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I read the Penguin edition of the Poetic Edda. I can't say much since it's the only one I've read. You can find them all online and see for yourself which translation feels the best.

Or learn Icelandic.

I haven't read any Eddas but I read the Saga of the Volsungs a while back which was very fun.

>>7417435
The Völsunga Saga is pretty great.

I'd recommend checking out Laxdaela Saga too. It's a little boring compared to the Völsunga but still worth reading.

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>>7417340
Also Borges Collected Fictions.

This book is interesting partially because he puts the final nail in Jared Diamond's environmental theories, and in that it is also basically an apology for the whole "End of History" Neocon thing.

So refreshing for a scholar to admit his faults.

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Don't know what to start with, though

Just finished The Fall. Now i'm reading The Trial, On the Road and 1Q84.

I look in the mirror.

Throw against wall see if sticks

Tao Lin

It's not desu

>>7417338
And why not senpai

>>7417327
You think great expectations is the worst book ever written? That's a pretty bold statement.

do you really? how's that working out for you? been thinking about microdosing myself, never done lsd

I wake up from where I sleep on the ground at 6:50am. I shower and then sleep for another 15 minutes before dressing and rushing to leave by 7:30am. I catch a train at 7:55am and then take the subway to get to work by 8:30am. I then do the same in reverse and arrive home by 6:20pm, feeling exhausted, irritable and depressed.

>>7417309
Lsd is a wonder drug and the ultimate nootropic at small doses.
Also know someone who can sell microdose amounts.

What do you mean by relevant?

>>7417300
It's relevant to show that fighting has been going on for a long time and give historical context to the relationship Russia has with the Caucasus region. I don't really think Islam plays a huge role in it (which may be instructive in itself).

But you should still read it, because it's a phenomenal work as well as being short. Bloom strokes himself to it. If you are familiar with Tolstoy's longer works, it's like getting a piece of one of those without the commitment.

>>7417300

It's very good. I liken it to Shogun for its perspective on the Other as in some ways more cultured than the Self (or at the very least as something to be respected and learned from).

From what I gather it's the most accepted of all YA shit.

It's good YA. Give it to your kids.

Lol dude haha what if like it's God who's the bad guy haha man far out oh yeah and here's some shit tier garbage fantasy heh

>>7417274
Adorno called the cops because his students were being too loud near him. Apparently his health rapidly deteriorated around this time.

He was literally "no fun allowed" in both personal life and philosophical. It's impossible to have fun and not be complicit in some way. All art must remind us of the Holocaust etc

He was just too much. Interesting critique of Hegel though.

>>7417304
>It's impossible to have fun and not be complicit in some way.
This is true tho.

>>7417274
The board deals with literature, not the gossip columns, though.

In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg is comfy patrician core. Lovely stuff to listen to whilst in the bath or having some tea.

>>7417285
this

Joe Rogan podcast
Rick Gervais XFM
KCRW Bookworm

the patrician podcasts

Who is that semen demon?

>>7417163
Generic post-scene adolescent #8974358734587

>>7417153
Analytic dominates in the Anglophone world. It inclines toward empiricism, formalism, and simplicity. It has little interest in metaphysics or style. Perhaps it can typified by this anecdote about Samuel Johnson from Boswell's Life of Doctor Johnson:
"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus." "

Continental philosophy dominates non-Anglo European philosophy and is much more interested in perception, the senses, and complexity. It is preoccupied with representation and style. Perhaps it can typified by Jacques Derrida's statement in Of Grammatology: "il n'y a pas de hors-texte" ("there is no outside-text" or "there is no outside of textuality").

Good luck and read well!

Last I checked they were still working on it. Sounded like some technical issue.

>>7417151
Bibliotik is run by a ton of incompetent elitist assholes. I was banned for disagreeing with a librarian via pm, politely, despite being pro. I've never seen a more unwelcoming community.

Just use bookzz and btdigg and get a mobilism account

>>7417199
Also I thoroughly enjoyed hadrian

>>7417109
Not really, read the Quran instead, it's the updated version.

>>7417116
Whats the problem with the bible? How can you compare with the Quran? I am more interest in the bible because my gf is catholic and i was born to atheist parents (in a way that i know pretty much nothing about religion).

New Testament is pretty cool to read.

most of OT is boring, but has its gems

Read more, kiddo

KEEP READING YOU CUNT

>>7417100
Read more or you'll turn out like me.

Maybe your just a pleb mate

>>7417069
probably. maybe i should read a magazine..

>>7417081
Read something like Steinbeck or Hemingway

>>7417032
>What are some books that critique culture?

all of philosophy ever?

try Dialectic of Enlightenment i guess

or pretty much anything ever

what are some books that critique pure reason?