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>Past or In Progress Education
>Top 3 Books
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>>9597417
>Baker/cook/dishwasher.
>Learning german on my own when I have time. Planning on going back to college for something related to Humanities and hopefully not dropping out.
>Lolita, Der Steppenwolf and The Man Who Counted. Not the best books, but they were very important for me when i read them for the first time.
I'm really sorry, /lit/.
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>>9597417
>call centre worker
>MA english literature
>and quiet flows the don, adventures of augie march, underworld
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>>9597417
>Lab technician
>I just got my master's in genetics, and got into Duke for my PhD
>Oryx and Crake, Brave New World, and Ridley Walker
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Buying a bible for study which one should I get? 2017-06-05 03:35:01 Post No.9597406
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Buying a bible for study which one should I get?
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Although approaching the Bible from a position of faith I'm looking for something annotated that provides alternate translations and biblical criticism.
Atm I'm thinking either New Oxford Annotated Bible or The New Jerusalem Bible.
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>>9597406
Why not just go with the bible everyone here recommends? New Oxford Annotated Bible
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>>9597427
Is it? I figured it'd be either KJV or NRSV.
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>>9597450
It is the NRSV.
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How would your favorite book change if the main character is now Jewish?
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>>9597310
Oryx and Crake.
Well, the main character would probably be smarter, and more reasonable so maybe the tragic ending would be averted.
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Stephen might show up a bit less frequently.
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>>9597310
it would be burnt
Just called a girl a retarded pleb for liking John Green
Goddam it feels so good to be /lit/
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that sounds a little bit mean-spirited, anon.
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OP IRL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlfnY9TNa5g
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>>9597240
The guy makes a point
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I got a book with his complete literature, recommendations? I liked Call of Cthulu, but I felt like Colour Outside of Space was better.
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If you liked Colour, try
>The Whisperer in Darkness
>The Haunter in the Dark
first
Then
>The Thing on the Doorstep
>The Dunwich Horror
>The Rats in the Walls
Then his longer stuff (Mountains of Madness) or his dream cycle stuff depending what you like
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>>9597187
Also check out Wayne June's readings if you like audiobooks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77xxGopjMbY
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What are some subversive books I can gift to friends' kids without raising the suspicions of their parents? Something Satanic if possible, but at the very least antithetic to Disney, humanism and theism.
I can only think of something like this unexpurgated version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, but it's still rather tame and I want something far more subversive if possible.
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>>9597152
The best gift you can give them is to stop being a faggot.
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>>9597152
Any Adventures of Tintin comic book, they'll get hooked and will eventually come across the more politically incorrect material.
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>>9597152
>Something satanic and antithetical to humanism
The Quran
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>Malebranche was right: we are not our own light. We are not our own light!
wtf was her problem?
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She's a pseudo intellectual who thinks she's better than everyone. The ironic thing is she's using that quote against her mother, but it could be used against her as well since she is trying to find meaning through her own intelligence by embracing nothingness and failing
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>>9597295
Is she really a pseud though? I'd call her more like a failed intellectual. And can someone explain the praise O'Connor gets? She's OK, but pretty much all her stories follow the same "intrusion of grace" formula
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>>9597326
I really like O'Connor, but I get your point and could see somebody not liking her. I would say she's pseudo because she believes herself smart and that she can trick the Bible salesman, only to be tricked by someone seemingly simple
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i just finished the savage detectives and it was a magnificent experience. probably the greatest novel i ever read. but what was the misticism that was going on? what the fuck was that end? what the fuck this poem means?
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fucking meme book how is savage detectives the best book you have read
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They analyze the poem in the second part of the book. Bait thread, you probably didn't even read it.
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>>9596963
i don't know. this book fit into the mood in which i was
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Give me a book, fiction or non-fiction, about your country's civil war(s).
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I've yet to find a single book that encompasses the scope and weight of the American civil war, but the combined memoirs of Sherman, Grant, and Lincoln along with the testimonies of prominent slaves' rights advocates and some choice poetry (Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, Dickinson) make for an amazing kaleidoscopic effect.
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>>9597316
Read The Civil War: A Narrative, by Shelby Foote. He is a bit old-school in his attitude toward the South, but he put down everything and pretty well too. He has a lot of insight and nuance in his writing.
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>>9596940
Ambrose Bierce is the best writer of the American Civil War.
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Has any other novel ever approached a character study like pic related?
If so, which one?
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my diary to be honest
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My Twisted World by E.O.Rodger
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The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina certainly do. I'm inclined to put both the Iliad and Odyssey there as well.
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How the FUCK did thia young man write some of the greatest lines of poetry ever put to paper at such a young age AS WELL as being a self-taught artist?
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>>9596895
There weren't liberals around back then
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If you're all so literate then tell me what The Truth is in your opinion and narrow it down to something understandable and objective that can be directly transformed into benefit
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What do you mean by "The Truth"?
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"This thread is shit and should be deleted"
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>The truth can be transformed into benefit
baka
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So who or what was the Judge? It feels to easy to just pass him off as "the devil"
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>>9596824
how many times is this thread going to be created? i just bought this book today, actually.
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>>9596831
Enjoy, my friend. I just finished it yesterday and honestly it's one of the best books i've ever read
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>>9596835
what are some of the others, for reference?
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*drops mic*
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>>9596791
This is neither funny nor entertaining.
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the fetus
destroyed its womb
yes
YES
the fetus is out
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>>9596791
You know, if you change the last line to "conceiving we are not" you get a pretty clever poem.
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Newfag to christianity and reading the bible. What are some good readings for someone who has been non-religious their whole life?
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>>9596783
Start by dropping the homophobic slurs. You should be the image of Christ to the world, not a slanderer of others. Drop your old ways and habits.
As for reading, start with Mere Christianity by CS Lewis.
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>>9596783
Take the logos in your hand and eat it, it will kill you, as the Joanna Newsom song teaches us :)
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>>9596783
Just watch Star Wars but only the original trilogy theatrical release.