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Anonymous Sat May 4 21:13:59 2013 No.3724203 [Reply] [Original]

Is this book any good / worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 21:19:59 2013 No.3724218 please /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 21:20:59 2013 No.3724220 no book is worth reading

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 21:23:59 2013 No.3724228 >>3724203 I liked it a lot. As such, it's both good and worth reading to me.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 21:40:59 2013 No.3724276 v good. if you want more gay historical roman fiction there's renault's books.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 21:42:59 2013 No.3724285 Very. I had to remind myself it wasn't his actual memoirs sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 21:53:59 2013 No.3724303 You know what OP? You're worth it. ;)

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 22:06:59 2013 No.3724330 >>3724303 why is that?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 22:14:59 2013 No.3724340 >>3724203 One of my favourite books and one I would happily cite every time a neckbeard tries to say that women can't write. This book is a masterpiece. Read it, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 4 22:16:59 2013 No.3724343 >>3724303 maybe it's maybeline ; )

>>	Anonymous Sun May 5 11:46:59 2013 No.3725524 What can I learn from it?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 5 12:45:59 2013 No.3725698 /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 5 13:04:59 2013 No.3725742 >>3724203 other than GIS yes id fuck that little maw

>>	Anonymous Sun May 5 18:41:59 2013 No.3726746 >>3725524 what can I learn from this book?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 5 19:03:59 2013 No.3726835 >>3724203 If you're interested in ancient Rome, try listening to this: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ All the episodes are on itunes, free to download. It's pretty great, I'm about 100 episodes in and am just getting to Aurelius.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 5 20:54:59 2013 No.3727177 >>3724203 if you have the chance, read the spanish translation by cortazar, the original is also nice, one of yourcenars best novels, a classic

>>	Anonymous Sun May 5 21:29:59 2013 No.3727263 >>3724285 This. I read Julio Cortázar's translation to Spanish; excellent book. Animula vagula blandula...

>>	Anonymous Mon May 6 01:13:59 2013 No.3728050 >>3727177 >>3727263 Lol I hadn't read you before. Bump.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 6 18:51:59 2013 No.3730589 >>3726746 And yet still I ask; what can I learn from reading this book?.. what is it about? what does it tell me about myself and the world?