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Is pic related worth going for?
I like the basic ideas of hobbes ,so am thinking about knowing a little more about them.So Is this a decent translation ?
I am also in a tight budget.
>>8098034
It's definitely worth going for,however i am not certain of the penguin classic one.But i guess the original was written in english ,so it won;t matter much.
>>8098043
Well it's a good list indeed,say it before in an another post here.
However my concern is regarding this version(penguin classic),is this a decent one?
Does anyone know of any great books about South American Mythology?
>Aztecs, Inca, Mexican, etc
It can be mythology, fantasy, lit, anything goes as long as its good.
Popol Vuh
>>8098009
the books of chilam balam, the jaguar shaman, are the best
>>8098009
http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf
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I've got this one.
don't forget about my addition
This is the single worst book I have ever read to completion in my life.
does he even have a good book? i don't like his books
That's Madonna's favorite book.
>>8099151
This redounds to the credibility of my appraisal
I´m talking books like Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and My Husband/Mon Marri by Max du Veuzit (loved these two), not teenager crap that´s all over the place nowadays. Does anyone have any recommendation, with or without supernatural elements?
The Rainbow and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Age of Innocence is the best.
Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, Othello by Shakespeare, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
sup, /lit/?
poorfag here.
It's memorial weekend and i'm broke but i have a kindle. recommend some free books from amazon i can get with without paying that aren't classics? science fiction and fantasy if you have it
>>8097736
1. Download Soulseek/Make a Mobilism account/use libgen and its mirrors/project gutenberg/use btdigg
2. Type in book you want
4.download it
5. Read it
6. Shitpost
>>8097748
Can you recommend anything?
>>8097786
If you like your sci-fi with some racism Lucifer's Hammer. If you like off the beaten path post-apocalypse, Canticle for Leibowitz or Earth Abides. If you are feeling pretentious, His Master's Voice or Solaris.
But you never did the Kenosha Kid.
Where to start with Pynchon?
>>8097750
V. and The Crying of Lot 49 are both good entry points.
>>8097750
Vineland
How is majoring in Comparative Literature without knowing a foreign language before entering? What can I expect at school(going to Reed most likely) and what can I expect for a job? is it even worth it?
>comparative literature
>comp lit
>2016
>>8097689
Your Bachelor's, right? You'll be okay. Just try to figure out which language you want fairly quickly, and take courses for it.
Gimme your favorite dystopian sci-fi book.
Here's the catch: It can't be about war
>>8097644
I remember reading this book in high school called Shade's Children and liking the fuck out of it. I found another copy at the used book store but my dad threw it in the trash because it had an eye on the cover and he's one of those Illuminati fanatics.
>>8097658
Read some wiki about it, sounds pretty creepy
>>8097644
soooooo BNW, just to start?
oooooh oh my boy am I in grave trouble right now, having to find a dystopian book that isn't about war, oooooh so spooky
What are good some good introductions into Medieval warfare and combat?
/his/ has been useless on this, maybe /lit/ can do better
>>8097504
>Medieval warfare and combat?
>maybe /lit/ can do better
Maybe we will. What we *certainly* will do is call you a neckbeard redditor.
Neckbeard redditor.
DeVries, Kelly (1992), Military Medieval Technology, Broadview Press, ISBN 0-921149-74-3
Nicholson, Helen (2004), Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300–1500, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-76330-0
Contamine, Philippe. War in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984
France, John, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000–1300, London: Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8607-4
Keen, Maurice. Medieval Warfare: A History. Oxford University Press, 1999.
H. W. Koch: Medieval Warfare. Bison...
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>>8097515
wow, that was quick! thx
What order should I read the Bible in? I have a Catholic one.
Start with the Jews.
Chronological?
Or first the New Testament and then the Old because it's hard to go through all of the old just like that.
Start with the greeks
Writing a story, but before I can really begin I need to set up and organize a timeline of events, and consolidate my ideas and the themes in a manageable way. I'm currently just using pen and paper or writing programs that becomes a bit of an unwieldy mess.
Are there software that could help in this phase of writing? A personal wiki of sorts maybe? Or should I just use lists scribbled on napkins?
I've been ruminating on my ideas for over a year. It's been changing a lot, but I need an overview to create a structure of it all.
Scrivener is worth the money
>>8097125
Good suggestion, thank you.
>>8097221
I prefer Focuswriter. It's free and very clean. Doesn't have as many organizational options but you can have as many tabs open as you need.
Thoughts on this?
pic related
dropped after the first masturbatory rant about pseudophilosophical nonsense
>>8096914
Some dipshit on my facebook feed posted a quote from that book today and it was dumb. From this I can interpolate that book in it's totality must be shit.
It's good. /lit/ won't like it though because it has zen in the title and it's popular
What do you think of these?
Do they have some merit in the fantasy genre?
>>8096593
They're mediocre. Which of means they're better than 99% of fantasy books
>>8096593
>fantasy genre
>merit
>>8096593
A solid 7/10 but given that they got a tv series and are now wildly popular it is our duty as 4channers to hate it and say it's shit even though things like Shannara and Eragon exist.
Any fans of his poetry here?
Do you have a favorite poem of his?
Who is your favorite in older Persian poetry?
>>8096551
God has given us a dark wine so potent that,
drinking it, we leave the two worlds.
God has put into the form of hashish a power
to deliver the taster from self-consciousness.
God has made sleep so
that it erases every thought.
God made Majnun love Layla so much that
just her dog would cause confusion in him.
There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstacies
are the same!
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was...
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>>8096569
One of few I liked.
Hafez and Ferdowsi are still my favorites.
>>8096569
Moar
