What the fuck Herodotus?
What the actual fuck, Lucian?
what if they went extinct?
They were supposed to be capybaras.
i got the seven who where hanged from a book bazaar kind of for two dollars . is it good ?
>>8444325
That's right anon, don't make the mistake of starting--or, God forbid, finishing--a book without getting 4chan's opinion first.
>>8445644
can you imagine he wanted to start a thread about a book on /lit/
the fiend
>>8444325
Read it and tell us mate.
I am looking for a thorough account of Edward Snowden and his whistleblowing. Has /lit/ read Glenn Greenwald's "No Place to Hide" and is it what I should read, or is it a "first to market" botch job?
I'm skeptical that a reporter who didn't know what Tor was could write an essentially technical piece.
>>8444318
Is there anything to know about tech? Snowden worked with spreadsheats... If anyone, then Greenwald would know whole story.
But really, I'd start with Dirty Wars and No Easy Day. Both very black/white on opposite sides, and not at all about Snowden, but they should help you see the picture more clearly.
>>8444343
>If anyone, then Greenwald would know whole story.
Yes but whose story? Snowden's story, which is what I'm interested in or the story of the intrepid ace reporter who only needed several tries to get secure comms working? I don't really care about Greenwald's thoughts--he was just some guy who is only redpilled now because Snowden basically forced him to swallow it.
>>8444318
Um, I believe the doc Citizenfour is what your looking for. Trust me
This is going to sound weird, but does anyone know where I can find all volumes of DDC 23 without purchasing this from the OCLC website? I would like to find them in pdf format, but after checking everywhere I couldn't find them. I have a small library of files I'd like to organize, and I was surprised to find just how limited the Dewey Decimal standard is to the public. The point of the volumes is to have a reference to flesh out part of my library with subjects that I wouldn't reasonably be able to think of.
I wouldn't search too deep into the way libraries operate, man. It's a dark road that many cant come back from. Be safe
>>8444301
>dewey decimal standard being limited to the public
wtf anon share with the rest of the class
>>8444333
Maybe I'm wrong, but I really searched for this. I wasn't able to find any complete database, or volume that had any real detail to it that was the current standard (DDC 23). The original DDC 1-18 can be found, but the newer versions that obviously contain more current info are maintained by the OCLC. You have to actually buy the manual to look up the most current version. As is my understanding.
I'm just three pages in and I don't understand almost anything they're talking about. Do I read the appendices and the "terminology of the imperium" first or constantly check the glossary throughout the book?
>>8444249
Pretty sure you're supposed to get the basic meanings through context. I don't recall having to go to the glossary much when I read itat the age of about 13
>>8444249
Herbert is just sort of setting the stage with the made up words. Don't worry about it too much. You just have to power through the first bits, but then it will get good and you will be able to follow what is going on much more easily.
>>8444249
Is English not your first language? I listened to it as an audiobook and had zero problems in understanding it.
Has anyone in human history been more essentially right than this sad fuck?
>>8444090
Yes. Self help is not philosophy.
neecheeee
witty
How do I understand Robert Musil? His concepts are so out there I find it hard to understand them.
be smarter lmao
>>8444049
Thanks m8!
>>8444046
which concepts?
Okay so my friend read a book in jail that he doesn't remember the name of and I'm hoping /lit/ can help me find it. Here are all the details I have. The plot points are very rough and seem to change every time he tells me about it. He said he read it in two days and that it's a "bomb ass book".
-It's about 400 pages
-It's about a guy who hacks into some federal (CIA/FBI) computer and launches nukes all over the fucking place. America, Canada, overseas, etc.
-There might be multiple characters in the book that launch nukes. According to my friend either the main character or one of the character that launches nukes gets ratted out by someone, and they kill the informant by putting them head first into a woodchipper.
-The book's ending scene is basically a free-for-all with various terrorist groups, US troops, mercenaries, civilian terrorists, with "mad nukes dropping everywhere, shotties getting pulled out, heads getting blown off".
-I was walking to get some Bob Hope with my friend and he had smoked 10 grams prior, and he said "HE KILLED HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN!" in reference to the book. I thought he meant that the main character/character that launched a nuke and got ratted out took the informant's own gun from them and killed him with it but he denied it, although to be fair he wasn't really focused on the conversation.
Goethe's Faust
>>8444048
Was thinking the same. That must be it.
What's the book that best replicates the feeling of a dreamstate during a long and peaceful sleep? Just had a wonderful sleep last night and want to experience the feeling in waking life.
infinite jest
>>8443944
This is the premise of Finnegans Wake; the 'night' to Ulysses' 'day', as it were.
>>8443959
I won't understand a lick of it though, whereas my dreams last night had clear narratives.
Any other suggestions?
Is there knowledge that should better be kept hidden?
>>8443905
Most self-knowledge tbqh
>>8443905
That inner-self is a lie
>>8443911
Exaggeration. It's not fixed. Finding it confers no absolute imprimatur. It definitely exists.
What is the best translation or copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh to date?
Thanks for asking me personally. The best translation is Kovacs.
>>8443896
Why would you date a translation
>>8443916
chasing after something younger no doubt
Are there any books that chronicle the relationship between Alexander the Great and Hephaestion?
Oliver Stone
Mary Renault
- Fire from Heaven
-The Persian Boy
How do I start with DFW? I bought this, but I don't really like it. Should I just jump into Infinite Jest?
>Should I just jump into Infinite Jest?
Yeah. It's not difficult, just long. I started with Broom of the System and regretted it because that book fucking sucks.
Start with Infinite Jesticular Cancer
read little expressionless animals, my appearance, and here and there, then e unibus pluram, then tornadoes and tennis, then infinite jest.
post your goodreads and discuss
>>8443789
Reading I've done thus far this year
The Land Across by Gene Wolfe
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
God, Philosophy, Universities by Alasdair MacIntyre
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin After
Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
The Dialectics of Secularization by Pope Benedict XVI
Aquinas by Edward Feser
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Return to the Whorl by Gene Wolfe
Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
Napolean Of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics by Edward Feser
The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Fathers by Pope Benedict XVI
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe
Many Religions One Covenant by Pope Benedict XVI
The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc
The Phoenix Exultant by John C. Wright
Locke by Edward Feser
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Kiku's Prayer by Shūsaku Endō
The Golden Age by John C. Wright
An Essay On the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Newman
Cratylus by Plato
Philosophy of Mind by Edward Feser
On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Jews by Hilaire Belloc
Crito by Plato
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant
The Categories by Aristotle
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Ethics by Peter Kreeft
The Aeneid by Virgil
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Utopia by Thomas More
The Short Stories of G.K. Chesterton by G.K. Chesterton
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas by Peter Kreeft
The Platonic Tradition by Peter Kreeft
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
K
>>8443830
That would be about two books every week. I'm gonna call bullshit unless half of these are about 200-250 pg. long
What short masterpiece on the art of convincing argument and rhetoric would you recommend?
"How to make friends and influence people" is the usual suggestion; but if someone who knows what you're doing catches wind of it they may well distance themself from you, or maybe punch you in the head.
Not too many folks who know what it's about take kindly to being "socially engineered" - step carefully.
>>8443726
That's a tough one OP...
It's definitely not the short masterpiece that has been the foundation of Rhetoric for years: Aristotle's "Rhetorics" :^ )
>>8443726
Euthydemus