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>>7673367
Bump. Perhaps I'll get a better insight in the next few chapters?

He says communists are hideous because he lived among them and saw how a few bourgeois rabble-rousing cocksuckers whipped up these morons with trash pamphlets, while he was putting actual effort into reading and figuring out the ideology. Communist workers were footsoldiers for an evil cause. The people controlling them were the true evil.

The people controlling them, from what he observed, were Jews. Everywhere he looked. He even says he resisted believing his initial findings as long as possible in order to confirm them, but that ultimately he had to admit, Jews were overrepresented in everything that was eating away at the dying heart of his country.

He doesn't just theorize that Judaism is conducive to evil. That's not his interest, at least not at first. The first encounter with Jews is in Vienna, when he observes that, for whatever reason, they're the ones responsible for a lot of evil.

>>7673367
>>7673393
Two words: Walther Rathenau

>>7673353
literally who?

Graves' other books, especially Count Belisarius

Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian

Gore Vidal's Julian, and Creation

Sienkiewicz's "Seriously, fuck Germans" series

Clavicle's Shogun

Ursula le Guin's Lavinia doesn't really fit the bill but still good

Wolfe's Latro in the Mist

Bengsston (?) The Long Ships

All of the above are generally considered good/~literary~, but Sinkiewicz is old romantic nationalism so YMMV, le Guin is a bit more obscure than the rest

>>7673318
Steven pressfields stuff is good

>other

>>7673251
it would just be a lot of philosophy, religion (mainly abrahamic but some zoroastrian, hindu, buddhist, and maybe sikh stuff, too), and history. maybe some stuff on economics, politics, and "science." i don't really read a lot of fiction anymore unless it touches heavily on religion or war.

its called my phone which has all of that already

>>7673278
>no fun allowed

Book of the New Sun or Fifth Head of Cerberus tend to be the starterpacks

You could i guess, but its very different than what he's usually known for. Still excellent though

>>7673227
It was my first Wolfe and remains one of my favorite books of all time. It's absolutely brilliant, and a real treat if you're interested in Greek history.

>>7673245
>Still excellent though
Good enough for me.

>>7673247
Don't know much about Greek history, would that be an issue?

Fucking hell he's actually going through with it. I remember finding out about what Mike and Bryan were going to be up to on /co/.

Anyway, it reads like George R.R. Martin for kids. Mike's prose is boring and workmanlike, which I suppose isn't the worst thing in the world. We get a huge lore-dump right away, which I hate, and for some reason this fantasy setting having a person say 'Yeah, right' is extremely annoying.

It's YA, so it's not for me. But I don't like it, even so.

>>7673250
>Anyway, it reads like George R.R. Martin for kids

Remarkably dead-on

There's something that bugs me about authors using the character's name over and over instead of pronouns.

>>7673204
oscar wao

>>7673205
I'm Dominican, so I respect Diaz as a person for putting us on the literary map. But fr, Drown is his only good book desu.

>>7673199
Some lighter surrealist works would probably be helpful.

>>7673199
Why would there be dumbass

>>7673212
For the same reason that reading the Odyssey before Ulysses is important, dumbass

>>7673209
Do you think Heartsnatcher would be a good start? Other recs?

Noise bombs throw down newspaper stands
The mayor he throws up gets it on his hands
Infants run screaming down train station hallways
We'll never get home cause we can't work the subways

What's in my water and why can't I taste it
What's stuck in my throat that won't let me say this

Piss drenched sneakers and bedazzled adolescence
Couch rugs and bulking throws no that doesn't make sense
My eyes they are magnets facing the south side
Turn them toward northwards and fears will subside

Lounged out lakeside I lay on my side
Grass green and bright white dandelion
Smells like summer sounds like bees buzzing
Wake up in Lysol to just about nothing

Plastic benches shared between strangers and friends
Shoot the shit wait for this ride to end
With numb guts and tight throats we speak of past lovers
But for me there's no plural I've never loved another

Infectious infatuations define my situation
Rainy soft smiles bring bitter elation
Grainy indie romance only in my dreams
Then not even,
when my dreams, they all snap at the seams
my dreams all snap at the seams

>>7673184
nah it's awful aha

Among books flung--
I reviled in her mouth naked
A mother long brown eyed
On the little beaches in july
With nothing to do

>>7673129
Post it

Not one.

