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>>9806510
start with the Sumerians

>>9806510
Because it was in Greece that western civilization started

>>9806513
>>9806510
Start with the preliterate cavemen. Seriously. Cave paintings of prey are a way of magical thinking, willing their food to appear or telling tales of a great hunt. Like the cargo cults of Melanesia constructing runways and mimicking radio comms to will more air dropped supplies into existence.

Start with the trope of the hunter, then the tamer of beasts. Bam. You're at Gilgamesh already. Hop and a skip and you're into Orpheus. Then continue with the Greeks.

>>9806506
I received that book as a gift a couple years ago; never seen a list with more echoey names in it.

>>9806506
I'm trying to now that I'm living the NEET life.
>wake up at nine
>do a body weight workout
>shower
>eat
>catch up on news
>apply for jobs, browse social media, look at colleges
>eat lunch
>sleep around one
>watch Netflix or read
>do some chores
>look at more jobs
>eat dinner
>evening movie
>read after movie
>sleep at midnight

>>9806525
>echoey names
I don't follow.

sounds gay

>inb4 being a squatter junkie in Amsterdam sharing a toilet with 20 people and spray painting political nonsense onto fine art counts as an art colony

>>9806501
it would be very gay indeed, yes. back to your dorito feed bag pleb.

>>9806459

Sade.

You are not prepared for me to prove it.

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>>9806459

Game of Thrones, I guess.

>>9806446
Fuck I don't know

I have no discernible talent

Is this a passable first sentence? "Joe thought a little war might do them all some good."

IN LOVE

The only word is Love. It is what binds
things more securely than the o and v,
which are bereft without the l and e
to give them structure, if not grand design.
Nothing is permanent, as Love proves this
so, as well the uselessness of Beauty,
without Love to engage it. Can you see
the parallel? Love is just what it is,
as well is Beauty, which mouths the full o,
which sounds like a u (the short vowel sound),
to become part of the structure that grounds
only what matters to those, in the know,
who see what is loosened by loveless minds
unable to ask: Where did Beauty go?

>>9806586
"He slowly wobbles to his chair and drops to his seat. Deafening silence. A minute passes. All of a sudden, a whistle pierces the quiet. The first punch is thrown. What ensues would trouble most. A schoolyard brawl that resembles Gettysburg. Joe is sitting rubbing his temples, paying no mind to mayhem. It's happening again. The flashbacks. This time they're stronger. Vivid. His eyes burst open. He's done what he wanted. He's recreated his nightmares. This time, he can't wake up. He starts to violently tremble. One of the children look over. 'Sir!' The boy yells. Joe is out cold on the floor, blood leaking from his head. He may never wake up again."

Random dude here. Your one line sent me off lol, hope you like it.

>>9806423

WE WUZ WATER n sheeit

>>9806428
*holds up pill bottle*

>*hangs self*

>>9806398
red badge is poor fabulation. moby-dick is good taste.

>>9806437
I've never seen such a shit opinion in my life. Never post here again.

>>9806493
But hardly anybody on Goodreads likes it.

It's shite

It is

It's in a couple of them

wow that is an amazing deal. id pick 3-4 sets if i could op, the strategy six pack is hard to come by at a better price

>>9806384
>createspace
Throw it in the trash

>>9806512
How come? Bad quality translations or something?

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>mfw

Stones at the Starlight?

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>>9806424

In the Rain Give You Sunshine...

https://youtu.be/rPTst2TlqUU

that's a really nice photograph

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>Toronto literature professor and Giller prize-longlisted author David Gilmour has found himself at the eye of a literary storm after declaiming in an interview that he doesn't teach books written by women or Chinese authors, because he's only interested in "serious heterosexual guys".

>Eyeing the rows of books in his office, Gilmour said: "I'm not interested in teaching books by women. Virginia Woolf is the only writer that interests me as a woman writer, so I do teach one of her short stories. But once again, when I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women."

>>9806616
>He left the CBC in 1997 to concentrate on his writing. His 2005 novel A Perfect Night to Go to China won the 2005 Governor General's Award for English fiction, and was longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award.

el oh el

a rational animal

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How does every adaptation manage to get away with turning him into such a Chad when he was originally barely a step up from /r9k/ personified?

Do Nosferatus control the media?

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>>9806055
I found it humorous. But this opinion has really irritated a few people, so your mileage may vary.

>>9806055
i agree with >>9806082, it is pretty funny actually, in norwegian atleast

its a bit boring and a mediocre book generally

The Book of Disquiet. It has the ability to be the right book for the very wrong person. I've seen a lot of people fawning over it like babby's first pessimism.

>>9806308
Phony.

>>9806015
I'd go straight to the sources. Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers. Letters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

I heard 1776 by David McDonalds was good