/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11109080]

What book will you bring with you when the war starts?

[Anonymous No.11109084]

the gita

[Anonymous No.11109101]

>>11109080
complete shakespeare

[Anonymous No.11109107]

[Anonymous No.11109108]

>>11109080
How to build a tank

[Anonymous No.11109110]

>>11109101

A little big for the battlefield my friend.

[Anonymous No.11109112]

Fear and Trembling

[Anonymous No.11109117]

>>11109110
I'm a big boy, i'll manage

[Anonymous No.11109120]

[Anonymous No.11109149]

>>11109110
Thats nothing

[Anonymous No.11109155]

Liber AL vel Legis.

[Anonymous No.11109163]

>>11109080
God I wish that were me.

[Anonymous No.11109198]

>>11109163
i unironically wished i had died in cheney's war.

[Anonymous No.11109221]

>>11109198
Why anon.

[Anonymous No.11109237]

>>11109107
based

[Anonymous No.11109313]

>>11109080
What book is he reading ?

[Anonymous No.11109320]

Murdering Brown People for Dummies. It's a made-up book.

[Anonymous No.11109328]

>>11109198
#metoo anon

[Anonymous No.11109402]

the pali canon

[Anonymous No.11109431]

>>11109080
I was gonna say Thucydides but it's a bit thick to go carryin around. probs some poetry. though I don't know any good poetry

[Anonymous No.11109432]

>>11109080

tfw used Anne Frank’s diary as masturbation material while in Afghanistan

[Anonymous No.11109436]

The Brothers Karamazov.
>implying you'll have time to read past the first chapter before being turned into radioactive ash.

[Anonymous No.11109439]

>>11109110
Big enough to stop a bullet.

[Anonymous No.11109466]

this bad boy

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[Anonymous No.11109504]

>>11109080
Obvious answer desu senpai

[Anonymous No.11109533]

>>11109466
I just finished it while studying in the Military. A very fresh and empowering thinking. Once I've read it I've continued with Vattimo and fuck, his way of thinking seems now cold and inhuman, almost like every book of philosophy now.

[Anonymous No.11109551]

Für deine Frage gibt es nur eine gute Antwort

[Anonymous No.11109571]

[Anonymous No.11109789]

>>11109080
The Illiad, Mishima's Sea of Fertility series, and Mein Kampf.

[Anonymous No.11109792]

>>11109551
Unironically good taste. His childhood and WW1 experiences are inspiring and moving.

[Anonymous No.11109795]

>>11109080
>books
>war
pick one

you know wittgeinstein wrote the tractucus in the trenches?

[Anonymous No.11109799]

>>11109080
my diary desu.

[Anonymous No.11109801]

>>11109799
lol fag

[Anonymous No.11109809]

>>11109080
field and technical manuals

[Anonymous No.11109810]

>>11109466
>Penguin Nietzsche
How Americain... (please, do no ask me to elaborate)

[Anonymous No.11109814]

>>11109792
>Getting mustard gassed and getting cucked by turbo-autist Wittgenstein as a child is inspiring

[Anonymous No.11109823]

>>11109551

Das hätten In Stahlgewittern sein sollen.

[Anonymous No.11109830]

>>11109080
Le Voyage au Bout de la Nuit

[Anonymous No.11109844]

Ian Wright: My Life in Football

[Anonymous No.11109884]

>>11109432
Patrician!

>>11109814
>Hitler cucked by Wittgenstein
Please go on...

[Anonymous No.11109956]

>>11109810
Penguin is British, though.

[Anonymous No.11109998]

>>11109792
>Inspiring and moving.
>Retarded rant about supremacy and power that nowadays appeals to failed white bois.
/pol/ or /k/ is your home

[Anonymous No.11110001]

>>11109998
You clearly havent read the book, go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.11110031]

>>11109823
>that part where Jünger says that he found nice leather bound copies of books but left them because he didn't have anywhere to put them

[Anonymous No.11110111]

>>11109313
His diary tobeh

[Anonymous No.11110115]

Atlas Shrugged

[Anonymous No.11110123]

>>11109080

The Decline of the West

[Anonymous No.11110203]

>>11110111
those digits tho

[Anonymous No.11110246]

>>11110115
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.11110253]

Industrial Society and Its Future

[Anonymous No.11110254]

>>11110123

The advantage of this is it will stop a bullet.

