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Books everyone has said they've read but haven't? I'll start.

>> No.6055204

That quirky one about tennis and drugs /lit/ loves to circlejerk to

>> No.6055207

>>6055187
They say it was written by Satan.

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>>6055187
obv

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>>6055187

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>> No.6055495

Agnostic here. I actually tried reading it, but I gave up after the first few chapters. It's just so fucking tedious, all the 'X is 749 years old and has 12 children, Y is 543 years old etc etc'.

>> No.6055503

>>6055495
Yer a fucking dingus, buddy.

>> No.6055506

>>6055495
I bet you search the phone book one name at the time.

>> No.6057194

With the new zyzek propaganda of ideology teenagers are sadly more used than never to lack reading

>> No.6057213

>>6055495
There is very little of that relative to the length of the Bible. Good thing you quit when you did, though. The second half of Exodus and the entirety of Leviticus make even the genealogies seem interesting.

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>>6055187

Phenomenology of spirit

>> No.6057846

>>6057248
>Hegel
God, I had to read one of his books for my legal studies. This guys writing is incomprehensible.

>> No.6057917

>>6055187
That's one for the "I read it all the way through, but retained little to nothing of it."

>> No.6057958

>>6055187
I've read.. various chapters...

>> No.6057984

>>6057248
This.
I think everyone on /hegel/ threads never read a word. That's the only explanation I can come up for the threads being just namedropping and without actual content

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How does this stack of books make you feel /lit/?

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>>6057984
Hegel didn't have much content in between his made up terms and obfuscating prose anyway.

>> No.6058060

>>6058012
how is it supposed to make me feel? i have four of those five books on my own bookcase (never had any time for tao de ching). my bible is nicer than yours tho, and it is the proper kjv. however, what it also makes me feel is that apart from darwin's master work, we have both wasted a little bit of our precious lives reading all that shit

>> No.6058069

>>6058060
>kjv
Why?

>> No.6058080

>>6058060
I feel like it was time wasted.

I read the entire bible, and satanic bible. I used the Tao as my morning meditation book. I have only read half of the Qur'an and only parts of origins of species.

I am personally a religious studies major at my college. I love reading all this stuff. I think it's so interesting see all the different views of the divine throughout history

>> No.6058118

>>6058080
meant to say WASN'T ***

>> No.6058123

>>6055495
>im le fucking retarded
Oh, good to know.

>> No.6058135

>>6055187
>Books everyone has said they've read but haven't
I never do that.

(So many liars ITT)

>> No.6058206

>>6058060
>~the proper kjv~

you're bragging about having a bad bible?

>> No.6058231

>>6055405
why would anyone want to pretend to have read something by Wallace though? He sucks.

>> No.6058472

>>6057213
Leviticus is basically a legal code so it's not surprising that it's dry, reading the bible from cover to cover is awful though and I don't see why anyone would do it

>> No.6058484

>>6058472
I did it. It was pretty bad.

>> No.6058495

>>6058012
>NIV

Why?

>> No.6058502

>>6058231
to get cred for disliking it

>> No.6058512

What are the most interesting books in the bible?

>> No.6058521

>>6058512
Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy. Kings, Samuel. Job. Psalms if you're into that sort of thing. I like the prophets, particularly Isaiah, though I could see why someone wouldn't. The Gospels, though there's some redundancy (Matthew is my favorite). Revelation.

>> No.6058526

>>6058512
Genesis, Exodus, Judges, Kings, Joseph, Esther, Samuel, David, Chronicles, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Daniel, Gospels, Acts, Revelations

>> No.6058537

>>6055187
What books were talked about on /lit/ today?

Whatever they were....those.

>> No.6058543

>>6058521
>>6058526
Thanks, anons.

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>mfw people can't read ancient Greek and Latin

>> No.6058546

>>6058526
>>6058543
Good luck finding a bible that still has Esther in it.

>> No.6058549

>>6058080
I agree that it is fascinating stuff to read, but what are you gonna do with a religious studies major.

>> No.6058556

>>6058546
New Revised Standard with Apocrypha, son. Best Bible, KJV can blow my dick

>> No.6058639

>>6058556
Yo...thank you. Yes KJV is a piece of horseshit.

Does the Apocrypha have Book of the Maccabees.

