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Is Bulfinch's Mythology a superior text to Edith Hamilton's Mythology? Or is there one that is better than either of them.
>>7673175
why tho
tfw thread ignored
Bulfinch's is much bigger, at least plus it covers Norse mythology and more "recent" material like King Arthur and Charlemagne. I think that Hamilton does a better job with the Greeks though. Get them both and compare.
Quick you must post your top 5 favourite books and reasons why.
Measure your dicks with the other posters of this thread.
Middlemarch
My Ántonia
The Age of Innocence
Anthem
Gravity's Rainbow
Middlemarch, The Age of Innocence, and My Ántonia are all beautifully written, with wonderful characters.
Anthem motivated me to stop relying on others for happiness.
Gravity's Rainbow is complex and just plain fun. I don't think any other book has made me laugh half as much as GR.
>Don Quixote
Dank adventure with some extremely memorable scenes, like Sancho's governing of the island.
>The Idiot
Dank characters, all of them. Good philosophical discussion. Ippolit made me sad and Myshkin's story of Marie made me cry.
>Brothers Karamazov
Great characters, best philosophical discussion, very good story.
>Crime and Punishment
Epilogue made me cry, interesting ideas of what a great man should...
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>>7673060
>The Cannibal
The imagery and overall sensibility of the book was very unique.
>Gravity's Rainbow
Really fun and packed with interesting bits of obscure information that it effectively uses to great effect.
>V.
Same as Gravity's Rainbow.
>A Confederacy of Dunces
Ignatius is practically me.
>The New York Trilogy
The...
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I pay a lot of attention to politics and one thing that bothers me is that when the subject shifts to economy I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm scared of buying a random book (like pic related) and getting a really biased view.
Anyone got a good recommendation to get me started on economy literature?
>I'm scared of buying a random book (like pic related) and getting a really biased view.
any book you read will be biased. either read them all to sort out the bias, or accept the bias. btw manifesto will tell you literally nothing about marxian economics.
any intro macro econ is good
>I will teach you to be rich
>thinking fast and slow
The only two I needed.
I was looking to get an english audiobook copy of Timur Vermes' Look Who's Back from audiobook.com, but it turns out they don't have it.
So I have one free audiobook download from audiobook.com.
Anybody got a copy of Vermes' audiobook? I'll download whatever you need from audiobook.com
>paying for digital files
McFuckin kill yourself
>>7673004
I signed up for the free trial to get a free audiobook and will discontinue the membership before 30 days are up.
I once had a philo teacher who said books are we have the closest to necromancy, because we can talk with the dead and exist after our physical departure. Do you agree with this metaphor ?
>>7672994
Talking with the dead assumes it's a dialogue, reading is not.
>>7673001
It's a dialogue if you react to it.
That's essentially what Leibniz did with Locke in New Essays much after Locke died
>>7672994
Its a curse, desu.
Which Stephen King books are worth reading?
>>7672982
Different Seasons
The Shining
Pet Semetary
IT
The Stand
Misery
Gunslinger 1
What's with all the King threads being made?
If you're seriously asking for King reccs, just go for any of his most famous novels, like Carrie, The Shining, It, and if you thought it sucked then don't explore any more because it's not getting much better.
>>7672982
Full Dark, No Stars
Just After Sunset
Everything's Eventual
Basically any of his short story/novella collections and not any of his full length books. He's terrible at writing those. Also don't expect anything more than shallow entertainment, because that's all he does.
Almost finished with my first novel, and it's turned from the initial concept of a serious dark story, into more of a campy, fun and lighthearted story littered with references and occasional dark moments.
I still like it, but I'm worried if I try and publish it I won't be taken seriously as a writer.
Thoughts?
pseudonym, my familiar
>>7672972
You won't be taken seriously either way
Anyone here listen to erotic audiobooks?
I was thinking about trying it for my daily commute, but is erotic fiction just for getting your rocks off or is there some good story that just happens to have sex in it?
>>7672961
>her purrfect match
How was he as a writer?
>>7672930
trully a talentless hack
He was paid by the word. That never goes well.
ITT: books that make you cry
LOTR, that bittersweet ending.
>tfw you'll never be Aryangon of nearly pure dunadin blood and live to age 220 with your elven qt3.14
>>7672928
For a dude who's so associated with the fantasy genre, Tolkien knew how to write some good feels without being needlessly dramatic.
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What can you tell me about speculative realism and its children (OOO, transcendental materialism and nihilism)
nothing?
Why is American """"""""""""""hard"""""""""""""" sci-fy so unimaginative and entry level?
>>7672868
because it's not literature
>>7672868
>why is genre fiction shit?
There, now go ask that question somewhere that cares about such things.
>>7672868
Hard sci-fi is written by autist science nerds, so they can't really have imaginations or be creative and such.
I only like to read when it's fiction (nonfiction bores me). Fantasy and Sci-Fi are my go-to genres. So, lately I've been told by the 80-year-old lady that I'm working for that the genres I read are junk and not very good for (brain) stimulation. She wants me to read classics because, in her opinion, they're better than the mindless things I fill my head with.
What's your opinion on this?
Whats your opinion on it
Sounds like a patrician called you out for being a pleb. Still, be a pleb if you want. Just don't muck up the board with Sanderson/Pratchett/Martin threads. Read whatever you want m8
>>7672860
That I enjoy the books I read and I still learn lots of new things from them
Why is it that fans of fantasy fiction have so much trouble making the jump to literary fiction, or even any genre fiction other than fantasy?
When I was young, I read nothing but Stephen King books. That didn't stop me from trying new things, and I have moved on to literary fiction in the past few years, while still being fond of the time spent reading King. I never felt apprehensive about trying new things. I enjoyed reading King, and I thought, "I'll read different books once I've read all the King books." I stopped before I could finish all...
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Why do you have so much trouble keeping dicks out of your ass?
I havent really seen that, and personally I hardly make a distinction between literary and genre since they both can be either equally involved and stylistic or equally superficial trash.
People will read what they want to read, drop a line but dont force the issue.
>Wardine be Cry.
>>7672825
Epic jest friend.
JEST
>>7672825
Nice meme, but in all seriousness is there any explanation for why DFW would choose to write such a poorly rendered dialect? Or was this just a failed attempt at an actual recreation?
>inb4 authorial intent is dead
