I know the big ones are Storm of Steel and All Quiet on the Western Front and Now it Can Be Told, but those are personal stories, and I'm looking for a more general overview.
>>8810000
I read The Age of Revolution and found the author thorough and engaging at the same time.
>>8810187
That does look like a cool book, but I'd have to read Age of Revolution, Age of Capital, and Age of Empire before I could read Age of Extremes, and that covers 1914 all the fucking way to 1991 so there's a lot of non-WW1 stuff in there too
>>8810000
Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington is good. I read it once in a modernist literature course.
So I have been printing books on my own printer at home because I am poor and live in a third world country where rare books in English are really expensive. I have already printed hundreds of them but most of them have their toner not completely printed onto the paper and usually some toner is left on the page and it gets onto my skin when I read. I need to know if there are any health hazards in it and what should I do?
>>8809795
you are going to die, you dumb fuck.
Also you need to me 18 to post on this site.
>>8809806
Bro this is not a fucking joke. There has been a shitload of toner on my hands and I dont know if it is hazardous because I read almost all the time. This shit is a serious question
>>8809795
i don't think it's hazardous probably will them your hands dry though
>tfw using google search analytics to ensure your references are obscure enough
Who /hipster/ here
Obscure references have their uses to be honest. The more disconnected your reference is from pop culture, the more likely you are to be able to avoid the reader projecting their own connotations onto it, and instead use it more exclusively for whatever thesis you're pushing.
>>8809783
IDGAF about the pretense of this thread's subject, but people pick their OP images for a reason, even if they don't fully realize it as they do so.
Anyway, if anyone has the least interest, I've just dumped Kaczynski's (almost) complete professional mathematical output on /sci/. No one there has given a shit, and it's even less likely that anyone here will, but it's available.
>>8810082
>I've just dumped Kaczynski's (almost) complete professional mathematical output on /sci/
Would I be correct in understanding that Kaczynski's publishing articles in top academic journals in his 20s was quite an achievement?
Have you thanked the orthodox Jesus (the superior one as we all know, gentlemen) for papa Fyodor?
>>8809765
>Repeatedly BTFOd by Chesterton
No, no thank you
>Dude, Russia should help restore the Byzantine Empire
Dostoevsky was a spooked product of his time, doesn't mean his writings aren't worth reading.
This man understands the inner workings of the human psyche better than any other . Isn't that the point of literature anyway?
Was this the greatest comedy book of the year, or best book (all categories) of the year?
Lol, she's fat. Hehe xD
>>8809671
South Park was making fun of her for referencing her vagina as often as she could, but I didn't get this because I had never heard her talk. However, the other week, I somehow saw her talk for the first time in a video on a red-carpet preshow for some awards (I forget what they were). The interviewer asked her who she was wearing, and Amy told her who designed her clothes and shoes, and then said "I'm also wearing Tampax for my tampon".
I'm just happy to know that South Park wasn't exaggerating and I don't have to ever consider even thinking about watching anything she is in.
its the best book ever ghostwritten
With a grunt of annoyance, he lay himself down on the ridge of a cliff, left arm reaching forward for the smooth wooden stock of his decades-old rifle to rest on. Cli-click, click-click-click… click. A distant scream, high-pitched, had ruined the pleasant day he’d been having. A bright blue-sapphire eye peered through the ring of an aperture rear sight, focusing on the tip of the front sight a couple feet away from it, and one final click switched off the safety. A good 200m or so, he wagered. Down in a valley slightly off to the right of where his lookout faced, he aimed for the side-long silhouette of a man’s head. A dreadfully difficult shot to be sure, but not impossible. It was the man who had her upper body pinned down, the man who’d ripped her shirt open, the one who laughed and grinned as his pal presently forced himself on her.
WHOCK! Breathing heavily, the second man’s laughing and grunting stopped, his long greasy hair framing a fat and harshly scarred face waved about as he looked around, panic setting in quite quickly, needless to say. The skinnier of the two crumpled over a little to the side, part of his body landing on the exposed female. A modest entry wound under one shoulder, with a terrifying exist wound under the other.
“Two-fifty, maybe…” he grunted, steadying the front sight on the easier target. Perhaps three hundred if the bullet dropped THAT much more than expected… really got to figure out a better way of judging distance. Once again, the man was felled before the victim even heard the shots. Pushing the stinking, unwashed rapist off of her, screaming in panic as the blood oozing from his chest smeared on her pale flesh, she ran. Something was picked up off the grass as she went, and he did not stop her. She clutched her ripped, ragged clothing to her body, wishing to keep covered even on the escape. Fall WAS pushing into Winter after all.
One of the casing of .30-06 had ejected from the semi-auto rifle just over to the side, rolling down to a dip in the rocky surface. The other had likely ended up tossing itself off the edge of the cliff. Fuck it. Following a brief trail through the woods, he pocketed the incredibly light NAS3 casing. Shell Shock Technologies sure did make a mint off their new design once it started getting accepted by Militaries. Couldn’t make enough of them! Too bad everything had to go to shit. Taking a left once meeting a wooden cabin that had been serving as his home, the blonde stranger headed on down to the scene of the crime, trudging along trees and rocks that were all too familiar.
