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What are some books essential for a man of higher intellect and class? Im trying to rise mine.
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Mein Kampf
Schopenhauer's On Women
Decline of the West
Ride the Tiger
Culture of Critique Series
Atlas Shrugged
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Breivik's Manifesto
Sex and Character
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>>9801518
Sorry for my autistic expression i didnt mean alt right fedora type..
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>>9801518
Good job anon, this is perhaps the most superlative list I've yet encountered on /lit/.
Literally can't go wrong here; every one of these is essential.
Just start at the top of the list and work your way down, my man.
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Hey /lit/, I was just given the 1952 whole 54 volume set of "The Great Books of the Western World" by Mortimer Adler by my college library for free.
Students have been complaining that they want more siting space so the library is pressured in getting rid of the books that are rarely borrowed. Ive checked some of the books in the collection, some of them have last been borrowed in 1967...
Anybody has experience with the set or attempted the 10 year reading plan? How have the translations aged? The set seems to have unanimously rave reviews online but I bet nobody has actually read the whole thing or even a fraction of it. Its a show off set that people like to have for mental masturbation's sake.
I wont complain since I got the whole thing for a bit of sweat and they go for 150-500$ online plus shipping (which is a shit ton for 54 volumes). I might actually read one or two books from it, there's a good selection of writers.
Theyre in pretty bad shape so I might try and restore them. Anybody knows a good source? Pic is the full collection, I posted on friday with half the collection also.
Anybody else has them or has anything to say about them?
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Why are you reposting this?
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>>9801626
Only got 3-4 answers last time, I wanna hear more people's opinion
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>>9801648
Did you get my comment regarding the problem with their translations and notation?
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Any of you fags use ereaders?
Was it worth it?
Been thinking about getting one recently
Trying to save money so I'm a bit hesitant
But I guess overall it should be cheaper than buying books
Which one to get?
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Buy one and downloads the books for free on the internet. You will save a lot of money, trust me.
I own a Paperwhite Kindle and i'm perfectly happy with it
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>>9801501
Yeah that's what I was thinking
After 10 books I'd basically have the cost of the Kindle covered
Amazon has some proprietary ebook format though, no?
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>>9801595
Yes but it's very easy to convert and you can read PDFs on kindle
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How do you create an antagonistic idea that is not le-evil-bogeyman or utterly stupid?
I'm trying to write a fictional novel about empires, but I can't come up with a good antagonist... Not necessarily a person to defeat but it could be an ideology or an idea.
As for a conflict I've thought:
Religion war = overused evil bogeyman
Imperialism war = overused world conquest
Language war = I know it happened but I feel doesn't justify an all out war.
It's hard to imagine a good conflict from a modern day perspective.
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If you have the time, why not find inspiration in history?
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>>9801393
All wars are bankers' wars dude.
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A just war? The protagonists has actually done bad things and the Empire is rightly correct to end all of their enemies.
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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
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>tfw just finished ANOTHER poem for my book
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gave it up when i realized how gay of a desire it was to want to be a writer. i think celine had it right basically.
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Starting to improve after doing some cooywork.
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First thing I like to do when I bring a nice book home, new or used, is to take off that dust jacket and throw it away.
Having dust jackets is like telling people you don't read books.
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>>9801167
Great blog post.
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>>9801173
Fuck you you piece of shit
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>>9801193
>posts leftist whore
>acts like pleb
kys op
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New package just arrived in the mail. Unboxing thread?
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>>9801161
>6 mins gone
>no unboxing
unbox it then faggit
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>>9801189
OK
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>>9801216
take it off you fucking slut
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Was there ever a primer sample of debauchery?
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>>9801094
hehe try the redpill were for virtue and against degeneracy
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>>9801094
Peter Sotosexcept Sotos isn't a massive hack
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Lord Byron
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Write what's on your mind
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Waiting for literal years for answers that never arrive is bringing me to madness.
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In Kanye's Gorgeous he states, "and what's a black beatle anyway? A fucking roach? I guess that's why they got me sitting her in fucking coach".
In this meme, Kanye is pondering on the nature of the Pterostichus melanarius (Latin for black beetle). In comes Ringo Starr with none other than Billy Preston. Widely considered the fifth beatle and, wait for it, the black beatle. And there you have it /lit/.
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Is sexual curiosity and experimentation only a thing for young people and once you become uggly and decay you should settle into the normal formal way of life through marriage?
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Political science /lit/ 2017-07-24 08:44:32 Post No.9801089
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I think that picture related will be of huge imporant for contemporary political thought, if it isn't already in the form of the rationalists from LessWrong and NRx-ers.
Anyway, I am looking for historical overviews of the thinkers behind anarchism, futurism and Italian fascism and perhaps others if anyone knows.
Question: what do you think which political ideologies might play an increasingly larger role in the future? And which books are related (this is /lit/ after all)?
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Political scientists tend to not really talk about what you're asking for unless they have some specialization in political theory. Even there, they tend to focus more on Plato, Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill more than the arcane stuff you're asking about.
Most political science is about international relations and democratization in developing countries.
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>>9801128
Also as for your question the book that is apparently a blueprint for whats going to happen in our lifetimes is Dugin's Fourth Political Theory.
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>>9801128
>>9801133
>>9801089
If you want to know the real redpilled truth try Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series
Here's a picture. You get the idea. It'll change your world
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Some lit that slowly but steadily leads one towards an Orthodox ascetic life, anons? I'm done being a sensory pleb and want a disciplined life aimed at peaking beyond.
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>>9801170
WAY too much decadence
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>>9801082
Just accept that it will never happen anon.
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What would you elect as the best epistolary novel?
Young Werther gets my vote.
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Dangerous Liaisons
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>>9801056
Mein Tagebuch, Familie by
Fett halsbart, there should be a translation on lib-gen.
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>"As with everything that he couldn't tackle at once, Adolf indulged in generalizations. 'Visualize a crowded ballroom', he said once to me, 'and imagine that you are deaf. You can't hear the music to which these people are moving, and then take a look at their senseless progress, which leads nowhere. Aren't these people raving mad?'"
p.70, 'The Young Hitler I Knew', August Kubizek
Was he right?
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>>9800963
Who? About what?
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>>9800991
Are you unfamiliar with the philosophical genius known as Adolf Hitler?
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This quote just makes him sound autistic, in the psychological sense of the word. Is there some higher context to what's being discussed? I can't imagine he just pulled this incredibly stupid non-sequitur out of his ass on purpose.
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Where can i meet booktards? 2017-07-24 08:14:02 Post No.9800950
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Where can i meet booktards?
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Where can i make friends who like literature? I used to go to a library yo some weird old people meeting but i want to go to a place where i can discuss books with young people like me.
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>>9800950
4chan.
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Scout people's homes to see where 40yo+ women live, then break into their basement and greet your fellow fellow.
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>>9800950
go back to r/books and you will find them
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What's the deal with this guy? He gets a lot of praise from the press for his "beautiful prose."
What is /lit/'s opinion on his prose and novels?
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>>9800913
shit, i thought someone had bleached Samuel Delany for a second there.
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>>9800913
He is big in D&D circles becuase he works with and is promoted by WotC.
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>>9800913
I thought Rick Rubin made records.