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I know /lit/ hates these Barnes & Noble editions, but this is the only king james bible I've found available with the Gustave Dore illustrations, so isn't it worth it?
Also pretty cheap for what it is.
Buy it if you want it. Who gives a shit.
>>7840839
>the only one
>http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Bible-Version-Leather-bound-Classics/dp/1607109301
5 seconds on amazon, you stupid fuck
>>7840839
Are you really so insecure that you can't buy a book if it isn't approved by a bunch of pseudo intellectuals on a Kurdish meat curing forum?
Completely fricken awesome. This book pleased every geeky bond in my geeky body. I felt like it was written just for me.
ok
>>7840791
>I felt like it was written just for me.
If you are the kind of person who molds their personality around things reddit likes, you would be completely right.
But you are not, because this is nothing but bait.
I don't think there was anything wrong with the IDEA of this book. A reference-heavy fetishistic love letter to 80s pop culture could still be fun. But it would need:
>a believable fleshed-out world
>a good puzzle and series of challenges driving the plot
>a non-explanatory style that incorporates references fluidly instead of pausing ever minute to say "now, I should explain the significance of this show--which is one of my favorites..."
Never before have I felt such a strong sense of "The author wasn't smart enough to write this." His idea of a subtle clue is a blatant reference to the single most notorious D&D module of all time, but somehow our hero was the only one to notice that in years of playing.
Fahnestock & McAfee, Norman Denny, or someone else? Which translator do you guys prefer for this book?
>>7840768
F/M is good, Denny is abridged. Take 5 minutes out of your worthless life to look things up.
>>7840768
Christine Donougher!
>less miserable
>most of the characters end up more miserable
hugo you hack
>go to bookstore
>ask for any books by William H. Gass
>bookman takes me to the "Ga" section which I had just came from
>"Doesn't look like we have anything by him. What's he write?"
>"Essays, short-stories. Long, dense fiction, from what I've read about him. His style's supposed to be really interesting, and the way he tells his stories is unfamiliar-sounding."
>"Have you heard of Infinite Jest®"
>MFW
>go to bookstore
>ask for any books by Yukio Mishima
>"Oh, is that an anime?"
I really wish I was kidding
>go to Barnsen Noble
>hang around outside of the kid's sections
>Kid comes out holding A book about fish
>"Get some taste, kid"
>repeat several times until asked to leave
i hope you're all doing your part to make young patricians
>>7840766
The book is a meme it's terrible don't read it
I started reading Inferno a short while ago
The translation has lengthy explanations about every single line (not even kidding). At first I ignored them, but I'm starting to fear I'll be missing a lot if I keep doing that.
What translation did you read? How important are the references in your opinion?
>>7840738
The Hollander translation was my first experience with the Divine Comedy and for the first half of Inferno I read every annotation for any lines that had them. This made the poem a real slog. It was only after I started ignoring them that I was able to enjoy what I was reading. The Divine Comedy is something that really should be read multiple times to fully appreciate it and those annotations will still be there for future reads where you'll likely find them more valuable. If it turns out that The Divine Comedy isn't something you want to read again then you'll probably be thankful you skipped those annotations anyway.
>>7841302
>If it turns out that The Divine Comedy isn't something you want to read again
>there are people on /lit/ who only read the commedia once
lmao fucking plebs
>>7840738
You can read Dante and understand him at his most important level without getting the references.
Don't worry about the foot notes for now. You can come back to Dante again and again as you go on studying and reading through life, and get more and more each time.
I just finished this and must say it was fantastic.
It was surprisingly a lot more than just dump pulp scifi.
I just finished Solaris. Should I read this flick?
Can I get a good reader's summary and why it is better than most other novels of today?
This is literally the most boring fucking book I have ever read in my entire life, and I do not understand how the fuck /lit/ parrots this fucking thing around like it's the reincarnation of Ganesh.
The dialogue is flat and sterile and unrealistic, the characters are INSANELY fucking two dimensional, and it's full of fucking horribly dragged on pretentious fucking bullshit.
The book ITSELF is dragged on pretentious fucking bullshit.
I have lost all respect for /lit/s views on books after this fucking shit. This is literally the book form of a piece of shit with gold coating on it.
You guys talk an awful lot about Reddit and how shit their taste in books are, but Jesus Christ, if this is the best you have to offer... It really makes me reconsider my fucking thoughts on the whole anti-Reddit thing.
>>7840627
I congratulate you on your first reading of it, faggot. Now learn how to read better.
One word: sheeps
>>7840627
Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
Read Portrait and Dubliners
Read Hamlet
Then read Ulysses 2 more times
Would /lit/ consider 'Where's Wally' by Handford Martin, overshadowed by the common peoples naïveté and bewilderment of such a puzzle that led [them] to be bemused and lose absolute focus of what Handford really meant?
>>7840616
What did he mean?
