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What is the best version of pic related?
https://www.amazon.com/Divina-Commedia-Dante-Alighieri/dp/0674212908
Live thatrical adaptation as performed by an all-black Gospel theater group.
Chances are some of them will even be called Dante.
>Reading for pleasure? Hollander.
>Reading to inform your religious views? Hollander.
>Reading to study in an academic setting? Durling and Martinez.
>Reading as a secular scholar? Durling and Martinez.
I've been reading some Pound over the last couple of weeks and I think he's my favourite poet now.
What are your thoughts on him?
he's alright
>>8263447
Can you expand on that? Don't know many people who are into Pound and I think here is probably my best bet to have a conversation about him
>>8263445
Bump
Any good recommendations?
I've read most of the sutff you find on Goodreads.
Basically overpowered main character going through the world with cheat mode activated is my ideal story. Doesn't have to be necessarily a thief, etc. as long as the world is grim dark.
I've read some LN translated books as well like Re:Ogre, etc. That works too but I've read most of these LN as well already.
>>8263126
* Sword Of Truth series
* Name Of The Wind
>>8263126
>>/sffg/
The Eyes of the Overworld, and Cugel's Saga, by Jack Vance.
thief robs the most powerful wizard in town, and things escalate.
stumbled across these in the library, havent taken a look yet though
thoughts?
different anon, have them in my kindle, would appreciate /lit/'s opinion.
bump
>>8263105
>Durant
no
>DurANT
haha
Was Jean a cuck or was he only taking care of Cosette to make up for the times when he couldn't take care of his sister and her children while in prison?
>>8263028
>or was he only taking care of Cosette to make up for the times when he couldn't take care of his sister and her children while in prison?
according to ignorant memeposters like you, that still makes him a """"""""""cuck""""""""""
let's just ignore Valjean's heroism and virtue, as well as the social commentary in this brilliant novel so we can mastur- I...
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>>8263028
It wasn't any single reason, it's just the way things ended up happening.
Jean Valjean was redeemed by the Bishop, and vowed to live on the high road for the rest of his life. He made a promise to Fantine that he would take care of Cosette. This was when he was still the mayor and he had a lot of power to watch over the child. Obviously Champmathieu fucked that up for him, but he still made a promise. After saving her from the Thenardiers, he quickly fell in love with her, and she was literally the...
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>>8263028
If anything Javert killed himself because he was a just man cucked by an unjust society. Dat anagnorisis.
Hey /lit/. So I've been getting into /m/ recently and I was wondering if mecha would work well in a novel. Like a scifi world War or alien invasion type story. What's your opinion on it? Also got any recommendations for books that do it well?
If it can work in manga it can work in prose.
Given that mechs only exist because they look cool and wouldn't actually be any use in real combat, a book is unlikely to do them "well".
>>8262913
Sorry to say, contemporary sci-fi has always had stuff more towards space fleets and dogfighters, like something you would see in LotGH, and that would make sense.
Mechs in space don't sound all that practical, and would be more geared towards ground combat as most people would imagine, IE shit like Avatar and War of the Worlds
Have you ever pretended to read a certain author to impress a girl? Be honest
It doesn't count as pretending if she believes you.
Pretended to have read loads of Sartre and Camus. Had a 45 minute introductionary course of existentialism.
>>8262871
I impress my spouse by pretending to have read more than I have. Not necessarily any certain authors, just in quantity
Well?
Was he really the Greatest of All Time?
Yep.
>>8262819
no
even cervantes is better than him, and he is irrelevant nowadays
>>8262872
nah
>tfw you accidentally arrive to the same conclusion as an author/philosopher
>>8262752
>tfw i am an integral part of /lit/'s shitposting and meme culture
>tfw i am responsible for a good amount of dfw reaction images, including OP's
makes life worth living tbchwyf
>>8262752
Doesn't mean anything positive in regards to yourself. For one those ideas are usually usually exist in the zeitgeist because of the philosopher in question, meaning they had the actual intelligence to go against the grain, where you are merely adopting ideas that are floating about. And secondly (and much more importantly) to conflate your thought with the philosophers would be like saying wouldn't it be cool if we went to the moon, then after America having gotten to the moon claiming the amount of genius...
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>>8262825
>tfw my prose style is an influencer of the board's counterculture of engaged /lit/erati, whereas you are but a garden-variety memester thinking himself important for applying basic memetic principles to a small community
So, haiku poetry is basic existential greentexting, am i rite?
shut up
Haiku is not just
Some stupid 4chan mee-mee
You little faggot
>>8262661
I see what you did
It it rather amusing
Now take this free (You).
>mfw reading the nose-job scene in V.
The rat priest section is the best
>>8262602
>mfw reading the rat priest section
>>8262554
i liked that part.
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I want to do some reading on ancient rome. What are the best reccomendations you have?
Appareantly these 2 books are quite popular, but I'm not sure which one to go with.
Theodor Mommsens History of Rome
or
Gibbsons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
I'm more drawn towards History of Rome, because it was released more recently, but both of these books are quite old now, so I was wondering if there are any recently released books that might contain less errors?
>>8262546
Is this your first peek into Rome? What are you hoping to get out of the venture?
Both these works are extremely long and at least partially outdated/eclipsed by modern archaeology and the rediscovery of more primary sources. That's not to say they're not valuable, but if this is your first step, it would be an extremely and perhaps overly ambitious one.
Livy's "History of Rome". A book about the history of Rome written by an actual Roman.
>>8262869
A great read for sure, but misses a ton of material. Only covers ~753-290 and 218-167.
Absolutely worth reading, and a lot of fun, but useless for anyone interested in the empire. All depends on what OP is interested in, specifically.
What are your thoughts on Calvino?
What books have you read by him?
I've read Baron in the trees and I'm halfway through If on a winters a traveler.
my name is calvino
>>8261995
>What are your thoughts on Calvino?
Very yes
> What books have you read by him?
Cosmicomics, Italian Folktales, If on a winter's night, Barone rampante, Cloven viscount, Invisible Cities...?
Candy so nice it declines itself in every flavour I can't say no to
>>8261995
I've read the ones I own (pic related). I love Calvino. He's brilliant, hilarious, kind, and poetic. Start with Palomar, and then do Invisible Cities, Winter's Night, and Castle.
When will the life experience meme end?
I wasn't planning on telling anyone about my novel until it was finished but my Father kept going on and on about getting a job, so I had to explain that I already have one - that I'm an author. He pretty much laughed in my face, apparently trying to write a book is ridiculous when "you've never worked a day in your life and you've never been with a woman".
Beginning to think some people weren't born with an imagination.
Life experience is indeed reflected in what you write and how you write it.
Unless you're writing fantasy/sci-fi/horror/etc., life experience is pretty important, OP.
>>8261919
Hes right. If you have been a shut in NEET your whole life, you probably have no interesting or novel insights on the human condition.
Literary Tattoos
Do you have any? How do you feel about them? Would you ever get one/some and of what?
>>8261910
Clearly this functions to inform any potential partners of the tattooed's inclination towards madness rather than wisdom.
>>8261910
Is that an arm or a torso?
tattoos are for degenerates
