Is yours a reading at a cafe type of country?
No. People here don't read. I sometimes do but I can only concentrate in complete silence
>>2178564511. Gay2. What are you reading3. No
>>217856451Books here are expensive and are generally used as a backup currency. Most books here are owned by pretentious college students.
>>217856472>Yes>Pircel, I'm comparing Richmond Lattimore's translation to Alexander Pope's— /lit/ told me those were the best ones>Trist
>>217856451No>>217856492It's so weird. A used book that costs 2 euro here cost 20 in the philippines. That's a business to be exploited
>>217856470Noise cancelling headphones could help>>217856492Even "cheap" paperbacks? They're not too cheap here but I really cannot read from anything else
>>217856472He's reading about how to signal high status and a leisurely lifestyle when posting on incel anime forums
>>217856565reading and cafes are high status over there?
>>217856565The effect was signaling having nothing good to do all day, no money and >>217856472
>>217856552Looks like it's twice as much here as there : /https://www.buscalibre.cl/libro-the-satyricon-penguin-classics/9780140448054/p/7579580https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Satyricon-Penguin-Classics-Helen-Morales/dp/0140448055?crid=2RM61NDL9CJNL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QRCYZx6T_-4NNh-KEv7C4DUjjvKTv9Zdk7AZ5oXGyqKN1k83mn5h0jqeVnwZbR3THiTHBYBY74EPTiIZbwqkzo0By4KnCB15GTARlsMG9cqFEK4DSKvlLpKePdOkruQPy-fQI_sei1ch0xcOagBoH_UGQstcOekKtPlNeo27Pg3hvkGUoNSNjTRLdyir8EBLEAqUDepX5KV109KNtD-wmk-FPEafMupdH6EfeziXP84.h78X8Icrc8blQNgaLKRccWCPm14gDNAz-igAsUIKlII&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Satyricon+Penguin&qid=1766539700&sprefix=the+satyricon+pe%2Caps%2C648&sr=8-1
>>217856534I don't like Pope. Read picrel if you really interested in Homer and history behind his two epics. Homer is cool.
>>217856581They're really broke, most of them come all the way over here to do simple shopping
>>217856629>I don't like PopeWhy's that if I may ask?
>>217856647>If Alexander Pope in eighteenth-century England thought the excellence of poetrylay in “What oft was thought/But ne’er so well express’d,” Homer’s ideal is preciselythe opposite: saying the true things in ways that are deeply familiar: what oft wasthought and almost always expressed in exactly the same way. Homer, in its genes,was set against newness, turning to the fixed music of the hexameters and thephrases inherited from the past for the validation of its truths. This poetry can bethought of in the same light as weaving patterned cloth or building wooden ships.The past, through endless tests, successes and failures, came up with ways of usingand joining materials that work, that are robust, reliable and true, that can cope withseas or storms at night, that have a grace and commodity about them, whose threadscan glitter in the candlelight and which are, of their essence, inherited.
>>217856581>>2178566331) Buenos Aires is the city with most bookstores per capita2) OP is an actual homosexual, who does faggy stuff like sit at cafes and posts about it on /int/. He also enjoys displaying his Apple products on his pics because those are status symbols in Latin America.
>>217856534iirc Lattimore is more direct translation/accurate, and Pope's is more flavorful. I'd probably go with the former. I'm planning on beginning Dumas' COunt of Monte Cristo. I've been wanting to read it for a while and I can maybe begin before I have to go back to the hell that is med school.
>>217856730The way I see it is that, supposedly, Lattimore's translation is the most linguistically accurate to the OG text, but given the nature of it— Pope's poetic flair seems perhaps more in tune with the spirit of the OG>>217856766I feel sorry for you
>>217856451I don't read in public in general. I only read at home or on the bus to uni. I'm reading Tacitus right now. I'll probably go onto something about pre-Philip Macedon next.
>>217856800>iirc Lattimore is more direct translation/accurate, and Pope's is more flavorful. I'd probably go with the former.Yeah, that's what I was getting at more or less. But as I said above >Pope's poetic flair seems perhaps more in tune with the spirit of the OG And I think there is real merit to that>>217856800>hell that is med schoolIs it that bad? I once considered studying medicine >>217856869>I'm reading Tacitus right nowThoughts?
>>217856858>The way I see it is that, supposedly, Lattimore's translation is the most linguistically accurate to the OG text, but given the nature of it— Pope's poetic flair seems perhaps more in tune with the spirit of the OGExactly why I don't like Pope, original Homer is poetic BUT very simplistic whilst Pope turned all upside down and obfuscated him and tried to make him an equal to other poets of his time
>>217856451no, I'm not performative
>>217856920I started reading the Pope translation years ago. Dropped it and intended to pick up Lattimore but never did. >Med schoolYes, a lot of memorization of factoids and small tidbits for USMLE. Learn 1000 medications a term to maybe only come across a handful per exam. I intend to go back to studying for Step 1 after Christmas, I'm just taking this time off playing video games. I also bought some books on impulse but I can't take all of them with me traveling.
>>217856858Die of AIDS, attention whoring faggot
>>217856565kek
>>217856565>>217856595still better than another twitter screencap about jeets or incel shit
>>217856451yesI'm currently reading "the three-body problem", it's a chinese science-fiction novel. I'm halfway through it and it's quite greatI never read at a café, the only thing I would do there is order copious amount of pints and get wasted
>>217856920>ThoughtsI like him. Can't tell you yet how high I'd rate him as an ancient historian but he's one of the better ones. Maybe not Polybius or Thucydides level but still good. The only real let down is that the translation fucking sucks and he refuses to use any of the Latin terms or translates them into a completely nonsensical English one.
>>217857021I suppose I understand, specially since it's not longer the same era. >>217857108>Dropped it Why, was it too much?>Med schoolAs someone with a terrible memory ig it's a good thing I didn't go into that field. Enjoy your break, Anon>>217857228>the only thing I would do there is order copious amount of pints and get wastedI wish I had someone to do that with >>217857266Do you read them out of personal interest or does it pertain to something you study?
>>217857773Didn't care for it so much. >As someone with a terrible memory ig it's a good thing I didn't go into that field. I have a good memory however there's just so much to learn. I remember other things, namely talking to people but maybe I'm more of an audio person. I guess that's why I can't stand garbage like Anki (digital flashcards). Well I can't stand ebooks either so maybe it's not that.
>>217857773I just like ancient history. I studied Classics but I'm done with that. I've been reading through all ancient histories from Herodotus onwards and just finished with the Roman Republic so now I'm onto the empire.
>>217856451Before smart phones, yes. Since smart phones, no.
>>217856451Yes. Currently reading Beyond Good and Evil.I also started reading the One Piece manga
I used to read a lot, but now I mostly read papers for my research and do practice questions on my phone in cafes.>>217856800>>217857108There's another med student on here??? Damn I thought it was just me and the Russian in a death spiral
