/lit/ - Literature

>>20068625
For me this can be true, but oftentimes I intend to reread portions.

I powered through a few novels after the kids went to bed last week, read three books between 9pm and 1:00am, and thought about how many people I know who don't finish books.

Anyway, Laclos was a french noble, wrote epistolary novel, became scandalous, joined french revolution and developed modern artillery.

Montesquieu's spirit of the laws offered a world historical comparative analysis of the law as was known in 18th century france. His insights were colored by ideas about climates, languages, and geographic specificitrs.

Balzac's human comedy is one of the greatest literary achievements in the modern world. He pierced every slice of society's gateaux with his sociological scalpel and pealed back the delicious layers of petty bourgeois, the bureaucracy, the aspiring and fallen nobility, politicians, pimps, workers, whores, and even artists.

>>20061651
Over the years the reality of modern tastes has taught me the pettiness of my peers and the wrong headedness of their opinions. Most struggle to even understand the difference between a word like annoy and irritate, for instance, and it pains me to associate with such types.