/lit/ - Literature

Fernand Braudel - Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century

>>11558630
that book was fucking garbage. huge fucking tome that could have been cut in half.

>>11558699
Its a big long but its hardly garbage. Honestly I dont know any better books on the subject.

>>11558630
*clears throat*

Ptolemy’s Almagest.

Read it with us, anon

>>11558730
You the one who posted the Kissinger thread earlier? Can't believe people asking about his undergrad thesis had their comments deleted.

>>11558748
>the indirect approach
sounds like pussy shit

>>11560235
there's the bone-headed dunces who invade Russia in the winter, and there's the prince who leave a trail of cities named after himself all the way to the far-east.

>>11558695
available now, without organs

>>11561066
Thanks for this! Downloaded a bunh of Berlin books just now.

Do you know something else in the same area?

Ideaa, Peter Watson

John Keegan is golden

>>11558630
Most of the best books in human history are non-fiction

>>11561440
You have to name some anon.

bump

>>11560253
this is a good book. he's the best deleuzean scholar today.

>>11560245
> invading Russia in the spring and having the campaign drag on too long is the same as invading in the Winter

Then again, why invade a nation overtly when you can just subvert it from within

>>11562691
Any other good Deleuzean scholars, alive or dead, worth reading?

>>11558630
Kant's entire bibliography.

catfish and crystal

pic related is kino

>>11560260
This shit is fucking unreal how thorough it is. Mad respect to Shirer for that

Does anyone have tips on how to read nonfiction?
I find it hard to read information without a narrative

>>11565814
well, force yourself, I guess. or start on topics that are the most interesting/relevant to you

>>11561440
I bet you can't even name 5.

>>11565814
Just read something you want to learn more about. Don't force yourself into it, if you're not interested then why do it for the sake of just reading it?

>>11565804
No.

Just do it

Thoroughly enjoying this right now. Not even an anime can fit in this much intrigue and larger than life characters. There aren't many books that, after reading a page, make me think "Holy shit..."

>>11565814
Try this

Try to think of a better book to help you understand modern politics.

>>11565814
git gud and stop being a fucking brainlet

>>11560260
>that part in the beginning on german intellectual history

Attacks by Rommel

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin

Watchmaking by George Daniels


On Architecture by Vitruvius

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Canada In Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians by Ricardo Duchesne

>>11567250
I’ll give it a go thanks

>>11567297
There are about a dozen or so characters with sometimes similar sounding Greek names to keep track of, so you might want to write their name and title/position/holdings on sticky notes to make it easier to keep track of, if you're a brainlet

I like miltry book

>>11562691

This is correct.

>>11567533
This one is good.

>>11565773
All of her books good, except Secondhand Time because it's just a bunch of Sovoks bitching about how nobody reads anymore.

>>11558695
His brand makes some pretty good long-duration condoms, desu senpai

>>11565814
start with biographies, since those at least have somewhat of a "narrative". pic related would be a good choice, the napoleonic epic is truly one of the most fascinating stories that actually occurred

>>11567428
Did you suffer a brain injury in some war?

>>11565773
Fine writer but Boys in Zinc is clearly the one to read if your gonna pick one of her books.

>>11567250
Is this ok if you've never read about him before? Seems it starts at his death?

>>11568365
Actually it might be Better idea to start with a book that covers his accomplishments in life first to get The full breadth. I feel like knowing that before reading about what happened after he died would make the aftermath even more epic. Try "Alexander of Macedon"

>>11568299
Kek.

>>11568291
I second Roberts' Napoleon

The Denial of Death

>>11566046
Yes

>>11568299
hmm? book about war

>>11565773
>the part about the dog and running out of ammo
Fuck this gay earth

>>11560165
not him but what happened?

>>11568291
>>11570110
Any idea what the difference is between this book and his "Napoleon: A Life"? Did he write two different Napoleon biographies?

>>11571529
'Napoleon: A Life' is the American title. There is no difference between the books

It's quite literally "God-tier," anon.

>>11572610
Thanks pal. I'm going to snag it up.

>>11572694
>yeah, I’m a Christian, you got a problem with that? I used to be a sinner like you but 2 years ago I found GOD. In my teens I would laugh at creationists; I would always tell my grandma that I didn’t want to go to mass; I was agnostic but not like r/Atheism. But when I GREW UP and became a man, I realised I needed to put childish things away (1 Corinthians 13:11). Why is that? Because I realized that we need Christianity to SAVE THE WEST. After I voted Trump in the 2016 election I decided to go to church again. I knew that I would find a QT pure Christian GF who I could lose my virginity to (I haven’t lost it yet because I’m saving myself for marriage, like God intended). I haven’t found her yet, but like Job I will pray and have faith in God. Then I saw Jordan Peterson talking about Christianity and I was hooked! (I don’t like him anymore though, he’s a fake Christian). I watched all his videos on the bible and realised how God reveals himself in many ways. I was on /pol/ (came from r/The_Donald during the election but I hate redditors now) Christian General and I saw /lit/ chart which had The Bible and I KNEW I found my people. Every day I see THE WEST falling because we gave up our FAITH. Well, the new Christian intellectuals are coming; We are the sons of the Crusaders and we shall not recoil before the sons of Voltaire! (Candide was shit, so is Nietzsche (haven’t read either of them)). /lit/ introduced me to Kierkegaard and I became a KNIGHT OF FAITH, so now I know that I just gotta believe and that’s TRUE bravery. I read DANTE and DOSTOEVSKY and I saw the beauty of God and true art. I’m a proud Catholic (Protestants are heretics) but I hate Pope Francis, he’s a heretic and isn’t MY Pope. /lit/ is a Christian board, and I know that if I just keep recommending the Bible, telling people to go to church, and making threads about how great God is, I will finally be able to sincerely believe in God and distract myself from the gnawing feeling that I’m a fraud. Faith ain’t easy.

>>11558630

>>11572694
He said non-fiction, not fiction sweetie.

>>11558630

>>11568291
I am currently reading this book, I've finished half and I am really disliking Napoleon and the whole of France as a consequence, the main thing that keeps me going is that I know Britain wins by the end.

>>11573828
Uh isn't this is fiction

>>11574888
>Tom Holland

Wow spider man reviewed this book? I have to read it now

>>11576103
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holland_(author)

Stupid essentialism-poster

>>11567288
Post the non-shit one.