>> No.6058642

>>6058545
I can, since i was let s say 15 years old

>> No.6058668 [DELETED] 

>>6058556
RSV Catholic Edition avoids gender neutral language and puts the deuterocanonical books in the right order

>> No.6058687

>>6058512
The entire new testament

The wisdom books like job, sirach, proverbs, Ecclesiastes

Psalms

1 and 2 Maccabees

Genesis, exodus

Isaiah, Jeremiah for context in the new testament

>> No.6058706

>>6058512
Depends on what interests you.

For theological points, Job and Ecclesiastes.
For history, Judges and 1 and 2 Samuel have the best stories.
For ethics, the epistles of Paul.
For pure craziness, Revelation.
On a purely literary interest, Ecclesiastes and Psalms.

>> No.6059537

>>6058639
>>6058556
Looks like someone needs their bible dumbed down. I bet you wish they would release "Ulysses for kids and the mentally challenged" too?

>> No.6059545

>>6055187
>The Bible
Clearly you haven't read Gene Wolfe.

>> No.6059559

Dante's Inferno

>> No.6059589

>>6055187
1984

>> No.6059599

>people actually recommending Psalms.

Fucking. Stop. It.

>> No.6059838

>>6058060
>and it is the proper kjv.
No

>> No.6059890

>>6059537
>muh shitty translation that lacks hundreds of years of historical research into the texts it translates is superior because it uses archaic English

NRSV is just as complex as the king James version, fuck yourself.

>> No.6059896

>>6055503
>>6055506
>>6058123
Not that guy, but give me one good reason why the genealogy is remotely interesting or useful to the general reader (and yes, you are general readers, not Biblical scholars). Bonus points: prove that didn't forget the genealogy immediately after reading it.

>> No.6059897

>>6059599
>inb4 fedoruhhhh

>> No.6059906

>>6058022

Guess why I know you haven't read him?

>> No.6059955

>>6055187
I've never read the bible. Maybe like 10 or so pages of it at max? And I had 8 years of catechism classes and went to a catholic high school. They almost never made us read from the bible, that was what we paid the priests to do.

>> No.6059973

>>6059896
It's not, but they weren't deriding him because he lacked interest in genealogy.

>> No.6059998

Atlas Shrugged.

Das Capital.

Infinite Jest.

>> No.6060176

why is Infinite Jest such a big deal?
I hardly get on /lit/

>> No.6060581

I think knowledge of the KJV is necessary for anyone interested in literature, even if you don't think it's the best translation or theological version. Its impact on Western thought can't be overstated, and you need it to understand allusions and corollaries in Western literature.

>> No.6060615

No one says they have read a book and haven't.

>> No.6061059

>>6059896
They lives to like, a thousand years old, thats pretty metal

>> No.6061868

>>6060176
It's not

>> No.6061914

>>6058069
because i knew that mentioning it would trigger all the american religitards here. the bible that i own is about 250 years old, before most of the infantilised american versions appeared. the title page just says "being the version set forth AD1611" (i.e. it is KJV). it doesn't actually matter. one version of a fairy tale is pretty much the same as another.

>> No.6061967

>>6059589
I think it's hilarious that this is true.

The book that people most often pretend to read is also one of the plebbiest books ever.

>> No.6062235

>>6061967
>Orwell
>plebby

that's fighting talk where i come from, anon

>> No.6062242

>>6062235
Where is that? Reddit?

Sorry, I had to.

>> No.6062283

I wouldn't dare lie about not having read a book. It's just too easy to get called out on.

>> No.6062847

>>6058012
>HIV

>> No.6062853

>>6058512
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPqvuqoLEa0

>> No.6063435

>>6058706
I would add Hebrews to the last, since it's a surprisingly sophisticated piece of writing.

>> No.6063446

>>6062235
coool where do u come from, a high schoool englgish class?

>> No.6063517

>>6062283

also what's the fucking point? If I haven't read a book and someone else has, they can help me gauge whether or not I should read it.

>> No.6063546

>>6057248
There's an on-going series on the Phenomenology of Spirit on YouTube where this guy goes paragraph by paragraph and explains everything, so there's literally no need to read PoS anymore unless you really really like repeating the phrase "What the fuck did he just say??" over and over again.

>> No.6065265

>>6058546
OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
NT: Nestle Aland Novum Testamentum Greace

German Bibles: Elberfelder and Luther '84