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What are some good books about Spanish Conquerors?.
God of War by Graham Hancock. Don't know if it's actually any good but it's about Hernan Cortez conquering Mexico.
>>8244009
Conquest of new spain by Bernal Diaz. First person account from a Conquistador.
>>8244009
those helmets looked retarded as fuck plus no neck or face protection.
I haven't heard, I guess the right word would be seen, on this board any talk of the late German psychologist Fritz Perls. Was introduced to him through YouTube by fantastic video of his demonstration on gestalt therapy (I'll link it at the bottom). There are a few videos all of them extraordinary on his approach to therapy which is not a Freudian excavation of the past but of confronting the patient with the present moment where the patient is not mind/body but a whole person. I'm getting through his last concise work Gestalt - Eyewitness to Therapy and combined with my viewings of his actual films I find his "whole approach" rather groundbreaking. It's as if Heidegger had developed a psychoanalytic method for being-in-the-world. Here are some things from the book;
If you try to be aware of what's going on- then, you see, very soon you leave the secure basis of the now and become phobic. You start running away into the past and start to associate freely, or you run into the future and start to fantasize the terrible things that will befall you if you stay with what's going on or you do all kinds of things.
Again, we have to go another step further and say that neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination- suffering in fantasy. Somebody calls you a son of a bitch, and you think you're suffering.
I would like to call gestalt therapy the philosophy of the obvious. We take the obvious for granted. But when we examine the obvious a bit closer, then we see that behind what we call obvious, is a lot of prejudice, distorted faith, beliefs and so on.
http://youtu.be/it0j6FIxIog
>>8243930
this is why humanities need to be closed down and all humanities students should be put to death.
absolute horseshit
>>8243937
Shew plebeian
>>8243950
take the redpill already and stop embarrassing yourself
As I keep reading this book I feel something is missing.
Yes, is an low entry book, made for teens, I get it. The story isn't that bad, is interesting. But fuck, it is too short.
I don't know if is an issue with the first person writing (I haven't read many books written in first person) but the author is shooting her leg by using that writing method. Is very fucking hard to describe what is around the character, about the world she lives, the book feels small and incomplete.
While I keep reading it there are numerous times I wish the author stop, and tell me more about the world or the situation that is happening. Good conversations that could last 2, 3 pages are compressed in one paragraph. Same with some events. Is not about telling something interesting to the plot, I just want to know more about the personalities of the characters or how the places were they are looks.
Anyway, just blogging around. Let's talk about this epic saga. I am at the second half of the second book, it seems it is getting better. What do you think?
>>8243909
If you like Hunger Games I abso-super-duper-lutely recommend you read The Book of Disquiet.
I think you should fuck off if you think wasting your time on this trash is worth it.
>>8243925
epic meme
Is this a worthwile read? Anyone have opinions on this book?
>>8243898
no, bad
The title alone is laughable.
Isn't this the hard-gay self-help guide?
>>8243944
n-no...it's about gangs and what makes some males better than other males
As an European, I'm going to NYC this summer for the first time. I'd like to read books set in NYC or NYC-related. Any suggestions besides pic related ?
Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
Rachel Kushner - The Flamethrowers
Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
>>8243887
V. - Thomas Pynchon
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
The Great Gatsby
Essential feminist works, fellow educated friends who agree with me that women are morally equal to men?
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Second Sex
Feminism is for Everybody and anything bell hooks in general
The Second Sex, The Vindication of the Rights of a woman, We Should All Be Feminists
Is George Sand a worthwhile read? Where does one start?
Just fucking pick something you spineless dweeby cuck. Or fucking google it. If you want to actually have a good thread, come back after you have read something.
>>8243789
I would listen if you want to talk about having a moody day. Here for you
x
>>8243774
Don't read women their simply inferior
writings about dependency, addiction, recovery, mental health etc?
i've been sober for two days now and i'm having sort of a rough go at it, looking for texts to help me stay focused on the task at hand
>pic very slightly related
>>8243735
Read Sartres section on the gambler in Being and Nothingness
>>8243739
got a link m8?
>>8243741
Google it
Would you read his book?
>>8243625
2fancy4me
nah, he's hit or miss with me, mostly miss.
I plan to
What's the meaning behind this?
>>8243585
Dude man eyes one day, bug eyes the next!
Come on Pinecone, don't hog the blunt.
t. Kafuka 1972
>>8243585
it means DON'T EVER GO TO SLEEP YOU MIGHT WAKE UP AS A MONSTROUS VERMIN* just drink loads of coffee and red bull you'll be fine
*substitute your translation here
Alienation
Is there something similar to "Hell On Wheels"?
Blood Meme
>>8243706
>Blood Meme
What?
>>8243740
Its an inside joke, the reference is to the blood in your veins.
>'Have you done this before?'
>'Of course. Hundreds of times--well, scores of times, anyway.'
>'With Party members?'
>'Yes, always with Party members.'
>His heart leapt. Scores of times she had done it: he wished it had been
hundreds--thousands.
Was he a cuck?
>>8243483
are you gay?
>>8243490
No. Listen to what he says following:
>'Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?'
>'I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.'
Seems pretty much a cuckold to me.
>>8243494
So you are gay and stupid?
hello I just made this folder with /lit/-guides
http://imgur.com/a/rrLGQ
yup hf
>>8243476
nicely done
>>8243476
This is fucking great
Thankz
I dont even read tho
Pretty new to /lit/ so I'm using pretty basic stuff.
Pic unrelated
Soon on a laptop, because you can't really fix things on paper, you have to constantly scribble and rewrite.
Pens: Pilot Precise v5 or Pilot G2
1 notebook for notes on books, 1 for foreign language study, 1 for math
Computer: LibreOffice/mousepad, Evernote, and www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com
>>8243411
google docs
dictionarydotcom
rhymezone
What does /lit/ think of Heine? Anyone read him?
Thinking of getting a copy of his poems.
Also how does he compare to Hölderlin?
/lit/ Germans help me out
>>8243403
I've only read Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen, which I enjoyed a lot.
I should probably read more at some point.
German here, Heine is my personal favorite. He's witty and funny but can be pretty romantic as well, but not in a faggy way. Hoelderlin is a whole different thing but I like him for his romanticism. My favorite poem would be "Der Mensch", I listen to it all the time when I'm in the metro or bus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSvYdmePEJA
(read by Christian Brueckner, De Niro's german voice)
![hell-on-wheels[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5hcXruM.jpg "hell-on-wheels[1]")
