>>7512552
I use universal book reader

choose something minimalistic and with relatively few downloads
they work just fine, the ones people rave about have annoying interfaces and make you make an account and such

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>>7512519
Probably "go see the movie"

>>7512519
Probably "Do your own homework instead of asking a Cambodian falconing forum"

>>7512467
play Shakespeare audio around the clock and while he sleeps every night

but you don't want him to become a poofa so from 5-16 make sure he plays sports and trucks. at age 17 you tell him he is a patrician warrior, the one Dave Wallace promised

Make him read Ulysses as soon as they cut the cord
If he can't, he's beyond all hope

My diary, desu

He has read a lot. Whether or not he reads presently...

>>7512341
Every writer reads, some to a varying extent. Cormac without a doubt reads other's works but probably doesn't read as much as a critic or an academic.

>>7512341
>Cormac doesn't read
OH IT SHOWS

Read the first two chapters of A Portrait of the Artist. I like it a lot more than Dubliners. Thought I was going to suffer when I read moocow but it turns out that the prose gets more concise as Stephen ages.

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>>7512306
What translation's is better, that or the Penguin one?

On topic, I just started The Sound of Waves by Mishima. Hopefully I can finish it before the 30.

Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, about 60 pages in and thoroughly enjoying it. Also reading Don Quixote, about 100 pages in, and enjoying that as well. Just finished The House of the Seven Gables (after starting it probably 4 times over the last couple of years) and liked it a lot when I finally stayed with it until the end. Listening to Stephen King's It on audible right now if that counts but read it before.

>>7512304
#cringe zone
is fucking garbage hyped for faggots that think that muslims names are deep.

First half was entertaining, learning about the World and how it worked, middle was kind of boring, ending was disappointing.

>>7512304
This is my all-time favorite book. I was lucky enough to know next to nothing about it when I found it. I got the version with the black cover and small strip of sand. Before I knew it, I was reading the sequels and even some of the prequels written by his son and Kevin J Anderson.

>>7512267
nobody was talking to you

>>7512277
Your mother might say otherwise

>>7512283
Moans don't count as talking.

Ah, thanks.

>>7512111
You're Welcome!

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