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Opinions on Peter Green's Iliad? It came out a few months ago and it's getting tons of praise...
>Wrath, goddess, sing of Achilles Peleus's son's
>calamitous wrath, which hit the Achaians with countless ills—
>many the valiant souls it saw off down to Hades,
>souls of heroes, their selves left as carrion for dogs
>and all birds of prey, and the plan of Zeus was fulfilled—
>from the first moment those two men parted in fury,
>Atreus's son, king of men, and the godlike Achilles.
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He's made a greentext Iliad? Seems like it's really getting there as a literary form
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>>7379054
>hurrr durrr i dont like all the other translations i'm gonna translate it myself and change a couple of words here and there!
autism.
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>>7379071
By that reasoning we might as well have stopped at Pope.
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Who else here /remembersNothing/?
Why do I even bother reading when all the stories fade away in a month to a few snapshots
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Because that's how human memory works you dumb frogposter
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>>7379026
I remember everything I read, but somehow cannot do basic math. Long division has me completely beat.
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>>7379035
same
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I just started reading the bible and it has really bad pacing and slow character development with god in the beginning, but virgin mary is best waifu and the soundtrack is really, really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlxsnEBL2do&feature=youtu.be&t=22s
what are your opinion on the bible /lit/?
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That's not the right soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wwMcy4_Iwg
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>>7379020
shit mane bach is gucci as fuck
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I find the character designs to to be really good (especially the angels), and the plot twist where the protagonist rises from the dead was really well executed.
ITT we talk about old books.
Recently bought Tolstoï War and Peace, collection nombre d'or 1956.
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>>7378935
I recently bought a brazilian edition of Zola's Germinal from 1979.
I really liked the cover, but mine doesn't have this hideous red dot.
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Recently copped a UK first edition of Beckett's Malone Dies, 1958. I'm about thirty pages in, haven't read any of his novels before but I really liked Waiting for Godot. It's interesting that he translated the novel into himself, does anyone know of authors who did this? The only author that comes to mind is Nabokov.
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I don't have any particularly old books myself, but my grandmother still has an illustrated 1915 edition of Don Quijote. Apparently, my gradndgrandfather bought it and it was my grandfather's favorite book.
I wonder how much that book is worth. Apparently it's the oldest DQ translation to my language.
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Do you read the introduction?
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Always.
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Always at the end.
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>If would be
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I just finished The Stranger. I thought it was great. I especially enjoyed the final chapter and how the whole thing builds up to it. That deep sense of meaninglessness, I'm glad that's not my mindset most of the time.
If you've been reading my sad postings, you know that I've taken up reading mostly to be able to talk lit with a girl I really like. I'm enjoying everything I'm reading, but that was why I started. She's really great. I managed to bring up my new hobby in conversation with her. I mentioned that I read The Catcher in the Rye. She didn't react much. I don't think she's read that one.
I made a self-depreciating joke about having so much free time I'm going to read In Search of Lost Time. She definitely hasn't read that. I mentioned that Nabokov called it the greatest work of prose of the 20th century, so it's really a must read. That's my thing, when I sense I'm rambling about something autistic I try and turn it into a joke at my own expense. My younger brother was in the room sort of making fun of me, not in a mean way, just the way brothers do. The conversation ended with me declaring my love of The Stranger, and how reading about how other people find life meaningless actually brings me great joy.
Okay, I'm not Cary Grant. I could've been smoother, but I'm actually satisfied right now. You'd have to know me to know I didn't completly botch the conversation. Only sort of.
She posted this list to Pinterest. What does /lit/ think of it?
http://redefinedmom.com/goodreads-100-books-you-should-read-in-a-lifetime/
No Slaughterhouse-Five. That's my favorite so far. I'll have to recommend it to her.
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I'm almost positive this is bait so far. Yes I've read the other posts.
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>>7378839
Not bait. I'm just very awkward.
