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Any recommendations for introductory level books on WWII? Preferably something that isn't obscenely biased. Every time I'm directed to a book half the reviews are praise and the other half are about bias. I just want a book that isn't going to simply tell me that Hitler is evil. So, any recommendations, /lit/?
>>7830169
this is breddy gud
The rise and fall of the third Reich is the best. Extremely thorough and interesting.
>>7830254
>Major Dick
This can't be real. I'll check it out though
>>7830264
This is one of the books I was referred to. Looked promising but then I found out the German author was actually an American journalist and I read quite a few reviews that mentioned bias. Also, many reviews were those of the average Hitler-hating American spouting bullshit about how Hitler and the Nazi Party were pure evil. Doesn't sound like an...
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Tell me which one i should read
>>7830165
Moby-Dick
>>7830165
Faulkner. Either one.
>>7830165
The Pulitzer winner
Tell me why anyone who isn't a mentally troubled and deeply depressed person should choose nihilism over absurdism
>>7830161
What book would help me to understand the Plague?
nihilists are murderers, absurdists are losers
Any tips on understanding this stuff /lit/? How to determine important parts for stuff that is not so important. Just any tips or advice when dealing with philosophy are welcome. Especially understanding this man.
By reading secondary literature that pontificates on Aristotle.
IIRC, David Bostock (student of Quine), a philosopher and logician has a book on Aristotelian physics and metaphysics. Look into that.
>>7830163
Am I just retarded? Do other people have problems understanding this?
>>7830177
Which part specifically?
Anyone read this? I'm enjoying it but I have no idea what's going on in the overarching plot with Burlingame, Coode, and Baltimore and all them
I get the impression the plot is like this on purpose, a sort of self-aware parody of these kind of historical novel plots, especially with all these impostors and double crossers, but how important is it I actually know what's going on?
>>7830099
Cool. I've not read it, but the only Barth I've read (*Lost in the Fun House*) was amazing. I've been meaning to read more of his stuff for years, and this one sounds interesting.
>>7830099
I just started it a few days ago, only like 50 pages in, but really loving it, will probably check out some more by Barth. The notion of Burlingame's "fickleness" was really interesting to me, and going along with it Eben saying something like "impossible to choose between ways of living, every life being so novel to be desirable to live" - I'm similarly troubled by what to settle on, but the impetus to jump from living to living is so fascinating. Only being as far in as I am, I'd...
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>>7830104
It's incredibly funny if nothing else
The main character is something between Ignatius Reilly and Candide
Has anyone read this? Alan Watts recommended it in one of his lectures.
Is it any good?
>>7830062
it has the best words
Jules is a roasties name
>>7830091
what's a roastie
What are some good geography books?
Read some McPhee
>>7830009
textbooks
>>7830009
Dune
![Godel,_Escher,_Bach_(first_edition)[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ICz58gw.jpg "Godel,_Escher,_Bach_(first_edition)[1].jpg")
is this autism or worth the read?
It's both.
gay
>>7829986
The people who would get anything out of this book tend to be the same people who don't have the attention span for it.
It's good if you never want to get into the subject matter except this brief overview but if you want to get deeper you should really start with intro textbooks on logic and neural cognition.
Who is your favorite of Shakespeare's characters? For me it's Hamlet - intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor
Ophelia and yorick
Dromio
Caius Marcius andFeste
Does anyone want to read my creepypasta? I would appreciate some constructive critism if needed and your opinion on it.
Not really, but go ahead.
Fuck my life.
inb4 baby shoes
Cost me 30 in total,
did I do good?
>the last policeman
just copped me 'at swim-two ducks' by ben winters
>30 dollars
wayyyyyyyyyyy too much for mere paperbacks
>>7829763
Canada
what are more extremely relaxing to read books like this?
total shitpost, but i laffed anyway
I was disappointed this book didn't involve scat.
>>7829710
I was actually posting in earnest, but thanks for trying.
Which is the best physical edition of the King James Bible? Norton Critical? Oxford World's Classics? Penguin? Something else?
>>7829691
Something with the Gustave Dore illustrations
Oxford annotated Bible
(King james bad)
What are some Very Important Texts that I could take and rewrite them for the twenty-first century in a very sly way, like the way Ulysses was inspired by the Odyssey or the way Infinite Jest is basically crafted from Hamlet?
Lately I've been thinking of writing some mix of Meeting People Is Easy and Dante's Divine Comedy.
Is op implying texts were around in the 20th century?
>>7829635
Try Greek Drama maybe?
I'd suggest Sophocles' Theban Plays or Aeschylus' Oresteia.
K-Zone thread
I need responses please.
>reading Kike-Zone
yeah, no
>>7829873
The K stands for Kids.
