This was just so shallow and american, I felt like drinking warm cola the hole read, such a cheap commercialising of the Fürstenspiegel.
Remind me to never read american teaching books again.
A girl recommended it to me once. I downloaded it to my kindle to have something to talk about with her. I couldn't get past the table of contents. I know how the world works. I don't think reading this book is going to make it any easier to become powerful. I don't have the personality to behave this way even if I wanted to, which I don't. Someone write a book about navigating the real world, being somewhat successful, and still making some effort to be an ethical person. Unless of course that's impossible and I'll always be mediocre as long as I still care about ethics. In that case, God kill me now.
>>9443352
This is a book for idiot plebs, you really shouldn't try to come to any conclusions based on your experience of it.
>>9443352
Your fault mate, you've picked ''How to be a power-addled psychopath 101''.
What are some good books about the history of Jews in America? I can easily find books on other groups, but not for this one.
>>9443316
Culture of Critique
>>9443316
Good luck finding something that isn't either Completely Nazist, nor Completely Zionistic.
>>9443316
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Some say it's a ((proven)) fake, but fail to see that everything in that book has became true.
You can fine a pdf on the webs.
>Dostoyevsky and Tolstoi never met each other
What are some other authors that lived at the same time, had very similar themes in their works but whose paths somehow did not cross?
>>9443261
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are the big ones for me. Tragic
>>9443261
>Tolstoy
>Dostoyevsky
>similar themes
>>9444276
>Kierkegaard
>born 1813, died 1855
>Nietzsche
>born 1844, died 1900
>hurr why did they never meet
What does /lit/ think of John Stuart Milton? No memes or bullying.
>>9443244
ethics is the greatest meme of all time
>>9443244
>One of the founders of liberalism as we know it.
>Can be seen as something of a 19th century feminist
>Weird ass childhood with either an awesome or a terrible dad depending on how you look at it.
>Held the Catholics and Jewish religion in disdain
>Worked his entire life for the Honorable East India Company (the company accidentally killed 34 million Indians)
>Literally wrote a sixty page defense for said company when the Indian mutiny was happening
Pretty good read desu
>>9443244
No discernable talent
How does /lit/ choose what books to read next?
I have a large folder of bookmarked wikipedia pages of books, and I just sort through that until I find one that's interesting, and then I go read it.
I'll read some basic shit in the new fiction section of book stores and then read something recommended by /lit/. Repeat.
at the moment I'm trying to read books from this list
http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/
when I find something I want to study I may read a wiki page and google it. While reading i take notes of the authors and books mentioned in what I'm reading. Good luck.
>>9443220
if I get banned for asking why the fuck you posted lip from shamless I'm gonna kms
Are there any 40k novels that aren't complete garbage?
I really enjoy the world building in the series and I feel the right author should be able to do something wonderful with it.
ciaphas cain desu
Helsreach is superb
Generally, the Space Marine Battles are cool
Graham McNeils Novels are decent
I hear often that the Gaunts Ghost series is good, but I havent read them
I remember Horus Heresy being entertaining, but thats been a few years ago. That series is also really long
>>9443459
How long are we talking here?
Is it done?
Oh my God
>>9443012
Reads so much like my diary its spooky
>>9443012
Wait
Why doesn't English have pronouns for more types of people /lit/? French has il, elle, ons, nous, vous, ils, elles whereas English has him, her, us, you, them.
>>9443000
(you (plural))
Weird, the instant I started watching a gameplay compilation of that game, I scrolled onto this thread
>>9443000
In order to get dumb frogs to ask stupid questions.
god tier poetry thread?
I'm working on a zine and I'm looking for some good poems to stick in, preferably a little obscure
so far I've got The Crickets Have Arthritis and a few odd exerts from Shakespeare
Thanks in advance
my own
>>9442990
>Creates Zine to express himself.
>Fills it with unoriginal poetry that he had to get recommendations for.
I'm betting you have messenger bag with a bunch of pins on it for punk bands you've heard 2 songs each from.
>>9443051
>gets dick hard from trying to people down on 4chan
I'm betting you have a neck beard and diabetes
Alright, /lit/, list your age and your top ten authors and call each other fags or pseuds or alright men.
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>Shakespeare
>Joyce
>Tolstoy
>Seneca
>Ovid
>Homer
>Goethe
>Plato
>Melville
>Steinbeck
Why isn't this thread "the first ten authors you read"?
>>9442930
because, despite my standard choices, that's not the case.
>>9442938
This seems like a very poor thread topic if this is the case for you. Be more specific, because you don't have much to say about /lit/ at large.
ITT: Favourite opening lines
>I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost;—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me.
"As sirenes tocaram a noite inteira, sem parar. Todavia, pior que as sirenes, foi o navio que afundava, enquanto as cabeças das crianças explodiam."
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
>>9442879
heuheuheu i know this one
so what's your favorite Stephen King book?
i want to say it, but I'm not quite sure
>>9442876
i think i'd say my absolute favorite Stephen King book is
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
closely followed by Duma Key and it
le grinch man
>>9442876
I think Night Shift is an incredibly strong collection that stands alongside the best of short horror/thriller fiction.
What did he mean by this?
His meaning is obvious. More defeatist, whiny garbage. It's the dream pseuds are made of, and there has never been a bigger (WOOOOOOP) pseud than Sartre.
>>9442859
You are no longer doing it for yourself.
>>9442859
Isn't authenticity (eg, establishing genuine connection with other people, self knowledge) and end in itself?
Name a more dramatic sentence than this.
Protip: you can't.
Nice one, Punchy.
>>9442839
"man is born free but everywhere he is in chains"
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I picked this book for a book report, how should I tackle it?
>>9442822
I picked it for my thesis lol
have you even read the book?
for supplemental material read papa bloom's compilation of critical essays on the book
>>9442822
Read it twice.
>>9442822
Read book. Write report.