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It's sort of seen as a kids' book but The Wind in the Willows is about as cozy as it gets. Wonderful writing.

>>7375534
>>7375576

The Count of Monte Cristo.

what a retarded picture

>>7375506
>>7375508
I agree. That quote is retarded and shows a staggering lack of any kind of historical knowledge.

>>7375557
your post is equally retarded and shows a staggering lack of any kind of historical imagination

>>7375480
The ones you find when you type "good Canadian books" on google and click on the first result.

The one about the woman who has sex with the bear. It won one of your national book awards after it came out.

richard ford - canada

If I weren't assigned to read in school, I probably wouldn't be reading much now. If you actually do it, it helps improve comprehension and reading speed from practice. I also did discover some enjoyable literature from it.

The biggest setback is that teachers are afraid to assign something difficult because it might increase the cheating, which goes on anyways. I was one of the only people in school to finish The Sun Also Rises, but I loved it.

Who cares if it benefits society. If that's all that you care about in mandatory schooling then you end up getting what's happening in Australia which is dropping humanities classes for computer programming.

>>7375465
Does teaching science, either at an elementary, secondary, or postsecondary level, benefit society in any way? I feel like it would if students didn't forget everything right after the test.

>>7375198
cover is dope though

>>7375198
I fell for the meme too. I don't know whether the work is the problem or the translation.

>>7375203
yeah I don't know italian so I'm burning to find out if Dante actually set out to write a light-hearted yet totally serious stroll through hell... with fart jokes.

He meant that without music, life would be a mistake.

>>7375123
drop the bass

This is what middle school English teachers have wrought.

>>7374937
Really anything. I'd even say harry potter just because there's less whining.

>>7375078
>owwwyyyy, my scar hurts :(
>wahhhh mommy and daddy died :( boohoo
>uuughh i'm just cho chang's rebound :(
>why wont ginny notice me anymore :(
>wahhh my teachers dont like me :(
>wahhhh me godfather died :((( WAHHH
>and so on

>>7374937
First love is desu sempai

Actually taken as a whole the national epic of England is probably Shakespeare's Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V).

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?

>>7374925
Our epics are Beowulf, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost

>>7375250
English is an objectively based language tbhfam. It would be painful to live in a country like Finland which has never produced a worthwhile piece of literature in history.

>>7374885
It's gay.

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>>7374900
I mean, you're not wrong...

>>7374606
Mediocre thinker.
DUDE OF MONTREAL LMAO

>>7374606
That would be nice. Finished the essays in Evil and Literature and am now reading his book on eroticism.

Great thinker. I need to read his Summa Atheologica.

>>7374573
He's an overrated hack.

I haven't read him or read about him, but this ->(>>7374597).

Why not start learning Germain instead? It pays off a lot, y'know.

>>7374381
The Myth of the Twentieth Century

>>7374381
what on earth are all those yellow shards

>>7374659
MDMA nigga

I'm not as bad as you, I hover more around the 200 mark, but I understand the feel. The obvious and most common answer to your question is to read more, but, while this makes sense and probably works to some extent, I have seen little improvement in my reading speed. Apparently there are ways to "speed read" by reducing unnecessary eye movement and such, but the more I look into it, the more it seems to be little more than skimming. I suppose I don't really have any clear solutions for you but I'd be interested in seeing what other anons think.

>>7374301
Prose read at 200-250 words per minute is fine, especially when the text is difficult.

~ 450 according to some cheap test I just took.

How do I get past vocalizing to myself? I feel like not doing that is some real zen shit.

Not for these ones, assuming you've read Spinoza. Merleau-Ponty's comfy as shit too.

>>7374169
This is beautiful. I'm saving it. Thank you.

>>7374023
I'm PC famm, let me handle this.

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>>7374023
In my room.

>>7374023
they let you stay there without buying anything?