/lit/ - Literature

>>4693037
>You start where you'd like
The fuck was I doing while staring this post?

>>4693049
Hardly! Never implied. But I know some, either first hand or by reputation.

This thread AGAIN

Jurassic Park

There needs to be more tries imo.

History sociology and culture (arts) is what I love best!

I always recommend Thomas Paine.
I read the beginning of 1848 a little over a year ago and was introduced to the "European Spring" so when the "Arab Spring" started up, I had to get it. It introduced me to all the different characters of that period. Alexander Herzen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Marx etc. So I've been collecting bits from all of them. Just this whole revolutionary period, and the political history is fascinating me.
As much as the Eastern Roman empire period. Want a book list?

Well, lots of battles and bloodshed in this one. Still think you should check the first two.

>>2311128
Resident history-bug here.
<-Read.

Yes, a bunch.

You read ALL that?

I found one I have! (Oh I have "the original illustrations" Sherlock Holmes too though)

>>2039041
This (1848) is a very good one OP
And I always have to recommend reading Thomas Paine.

>>2039045
Revolution, not counterrevolution

>>2034568
I salute you!

>>1948159
Hardly! Everything has there differences, but much of it is very familiar

Marx makes some cameos in this book, along with Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Peter Sellers ... I mean Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.

Just recommending.

>>1814240
You called it progress. I call it treason.
>The truth is that it is all liberal
Too narrow a way to look at it. Read 1848. The author mentions all the subtle differences.
>this con/lib game is for suckers
Because of corruption from the wealthy. Again. I know.

Inside academia assignments: 2 Not including essay collections
Outside of academia assignments: Roughly 70 or 75?

Lessee...
About ten Star Trek novels, about fifteen other sci-fi/fantasy novels, four bibliographies, (Including Tolkien, London, Kafka, CS Lewis) ten religion/spiritual, maybe ten art books, twenty graphic novel/comic types, they're short things. Two language books; Gaelic. I sadly gave it up but still hold onto them. Five geopolitical/history and counting

School books: High Fidelity and Blindness. Both great. HF has a superior film adaptation
Pic: Likely next.

Which one?

Okay, I just finished reading Thomas Paine's account in Rights of Man, though he didn't know what would happen to it afterwords (Robespierre, Napoleon etc) the rest of the book is very related.

Then in 1848 Paris and a whole slew of European cities rose up all together. Quite similarly to whats happening in the middle east.

And then there was the Paris Commune. Napoleon II lost a war, and left the city unguarded, so the citizens took it.

>>1661951
I think it matches better than Radiohead for the Stranger. (I don't think he was all that moody and mopey. Until he was locked up)
The epic scale of the revolution, then and now, is nicely put by E.S. Posthumus. I'd find someone else to score the film of course.

In 1848 a violent storm of revolutions tore through Europe. With an astounding rapidity crowds of working-class radicals and middle-class liberals in Paris, Milan, Venice, Naples, Palermo, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Krakow and Berlin toppled the old regimes and began the task of forging a new liberal order. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in Europe since the French Revolution Of 1789 - and would not be witnessed again until the revolutions of Eastern and Central Europe in 1989 or perhaps the less far-reaching Bolshevik Revolution Of 1917. ... The brick-built authoritarian edifice that had imposed itself on Europeans for almost two generations folded under the weight of the insurrections. ...

"For the Germans, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Poles, Czechs, Croats and Serbs, the year was to be the 'Springtime of Peoples', a chance to assert their own sense of national identity and to gain political recognition. In the cases of the Germans and the Italians, it was an opportunity for national unification under a liberal or even democratic order. Nationalism therefore was one issue that came frothing to the surface of European politics in 1848. While rooted in constitutionalism and civil rights it was a nationalism that ominously made little allowance for the legitimacy of claims of other national groups. In many places, such narrowness of vision led to bitter ethnic conflict which in the end helped to destroy the revolutionary regimes of Central and Eastern Europe. ...