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>>7414652
The Iliad and The Odyssey, Shakespeare, Dubliners, Portrait

>>7414652
Either read Dubliners then A Portait Of The Artist first, or JUST skip to Ulysses and make sure you have a copy of The New Bloomsday Book

>reading Ulysses

You don't

Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.

>>7414582
pleb af

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Not sure if my favorite, but I liked it a lot.

>tfw all your book covers have to be aesthetic

No. That's like the self-help middle aged business man version. Especially with the non-scholarly Self-help introduction, and lack of good secondary material. Probably a shit translation too.

Get the Everyman Edition.

>>7414491
>Machiavelli
Just read his wiki page and move on to someone better and less spook'd.

>Is this viable

They'd figure out they have different editions way before you told them.

I've often though about his humourous it would be to release a video game, where in a few select copies of hundreds of thousands, creepy glitches happen, you can find Bigfoot, etc.

People would go on the Internet and no one would believe them. Like imagine if a few select copies of Sam Andreas actually did have Bigfoot and nobody believed the people who claimed they saw it?

>>7414489
I don't think it would work b/c it would mean 90% of the book would have to be vague and ambiguous enough for all the different endings to work.

>>7414431

some sonnets from Sir Philip Sidney

>>7414431
My diary desu

Joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man
It's the first Joyce I've ever read and I'm loving it

Ok.

Poetry is dead.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... interesting OP. VERY interesting.

(Forgot to add this to original post). Or will this get better as I continue to read more often?

>>7414291
What are you reading? Is it a very dry text? Are you enjoying it?

>>7414335
LoTR, and yes i am enjoying.

It can be used to attack political ideologies like other dystopian novels

Because they read it in 7th grade

>>7414275
Despite the lack of subtlety at times, Orwell tries to make a point and delivers it in an unoriginal -he admitted Zamiatin's We was his main reference- yet convincing and fresh fashion. Even if you don't share his political views, it's still an interesting reading when you're young. It's overrated, and people still talk about it because it's a high school tier reading, but it doesn't need a superb style or flourish prose in order to be an interesting novel. Besides, plebs thinking they're "literate" for reading it are hilarious.

>>7414243
I liked that book, just read it a couple of weeks ago. I don't remember anything about 'niggers' in it though, there was more jew bashing as I recall.

>>7414243

This is like a better Brownbear post.

>>7414243
>monday say to her "it's a bit chauvinistic and remember its from a old time etc" she says don't worry about it

Holy shit you fucked up.

>>7414034

however much she's willing to pay, junior. start high, say 300$, go from there. don't leave out the option of carnal persuasion. but don't be too obvious about it. something like
>i don't want any money from you..i care about you too much to do that..
and then just like casually push her head down to your crotch.
godspeed

>>7414034

Depends on how much you like your friend, how difficult the content is, whether or not you need to do a lot of extra research, and several other factors.

My standard rate varies between $15 and $25 per double-spaced page. I tend to charge more money if I'm being asked to do an assignment at the last minute or if I have my own exams and schoolwork to deal with first. Likewise, I always let my customers know that I'll charge some additional fee if I wind up spending an inordinate amount of time creating charts or learning course material. I'm always fair about these charges and don't normally end up adding any.

You might consider charging more if you're not knowledgeable about philosophy or if you type slowly. I write for a lot of people on a regular basis and can type upwards of 150 words per minute, so I usually earn between $20 and $50 per hour, depending on the essay's difficulty.

If your friend's paper is single-spaced then my minimum charge would be around $240 and might be more in the neighborhood of $320 around this time of year.

>>7414044
Lol wtf. Nah i don't wanna charge her too much. Im not trying to milk her for money

>>7414032
Getting out of the swamp was easy, but the crocodile was still alive.

>>7414032

Horny housewife number 1 reached for her terrorist manual.

Born from mental breakdowns with scattered ashes washing off our landscapes with waves of tears and pools of blood curdled and gone sour from days spent lonely and misused, a bastard made of our biggest fears and regrets.

How pretentious, /lit/?

please respond

>>7414015
I've only read Meditations, so I cam only recommend that one. You might also try some Zhuangzi. His Taoism had some similarities with Stoicism.

>>7414052
anything in particular? thanks family

christie and hemingway are good for learning

some basic stuff lke harry potter might be a good idea

>>7413954
Gibbons Decline and Fall is probably the highest, most noble English I have ever read. Hume is up there too. For high vernacular, Faulkner and Nabakov

which languages do you know?

iambic tetrameter for personal reasons

>>7413940
kilometre, amerifags need not apply.

>>7413940
trochaic tetrameter, trochaic octameter catalectic, iambic hexameter

what kind of question is that

because i like it

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>>7413874
Because of the chicks.

So I can know how to best use commas to disambiguate questions.