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Post garbage books you've read

>> No.13174026

>>13173939
We had to read this in high school. Compared to the textbooks they usually gave us this was a work of art. Of course we only read the first couple chapters before our teacher left. What didn’t you like about it?

>> No.13174040
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Overrated garbage. I stopped half way through

>> No.13174102

>>13174026
It's chock full of straight up lies
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/december/wineburg-historiography-zinn-122012.html

>> No.13174114

>>13174102
most history books are

>> No.13174164

>>13174114
>defending straight up lies
yikes

>> No.13174174

Some book about Haitian rapebaby, can't remember the name.

>> No.13174192

>>13174040
Agreed, Stirner is an awful writer with even worse ideas. It's also so see-through haha, that it's painful to read.

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>>13173939

>> No.13174492

>>13174102
Making conclusions that favor your general theory of history based on incomplete evidence doesn't seem to me to be "straight-up lies." Poor form, sure. Insufficiently objective, sure. But, People's History was geared at a popular audience. Yeah, Zinn took liberties but at least he exposed more people to an alternative view of the American past beyond muh merica that most history textbooks peddle. Our AP US history teacher had us read part of People's History and then a few selections from A Patriot's History of the U.S. The latter was way more of an obvious grift and example of shoddy historical reasoning. I didn't even think People's History is that great but to think it isn't significant and worthy of at least some recognition in changing the general public's perception of history, you're a moron.

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>>13174040
>I stopped halfway though
Based

>> No.13174650

>>13174492
>ok he made shit up and put objectively retarded shit in his book bu-
no

>> No.13174697

>>13174650
If you want to read the article you posted and my comment in bad faith, I can't stop you.

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This garbage is the cringiest piece of drivel ever written. It offers no insight into anything. It's on parr with the nonsense I wrote as an angsty teen.

>> No.13174795

>>13174788
t. discord tranny

>> No.13174874

>>13173939
The Culture Industry was a somewhat interesting read but was horribly written or at least it was horribly translated.

>> No.13174957

>>13174502
Borges is telling the truth. Some are born to plow fields and others born to calculate formulas. This is why universal access to education is a mistake. In order to compensate the inability of some in becoming highly educated we must lower the standards for all. Thus, we now have farmers and mathematicians worse off than before. The farmers of old spent their lives dedicated to farming, likewise the mathematician. Now they know much irrelevant information to their purpose rather than relevant information.