friedrich disapprovesMacbeth wrote:
Heard of almost all of them. So far I read 7 out of 30 of them.
They were decent stories and all but I wouldn't consider them life changing or essential reading for a well rounded person. Usually list like these are pushed by people who like to name books and authors to try to look smart despite not being able to rationalize out things or have original thoughts.
Meh I rather read an entire text book on some subject or a newsfeed then read one of 'the classics'.
textbooks and newsfeeds.
sehr ubermensch
sehr ubermensch
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havnt read any of them
Call of Cthulhu should probably be on the list, though from a literary perspective I wouldn't say it is his best.Uzique wrote:
ive read some shorter stories by h.p. lovecraft... dont really know what to say about them. strange. i associate his style with my studies of poe.
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin should definitely be on it for having double value as a book and a work of poetry. Clausewitz's On War should be on it too and maybe The Alexiad by Anna Komnena, though I haven't read that one myself yet. Thinking about North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Snows of Klimanjaro, Fathers and Sons and Roald Dahl's Katina too, but those are just books I personally like, not so much 'books to read'.
Oh yes it is. If you're reading it as a nerdy sci-fi book you're doing it wrong. It's brilliant through its absolute randomness and cynical take on existence.Uzique wrote:
decisively not missing one hitchhiker's guide to the fucking galaxy
........ maybe when you're 15 it's brilliant
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ja, the hitchhiker's guide... is overrated. it's not bad, but meh
no proust, musil, goethe, joyce, dante, shakespeare on this list? i am disappoint
à propos hemingway:
"One time I killed a very snotty SS kraut who, when I told him I would kill him unless he revealed what his escape route signs were said: You will not kill me, the kraut stated. Because you are afraid to and because you are a race of mongrel degenerates. Besides it is against the Geneva Convention.
What a mistake you made, brother, I told him and shot him three times in the belly fast and then, when he went down on his knees, shot him on the topisde so his brains came out of his mouth or I guess it was his nose.
The next SS I interrogated talked wonderfully. Clearly and with intelligent military exposition of their situation. He called me Herr Hauptman [Captain] and then decided that was not enough and called me Herr Oberst [Colonel] (I wore no insignia.) I would have worked him up to general. But we did not have time. After that we chased them very fast becasue we knew exactly what the signs they chalked up meant and who and how many they were.
Will now try to go back to being a christian again.
Yours in Christ
Ernest"
(Ernest Hemingway, "Selected Letters 1917-1961", edited by Carlos Baker, Charles Sribner's Sons, New York 1981)
maybe he lied or exaggerated
no proust, musil, goethe, joyce, dante, shakespeare on this list? i am disappoint
à propos hemingway:
"One time I killed a very snotty SS kraut who, when I told him I would kill him unless he revealed what his escape route signs were said: You will not kill me, the kraut stated. Because you are afraid to and because you are a race of mongrel degenerates. Besides it is against the Geneva Convention.
What a mistake you made, brother, I told him and shot him three times in the belly fast and then, when he went down on his knees, shot him on the topisde so his brains came out of his mouth or I guess it was his nose.
The next SS I interrogated talked wonderfully. Clearly and with intelligent military exposition of their situation. He called me Herr Hauptman [Captain] and then decided that was not enough and called me Herr Oberst [Colonel] (I wore no insignia.) I would have worked him up to general. But we did not have time. After that we chased them very fast becasue we knew exactly what the signs they chalked up meant and who and how many they were.
Will now try to go back to being a christian again.
Yours in Christ
Ernest"
(Ernest Hemingway, "Selected Letters 1917-1961", edited by Carlos Baker, Charles Sribner's Sons, New York 1981)
maybe he lied or exaggerated
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13 books to read before you're 13FatherTed wrote:
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exquisite book.
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I'd rather reread Harry Potter than Pride & Prejudice, to be completely frank.
edit:(but I'd scramble to unearth my copy of Pride & Prejudice rather than try to read Twilight.)
edit:(but I'd scramble to unearth my copy of Pride & Prejudice rather than try to read Twilight.)
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Oh no you didn't!Miggle wrote:
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I never really got why they changed it to that for Americans? Seems a tad patronising.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Oh no you didn't!Miggle wrote:
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I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
What did they change... and why>?presidentsheep wrote:
I never really got why they changed it to that for Americans? Seems a tad patronising.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Oh no you didn't!Miggle wrote:
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The title, in case Americans didn't understand it. Very, very patronising if you ask me.DrunkFace wrote:
What did they change... and why>?presidentsheep wrote:
I never really got why they changed it to that for Americans? Seems a tad patronising.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Oh no you didn't!
Of those, I've read:
1984 / George Orwell - meh
A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess - pretty good
The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Graham - I liked it when I was about 6
The Art of War / Sun Tzu - dull, dull, dull
The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien - good, but drags on a bit more than it should
David Copperfield / Charles Dickens - good, but far from my favourite Dickens
Catch-22 / Joseph Heller - awesome
The Republic / Plato - dull, Ethics was more interesting
lol. a "harry potter" book's title being changed was patronizing.
a "harry potter" book
"harry potter"
let that sink in
a "harry potter" book
"harry potter"
let that sink in
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It's not like it only happens for Harry Potter. There are loads of examples, most of which aren't patronising, but some of which are. It goes both ways too.eleven bravo wrote:
lol. a "harry potter" book's title being changed was patronizing.
a "harry potter" book
"harry potter"
let that sink in
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Mein Kampf
ooooh loan you're CONTROVERSIAL!!!!
there are far more offensive and morally reprehensible books than mein kampf. the prose in mein kampf is tortured and useless - hitler it seemed, failed as bad as a writer as he failed as an artist. not a very creative person. goebble's diaries, on the other hand... now that man could write. elegant and beautiful. a true hero.
there are far more offensive and morally reprehensible books than mein kampf. the prose in mein kampf is tortured and useless - hitler it seemed, failed as bad as a writer as he failed as an artist. not a very creative person. goebble's diaries, on the other hand... now that man could write. elegant and beautiful. a true hero.
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didnt hess write most of it anyway
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afaik hitler wrote mein kampf when in prison for a failed political uprising... storming the beer hall in munich...
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hitler dictated it to hesseleven bravo wrote:
didnt hess write most of it anyway
btw, mein kampf is horrible to read. but, hitler frankly says, what he is going to do. everyone (esp in germany) could/should have known
I heard hess was more than just the guy that took dictation. might have been hitlers ideas but they were hess's words
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