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how do i skip through the greeks and the western canon?
i have other books in my backlog that i really want to read.
>>7492079
Remind yourself that they were slavers, murderers and pedo's, hypocritical in everything they wrote, and the mass corruption we see in our world today is mostly because of their model of democracy, which encourages hollow power hungry people to do anything to rule the world.
>>7492079
Read what you want, it's easier. When you genuinely want to read the greeks, go back to them.
The last two books you read are now combined into one book. That book...
>Needs a name
>Needs a paragraph description
>Needs a director for the inevitable film adaption
"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Old English Heroes" - a combination of "Beowulf" and "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."
Beowulf travels through time to the 1940's and kills Nazis with his sword. The British government sanctions him as a hero, and he goes around slaying the most evil monster of the 40's - Hitler and his minions.
Directed by Joss Whedon.
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man + Dubliners = Dubliners
Various short stories of the lives of Dubliners at the turn of the 20th century with special emphasis on one Dubliner.
Miyazaki
Hadjlomov
a fat guy sits around while russians pillage his shit
I call bullshit on that JKR comment.
Sur this is what look like the first comment on the appearence of Hermione.
But I am pretty sure in all the seven book, there must be one moment where a comment on her skin color from the narraor or another student.
I found it a bit simple and bullshitting to just say "no no, hermione were never litterary white colored, where did you get that silly idea? I never did :)"
Doesn't anyone know a passage like that?
How can we organize a crowd search to seek it in the books?
"Rowling loves black Hermione."
Hermione is a euphemism for penis.
>>7489738
She's just trying to copy Heller.
>mfw colonel korn is black
>>7489738
Honestly looks cute as hell. I don't know about you guys, but I prefer black women. This definitely explains why she's such a strong and independent young woman, she was fighting against racism before she ever fought against magical racism.
ITT: six word stories.
>In toilet: miscarried baby, never alive
butt plug never fit quite right
it's cramped in this man's ass
>he posts on /r9k/, how sad
Hey pleb, what books are you reading? I bet it's something only a pleb would read.
Finnegans Wake
>>7487104
Flowers for Algernon.
What is /lit/s favorite science fiction?
le Guin
Lord of Light
>>7484871
Dune is the GOAT science fiction
The book is done, now we're waiting for copy editing to finish.
In the meantime, artfag here could use some help. Need a few things for the back cover:
>Book blurb/summary
For a novel (brief, enticing introduction to the plot) and/or for a short story collection (description of the author's skills and credentials, touches on overarching themes and specific scenes).
>About the author
self-explanatory
PARTS 1-5:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIdoWxLOs7tVlO8MHISFAm1stJ7FEta-fL0dBe88J1g/edit?pli=1
Come...
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>new things for back cover
How about you get a new front cover, that shit is fucking hideous.
There were a bunch of suggested blurbs in the last thread.
Why not use those?
If not then, then what do we want the blurbs to say?
>>7453985
bump
What do you think is the most accessible Cormac McCarthy novel /lit/? My girlfriend has decided that she's going to start reading him after I've been going about how he's my favourite author for such a long time but I was wondering what do you think is the most accessible book of his? I suggested No Country, just because of how successful the film was and it's not really as hard a read as say Blood Meridian, Child of God or The Road can be.
>Most accessible:
The Road
>Most difficult:
Blood Meridian
>Best:
Suttree
>>7495501
The Road is fast and she can just blast through teh really weird parts
but really if he's your favorite what's going on there man. He's written some fine books but I can't imagine him as a favorite level
>>7495501
The questions is...why would you want to read such a shit author?
Hey /lit/. Thought I'd share with you something I found today at Barnes & Noble.
>>7495099
Got some shots thru-out the book
Post an excerpt, if you'd be so kind.
>unofficial
Oh boy. Did you find it in sort of a weird place in the store, and did it look like it had been sort of forcibly wedged into the shelves?
Did he sign his letters "Sincerely"?
"Some of you guys are alright. Don't come to my patio this weekend."
- Dave "Caveman" Wallace
>>7494417
Unironically,
David F. Wallace
>>7494417
No, he signed
t. DFW
So what books are going to be your "must read" for 2016, /lit/?
>>7493079
what's going on in this image
Chasm
probably won't actually read it though
Going to Read the Romans; my list:
Ancient Rome - Simon Baker
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
Selected Works - Cicero
Commentaries on the Gallic War - Caesar
The Histories - Polybius
Parallel Lives - Plutarch
The Golden Ass - Apuleius
>have a 50,000 word treatise on epistemology due by sunrise
>still doubting whether I exist
help
>>7491795
Just quote Socrates.
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
The end.
i love this meme
>>7491801
According to you, Socrates spoke English, so he didn't really 'know nothing'.
Anyone read Animal Farm? I just finished the book and wanted to discuss it with you all!
>>7491574
My favorite quote: "Some animals are more equal than others." It gave me chills.
Many years ago, as a kid. After I've read 1984.
More of these?
Just finished this book and was bitterly disappointed. The first chapter was amazing though.
can someone post the template pls
>Man represents no progress over the animal: the civilized tenderfoot is
an abortion compared to the Arab and Corsican; the Chinese is a more
successful type, namely more durable, than the European.
Taken from The Will to Power. What did Nietzsche mean when he said this?
>>7495189
He meant hippos are the master race.
He was being ironic, as man represents progress in the form of well groomed facial hair. Those in the animal kingdom do not have access to shaving, this is why Nietzsche would shave, but kept a mustache. This was his his physical manifestation of self actualization.
>>7495199
Kant tell if memeing
