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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:07 corumjhaelen wrote: If I tried to read a real german book with my current level, I have no doubt it would be a painful experience... hey man, dont hate on my latin skill ; ( | ||
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ninjaqed
Norway22 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.themonthly.com.au/files/Hitch-22.jpg) I have had a blast reading up on Hitchens once again <3 | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Hey, I'm not, you're probably ten times better than what I am, but as its pretty rare to find someone who is truely fluent in Latin... | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:00 sam!zdat wrote: if you're going to read one book in latin, read the golden ass Have you read Burroughs Naked Lunch? I feel like it would be right up your alley | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:06 blubbdavid wrote: Let's divide this thread into two kinds of readers: 1. Latin elitist assholes 2. Dan Brown Shit. Can I do both? What if I translate bad spy novels into Latin? | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:17 corumjhaelen wrote: Harry Potter has been translated in Latin, I guess the Da Vinci code might have been too. ofc it has, otherwise the pope couldnt be mad about it | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:15 packrat386 wrote: Have you read Burroughs Naked Lunch? I feel like it would be right up your alley not yet. My advisor thinks very highly of 'the ticket that exploded' so I bought that and it's on my shelf | ||
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farvacola
United States18838 Posts
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Prog455
Denmark970 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:06 blubbdavid wrote: Let's divide this thread into two kinds of readers: 1. Latin elitist assholes 2. Dan Brown More like: 1. People who don't like french philosophy and Kafka 2. People who don't want to admit that they don't like french philosophy and Kafka | ||
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blubbdavid
Switzerland2412 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:21 farvacola wrote: For the record, I'm an elitist asshole with very little experience in Latin :D To the Dan Brown section then. | ||
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farvacola
United States18838 Posts
Absolutely not. As for Swiss authors, I'm a fan of good ole Huldrych Zwingli myself. Other than that, y'all can't even hold a lighter to the French. So off to the Dan Brown section with you!  | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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blubbdavid
Switzerland2412 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:30 farvacola wrote: Absolutely not. As for Swiss authors, I'm a fan of good ole Huldrych Zwingli myself. Other than that, y'all can't even hold a lighter to the French. So off to the Dan Brown section with you! Wait a moment, are you identifying yourself as French? There isn't a more hardcore horror-fantasy book than "The Black Spider" by Jeremias Gotthelf. Shat my pants as I had to read it during school. | ||
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farvacola
United States18838 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:33 blubbdavid wrote: Wait a moment, are you identifying yourself as French? I am a citizen of the world a la Henry James. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:41 sam!zdat wrote: all good writers are a) from texas or b) secretly from texas You have the wrong Paris in mind | ||
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Prog455
Denmark970 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:33 corumjhaelen wrote: More seriously, I think the biggest divide in this thread is between people who read mainly fantasy and people who don't. We could be much worse off. I think you are very right. But you have to admit that it is a bit strange that every other person in this thread seems to find great joy in reading litterature that is incomprehensive for the vast majority of society. I don't think i have seen anyone in this thread who read Dostojevskij or Tolstoj and not praising them as the greatest thing that has happened to humanity. Just like a few months ago where apparently Ulysses was the greatest literary work. I really liked that quote by Nietzsche: "Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom" I just finished The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus yesterday, and while i think that his ideas on the absurd is interesting, i don't think it adds anything to the work that that is written in a way that is hard to understand. Admittetly that could be the result of poor translation, but i prefer books with more than three to four sentences per page. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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Prog455
Denmark970 Posts
On August 24 2013 05:50 sam!zdat wrote: tolstoy is not difficult to read in the slightest To be honest i never read anything by Tolstoy but i believe that most people would not even attempt to read a +1000 page book at all. | ||
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