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20221825 No.20221825 [Reply] [Original]

>be me
>start reading military sci-fi after finding the concept kind of dumb but giving it the benefit of the doubt anyway
>learn the importance of strength of spirit
>suddenly i can do everything more confidently, never feel as depressed as i used to and ultimately feel like i can do anything i set my mind to
i am so thankful to my past self for listening to /lit/ introducing me to the genre and allowing me to learn more about myself

thank you

>> No.20222352

>>20221825
What books did you read?

>> No.20222797

>>20222352
armor and starship troopers

>> No.20222831

Whatever works for you. Something similar happened to me over time, just not from military sci-fi but literary fiction.

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>>20222797
>>20222352

Armor is _really_ good, am seconding it. Anybody else have similar books in the same vein?

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>>20222847
>_really_

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>>20223763
Lmao nigger, find me a better a genre fiction in that vein with a stronger theme; I'll wait.

>> No.20224643

>>20221825
this is what happens when you read books written by men

>> No.20224733

What about the Chinese scifi books

>> No.20225224

>>20224733
which ones?

>>20222847
i heard the author was actually writing a sequel but apparently that was just speculation
there was a snippet of it that you could read online but some people said that was fan-made but i can't really remember if that was true
either way, he died before a sequel could be finished

i heard old man's war is pretty good but i haven't read it

>> No.20225326

>>20221825
Ender's game. It's about thinking strategically despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

>>20222831
It makes sense it had an effect, as Starship Troopers and Ender's Game are both in the United States Marine Corps's professional reading list, which means the brass of the Marines also thinks it has value for the corps to read.

>> No.20225505

>>20221825
>be me
>started with the greeks
>learn the value of physical male contact
>suddenly attending bath houses for hirsute old aegeans to grope my still bald loins

Thanks, /lit/!

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>>20224546
dumb stupid ugly smelly retard bastard cunt. I was mocking you doing "_[word]_" because that's from like discord or twitter or something. Kill yourself kill yourself killyouself stupid redditor cunt retard