History general thread. What have you been reading and what have you to recommend–>discuss? I started this last night and it's kino of the highest order. For fans of Storm of Steel. Next history book I'm going to read after this will probably be Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. I'll finish Ghost Wars eventually.
>>25152095What are the best books to learn about Richard the Lionheart?
Are history book audibooks any good? Like are they as good as books for memory retention?
>>25187652It is about nogs doing stupid shit? It barely even talks about the Rwandan genocide It barely even mentions it. Did you finish it already?>Updated edition You dun goofed, yah dope.
>>25188869>It barely even talks about the Rwandan genocide It barely even mentions it.No?>>25188869>>Updated edition>You dun goofed, yah dope.It was published only last year, ofc I was going to read that one since it's way more recent. I have no problem with it being "serious" anyways, I'm interested in the subject regardless of the unintentional humour. >>25187842>Try The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since IndependenceMight just do so lad. Most likely not next doe. 400 pages of the subject is enough for now.
>>25182030I'm listening to him on audiobook and its pretty good so far but I'd wish they'd reissue the stuff on kindle.Hopefully someone can answer my question about Darnton style cultural history though, or maybe even some historical anthropology if need be. Timothy Tackett seems interesting and tackles the 18th century, particularly Paris and the Revolution but he seems to be more of a psycho historian. Any suggestions would be nice.
Recommend some good literature on the Soviet cult of science and the occult roots of the Soviet world of the theoretical natural sciences that were hidden under the guise of empirical theorems and semantic obfuscations.
>>25184460I got you senpai. And on top of that it was written by a /lit/izen. Follows occultist satanist young Dugin in stagnant 80s Moscow before he becomes an occult orthodox monk in commercialized raped 90s Russia subservient to American interests and culminates in the seizure of Lapdukk, a small Kazakhstan village.
>>25184460i dunno
>>25184460Pic is excellent.
>>25188977I've read this one. Very good.
>>25184460>>>/x/This is not a mean dismissive vaguepost. You will, in all seriousness, receive a more genuine and honest response to your question there.
Was he right about everything?>The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.Holy… he basically BTFOs this board and all its pseuds in one fell swoop, I say.
What advice would you ask her for, as aspiring writers yourselves?
>>25186232they watch porn so yes they do
>>25186239No, no you wouldn't. You're a big fat tranny pussy.
>>25186239>low IQ redditor tourists fooling for obvious baitHas it really come to this?
>>25186227Reckon she'd let a man with (certifiably) better prose than her grope her arse and have a little go (a "go" in whatever form he deemed cromulent, that is)?
>>25186384Oh "test" is something you don't have, for sure.
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Don't try to apprehend meI'll black and blue your family, don't try to apprehend meI'll black and blue your family
Happy 4:20am RART
>>25188528I know I wouldn't mind that later, but the first time absolutely has to be with a woman.
>>25189375Fag.
"Within every human lies a wild beast, waiting only for the opportunity to pounce and attack, to make others suffer, or to kill them if they stand in its way.It is the spring of the lust for conflict and war.The mind, that agent striving to restrain desire, has always faced an arduous task in attempting to tame this beast and keep it under control.People call it the 'fundamental evil of human nature,' a name that does not appeal much to those who prefer to scrutinize terms before assigning any description.It is the craving of the will to live— a will embittered by the ceaseless suffering of existence, seeking to alleviate its torment by inflicting suffering upon others."— Arthur Schopenhauer
the hills of norvos editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25156285
>>25189230Don't forget next timeMorning Throners: https://www.youtube.com/@morningthroners9263
No, its not that I don't understand, or I get bored, or I'm not cultured enough. Quite the opposite. Dostoevsky is fake-deep slop for midwits. I cannot comprehend how an actually intelligent individual could like his works. It seems to me that its more normies circlejerking to seem cultured.
>>25188830you found it in a copypasta
>>25188712Got any more superfluous comparisons? They're fascinating. Please post more.
>>25177786The Holy Bible dammit
>>25177776He was just pushing his view and politics, like the rest of them.All of them competing to infect your mind with their mind germs.
>>25188712Tolstoy is actually closer to Ayn Rand than anyone, complete with a 100 page monologue.
Will literature ever regain cultural prominence?
>>25189100bit faggy innit
>>25189107Obviously the greater cultural impact and influence writers and their work had in previous eras. Are you dumb?
literature in general? maybe but probably not.american literature? impossible.
>>25189312So, the culture of a tiny minority who repackaged it for the masses? That is exactly what we have now and far more trickles down to the masses than ever before.
>>25189341The fact you shifted the point to proportion of the creators versus consumers already tells me you're already here in bad faith.You're talking about repackaging and trickling down when in the past writers were engaged with first-hand.Dickens, for example, was a celebrity and widely read in his own time. His characters like Scrooge have been bywords for what they represent long before any film adaptations. Such was the prominence of literature in the cultural discourse of that time.OP is simply asking if the writer can return to that level of cultural prominence that outshines film and tv and other such modern shapers of discourse.You're making it about something it's not because you're clearly offended by the implication of an increasingly illiterate public.And before you talk about the exclusivity of literacy in the past, remember that unlike today it is not worn as a badge of anti-intellectual pride to not read. It was expected to defer to the well-read and eloquent on matters of culture, and inspire to their level of insight, or atleast accept their importance.
post books that would make great video games
>>25189237Moss Robert’s is the most soulful tf?