I don't know how to google docs and it's not edited. Here's the first scene.

On the drive up the fug of skunk smoke made talking difficult. It gummed up minds and made Paul cough into the silence.
“This isn’t the best driving conditions” he said.
Someone laughed but the road ate up all his attention and he couldn’t work out who.
He wound down the window.
“Oh my God” Pete said.
“Shut up, it’s nice” Pam said.
“Yeah I know it’s just a bit of a culture shock”.
“Were not in a culture” Tom said.
People laughed, they said a few more things about being in a culture: petri dishes; road trip movies, not many people caught on to each other, but everything got a little better.
Paul eyed the road.
Before all the noise his mind had been somewhere else, long didactic mixed media experiences.
Through the open window little strains of seagull calls got blown in with the wind.
“Were nearly there,” Paul said.
“Are we there yet” Pam said.
Pete laughed.
“We’ll be there in about 5 minutes” Paul said, he couldn’t think of anything else to say.
The wind rushing in pushed the silence outside.
“I’m gonna make a Zoot for when we get there then” Tom said.
“Oh my God” Pete said.

>>7673175
why tho

tfw thread ignored

Bulfinch's is much bigger, at least plus it covers Norse mythology and more "recent" material like King Arthur and Charlemagne. I think that Hamilton does a better job with the Greeks though. Get them both and compare.

Middlemarch
My Ántonia
The Age of Innocence
Anthem
Gravity's Rainbow

Middlemarch, The Age of Innocence, and My Ántonia are all beautifully written, with wonderful characters.

Anthem motivated me to stop relying on others for happiness.

Gravity's Rainbow is complex and just plain fun. I don't think any other book has made me laugh half as much as GR.

>Don Quixote
Dank adventure with some extremely memorable scenes, like Sancho's governing of the island.

>The Idiot
Dank characters, all of them. Good philosophical discussion. Ippolit made me sad and Myshkin's story of Marie made me cry.

>Brothers Karamazov
Great characters, best philosophical discussion, very good story.

>Crime and Punishment
Epilogue made me cry, interesting ideas of what a great man should be allowed to do, compelling plot

>Fathers and Sons
Ending in the graveyard made me cry. Very good scenes peppered throughout, Pavel's interactions with Bazarov are great

>>7673060

Is Anthem drily written like Rand's major works are reputed to be?

>>7673060
>The Cannibal
The imagery and overall sensibility of the book was very unique.

>Gravity's Rainbow
Really fun and packed with interesting bits of obscure information that it effectively uses to great effect.

>V.
Same as Gravity's Rainbow.

>A Confederacy of Dunces
Ignatius is practically me.

>The New York Trilogy
The way it deals with writing as a theme is unique and substantiative without being obnoxious or pretentious.

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>I'm scared of buying a random book (like pic related) and getting a really biased view.
any book you read will be biased. either read them all to sort out the bias, or accept the bias. btw manifesto will tell you literally nothing about marxian economics.

any intro macro econ is good

>I will teach you to be rich
>thinking fast and slow

The only two I needed.

>paying for digital files
McFuckin kill yourself

>>7673004
I signed up for the free trial to get a free audiobook and will discontinue the membership before 30 days are up.

>>7672994
Talking with the dead assumes it's a dialogue, reading is not.

>>7673001
It's a dialogue if you react to it.

That's essentially what Leibniz did with Locke in New Essays much after Locke died

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>>7672994
Its a curse, desu.