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What's the best book written in English?

>> No.14435957

my diary desu

>> No.14435961

>>14435950
that one

>> No.14435967

>>14435950
opbp

>> No.14435992

>>14435950
I don't know I've not read them all

>> No.14435997

>>14435950
King James' (pbuh) Bible

>> No.14436074

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

>> No.14436834

>>14435950
Middlemarch

>> No.14436892

>>14435950
"Pynchon & Pynchon" by Mason Dick Cone

>> No.14437004

>>14435950
>>14435961
But, anon, the Leviathan was written in Latin. . .

>> No.14437085

Locke's treatises are better
>>14437004
It was written in English forat then translated into Latin iirc

>> No.14437090

>>14437004
translated to* Latin

>> No.14437094

>>14437085
I have to say here that the Latin is easier to understand, because the English Leviathan is now all kinds of dated and obsolete and archaic, whereas the Latin Leviathan reads straightforwardly in a modern voice.

>> No.14437560

>>14437004
retard

>> No.14437567

>>14437094
If you have problems reading Leviathan in English you're probably retarded so don't bother with it

>> No.14438020

>>14435950

1611 KJV Bible.

>> No.14438047

>>14438020
auctoritas non veritas facit legem

>> No.14438054

>>14438047
meant for >>14437560

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>>14437567
It's Olde English, so it has that latin influence.

If you ask me, I honestly think Latin is easier to read than olde English. Pic related is a quote from my copy of Leviathan.

>> No.14438083

>>14438068
wat lol, Leviathan is not in Old English but early modern English

>> No.14438097

>>14438083
Wiki says...

>Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons until the 12th century.

So Hobbes would have used Olde English. The form of English you're talking about was a translation from Hume (or Nietzsche). Modern day scholars still cannot agree if Hobbes was or was not a plague doctor.

>> No.14438110

>>14438097
Leviathan was written in the 17th century

>> No.14438120

>>14438097
wat

>> No.14438141

>>14438110
>>14438120
>thinks Leviathan was actually written in the 17th century.

I guess you just DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD HUH??! YOU JUST BELIEVE EVERYTHING THEY TELL YOU?!?

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>>14435950
>best book written in English
Moby's Dick obviously.

>> No.14438268

>>14438141
Well, when you put it like that...take your meds

>> No.14438276

>>14435950
unironically the King James Bible. Also Sartor Resartus is the best written novel while barely being a novel.

>> No.14438367

>>14438068
>It's Olde English, so it has that latin influence.
everything is wrong with this post

>> No.14438425

>>14435950
the vagina ass of lucifer niggerbastard

>> No.14438945

>>14438097
>>14438068
Literally kill youreslf

>> No.14439026

>>14438068
quality post

>> No.14439070

>>14437567
I don't have "problems" reading Leviathan in English. You might have some with your reading comprehension, though. The English language of Leviathan feels more archaic and remote to me, that is all.

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>>14435950

>> No.14439093

>>14439070
> The English language of Leviathan feels more archaic and remote to me, that is all.
Maybe you should read more books that are not YA then, tard.

>> No.14439100

>>14439093
>trying to outpseud a guy who read Leviathan in Latin
You're not going to win this one lol

>> No.14439175

>>14439093
Welp, you do have something of a point there.

>>14439100
Latin is just a language, though. It is perfectly possible to be a Latin-reading pseud. For that matter I read Japanese rather fluently and I waste it all on fetish webnovels. You might ask what I'm doing on /lit/ in the first place; I'll tell you that I'm about to leave.

>> No.14439231

>>14439175
>implying there's any worthwhile japanese book