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Move The Bard to mediocre and I'm pretty much good with this list.

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>>9599218
>DFW on "Bad"

>>9599218
Are we to assume that you think these sets aren't mutually exclusive, or did you just copy this list, modify it, and forget to remove Joyce from 1 of the 2 categories?

bob dylan deserved the nobel prize for literature.

translations of poetry are good depending on the translator. you still get the image and depending on the translator also the rhythm of the original poem. just because it's not in italian it's not full of swirley whirley pizza mama mia.

books on writing are fine as long as it's not blatant self-help clickbait-esque trash like "YOUR NOVEL SUCKS 1001 REASONS WHY" etc.

Joseph Campbell is one dry guy, need a tall glass of water to read a quarter of his book

anyone writing screenplays and/or plays in microsoft word should just give up trying. nobody takes it seriously if you don't use finaldraft or celtx.

I have never read a greek, roman, russian or french piece of literature.

My main source of literature is as follows: was there a movie adaptation? Yes? I'll see the movie and then read that book.

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>>9599216
this is me t b h

>>9599213
>i like this singer
>i like these three incredibly popular books
>different people take different meanings from art

a true master

>>9599213
I think he should run for an academy award for the best comedy too.

Rule number 1: The Nobel prize is nothing but a leftist award

>>9599282
>llosa
>leftist

(2/2)
Adaptability. English is the easiest language to use when it comes to adapting to changes, or incorporating new terms, be it contextually or as a major change to the entire language. One of the most famous is "nigger". Know where that came from? Say some guy has a very specific situation where he feels the need to invent or "coin" a term. Perfectly okay. He and his colleagues can then use that term clearly and fluidly in conversation with no misunderstandings. Let's see you try that shit in russian, you'd have to encode that shit into your ancient archaic goblin alphabet, then teach yourself how to pronounce it for 10 hours straight, then have your colleagues teach themselves to say it, and what it means. What a waste of time.
One of the most perfect examples of amazing adaptability of a spoken language is one single word - "fuck". I think you've seen the video or infographic (<--portmanteau) explaining the many numerous use cases for the word "fuck" and it's many appropriate contexts, even in spite of it not even being a homonym, it's actually just that good.

Understandability. This is when you understand the meaning and context of a word even if it's rittled with typos. Even if a sentence is missing many of its letters. I bt ths sntnc is stll ndrstndbl. Supporting example? хлeб. That means "bread" in russian. When pronounced, however, it sounds like it could literally mean "shit"

Perfect structure. How can any other language compete? The use of such a perfectly structured language, with its clever use of punctuation to get the point across so efficiently can simply not be matched.

A more humbling example of the superiority of the English language is the expansiveness of the tone and formality you are free to use when coming up with a sentence. You can be a rude cunt (ay grrl gimme sum pu$$) or sound proper and scholarly - "Salutations, my dear. Would you like to engage in sexual intercourse?" While saying the exact same thing. Only with English.

Let's talk about music and poetry. Singing is a pretty neat concept, but only if it's done correctly. If you're going to try to rhyme, the words that rhyme have to make sense. This is why all foreign translations of originally English songs that use rhymes all either sound like shit, or have been so butchered, they lost all meaning. Secondly, let's go back to my first point. It has to sound good. Listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ay5OOxRTTE It's literally durka durka. It sounds like it belongs in the fucking loo.

Imagery. English is the most powerful tool you can use when trying to convey emotion or invoke your reader's senses with imagery. Words that when put together in just the right way can actually bring you to the very setting using only your imagination.

One of the most important reasons - Popularity. Thanks to many of the reasons stated, English is and will be far into the future, the most popular, efficient, useful, pragmatic, and beautiful languages ever spoken.

> justifying inconsistency and impurities
> "I read book past and present"

learn italian, its a god-tier language, LITERALLY

>>9599165
>>9599167

t. English monolingual retard

Only one way to find out ;)

>>9599178
but it's very spooky and this guy looks smart

dr broscience

>>9599082
Bump because I'm interested, OP. Never really delved into true crime books before but I remember a week ago or so some anon was suggesting a couple that were worth a shot and said they disturbed him more than any literary horror could.

Really the only one I know is Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Been meaning to pick that one up for a while.

>>9599287
I was going to say in my OP "why read horror when you have true crime?" Truly more thrilling than most in that genre.

>>9599082
No, but I've watched every single serial killer documentary since I was 12. Tried to read the BTK one and the one... Preston coauthored? Where the french police thought they were suspects? Neither of them were particularly decent, at least not in the way the documentaries were. Are there any you recommend?

>>9599001
Because none of us are as smart as you. ._.

>>9599001
>Why this board is mentally and cultural and IQ unable
Is this English?

>>9594757
You really expect people like the one I linked to have an idea about good writing?

Can someone post the How to read Dune chart?

>>9598862
W-who's Canada?

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>>9598954
Who is the reddit fag that hijacked our general?
Why does he do this theme shit?
Why did he (and we allowed him to) change the source for the charts?

Who cares

As long as it's not slanderous it's fine, legally. I'm not sure why you'd want to though, what's your motivation here?
>I want to her about the work
Pardon?

>>9598943
I want to tell her about the work, but I have a feeling she's going to be pissed off at how I've portreyed her, and/or ask for royalties

I bought that same copy of the aeneid yesterday.

>>9598912
>Some people hate the Fagles translations.
Contrarian hipsters. It's a popular translation so now therefore it sucks.

Fagles is god-tier. For Homer, its the story that is important, less so is how literal or poetic the translation is. You get no extra meaning from different translations of Homer. Fagles reads really well, those editions have great introductions and the average person will find them enjoyable to read.

>>9598896
Just start it. and read the rest of the other book whenever. It's not worth starting a damn thread over, you nincompoop.

>>9598896
Hegel too, huh?

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>browsing 4chan

I forgot to ask: as anyone completed the whole suite? What did you think of it?

>>9598851
You should take your own life.

>>9598879
That's plan S.

Because /pol/babies are too dumb to research what postmodernism actually is and find out that their youtube guru of the month is talking complete bullshit.

>>9598821
>>9598844
Nobody cares about labels. Post modernism, post structuralism, or any other contemporary garbage - the name does not matter, philosophy has died together with Germany. I can only pity the mongoloids who take the likes of Foucault (an aids ridden degenerate who wrote utter bullshit) seriously. It is sad what we have come to.

>>9599041
kill yourself

The Bible, Aquinas

the muslims

>>9598589
the Byzantines, duh

The funniest site ever.

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