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>>8674326
Stop masturbating to underage boys you fucking creep.

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>>8674341
Hey you! I'm gunna stick my dick in your butt in the showers tomorrow!

Those were his first words to me as I entered prison. I couldn't wait. Prison was beginning to look like everything I'd dreamt it to be.

I refuse to buy Jerusalem unless they make it a single-volume paperback.

>>8674344
Fair enough I went for the hardcover I'd say they'll do it eventually

>>8674298
looks like finnegans wake but dull

>>8674042
Wittgenstein's Mistress if you're into crazy chicks

>>8674042
Lolita.

bump for interest.

>>8674035
I have only read Chess story in hungarian from him.
Currently reading it in german,and it's rather good.
His life was sad.

ive read The World of Yesterday and i think it was really good
now im reading a collection of short stories and i cant say im really liking it that much
it feels much more amateurish and forced

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>>8674035
good writer, i like him.

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>>8674013
Thanks for summarizing the plot; I gave up after the 12th page because it was too boring.

>>8674013
A good looking autist who manages to function at work and get girls. But that's the thing incel anons, even if you could stop being NEET's and get girls you would still be unhappy like him

>>8674013
Has anyone tried to live like Mersault?

What did it turn out like?

inb3 you shot an arab you know what I mean you turbo-autists

Durant is kind of an oddity and I feel like his method resonates with ideas of "histoire totale" before they gelled with a very social-economic history basis, much more materialist, in the early-to-mid 20th century. You might like someone like Jacob Burckhardt, but he doesn't cover modern history.

My first instinct is to recommend the Stalinist apologist card-carrying historical materialist Hobsbawm's stuff on the 19th century, but you can already see how different that is.

I can think of things with methods similar to Durant's, but they were all written IN the 19th century or shortly after, so they tend to be about other times and peoples.

Also, many methods that seem (I think?) similar to the "integral" method are hermeneutic-historicist methods from the German school, which notoriously did not like cultural history very much. Burckhardt is a good oddity that you should check out, because it's a digestible classic, but also because it's really high quality brilliant scholarship despite how unpopular his methods were with the academic mainstream. Most cultural historians in the 19th century were disparaged as unphilosophical antiquarians. A Burckhardt-inspired German named Karl Lamprecht might have been something you would have liked to read, if he hadn't been booted out of the mainstream and spent most of his professional career delving into weirder and weirder shit instead of just writing a good cultural history of Germany up to 1900.

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>>8673938
>>8673973

Have you read this history book before:

http://www.realhistorychannel.org/THE%20BAD%20WAR2apdfversion.pdf

?

>>8673982

You never responded.

Hope Spanish literature gets a new Bolaño soon

Top 25 in spanish what?

Books? Fictions?

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>>8674115

The closest thing we had this year of a new Bolaño is actually a new Bolaño's posthumous work.

>>8673438

arno schmidt

>>8673438
>>8673443

joseph mcelroy
william vollman
john barth

>>8673438
Whitman

Free will determinism or all three?

nothing really changed since the times of epicureans vs stoics :3

>For they themselves do not concede to Epicurus, for the sake of the highest considerations, a thing so small and trifling as the slightest deviation of a single atom — which would permit the stars and living creatures to slip in by chance and would preserve from destruction the principle of free will.

>>8673215
Sam Harris is wrong about free will

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>>8673065
Just read the Iliad instead.

>>8673065
Aristotle Ethics + Augustine City of God are pretty much all of Christian thought and are not hard reads.

>>8673065

The guide is good, but I'd probably throw in Gulag Archipelago by Solzenichen, especially if you're already interested in existentialism.

how about you let him be a kid instead of being one of those socially-stunted 2smart4u individuals incapable of socializing with their peers

wait until hes 14-15

>>8672894
/thread

>>8672894
>>8672916

Well, as I said, he's already very smart, so it's too late to make him have a normal childhood/puberty. Nonetheless, he's extremely kind and sociable. He's the one who's asked me to recommend some classics, so I'm trying to think of good books for the exact opposite reason of socially-stunting him.

>>8672363
I should clarify, fiction books, not history books.

Life and Fate
Storm of Steel
Under Fire
The Good Soldier Švejk
Three Soldiers
The Thin Red Line
With The Old Breed
From Here to Eternity
Catch-22
A Farewell to Arms
Taken Captive

Here are a few.

>>8672363
Evans' Third Reich trilogy is tip top as far as the war in the west.

Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem as far as the holocaust.

Vaino Linna's Unknown Soldier was an excellent novel.

Churchill's Memoirs and Shirer's Rise and Fall for classics.

>>8672364
Fuck you

If you commit suicide will anyone begin to give a fuck about you?

If I masturbate but no strangers see me, is it still enjoyable?

>>8672294
For a sound to be a sound, someone has to hear it. Otherwise it's just vibrations in the air

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Shelley was trash

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Useless faggot

>>8672306
you ruined it. Stop forcing this shitty meme.

>>8672040
R U S S I A B T F O S A L L O T H E R C O U N T R I E S W H E N I T C O M E S T O N O V E L S
Not sure about other genres though. Maybe Britain or Italy for poetry

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!

Either that or New York.

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>>8672044
Plays too
Or perhaps Scandinavia for plays