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12020203 No.12020203 [Reply] [Original]

>its boring
there will be a payoff to finishing this, right? like my understanding and appreciation of roman literature?

>> No.12020222
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12020222

>tfw I can remember when Herodotus was boring to me
>tfw I can't remember how I ever thought that
>tfw realizing I used to be a massive irredeemable pleb
>tfw realizing my brain used to be like an ADD junkie or a 4 year old child that wants to eat dessert for every meal

>> No.12020224

>>12020203
If you think this is boring then wait until you read Thucydides.

Also how can you not find all this crazy shit interesting?

>that Nile chapter
>EVERYTHING about the Persians
>Athenian politics and plots and shit

It's a fucking great book.

>> No.12021127

>>12020203
The payoff is that you have actually read Herodotus now and can discuss it. It is a cultural heirloom and a cornerstone of history and literature. If you don't enjoy it, besides you objectively being a dumbass, that's on you. I'm guessing you will make a "what i expexted x what i got" abomination and hope for (You)s. It's a great book faggot

>> No.12021362

The payoff is in all the dumb shit he says like niggers have black semen, and his description of flying snakes in Egypt. You're supposed to treat it like a comedy film.

>> No.12021368

>>12020222
I. Am. With. You. Brother.

I can’t believe we are feeling these feels together

>> No.12022666

>>12020203
Stop looking for payoffs in books, go outside your mind and live life a little, go experience the joys of male-female companionship (especially if your're queer), then one day when you chance upon this piece of work once more read it'll you'll begin to hear it speak to you but now the once foreign language will be understood and the boredom you once felt will be replaced by the illumination of the mind.
As the famous writer Chalzo de Arde said, "If there's one book eager to impart the essence of human life unto you none can be as eager and as wise as Herodotus' Histories."

>> No.12022907

>>12022666
>Chalzo de Arde
Who tf that nigga?

>> No.12023322

life's too short for books you don't like :^)