>>7840617
Well I am not sure for certain but I would argue the true purpose of 'Where's Wally' is to show how someone wearing bright clothing (a metaphor for Wally's narcissism) would still be difficult from someone looking from one view only. I'd like to compare people like millenials into this equation; millinials are severe narcissists (I would believe but you may correct me on this) that wear flashy clothing, pointless technology for the sake of looking 'cool' (i.e. Beats by Dr.Dre), and among other things as well. Even though millenials do this, they have seem to blend into each other because they are all the same.
>>7840616
>not waldo
bongs pls go
Did Leopold ever actually cheat on Molly, or was she just paranoid?
>>7840596
He was sending that one girl those letters under the name Henry Flower. I don't know if he ever physically cheated on Molly, but he wasn't necessarily faithful.
>>7840980
Molly was already getting dicked at that point
I think so. Not enough stories where both parties get cucked.
What's a book that analyzes labour or student unions
Basically, I'm planning to start a student union and need to learn about this stuff a bit
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/p/after-school-clubs-for-kids-lisa-m-shaia/1117227816/2691555848308?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+Paperbackshopus_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP23180&k_clickid=3x23180
You might find this helpful
>>7840568
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
What is some good Basque literature?
The only Basque author I know is Bernardo Atxaga
>>7840509
same here.
>>7840475
Ramiro Pinilla is really good. I've only read his trilogy Verdes valles, colinas rojas and Sólo un muerto más, but apparently he's critically-acclaimed and and virtually unknown in America.
Fuck you lit.
you told me to start with the greeks and now everyone at uni is making fun of me.
>Not starting with the Egyptians
>>7840481
>Egyptians
try again
>Not starting with the Norse plus a bunch of other irrelevant shit
>He was awoken by the sound of his alarm clock going off at around five-thirty. The sound it emitted was more than enough to bring his mind back from the nightmare he was having. None the less he let it rang for five more minutes as a deterrent until he was sure he won't fall asleep again once he pushed in the stop. Once he did that he stared at the ceiling for a moment or two, before getting up from his bed.
>He switched on the lamp placed on the bedside table, and got dress for his morning activities. Green long hunter shirt, wool hunting pants, and fraying boots. The clothes were perfect when hunting in the woods. He grabs a small notebook and wrote his to do list for the day. On the top of paper, what was written on it was, the current day, July 20th. With six objectives which consist of checking the hen house for any eggs, also feeding said chickens. Check the vegetable garden to see how far along are they. Check the animal traps he planted thought-out the forest. Hunt the buck he saw a week before today. And make something for dinner
>He then would walk in the dark kitchen room and opened the cabinet doors. The breakfast in which he would eat only consists of a glass of water, loaf of rye bread, and green apple.
>He finished his breakfast slowly, thinking back on how his grandmother would make breakfast when he was little. After finishing his breakfast he threw the remains of the apple to garbage, he put the bread crumbs into a muslin sack and the cup into the sink.
English is not my first language, I wanted to know if something was wrong.
>>7840399
>None the less he let it rang for five
None the less, he let it ring for five
>once he pushed in the stop
not incorrect, but confusing wording, maybe "pushed for it to stop" would be clearer
>Once he did that he
once he did that, he
>or two, before
take out comma
>and got dress
dressed
>He grabs
grabbed
>On the top of paper, what was written on it was, the current day, July 20th.
oh hell, On the top page of the paper was written the current day, blah blah
>objectives which consist
consisted
last sentences in the second paragraph beginning with Check should be one sentence and seperated with a comma
>far along are they
far along they are
>and opened the cabinet doors.
open
>The breakfast in which he
the breakfast which he
>apple to garbage
into the garbage
wew lad, u gotta ways to go, but you'll get there, keep at it. try reading english books outloud to get a feel for present and past tenses, which u seem to have some trouble with
>>7840399
>He was awoken by the sound of his alarm clock going off at around five-thirty
Well he was hardly going to be awoken by its ticking, remove the "going off". The "around" doesn't sit well with me either, you set an alarm clock for an exact time and it wakes you up at an exact time.
I'm so disgusted that I can read no further.
>>7840399
I'm just gonna help you with a couple spelling and tense errors.
>nonetheless should be one word
>he let it ring*
>wouldn't instead of won't
>dressed instead of dress
>He grabbed* instead of grab
>On the top of the* paper was written the current date; July 20th
>With six objectives: Checking the hen house for eggs etc.
>Then he would walk into the dark kitchen and open* (future tense) the etc.
Frankly, OP, this piece of writing is terrible from start to finish.
It's riddled with too many errors for me to be bothered with.
I think you should read more English novels.
Recommend me something about human relationships being carried out, be it friendship or love of any sort.
>>7840378
being carried out?
>>7840385
Meant books that succeed in capturing the interactions between people when such relationships exist between them
>>7840394
Every book ever written, la
I don't get it. So what was he on trial for?
DUDE
>>7840265
For being guilty of a crime.
shitposting
