Is my 2017 reading list missing anything, /lit/? •George Orwell

Real books.

haha very interesting list my friend! by the end of 2017 you will have surely attained enlightenment and possess the dialectical skills of connoisseur such as myself

may allah (pbuh) bring you prosperity

>>8961144
I mean, its kinda all over the place.

Maybe find a subject you enjoy and focus on that. Looks like you have a stronger interest in Christian theology, perhaps look into introductions first.

As for Orwell, do read Wigan Pier. I haven't read it, but if its anything like his other works I suggest it.

>>8961144
It'll probably take you more like 3 years but sure. Kinda all over the place though.

>>8961144
>I'm NOT using YOUR words
>why haven't you read Gulag Archipelago yet?
>the social justice warrior types are absolutely pernicious
>50 billion people died in the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1959
>absolutely pernicious
>we need to destroy archipelagos so governments can't put people there
>

>>8962748

>tfw unironically currently reading the Gulag Archipelago because our boy Jordan told me to
>tfw it really is that good

>>8961144
You might enjoy:
Thomas Sowell - Basic Economics
Primo Levi - If This Is a Man/Survival in Auschwitz

>>8962748
>it's ANOTHER commie butthurt about Peterson post

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>>8962759
>tfw I know this feel right now

>>8962773
Only joking bud, I do love the man. Who else here /hype/ for the 16th?

>>8962832

It's going to be glorious. I just hope JP doesn't have a heart attack running up against Harris' robot-like demeanour.

>>8962832
He actually got the unabridged version the madman

>>8962832
>>8962857
I think Harris might get owned on his hard atheism.

>>8962884
Lol I initially bought the abridged version and then kept looking at it while I was doing some work on the computer, all the while feeling extremely guilty for having attempted to "cheat" through it, so I returned the book and exchanged it. Hope I made the right decision

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>>8962748
The Crypto-Orthodox slavonic fatalism of the Stalin era was patrician AF, nothing like the banal protestant do goodery of campus activists. Shame on you Peterson. Stalin was the rightful Tsar of Russia, a Cosmic Revolutionary who trascended humanism.

>>8961144
is that image 'ironic' ?

>>8961144
>Capitalism and Freedom
Are you the mexican guy who wanted economics recommendations and I suggested this?

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>>8962832
>Anne Applebaum
She's a professional mourner and Solzhenitsyn is the Elie Wiesel of the USSR.

>>8962930

Haha, very good comrade! Get in gulag.

>>8962916
Get ready for some /HIS/

>>8961144
>Is my 2017 reading list missing anything, /lit/?
its missing... talent! there is no discernable talent anywhere on that list!

>>8962958
>>Anne Applebaum
next thing you know, /pol/ is gonna be hyperventilating about 'putler' and calling for a ground invasion of the Ukraine.

>>8963025
It's weird that she dislikes Putin considering Solzhenitsyn was in love with him. I guess she thinks the Russian government is just faking guilt over the gulags. From what I know of Russians this is probably tru as the average Russian knows and cares about the gulags much less than the average German does about Nazi camps.

>>8962748
Jordan Peterson fan?

my diary, desu

>>8961144

Do any of you faggots read anything that's not on some list of "books you should have read"?

>>8961144
I don't know if it's missing anything. You are all over the place. Reading Orwell gives a good idea of 1930s socialist thought, together with an incredible tour of North England mining towns. I guess Solzhenitsyn continues in this lane.
Then you combine this with a shit ton of political economics all mixed together, meaning you either have a background in this stuff or you chose things at random. Then there is suddenly Plato.
Reading Butler, Buckely and then Wallace is such an eclectic trio, should be fun for you.

>>8961144
bad

You will develop an extremely topical understanding of each topic. (Unless you actually have studied the foundation works in these topics)

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>>8964376
Life is too short for books that are not highly likely to be good. I let the untested waters to critics who do reading for a living. There are hundreds of books that are acclaimed by relevant non-pop-culture critics that I'd still have to read.

If you go to the bookstore and grab the next best book that seems interesting you do yourself a disservice. And probably you even line the pockets of insincere publishers and terrible authors while you do it.

instead of making lists read books you stupid fag

>>8964525
Making lists is part of the hobby.

>>8964561
No, listfaggotry is just some form of autism. Go read a book fagot

>>8964583
Shitposting is autism.

>>8964518
mega cringe

>>8964561
mega cringe

>>8962767
I already read Basic Economics. Will take the second one into consideration tho ty.

>>8964514
I study political science and economics and like to hear different arguments about things.

>>8961144
And what do you plan to do with the rest of the year? Those will literally take you 3 months if you take it easy reading them

>>8961144
>Is my 2017 reading list missing anything
discernible talent

Sorry I forgot to put Foucault on there

>>8961144
If you're gona read Nietzsche you should read more than just BGE.

>>8966204
what would you recommend? i actually have his collected works but got distracted and haven't read them yet