/lit/ - Literature

Stephen Kotkin’s biography of Stalin is pretty interesting. It gets (predictably) bogged down when Kotkin details the creation of the Soviet bureaucracy, but it’s worth muddling through

>>11434173
she looks like the kind of female i would very much like to fall in love with and have sexual intercourse with for the purpose of procreation

>>11434191
She also looks like the kind to make you toss out your paperback rats nest to make room for her Pilates work out area. 3/10 at best

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Clarence Darrow: attorney for the damned
The rise of teddy roosevelt
Whatever that one John Adams one was.

>>11434191
ew why, her nose is huge and her top teeth angle upward weirdly and her eyebrows are all weird cartoonishly clownish

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>>11434228
sorry guys im not that greatly genetically gifted of a guy myself, i take what i can get ya know?

>>11434228
kys

Alexiad by Anna Komnene. Lot's of battle narratives about Chad Greeks and Chad Normans in a history of Chads that only a woman could write.

Why would she wear a sweater with her shoulder exposed? You put on a sweater when it’s cold, so if it’s cold, why would you expose your shoulder like that?

>>11434244
women aren't human

Galois bio-novelization by Leopold Infeld, a physicist and Einstein collaborator. he was a commie, so he glorifies french republicanism too much, but it's still interesting for mathematical readers.

>>11434173
That is one ugly beautiful woman

I love that wittgenstein book. Check out Ray Monk’s other stuff, it’s all worth reading

>>11434240
there is just some uncanny valley stuff going on there. A few minor tweaks and she is a 9 or 10, she is even quite up there as is, 7, 8, 8.3, 8.4, 6.9..
but yeah, maybe just bad shot, not my type maybe, looks a bit like a little (annoying) fiesty dog, doesnt look comfortable, mister potato head parts placed on, doesnt look like the parts mesh naturally.

maybe I just realized what this image subconciously reminded me of

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>>11434276
any more pics of this op chick?
Need to see if its just a weird shot, tense smile

Is there a philosopher, or just intellectual that has more interesting life than Wittgenstein?

>>11434315
A.J. Ayer

>>11434287
https://www.instagram.com/cameronbtbl/?hl=en

>>11434327
That link makes me more confusing
She looks 5 and 10 at the same time
why

>>11434335
there is a game of love

>>11434335
I cant access instagram, can you pose some of them pics?

>>11434327
ay, she deff looks better than op pic... but...she is french I think, so that explains it

>>11434173
Horowitz and Colliers' biographies of the Fords, Rockefellers and Kennedys are excellent.
There are a few biographies of Oppenheimer, though I have personally only read one - "Brotherhood of the Bomb" by Greg Henken. It explores the lives of three Manhattan Project scientists - Oppenheimer, Edward Teller and Ernest Lawrence.
My favourite biography that should be of interest to anyone into literature and the Manhattan Project is "The Brothers Vonnegut" - Kurt and his older brother Bernard both worked at General Electric for a time. Kurt wrote press releases under a pen name, and Bernard was an atmospheric scientist who worked on some of the first experiments in weather modification - cloud seeding, hurricane manipulation etc.

>>11434276
wtf you talk about. wierd nose makes her 9, otherwise she is perfect

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>>11434421
t. autist

>>11434619
dont forget this also came to mind

>>11434682
You're mentally ill.

>>11434828
the resemblances are faint... but the resemblances are...

>>11434421
Absolutely disgusting.

OP you goon Ray Monk also has a biography of Oppenheimer

>>11434191
>having sex with something
disgusting

>>11434228
She looks fine to me

Walter Benjamin A Critical Life

>>11434315

Rimbaud

>>11434173
Holy shit. I don't think I've ever seen a.ore perfect woman in my life. This is as good as it gets

My Secret Book
The Story of My Misfortunes
On Exile by Francesco Filelfo
The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini
Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
Parallel Lives
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography
Sulla: The Last Republican
Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse
John Adams by David McCullough
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Oxford complete edition)
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
The Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam
Napoleon: A Life
Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman
Thomas Jefferson: A Life
The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

>>11436551
that with light green eyes

are you faggots faggots?

>>11434173
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris is the most patrician and god-tier biography I’ve ever read.

Water music from tc boyleit
ItS abou mungo park a young lad from scotland in the 19th century being the first white man to see the river niger and putting it on the map

>>11436604
/lit/ no comprendo bulge meme

>>11436604
the jury demands more evidence, post more plz

>>11436550
Graham Robb - Rimbaud