Let's have this kind of thread again. I made a new chart.

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>>7703603

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>>7703603

>>7703603
>chart
genrefags can't into words
>>>'template'

>>7703613
Touché.

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I'm awful at these

>>7703679
murakami/10

>>7703605
¿De dónde eres, plebeyo?

>>7703714
Elaborate. When I think of Murakami countless sex scenes and cooking comes to mind.

>>7703720
>Elaborate
I read 'Norwegian Wood'.

>>7703717
De España, /lit/bro.

>>7703742
>De España
¿Qué zona? Y, lo que es más importante, ¿por qué lees fantasía épica?

>>7703690

To be fair, you can't really understand Greek history without knowing at least some basic geography of Greece, and Strassler's editions can therefore be quite helpful to the general reader or layperson.

Thucydides might be more up your alley if you're looking for what you were expecting.

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>>7703605

>>7703790
I'm not complaining.

>>7703778
¿Qué más da? Y bueno, no creo que encaje del todo en el sector de la "fantasía épica".

>>7703801
yeah pretty much

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Not my pic, but I love this one.

>>7704306
but why didn't you go for superior translations

>>7704306
If you hate Dostoevsky and Tolstoy then you are thoughtless. If you hate Chekhov then you are heartless. You must be some kind of golem

>>7704339
So he cleans a lot, right?

>>7704356
>>7704306
The point being that Garnett homogenized the authors she translated
>implying I haven't read better ones

>>7704377
And how you managed to draw that conclusion is just beyond me

>>7704659
ave true to corn

>>7704404
made me lulz

half depravity, half "dad bought me a business degree" starter pack

>>7703801
I apsolutely agree

>>7704659
Can someone explain this mene to me?

>>7705037
please no corn father

>>7704830
Odyssey was alright - what makes "The Iliad" a copy pasta ?

>>7704694
>>7704793
I like these ones.

>>7705119
>>7705119
in the fagels editions there is a lot of repetition. word for word.

>>7704659
I'm absolutely laughing my ass off at the absurdity of this image. Anyone with even the faintest knowledge of history would know that the "corn" that Caesar speaks of in Commentaries On The Gallic War is not the corn that we in the west are familiar with, but is rather a poor translation for the word "grain" which in Latin is "Frumentum"

Myself and many others who have read the commentaries would know what you're trying to refer to with your image but it's wrong. Unless of course you were already aware of this and you are posting this ironically. In which case I commend you for your post but it's still blatantly wrong. I would have gone with a collage of images of wheat instead.

7/10

>>7705821
Did you just copy/pasted an old thread's comment?

>>7705898
Absolutely not, how dare you slander me like this???

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>>7705898
hello newfriend

>>7703612
So: everything turned out better than expected.

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>>7705898
>being this new

kek

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>>7703603

>>7706591
oh /pol/, how I love you so

>>7706591
>Richard J. Herrnstein
>Herrnstein
>stein

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>>7707864

>>7706591
>poor people are dumb
>clearly, they have the dumb gene that made them go poor
>they weren't born in shit conditions that make any kind of intellectual development incredibly difficult no of course its the genes

>>7705821
The corn he refers to is a metaphor you fucking retard. Julius Caesar was using the corn as an image of sociopolitical change against the backdrop of the procession of time, for the Gallic tribes, his army, and Roman society at large. An army marches on its stomach, just as a besieged city will waste its food stores away. The corn keeps growing, and the army keeps marching, and the walls keep coming down. The Gallic tribes would fight together and against each other as the seasons changed, just like political factions in Rome. Caesar was able to comment on this by using the universal truth of this important-for-war commodity as the idealized image of constancy in an ever changing world. Its a literary masterpiece.

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it's still great

>>7703679
should have just posted a picture of a NEET

>>7703801
Most accurate

>>7708260

>ENKIDU!
>YOU SUNOFABITCH!

I am now imagining a Gilgamesh film starring Prime Arnold.

Would have been glorious.

>>7708363

I liked the Kite Runner because it made me understand that Afghanistan actually had a millennia-old culture and was inhabited by real people with feelings, stories and what have you. They weren't savages.

Until it all went to shit because of the fucking Talibans.

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why are so many of these about books that you should already have known are bad?

>>7708227
you expected it to be... sincere? and were surprised when it was highly pastiche'd and ironic?

>>7708386

Dafuq? Looks interesting. Worth reading?

>>7708311
"A Nineteenth-Century Treatise on BOXING, KICKING, GRAPPLING, and Fencing with the Cane and Quarterstaff"
so you just took one of the four things the subtitle describes and ran with that ignoring all the others?

>>7708182
nice

>>7708386
Those dogs are so comfy. What's a book where they would go in the "what I got" section?

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>>7705898

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>>7708291

kek

>>7708272
Wrong , should be picture of summa theologica bible and small point

>>7708399

lime twig is better

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>>7708773
stop stealing my memes :(

>>7708604
you forgot the drugs

>>7709100
*me memes

>>7708227
Are the Trystero supposed to be the anarchists in the novel? Cuz they're not.

>>7708567
I got what I and you expected.

>>7709875
Must have been your translation, my copy described the cat as being much larger than that.

>>7705037
"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics."

>>7703603
>tfw you use these threads to pick out what to read next

>>7710135
I didn't get to finish (library, overdue) but pretty much this. Everyone talked like they were insane and they kept repeating each others lines.

It was a Catch-22.

>>7703801
Surround the blithe hippies with piles of corpses, and I agree

>>7710135
>implying this isn't what makes the book so great

>>7705037
Much of Caesar's Gallic narrative is about planning, such as packing enough supplies to last a trip, how far you should camp from enemy territory in order to be able to be able to prepare for an enemy raid, etc.

Also maize did not exist in Caesar's Rome; when they use the word corn, it's a general term for grains like wheat and barley.

>>7710203
>Reading Chaucer in translation.
Help! Somebody translate this English into English for me, please.

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Probably the funniest text I've ever read.

>>7710364
Gavin McInnes is a fool.

>>7710135
I liked how this book unexpectedly becomes darker near the end.

>>7711840
Funny cause he looks like Lewis Carroll retarded brother, yet he write nothing like he looks

>>7705119
I think he is referring to the fact that there is a lot of repetition in the book. Which does not make a lot in prose form but it does make sense in poetry form.

>>7710254
never said it wasn't

>>7704788
>w/r/t

got me

>>7703801
And yet it is amazing

>>7710315

you know why that's wrong, stop it

>>7706591
Gawddamnit where ever I go on this stupid site, /pol/ has to rear its ugly face.

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>>7713243
>This Carpenter had wedded newe a wyf
>Which that he lovede more than his lyf;
>Of eightetene yeer she was of age.
>Ialous he was, and heeld hir narwe in cage,
>For she was wilde and yong, and he was old
>And demed him-self ben lyk a cokewold.

Unless you're ESL or actually illiterate, you have no excuse to read this in modern vernacular beyond being lazy. Beowulf in translation is fine and usually necessary. Even translating Lydgate I can forgive. But Chaucer? Fuck off, mate.

People like you are the reason why shit like pic related exists.