Other good candidates: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire; Ulysses; Infinite Jest. (At last! A use for Infinite Jest!)

Imagine the poor sap who takes The Great Gatsby. That little 7.62mm parcel of destiny is gonna go straight through Mr Fitzgerald without even pausing.

[Anonymous No.11110270]

>>11109504
you're on the wrong side of the war

[Anonymous No.11110302]

Fetish erotica collection

[Anonymous No.11110318]

>>11109080
I’m actually deploying in a month, and rather than repeat the mistake from last time of bringing a ton of medium sized books, i’m Just going to bring Against the day and Les Miserable.

[Anonymous No.11110322]

>>11109080
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Wittgenstein wrote it whilst fighting in the Austrian army.
Maybe when I am fighting I'll find some inspiration

[Anonymous No.11110327]

>>11110246
By the end of Atlas one is pretty hyped for war though.

[Anonymous No.11110413]

Anti-war books, to show my displeasure to my superiors of me getting drafted.
Maybe the illiad to.

[Anonymous No.11110422]

Trainspotting, I bring it everywhere I travel

[Anonymous No.11110429]

>>11109466
Why does that book have so many Arabic reviewers

[Anonymous No.11110430]

>>11109551
>Mein Kampf
>not bringing World as Will and Representation just like Hitler did
pleb

[Anonymous No.11110443]

>>11110429
muzzies got good taste i guess

[Anonymous No.11110456]

>>11109884
The Jew of Linz (1998) by K. Cornish
>The occasion for Adolf Hitler becoming anti-Semitic was a schoolboy interaction in Linz, circa 1904, with Ludwig Wittgenstein
>In the 1920s, Wittgenstein joined the Comintern
>As a Trinity College don, and a member of the Cambridge Apostles, Wittgenstein recruited fellow Apostles Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt, all students at Trinity—as well as Donald Maclean from nearby Trinity Hall—to work for the Soviet Union.
>Wittgenstein was responsible for the secret of decrypting the German "Enigma" code being passed to Joseph Stalin, which resulted ultimately in the Nazi defeats on the Eastern Front and liberation of the surviving Jews from the camps.
>Both Hitler's oratory and Wittgenstein's philosophy of language derive from the hermetic tradition, the key to which is Wittgenstein's "no-ownership" theory of mind, described by P. F. Strawson in his book Individuals (1958).[2]

[Anonymous No.11110481]

>>11109107
Respect for Loeb because you may actually be trying to read Xeny's Greek. It's comparatively easy with a ton of repeated vocab, so good for a beginning student at war. But if you are reading English: why would you bring what is undoubtedly the dullest of all the Greek war narratives with you? Why not Thucydides or Herodotus for that matter?

Also when did /lit/ become /pol/? This thread is a shame.

I'd take either Borges' Ficciones or a collection Neruda's poetry.

[Anonymous No.11110487]

pic related

[Anonymous No.11110501]

>>11109198
I wish I had died from sniper fire in Sarajevo, yet we're here

[Anonymous No.11110525]

[Anonymous No.11110533]

>>11109080
Alain's (Emile Chartier) "Propos".
If you can read french I highly recommend reading him.

[Anonymous No.11110548]

>>11109080 in stahlgewittern

[Anonymous No.11110556]

[Anonymous No.11110595]

>>11109080
Probably books on agriculture or ranching. Once we eradicate the Bantu, there is a lot of fertile land in Africa.

