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BIBLE POWER RANKING:
Genesis
Revelation
Job
Isaiah
Matthew
John
Ecclesiastes
Proverbs
Psalms
Judges
Exodus
Acts
Daniel
Jonah
Hebrews
Romans
James
Chronicles
Corinthians
Deuteronomy
Numbers
Leviticus
Song of Solomon
I don't get why everyone creams their pants over Revelations. It's just a bunch of shitty obscure symbolism.
>>8064950
Surprisingly accurate. Although personally I would place Exodus below Job, and Acts between Matthew and John.
>>8064950
>Matthew above John
>Song of Solomon last
Wew lad.
How do I get invited to bilbiotik? I have an overdrive library card.
I don't have any invites to give you, but I've found it to be overrated. aaaaarg.org plus libgen will probably have you covered
>>8065028
Bibliotik has the same Ebook files like the ones you purchase from the kindle store. The legitimacy of those files is what's appealing to me, and the reason why I want to join bibliotik.
>>8065028
Bibliotik is great it's a one stop shop for the most part.
I would be desperately unhappy without it
Whats the best account of America History one can read?
American History X. It has that guy from Birdman too.
>>8064763
Hamilton: The Revolution [Book]
a people's history of the united states
Why does Homer have such a hard-on for Nestor?
>>8064707
mary sue :^)
umm... you dont?
>>8064707
Why did he have such a hard-on for Diomedes? Nigga kills like thirty characters and wounds divinity.
"He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man hand has reclaimed- even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they...
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What are some good novels that go into detail about human misery? Extreme hunger, torture, poverty, etc.
Hunger:
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Poverty:
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Torture:
1984 by George Orwell
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
>>8064735
Thank you very much.
>>8064663
my diary desu lad
>read book of poetry
>it doesn't rhyme
What a waste of time
you dont like the odyssey m8?
>>8064647
This game in your pic is a great work of art
What's this guy's catchphrase again?
bazinga!
Woah!
>>8064602
I never understood the banana memes of this novel. Clearly made by people who read the first ~20 pages or so then surrendered. -Pynchon.
Spooky thread.
Read a spooky book or short story. Leave another as a suggestion.
Pic related. A man goes on a walk through the woods with the devil.
>>8064550
Goosebumps are pretty scary scary
For sale: skeleton, never worn.
But who was phone?
is that the one where the uptight puritanical bro from new england finds out his wife was getting gangbanged by the whole town out in the woods and that he's a fucking spooked cuck missing out on hot bukake action?
> be Britfag
> be trawling competitions
> See Manchester short story contest - £10,000 prize money
> read winners and runners up from last year
> experience mounting dread
> retrieve mother, from living room, with Lit degree from UoB
> confirm: asinine twaddle in derivative sincere / minimalist style ( See alternate reality in which Raymond Carver is named...
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>>8064504
i know the feels, same goes for poetry for the most part.
since there is no objective way to judge art, as soon as you pass some quality barrier, winning depends on the personal tastes of the jury
it's true for any art contest from art contest on a game forum to the nobel prize in literature
>>8064512
no shit
I dont meam to start /his/ shitposting but i started reading Candide and im at the part where Candide murders his waifu's brother. While I do understand the irony of Candide's story it's also quite tragic how he lived a virtuous life up until he realized his waifu wasn't dead and started evading justice just because of a women.
good to know, thanks
>>8064337
What's the point of the story he keeps fucking himself over.
>>8064333
Candide is crap. It's only still around because English professors know that if they tried reading real philosophy they'd get their shit pushed in.
What does /lit/ think of Lotr?
creative and imaginative children's literature
>>8064325
no discernible talent, clearly a juvenile author.
avoid.
it's good
>finish a book
>all those treasured moments are nothing but paper and ink
Your other memories only exist in your mind
that's like saying that having a good time with friends is invalidated because they're just flesh and blood
the paper and ink is just the medium through which the author reaches out to you
What is the best form of art? In my opinion it's either music or mathematics.
Music or architecture
Anime
memes
what you seek in vain, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. you seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become it's prey.
what did he mean by this.
try not to get too hung up on the meaning anon
>>8064276
>what did he mean by this.
don't marry :^)
>>8064279
is that the meaning?
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/20/shakespeare-the-tempest-nude-central-park-new-york-women
:^)
Offensive to me
>>8064263
not really surprising if you live in nyc desu
naked street performers in body paint is pretty normal
I'll save you all the time, there isn't a single dick
