>The Year of Our Lord 2015
>reading translations
>>7523975
How many languages do you know OP?
>>7523977
I'm mainly a beginner. I can get by in Russian, French, Romanian, Italian, Turkish and Arabic.
>>7523982
Bullshit
Ok /lit/
So, I have started reading pic related but i find it hard to heard.... Not actually hard to understand or grasp but when i started reading Orwell i just didn't want to put the book down. But this book... i can barely force myself to read 20 pages a day. Why is this?
What translation?
>>7523861
english.
What is your reading list for the new year?
Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
The Magic Mountain
Man Without Qualities
Women and Men
The Recognitions
JR
The Sot-Weed Factor
Giles Goat-Boy
Miss Macintosh, My Darling
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Bible
Mason & Dixon
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Knausgaard's My Struggle
Against the Day
Finnegans Wake
Game of Thrones
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Tristram Shandy
Robinson Crusoe
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare
The Bhagavad-gita
Heart of Darkness
Anatomy of Melancholy
The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
The American Heritage Dictionary
The International Thesaurus of Quotations
>>7523799
Pretty much
i don't know. some plutarch, some literary criticism on shakespeare is all i have in mind, i don't make lists like that.
Pic related is the only commercially successful children's/YA literature acceptable to read as an adult. Prove me wrong.
>>7523739
Pic related is the only children's/ YA book series worth making a thread over.
MEMES
>>7523739
>the fedoracles of narnia
Why would you read books that aren't considered classics?
Serious question. It's literally a waste of time reading non-canon works.
>>7523648
Then the canon will never change.
>>7523648
Why is time spent readimg the canon better spent than time reading garbage? Either way you are going to die.
>>7523659
>living reading garbage is the same as living reading classics
What is the comfiest book you have ever read?
Pic related for me.
Stoner desu
V., underrated comfiness
Gogol is pretty comfy, at least what i read
people are gonna say LotR is comfy but i think it drags a lot, i read it once in my life and i think that's enough
if you are under 16, or a mom, Harry Potter
>>7523499
>trying this hard to pretend youre not from reddit
>still failing
Borges
Kafka
Joyce
These are the most influential writers of the 20th Century.
Discuss.
hemmingway probably was, sadly enough.
Borges is one of my favorite writers, but who are some other great writers that he influenced? The only one that immediately comes to mind is Gene Wolfe.
Joyce is shit and no amount of /lit/ memeing can make him not shit
Why is this considered a classic?
because it's the great american novel.
>>7523367
It's some of the best the U.S. has been able to spit out. It's not better than a lot of other novels, but goddamnit it's good for an American.
>>7523377
>american
>great
Pick one.
Hey /lit/, I need to read this ?
No. It's not very good.
>>7523363
Why not?
>>7523359
Yes.
Why do american hardcovers always looks so tacky and nasty?
>>7523265
America is tacky and nasty.
>>7523265
Those are not good examples, anon
>German publishing, not even once
>pic related. Knausgaard's My Struggle 2
>mfw finished reading The Stranger right after The Brothers Karamazov
>>7523138
>reading The Stranger right after The Brothers Karamazov
Why?
ya blew it
>>7523171
>>7523179
i honestly had no idea what the stranger was about and kinda just going down the meme-list absentmindedly
I just finished this for the first time.
Mein gott, I actually think it was flawless
Someone help me collect my thoughts
>>7523087
No, collect them yourself.
2longtbh.
>>7523093
What makes you think I wanted you to help me?
So I received a huge stack of Dean Koontz books.
I've never read any of his work.
Which of the following should I start with?
Shadow Fires
Twilight Eyes
One door away from heaven
dragon tears
strange highways
winter moon
lightning
the mask
midnight
the house of thunder
the eyes of darkness
the face
by the light of the moon
cold fire
frankenstein
false memory
fear nothing
demon seed
tick tock
breathless
relentless
the vision
icebound
innocence
watchers
the funhouse
the voice of the night
the husband
the darkest evening of the year
the good guy
dark rivers of the heart
hideaway
your heart belongs to me
mr. murder
>>7522921
The Greeks.
Fear nothing.
Hey /lit/
So I just finished reading this and I really enjoyed it but just seemed about 80 years out of date. I was wondering if anyone had some other good recommendations for a more modern version.
>>7522887
start with the greeks
>>7522892
Anything in particular?
>>7522887
Bumporoni pepperoni
Why did God need to sacrifice his son to redeem man? Why couldn't he just have forgiven man?
Also, is his "son" being an offspring of himself, mean that Jesus was actually God since he was directly connected from God? Why would God sacrifice himself then?
>>7522742
the son was sacrificed so that we would know and so that the Jews would know we are forgiven. in orthodox Judaism the Jews sacrifice something to atone for their sins, usually livestock. the biggest sacrifice they usually made was a well-bred lamb this is why Christ is called the lamb of god because he is the great atonement and sacrifice
>>7522751
but why do we need to sacrifice something to atone for sins? So God sacrificed himself to himself to redeem man? Himself in human form that is. I'm confused.
>>7522751
ok so nobody can answer this. great thread
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