Why there's no African or Arabic literature?
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>>9949325
theres plenty
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>>9949325
you're stuck in a tulpa called "america". you'll have to read the asians first
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All is european heritage. English, french language and alphabet.
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Need me some books which contain these elements:
>politics
>psychology
>history
>criminology and detective stuff
Can be fiction/non-fiction or anything. NO GAME OF THRONES.
Also a separate recommendation about books containing occult and magic too. Fiction. Not real.
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Politics:
>The Dictators Handbook
Politics and psychology:
>Predisposed
>Our Political Nature
Psychology
>Behave by Robert Sapolsky
I know a few other books but you should be more specific what interests you. Like: intelligence, creativity, mating, cognitive biases, personality, abnormal psychology, religion etc.
History
>War and Peace and War
>The Great Leveler
Not sure if these are of your interest, so look up what they are about.
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>>9949319
you've pointed out somewhat right material.
Here's more specific:
intelligence, personality, and abnormal psychology
in history, it should be something like the building of society. A mixture of politics and history like Templars, Cold wars, Crusades Jihads etc. Basically books containing information about the major historical events, that have shaped the world to what it is today.
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>>9949289
Basically any latin american novel that perseverates on dictatorships.
The General in His Labyrinth
The Kingdom of this World
I the Supreme
The Feast of the Goat
Autumn of the Patriarch
Reasons of State (Carpentier)
Is this the only Byronic hero ever created by a black writer?
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>>9949287
redpill cuck sjw kike jew bolshevik cultural marxist feminist inferior white genocide deus vult lord kek
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>>9949323
/thread
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>>9949287
Does Quentin Tarantino count as black?
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I don't want stories. I want cold hard facts about criminals, the criminal mind, the justice system, prison systems and the like. Want something to read off hand while I'm in college.
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>>9949270
The title fucked up. I want college level textbooks on op.
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Good secondary lit for Kierkegaard?
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C. Stephen Evans is quite good. He also includes a list of interesting further reading at the end (will upload if you like).
There's a large biography by Joakim Garff which is recommended in that huge /lit/ philosophy guide, but he reads Kierkegaard quite differently to Evans (Garff comes closer to a postmodern reading).
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>>9949259
>that comic
>m-my d-diary desu, trying to build a portfolio to be hired as a writer
>I still can't quit /lit/
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>>9949404
>reading list
Please do
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I just watch 1 hour video of some dudes staying overnight in the japanese Suicide Forest, with name I dont know how to spell.
Are there any good books that take this place as a setting or at least have the characters and/or plot go there?
And since I am on the subject, is there good non-fiction literature of the place?
And more importantely: are any of these in english or at least, spanish? I cant read jackshit of moonspeak, desu.
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>>9949194
>1 hour video of some dudes staying overnight in the japanese Suicide Forest,
at the end a ghost better have kicked the shit out of someone.
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>>9949194
OP here, instead of "at least" I should say "at max" because the only things I can read are english, portuguese and spanish
>tfw u r south american fag
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>>9949194
You watched people go camping for an hour? Anyways, it's probably not great, but here's a book with it as a setting
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Trees-Robert-James-Russell/dp/0985154853
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Is Dicourses on Livy worth finishing? 2017-08-28 04:41:22 Post No.9949149
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I'm at about 55% read and it's the same shit over and over again
>Why mercenaries are bad has been talked about like three times now
Although I have to admit it's interesting to see how he thought Christianity was weak and preached ancient virtues above all, even at that time
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pls answer bby I luv u
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>>9949149
>Is Dicourses on Livy worth finishing?
Yes.
>it's the same shit over and over again
Maybe not for you. Not even trying to be a dick; if you're halfway through and it seems repetitive to you, you're probably missing out on a lot. I read this almost two years ago and had a very interesting time from start to finish.
Have you read Livy already, esp. books 1-10?
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>>9949337
>esp. books 1-10?
What this anon means is, have you read the entire extant livy. Otherwise, no shit it wont be of value to you.
Livy is repetitive as well, since he focuses or moralizing like Plutarch rather than giving military specifics like Arrian or Tacitus.
>be me
>see a bunch of anglo autists exchanging retarded symbols
>"what are you guys doing"
>"w-we're just trying to find a consistent and universal set of mathematical axioms"
>mfw
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>>9949024
why do people always strawman analytics? they aren't all positivist retards anymore, by the way. all the high-IQ philsophers are analytic ones.
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>>9949054
anon, I'm not sure if you know OP's picrelated is Godel. please reconsider yourself.
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>>9949059
Pleb probably thought it was Huxley
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What do I need to read before reading Strauss? Can I just jump right in? I've read some Plato, Kant, nietzsche etc
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>>9948981
Just jump straight into 'What is Political Philosophy?'
Maybe read some Xenophon and Rousseau.
