Hello lads, which english translation of the Iliad do you recommend me to read? would it be a prose or verse one? i'm not a scholar nor a student of this particular field, so i want something that doesn't have too many complex vocabulary as english isn't my first language
search the archive. this has been asked before
>>7450820
looked around and stumbled upon Mitchell's translation, i liked it as a verse, but i also have fagles', which one as a beginner should i go for?
>>7450879
bump
Hi /lit/,
What is your preferred translation or edition of the Bible? I have a NIV but I'm buying a copy for a friend to read so we can read the whole thing together. (Okay, it's not a friend, it's my mom, fuck you, we like to read stuff together and she has good taste.) Interested more in poetic and literary value of the translation than in theological content or adherence to a particular interpretation of Christianity. The KJV bits I've read are beautiful so I was leaning towards one of the slightly modernized KJVs (like the "21st Century King James Version," etc.) but what are your thoughts? Are there editions with particularly good notes or editors' remarks?
Bump, surprised by the lack of responses as I've seen /lit/ argue about this before. Was my image too ironic?
http://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm
>>7450718
It sounds like you have about the best plan for your situation already; I was mentally forming a response (KJV is most literary; updated version might be easier), but then you said just that.
Hello,
I'm a senior finishing up a CS degree. I dipped my toes into philosophy a little bit as a freshman, but never delved very deeply into it. I now have a renewed interest in it (I don't really know what I want anymore, I figure philosophy might have the answers), but I'm kind of lost on where to begin. I downloaded "Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" and found online copies of "On Liberty", "Treatise of Human Nature", "Beyond Good and Evil", and "Existentialism as Humanism".
Are these good books to start my journey? Anything that should be added? Note: I'm not looking to learn the history of philosophy, so I'm not very interested in works like Plato
>>7450694
plato still, honestly. it's more interesting than you might think. plenty of food for thought in those pages.
>>7450694
>I'm not very interested in works like Plato
You should be. There's a reason we still teach the Greeks
>>7450694
You need to get at least a basic understanding of the Greeks and German Idealists. I wish I did when I began my journey into philosophy.
> "Beyond Good and Evil"
You can't just jump into Nietzsche like that. If you do, you will most likely come away from it with the wrong ideas. Also, start with Twilight of the Idols, not BG&E.
"Write drunk, edit sober"
Do you have any strange writing or reading habits?
>>7450655
I do this hilarious thing where I continue to buy books despite having a 5 foot stack of backlog and then proceed to shitpost instead of reading
When I write I usually choke out a few pages, look it over the next day, decide it's irredeemably shit and start anew.
I only write dubs posts
>For sale: baby shoes, never worn
What did he mean by this?
>>7450635
they didnt fit. he had big feet.
Nothing, since he didn't write that.
>>7450643
did I say who wrote it?
Are you exceptional /lit/?
http://gokuislovegokuislife.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-problem-with-being-exceptional.html
>>7450395
>goku
not reading that shit
This was the moment Vegeta understood everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNSNkNxQuwE
>>7450395
dude, havent you learned that the way to sneakily include goku into /lit/ is to mention journey to the west? SUN WUKONG
Anyone else notice eerie similarities between this book and the Trump campaign?
Also, why is Lewis never discussed here? he was the first gringo to win a lit Nobel prize after all...
He was a socialist and denounced the American Capitalist Culture that was blooming ever faster. They did not really like it.
>>7450362
>Anyone else notice eerie similarities between this book and the Trump campaign?
There's a lot that /pol/ does not know about Trump.
In other words, yes, Lewis is underrated and eerily prescient.
Phoenix Rising is about some Muslim becoming president and shitting up the country that is very clearly aimed at Tea Party readers. It's fear porn more or less. How is the book in OP Amy better?
Let's get this shit going
>>7450337
is Del Toro's prose OK? Some of his films are very literary but I don't think of him as someone who could also write books.
>>7450371
Re-reading the shakespeare or first time?
>be ravished by the beauty in everything
>too talentless to ever express it
JUST
U
S
T
newsflash: ur a fag
>>7450267
Back to /tv/, fag.
If you can't externalize your knowledge or conception of the world, then you don't have any knowledge of the world at all.
What's your favorite word that you never get to use in a sentence? Mine's "Versimilitude".
ineluctable (and no "modality" with it)
>>7450118
It's "verisimilitude".
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
acquiescence
>"How shoddy and contemptible life is, note that for it to be shoddy and contemptible, all it takes is you not wanting it (it being given to you anyway), and nothing about it depending on your will, or even on your illusion of your will. To die is to become completely utter, that's why suicide is a cowardice. It's to surrender ourselves completely to life."
What did he mean by this?
hue
Same thing Camus meant when talking about suicide.
>life sucks but i'll not suicide i'll suffer it all to the end instead because it sucks so much it's not even worth rejecting kek
>>7451209
But Camus is shit.
>start reading
>1 hour later
>only 60 pages read
>start reading
>stentence doesn't make sense
>have to read it over and over again to understand it
>finally move onto the next sentence
>repeat the same process
>forget what the first sentence was about on the way
>realize it took you 20 minutes to read two sentences you don't even remember
>give up reading for the second time this month
The book I tried to read was Brave New World because it was the first book in the /lit/ starter kit.
I'm never going to be a reader, am I?
>>7449954
>60 pages in an hour
That's fine, retard.
>>7449968
Start with the children's section
Ask questions you have about books but don't wanna start an entire thread dedicated to it.
Examples:
Which translation of ____ should I get
What is the better intro to ____ author
What is the difference between the 1855 and 1892 versions of Leaves of Grass? do they both include the same poems but the later is revised?
>>7449708
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass#Republications
Which TL of dosto's The Idiot?
>Barely writing 300 words a day
>And every single one of those 300 words are shit
What's the point of even going on?
I'd be better off learning how to be a plumber or electrician or something along those lines...
something something plumber something something you're writing is shit
>>7449393
Go to a therapist to talk about your bullshit.
Go cry on tumblr.
If you are here, kindly shut the fuck up.
GTFO
Reported
>>7449393
I write 300 words a day
And they're all "shit"
Everyday I add another 300 "shit" to my draft
I'm still looking for a publisher to take on my ever-growing manuscript
how many pages do you read per hour?
how many books have you read this year?
2.
>>7448946
n/a
90
yeah more or less
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