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[alentalas]

It's time for me to schedule my Penn State classes, and I don't know what to do for a foreign language. Italiano or francais? I'm stuck between two vaguely appealing masses of European culture. French is good because it's DEFINITELY more useful. But I dunno. If I travel in Europe, it would be the best thing for me. Whatever I do, it has to be a

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Yeah, Fuck French

[23wolves]

A nation of buttsniffers, though I don't want to stereotype...but they are. I agree with Mary on both counts, that Italian is better than French and Mandarin better than Italian, as in more useful...a whole hell of a lot harder, but definitely the future important language, already the number 2 probably.

As for books...I liked Anna Karenina okay, but don't remember much about it. I just finished Crime and Punishment and I think you would dig it. What kinds of things do you want to read, realism? No stuff about beasts or reality warpage? Because I strongly recommend getting some HP Lovecraft and Philip K Dick into your system for all intelligent and creative people. I would say, um, for the Lovecraft, maybe Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, or At the Mountains of Madness...I think you would appreciate their old style grandeur. The PKD is probably more important and applicable to modern life, and I would suggest UBIK as being one of his very best for sheer brain destruction, but almost everything is good. Please visit your local library today, both of these guys are really tough to find in used bookstores. I would be happy to talk about them more later. Adios!