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>>8097736
1. Download Soulseek/Make a Mobilism account/use libgen and its mirrors/project gutenberg/use btdigg
2. Type in book you want
4.download it
5. Read it
6. Shitpost

>>8097748
Can you recommend anything?

>>8097786
If you like your sci-fi with some racism Lucifer's Hammer. If you like off the beaten path post-apocalypse, Canticle for Leibowitz or Earth Abides. If you are feeling pretentious, His Master's Voice or Solaris.

Where to start with Pynchon?

>>8097750
V. and The Crying of Lot 49 are both good entry points.

>>8097750
Vineland

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>comparative literature

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>comp lit
>2016

>>8097689
Your Bachelor's, right? You'll be okay. Just try to figure out which language you want fairly quickly, and take courses for it.

>>8097644
I remember reading this book in high school called Shade's Children and liking the fuck out of it. I found another copy at the used book store but my dad threw it in the trash because it had an eye on the cover and he's one of those Illuminati fanatics.

>>8097658
Read some wiki about it, sounds pretty creepy

>>8097644
soooooo BNW, just to start?

oooooh oh my boy am I in grave trouble right now, having to find a dystopian book that isn't about war, oooooh so spooky

>>8097504
>Medieval warfare and combat?
>maybe /lit/ can do better
Maybe we will. What we *certainly* will do is call you a neckbeard redditor.

Neckbeard redditor.

DeVries, Kelly (1992), Military Medieval Technology, Broadview Press, ISBN 0-921149-74-3

Nicholson, Helen (2004), Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300–1500, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-76330-0

Contamine, Philippe. War in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984

France, John, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000–1300, London: Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8607-4

Keen, Maurice. Medieval Warfare: A History. Oxford University Press, 1999.

H. W. Koch: Medieval Warfare. Bison Books Limited, London, 1978, ISBN 978-0-86124-008-1

>>8097515
wow, that was quick! thx

Start with the Jews.

Chronological?
Or first the New Testament and then the Old because it's hard to go through all of the old just like that.

Start with the greeks

Scrivener is worth the money

>>8097125
Good suggestion, thank you.

>>8097221
I prefer Focuswriter. It's free and very clean. Doesn't have as many organizational options but you can have as many tabs open as you need.

dropped after the first masturbatory rant about pseudophilosophical nonsense

>>8096914
Some dipshit on my facebook feed posted a quote from that book today and it was dumb. From this I can interpolate that book in it's totality must be shit.

It's good. /lit/ won't like it though because it has zen in the title and it's popular

>>8096593
They're mediocre. Which of means they're better than 99% of fantasy books

>>8096593
>fantasy genre
>merit

>>8096593

A solid 7/10 but given that they got a tv series and are now wildly popular it is our duty as 4channers to hate it and say it's shit even though things like Shannara and Eragon exist.

>>8096551

God has given us a dark wine so potent that,
drinking it, we leave the two worlds.
God has put into the form of hashish a power
to deliver the taster from self-consciousness.

God has made sleep so
that it erases every thought.
God made Majnun love Layla so much that
just her dog would cause confusion in him.

There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstacies
are the same!

Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.
Drink from the presence of saints,
not from those other jars.

Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.
Be a conoisseur,
and taste with caution.

Any wine will get you high.
Judge like a king, and choose the purest,
the ones unadulterated with fear,
or some urgency about "what's needed."

Drink the wine that moves you
as a camel moves when it's been untied,
and is just ambling about.

>>8096569

One of few I liked.
Hafez and Ferdowsi are still my favorites.

>>8096569
Moar

You don't, because it's a fucking heresy.

>>8096524
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You don't because it's a fucking misinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus.

Belief in a God figure becomes increasingly difficult. Therefore God is dead. See any Western country for an example.

>>8096362
Except the US...

People always forget the "and we killed him" part

>>8096248
literally never.

>>8096248
Right now

>>8096255
Thanks.

>>8096252
Kill yourself.

>>8096193
1984

Fascism : Career of a Concept - Paul Gottfried
He gives an overview of how the word has changed throughout time and the differing theories that have been used to explain its rise.
Introduction
Chapter One Defining Fascism
Chapter Two Totalitarianism and Fascism
Chapter Three Fascism as the Unconquered Past
Chapter Four Fascism as a Movement of the Left
Chapter Five The Failure of Fascist Internationalism
Chapter Six The Search for a Fascist Utopia Chapter Seven A Vanished Revolutionary Right APPENDIX: Fascism and Modernization

I really liked chapter three deals with part of the usage of fascism as an insult and a psychic condition. It includes a discussion on the influence of the Frankfurt School on this.

An excerpt :
Several of the members worked intermittently during the war for the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. In this advisory capacity they investigated the psychic origins of fascism and proposed far-reaching plans for curing the Germans of their aggressive political culture. This exploration of the social and psychological preconditionsfor a fascist society culminated in the publication of The Authoritarian Society (1950), a compilation of essays that fit into a series of commentaries titled Studies in Prejudice, which was financed and published by the American Jewish Committee. Horkheimer became a coeditor for the entire series, which dealt with the psychic and social causes of anti-Semitism. He later assigned the organization of the most famous anthology in the series, TAP, to his alter ego, Adorno.

>>8096156
>indulging in material fetishism

>>8096159
>not indulging in material fetishism

If a sexy, hard cover or leather bound book doesn't get you off than you can GIT OUT

>buying books

I'm sure all those pink haired girls you aren't fucking are really impressed you have a physical copy of Mason & Dixon anon