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It could be cool to learn the history of the French and read about where they came from

>>9493537
>>9493537
Doesn't matter if it's good or not. You shouldn't take stuff that's not yours. If you think it may be worth a read, buy a copy like an adult.

>>9493547
Spooked.

im gonna be honest, i see pretty much all corners of the globe being mentioned here. gg /lit/

nobody talks about specific religious/spiritual writers though. good luck having a decent discussion about gurdjieff on /lit/ or public internet forums in general

Per Petterson, richard ford, saul bellow,

>>9493443
this MUH WHITE GUILT cuck is by no means great.

I'm looking for ones specifically related to death.

>>9493437
as in practices to face death?
practice in the afterlife state?
on concepts of death?

more details please OP.

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Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto

One Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse

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>>9493435
Thanks, pal.
I feel like the Little red book is also a great possibility

>>9493392
I feel like you don't know enough about cinema. None of the commercially successful Hollywood people will come close while there is a lot of indie cinema that is more like literature.

I'd have to know which aspect specifically you mean, though.

>>9493392
Guillermo del Toro

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Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman

I don't know about the book but I can vouch for Odd Arne Westad as a historian.

I have read his books on the cold war and they were top notch stuff.

>>9493298

I am just finishing up his history of Europe. Very good stuff

>>9493349
Yes I agree on this. In terms of a primer it is quite good. I also recommend The Age of Extremes by Hobsbawm and The World Since 1945 by Vadney. Also as a text that guides history studies, Mastering History series by Norman Lowe is also great!

>>9493186
John greenesque bullshit

>>9493191
>John greenesque
that's pretty much the level of this book

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>>9493186

#1 new york times bestseller

>>9493131
>tfw too intelligent to understand brainlets like OP

Jew

You know Afrodite and Athens are women right

>>9493111
Brave New World was an outlier and pretty much a joke project (even for himself). It has absolutely nothing to do with his other work.

"Time must have a stop" is pretty /lit/ for example.
Then there's Doors of Perception, which is completely different again.
Really diverse writer and clearly good at it, too.

I didn't really care for Brave New World. I don't think Huxley is a great technically accomplished writer, having read Brave New World and The Doors of Perception.

Still, you have to understand that the appeal of Brave New World does not reside in the style, the writing style - it resides in the ideas he was trying to convey. With dystopian literature world building becomes very important and the technical aspect of writing takes a back seat.

This is because what is important, as I've said before, for those writers, is to showcase their ideas and the dystopia they have imagined. What matters is the imprint of the described world on the reader.

>>9493111
Try point and counterpoint

Ask not for lighter burdens, but broader shoulders

>If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or do not marry, you will regret both; Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it, weep over them, you will also regret that; laugh at the world’s follies or weep over them, you will regret both; whether you laugh at the world’s follies or weep over them, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it, believe her not, you will also regret that; believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret both; whether you believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret both. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will also regret that; hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the sum and substance of all philosophy

From the Philokalia (Evagrios the Solitary):
>A monk should always act as if he was going to die tomorrow; yet he should treat his body as if it was going to live for many years.

Reading Walden now, I think its great and I tend to agree with almost everything he says. Really makes me want to fuck off and live in the woods but I'm too much of a pussy to go for it.

>>9493062
Try not paying your taxes now and see where it gets you

it's great - emerson is worth checking out too if you guys like walden. less of a philosopher, but i think a better writer

>>9493062
>>9493576

She's a lesbian and I have good sources.

>moi belle
Stopped reading there. It's ma belle.

>>9493047
it's beuaitful anon...

>>9492858
Another quality thread

>>9492858

https://youtu.be/XjBwAYIxUso

>>9492864
Get mad pleb. Joyce wrote A Portrait when he was seventeen, and Pynchon wrote GR when he was 19.

I don't, I haven't read any of his stuff.

>>9492806
i dont, but i think lacan should be read as much as him

>>9492806
Philosophy is trash and neechee is the king of trash.

>>9492739
>the heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit

>>9492739
>I’m no more your mother
> Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
>Effacement at the wind’s hand.

What does this even mean?

>>9492739
That movie is pure kino desu