/lit/ - Literature

>>1918307

You should expect to burn it in disgust.

> Oh look, I've got cancer.

> Welfare please.

>>1918188

Sound advice. Thanks a lot. I don't think I will hold out for the Kindle 4, as my main motivation for getting one is an upcoming holiday. I'm sure the current one will do everything I need it to.

>>1918175

Thanks a lot. I think that has sealed the deal. I see the wi-fi one is on Amazon for about one hundred pounds. Is it worth spending the extra on the 3G?

A question for the Kindle owners, is there anything stopping me from reformatting PDF's into EPUB's and uploading them onto the device?

I have literally hundreds of books in PDF format that I want to read, so if there will be transfer issues, I would like to know.

>>1901560

Your writing a book about a period of history you don't know inside out?

Interdasting. If you look at Classical period authors at the moment (Holland, Sidebottom) most of them are professors in Ancient History/Classical Studies in the top five universities in the world...

Just sayin.

Last bump.

bimp.

>>1899246

Its outstanding mate. Worth a read for sure.

>>1899250

Quitter! You would read the book first though right?!

Bump.

>>1899035

Good choice.

>>1899029

Ha, nope.

You aren't getting off this island mate. You can sustain yourself indefinitely, but the only way out is death, intentional or otherwise.

>>1899021

Bam. That's what I would take I think. I can get lost in that book.

Although, when I was contemplating this earlier (this is under my coffee table btw) I couldn't decide between the Fisk or the Borges.

>>1899018

Fair point. But lets assume that there will be no necessity for survival application.

This book will become your bible, god, only friend, etc.

>>1899005

Its not his best though...

>>1898998
>>1898999

Ha, good choices. I suppose after a few years the only thing that wouldn't drive you mad would be reference stuff.

Morning Gents,

If you had to pick one book from this photo for the 'desert island' scenario, which would it be?

>>1894660

Seconded.

Homeric texts = God Tier.

>>1895364

Yeah a bit. But I think the whole approach of that season was to avoid it being too character driven/oriented as opposed to Band of Brothers.

>>1895348

Seconded.

And god-fucking-damn the series was fantastic. Just finished re-watching it actually...

Bill Bryson's pseudo-biography might help put some context to the writer(s) and help you relate to the material a bit more. It pretty short too, a 2-3 day read, but a lot of insight.

>>1832634
I think in this instance we could assume that they are analogous.

Polybius, Appian, Herodotus, Xeonphon, Pliny, Plutarch, Cicero, Homer, Cervantes(?), Borges.