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>>9736848
The Greeks

>>9736848
both require hamlet

>>9736984
>novel
are you genuinely fucking retarded or did you not read the original post
you have the reading comprehension of a jellyfish

http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205

This will have you reading Homer, Plutarch, Herodotus, Thucydides, and a major textbook (Pomeroy) on the period, all of which are probably the best start for getting into the Greeks, and give you the political/historical context necessary to then appreciate other things.

>>9736726
Thanks. Turns out I already have two books that are in the syllabus

>>9736707
Center for Hellenistic Studies on YT
Gregory Nagy is a frequent speaker there

He's like Pynchon without all the gags and gimmicks.

Devil in the White City is a supreme achievement.

>>9736477
quick rundown on how he's like pynchon?

>>9736477
Devil in the White City was quite possibly one of the most boring, cliche, long winded, dull, pieces of "nonfiction" I read last year. Sorry, that was hyperbole, I actually could not finish it even though I had around 60 pages left to go. I just couldnt go on, after ever one of the killer's chapters ending falling flat on witty cliffhangers, and the excruciatingly unnecessary side characters. What did you like so much? I admit it was interesting knowing about the quantity of the workforce, money and resources spent on the fair.

lasers

it's low-fi expressionist sci-fi

>>9735834
it has the word lasers and some descriptions of religious phenomena in modern terms and that makes it sci fi? Its just a book about a guy tripping balls. Its not like Vineland is scifi

>>9735744
Reddit

i watch videos of other people playing videogames
my secret shame

I masturbate when other men fornicate with vaginas

>>9735508
I don't care.

I think in a couple hundred years or so we'll have returned to a sort of medieval situation where only a tiny minority is literate.

>>9735508
My only male friend has only read one book in his life and has a bachelor's degree. He is disgustingly bad at reading and just doesn't know many words in general.

Islam is the most redpilled religion there is. Submit.

That's a depressing sight.

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>>9735258
>he doesn't know about the immanent Holy War

>>9734964
Ballad of Black Tom

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>>9734964
Read Thomas Ligotti's short story collection "Teatro Grottesco". His stories "Town Manager" and "The Bungalow House" are incredible. The man has literally been described by critics as the modern Lovecraft. His horror focuses more on the hum-drum, bureaucratic meaninglessness that afflicts the everyday worker's life. Lovecraft makes his monsters feel otherworldly, Ligotti makes his monsters feel corporate, and as a result much more realistically relevant to one's life.

Seriously read his stuff. Pic related.

>>9736466
That's really boring and I don't want to read more of him, now.

Bump for the cannon picture.

In middle school we read a book about mice and their adventures through a city and a cheese shop. It was very very warm to read and I would love to revisit the work.

>>9734776
Self bump

i am balls deep into evola right now, guenon is next in my list, and planning to go through eliade's a history of religious Ideas after those 2 guys

>Guenon
When you are so far-right and traditional you end up becoming an arabic speaking muslim.

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>>9734633

>i am balls deep into evola right now

Disgusting. Are all Evola readers like you?

Chicks like proust not dfw retard

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So what else was big?

>>9734326
Her disappointment

noam chomsky my nigga tho

Why do lefties prefer Putin's far-right pseudo-theocratic regime over American and European liberalism?

>>9734227
Haven't read it (although I agree with the premise) but fact is, Noam Chomsky is probably the best guy to quote if you want to talk about how the media strives on narratives. Plus, the premise of the book is considered right-wing so it's smart to call a perceived left-winger as a witness.

>>9734171
tibetan mahayana buddhists
Vatican 2 ruined catholicism

Religion is anti-intellectual because it tends to be dogmatic. If you really want to be '/lit/', you would read a wide variety of religious, scientific, and philosophical texts, meditate daily, and develop your own worldview.

>>9734171
FSSP because they will teach you Aquinas and the Fathers, Gregorian Chant and the Tridentine mass.

>>9733731
easy mode: turn off all distractions, find a cozy place that you can always resort to read and repeat this ritual in a certain time of day, everyday.

medium mode: read whenever you feel like in a certain cozy place

hard mode: read in a fucking bus or train

>>9733731

>this picture
you young r9k faggots make the shittest threads.
go back.

>>9733742
Robots need read too

>>9733463
One should live trying to carry out activities that make him forget that he's going to die one day. Unironically.

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>>9733486
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>>9733486
I hear a frontal lobotomy does wonders for that.