[Anonymous No.11110605]

>>11110595
I like how this guy thinks,
broke: Africa for Bantus
Woke: Africa for AFRIKANERS

[Anonymous No.11110639]

How to Win Friends and Influence People

[Anonymous No.11112097]

>>11109198
>tfw Iraq War ended while I was still in boot camp and only a tiny handful ever got to go to Afghanistan

[Anonymous No.11112163]

The Metaphysics of War

[Anonymous No.11112296]

>>11110001
Not entirely, it's nauseating. Seems like something an autist, low self-steem young adult, rifle association member would write. Got fed up quickly with all the candid nationalist apology, the demonization of marxism and judaism and all the effort to build a touching short story "i also have a story, i'm frankenstein, i just had a rough life experience"

[Anonymous No.11112310]

i read plutarch's lives during basic training, and when i got kicked out of my unit and thrown in jail i brought t.e. lawrence's seven pillars of wisdom with me

[Anonymous No.11112327]

>>11110456
there is very little evidence that Wittgenstein cracked the enigma code and there is almost no evidence at all that Adolf Hitler was in touch with Wittgenstein at school or that Wittgenstein’s speculations had anything to do with hermeticism. Hitler was only tangentially related to it through ariosophy and some of the implications of N’s metaphysics which Hitler took quite seriously.

[Anonymous No.11112420]

>>11110533
Alain ? tu veux dire celui qui pensait qu'Einstein avait tort, qui était jaloux de Bergson, le philosophe pour classe prépas ?

[Anonymous No.11112422]

>>11110533
Alain ? celui qui pensait qu'Einstein avait tort, qui était jaloux de Bergson ? Alain, le philosophe pour classe prépas ? Je ne crois pas, non.

[Anonymous No.11112423]

>>11109120
Kek

[Anonymous No.11112491]

>>11109799
dubs of approval

[Anonymous No.11112494]

>>11109823
*hätte

[Anonymous No.11112515]

>>11112097
So you just hung out at the base? You still in the military?

[Anonymous No.11112534]

[Anonymous No.11112753]

>>11109080
Fuck dude I always pack at least 30 books.
Last field exercise I read the entire phenomenology of spirit, all the pretty horses, the recognitions and Norwegian Wood.

There is free time in the military like you wouldn’t believe.

[Anonymous No.11112759]

>>11109080
what book is he reading ,bros?

[Anonymous No.11112769]

>>11110246
based FUCKING tosis

[Anonymous No.11112801]

>tfw in the army but the job didn't allow me to just do nothing but read for 2 years

At last now I get my revenge, I've been reading like a maniac for a month

[Anonymous No.11112818]

>>11112296
You read a wikipedia page I dont believe you read the book at all. The fuck does a "rifle association" have to do with Hitler or his beliefs?

[Anonymous No.11112829]

>>11110430
Did he actually?

[Anonymous No.11112844]

>>11109823
This or Degrelle

[Anonymous No.11112864]

[Anonymous No.11112879]

>>11110605
>Afrikaners
No I meant we eradicate the Bantu for San people everywhere. Shake off the fleas of Zulu imperialism and start anew. /lit/ is a bushmen board

[Anonymous No.11112884]

>>11109432
Good idea. Remember who you’re fighting for, anon :’(

[Anonymous No.11112889]

Death note manga

[Anonymous No.11112896]

What war?

[Anonymous No.11113095]

This, it's the cheapest edition and has all of the letters. Probably bring Augustine's Confessions or Oxford's Dialouges and Essays of Seneca too

[Anonymous No.11113215]

>>11110481
>Neruda's poetry
when you live in a glass house anon

[Anonymous No.11113218]

>>11109080
my life will be the book

[Anonymous No.11113235]

>>11109080
Is no one gonna talk about fucking hot this photo is? His pecs are gorgeous.

[Anonymous No.11113238]

>>11110556
get that shit outta here i'm tryna keep the squad motivated hooah? i don't need a peacenick tryna undermine the mission and get us all killed hooah? gimme that and get in PTs you're low crawling no man's land hooah?

>>11110481
pretty sure it's a pic from the internet. and dull is a matter of taste, i think the anabasis has a lot to say about the grunt life. it is suffering and hardship, doing what has to be done. a bit too real for trench reading, i think i'd prefer bemelman's madeline stories tbhwyfambly.

and other anon is right, why are you reading neruda in a war zone my guy

>>11109080
you know what it is.

[Anonymous No.11113290]

>>11113235
It's a scene from the movie 'Jarhead' (2005) with Jake Gyllenhaal.
It wasn't that great of a movie. Not even a little bit of cock.

