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Strategikon

>>7656089
Bump. Thanks OP, I was looking for a comprehensive list on war literature to help me my Red Dragon tactics

>>7656089
Che's "Guerilla Warfare" was outdated a few years after its conception. "Prince" is a political satire and "Art of War" is full of platitudes. I don't know what it is that you want to study, but you'd be better off checking out some government websites.

protip: i cant

He explores unashamed primalism, which is unspoilt because of that lack of shame.

He also incorporates a brand of psychology which a lot of people find relatable. You'll probably realise a lot of people in your life are similar to characters of his, and his stories emulate those personalities so that you might reflect on them.

i liked it.

>>7664916
Read all of them besides Gatsby and PKD. I read them when I was a teen and /lit/ didn't exist. I think entry level now probably has less classics and more contemporary YA. It's a good starting list. I only disliked four of them and it was because of personal taste not because they were objectively bad books.

>>7664916
Let's not.
Fuck you chart fags. It's the same thread with the same charts every day. The list is perfect for what it does.

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>>7664921
>he hasn't read the great gatsby
not even angry, just extraordinarily surprised. I can understand not reading the blade runner book, but you weren't forced to read fitzgerald in high school?
also, which ones didn't you like?
>>7664926
oh no guys, guess we aren't allowed to rank books by our own subjective tastes
what'll we do

>sins

Nice spook

If you like prefer music why don't you go to /mu/

>>7663574

>I think people who read less than 75 books a year and still browse /lit/ are idiots with poor executive functions
>I think ADD is a euphemism for stupidity, and no excuse.

>>7670312
Basic as fuck. Only post when you own the minimum of 300+ books of poetry.

>>7670330
this

>>7670330
Thanks for the input insecure anon. Let's see your magnificent scrolls...?

havent read his books but his arguments for making rape legal on private property seemed logically sound to me

>>7670245
Sounds like some LOLbertarian bullshit to me. Clearly rape should be legal in public as well.

>>7670249
Why stop at rape? Why not make all crimes legal?

Who is Genesis P. Orridge?

its an effete affectation

>>7670197
You're completely ignorant of music.

It's like riding a bike. Same shit happened to me and a few months ago I wen't back. I felt like nothing changed

>>7669286

Did you do anything special to get back in the groove?

I'm thinking of just forcing myself to lock my laptop away in the late afternoon so I have to read or do nothing until bed.

>>7669282
Yeah, I did the same thing. Just start with something fun and not too challenging, then you're back.

Dear waifu,

Why aren't you real?

love,
anon

>>7668965
Eat shit you dumb slut.

New baby shoes, never worn

Elitism. You lose your "patrician" status if you admit to reading pleb stuff.

>>7668594
no, you lose your patrician status when you pretend they're actually good instead of simply guilty pleasures; having guilty pleasures is fine, having shit taste is not.

>>7668591
For the most part, it's not a distinction between genre and literary so much as a distinction between mainstream and avant-garde fiction.

Mainstream fiction (which includes the vast majority of both genre and literary fiction), especially since the 1950s, tends to be extremely uninspired and one-note compared to avant-garde fiction because the primary purpose of mainstream fiction is to serve as commercial entertainment, and commercial entertainment has to follow strictly defined formulas to be viable.

On the other hand, avant-garde fiction prioritizes artistic expression above entertainment, which is a stance that's alien to those who have internalized the sensibility of the mainstream past a certain point. When one is conditioned to think of all media primarily as entertainment rather than art, there's a tendency to reject anything that doesn't offer an easily digestible, inoffensive, and formulaic experience.

Genre fiction is more stringently mainstream than literary fiction, because it has more mass appeal, but literary fiction is largely a stagnant circlejerk full of the same types of people putting out the same types of books for an increasingly dwindling audience. There's more freedom with avant-garde fiction but odds are no one's going to read it, because it doesn't conform to the expectations of an average reader of genre or literary fiction. There's no built-in audience for it.

Either, but Fictions would avoid the overlap with other collections if you plan to get them afterwards.

Who is this pimp with a limp?

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>>7668418
even as a 86 year old he could still pull in the girls. He got married to this half Japanese chick at that age

>>7668253
Go back to your containment board, frog faggot

>>>/r9k/

>"muh frog friend Pepe xDDD"

>>7668253
She's immature, boring, selfish, and simply makes me feel very unhappy.

>>7668271
bit harsh on your mum desu

>>7668177
at least he's not a women or non-white

>>7668187
>a women

>>7668177

At his best, he's probably one of the best of "pleb lit," however at his worst, yeah he's pretty fucking bad.

Moral nihilism

Hedonism
Ethics

>>7668021

Edgy

>>7667939
Being a ''le erudite'' pleb for pleb readers.

I know he likes Bergson.

http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations