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I have five hopefully interesting books to share.

The first is a biography of Frederick Townsend Ward a solider of fortune that lead the Ever Victorious Amry which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion http://www.mediafire.com/view/wkgfttt608ppr0z/The_God_From_The_West.pdf

The second is the Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane that covers Central's Asia's period of medieval enlightenment between 800 and 1200. Important to note that just because certain people speak Arabic does not mean that they were Arabs. http://www.mediafire.com/view/boq0z36243wfxj8/Lost_Enlightenment_Central_Asia's_Golden_Age.pdf

The third is Democracy without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State. For those of you don't know much about Japan the LDP ruled a overwhelming majority of the time even when they weren't liked and this book explores why (clientism/political structure/couple of other things). Also talks and compares it with other democratic systems. http://www.mediafire.com/view/plywln6ced6a5ar/Democracy_Without_Competition_In_Japan.pdf

The fourth is The Politics Of Democratization In Korea, a short book that explains how South Korea went from being more or less a dictatorship to a democracy. The bourgeois were mostly MIA during the process being “patronized” by the government. http://www.mediafire.com/view/72akmxyh22a4l8r/The_Politics_of_Democratization_In_Korea.pdf

The fifth is Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia. In the Confederacy there was far less unity than some of the history books depict. This book got be interested in the Reconstruction Era as with how much hostility there was towards the Confederacy by the end of the war I have to wonder how they fucked up so bad. http://www.mediafire.com/view/md4rsjmsprzeblr/Plain_Folk_in_a_Rich_Man's_War_Class_and_Dissen_in_Confederate_Georgia.pdf

>> No.6725320

>>6725303
thanks!

>> No.6726392

>>6725320
You're welcome. I hoped to share some good books that may have flown under the radar.

>> No.6726432
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>>6725303
these all look like excellent, thoughtful recommendations, thanks for the post

doesn't seem like i'll end up with any luck finding a physical copy of plain folk in a rich man's war, but it sounds great

>> No.6726435

>>6726432
I almost recognize the episode of twilight zone. Is it the one where two cowboys are going to have a duel?

>> No.6726445

>>6726435
Yeah it is.
>How dry I am! Nobody knows
>How dry I am! Nobody cares

>> No.6726541

>>6726445
Are you as impressed as I am at my ability to recognize all things related to that pinnacle of television? I've only seen the episode once.

>> No.6726549
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>>6726541
Only if you're impressed that I remember the song and I haven't watched it in years.

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>>6726435
>>6726445
mes frères

>> No.6726560

>>6725303
>pdf
I can't put this on my kindle... fuck

>> No.6726566

>>6726556
That's the one on the graveyard asteroid isn't it?

>> No.6726608

>>6726556
Is this where teenagers choose the ideal appearance and then undergo an operation? Not as confident with this one but it's worth a shot to enhance how impressive I appear.

>> No.6726618

>>6726608
I don't think so, the women would have numbered badges, and look at his space suit. I think he's one of the astronauts who crashed on a planet full of frozen people which turns out to be a speciality mausoleum.

>> No.6726661

>>6726618
I don't think I've seen that, but it's best to stop. You're awakening a long abandoned desire to share the genius of the twilight zone with a companion; I would suffer shameful things to know that pleasure again.

>> No.6726669
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>>6726661
Just look at this suave mother-fucker.

>> No.6726690

>>6726669
I maintain that smoking makes one look cool because of the indelible impression Serling has left in me.

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>>6726566
yes, it's called Elegy
"why? why us?"
"because you are here, and you are men, and while there are men, there can be no peace"
>>6726608
that's Number 12 Looks Just Like You which is way lamer than Elegy, even though Elegy is uncannily similar to that one with the trumpet player

>> No.6726723

>>6726710
>that one with the trumpet player
>call me Gabe
I don't see how the trumpet player one is similar to Elegy. If anything it's more like the early one about the alien zoo.

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>>6726723
they're more similar on the surface but elegy and the trumpet one both have a superhuman guide leading the protagonist(s) through limbo, the difference is that in elegy they die and in the trumpet one he lives

the only similarity between the zoo one and elegy is the crash landing rocket thing

>> No.6726748

>>6725303
Thanks OP, I'm downloading the first two books and putting them on my tablet now to read at work. Lit should upload obscure books more often. Thanks again!

>> No.6726787

>>6726747
The curator is hardly a guide.
In both Elegy and the zoo one, spacemen land in a place which at seems first to be amazing and their salvation but then it turns out they're doomed to become objects for display. I'd say A Nice Place to Visit is more similar to A Passage for Trumpet, in how you describe it. Two sides of the same coin, almost.

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>>6726787
you have me mostly convinced, though i disagree that wickwire isn't a guide (he literally guides them through the town and answers all of the questions they have)

and it's incorrect to say that the elegy spacemen are made into objects for display, at least in the same way he is in the zoo one. the only people who will ever see them is wickwire (who is by no means a curator, but a caretaker).

a nice place to visit is actually also very similar to the zoo one, they have basically the same ending ("you thought you were saved? think again!")

>> No.6727171

>>6726560
You may want to look into this http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/

>> No.6727175

None of the downloads are working, and I was seriously interested in the Japan one and the Georgia one. What gives?

>> No.6727193

>>6727175
Try this https://mega.co.nz/#!3E111CAC!11AdxM4Anzw4ali-gKLwKoN0OB7ovd8SBdRIHIWiF3E

Its all five books uploaded in a zip.

>> No.6727322

>>6727030
I think our brains pick up on different things to make patterns of initially but I see the points you're making.

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Hey, if this is a sharethread does anybody have the links to those huge folders of eBooks that have been posted here? I grabbed the Surrealist lit and Depressing lit collections but I want to nab some more.