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I found a 1927 reprint of Cicero
Is this in anyway noteworthy?
Whats the rarest book you own?
A 1926 reprint of Cicero
A 1925 reprint of Cicero
A 1924 reprint of Cicero
So where do I start with Hegel? Apparently Clausewitz's On War is better understood if you're familiar with Hegelian philosophy or whatever it's called beforehand.
Bump.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/
Then read some secondary literature or a primary source if you're still not satisfied
>>8184772
You're already familiar with Hegelian philosophy whether or not you realize it.
Hegel is so influential that were once radical ideas in his day are now just common sense.
I need a good book to sink my teeth into. It's really hard for me to get into one. I'm thinking a coming of age book with frequent drug use
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or Trainspotting maybe?
>>8184665
DUDE
>>8184665
Start with the Greeks.
What's your favourite gospel in The Bible and why?
What's your favourite translation?
Me, I like the book of Luke, I love its writing style, precise and careful and full of craftsmanship, and reads as an accurate and objective history. I love its emphasis on works and actions rather than laws and stories, and I love Acts. Luke writes with a clinical precision.
For translation I like The Geneva Bible.
>The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart, To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of reward.
The Gospel of Thomas.
Also, the Jefferson Bible serves as a good "gospel."
>>8185009
i met a kid named thomas, he was fucking fat and basically stupid
>>8184618
John. That weird start really gets me going.
How do you personally say DFW? I say it duff-wub.
>>8184610
>speaking verbally
>>8184610
dee-eff-double-yew
>>8184610
I say God.
Someone is selling me their copy of the Romance of Three Kingdoms, is pic related the correct version to buy or is there a better version out there?
it's the best one in english yes.
>>8184587
I heard there was a 5 volume set that's really expensive, is that worth investing in or is the 4 volume set fine for the average reader?
>>8184592
not familiar but this one is more than sufficient for the typical english reader. there's also a recent one from Tuttle that i heard was good.
as far as i know all other translations are either incomplete or old and superseded by this one.
Thoughts?
I enjoyed the first two movies mainly for the visual symbolism and artistic macabre, for me the plot gets in the way pretty heavily in the second film. Does the book suffer from the same problem?
Book is the first film but with different character dynamics. Daughter from the movie is a nosy neighbor with a crush in the book - still the protagonist. If you read weird subtext into the movie's dialogue it's because the character relationships were changed but the dialogue remained direct from the source. Some other plot details are just the same. "Pinhead" and fellow Cenobites are more scary in the books if you haven't seen the movie, because more is either left to the imagination or more nutty details are described than in the movie series.
>>8184446
Pinhead is a sex ambiguous chick in The Hellbound Heart. That should have been in Hellraiser.
What is importanter, philosophy or literature?
>>8184371
>importanter
>>8184371
It's acutally "more important," not "importanter."
One of the many oddities of the English language!
Edit: Thank you for the gold, my good sirs (and madams)!
Edit 2: RIP inbox!!
I appreciate your rhyme scheme, OP.
could Gene Wolfe's Book of The New Sun be filmed? who should be the director? who should play Severian?
I feel it could be made into an amazing film trilogy if made by the right people, which would obviously never happen. Even the odds of it being filmed are minimal, which is a shame because it's an amazing novel with a very well built world and lore.
>>8184044
>could Gene Wolfe's Book of The New Sun be filmed? who should be the director? who should play Severian?
Yes, that guy who directed the Warcraft movie, that guy who plays Jon Snow.
>>8184044
the road to be filmed how it was set by the witcher it's to have a successful game made after it first (:
also who knows what they film in the future
p.s. though the witcher apparently was filmed in poland way back too, before the game was made, i bet it was a shitty movie
James Franco should direct it and should play all the characters except for a few who will be played by Jonah Hill Seth Rogen and Zac Efron
>it's the most horrible thing you ever seen brah
>dude you'll totally have your mind blown and go crazy when you see it
*Fish man with tentacles for a beard walks in*
>have you gone mad yet? haha you can't even comprehend what you're seeing can you? be
scared!
lovecraft meme needs to die already, he was a talentless hack
quality post OP
absolutely and utterly epic haha!
>>8184053
Let me tell you about quadrangles and pentangles that will totally blow your feeble little mind, kiddo
The landscape of this terrorverse is literally so difficult to comprehend it defies logic! Behold and despair...
>take geometry class
>fucking angles how do they work
>fail out
>this must be the work of the fishmen
>forever vilify the subject in your future works
>last 5 books you read
>other anons give you feedback
War and Piece, Galapagos, Letters from Seneca, The Ego and His Own, and currently reading Van Gogh's letters
I, Claudius
Pictor's Metamorphosis and other stories
Tales of ETA Hoffman
Silence
Orfeo
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>>8183864
Everything in the culture argues against the novel, particularly the novel that tries to be equal to the complexities and excesses of the culture. This is why books such as JR and Harlot’s Ghost and Gravity’s Rainbow and The Public Burning are important—to name just four. They offer many pleasures without making concessions to the middle-range reader, and they absorb and incorporate the culture instead of catering to it.
These books and writers show us that the novel is still spacious enough and brave...
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>>8183864
>where created
>salon as a legitimate source
The CIA is a bureaucracy that is given far too much credit, based purely off of its bumbling handling of some muddled assassinations in the 70s and its shitty handling of MKULTRA. It is a denuded organization that has been usurped by the NSA and has not and does not greatly effect American culture, except for a mythology propagated by tinfoilers.
>>8183864
>Salon
Hey /lit/. I have a problem that I'm sure at least someone here has gone through: I can't fucking concentrate when reading.
I wanted to start reading The Crying of Lot 49, but my mind kept wandering every few sentences. It's not even trouble in understanding, it just seems to be impossible for me to keep focused on what I'm reading. I've read somewhat constantly throughout my life, but I have noticed that it's getting harder and harder for me to keep interested in what I'm reading. I don't have any particularly distracting habits...
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>>8183558
>I don't have any particularly distracting habits
>is on 4chan
top lol
>>8183562
Yeah, I know. But to be honest, this is basically the only website I waste my time on. Usually I browse a few threads on sci and sometimes here, but that's it. I don't know if there would be a considerable impact if I cut off 4chan completely, I guess I could try it for a few weeks.
bump
"My cultural baggage consists entirely of reading yogurt labels and watching people scream at each other on the beach or the fire station."
what are some anti America books?
>>8183535
The Air Conditioned Nightmare is basically Miller driving across America and lambasting everything he sees
I don't personally like Miller but a lot of people do
>>8183535
bump for hating America
It's currently 105ºF. What are some good books to read on a hot day?
desert solitaire
blood meridian
didion
faulkner
>>8183627
>faulkner
this, Light in August