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Having common interests is fine and all for being friends but you need to start flirting with her
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In which order should I read the Greeks? In which order should I read Plato's works?
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Thrasymachus' Order
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>>7378719
What sophistry!
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Any chance of a real answer? Please /lit/.
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Thread for any ideas on how to start threads about topics. Especially any guidelines or exemplars that have/could make better, more in depth, posts and responses.
I feel like there should be some sort of general outline for certain topics that would help posters make a thread which would lend itself to better responses and possibly be incorporated to the sticky if possible.
Honestly any time i see a response 1-2 sentences long I just filter it out, and it has made this board only rarely worthwhile. There's so many ITT threads and general meme posting only attempting at serious conversation to the point where I feel like a general structure needs to be imposed, or at least socially enforced by people who care about the board.
How can we make this board better, everybody?
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>>7378511
1. Do not post asking opinions about a writer with no other context.
2. Provide citations. Passages best, followed by sections, followed by works. If you want to discuss something, be specific.
3. Don't try to be funny in the OP. You can't base a thread on a joke. Without something else to riff on, your joke will almost certainly be horrible. Jokes come later.
4. Always provide your opinion on something before asking for those of others. If you don't try, why should we?
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>>7378515
5. /lit/ is not your blog. Namefags and tripfags are despised because they generally ignore this. Faggotry will be grudgingly tolerated otherwise.
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6. Do not start threads to instigate emotionally-charged political debates and do not reply to threads that blatantly attempt to do this.
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I heard u guys read books. I met this girl whos into reading shit paperbacks and i want to impress her. what does a good book that gets the ladys?
>paperbacks or hard books?
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infinite jest
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>>7378475
does that have a lot of words?
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>>7378462
You should get a hardcover of the legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra
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The image on the left is considered art, the image on the right is not.
Is /lit smart enough to explain why with its literature skills?
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Both images are art.
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>>7378212
the one on the right is just a photo of a sunset and is therefore not considered art. its just a documentary recording on an event.
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Photography isn't expressed, go fuck yourself if you think photography is art
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Anyone else think this is a fantastic novel? Best book I've ever bought on impulse.
Also David Foster Wallace general thread.
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>>7378191
well memed
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>>7378193
I just bought it as well because I heard it was a literal dank meme book.
It's really good if I am to proceed forth with honesty, kinsman.
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>>7378191
It's a good book. Don't listen to all the gay anti-memers, they just don't want you to have fun
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Anyone else think this is a fantastic novel? Best book I've ever bought on impulse.
Also Joe Hill general thread.
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Yes I actually really enjoyed it. Movie sucked dick.
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>>7378304
I didn't think the movie was completely horrible, but it definitely didn't stick to the book enough. The book worked because it explained everything- I feel like I would have missed a lot in the movie if I hadn't read the book first and that pretty much means it failed as an adaptation.
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>>7378304
Deja vu
why did the artist put all these tattoos on him? what do they represent or mean?(serious question)
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>>7378112
I'm trudging through "American Nietzsche" while working on a few other things and one thing that the author nails is how Nietzsche has been "processed" through so many different and sometimes diametrically opposed lenses he can represent almost anything to anyone depending on one's interpretation/reading
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>>7378112
He inspired all the interesting things that ever happened & he lov'd a girlie named lou.
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>>7378121
he inspired communism, judaism, christianity, naziism, the illuminati, whatever the hell that skull thing is, that latin(?) quote, and that naked chick?
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what books forever changed your perception of reality/existence?
bigger mindfuck the better
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This.You are God Himself that willfully contracted into a limited form and is playfully pretending to be a mortal human.
That Scripture is a major Universal Spoiler of Life. Don't read it if you want to keep pretending to be a human being.
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>>7378054
If interested...
we will begin groupd reading that scripture on /r/Trika ... we haven't started yet
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Lolita (Nabokov) discussion?
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>>7377925
me, shoulder.
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Light
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>>7377925
Thinking of getting this for my Girlfriend for christmas, is it decent?