>>25189254Nah, you're wrong. Sozz, lol.
>>25189020RTS based on Paradise Lost
>>25189157Moss mogs as his conciseness is concordant to the chingchongness of Chinese.
>>25189028These are the best editions
Is this the most reddit book in existence? I'm finding it nearly impossible to finish due to the reddit prose >Ermm I'm in space...? And I'm a ... scientist? Come on, megabrain! Science this shit!
>>25188703Yes saar, we know you liked it saar.
>>25157394burger buns with lettuce
>>25159140i bought once based entirely off its hugo sticker and it was about a bunch of men who had to live in an asteroid and i guess live in it and tunnel it out or some shit and they took turns raping on another then one of them killed the other ones and made a space suit from their corpses. i thought it was pretty embarassing and gave it a 0 stars on goodreads and the author screenshotted my review and screeched to his twitter cabal online
>>25159128Better than "anyway I fucking shot up the school again" or "rape amirite" r*gular humor. Go back to stand up for that intellectual ha-ha
It's all well and good good to say the characters would realistically speak like reddit faggots, but alas! I don't want to read books where the characters speak like reddit faggots
Which philosophers have totally 180d on their previous held views and repudiated themselves?
>>25185160It wants to be the industrial leader, the center of the world that connects the globe and all our economy and supply. Liberals are distinct in that they want to evangelize their ideology as a universalist faith that takes over the world. Chinese Marxism has no such desire and therefore will win by sheer virtue of not being bloodthirsty imperialist psychopaths captured by a techno-Zionist elite who want holy wars for the Pride Parade
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>>25181449You could say that they all turned on it (it being Marxism). Due to pragmatic reality of thing. As well as the need for control. That's why they ditched democracy, workers councils, and brough in strong centralized control, which, if you go with Marx, should "wither away" instead. But it only grew stronger with the need to control the populace.
>>25175417Transhumanism is not inherently anti or pro liberal, at least as far as we can see ideology as it stands now. In fact, it's a nebulous concept as of now, because most of the tech would actually turn it into reality is very rudimentary or non existent. And I am not talking about AI, robots, because those are ancillary things. Transhumanism, in purest form, is about human augmentation, fighting the aging processes, things like that. It's human centered.
>>25184020>can't think in four dimensions >calls me a moronWell ain't it the pot calling the kettle an African.
What books do they read?
Ha. Thanks, I needed a laugh. Like Sam Bankman-Fried, these guys read web pages if they read anything at all.
>>25186287Give them 10 years of absolute rule and they could save the world.
>>25187974We‘re fags!
>>25187974Way of the burger, man
>>25186294musk is a manchild who unironically believes elden ring is high art, it might be the case that andy weir is too complex for him
You know what I find most enjoyable? All this negativity is now reflected back on to the world. When hopes and dreams crumbled the world crumbled and when the world fell apart hopes and dreams fell apart.Even the normalfags stuck in their little box are feeling the negativity now and beginning to suffer.Even better the rulers of this world are feeling the heat because we can all see them flailing in vain trying to keep the lies from unraveling. The yawning cesspit of corruption and lies and filth and treachery and debauchery.Every one of them is boiling alive.
So i have a friend who recently got into audiobooks and he keeps talking about this one and tries getting us into it but it just seems like slop to me,did anyone here read it and what do you think of it ? worth getting into ?
>>25187539i read this thing in like 5 hours, and i thought it was AI generated or something. it's like the guy mashed together all the tropes he knew, added reddit tier humor and vulgarity.it's perfect for normies who don't like reading, which is why it's getting popular with the romantasy crowd
>>25187539I got over halfway through the first book and couldn't finish it. it's like a dumb action comedy movie in book format. just turn your brain off and enjoy. it wasn't for me, but that's fine.
>>25189236The first book there is a lot of experiments and not all of them hit the mark, but it gets really good from book 5 onwards.
>>25188090this. reading this stuff for fun is fine. reading this stuff because you think it is "peak fiction" makes you a retard. adults watch spongebob with their kids sometimes, but it's not because they think spongebob is the best shit ever
>>25187539>You can't judge books by their coverMaybe that used to be true. Not anymore.
How would human nature change if there was a post-scarcity economy without markets? Would humanity evolve beyond economic and social class? Why is capitalism seen as inevitable when it has only existed for 300 years or less? Is there any fiction or non-fiction that explores the post-scarcity human?
>>25188897there is no post-desire world, that would be undesirable.
>>25189056Science is a useful tool but it is not sufficient
We reached post scarcity in 70s but people didn't like it and started demolishing nuclear plants.
>>25189313The Buddha would like to have a word with you.
>>25189327If philosophy alone is sufficient then why do people struggle with it? If we all just had “holistic approaches” that ascend to the name of philosophy, then why does it fall apart?
