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definitely agree, but it’s also good to try new things even if they don’t end up being your thing. Sometimes it takes a few tries to really enjoy certain media as well
Tried reading the old English version of Beowulf and had to surrender after the first two paragraph.
Greenelysium i've never tried reading it but i've watched overly sarcastic production's rendition of it and i think that's enough for me 🙏 though one fun fact i do know is that no one actually knows how to translate the first word in the original poem - people have translated it as everything from "o!", "listen!", and "hark!" to "bro!" and i think that's beautiful
I never got into actual Inferno but fixated fully on Hozier's album and his reinterpretation of it instead - though ngl had no idea Dante's Inferno was trendy and hip what the heck
its cooler and trendier to do stuff you enjoy im… like i feel like people notice when you’re doing something just to follow to trendy hipster vibes and actually doing something because you think its cool. and personally thinking something is cool has always made it cool to me.
$25 is insane! Check local thrift stores like St. Vinnie's and Goodwill, they always have copies for under $5
extendedplay ah 🧍♀️i didn’t know st bonnie’s was global and I was going to ask where the Goodwill was 🧍♀️
my sincerest apologies, good sir. please continue about your day 🎩
Well good news is that poem is from the 14th century so idk That it‘s truly Keeping you from being trendy
adlai just trying to keep up with the times 😔🤟🏼 (i’m an accidental time traveller)
felt that. that's how i feel with wes anderson films unfortunately LOL. ive watched three and was incredibly bored and confused at all of them which is not very cool and hipster of me, but i refuse to pretend to like stuff that i think sucks. its too much wasted energy. i might try revisiting them in a few years to see if my opinion has changed though.
starlet they are meant to be pointless. i like them and think they describe existentialist and abusdist philosophy pretty well, not everyone likes them and some might hate the "meaninglessness". You'd understand what i'm talking about if you've ever read The Stranger.
starlet i have never seen a Wes film, partly because im not really a movie person and also because i tried watching fantastic mr fox (idk if that’s a film by him but i associate it with his name) and i hated it—i didn’t even finish it
jilly yeahhh they're all very similar vibes to that one. i think they're above my paygrade lol
No need to waste limited time on something you dislike, even tho I'm wildly pro both Dante and Divine Comedy
rayna make a collage with the book instead xx start ripping out the pages and make cool stuff
But knowing what you like IS cool! And being able to know what you don’t like makes you cooler imo
as someone who got a degree in english lit, i hated dante. everyone has their thing and so many “indie hipsters” have a masochistic tendency to read anything that they think looks cool bc they want to be perceived that way. IMO the coolest thing is reading whatever u like and loving that earnestly. :D so yeah i love this rec it speaks to me hahahah <3
realgirl i’ll make sure you’re a harvard citation whenever im arguing my case against dante 😭
not liking some 12th century dude's self insert fanfic doesn't make you uncool!! but you're so real for that, i just bought the secret history and i'm nervous i won't like it, fingers crossed
That's an awesome attempt, regardless of the outcome. The original read is hard. I recommend you read 'around' it. There's an awesome scholar, Alessandro Barbero, an expert of the Middle Ages but his strong point is how he tells stories to everyone. I love all his work. Anyway, he wrote "Dante". I recommend it
I came across the exact same thing with the same book, it just doesn’t do it for me, but I won’t stop trying (I’m going to waste so much money)
ellie_carpenter (i tried to ready The Picture of Dorian Gray and I got bored and didn’t finish it. I’m not built to be trendy)
jilly I did listen to The Picture of Dorian Gray in an ebook form and honestly I don't get the hype. For me it was just a silly book with tons of random and tbh kinda boring convos, I think that if I had to read it instead of just listening, I would get bored just like you ://
