/lit/ - Literature

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>>22875593
Then perhaps you'll find Wanda von Dunajew more to your liking, heh. She's loveable in her own, "I'm tired of this simp; let's crush him!" sort of way.

Thoughts on Horace? I've just started reading his satires for the first time; I have yet to read the odes. I'm finding them very enjoyable, very sensible.

Additionally, does anyone have any recommendations on good methods or material for getting to a point where I could read Horace in the original Latin? I took two years of Latin long ago, but I would say I've probably lost a good deal of that skill by now and would need to brush up.

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I really enjoyed Venus In Furs. I disagreed with him on many points, and think his characterization of women especially flat at times, but he still has valuable perspectives, excellently written, and by modern standards the book is quite clean. There isn't a single graphic sex scene. If we turn on almost any movie or television show - perhaps even an advertisement, we'll be bombarded with worse. I would really like to read the works he wrote on Property. I recommend reading him, but enjoy it as intellectual entertainment - a perspective to be heard and conversed with, not a lecture to be received as fact.