Give me ONE (1) book that is an essential read
Give me ONE (1) book that is an essential read
Dante's Inferno.
Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy
my dairy desu
The Bible.
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
This
Reading currently. Not essential. Entertaining but far from a must.
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.
On arabic, of course
War & Peace.
I read it on prose and didn't care for dante's story. All the entertaining bits are references to better stuff. And there was that guelfos/gibelinos thing on the footnotes
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How To Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
I have it in Spanish but it's too fucking long
Well, you know how they say spanish is arabic's rape baby, so the spanish translation should retain most of it's nuances; i'd say do it, faggot. It's not really that long
Crime and Punishment
>more than 1000 pages
>not long
Thanks I will read none of these.
Well meme'd lad
if you read 70 pages a day (2 hours of reading) you can read it in two weeks
Lol ebin XD
This is the only correct answer. If you're only going to read one.
>religious dogma written by primitive peoples
>essential read
Gargantua and Pantagruel
>the starting point for most of western literature
>not an essential read
>the starting point for most of western literature
[Citation needed]
The Myth by Alfred Rosenberg
well now we all know what to call you.
Not that user but anything over 1000 pages is objectively a long book.
>essential read means essential for western literature
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t. pseud
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yes, dante's inferno is magnificent, but not inferno alone. you must choose 1 book, and without reading all the greek/roman/medieval lit and theology/philsophy references inferno wouldn't be that good/essential.
bible is the answer. the one book you can read cover to cover without any pre-requisites and the one book that influenced the whole canon
>everything there is to know in life is in the Brothers Karam
A good Grammar of one's native language.
>essential
As a man thinketh by James Allen
This or Hyperion/The Hermit in Greece