Latin is easy to learn from an english or any romance background but greek is a clusterfuck for most people who aren't greek or aren't sadists.
Latin is useful with somethings but greek is harder to apply to life unless you are a scholar who wants to be pedantic and translate ancient Greek works.
T. Biologist

I finished the Latin sequence in high school and the first couple years of college. I use it/think about it every day. I can read it without stumbling too much.
I wish I'd picked up Greek, but the letters scare me. There's no excuse for anyone to not at least know etymology imho.

First year university Latin exam tomorrow morning. Learning Greek this summer at an intensive paid for by uni.

Wish me luck, lads.

Jesus fuck these threads are moving too fast.

Only 1-5% good content too, just kek my shit up.

Other thread is shit

>>8104248
It was some massive attack of the plebs

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I claim this thread in the name of the Unholy Consult

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>Posting literally the worst of jack Vance's work

What are you doing?

What's going on here isn't this the general?
>>8102868
>>8102868

>>8102668
because you're dumb and your ideas are shit

Reflection always uses a mirror.

>>8102675
I was asking you.

Already did papa P

>>8102388
BECOME MEGUCA

>>8102396
All of them?

Michael Arnold

>>8102014
cant wait for the old cunt to die.

If Harold Bloom was a janitor he would be Harold Broom.

>>8101781
I don't get it. I don't watch children cartoons.

I agree, that is probably reddit's top 5 books. I don't know, I've never been there.

Hitchhiker's Guide and 1984 are alright but they're not the greatest of all time.

yes, the

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>implying "greatest philosopher" isn't like saying "greatest Star Wars EU loremaster"

>>8101446
>Kant ended philosophy
>Hegel ended philosophy
>Heidegger ended philosophy
>Wittgeinstein ended philosophy

>>8101458
>>>/r9k/

Moby-Dick

vurt
city of god
the virgin suicides

No, and they never will.

Periods and cooking don't make good subjects for high literature.

The Waves

Of course and if you need to ask for examples, you are too dumb to be on /lit/. Mods need to start locking these threads or we are going to become a slightly better read /r9k/.

>>8100726

Harry Potter/GoT-tier.

>>8100726
I'm currently reading The Last Wish and am about 2/3rds into it. It's really good fun, Geralt is a fun protagonist and the world he inhabits is interesting. Some of the short stories within are of varying quality but on the whole I'd recommend reading them, especially if you're a fan of the games. I'm looking forward to cracking into Sword of Destiny.

Don't think this is on any higher philosophical level than most fantasy though, it's designed to be lost in and enjoyable first and foremost.

No, but ok entertainment I guess.

Machado de Assis.
Roberto Bolaño.
João Guimarães Rosa.

Juan Carlos Onetti
Felisberto Hernández
Juan José Arreola
Juan Filloy
Horacio Quiroga
Fernando Vallejo

Juan Rulfo
Arreola
Roa Bastos
>Cortázar
>falling on the meme boom

>>8097040
>Chinese
>literature

Honestly, I would recommend Japanese over Chinese. Chinese is significantly harder to get accustomed to, and you'll struggle with the tonal system and the uncommon phonology. The several spoken Chinese forms are another difficulty you would like to avoid, and its literary history has a hole, namely communist China. It means the written Chinese of the classics are already different than the one you will study and that the modern literature still offers little to compare with Japan. Thanks to its syllabary, Japanese is more friendly and a bilingual English/French speaker...
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>>8097336
Thank you anon. How did you learn japanese? Do you have any tips for that or language-learning in general? I'm reading through /int/'s language guide and I've signed up for a french class in the fall for uni, but my school doesn't offer japanese that I know of.

ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shillelagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker...
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Yeah, I actually read the whole thing because I had to. I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Joyce because I loved Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. To my shame, though, I'd never read the Wake. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes,...
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