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Some, if not most of you will disdain me for my childishness, but I really love MGS Peacewalker. I loved the themes, the story, the concept.
So what I'm asking for are books related to Peacewalker to help color the universe for me. Not books as in fictional stories or anything but books such as:
- Logistics related to the military
- Peace in a political science sense
- Guerrilla tactics and modern day warfare
- Cold war in South America
- Nukes
- Ideologies (About ideologies, how they work, pro/con - not ideological like Mein Kampf or Das Kapital
The...
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>>7662280
fuck off.
>>7662280
>About ideologies, how they work, pro/con
Can we get a cold war/near future war scenario book thread going? Im looking for more stuff like Tom Clancy and Henry Coyle's Team Yankee
>>7661864
What historical fiction do you like, /lit/? I've read the first in this series and enjoyed it it.
The bible
Night
Hiroshima
>>7661806
>E D G E
>D
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[spoilers]Mythology =/= historical fiction[/spoilers]
Does anyone else listen to the nosleep podcast?
What's the most accurate, clear English version of Max Stirner's "Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum?" I'm not expressing agreement or disagreement with the assertions contained therein. I'd just like to read it in a way that at least mostly resembles what he was initially trying to express, and I'm not willing to take the time to learn German since I'm already completing a master's degree, working on improving my Spanish, and looking into learning modern Greek or Cantonese.Before anyone directs me to /his/, administrators...
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>>7661231
4chan memes are the most accurate and clear transmission of his works
Valuing the 'original' work over the carefully reasoned distillation of his thought expressed here is merely a spook
>>7661238
>Valuing the 'original' work over the carefully reasoned distillation of his thought expressed here is merely a spook
I'm glad you bumped the thread. I have my doubts that even a significant minority of 4chan posts are carefully reasoned.
I just read this. Is it good?
>>7661216
You tell us dumbass
>>7661216
Not even subtle.
Hey /lit/, I purchased the complete works of Yeats. Which books within it should I read first to start with him? Which collections are his best?
Start with the meme ones.
>Byzantium poems
>When You Are Old
>An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
>The Second Coming
>Who goes with Fergus?
>>7661160
Just read him you fucking retard. These questions are silly and you should be euthanized.
Looking for books like Sebald's Austerlitz and Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station that incorporate pictures into the text. Pic related -- short story with sophisticated marriage of writing and imagery.
This came up on a list. Has anyone read?
Is this a good edition or is sanitized shit?
>>7660992
bump i would like to know this too.
i have the grimms classic library edition and was wondering if the translations are the same
>>7660992
don't know if this edition is extra- sanitized, but the brothers grimm themselves sanitized some of the tales they were told, streamlined them to make them more accessible.
How do Long Sun and Short Sun compare to New Sun and Urth?
Is it true they are in fact prequels to New Sun?
Yes, definitely worth reading. Prequel depends on who you believe, but dont watch any youtube videos until you have read them.
>He reads fiction for the plot.
no. i read it for rambling digressions away from the plot.
>tfw all the best books have entertaining plot and excellent prose
>mfw illiterate dweebs try to make a separation between them
Let's open up a true discussion on him-
Discuss just one part in one story that seemed to strike a cord with you.
I read these so I can contribute to more discussion with these:
Alchemist, At the Mountains of Madness, Azathoth, Beast in the Cave, Call of Cthulhu, Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Celephaïs, Colour out of Space, Dagon, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Dreams in the Witch House, Dunwich Horror, Herbert West Reanimator, History of the Necronomicon, Horror at Red Hook, Hunter of the Dark, Hypnos, Ibid, Music of Erich Zann, Other Gods, Outsider, Pickman’s...
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>>7660425
This is now a Gass thread. Please discuss Gass and his works.
" If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
there's no truth in us. Why, then, belike we must sin, and so
consequently die:
Ay, we must die an everlasting death."
Was he the first superman?
>>7660363
>" If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
This is from 1 John, ch. 1. What actually follows is:
>But if we confess our sin, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
> 'I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Nabokov answered this to a question about his religious beliefs. What does that make him? I don't get it.
Also, what did he mean by "taking art seriously"? Because he didn't believe art has any use or purpose, and you can't learn anything from it.
Ergo, he's a hack.
Hannah Arendt on Nabokov
>his most vexing and terrifying problems aren't epistemological
Sorry m80, my issues are plain old ontological ones.
>>>/his/
wewlad
I miss how /lit/ used to be too. However, is it so hard to browse two boards at once. /lit/his/sci/ masterrace here.
