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What are some good non-fiction books about the russian revolution or the soviet union?
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General works on the USSR:
* https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfTheU.S.S.R. (be sure to add the dot at the end otherwise URL won't work)
* http://www.plp.org/books/ ("The Stalin Era" by Anna Louise Strong and "Fraud, Famine & Fascism" in that same link concerning the Ukrainian famine)
* https://archive.org/details/TheSovietsAlbertRhysWilliams
* https://archive.org/details/ThePatternOfSovietPower
* https://archive.org/details/MoscowCorrespondentRalphParker
* https://archive.org/details/RedVirtue
* https://archive.org/details/russiwithoutillu00sloarich
* https://archive.org/details/wedidntaskutopia00timbrich
* http://ciml.250x.com/archive/ussr/english/1940_october_1917_in_russia_mintz_1940.pdf
Soviet politics (elections and such):
* https://archive.org/details/TheSocialAndStateStructureOfTheUSSR
* https://archive.org/details/TheNewSovietConstitution
* https://archive.org/details/PoliticalPowerInTheUSSR
* https://unz.org/Pub/AmQSovietUnion-1938oct-00059
Soviet foreign policy:
* https://archive.org/details/SovietRussiaAndTheBalticRepublics
* http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006770560 ("The New Lithuania" by Anna Louise Strong)
* https://archive.org/details/PeacefulCoexistence
The Soviet economy:
* https://archive.org/details/SovietEconomicDevelopmentSince1917
* https://archive.org/details/ManAndPlanInSovietEconomy
* https://archive.org/details/AVisitToRussiaReportOfDurhamMiners
How the USSR handled nationalities:
* https://archive.org/details/PeoplesOfTheSovietUnionLamont
* https://archive.org/details/APeopleRebornTheStoryOfNorthOssetia
* https://archive.org/details/SovietLightOnTheColonies
On the Moscow Trials:
* https://archive.org/details/SovietPolicyAndItsCritics
* https://archive.org/details/SovietJusticeAndTheTrialOfRadekAndOthers
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>>7881381
thanks anon
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Ten Days that Shook the World
trust me :^>
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I had to drag myself to finish this novel for an assignment. What the fuck are women's problems with themselves? How is Heathcliff an ideal guy?
I was raging most of the time I was reading this book. Catherine was Heathcliff's equal - THIS is true love? What the fuck, man. Did I miss something? This is a well-written novel with absolutely shit characters. Am I supposed to like this?
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>>7881063
Some women are retards. That's not news.
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>>7881063
>shit characters
did the characters hurt your feelings? did you feel you could not relate to you bland little life? :((((
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>>7881063
>Women are retards
Tale as old as time
I'm looking for some good religious fiction (not fiction set within an existing religion but the creation of a new one, perhaps a fictional holy text or something like that). Is there anything worthwhile out there? I'm currently reading American Gods and I love the sections such as men first arriving in America written as if they're in the bible.
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All religious texts are fictional, at least to a certain extent
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>>7881068
*dibs*
:DDDD
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>>7881068
>in my opinion
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I've had two people read my script. One is a guy who actually funded his own movie (let's call him Dude 1) and the other is a guy who recently finished film school and currently reads and critiques scripts for his current job (Dude 2).
Dude 1 reads only 30 pages of my script and absolutely hates it. He says it's fundamentally broken and that's the only critique he gives. Nothing else.
Dude 2 reads my script and actually gives me notes page by page, says that he likes my writing and that my script is better than a lot of the scripts he has to read on the daily.
So when it comes to critique, especially when you have two extremes of critique, who do you trust? Whose judgement do you trust?
Also, all the people who have read my script have really liked it except for this one person. and when I told him that, he just said that people were lying to me about liking my script. I think the guy has some issues...I don't really care that he hated my work, but he didn't back up why he hated my work.
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so dude 1 is basically the kind of person who self-publishes?
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>>7880856
Basically
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>>7880863
i wouldn't worry about him
What are some good books dealing with terminal illnesses and the like?
>inb4 The Fault in Our Stars
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The Star in Our Faults by Green John
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>>7880743
looks like you've found The Fault In Our Thread
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Don't mind me, just the magnum opus of Dostoevsky's oeuvre.
