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>> No. 5409 Anonymous
26th January 2014
Sunday 10:09 pm
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What are the best books on the history of the Roman Kingdom, Republic and Empire? Mainly the Western Roman Empire, I'm not so bothered about the eastern half after the fall of the Western.
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>> No. 5410 Anonymous
26th January 2014
Sunday 11:01 pm
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What research have you done into this topic before making this thread?
>> No. 5411 Anonymous
26th January 2014
Sunday 11:24 pm
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>>5409

>.gs do my research for me, it's due on Friday.

No, but really. Have you been to the library? I went in asking vague questions about a half formed idea about a book I wanted to read and she recommened Dave Duncan's Blades series. They are amazing.

Get off your lazy arse.
>> No. 5412 Anonymous
26th January 2014
Sunday 11:31 pm
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>>5411
Pure interest.

>>5410
None, I don't want to read what Amazon has to say, I want to read what people have to say.
>> No. 5413 Anonymous
26th January 2014
Sunday 11:36 pm
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>>5412

Go to the library.

There are also two pretty clued up blokes who work at my local Waterstones who seem to revel in my vague questions.

What I am trying to say here is, decide for yourself. The library is there for questions exactly like this!
>> No. 5414 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 12:00 am
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>>5410>>5411
I agree! He comes over here, to our literature board, and has the NERVE to ask for a BOOK recommendation! Absolutely, fucking unbelievable!
>> No. 5415 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 1:39 am
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You seem to have failed to grasp that no one has any recomendations, for one reason or another, and that what he thinks is best is entirely subjective.

Hence, library.
>> No. 5416 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 4:44 pm
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>>5415
Fuck me, and I thought lit was a decent board. Maybe I was mistaken.
>> No. 5417 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 5:12 pm
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>>5416
Don't be so obtuse. I could direct you to sources if I were so inclined but I don't roll over at the whim of the so-obviously dependent and lazy. I asked you what research you'd done and you said none, so fuck off and hit the search engines.
>> No. 5418 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 5:17 pm
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>>5417
How do you know I haven't? I asked for some human opinions, it's up to you if you give them or not. 'ask someone else' is a pointless answer, not even worth posting.
>> No. 5419 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 5:22 pm
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>>5418
No it isn't. People have spent their time publishing bibliographies for you to use, you are being a lazy cunt. "Human opinions", who the fuck do you think writes them, the bibliography fairies?
>> No. 5420 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 5:28 pm
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>>5419
Ah fuck you and fuck your posts you unhelpful cunt.
>> No. 5421 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 5:34 pm
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>>5420
I'm doing you a favour in the long run, sweetheart. Nobody likes a leach and I've seen the humanresourceslads on /job/ and soforth commenting on how they find poor research skills and research laziness some of the most irritating characteristics of would-be employees.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 5422 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 5:42 pm
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>>5421
Piss off.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 5423 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 5:46 pm
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CUNT! OFF! CUNT! OFF! CUNT! OFF!
>> No. 5424 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 6:05 pm
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OP, if you put so much stock in the opinions of random individuals, how about the opinion of whatever book you happen to pick up about the Roman Empire?

I know what book he'll recommend; his.

And it will be a him.

Honestly, you should be asking a scholar of Roman history, not the internet.

If you despair of getting cunty responses, don't ask a bunch of cunts for their opinions.
>> No. 5425 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 6:31 pm
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>>5424
Those two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
>> No. 5426 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 7:00 pm
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>>5425

I don't think those are the type of books he asked for but ok
>> No. 5427 Anonymous
3rd February 2014
Monday 8:02 pm
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>>5426
That was the point mate. 'General overviews' arent very useful in scholarship, they're out of date for my purposes. 'The book' has been pretty thoroughly superceded by journals in this day and age.
>> No. 5429 Anonymous
4th February 2014
Tuesday 9:56 pm
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>>5425
>Ювенал, Верглий, Овидий, Цицерон
>Все на английском

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