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I just downloaded the audiobook a few days ago. I'm excited to get into it.

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>>8442086

My illiterate sister is reading this. I should probably do the same as I have a lot of time for Ernst.

Jünger really manages to capture the esprit of war. The long passage about a breakthrough during the Frühjahrsoffensive might be the greatest lines I ever read about a battle.
Jünger also manages to depict the camaradery, although not as well as Remarque.

Try not to, but it probably will happen occasionally?

Do it for fun, but not to run.

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Wouldn't call it "great" but I have to mention this because the quality of the writing was so much better than I expected.

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a very enjoyable read

i like the boxing story where he gets drunk and becomes an unheemable KO machine in order to impress the little twink he has a crush on

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Palm trees rising through the ocean surface with no land in sight, winds and shipwrecks, whales and lightnings, and a thin layer of wood separating the sole sailor from an endless body of water.

No. I think those elements are conscious but they're also key to the detective genre, it's only the postmodernist lens that sees it this way.

Mostly I argue against that kind of reading because it seems to ignore the much more central themes of the novella like alienation and subculture.

>>8442037
Thanks m8

>>8442030

it can be read as that

in the sense that you could argue for it in a lit class and get credit for it

but this kind of reading keeps you from actually forming a relationship with the text

>>8442021
my diary

>>8442021
Cows.

It's absolute shit but it's what you're looking for.

bump

I am interested in this also, a well-written book concerning insanity is very absorbing. Give us some recs guys.

Somewhat. "Bizarro" genre. Try Ass Goblins of Auschwitz.

Hogg was quite like that

Maldoror

Anatomy of the Psyche by Edinger, Alchemy by Von Franz, The Mysterium Lectures by Edinger.

Welcome to the cult.

my diary is pretty good

The Aurora consurgen by von Franz is also p good once you work your way up.

>>8441983
humpty bumpty

>>8441983
Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich

>>8441983
greeks

>>8441965
/lit/ will probably shit all over it but I think it's Garland's best work & my personal favourite book.

I grew up on a small tropical island with a population of around 300 people, all related to me in one way or another.
Whenever I get home sick I read the beach, and remember why I left.
People who live in small island community's are fucking crazy.

>>8441965
I remember reading it really quickly, which I guess means it's a well-written thriller, probably.

>>8441965
I loved it :^)
I lent my Garland books to a friend and I never saw them again. She was so much of a bitch that when I asked her for them back she couldn't remember me giving them to her or what books I were talking about. Fuck, I am salty about that

>>8441918

You look like an insufferable cunt post your shit and I can guarantee you it will be mastubatory trash fucking post it

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>>8441932
You're right frankly
http://pastebin.com/kxVLL1LM

>>8441975
Cmon that was like the perfect setup. NOBODY read it?

>>8441916
While we're at it, any recs for Armenian history? Already aware of the good books on the genocide but how about that Cilician empire?

You might like Axworthy, 'Iran. Empire of the Mind. A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day'. (two reviews: www.jstor.org.sci-hub.cc/stable/40378814 & http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.cc/stable/25482643)

Ansari, 'Modern Iran since 1921: The Pahlavis and After'

Hillenbrand, 'Islam: A New Historical Introduction'

Sonn, 'Islam: History, Religion, and Politics'

>>8441916
If you are interested in doctrinal development, which was of course very important, Essay on Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Newman.

Can I have her number?

>>8441860
>this

sounds like a keeper

>>8441860
She's been dating the same /his/torian memer for 6 years, sorry m8

Don't worry, eventually 4chan will change so much you won't even recognize it

it's already happening and there's nothing you can do to stop it

>>8441854
Been here for, what, 8 years? And the only thing that changes truly is the way of talking and the cultural zeitgeist, the true heart of this place, the hedonistic, ironically honest, depraved and anonymous way of being is still the same as it has always been.

Is 4chan special?

>>8441735
Write a lot I think

I don't think anyone really knows for sure

>>8441744
typical humanitiescuck brainlet

>>8441747
What's wrong with his advice? Should I not just write a lot?

>>8441696
the fault in our stars seems right up your alley

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>>8441712

Predictable first response. Should have clarified that Jean Valjean's death in Les Miserables made me cry.

My Sweet Orange Tree might work, it has that tragic, unjust sadness feel.

>>8441717
Yes, it most likely will.