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Get anything cool for Christmas /his/?
Didn't wish for much but I got what I wished for:
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
Chick Corea -Return to Forever
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Nils Frahm - Spaces
Merry Christmas, OP!
Ten Thousand Year Explosion
I had read most of it in bits and pieces over the years, but now I'm going through it properly.
The Great War for Civilization by Robert Fisk
Mite B. Cool
>>461968
Nice choice OP, also got Essays and Aphorisms
Figure I need background on the philosophers I've flocked to in the past.
>>462210
That's a good idea. I know little about Schopenhauer other than the fact that he threw an old woman down a flight of steps. I've read philosophy in school and on my own for the past three years so I think I'll be fine regardless.
>>462179
Nice spread senpai. Merry Christmas.
Got a entry level tablet about 2 weeks ago. Already made got its moneys worth from history pdfs.
>>462229
I've only read some of Essays on the Basis of Morality
Great read, really BTFO Plato through Kant.
Although, I'm biased for my dislike of Kant
Neat-chafag here
Didn't get anything :(
Links to free books for christmas?
>>462865
libgen.dot.whatever their domain is nowadays
>>461968
i got a book about the rodney king riots
>>462865
I have a lot of shoep+wittengenstein as pdfs if you're looking for Phil books
I got a lot this year, but it's all from 5 separate people.
>>462865
what you interested in?
t. santa
>>461968
A sword, mounting seem to be mid 19th century, but the blade is way older. Looks like someone refurbished a good blade, likely for naval use.
Couldn't find no marks yet, but it has some interesting (likely cabalistic) scribes on it.
>>462261
Which ones?
>>461968
>>462179
>>462910
I am amazed that you can read when you can't fucking rotate your pics before posting them
it takes you literally 10 seconds in any program that comes with your os
>>462975
Sorry for your petpeeves, my phone rotated the picture automatically. Forgive me senpai~
>>461968
Helmet for my pillow
Hitlers Vikings (Norwegian friend recommended it)
and
The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II
I got more shit, but this was the /his/ related stuff i got
>>462975
4chan strips exif data which includes the orientation of pictures on mobile.
>>462179
>Nils Frahm - Spaces
>Chick Corea -Return to Forever
My negro!
Shame for the Mars Volta though. It sucks ass
>>461968
Got a few books : 'The Medieval Literature of Western Europe' and 'The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple'
Also got the entire 'Les Rois Maudits' historical fiction series in French
>>461968
Inferno: The World At War by Max Hastings, The Generals by Winston Groom, Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher, East of Eden by Steinbeck and a collection of Hemingway books. Not a bad haul at all.
Ibn Fadlan and the land of Darkness.
pretty good desu
>>462938
>Brezhnev
They must fucking hate you.
These are relevant to my hobby
>>464688
>Inferno: The World At War by Max Hastings
berry gud
Got a good bit of money, and a slow cooker (I did actually want one).
Ordered these two with my gift card:
The first is more /lit/ (The Cossacks by Tolstoy), but the second is The Annals, The Histories, Germania, and The Agricola by Tacitus.
>>464991
Brzezinski, not Brezhnev
>>465004
thats really cool anon
>>465004
Was that shotting stance even a thing?
>The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years - Aitmatov
>The Magic Mountain - Mann
>Kokoro - Soseki
>Stoner - Williams
>Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
>Oblivion - Wallace
>Petersburg - Bely
>In Search of Lost Time Vol 1. - Proust
>The Second World War Vol.1-6 -Churchill
My mom is awesome.
>>466555
>Stoner - Williams
That fucking book...
>ask for history books on the Silk Road
>get one from my sister
>which I'd previously read
>>466569
Haha yeah, I've heard it's quite the downer. I think I'll read some of Churchill's ramblings first to buoy my spirits beforehand. I think I've grown less sensitive to depressing literature with the years though; at least since I read GR, that is.
>>466589
It's a really good book.
What really breaks my spirit is that such a good book isn't more well known though... Kind of makes me lose hope in my own ability to write.
>>466571
Should have been more specific senpai; especially if you'd already read a volume into the subject.
The first few chapters seems like a really boring history of the Puritans in England and Holland. I'm tempted to just skip straight over that.
>>466594
>What really breaks my spirit is that such a good book isn't more well known though...
I have some degree of faith in the establishment's ponderous bent to recognize merit where it sits --at least over the long haul. I mean, nobody gave a fuck about William Blake's poetry for a verrrry long time, but he and Melville are both canonized literary saints among critics today.
>Kind of makes me lose hope in my own ability to write.
Haha yes, you're not alone my friend. No good book lets its reader go unhumiliated.
>>466555
>>The Second World War Vol.1-6 -Churchill
Get ready to spend a few months working through it. It's worth it though, it really is.
>>466626
>Haha yes, you're not alone my friend. No good book lets its reader go unhumiliated.
This is really true.
I remember when I first read Lolita. I trashed the draft of my first book after that.
The entire "Red Series" or the 11 volume case evidence for the British/Americans at Nuremberg.
Present to myself.
>>461968
i am a muslim, so no :(
>>465328
Yeah, it's known as the "Plunkett Position".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GwQPuwTeHA
It's a pretty useful video detailing to British Rifles firing positions.
>>466940
Jesus.
How much was it, and how long do you expect it to take?
>>461968
I'm do not cut of the fir,
So I'm saved the part of forest,
So I'm a good Kafir.
>>461968
A bilingual version of Khayam's ruba'yat and a fragment of the Sahnameh (not bilingual, sadly). Not bad, considering I only got three presents.
They're maybe more /lit/ related but well, they're both medieval works, they belong to /his/ too.
>>461968
A strange mix but relevant to my interests
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