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>>7323671
start with the greeks

My diary to be honest

>>7323671

Since the central plot theme of the original game is that the world's (this game's world is mostly a fictionalized version of Renaissance-era Europe) central religion is a lie, you could just read some new atheist stuff.

Dune also comes to mind as a bildungsroman with battles, court intrigues, and suggestions of a false religion planted intentionally in order to placate the people (I've only read the original book though and they didn't develop this idea too far IIRC)

>>7323636
talentless hack

Moveable*

Shit desu.

>>7323638
Why? I like this one the most.

>Twitter. Good. I like to tweet. Tweeting makes me feel good, so I like it.

>>7323571
If he said that then he is the stupidest nigger to ever bear epicanthic folds

>>7323571
Nabokov said that.
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

how about you read socrates and realize how pathetic that way of thinking is, pleb

>>7323534
ok....
Which book of his?
I have to start with the greeks tbqh

>>7323538
I think he's referring to what Socrates said to the Oracle of Delphi with the Socratic paradox

>>7323511
Depression probably hurts your writing and work ethic more than helps it

>>7323511
I have no intention of becoming a writer but I am chronically depressed and a completely useless piece of shit. I don't follow your reasoning.

>>7323536
Its one of those situations that involves a lot of greek symbols and colons

HAHA YEAH LETS TAKE SOME PLAYS XDD

WE DON'T NEED CONTEXT FOR ANY OF THOSE NOT LIKE WE SHOULD BRING THE BIBLE XDD WHO EVEN BELIEVES IN GO ANYWAYS I MEAN ITS 2015 STUPID CHRISTIANS

XD I WOULD TAKE OUT ULYSSES (TOO MEME FOR ME LMAO) AND PUT IN RICHARD DAWKIN'S ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES INSTEAD LOL!!

>>7323439
The Bible might be cool. My line of thinking was something like this:
All three of those works portray different facets of human nature and each of them are really beautiful.
I also think there is a variety of form--The Odyssey being poetic, Hamlet being a play, and Ulysses being a novel.
I also like the interplay of texts and cultures, as Ulysses is tangled with The Odyssey and Hamlet. This is reflective of how a lot of people write and live--interacting with cultures and writers long dead through text.
I also like how the stream-of-consciousness in Ulysses would get an alien uncomfortably close to a human in a way, haha!

Aren't you tired of creating shitty threads about surveys/games/bookshelves/“the X book you read”? Do you ever want to discuss literature or are you right just to namedrop your library and get validation by random people?

who is this orgasm chasm

>>7323400

Scarlett Johansson

She's mega hot irl

>>7323394
There have been plenty of human crises Shakespeare could never have imagined in the last hundred years. You're just basic.

>>7323304
bumping for interest

Read The Aeneid and The Metamorphoses too

Not 100% needed, but worth reading.

>>7323302
His morality doesn't even come near, and isn't secular.

>>7323310
How is Nietzsche's morality not secular?

>>7323302
Saged
>>>/his/
What book are you talking about?

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Levin is a huge autist

Also, shit book desu, meaningless fiction with no substance or higher purpose, Dostoevsky runs circles around this hack.

>>7323295
I liked and disliked Anna Karenina. I agree, Levin was autistic and a frustrating character to read. I literally couldn't give a single shit about how much he likes farming or hunting.

If the book focused more on the love affair of Kitty and Levin, and more on the drama of Anna and Vronsky, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. There was too much dull scenes. I get they're supposed to show how Levin grows throughout the novel, but Levin is boring as fuck to begin with.

Still a decent book, though, I think.

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>>7323249

Notes From the Underground by Dostoevsky.

Search him on Literature Map, imma pretty sure Yukio Mishima wrote some works, similar to No longer human (though not that extremely sad)

The Day of the Locust
Ask the Dust
Too Loud a Solitude

I feel like I've read way more of this kind of book than those three but I can't recall very many right now. Also my diary desu

Tolstoy - Collected Shorter Fiction

>Dubliners.

>A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
(Yes, some call it a novel, I know. It can be labeled as short stories collection, too.)

>>7323090

Gogol, The Collected Tales.

Alternatively, just The Petersburg Tales. They're the best.

>>7323089
The greeks.

They're also literally the only worthwhile philosophers besides early Christian philosophy.

>>7323089
Socrates was a soldier who fought against Sparta. Even in his old age, he often was in the gymnasium exercising.
Plato was a wrestler.
Wittgenstein fought in WWI so he was surely pretty fit.
I like to think that Machiavelli was in good shape, especially after he was exiled.
Aurelius was definitely fit and saw the importance of having a healthy body.

>>7323101

>ww1
>physically fit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1ZAMTENTI

this is the O.S.S. from WWII, literally the elite of the elite and high school athletes would fucking destroy them 1v1.

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this nigga talks about jerkin off all the time though

When I see this thread I don't feel bad at all because my primary sexual relationship is with your mom, OP.

>>7322981
It's /lit/ until you invade Poland, then it's /pol/.

>>7322981
You should ask when does a piece become art, and use the example of somebody's random stick figure sketch compared to the mona lisa.

The safest/least exciting answer is that it's a social consensus on what we recognise as artistic.

>>7323086

Well yeah that's the question but it's really hard to say.