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Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:03:33 2020 No.14843167 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books where someone works hard obsessively and sacrifices everything for a goal? Fiction or non-fiction.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:04:06 2020 No.14843169 >>14843167 extremely interested as well OP, bump

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:05:33 2020 No.14843173 Whiplash but it’s a film

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:06:00 2020 No.14843177 >>14843167 Ludzie bezdomni by Stefan Żeromski

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:07:04 2020 No.14843186 >>14843173 Can you turn it into a novel for me? thanks in advance

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:08:13 2020 No.14843188 >>14843167 Flaubert's letters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:10:57 2020 No.14843195 >>14843167 The old testament

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:52:38 2020 No.14843325 File: 71 KB, 399x524, 1569416839061.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 07:59:46 2020 No.14843348 File: 104 KB, 1100x460, xZG6UU25NMUyfJGbL5OWWKlj-rds35wsMCZlrCZm6CM.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14843167 Berserk

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 08:01:45 2020 No.14843354 >>14843167 The Spire by William Golding

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 08:05:43 2020 No.14843365 File: 271 KB, 1280x1578, 91E69F7F-BC38-48EB-943D-67E10BA19EFE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14843348 Beat me to it

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 08:06:09 2020 No.14843366 >>14843325 This.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 09:52:06 2020 No.14843732 >>14843354 good suggestion

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 11:16:00 2020 No.14844145 >>14843167 “Anti-Tech Revolution” and “Technological Slavery”

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 11:51:23 2020 No.14844321 >>14843167 Vagabond (manga) Elon Musk bioghraphy

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 11:53:38 2020 No.14844332 File: 15 KB, 185x273, 947EAC5C-4546-4CFE-97E1-33AF0C3919A7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 11:53:54 2020 No.14844336 File: 279 KB, 300x438, BerserkerSoul-DRL3-EN-UR-1E.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14843348 >>14843365 Rather, Berserker Soul

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 11:55:14 2020 No.14844346 File: 41 KB, 291x450, 14C59C18-9C3D-4CC6-A0BE-3262E11196A3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14843167

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 11:58:44 2020 No.14844365 >>14843167 Mein Kampf ;-;

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 12:03:18 2020 No.14844383 The Alchemist :^)

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 12:26:34 2020 No.14844513 Kant does this to solve metaphysics in critque of pure reason.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 12:29:40 2020 No.14844525 Opposite of my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 13:33:00 2020 No.14844839 >>14843167 Edmund Morris’s Roosevelt Trilogy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 13:57:36 2020 No.14844928 >>14844839 Are three whole books on Roosevelt really worth it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 14:00:54 2020 No.14844939 File: 195 KB, 506x1097, 2440CA60-B3A7-4757-8E33-6D8FA3024E9D.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14843348 This. The best themes of Berserk are sacrifice, obsession and how people decide what to pursue.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 14:06:14 2020 No.14844960 >>14843167 The Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 14:11:14 2020 No.14844983 >>14843167 The Stars My Destination had a particularly driven protagonist.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 15:41:58 2020 No.14845454 >>14843167 My dairy desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 16:28:52 2020 No.14845694 >>14845454 gay

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 17:29:26 2020 No.14845995 >>14844939 where should one start with Berserk?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 17:46:39 2020 No.14846099 >>14845995 readberserk dot com start from 0A at the bottom have an adblocker ready and turn off cookies. im sure those ads are riddled with viruses.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 18:52:06 2020 No.14846455 >>14846099 Thanks!

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 19:43:17 2020 No.14846758 >>14843167 Stephen Florida

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 19:49:06 2020 No.14846799 >>14844346 Nice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 19:50:06 2020 No.14846800 The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum both are feel-good nonfiction about the triumph of science so if you aren't an empiricist maybe you won't enjoy them

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 20:15:38 2020 No.14846965 >>14844513 he creates his own metaphyshics though and gives way for others to create their own Kant solved shit things-in-themselves lmao english can't even make it sound dumber

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 20:20:47 2020 No.14846993 I have come to the conclusion that there is literally nothing on this earth that is worth experiencing even the slightest inconvenience over. Life should be sedentary, inactive, sleepy, unchanging.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 20:35:01 2020 No.14847071 >>14844332 good recommendation

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 22:32:13 2020 No.14847611 Hate to use 4chan argot, but Jude the Obscure is a huge "black pill" for "wagies" with artistic or scholarly ambitions

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 22:37:38 2020 No.14847630 File: 216 KB, 892x1024, 16EC8674-31FA-4AC5-8EF5-8F5A30B67DC4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14846800 More science books anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 23:18:36 2020 No.14847818 File: 202 KB, 762x588, 20200302_183703.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14845995 Install the Tachiyomi app, add the Mangahere extension and search for Berserk in the catalogue. Enjoy some Berserk!

