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Hi /lit/, what do you think of my non-fiction collection?
Would you recommend any other works or authors?

>> No.11297881

>>11297842
I think you should get a better camera.

>> No.11297891

>>11297842
umm try the redpill... Schoppenhauer's On Women and TCoC by Macdonald. See you on the boards

>> No.11297899

>>11297881
yeah I dunno why the ipads picture came out so blurry and bloomed :\
>>11297891
>redpill

>> No.11297937
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>>11297842
You would also like
Eric Hobsbawm
Richard Wolff
David Harvey
Emma Goldman
Voltairine de Clerye

>>11297891
The red pills they're feeding you are the juicy steaks. IE the blue pill

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>>11297842
>Look comrades I posted it again!

>> No.11297953

>>11297842
put a couple biographies in there

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>>11297944
maybe we should go to a café to discuss this?

>> No.11297961

>>11297953
of who?

>> No.11297969

>>11297955
would read the karl marx and fredrick engel's selected works
>>11297961
what am i the fucking librarian? try samuel johnson

>> No.11297978

>>11297969
what does Samuel Johnson have to do with this collection: >>11297842

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Read Arendt's review of Nettl's bio on Luxemburg
Bought it, haven't read it yet though

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>>11297978
It doesn't. It's just a biography that i recommended, and biographies are non-fiction

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>>11297842

>> No.11298160

Wonder when we will see Butterfly's entire reading collection.

>> No.11298167

>>11298160
I used to list what I read, what I get. No one cares. It's not Catcher in the Rye, Infinite Jest Evola etc.

>> No.11298172

>>11297842
hows that finkelstein book on gaza? i've been thinking about getting it

>> No.11298176

>>11298172
it was good and very prescient

>> No.11298177

>>11298167
I mean I've got some idea what sort of stuff you read, but it'd be interesting to see what all specifically goes into your head.

>> No.11298181

Can anyone give me recs on true crime books that are /lit/?

>> No.11298209

>>11298177
Teens: Bible, sci-fi, fantasy, christian school history books
20s: Campbell, Tolkien, bibliographies of Jack London, Kafka, CS Lewis, more sci-fi
Went to work and p/t schooling and read Blindness and High Fidelity and a bunch of short things
When the crash hit I took to reading the newspaper, but then went onto foreign policy magazines, then history books.

Maybe a full list on warosu, if you care. I think I have to go soon.

>> No.11298217

>>11298209
holy shit ho old are you?

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>>11298217

Fourty-six

>> No.11298333

>>11298209
>>11298227
Damn I didn't expect you were an actual oldfag in the literal sense.
But there isn't a way to search Warosu for your trip?
Oh well hopefully you haven't left yet. I've been busy tonight and was really curious in getting the specific butterfly list.

>> No.11298437

>>11298227
Then who is that person whose image you kept posting in your thread the other day?

>> No.11299166

>>11298181
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

>> No.11299175

OP here
What are some Greek/Roman works I should read?
I keep meaning to read through older material, like all the ex-CIA guys who wrote books in the 1970s, but get distracted by new works and fiction - wut do?

>> No.11299220

>>11297842
Pop geopolitics and left wing propaganda.

>> No.11299225

>>11299175
Plutarch

>> No.11300354

>>11299175
Introduce yourself to some thought that isn't the pop geopolitics and left wing propaganda mentioned here >>11299220

>> No.11301601

>>11299225
Based

>> No.11301694

>>11297937
Show feet

>> No.11301702

>>11298167
>>11298209
>>11298227
Show feet

>> No.11302028

>>11301694
>>11301702
is he going to show gurl feet? if so im gonna pin this thread

>> No.11302403

>>11301694
>>11301702
>>11302028
Waiting for this.

