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First one's gotta go to Band of Brothers, cuz I'm a sucker for the TV show and get a hard-on reading the books.

Images and text descriptions (minus my dumbass drunk rambling and opinions) are straight from google, but I'm only posting the books I've read and know, except for the Diary of Jew Frank, cuz like that's kind of why I started the thread

(tl;dr: someone be my friend for the next four hours to talk about books while I drink away my sorrows and wish I was born in 1920)

"As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignements - responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of these American heroes."

Gonna space the next few posts out unless someone tells me they're lurking or posts, I don't want to be raping the front page.

This next one is another classic but holy fuck is it a chore to get through, even though it will rip away most of the myths (and bullshit legends and accomplishments) that popular culture has implanted into the mind of our oh-so-impregnable youth.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in 1945

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>>8057074
Fucking forgot the damn photo. Whatever. Here.

James was a Europhile that wrote boring garbage. I'll take the thrill of Melville over his teatime schlock any day.

Samuel Clemons followed by Melville.

>>8057034
James was a brilliant author by 19th century standards.
Melville is the greatest American author of all time and easily in the top ten of the entire english language.
Both are outshone by Walt Whitman though.

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>>8057019
>this is your /lit/ on summer

>>8057042
if you can't tell that this is bait then you're the summer

>>8057071
Sounds to me like someone can't handle the bantz.

>>8057014
No because no matter which explanation makes you feel better, the future will happen just the same.

no one is meant to do anything. everything that has happened and will happen has already happened. human beings just have a natural inkling that time moves forward & that they can affect it, when, in reality, all of time is already there, like an imprint in stone. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time.

>>8057014
>Is fate real?
depends on your definition
>Are we in control of how our lives turn out
sometimes
>are we in control of how we perceive how our lives turn out?
obviously
>Do we control our fate with our actions, or does it fall into our hands?
mostly actions. i guess there are cases of finding a bunch of money in a bag down some alley but for the most part fate is controlled by action, or inaction
>Has you ever had a moment of realization that you were meant to do something?
yes

>>8056956
monogatari tier

>>8056956
Pleb shit

>>8056956
Didn't like it.
Didn't finish it.
Maybe you will. It's not long, just give it a shot.
Kafka on the Shore was good imo

there should be a literary version of the critic

I'll take the dive. This 1/2 of my 8000 word short story that I'm editing.

the last time i posted in one of these my lit was so bad the thread died instantly

>>8056847
One of my favorite authors because his writing accurately captures the social and economic alienation that everyone faces today. Additionally, he is one of the few authors to comprehend the reason why only a few men get laid like there's no tomorrow while most struggle for scraps, and only a few men become obscenely wealthy while most live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Unfortunately, the translations to English are a little drab. I'm learning French now for work, hope I become fluent enough to read his untranslated works. They are supposedly as interesting as Bukowski, at least according to a bilingual colleague.

>>8057088
I see the Bukowski, yet he's universally hated on this board. I like both writers a lot and H. is probably my favorite writer alive.

>>8057207
>I see the Bukowski, yet he's universally hated on this board.

he has a blue bird in his heart
they recently made me have an x-ray and there was no blue bird there
if bukowski has one he's an alien

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Behead All Satans

you sound like you frequent /v/ and discovered /lit/ a few days ago

>falling for the books have that special feeling on them meme

>buying books
>wasting gas money on going to the library

it's like you want to exhaust your resources.

>>8056811
>being so much of a fat fuck that you cant walk to the library

>>8056762
that books not good

>>8056766
>he doesn't get naked lunch, therefore its bad
ah love this meme

I thought the Western Lands was alright. Really scatter brained though.

shakespeare stole all of his work from a black slave womyn. her name? anita sarkeesian


wake up

Shakespeare isn't even a good storyteller. The Tempest is his only good play.

>>8056747
I bet you got a full scholarship to study Plebology at the University of Pleb.

>>8056650
No its a sign of anxiety

>>8056653
How do I cure it?

>>8056663
Christ if I know, tell me if you find out. Meditating and drinking help me

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this one

just watch the movie, senpai

>>8056632
daddy is pleased that you've taken an interest in his favorite book

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das babylon alright mon

>>8056589
"Is Just a Movie" by Earl Lovelace, one of my favorites. The accent's right in the title

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>>8056589
yeah read city of god by paulo lins. it's about life in the favelas of Brazil. Pretty gangster shit most of the time.

you should start by reading the sticky.

reading something because you think you should read it because it's mandatory is silly

also >>8056587

The Great Gatsby is not a bad idea to get. But you should also get Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide, it teaches literary theory/criticism using The Great Gatsby.