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Should I read the Aeneid or the Illiad and Odyssey?
I studied one book of the Aeneid in school and really liked it.
do whatever you want you retard
what you should do is make a thread when you've actually read something and want to discuss it instead of worthless threads like this.
>>7708876
Read them all, they are amazing. Book six of the Aeneid is life changing.
>>7708990
jidf pls go
List a bunch of books with good goodreads scores Over 3.8 that were written after 1850. I need to add more books to my library. I've exhausted all the classics. Hitting up torontos used book stores tonight. Give me big lists. Not just 1 or 2 books. Doesn't matter what genre. Only fiction, fantasy, Sci fi, horror, suspense, romance blah blah blah
which ones, BMV?
>>7708784
BMVs, seekers, the handy book exchange, some other book store on Bloor by Christie. If you know any other good ones lemme know.
>>7708781
find it on your own, faggot
Why is Judas portrayed as a villian? I mean, duh, he betrayed Jesus, but why is he considered a bad guy when thanks to him Jesus got the death he "wanted", the one that saved us all from sin, etc.
I think that actually opens another question. If God sent His son to die for our sins, was he supposed to die via torture and humilliation or just die as any human being? If the latter, I can understand Judas being a bad guy, but if the former, then he was just a way to get there.
Borges wrote a really good story about this. It's in Ficciones.
http://www.voxpublica.org/2009/07/three_versions_of_judas.html
>>7708821
Holy shit I actually read this some years ago, didn't remember it. Thanks!
>>7708778
This book is about what you are talking about.
As someone who suffers with a pervasive undercurrent of dissatisfaction and anhedonia, this book is absurdly refreshing. Does /lit/ read Ligotti?
I read his fiction.
>>7708768
I'm interested in reading Ligotti more thoroughly, but he's quite heavy on the nihilism! Can you recommend a quote/section of his that isn't overwhelmingly crushing?
>>7709062
>overwhelmingly crushing
Isn't that the point?
Most of his short stories are quite fun if you don't look into them too much.
What's the name for an ideology in which someone values themself first or only themself?
>>7708739
solipsism is the far extreme where others don't exist.
>>7708739
Libertarianism also known as being 16.
>>7708744
This I guess
Egoism, obviously
Name some critical books…
elements of style, by strunk and white
critical of every dipshit who mis-used an apostrophe.
What edition of Piers Plowman would be fine for a non native English speaker?
If your pointing out that you are a non native speaker comes from assuming that native speakers usually read the original, I doubt that's the case.
Otherwise if you speak German or French, the middle english version should probably be manageable, but a very slow read.
Wisdom is understanding the hypocrisies of society while recognizing you are guilty of the same hypocrisies.
>>7708686
Definitely.
Why is it that travelogues written by men describe the place, while travelogues written by women describe themselves in the place?
>>7708682
Because women are self centered. Just look at your average woman that goes to Africa to "help."
>women are self-centred, valium popping cunts
Hey /lit/. I'm new to contributing to Wikipedia. How do I format references? Do I just insert the link and the title of the document I linked to? Or is there more to it?
Wikipedia has places to ask this. Fuck off, stop shitting up our board.
Nobody else needs to reply to this.
Why don't you read the wiki page on it? This is not /lit/, go away.
>>7708659
Have fun having your contribution reverted in five minutes
Someone wanna critique this poem I wrote? Also general poetry critique thread.
Lyric go -- Lyric be
Blesséd and with me
Lyric stay -- Lyric show,
How things come to be.
If lyric show -- and lyric know
What had befallen thee,
Then lyric stay -- and lyric play
So all may come to see.
Lyric stay--lyric show..shit happens...then lyric stay again? I don't get it.
How do I get into pulp novels. Is there any online library's of resources I can check out.
Consult the sticky OR go to a library and ask a librarian. They are masters of google-fu.
Is this good for retards like me that can't do more than passive reading?
how are you supposed to read it?
>>7708670
He can get the audio book I suppose.
>>7708670
have a mentor read it to you.
Is there anything I should read before tackling this?
no.
harry potter
>>7708583
Helps if you know some of the history of that era.
Can someone write me a Shakespearean sonnet? Make it about music please
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one...
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Not doing your homework.
Does it say /hw/ at the top? A board for faggot high schoolers who are too damn stupid to do simple homework assignments?