Kneeling down at the two corpses, his nose wrinkled. Hadn’t even been dead for an hour yet and they already stink to high Hell. The hefty rifle slung over his back, safety having been engaged before he’d even gotten up from his prone position on the ridge, wiggled and shook as he began searching their pockets. A wallet with no money, not that it’d be any good if there WAS any.
>>8809648
sounds like you're describing a movie scene rather than telling a story directly.
>>8809648
>Shell Shock Technologies
>THAT
>WAS
>WAS
Has anyone actually rred it?
>>8809582
Yeah, billions of people have
>>8809587
>Indians
>people
>>8809594
Edgy
What is the best translation of the Bhagavad-Gita?
>>8809568
There's like three thousand versions in its original language
>>8809572
I don't know Sanskrit though
>>8809575
Pleb
How do I reconcile my belief that Humans are inherently shitty, tainted of sin, but the need to defend mans natural liberty and freedom.
Are there any good philosophers/political scientists on Liberalism and Traditional Conservationism in the 19th century, or in general good books on political science in general?
>>8809551
>natural liberty
>freedom
>tainted by sin
you need the neetch
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ckank/FultonsLair/013/nock/cram.html
'Why we do not behave like human beings' - Ralph Adams Cram, 1932
>We do not behave like human beings because most of us do not fall within that classification as we have determined it for ourselves, since we do not measure up to standard. And thus:
With our invincible—and most honourable but perilous—optimism we gauge humanity by the best it has to show. From the bloody riot of cruelty, greed and lust we cull the bright figures of real men and women. Pharaoh Akhenaten, King David, Pericles and Plato, Buddha and Confucius and Lao Tse, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and Virgil, Abder-Rahman of Cordoba, Charlemagne and Roland; St. Benedict, St. Francis, St. Louis; Godfrey de Bouillon, Saladin, Richard Coeur de Lion; Dante, Leonardo, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, Sta. Teresa, Frederick II, Otto the Great, St. Ferdinand of Spain, Chaucer and Shakespeare, Strafford and Montrose and Mary of Scotland, Washington, Adams and Lee. These are but a few key names; fill out the splendid list for yourselves. By them we unconsciously establish our standard of human beings.
Now to class with them and the unrecorded multitude of their compeers, the savage and ignorant mob beneath, or its leaders and mouthpieces, is both unjust and unscientific. What kinship is there between St. Francis and John Calvin; the Earl of Strafford and Thomas Crumwell; Robert E. Lee and Trotsky; Edison and Capone? None except their human form. They of the great list behave like our ideal of the human being; they of the ignominious sub-stratum do not—because they are not. In other words, the just line of demarcation should be drawn, not between Neolithic Man and the anthropoid ape, but between the glorified and triumphant human being and the Neolithic mass which was, is now and ever shall be.
by smoking heroin
What are some horror stories with good endings?
Where the good guy wins or the monster is beaten. Not super cheesy or badly written twists. But good, short horror stories where the ending is relatively happy
>>8809550
>Where the good guy wins or the monster is beaten.
Fuck that. Very few good horror stories have a happy ending. Part of the trick is having a cool unhappy ending that really resonates.
Pet Semetary
>>8809581
thing is I'm working on a set of videos where I read people stories that they can listen to as they fall asleep
few people would want to hear about soulless cats and children as they nod off
but an accidental hero people love
>>8809550
This is write up your alley, anon.
Here's my ranking of the major English Romantics
God tier: John Keats, William Blake, Percy Shelley
Shit tier: William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron
cool i'll rank modern ones
god: Eiliot, Rilke, Crane, Pessoa, Yeats, Merril, Sexton
shit: Pound, Lorca, Neruda, Plath, Ashbery, Auden, Cummings,
>Byron
>Shit
Ok bud.
If I rewrite The Grapes of Wrath with Syrian refugees in place of the Okies, do you think they'll give me the Pulitzer?
reminder to sage all frogshit
>>8809463
That's a toad
>>8809448
Nah I've got the Pulitzer locked up with my novel about seducing Elliot Rodger and saving him from dying as a kissless virgin
Greetings, friends of 4chan.
My name is Ángel David Revilla and I'm a writer.
My book, Moon of Pluto is already available in bookstores of all over the world.
Buy it, I know you will going to like it.
Thank you.
ALL over the world, Angel? All of it?
>>8809311
Fuck you Dross.
Fuck
YOU
>>8809311
post tits bitch
>I read 45 books in 2 weeks
>Can you honestly beat that?
Not really.
>>8809303
Am I the only true patrician on /lit/?
Were they 45 Goosebumps books or something?
I suppose there are worse ways to spend a fortnight.
¿what am I in for?
>>8809129
a terrible translation of a good book
pretty good book
pretty bood gook