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1071807 No.1071807 [Reply] [Original]

How is it?

>> No.1071833

good, but he's got lots of better / more dangerous works from what I've heard

>> No.1071859

>>1071833

LIKE WHAT WORKS?

>> No.1071868

It's pretty good. I never really understood why everyone dislikes him though. Humans really won't do much unless they are afraid.

>> No.1071891
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1071891

Well, I've only read parts of The Prince, but this has always peaked my interest

>> No.1071935

This one interests me
>Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro (1502) — A discourse about the provision of money.

>> No.1071964

Lazy Italians, can't get translations of Machiavelli, can't get translations of Gramsci.

>> No.1071984
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1071984

>>1071891
>peaked

hahahaha what a faggot

>> No.1071995

piqued? damnit yer rite

>> No.1072002

Read Étienne de La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. It written a few years after The Prince was published. It is basically the exact opposite of The Prince.

They make a great pair.

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>>1071984

>> No.1072359

>>1071807

It's good. Gave me the very strong feeling that I was reading a modern corporate handbook dressed up in archaic language, however

>> No.1072375

>>1071868

Hating Machiavelli is a positively ancient bandwagon. It spans all the way back to when the man was alive, for fuck's sake.

>> No.1072383

>>1072375
lolwat. I'm pretty sure the prince was published posthumerously

>> No.1072396

>>1072383

People hated him BEFORE the Prince, my good man.

>> No.1072401
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>>1072383
>posthumerously

>> No.1072407

>>1072401

I was so incredulous at that guy that this gem passed me by. Good eye.

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>>1072401

>> No.1072467

Nah, I'm not really into Pokemon.

>> No.1072489
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>> No.1072511

Most of the book is Nicky sucking his doges dick, but when he's done with that, it's actually fairly neat.

>> No.1072549

I didn't like it. I guess gangster rap isn't my thing.

>> No.1072557

I've been wanting to read this for a while even though I know I'm going to hate the content of it. I'm more of an idealist.

Also lit - I'm a complete newfag to this board. I used to go to /b/ for lulz, etc. but I think I visited it for the last time tonight.