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>>9948981
The leo strauss center website has transcripts and audio of his lectures too, so you can read and listen to those also.
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Is this any good or is it '10 easy steps; capitalists HATE her' garbage.
Note that I have to read it regardless.
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>>9948976
>how to be an hedonist while believing to go beyond hedonism
hedonists are too scared to lose sensuality and crave too much to make people ''happy''
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Please don't die
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>be me
>first day of classes, first class is writing
>an engineering major but still have to take this course anyway
>students are anxious to talk so the professor groups us in pairs
>professor tells us to get to know each other and then introduce the person we're paired up with and the last book they've read to the class
>get paired with a low functioning autist
>autist confesses that he doesn't read and asks me think up a book for him to the class
>suddenly, I see all of /lit/'s memes flashing through my mind's eye and decide I should meme
>I tell him I should say that he has read Harry Potter and he agrees without questioning
>I tell the autist to tell the class that the last book I've read was Moby-Dick
>he refuses since it contains the word 'dick' in it and doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of the cuties
>I innly laugh at the pleb and tell him to say Ulysses instead, but I insist that he say "by James Joyce"
>he agrees after struggling to pronounce ‘Ulysses’ for a while
Cont.
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>sit through the boring introductions of other students and why they recommend their shitty YA novels
>finally, it's our turn to introduce each other now
>I craftily tell him that I'll introduce him first just so that I get to have the spotlight at the end
>I introduce him and chuckle mockingly when I got to say that the last book he read was Harry Potter
>I sit confidently on the chair now and wait for him to introduce me and say “Ulysses by James Joyce” and get a reaction out of the professor
>he says it
>professor is visibly shaken and takes off his glasses
>”I-I've never had a student who has read Ulysses before. Has anyone read Ulysses?”
>lowly plebeians remain silent because they've never even heard of it, not even the cute English major girl sitting at the back
>I smile smugly, proud of my intellect
>professor asks me what I thought of it
>”I thought it was great. It was full of lewd gags and jokes and a lot of reference to the Greeks and references to Joyce's own life”
>professor asks if I would recommend it to the class
>”No, I would not. I would recommend that they start with the Greeks first in order to fully grasp Joyce's masterpiece”
>professor is clearly impressed and stands up and starts a lecture about Ulysses and how he spent quite some time studying it
>all the while I sit smiling like a creep with this girl right in front of me blinking at my weird smile
>and all the while knowing that I'm just a pseud who's never made it past the first page of Ulysses and just know a handful of memes from /lit/
Thank you, /lit/. I'm glad that I'm part of your community.
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same
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Telemachus and Nestor are not difficult at all. Proteus is where the fun starts. You should give them a try instead of being an actual pseud.
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What do you think about graphic novel? 2017-08-28 03:28:26 Post No.9948954
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What do you think about graphic novel?
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Did you mean "comic book"?
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black hole is fantastic. burns is easily the most interesting artist i've come across in the medium
i liked asterios polyp quite a bit as well
and of course sandman
haven't really explored it much though
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Some are pretty damn great. I remember reading Persepolis like almost 15 years ago and loved it. I think everyone should read it.
Another good one that I really enjoyed was "Bottomless Belly Button" about a family coming together when their parents who have been married 40 some years announce they are getting a divorce. Also he drew a character as a frog because apparently that's how he saw himself.
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So /lit/, what's your guide for choosing what to read/focus next?
Right now we have dozens and dozens of "must read", "top books from X era", "top books of all times" lists and we all know every single list is biased in a way or another because there is no way for a list to be 100% precise. For example, a lot /lit/'s recommend top books are for people that never read before, books like A Clockwork Orange can be totally skipped if you come from another country and/or already have the habit of reading.
some famous lists we (I do, at least) probably use:
>Bloom's list is pretty good, biased towards enlgish but it is expected from him since its his specialty. I know he dislikes the list, but can be a nice guide for anyone strating on the classics
>Borges list is very interesting and extremely idiosyncratic
>Scaruffi's lists are actually good to find some interesting stuff, he probably didn't read half of that but still, the list is a nice starting point since is extremely varied and you can see top lists for different languages (the portugese one is very bad tho)
>(for brazilians) Carpeaux general guide is great but is only updated until mid XX century
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>>9948871
Scaruffi's italian list i very bad desu senpai
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVL3rKcv0HQ
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>>9949621
now thats a comfy channel
cool dude
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Why do people not appreciate my attempts to educate people about postmodern neo-Marxism?
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>>9948854
sage and report
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>>9948854
>postmodern neo-Marxism
isn't that just late stage capitalism?
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So I just started this and holy shit it is hard to watch Golyadkin, Every time he speaks to another person I have a mini-flashback of being in a similar embarrassing situation. How did Dostoevsky have such an understanding of human nature that I can relate to one of his characters so much years after the story was written?
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No matter what period in history, there has always been robots.