I hate this book so much, it is probably the second worst history book I've ever read in my entire life. As one historian said, Howard Zinn went looking for the data that reinforced his conclusion, and ignored everything else. Yet, people look at me sideways when I explain why this book is so bad. When I tell anime fans why I hate this book, I tell them it's like the Chapter Black tape from Yu Yu Hakusho, just the bad shit about America, and nothing else. They understand it. How do I tell normies that this is a Chapter Black book, but not use Chapter Black?
This one is worse.
And this comes third.
Yu Yu Hakusho is kino. Best shonen hands down. Fuck this gay book OP, this thread is now about Yu Yu Hakusho, and my theory that the whole story is really just an expressive, fanciful allegory for the difficulty of growing up as a boy without a father.
>>24724291This is the worst one by the way. God awful book. Read it in college, you would read about a region, move on, then twenty pages in realize "Oh my fucking God, weren't we just here twenty pages ago?"
>>24724345Forgot to put picture with it.
>>24724291I liked the comic book version.
>>24724291Would it be ok if Zinn had titled it "Just the Bad Shit About America, and Nothing Else"?
>>24724310>>24724306I just got these books recently. If these are not reliebable history books, then can someone please list for me 5 alternatives they know? I am really into history, I would appreciate it a lot.
>>24724313The way the show starts slow about Yusuke’s death and then goes into the power scaling is almost like it’s a different show. I really like the beginning, I’ve seen it a few times now. I have never finished the show proper though.
>>24724386What are you looking for specifically?
>>24724381Or just keep it short with something like “Lying by Omission”
>>24724291Apparently he used ellipsis to graft two separate diary entries from Columbus together to make him look bad
>>24724291> Yet, people look at me sideways when I explain why this book is so bad.Maybe use words? Write down words and counterpoints on why it’s bad instead of comparing it to anime that normie fags don’t understand.
>>24724291>When I tell anime fans why I hate this book, I tell them it's like the Chapter Black tape from Yu Yu Hakusho, just the bad shit about America, and nothing else. They understand it. How do I tell normies that this is a Chapter Black book, but not use Chapter Black?This is what the average /lit/ thread sounds like to anyone with a brain
>>24724291>>24724306>>24724310all three written by they/them
>>24726202Ain't nothing wrong with that description. >>24726198I use the "Ignores data that doesn't fit conclusion."
>>24724388You should check out the manga. There are some extra stories at the beginning in which Yusuke spends more time being a ghost. The anime staff wanted to get to the action quicker, so they cut out most of the comfy ghost adventures.The anime is cool, but it had a lot of padding, as was standard for action anime of the time. You might actually be able to handle finishing it all in comic form.
>>24724381A disclaimer that the book was written by a Jew.
When the book came out in the 80s most history books were lacking in nuance and promoted America as a purely positive force. Today Zinn seems like yet another woke jew complaining, which he is, but there didn't use to be so many of them so the book provided some needed counterpoints to the narrative of the era. People who reference anime in conversation deserve to be put to work in coal mines (I say on a Korean glass crafting site)