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It is. People overlook it because it's first part drags a lot introducing the characters and all.
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>>7881204
I started this book like 3 times and I never managed to get past 200 pages. Is it worth it?
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Who are the best conservative essayists? Novelists?
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If you only want to read about ideas you already agree with, you've reached the nadir of your intellectual life.
I know you're not a liberal humanist, because liberal humanists already know their opponents' arguments to a T.
tl;dr reconsider your thought processes
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>>7880584
I'm a liberal humanist who's just getting into reading. Fuck yourself.
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>>7880584
Good to see that /lit/ is full of bigots.
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Should I pirate ebooks?
Why?
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If you want.
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>>7880539
Why do you think I'm a fag?
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Based on true events
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That cardio thou
https://youtu.be/fK_zwl-lnmc
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...Can I be close to you...
>Seed Germination
Bloom
https://youtu.be/8inJtTG_DuU
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>>7880522
Spring time dubs
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Can somebody redpill me on this guy?
For all I know he was a science fiction writer, but there are people who literally believe his writtings to be true and developed almost a Crowley tier cult around him and his books?
While looking for his works to start reading I've found several weird books with titles like 'Rite of Yog Sothoth' and other shit that seemed 'serious' from the point of the author.
What's the deal with Lovecraft? Was he crazy?
I'm asking here and not /x/ because I'm approaching this from a non 'ayy lmao' perspective. I mean his writings are fiction, or did he intend those to be ''real''?
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>>7880508
>redpill
fuck off. He was a fiction writer who wanted to portray the utter insignificance of humanity in the greater scheme of things. The great old ones were just a metaphor for forces beyond the control of humans. That's why he seldom described his monsters in detail, the details weren't important. The monsters were in many senses just abstract entities outside the realm of human perception who could destroy reality in a wink.
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I have a book of his short stories. I try to read one once in a while but I find his writing so awful.
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Esotericism and occultism were bigger in the first half of the 20th and especially around Lovecraft's time. Colin Wilson, known occultist and phenomenologist, wrote a Lovecraftian story at the behest of Derleth (called The Mind Parasites actually rules) where Lovecraft turns out to have been right about everything like some kind of seer.. sort of. Gurdjieff is in there, Jung, a hundred other little occult and sorta-occulty things. Wilson is a good example of that milieu.
>>7880541
Form your own opinions, random dude who has unusually strong opinion about prose that coincidentally mirrors common meme opinion of wannabe snobs. Lovecraft's prose being bad is just something people say to seem like they have thoughts on things.
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well that was shit.
Anyone care to explain why this is considered the greatest novel of all time?
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Because is the greatest novel of all time.
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because people like the characters, the stream of consciousness musings, and the sense of exploring the day in totality
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>>7880501
The same way any novel gets popular, it starts as a meme then people jump in who didn't get that the novel being good was a meme and think it's legitimately good and make up justifications for the meme.
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I FINISHED IT
Now I feel empty. Help?
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That's not emptiness. That's patricianhood
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Eat it.
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roll joints with the pages
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Why don't we talk about this book more? I mean is the best anti war novel out there.
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Shame it wasn't finished, I enjoyed the ambiguity around whether Svejk was being subversive and rebellious, or if he was just really thick.
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i havne't read it cause its size.
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>>7880594
>He doesn't know it's full of pictures
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I think I might have to drop this book.
I'm on page 238, and it's been painful. The premise is interesting, but all the arcane medieval shit is starting to get tiresome, and way too close to 50% of the text is dialogue among characters who are experts in subjects that I don't know anything about.
Does it get better?
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The explosions start happening on p 253.
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A book is forcing you to learn? God forbid.
No, it doesn't suddenly get worse at some arbitrary point in the book.
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>>7880302
What was your concentration at university?
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We recite from memory famous passages
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To be or not to be
That is the question;
whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of misfortune
fie, fie
to sleep, perchance to dream;
to sleep, to sleep; ay, that is the rub
what may come when we shuffle off this mortal coil
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>>7880269
to see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour
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>>7880269
Of man's first disobedience
and of the fruit
From that forbidden Tree
Whose mortal taste brought death in the world
and all our woe.
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Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.