[Anonymous No.11113299]

>>11112829
Confirmed as well by Hans Frank during Nuremberg, though it should have been obvious; National Socialism was fundamentally a Wagnerian German Romantic movement, and Wagner's greatest philosophical influence was Schopenhauer.
I'd be interested to know how many political leaders have read Schopenhauer. Many have read Nietzsche surely.

[Anonymous No.11113341]

>>11113290
That's alright with me.

[Anonymous No.11114163]

>>11109884

lol ikr

I actually once shot my load to her out the door of a Chinook flying at 1300 meters over the Hindu Kush. I like to image it landed on Osama bin Laden's head.

>>11112884
>Remember who you’re fighting for, anon :'(

I see what jew did there yah cheeky bastard

[Anonymous No.11114173]

>>11109884

lol ikr

I actually once shot my load to her out the door of a Chinook flying at 1300 meters over the Hindu Kush. I like to imagine that it landed on Osama bin Laden's head.

>>11112884
>Remember who you’re fighting for, anon :'(

I see what jew did there yah cheeky bastard

[Anonymous No.11115198]

>>11112818
Why the fuck would i read the wikipedia page when the entire uncensored book is avaliable online you brainlet.
Rifle association is just used to emphasize the autism and to make it relatable to the cases nowadays.
Mein kampf is just the work of a monomaniac, there's no development on Hitlers view, there's no reason, there's just sentimentalism disguised as "philosophical beliefs" -note the oximoron-. The only thing the book seems to lead is to a mechanical society of well trained soldiers, clerks and bureaucrats.
And you accurately described the only thing that book can accomplish, to be "moving" or "touching".

[Anonymous No.11115219]

Gonna pick this up soon, so I'll probably tale it. Lot of demonic power in the air recently, I think something's going to go down soon. Just hope I can make it to confession before the missiles fly

[Anonymous No.11115390]

>>11112534
>lucky I always keep a copy of Plato's Complete works close to my heart

[Anonymous No.11115529]

>>11115219
>demonic power
fuck off

[Anonymous No.11115571]

The art of war.

[Anonymous No.11115614]

>>11115529
t. demon

[Anonymous No.11115634]

>>11115614
kek

[Anonymous No.11115672]

The Book of Mormon hardcover.
>>11113299
too bad Wagner über christianised the works he made

[Anonymous No.11115689]

metaphysics of war, hardcover edition

[Anonymous No.11115698]

>>11115672
>the book of Mormon
You don't believe that drivel do you?

[Anonymous No.11115716]

>>11115698
No, just want to study it through a philosophic lens. How a post-christian religion starts and the like

[Anonymous No.11115724]

>>11115634
Demonic influence is no laughing mater
Vade post me Satana

[Anonymous No.11115755]

>>11109080
The Bible
hard cover
obviously

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>>11112515
Aside from a field op in Thailand and a humanitarian mission in the Philippines, yes. Got out 2 years ago.

[Anonymous No.11117102]

>>11109810
extrapolate

[Anonymous No.11117130]

>>11109080
Storm of Steel

[Anonymous No.11117136]

>>11109084
I've had a fragment of the ghita stuck in my head for years now that's really made me even sadder and more jaded than prior, never read the whole thing though

[Anonymous No.11117498]

>>11117136
What section? Also, you should probably read the the whole work if its actually messing you up.

[Anonymous No.11117501]

Magic Mountain

[Anonymous No.11117549]

>>11112844
I read The Eastern Front last year, really gripping. Just curious, do you think it was heavily embellished? I’ve heard people criticize it for being inaccurate but never actually any specific examples. The overall narrative of the war seems pretty accurate, and the smaller details seem like they would be difficult to disprove considering how few of the Walloon Legion made it back, and how many were politically persecuted.

[Anonymous No.11117687]

>>11115822
>That cover

B-but this is a Christian imageboard

[Anonymous No.11117708]

>>11112753
i would have already joined if it didn’t involve vaccination and being screamed at by people two SD’s beneath me

[Anonymous No.11118806]

>>11115198
That's a really long winded way of saying "i have a knee jerk reaction at the sight of swastikas and army uniforms"

[Anonymous No.11118984]

>>11109956
>Penguin is British, though.
Amazing, you have much elan. Except, Americains are the spawn of the English, and now we are really discussing what came first: the island inbred; or, the inbred from some large expanse of stolen land.

