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Recommend me some heroic stories with heroic characters.
I'm sick of reading about these romantic "men".
I've read the Iliad and the Odyssee already.

>> No.15155103

mmm... titties...

>> No.15155114

Beowulf.

>> No.15155117

>>15155096
BAH GAWD HE'S GOING FOR THE TOMBSTONE

>> No.15155127

>>15155096
Le'tranger

>> No.15155129

My Twisted World

>> No.15155137

>>15155127
>>15155114
already read these, but thanks.

>> No.15155155

>>15155137
Don quixote

>> No.15155158

>>15155096
The Kalevala. Go with a modern translation like the Oxford World Classics. The older translations are rewriten into a romantic style and have a fair amount of christian imagery thrown in.

>> No.15155160

>>15155096
CONAN THE B A R B A R I A N

>> No.15155166

>>15155114
which edition?

>> No.15155191

>>15155158
Kullervo was a cursed chimp, how was he a hero

>> No.15155385

>>15155191
I never said he was a hero and why are you focusing in on a minor character?

>> No.15155400

>>15155385
yeh why focus on Odysseus in the Odyssey when he's just a minor character? Weird how everyone focuses on Beowulf when he's just a minor character in Beowulf too. Not sure why people care about Aeneas in Aeneid either

>> No.15155421

>>15155096
>pic
good to see the coomer archetype started a long time ago

>> No.15155777

>>15155400
Kalevala is where most of the central characters live and much happens, it is not refering to a character whos name sort of sounds like it. The work is filled with heros, Kullervo's story is not even a tenth of the book.

>> No.15155968

>>15155777
yeah but who cares about Lemminkäinen

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>>15155096

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>>15155096
Robert E. Howard wrote some very good stuff in that line...

>> No.15156301

The story of Arcita and Palamon almost works, but they're actually tools.

>> No.15156421

>>15156301
One of the most infuriating Tales desu

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>>15155096
>the subtle bulge of her belly and the faint dividing line down from her bellybutton
God this drives me wild

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>> No.15157647

>>15155096

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World, The White Company, Sir Nigel

H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines, She

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Old Man And The Sea

Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books

>> No.15157927

>>15155166
The original if you can, otherwise Kennedy for poetry combined with Tolkien for the notes and accuracy