/lit/ - Literature

The Art of War is full of the vaguest of strategies. I wasn't that impressed.

What the first guy said. The Art of war is a decent read, but it isn't the kind of book that has answers. If you read it and use the passages as prompts for your own critical thinking, you'll come away a winner. Just reading the art of war will do you little good at all

The Art of War is essential reading for anyone intending to become a successful general in ancient China.

>mfw art of war :(

tbh, you'd be better off reading lao tzu, chuang tzu, leih tzu or really, anyone but sun tzu

>>1849081
Rand sucks. Everything else there is cool.

>>1849382
This. I really can't understand why people read it. What's the point?

>>1849601
Some people think they can apply it in real life.

>>1849601
It can be applied to modern day life. A lot of it is stuff you hear every day, but only in one place.

I've read them all, they are all great choices, you'll enjoy them very much!

Sun Tzu's ideas are basically outdated and impractical, but conceptually, it's super Daoist; might as well just read the religion's classics + the Yijing.

Everything but Atlas Shrugged.

90% (at least) of the people on /lit/ who talk shit on Atlas Shrugged have never read it. I am sure of this.

>Fear and loathing in lasvegas

Good book, the film covers it well.

>Art of wa
Good book, but easy to lose interest because of lack of flow. Reads like stereo instructions.

>>1849845

Implying there is a book to read in those pages....

>>1849845

I'm a conservative, have read the Anthem, the Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Rand should have focused on being either an author or a philosopher, not both, especially considering that English isn't her first language.

The dialogue is incredibly dry, the stories are repetitive (with the exception of the Anthem), and it feels like she is beating you over the head with her ideology the whole time. Atlas Shrugged could have easily been 300 pages and told the exact same story.

op here, valid oppinions here.
i, of course cant comment as i haven't read them yet.

any comments on neuromancer anon?

>>1850619
fantastic book. If you're interested in cyberpunk, it's THE book to read.

>>1850621
burning chrome (comp of cyberpunk short stories also by gibson) is almost better than neuromancer imo

>>1850619

Read The Fountainhead instead of Atlas Shrugged.

The Fountainhead is much better IMHO, the story is better, its 400 pages shorter, and you still get beat over the head with Rand's gibberish philosophy like you would in Atlas Shrugged.

I still don't understand why someone would want to read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead. The stories are too dry to read the book for pure entertainment and the time commitment to read 1000 pages could better be used reading books directly analyze objectivism. To each his own I suppose...

>>1850627
Hmmm....I rank it close to neuromancer, but still neuromancer higher...it's what got me in to Gibson, so that's probably why I like it so much.

I've only read Fear and Loathing (never even heard of Neuromancer, but you've got me interested now.)

Fear and Loathing was a fantastic read. I always love stories of old Las Vegas, back before it became plastic and cheap. It's just one of those stories that you could never reenact in modern times.

>yfw you will never experience the world of 1970s Las Vegas while blitzed out of your mind on a wide variety of drugs.

>>1850645

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>>1850629
I'd say, stick with Atlas Shrugged. Whereas the Fountainhead presents more of Rand's artistic and romantic vision of people, bla bla bla, Atlas Shrugged is more about real-world applications of her stuff, especially politically.

Of course, it's your own taste. If you're not into politics, whatever, then go for Fountainhead. But above all, make sure you actually have interest in Rand's philosophical views b/c if you don't, the books are just okay at best.

op here again, wow this board moves slowly :D

like isaid in the first post i have already ordered these books

i will however, take your recommendations into consideration if i still remember by the time I'm done with these.
as I'm not really a book person just yet this may take a while.
especially atlas shrugged at 1000 something pages