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 23:20:33 2020 No.14847831 >>14846993 All well and good until your realize living itself is a massive inconvenience

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 00:50:00 2020 No.14848160 File: 76 KB, 1200x1208, D8C08E05-C3D3-4177-9600-29F45B892E8C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14843167 SIEGE by James Mason

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 00:54:21 2020 No.14848169 Titus Andronicus. He sacrifices everything for Rome. Extremely based.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 00:55:44 2020 No.14848172 Anne Frank’s Diary

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 03:43:17 2020 No.14848684 >>14848169 Book?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 03:48:03 2020 No.14848692 >>14843167 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 09:43:41 2020 No.14849736 >>14848172 yikes

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 10:07:58 2020 No.14849833 >>14846993 Read oblomov

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 10:12:45 2020 No.14849848 File: 75 KB, 720x480, 87614001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14843167

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 10:20:24 2020 No.14849873

>>14844365
Probably the most selfless man in history. Thanks to the internet he is finally getting the recognition that he deserves, I believe that it's no hyperbole to say he's the top 5 greatest heroes in world history and easily the number 1 of modern history (or strived to be and came very close... so much that it required most of the world to take down utopia).

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 10:23:57 2020 No.14849880 Le Rouge et le Noir

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 10:37:11 2020 No.14849918 >>14849873 he killed himself lol

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 10:50:08 2020 No.14849972

>>14849918
He didn't kill himself because he was depressed and ODed on acetaminophen, you dimwit. Most of the world ganged up on him, he bunkered down to the last moment and instead of getting captured and tortured for info to twist as bad things against his men, helped his woman and dog to be put to sleep and ended his life. He was nearly 60, as a veteran of WW1 that his stomach survived a mustard gas attack and was riddled with holes and in pain, what did you expect him to do? Be Rambo and fight for a few minutes and then be inevitably captured? Moronic, you are a mental midget and evidence that not everybody deserves a voice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 11:06:04 2020 No.14850035 Unironically Gucci Mane’s book

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 11:09:19 2020 No.14850048 >>14849972 Should’ve died in the fury of battle rather than send out senile old fathers and young boys to die in the final moments of Berlin. He said the German people abandoned him, but he abandoned the German people in the final moments of WW2.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 11:38:03 2020 No.14850162

>>14850048

>Should’ve died in the fury of battle rather than send out senile old fathers and young boys to die in the final moments of Berlin.
He was leader not a fighter anymore and his priority was leading, he still lead the Werwolf campaign until the final moments (which were supposed to keep fighting after the war and actually did until the 50s) and passed off leadership of Germany to Goebbels. His final letter makes it clear he had no intention for Germany to stop fighting. It would've been egoistic of him to die this way, he served in WW1 and fought valiantly, he didn't need to be this stupid martyr... he had other plans.

>He said the German people abandoned him
Citation needed, and not a (((Hollywood))) movie.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 11:48:00 2020 No.14850195 >>14850162 A leader fights for his people. Cowardly offing yourself isn’t fighting.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 11:51:08 2020 No.14850208

>>14850048
No, he abandoned the German people when he decided to attack the USA and USSR at the same time, knowing full well what lies at the end of that roads.

(WWII was a calculated ploy to create Israel, anyways, and Hitler was a willing patsy in that ploy.)

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 12:53:24 2020 No.14850521

>>14843167
The plot of the Fountainhead is this exact idea, working hard and sacrificing most things in life for achievement (in a creative sense). I know it gets shit on for not being the most well written book and having a garbage ending, but it is worth the read in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:05:21 2020 No.14850802 >>14850521 Better than Atlas Shrugged?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:22:53 2020 No.14850898 >>14843167 los sorias.

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