>> No.11302502

I'd suggest you to get some fiction (at least some bare basics of the Canon, like The Iliad/The Odyssey, Shakespeare's Complete Works, the Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote, Crime and Punishment, Moby Dick, and Ulysses), as well as a bit of serious/non-meditational philosophy, like Plato's Dialogues, Aristotle's Organon/Metaphysics/Nicomachean Ethics, Descartes' Discourse on Method, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding/Treatises on Government, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Hegel's Encyclopedia of Human Sciences, Marx's Das Kapital Vol. 1, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra/Selected Writings (incl. Human All Too Human, The Genealogy of Morals, and The Twilight of the Idols), Heidegger's Being and Time, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus/Philosophical Investigations.
It seeems like a lot, but this is +2000 years of literature and philosophy, heavily selected, and condensed into a single post. Most people spend their college years, or even several decades reading practically nothing but this stuff.
Having at least one or two art books wouldn't hurt, either. Knowing about all this stuff will make you seem like a general man of culture, who will be able to hold a conversation on any given topic worth talking about.

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What do you think of my shelf /literature/

>> No.11302522

>>11302502
St. Augustine & Spinoza wouldn't be too bad. I'd suggest you to at least get a copy of the KJV Bible, even if it's just for the sake of knowing one of the world's most important works of literature.

>> No.11302552

>>11297961
Here are my favorite, phone posting so titles are not super accurate:

Thomas Jefferson the Art of Power
The Power Broker: Robert Moses
The Years of Lyndon Johnson (4 volumes)
The Nixion trilogy by Steven Ambrose
American Lion: Andrew Jackson
Titan: Rockefeller
The First Tycoon: Vander Built

>> No.11302567

>>11302512
You've got the opposite problem to OP. You need more non-fiction, preferably at least a few history books and philosophy texts.

>> No.11302591

>>11302567
Cool, thank you

>> No.11304293

>>11297842
Why is Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" missing?

>> No.11304293,1 [INTERNAL] 

>>11298333
>I've been busy tonight and was really curious in getting the specific butterfly list.

Well, alright.
About 18 fantasy novels, the best of which where The Silmarillion, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, a Myst book, and Willow.
Over the years I've favoured science fiction with 56, including Adams, Asimov, Clarke, Le Guin, Verne's JttCotE, twelve Star Trek novels and eleven Star Wars.
Picture and adolescent books not counted under fantasy; Wind in the Willows, The World of the Dark Crystal, a dozen Choose Your Own Adventure books, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Gorey's Amphigorey, Amphigorey Also, a good portion of Calvin and Hobbes books, a collection of Little Nemo, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, Trondheim's Harum Scarum, Otomo's Domu, Peter Blegvad's Book of Leviathan.
Abandoned books include; Clancy's Debt of Honor, Poppy Z. Bright's Lost Souls, Something on globalism from Soros, Nahai‬'s ‪Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, The Celestine Prophecies, a really bad book on Madison, and one the Dalai Lama's books on being happy. One chapter began to feel like the next. Soon after I discovered Epicurus.
Aside from these, most but not all from earliest childhood till teens, I read second hand history books, one world history from a Christian school, very poor, and an American history book from a secular school. Much better, but it smelled. Reading the bible pretty thoroughly, my grandmother gave me the Apocrypha. I thought it was Josephus' Jewish Wars, disappointed, I didn't get around to reading it and ended up losing it besides. Later years, trying to broaden my knowledge and get away from sci-fi I read many pages of Shakespeare's Hamlet, King Lear and Henry V, Fraser's The Lives of The Kings and Queens of England, Wood's In Search of the Dark Ages, Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, the first three Amy Tan novels, three books by Caleb Carr including the odd biography The Devil Soldier, Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, a collection of Icelandic Short Stories, Camus' The Stranger, and Farmer's Doc Savage | His Apocalyptic Life (two and a half times) For English courses I read numerous essays I can't fully recall, Saramago's Blindness, and Hornby's High Fidelity.
Dozen's of art and film related books, not to mention magazines.
Before wikipedia library's kept bibliography's on authors. Short bios and breakdowns of their works. First one I read was on Tolkien, it made mention of his friend C.S. Lewis, so I read his. Later read one on Jack London and Franz Kafka. Concentrated on schooling, pleasure reading very little through the drudgery on my 20s to 30s.
When the 2007/08 crash happened I took to reading again, but newspapers. Trying to figure out what was going on. Drifted to the foreign policy magazines. Then books that excited me
Tear Down This Myth - Bunch
Lawrence and Aaronsohn - Florence
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Luttwak
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America - Kaye
Common Sense, The Rights of Man - Paine
1848 - Rapport
Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Hitchens
Sailing from Byzantium - Wells
1453 - Crowley
All Things Shining - Dreyfus & Kelly
The Basque History of the World - Kurlansky
A Very Short Introduction: Tocqueville
A Very Short Introduction: Anarchism
The Second Bill of Rights - Sunstein
Dante | A Life - Lewis
(The End of War, and Permanently Blue. Two cheap books from when Borders was having a blow out sale)
1/2

