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Who is this Robinson hack trying to exploit the popularity of The Martian movie?
>>7622400
completely EBIN :DDDDDD
Red Mars was a great book though. Just saying.
Hey /lit/.
I want to get the Quran and the Bible in the best possible translations. Are the two in pic related the best choices?
I've never read a religious text before, so I don't know whether one translation would be any more difficult than another.
>>7622387
For the bible: do yourself a huge favor and start with the New Revised Standard Version, preferably the Oxford Annotated version with the apocrypha. Other translations are usually bunk and push specific neo-christian ideologies/interpretations.
That said, there is no real "best translation." If you're reading for spiritual value, the best course of action would be to read the books in the original due to the faith's revelatory nature. For study, NRSV is the best starting point, but translational...
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>>7622409
Thanks anon, I think I'll go with the Oxford NRSV.
King James bible 1611
Let's pretend that #bookz fails to deliver and that you live in a remote tropical country where it's impossible to access the book you desire in a legitimate fashion.
What other channels would you want to check out?
No clue about other IRC channels, but libgen is a GOAT site
Is there still place for esotric writing in our times
yeah
>>7622284
What is there to hide in society that can contain in itself any idea?
>>7622336
my image was a clue
>tfw you buy a book and feel obligated to enjoy it to get your moneys worth
>reading for enjoyment
sure is reddit in here
On earth we have intimate moments (say during sunset), and feelings of 'detachment??' (say when looking up at the night sky)
What's the word I'm looking for?
Edgy
>>7622195
You got me
i
fucking
love
Arthur Russell
What are some good books about WWII? I'm interested in the subject. Stuff about the Axis powers is particularly interesting.
>>7622138
Evans Third Reich Trilogy for Nonfiction
The Black March
Panzer Leader, Guderians biography
>>7622138
this is a good question, all i can think of that i've read that was remotely relevant to ww2 was catch-22, but i doubt that's what you want. i wouldnt mind reading literature about ww2, but you know, thinking about it, that was a period in which literature lost a lot of meaning, not much after the 1950s is worth reading. that's just my opinion, but it's hard not to notice the significant dip in skill after that war. it was as if the innocence of art was no more and humanity suddenly became adult,...
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Currently reading, pic related.
I also enjoyed "Enemy at the Gates". It is mostly about 6th armies struggle against the ruskies.
>be german, laying in a bunker with two bullets in leg
>surrounded by dead and dying germans left for the russians.
>feel something wet on shoulder
>look up to see a small hole above, with fuel being poured inside
>hear ivan asking for a lite
>collapse...
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For a complete philosophy noob, what are the best companion (either a book or online resource) to Plato's Complete Works? I just checked this out from the library, but I want to be able to get as much out of it as possible. Is it not necessary or do any of you guys have any recommendations? Thanks in advance.
*is the best companion
fuck me
I'd like to know this too. I usually use the Wikipedia articles and SparkNotes for each dialogue just to make sure I didn't lose the Big Important Idea in a given dialogue, and I used to have this great .pdf a /lit/ user posted way back that gave historical context for each dialogue. Some great stuff in there, like how in the early dialogues, these aren't just random Athenians or random topics, they are eminent members of The Thirty Tyrants who met messy ends, either related to the dialogue's topic or to the interlocutor's failure to really grasp the...
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Cambridge.
What is the official /lit/selected, best work by Shakespeare? I remember reading some time ago about his highly praised around here (considered his best) work, not being Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, nor Macbeth and can't remember the title. I've read the three memeic aforementioned plays and loved them, but who cares cuz we all do I guess. You can just throw the title I'm looking for and we'll get rid of this horrible thread as fast as we can.
It's pretty fucking clearly Hamlet, move on.
>>7621849
Hamlet.
>>7621849
Def Hamlet
Who else takes the radical philosophical view that literature is an arm of the entertainment industry? And that the writer has a responsibility to give me FUN?
I've read too much self indulgent shit. No more lads. No more. And no, this doesn't mean reading sci fi or fantasy shit. I am entertained by a lot of respected books.
Picrelated isn't that entertaining but is passable.
>>7621791
Today anyone anytime can write something. Being an author, a writer, never been so easy like today, so it is more than common to be in contact with a lot of contemporary trash.
DUDE JUST TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF LMAO
it's not a very deep philosophical view you have there, delillo
So I've only read a couple of his poems long ago but I wish to read more of his body of work. I tried checking the wiki for any starting image but unfortunately came out empty-handed.
So, what works would you recommend reading first and what should I keep in mind while reading them. I am looking more in the range of poetry but am open to his essays or anything of that sort too.
Also, what makes you interested in Walt Whitman anyway?
Read Leaves of Grass you fucking idiot.
Song of Myself
Spend time memorizing it
when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd is shorter than song of myself/leaves of grass, and it's very pleasant to read
What's /lit/'s opinion on bringing your own book to B&N?
>you will never be american
>>7621707
What?
>>7621734
Barnes and Noble is a comfy bookstore
Whenever I get the urge to write, I just read a couple of pages of Gaddis. This usually kills the dream.
Does anyone else feel this way when reading certain authors?
>>7621705
Flaubert
>>7621705
McCarthy.
>>7621705
Read the plebs and don't let your dreams be dreams
>he does not realise he is God
AYYY what have you fags been doing all your life?
God is my accountant too?
>>7621534
God is the only truth. I knew this since i was like 9
>>7621527
you arent god because you arent anything but you which isnt god
Hey /lit/, I don't know if this has been covered a million times here or not but why don't the eagles just airdrop the ring into Mount Doom from the very beginning? Thousands of innocents saved, endless hardship on the part of the Fellowship and others avoided.
Instead they pop in when Gandalf needs to get bailed out, then again when Frodo's finally killed the ring and HE needs to get bailed out.
>>7621342
If I recall the eagles weren't that invested in the war and only liked Gandalf enough to help him out a bit but not to fly into a volcano guarded by the most powerful being in the universe carrying the most powerful object in the universe. makes sense to me.
eagles need to drink a lot and there's not a lot of water in mordor so they can't do it
>>7621436
Yea that makes sense when you put it that way