[Anonymous No.11119261]

>>11109080
Anarchist cookbook and Steal this book

[Anonymous No.11119289]

>>11115822
I skiped this book during my sci fi binge. Is it actualy good?

[Anonymous No.11119344]

>>11109080
It depends. If I support the war then
>Storm of Steel, On War, some Mishima, the Bible, and Schopenhauer's Aphorisms
If I don't support the war then
>the Bhagavad Gita and anything by Hermann Hesse or Dostoevsky

The idea of being a soldier sitting on the front lines reading at night sounds pretty comfy. Just imagine all the thoughts that will be going through your head. Every message in a book you read is going to be ten times as powerful. Imagine picking up that same book years later, flicking through it a bit, and then stopping on a part you distinctly remember. A part that's been permanently associated with you sitting there in your gear waiting to hear if you're going to attack tonight or not. That slight tension in the air as everyone wonders if they'll sleep soundly tonight, or if they might die. When the radio makes even the slightest noise, everyone drops what they're doing to listen. After one of these false alarms you go and try to read again, and you perfectly remember the first sentence you stared at.

[Anonymous No.11119465]

What war lol?
>t. 19 yo

[Anonymous No.11119491]

Catch 22

[Anonymous No.11119492]

>>11119465
It's real LARPing hours, see also >>11119295

[Anonymous No.11119510]

>>11119465
The second Finno-Korean Hyperwar.

[Anonymous No.11119513]

>>11109080
PAPI

[Anonymous No.11119566]

>>11109792
HAHAHAHAH

[Anonymous No.11119610]

>>11109080
Probably Les Miserables, a reminder that this time too shall pass and that when I get home I know I get to fuck my Eponine raw

[Anonymous No.11119619]

>>11109432
if Anne Frank survived, you just know she would've been living the post-war life similar to a Setsuko Hara-starring Yasujiro Ozu film where after all that dreadful turmoil, the most worrying thing is if your daughter will marry before she's thirty or to look after your parents as they get older, even if the grandchildren aren't particularly appreciative of the efforts of the generations before them.

Maybe I just really want Anne Frank to star in an Ozu film.

[Anonymous No.11119624]

>>11109551
lmao well you're not fighting for America then, maybe North Korea will take you

[Anonymous No.11119627]

The Iliad. It's all I'd need.

[Anonymous No.11119632]

War Is A Racket by Smedley Butler.

I will also not be going to war unless it's a class war. Fuck bourgeoisie interests.

[Anonymous No.11119646]

>>11119289
It's L Ron Hubbard, what do you fucking think, pal? The man's a fucking joke.

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[Anonymous No.11119694]

>>11109080
The Anarchist Cookbook. It's edgy af but might have some useful shit for war time, especially if its a civil war. It's like when people ask "What book would you bring to a desert island?". Obvious answer is How to Survive on a Deserted Island (Prepare to Survive) by Tim O'Shel.

[Anonymous No.11119749]

>>11117708
They dont give you that many vaccines anon.

[Anonymous No.11119773]

>>11112753
This. I know an ex-soldier in the UK and he said he never went anywhere outside of a UK base and most of the work was either training or communal support stuff. I think people kind of forget that being in the military isn't always battlefields and war movies, there's a lot of other positions.

Was considering trying to become a military cook for a while. It's not something I would WANT to do with my life but I can cook and clean pretty well.

[Anonymous No.11120600]

My multiple copies of all the pynchon novels. I'll make papercut guns out of them and recruit every black man I meet. do night missions. the gooks won't know what hit em

[Anonymous No.11120627]

>>11119683
I don’t mean to be rude, but he never wrote the second or third books, this is basically notes which he scrapped

[Anonymous No.11121858]

>>11112420
Monsieur a lu Onfray et se sent capable de cracher sur Alain, qu'il n'a jamais lu ? :)