ITT: POST A FUCKING BOOK AND PEOPLE WHO READ IT TELL YOU WHAT THEY THINK

[Anonymous No.11645673]

[Anonymous No.11645691]

[Anonymous No.11645750]

>>11645691
>from plastic food to plastic surgery: an insect's tale

[Anonymous No.11645762]

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[Anonymous No.11645792]

>>11645783
I liked it but it made me sad

[Anonymous No.11645799]

>>11645762
Fascinating in the details it presents from various cultures but frustratingly naïve in the synthesis it draws from them.

[Anonymous No.11645806]

[Anonymous No.11645815]

>>11645806
Interesting but a tad dry

[Anonymous No.11645982]

>>11645799
how so /hasn't read it/

[Anonymous No.11646063]

>>11645691
haven't read this, but wasn't this all debunked as horseshit?

[Anonymous No.11646146]

>>11645673
Mein Kampf.

[Anonymous No.11646239]

>>11646063
No, at least the first part wasn't. The book is divided in two: Her life in North Korea and her escape from North Korea to China.
The first part is coherent, the story matches with things I've read in others books and online. The second part, is up to you if you want to believe her or not.

[Anonymous No.11646681]

I thought it was in desperate need of editing, and Beard's opinions are legitimately retarded.

[Anonymous No.11646980]

>>11645673
It reflects Carlyle's interest at the time, and one cannot help but think that the extended 'clothes' and 'tailoring' metaphors helped Carlyle himself understand what to him was the relatively new German philosophy and criticism at that time. If one has oneself some knowledge of Schelling, the Schlegels, Hegel before reading, it becomes the sweetest form of satire-- intimate, even loving, but definitely a send-up (ultimately). Carlyle at both his most difficult and least acerbic. Heroes is another relatively modest Carlyle. French Rev is his most entertaining (but have some sense of the Revolution's early time-line before reading it).

[Anonymous No.11647306]

>>11646681
>Beard's opinions are legitimately retarded.
explain

[Anonymous No.11647335]

[Anonymous No.11647545]

>>11645783
Want to read.

[Anonymous No.11647562]

>>11647335
I haven’t read it but he drank 50 cups of coffee a day and wrote hundreds of books so it must be kino

[Anonymous No.11648464]

>>11647306
At point she claims it's "inconceivable" that the Romans had an organized militia in the earlier days of the republic, without any further elaboration.
At another point she she claims there's no way they could have planned multiple conquests, because they didn't have maps.

[Anonymous No.11648503]

>>11645806
great psychological profiles, don't read it if you're looking for plot

[Anonymous No.11648508]

>>11646146
mostly boring, sometimes shrill. basically
>*snap* yep, this one's going in my cringe compilation: the book

[Anonymous No.11648590]

>>11647335
I really loved it. I had studied 3 novels by Balzac at school but never read Père Goriot ; then when people would talk about Balzac's "irony", I was, wtf, what irony ? Balzac may e cool but he ain't no funny guy, and he ain't too much spiritual either.
Then I read Le Père Goriot and fully enjoyed a perfect comedy and a perfect tragedy at the same time. I laughed out loud a few times and was amazed at how the book captured the vicious essence of Parisian life.
Not sure if these things can appear through a translation, but oh god how good it was.

[Anonymous No.11648786]

>>11648464
go ahead and refute these points

[Anonymous No.11648815]

>>11648786
I can conceive of the dudes who ran around the world building roads and aqueducts of being capable of organizing militias and planning a series of invasions. These are not remotely improbable, yet Beard lazily dismisses the mere possibility without any additional explanation.
Also the rest of the book is a disorganized, rambling mess.

[Anonymous No.11648916]

>>11645762
He thinks papua new guineans are the most powerful race in the universe. I think that's all that needs to be said.

[Anonymous No.11649177]

[Anonymous No.11649350]

>>11649177
Each chapter is based on some Zodiac sign, but other than that I can't remember shit about it.

[Anonymous No.11649391]

>>11648786
a demand isn't a point

[Anonymous No.11649565]

>>11645673
>PEOPLE WHO READ IT
>Sartor Resartus
Good luck finding someone, OP. I read a bit of it once, but it seemed more like an interesting curiosity than a worthwhile literary work.

[Anonymous No.11649902]

>>11649565
it's worthwhile. it's just one of those books that requires you to read a whole bunch of lit and philosophy to appreciate

[Anonymous No.11651599]

>>11645783
>>11645792
>>11647545

no lies, my girlfriend just read it and liked it. She thought Cosmicomics was a little better.

She's Jewish though I'm sure you fucks will say fuck me

[Anonymous No.11651758]

>>11651599
pointless post

[Anonymous No.11653119]

>>11645750
This.

[Anonymous No.11653125]

[Anonymous No.11653129]

>>11651599
Why even bring it up fuckhead?

[Anonymous No.11653151]

>>11646681
Does this cover the key points of roman history well enough to stand on it's own?

[Anonymous No.11653154]

[Anonymous No.11654162]

>>11653151
Kind of, it covers the early republic well enough, but then book tries to cover a huge amount of information in no particular order. I would just read Gibbon and Suetonius.

[Anonymous No.11654732]

>>11653151
Listen to the History of Rome podcast instead

[Anonymous No.11654746]

>>11646146
Based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.11654758]

>>11653154

boring as hell, I don't know how Bolding managed to turn such a promising premise into an utter chore, but interesting parable.

[Anonymous No.11655001]

>>11654732
>Listen
Stopped reading there my man.

[Anonymous No.11655011]

>>11651599
Fuck you fuck you fuck you ahhhhhhhh

[Anonymous No.11655645]

based

[Anonymous No.11655688]

>>11645762
His thesis is worth taking seriously even if it is primarily an evasion.

[Anonymous No.11655754]

>>11645783
Good book

>>11649177
Been like a thousand years since I read it, remember enjoying it though

>>11653154
Tedious and dull

[Anonymous No.11655757]

>>11653154
fun

[Anonymous No.11656116]

Cloud Atlas.

I just remembered that book exists. Read it years ago, I don't think I've ever seen it even mentioned here.

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[Anonymous No.11656284]

>>11656260
Hot