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With Hegel.

>>9156209
Ok which of zizek's works should I start with ?

>>9156189
Start by picking up the book, putting it inside a bin bag and then waiting for the binmen to collect it.
Congratulations, you have finished Zizek.

As an American living in Europe, no.
People here seem well-read until you realize all their national classics are simply abridged high school reading material. Most of them have a lot of exposure to politics as children because European families don't talk about anything else, but like Americans they don't really give a shit.

They've just perfected using culture as ornamentation, scraping together what little dilettante interests they have into something they can call being intellectual. There's no social pressure for Americans to do the same so they don't.

>>9156172
>America
redpilled, led by Trump, strong white nationalist surge
>Europe
literal cucks

We're winning even if were dumb

>>9156172
>As an American
opinion discarded

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Don't Want To Fade Away

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We Stared And Cared

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Say Hello To My People

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>>9155708

>>9155708
OMG IS HE A LIBEREL?

let's alert /pol/. Another Hollywood movie we can obsess over

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>>9155709

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Phyl-Undhu desu

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>>9155642
Who Goes There by John W. Campbell inspired the thing and goes a similar way to the movie. If you haven't seen it, an antarctic research crew carves out an ancient alien specimen from the ice and take it back to camp. The researchers set out to thaw the alien but things get ugly very quickly when they discover that the alien is still very much alive and is mimicking one of the crew...
There isn't a thick prose like lovecraft is famous for, it's actually very easy to read, and does a better job at setting the mood than John carpenter's adaptation. It has pretty strong elements of lovecraft's fiction but I wouldn't call it strictly lovecraftian.

Also if this thread doesn't take off you should lurk more. This question is always getting asked, Lovecraft is the greatest modern influence on horror and is very popular with the "Geeks" if you catch my feeling :^)

>>9155642
Have you read Howard's Solomon Kane stuff?

>>9155517
Wow. That pic is not funny at all.
Shame

>>9155999
I giggled a bit at the phone number bit to be fair.

>>9155517
http://www.newcriterion.com/department.cfm?departmentID=105

Also the NYRB and Paris Review will have some gems about 3-4 times a year. NPR can have decent stuff btw, dont read in a hugbox.

>>9155369
There's been only one major event-- the French Revolution. Start with Simon Schama's Citoyens (Citizens), a Howard Zennification of the whole affair.

>>9155369
>covering every major event and society
jesus
I think you're gonna have to narrow it down to a few hundred, op

Books by James Michener. Through the stories of fictional characters, he covers the entire history of a location, such as hawaii, south africa, poland, the chesapeake, etc.

>>9155336
I bought the Everyman's Library version, but I'm not an expert so take w/ pinch of salt

Remember man: it was written in English, so the edition is mostly an aesthetic choice, considering you don't have to worry about translation.

>>9155341
I saw someone calling the Everyman's version "more definitive", so it's one of the ones I'm considering. Does it have annotations/explanations?

>>9155359
No not really

You'd need to buy a separate book of annotations

But it does have Joyce's chapter schema, which is very interesting, though, like Eliot's notes on the Waste Land, possibly tongue-in-cheek.

>>9155104
In a way, yes. The average person can be entertained so much more readily in a myriad of ways, why bother with the effort of reading (seriously, this is how they think, even if they can't articulate it)

>>9155104
shit's BEEN dead homie

I don't think reading is properly taught. As I recall, we were taught the basic bitch stuff such at reading metaphors and crap like that, but never actually how to enjoy a work of literature. It's hard to explain.

Secondly I'm sure there are many great books being published right now, the problem is that there's such a vast amount of books being released that it makes it harder to find a good one. Not to mention all the ones that get much publicity tend to be the sort that appeal to middle-aged women that think Harry Potter is the best.

FC Sevilla's Champions League chances

>>9155019
>What was Neil Gaiman thinking when he was writing this episode?

oh, the usual stuff. motes of dust twinkling in the afternoon sun. the laughter of children playing a game with sinister overtones from the distant past. young girls saving the universe with the power of dreams, unicorn farts and pixie giggles. what he thinks of most of the time when he isn't down in his cellar violating the corpse of Enid Blyton.

Haha Neil Gayman, am I right?

>>9154927

Yell at everyone else around me to be quiet and listen to the words of a Great Man.

>>9154927
Loudly break wind in order to provide him with material for pun-based wordplay.

>>9154927
grab a seat, of course

Shh.. (Though your question has been answered already, I will confess a kind of veneration for Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight. But tell no one!) ...

Death of the author is retarded. You can come to your own conclusions on a text, but to utterly disregard the author's own commentary is just stupid

Barthes on photography is apt, I even think it contributes to why some are able to bury their noses in books and rarely take them out; that, and a curiosity for what remains of what's vanished. There's more, of course, but that would take us off topic. If you want clear Introductions to Deconstruction, semiotics, structuralism usw. in American English google Jonathan Culler and pick your books. They're reasonably short, and exceptionally helpful for the beginner.

"Economy" is the best part. The rest is interesting, but largely irrelevant to modern life.

>>9154694
Yes.
Though there are parts I had to force myself through when it's really hard to understand what the hell he's talking about, but the rest of the book compensate it.

>>9154694
Into the Wild is better.

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>>9154328
Don Quixote

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>>9154335
>Stirner
>Diogenes
>Adam Smith
>ancap
You better be fucking memeing anon.

Less fedora and more Tapout shirt tbqh.

>>9157660
one of my favorite episodes of This American Life is about a car dealership and this car dealer named Manny who is obsessed with the Art of War.

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I explained that I was a radio reporter and I needed to record whatever he was going to tell me for it to be useful. But he wasn't having it. He seemed unimpressed by our little radio story.

He said my colleagues and I were like fishermen, who had no idea what we were angling for. We had no focus. We were just casting blindly. Manny, I soon learned, is a man of many metaphors.

I put down my recorder. The thing you need to be paying attention to, he said, is the negotiation. The salesman is the tiger, and the customer is the deer. The tiger has to eat, and you can't eat if you don't kill that deer.

He moved his right hand up and then clamped his fingers around his own neck. You have to go for the neck, he said. But if you try to kill him too early, the deer will wake up and run away.

As the day went on, I kept trying to get Manny to let me record him, but he wouldn't. Instead he'd come up to me while I was interviewing someone else, point to his head very deliberately, presumably to his brain, give me a knowing look, and then walk away. At one point, we found ourselves facing each other at his desk.

He asked me if I had read the greatest book ever written about car sales. I don't think so, I told him. What is it? The Art of War, he said, by Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu, as you maybe know, was a military general and strategist in ancient China. The Art of War is his magnum opus, where he lays out his tactics for how to succeed in conflict. And though Sun Tzu was writing about actual war, the book has become well-known in business and sales circles.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/transcript

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