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>>7635880
>is it good?

why do people ask this? or is this bait?

You just read the book, dont you have your own opinion of it? Why ask for the right opinion?

>>7635909
get with the memes gramps

>>7635856
everybody and their mum reads oliver sacks
not that he's bad, i just figure you've heard of him
can't think of anything else, OP
good thread topic, though

>>7635876
I haven't! I had never heard of him, actually.
I'll check him out, thanks Anon!

Cigarettes had continued to raise in price over the years. Not steadily but in bounds. What was once a pack a day vice was now more like a delicacy you spaced out over a fortnight as you watched the world around you suffer till next pay. The cheapest pack of cigarettes when the tobacco plague hit was 90 bucks. No shit. The beauracratic talking heads argued that the tax was to ensure minors wouldn't be tempted and to make people reconsider whether they really wanted to spend upwards of a 100 dollars to kill themselves. But they knew the answer to that, we all did, so we let them fuck us. The percentage of smokers around the world had not dropped, instead it had dramatically risen steadily across all sectors of society. Cigarettes became their own form of currency, favors owed or debts collected. Illegal grow house operations were shut down aggressively. More than a few people who tried to shake the fabric of the web they were caught up in disappeared.

Then like that, Stahn's disease had the finally rectangled boxes disappearing out of store fronts at your local tobacconist; "come back next week maybe", they would say, tensing their grip on the weapon under the counter. People had started stockpiling, selling at hugely inflated rates, everyone was running out. Everyone except the tobacco companies who had everything on lockdown, trickling out their stocks to select customers and shops. Smokers were becoming volatile, lucky to get a drag a day as it was. The upper class are killed in the streets, everyone gains 10-15 pounds, people stop going to work, people start looting, and then something... weird happens.

The smokers (59% of the worlds population) decide that if you're not with us, you are against us, triggering a mass hysteria the likes of which made Jonestown, Apartheit and The Third Reich look like your childhood bully pushing his influence on the school playground to get lunch money. Anti-smoking activists lynched by mass mobs, non smoking sections in bars and public venues targeted in IED strikes, and tobaconnists strategically parting with dwindling wares to the highest bidder were always a fire bomb waiting to happen; only after their stocks were raided of course. Several co-ordinated raids of heavily guarded Tobacco compounds by groups of smokers armed with homemade explosives, molotovs, assualt rifles and armoured SUVs drew more than a few comparisons to Pablo Escobar era Colombia, only difference was, this was happening everywhere. Fat cats making money off the Tobacco Industries dying corpse were constantly going missing towards the beginning of the end. Turning up in drainways, riverbanks and even propped up overnight in a public area for mass exposure, surrounded by pickets or graffiti carrying the message of the "people". Their bodies heavily mutilated, extremeties cut off, cigarette burns covering their bloated blue flesh, faces bug eyed with dozens of whole tailor made cigarettes crammed into their mouth, their throat widened and bulging from the trauma. Not all, but most of these early cases died this way, from asphyxiation. Yes, this was the message of the "people" all right.

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>>7635353
start with the greeks

Started with Edith Hamiltons Mythology. It seems a little basic, though.

Cien años de soledad

I want to get it physical but the cheapest ones are these with awful cover and I don't have money.

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>>7635586
Puto captcha

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>>7635592
You call that awful? BITCH THIS IS AWFUL.

>>7634280
Two books for you:

On Killing by Grossman
http://bookzz.org/book/2036990/40c283

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
http://bookzz.org/book/1207300/44d443

>>7634295
Thanks man!

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these are literally the questions that evangelion tries to answer

i got you senpai

Also worth noting, my favorite before this was The Dunwich Horror, which is still great. Lovecraft's stories set in rural environments aren't as common but still distinct.

>>7631292
Liked the suspense in The Haunter in the Dark. It also takes place in the city I was born in.

erich zann brah

real books

They all look so good, I think I'll get each one.

>>7635968

not too impressed by the descriptions of any of them. I went with Moonlit Garden. I'll give it a shot

JSTOR

>>7634799
Preferably free. or is it?

>tfw 4chan is contrarian I can't even say how good 8 1/2 is.

>>7634397
Literally pleb: the redditor

>>7634403
hey reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedit

>>7634397
You're right! Your reductive take on a classic work has changed my mind and added great value and discussion to /lit/. Generations of critics and writers are wrong! YOU, OP, SITTING IN PAJAMA PANTS IN YOUR DORM ROOM'S TWIN BED, YOU KNOW BETTER. Bless us bless us with your wisdom

it actually is generally the norm that women are the most slavish cultists and the most zealous devotees of religious orders and stuff. pre-war and pre-suffrage, women were massively overrepresented in hardcore religious organisations. the most reflexive traditionalists are always women.

women defend the status quo for the status quo's sake because going against the grain is a bad idea when you already have intrinsic value and don't need to seek out undiscovered and unexploited niches or establish new regimes with your own boner on top.

>>7634405
always

>>7634421
i totally agree. today, if you're a young, attractive girl, all you have to do to be successful, is follow the patriarchal system and find a rich man to marry. they have it so easy, so of course they want to maintain the status quo. i can't tell you how many girls i've seen describe themselves as "country girls" who wear flannel and cowboy boots. who love shooting guns, driving trucks, and getting muddy. in american society it's fashionable to be a walking, talking clone of the system. it's disgusting

>>7635887

>indians
>writing

If you mean before European colonization, that is a no.

i mean after they started integrating with europeans

>>7635839
That's liberals for you. Almost as unreadable as women and non-whites

What a weird quote
post link

>>7635701
some serious pussy-worshipping fedora shit right there

That doesn't make sense, the male sex drive is much fiercer than the female sex drive.

>>7635620
Libgen.io and bookzz