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Novels dealing with Islamic extremism in the West 2017-03-08 07:08:50 Post No.9209033
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Novels dealing with Islamic extremism in the West
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2017-03-08 07:08:50
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I just finished watching "A very wanted man" and am interested in contemporary novels dealing with Islamic extremism in western nations and particularly with counter measures by intelligence agencies.
Mainly looking for novels but some non fiction might be ok.
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Bump for counter jihadi espionage novels.
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I know some of Houllbeque's novels deal with Islam in France but I'm not sure if they're relevant as I've never read them...
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Mine, almost. Although its...fantasy? I always described it as "horror opera" based on space opera, but a clunkier term might be something like dark teological fantasy. Just buy it when its done
Is pic related better then Bertrand Russell?
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Just read Copleston
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Yes but neither are comprehensive
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>>9208931
>reading mountains of second-hand material
Might as well just read the source
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how can one country be so devoid of literary talent?
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>beautiful
>peaceful
>very high HDI
>great economy
>social equality
Further proof that being comfy prevents achieving literary greatness.
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What about Ibsen?
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>>9208491
And Hamsun
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I GOT FUCKING MEMED AGAIN!
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This book fucking sucks.
The most highly overrated piece of literature (and author) ever.
>Terrible writing.
>Plot is literally a bunch of rottin' tootin' cowboys riding from town to town raping, murdering and being unnecessarily cruel to animals and people
>Nothing is learned from reading this book
>The occasional good 1-2 paragraphs of prose, the rest is variations of "and they rode on through town x and across the long dusty streets and did X and killed Y and killed niggers and nigger and and and and and and and and *breathes* and and and nigger.
Is this the absolute best Americans can do?
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>>9207673
didnt read the second half huh?
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>>9207673
it is awful
anyways read melville
mcelroy if you want something newer
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>>9207673
Really makes you think
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I live in one of the largest cities in the United States. If I saw someone reading a book outside of a train, library, university, or Starbucks attached to a Barnes and Noble, I would think they were being affectatious.
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Whatever makes them happy, right?
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>>9207481
I can understand why many people read in NYC during lunch breaks, on the train, in the parks, in cafes, even in bars.
The mass of shitty people is so tremendous it is very cathartic to pull inward into a good book.
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I don't know what "afffectatious" means.
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Why can't females into Philosophy /lit/ where is the female version of Friedrich Nietzsche?
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>>9207442
ayn rand
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>>9207442
>female version of Friedrich Nietzsche
That's about a couple hundred years before Nietzsche
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Recent purchases thread.
u jelly? edition
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Whats that about
>and so we sat on our island and waited until ruskies did all the work
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>>9207060
>how we tricked the russkies into doing the dirty work while we earn all the praise for it to this day
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>>9207075
who the fuck praises the brits for anything?
> be me
> 12 years old and moved to florida after living in desolate state my whole life
> I'm new kid in class who keeps his face in a book
> when his face isn't in a book he starts trouble and is constantly yelled at by teacher
> molested and beat a lot growing up by abusive stepfather
> teacher keeps making me do projects with other kids
> feels singled out
> teacher tells me since I can't behave I need to start eating lunch with him at school library
> feels like a leper
> we have lunch every day and talk about books
> he tells me about classic authors I should start reading
> kindles life long interest in literature
> on last day of school he gives me a hug
> i start crying and he seems confused but pats my back
> recently, after digging up old emotions I look him up on facebook
> find memorial pages
> suicide on his birthday
> tfw i have to pretend im okay these past few days
> tfw I can only tell this story to /lit/
> tfw I can't thank him
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Lol you got molested by some pervy man. Not even your mum. Mega kek
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Go to his grave, speak to him for a few hours, leave a gift (perhaps the book he recommended) and reconcile yourself.
All will be well.
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>>9206599
yeah
he was a mechanic for a major appliance company. my mom had 5 kids and no money. we have a strained relationship to say the least.
What's the best book about suicidal depression?
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der tunnel
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OP: An Autobiography
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>>9206069
Dying inside is the most depressing book I have read, but there is also Dr. Zhivago which is more of a pity party of drama.
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>tfw you finally realized that Postmodernism is a dead-end
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>>9201333
Woah, deep.
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Deconstruction is forever
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>>9201333
what did it for you op?
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Political science essentials?
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>>9201218
Which version of The Prince should I read?
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>>9201218
The Dictator's Handbook
The title is shit but the book is surprisingly insightful
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>>9201272
Man that is a nice rec you must be so smart. How much $ do you make?
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I live in Toronto and lots of neighborhoods have things called "little free libraries". It's a little hutch you leave books in for other people. Every week I take my bundle buggy and collect the books and trade them in for cash at BMV. Might get a dollar max, but hey every dollar counts. Does your city have these?
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>>9210813
there's one in a disused phone box near me. mostly full of shit but I usually check on the way past anyway, I got a copy of Mr Palomar last week..
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>>9210834
Oh shit that's not bad. Yeah they are usually filled with crap but I always get random fantasy and 50 shades of grey books that BMV buys every time. The ones they won't pay me for I just give to them for free. They probably think I'm crazy.
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>>9210813
These are littered all over Cambridge as well. If you go by the ones in/near Harvard you can score some pretty dope stuff from time to time.
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There's no way a non-pedo could have written this.
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There's no way a non-idiot could have come to your conclusion
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How did Tolkien become an elf, orc, dwarf and a human?
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>>9207876
>its impossible to write about tabu love without being a perv
cmon dude
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What does /lit/ think of Virginia Woolf?
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middlebrow trash
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how did she get her hair to looks so full?
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>>9207806
>it's another "tell me what to think thread"
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post lovey dovey stuff someone has said to you
need it for reference
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>>9207255
"you make me want to clean out my lower GI tract before engaging in anal sex"
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I think about your cock all day long
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>>9207255
Can we has sex bebe?