>> No.11304293,2 [INTERNAL] 

The Odyssey - Homer | The Lost Books of the Odyssey - Zachary Mason | Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens
America Beyond Capitalism - Gar Alperovitz | Liberalism - Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse | Freethinkers - Susan Jacoby
American Sphinx - Joseph Ellis | Venice - Peter Ackroyd | The Defining Moment - Jonathan Alter | The Woman Behind the New Deal - Downey
Samuel Adams - Puls | Theodora - Bridge | Constantine the Great - Grant | A Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft
Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis | Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf | Greatest Show On Earth - Dawkins | The Year of Magical Thinking - Didion
The Poison King - Mayor | How to Read and Why - Bloom | The Castle - Kafka | Invisible Cities - Calvino | Freedom for the Thought That We Hate - Lewis
The Age of Reason - Paine | God is Not Great - Hitchens | Byzantium: The Early Centuries - Norwich | Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess - Shlain | Letters & Sayings of Epicurus | Candide - Voltaire | Julian - Gore Vidal |A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov
Memoranda During the War - Whitman | Garibaldi–Invention of a Hero - Riall | The Gnostic Gospels -Pagels | Aleph & Other Stories - Borges
Labyrinths - Borges | A History of Civilization - Braudel | Byzantium–Apogee - Norwich | Rendezvous with Rama - Clarke | Homeric Hymn to Demeter - edited Foley
Invisible Man - Ellison | Fair Play - Jansson | Moominvalley in November - Jansson | Orsinian Tales - Le Guin | The Dispossessed - Le Guin
Pastoralia - Saunders | The Epic of Gilgamesh | Burr - Vidal | The Kingdom of Armenia - Chahin | Epicurean Simplicity - Mills
From Gracchi to Nero - Scullard [Bad] | The Age of Revolution - Hobsbawm | Marx for Beginners - Rius | An Appeal to the Toiling Oppressed & Exhausted Peoples of Europe - Trotsky
The Renaissance - Pater | Essays - Orwell | Theogony & Works and Days - Hesiod | The Woman Who Borrowed Memories - Jansson
It Can't Happen Here - Lewis | Thurber On Crime - Thurber | A Damsel in Distress - Wodehouse | A History of Civilizations - Braudel
Iphigenie auf Tauris - Goethe | Anarchism and Other Essays - Goldman | Selected Writings from Mikhail Bakunin
The Red and the Black - Stendhal | Memoirs of Hadrian - Yourcenar | If Not, Winter - Carson | The Greek Myths - Graves
No Gods No Masters - Guérin | Finn Family Moomintroll - Jansson | The King Must Die - Renault | The Ego and its Own - Stirner
The Greek Way - Hamilton | The World of Odysseus - M.I. Finley | A Room of One's Own - Woolf | We - Zamyatin | Satires & Epistles - Horace
Lavinia - Le Guin | The Portable Nietzsche - Kaufmann | Letters from the Earth - Twain | The Dying Earth - Vance | The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde

A few books pending, not abandoned: The Second Sex - De Beauvoir, My Past and Thoughts - Herzen, On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
Goethe's Italian Journey, Charles King's The Ghosts of Freedom, The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader, Comet in Moominland - Jansson
The rest of of Aristophanes (Read three thus far) Stapledon's Last and First Man (Oh but it's dreadful) Zen and Japanese Culture -Suzuki

... Maybe I should just get to Moby Dick and Quixote already