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>>8145022

>>8145022
Cool choices. I've read none of them, but have heard really interesting things about Carlyle's book on the revolution (which I only heard about when I stumbled on Sartor Resartus), and I picked up but haven't yet read my first Stendhal book a few weeks ago (Charterhouse of Parma).

Have you started any of these? I've only talked to one person on this board who had read Carlyle on France, and he said he was totally lost without previous knowledge of France.

>>8146484

I haven't read it yet but I keep running into it so much and hearing about it that I knew i had to get it one day, it's supposed to be a landmark, I wanted to get a few more carlyle books to introduce me to his style and ideals.

I can tell you it looks "hard" from the excerpt i read from prose alone kek, it's very poetic.

The stendhal one is supposed to an unfinished masterpiece of sorts for an autobiography of himself, I'm excited to read it since he was a semi elusive figure.

I haven't started any since i'm finishing gogols collected works right now, probably my favorite of the russian authors aside from pushkin. Surprised at how definite a style he has (even in english)

Why not?

It leaves a pleasant reminder years down the line. Why not? Maybe it's a cultural thing. In my country people would do this in literally every book that was a gift.

>>8144610
>you've always been my Pheobe

Uh oh

>>8143843
Do yourself a favor and just give up now. French people hate non-native speakers and mock them for entertainment, why put yourself through that? You'll never get the accent right and everybody will hate you. But who cares? it's a dying language in 2016, nobody will speak it in a couple centuries. Do yourself a favor and learn an actual language like Latin where nobody is educated enough to call you out on your mispronunciations

>>8143855
good thing you don't need an accent to read

>>8143865
You can't appreciate literature properly if you can't subvocalize. Sorry but it's just a fact. Language is based upon spoken communication, and if you learn French, you won't be able to communicate i.e. your understanding of the language will be inferior and gross

low quality pepe, bad post... kys

well you're a frogposter so that's not a good sign
anyway start with the greeks

>>8142318
i read these in high school lmao

>reading is a competition between the author and the reader

are you dumb lad

>>8139380
That's what Joyce is famous for

>>8139399
Only among plebs

>>8136858
But Anon. Stirner is a meme himself.

>>8136858

I liked it, but I can't how his philosophy would work; or where it would lead.

His general idea, that we shouldn't sacrifice our individuality to anything, is good. Our goals and desires should be subservient to us (or technically 'I', since society is also a spook) - not the other way around.

There is no greater spook than the cause, or thing, for which one would die; for this is quite literally a sacrifice of the self to something else.

This is much more noble than /lit/'s use of 'spook' - which, in essence, implies that something one does not like is in fact a fiction.

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>>8136892

Fucking this. Stirner doesn't imply that morality/etc is make-believe; simply that 'spooks' should ultimately have no power over us.

Egoism, in Stirner's sense, is essentially metaphysical self-mastery.

I still like the memes, though.

>>8136016
Relevant links

Paradise Lost and other Milton works
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/text.shtml
Searchable Paradise Lost
http://www.paradiselost.org/8-Search-All.html

>>8136016
The last one was two weeks long right?
Basically one book of PL a day.

>>8136350
Two weeks long for plays that can be read in a few hours.

This is where the club dies.

>>8134367
that shelf full of shitty paperbacks looks like you pulled them out of a dumpster

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>>8134367

Reminds me of mine a little bit in taste and presentation. Not a whole lot, but enough.

Books on the left are ones I own that I've read to completion.

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>>8134367

>>8129299
I would never hit you mom.

Misery loves company and I am so very lonely.

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>>8152018
Post it please desu.

post the video

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>>8149987
I cry every time.

stick with the scandis:
Astrid Lindgren
Tove Jansson
HC Andersen
Roald Dahl
Thorbjorn Egner

>>8149983
how do you know that philosophy is "greatly interesting to you" if you've never read any philosophy

also start with the greeks

>>8149988
Well, what I meant to say is exploring ideas into great detail interests me, so that's why philosophy seems like a good place to start reading. Sorry, should've been more clear.

But thanks, I'll start there

Just read Hamlet

>having a diary
Are you a girl?

>>8149941
spooky if true

i don't have a diary
but i would be legitimately interested if somebody posted a real diary entry. Especially if it was exemplary of what a true, quality diary entry ought to be.

>>8149692
King Leopold's Ghost was amazing. It deals with Belgium's role in the Scramble for Africa. Very well researched and according to reviewers very unbias considering the subject matter

Rise of the Islamic state was pretty good as well.

Immanuel Wallerstein - World-systems Analysis: An Introduction
I plan to read the three volumes of his Modern World-Systems Analysis soon, but this was a great, short (roughly 90 pages) background to his world-systems theory.

Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
Interesting read that tells the story of one of the people chiefly responsible for the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. He went mad from what he saw as a surgeon in the U.S. Civil War, spending the final decades of his life in a home for the criminally insane, where he did his work for the OED. Highly recommend.

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>>8149692
The last good one I read would be the last one I read, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan by Roger S Keyes.

Here's some of my favorites over the past year, OP:

>Understanding Japanese Woodblock-Printed Illustrated Books: A Short Introduction to Their History, Bibliography and Format
>Netsuke: The miniature sculpture of Japan
>The fall of language in the age of English by Minae Mizumura
>The book of yokai : mysterious creatures of Japanese folklore
>Letterletter by Gerrit Noordzij
>Japanese stone gardens : origins, meaning, form
>An essay on typography by Eric Gill
>Alice in many tongues : the translations of Alice in Wonderland
>Penguin by design : a cover story, 1935-2005
>Sherlock Holmes in Japan
and pic related of course

I also really like Marie Kondo's stuff but that's probably not to /lit/'s general taste.

Not sure but check out Hobsbawm's 19th century trilogy at least

>>8149603
This is the most vague request I've ever read. Try Citizens by Schema or Humes history of great Britain.

>>8149603

>modern
>history