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Hello /lit/ this is my first post on your board

I haven’t been reading for a long time but I finally found an interesting enough book to start reading again

Does anyone know of any other cool (preferably non-fiction) books I would be interested in based on pic related

>> No.11775322

>>11775300
Start with the Greeks

>> No.11775328

>>11775300
>preferably non-fiction
We don't take kindly to your kind around here.

>> No.11775342

>>11775322
no homoerotica please

>>11775328
I don’t want to read the made up ramblings of a sweaty stinky alcoholic vagabond

>> No.11775349
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>>11775300
pic related is totally what you are looking for.

>> No.11775359

>>11775342
>>r/analcancer

>> No.11775369

>>11775349
I will have a look

>>11775359
>the virgin fiction
>the chad non-fiction

>> No.11775374

>>11775369
Nonfiction is incelcore.

>> No.11775380

>>11775374
t. virgin

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>>11775300
Ignore all the pseuds on this board OP, non-fiction is great. If you're interested in spycraft/espionage/propaganda, check out these books:
>Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
>Love Letter to America by Yuri Bezmenov

If you can't find the latter, watch his video on the topic if you haven't already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kHiUAjTvQ

>> No.11775477

>>11775470
I’m more interested in military/Air Force or space kind of stuff, even just cool technology in general

>> No.11775496

>>11775477
Ah, can't really help you there. Maybe >>>/k/ might know some good ones.

>> No.11776180

>>11775300

Anything by Annie Jacobsen is fun. Her books on DARPA and Area 51 are great and touch on alot of the same subjects.

>> No.11776213

>>11775477

Any books on William Donovan, who founded the CIA, will cross over into those subjects and provide and interesting point of view on who uses those technologies. It's interesting, having read alot of aerospace history books, they all brag alot about the 50s and 60s and then get very cagey and restrained, laboriously describing stealth technology rather than the more strategically destabilizing things like hypersonic bomber and fighter fleets.

>> No.11776244

>>11776180
>>11776213
based spook anons

>> No.11776273

>>11776180
DARPA is not that exciting. I used to work with them. I mean they build some cool things. But it's just a job, there are no aliens. Although my clearance was never very high.

>> No.11776468

The only nonfiction of worth is textbooks and they aren't even worthy as literature, but as something to glean information from

>> No.11776478

>>11776273

Her "DARPA" book is really a document that more or less dances around the existence of either AI, artificial brains, and cybernetic humans without saying it outright. She admits she only sees a small amount of their research. I know they're more of a granting agency, but she writes about interesting projects born of the strategic needs of 21st Century US.

>> No.11776479

>>11775342
>comes to a foreign place asking for the most valuable resource in knowledge
>flames the preferred pastime of the people you ask this of

>> No.11776486

>>11776468

Pilot memoirs can be fun. I like the Night Stalkers book. As all military memoirs from the US, they're scrubbed almost barren but there's interesting tidbits you learn.

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>>11775300
>Does anyone know of any other cool (preferably non-fiction) books I would be interested in based on pic related

Maybe this? It's fictional, presented as non-fiction.

>> No.11777718

>>11775477
>>11776180
The Pentagon's Brain - An Uncensored History of DARPA by Annie Jacobsen is great, covers alot of diverse research and tech over the decades.
Soldiers of Reason - The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire by Alex Abella is great too.

>> No.11778030

>>11775342
> don’t want to read the made up ramblings of a sweaty stinky alcoholic vagabond

go back to /his/.
pearls before swine, eh

>> No.11779364

John Carter - Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
Kim Zetter - Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Viktor Suvorov - Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces

>> No.11779588

>>11775300
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden kept me pretty hooked until the end.

>> No.11779628
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>>11775300
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of Silicon Valley
The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed

>>11775470
>Yuri Bezmenov
/pol/ plz, you're talking about a "defector" lecturing to the John Birch Society and "confirming" every rabid already existing anti-communist trope (of course he made a good career out of lecturing in the 80s)... and who strangely totally disappeared after the cold war ended and no one really knows whatever happened to him.
I would be very sceptical about these sorts of "characters". What you're getting is either orchestrated disinfo or just a opportunist who knows what wants to be heard by his audience. American intelligence defectors to the USSR like Annabelle Bucar wrote equally "questionable" "tell alls" on the other side.
Literally notting you read in this field should be trusted much since everyone is putting disinfo out there muddying the water. But if you're interested here's a list of books: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackOps/wiki/books

>> No.11779646

>>11775300
I'd say Sled Driver, but good fucking luck