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Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>>8262628
I really enjoyed my time with this book.

Portnoy's Complaint

>>8264026
This. Changed my life.

>>8264029
sam harris is chomsky's bitch

>>8262525
Didn't you just make this thread last month?

The same answer I gave the last anon with this exact question: The Passive Vampire and Edition 69 for abstract. Dogra Magra, The Blind Owl and Dark Spring are darkest.

Is there any way to find out when a /lit/ suggestion chart was first made?

>>8262525

Kangaroo Notebook is pretty dark but also straight forward, nice imagery of the scenes in hell that really stand out. Valerie and her Week of Wonders is also pretty good but the movie is more popular. Invitation to a Beheading is pretty abstract, I recommend that.

>>8262434
>Ralashnikov
kek
have fun reading anon

Now read the Anti-Oedipus to understand how psychology actually works.

Many of the Greek stories had this element. For example, it was prophesied to Priam that his son Paris would cause the destruction of Troy. He was abandoned as a child like Oedipus, but later returned to Troy and... I guess you know the rest. It was a common idea in Greece, a part of their mentality. It's not really the focal point of the play.

Nice bait

>>8262504
man, don't do that please. I don't want a shit fest.

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lurk more dude. And read widely.

what will this teach me

I'm a big fan of biographies, especially when they're more about what the person stood for instead of the minutiae of life

Some favs:
- The Invention of Nature (Alexander von Humboldt and how his image of a connected nature was a major shift in how mankind saw nature)
- Endgame (Bobby Fisher, chess)
- The Price of Altruism (George Price, altruism/evo biology)
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (Erdos, mathematics)
- The Duty of Genius (Wittgenstein and his philosophy)
- A Life Inside The Center (Oppenheimer, atomic bomb project, communist scare)

I've been looking for a while for Power Broker - Aaron Swartz wrote a long article about how it's the best book ever - but the only online version is a shitty converted OCR...

>>8262431
Reading Caro's bio of Lyndon Johnson. It's good, but for fuck sake it's long.

I lick his bandana and run

ooo le epin bandalabamba nachos la geyo faggoto hehehe ;)

>>8262375
As Zombie Harold Bloom I stick my rusted santoku into his chest and twist it once for every sin against literature he ever committed.

>>8262370
Its amazing. But you should be really into scifi, because its heavy and slow

>>8262377
You mean is being into heavy scifi a prerequisite to enjoy it?

I'm biased because I love anything that deals with first contact of aliens, but I think Rama is the finest work of science fiction ever made. I'm sceptical about a movie though, given how terribly inept directors can be when adapting science fiction classics to the big screen (*cough* Lynch).

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He meant this

life is like breath. If you let go of breath it comes back to you, if you hold onto your breath you lose it. The only way to live is to let go of life and accept your death.

>>8262344
Thank you.

Good prose, boring as hell nonfiction chapters, and a slog of a middle section.

Beginning and ending are both A+ literature, though.

>>8262286
Just fucking read it, for christ's sake. We get these threads about Moby Dick and Ulysses fucking daily. Reading is about as simple a task as there fucking is. One fucking word after another. Children not only could do it, but routinely do. So you're in for a series of words, ideally read sequentially, but if you're like this faggot >>8262291 you'll probably skip half the good parts because they're "boring slog."

Curse this damned interdependence. I would be as free as air and I'm down in the whole internet's asshole.

a lot of unnecessary details about whale biology

I get the feeling either no one has read this or no one can be arsed to discuss a 50 year old book lol

>>8262276
>>8262303
Well thanks OP for the heads up on this book. I'm actually pretty interested in reading this now. Never read any Golding and the only thing I knew of his was Lord of the Flies.

Recently watched Quest for Fire which is about neanderthals and cro magnon. Kind of dated but interesting.

>>8262698
Yeah I would recommend it. At some points the narrative is really hard to follow but i'd suggest trudging through it, its worth it.

Never heard of that till now, worth watching?

I know man... this Pokemon shit is really throwing me for a loop especially because I've read and written almost nothing for two days now playing it

>>8262229
I waked for 3 hours yesterday with it, have to travel to take an exam today, so I can't roam around. Doesn't take up my reading time tho.

I admit defeat.

Nem magyarul nem az igazi.
Ábel trilógia? Rejtő?

>>8262179
My opinion is that Hungary gave us a lot of good stuff, but literature isn't one of them.

>>8262234
>literature isn't one of them
what else then?

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>>8262014
>Tolkien
>Lee
>Orwell
>THREE L Ron Hubbards
>FOUR Ayn Rands

>no Bible

embarrassing

>>8262014
>ever created by man
>5 of them aren't by men
git gud.
In all seriousness, it's probably all scripture.
>>8262018
if we're talking the last few hundred years it's hard to find a person that left a bigger footprint in fiction than tolkien

>>8262013
What's up with all these Rand threads lately?
It's the third or fourth I've seen today.
Chill out, pal.

6 million.

She wanted to call it existentialism but it was already taken.