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Recent Purchase Thread?

I'm currently an officer in the army so had to stock up on some more military related readings.Besides the more obvious like Clausewitz, does anyone have some recommended military readings?

Quite excited to read Eumeswil as Junger is one of my favorite authors.

>> No.7190257

How good is Storm of Steel? (I assume you've read it). Plan on reading it soon.

>> No.7190261

>>7190253
Dialectics of Enlightenment
Negative Dialectics

I can't be bothered to take pics.

>> No.7190266

This is not your fucking blog. No one gives a shit. Go read a book and then make a thread about it

>> No.7190281

>>7190266
this tbh

>> No.7190282
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>>7190257
Its a highly enthralling and engaging novel.
Throwing you right into the action, Junger focuses purely on the facts of the war. He barely ever slides into sentimentality and constantly seeks to provide a space for heroism in the brutality of modern war.

To me it blows the other WW1 books out of the water.

>> No.7190287

>>7190266
>Not understanding that i'm trying to spark a conversation about literature

>> No.7190291

>>7190266
Yeah let's have a subvocalisation thread instead
>>7190282
Ah, excellent. I look forward to reading it.

>> No.7190299

The Borth of Tragedy
The Geneology of Morals
Confederacy of Dunces
Sputnik Sweetheart

>> No.7190305

>>7190299
First time reading Nietzsche?

>> No.7190320

>>7190282
have you read all quiet on the western front?

>> No.7190327

What army?

Are you encouraged to read Anti-Western work like Dugins?

>> No.7190334

The Business of War. Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe by David Parrott

Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster

the first is an academic study of the role and relationship of mercenaries with state militaries. the second is an account of the allied invasion of europe by a man who interrupted his pursuit of a literature degree at harvard to enlist as a paratrooper.

>> No.7190338

>>7190327
No. Not encouraged at all.
But considering that we may fight them, proxy or direct, I want to understand a more intellectual side of their perspective.

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7190352

>tfw I keep buying new ones even though I already have a backlog of around 20 books

>> No.7190354
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>>7190352
We all know this feel.

>> No.7190359

>>7190354
What was the feel?

>> No.7190362
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>tfw I keep buying new ones even though I already have a backlog of around 20 books

>>7190354
sorry anon, it was sideways so I had to post it right-side up

>> No.7190377

Brave New World
Kafka's The Judgement and In The Penal Colony short stories
The Trial
Notes From the Underground
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Stranger

>> No.7190384

>>7190377
>How to Win Friends and Influence People

You got meme'd, son

>> No.7190394

>>7190384
Found a copy published in 1938 so had to buy it mate. Cost me 0.20 euros.

>> No.7190397

>>7190362
Fuck yeah the mahabharata is dope

>> No.7190418

>>7190287
>Not understanding that I'm telling you to read a fucking book before you start a conversation about it

>>7190291
Yeah let's shitpost and then others can shitpost and we'll all shitpost.

>> No.7190432

Read Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Really changed my perception on the second world war and National Socialist ideology.

>> No.7190443

>>7190253
Are you an actual fascist or just reading up on it?

>> No.7190444

In the past few months:

Li-Young Lee - The City in Which I Love You
Adonis/Mattawa - Collected Poems
David Markson - Wittgenstein's Mistress
David Markson - Reader's Block
Li Shangyin/Garcia-Roberts - Derangement of my Contemporaries
Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl - In the Next Room

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old paperback galore!

>> No.7191383

>>7190253
Where the fuck are you from and how much did you fucking pay for that copy of eumeswil

>> No.7191420

>>7190465

I see you have the good book. The adromeda strain.

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>>7190253
>fascism
Cute :3

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>>7190362
>tfw backlog keeps being at 18-20

>> No.7191710

>>7190418
>stop fucking triggering me guys!

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Do I confirm this order, /lit/?

>> No.7191824

>>7191715
How is the art of the deal? Should I read it?

>> No.7191830

>>7191824
I don't know, thats why I asked if I should confirm the order.

>> No.7191837

>>7190362
>took the dust jacket off the Hackett complete works of Plato

My man. It might be the shittiest, flimsiest dust jacket I've ever fucking seen.

>tfw my backlog includes 1600 out of the 1800 pages of Plato's complete works, but I just bought Kierkegaard's two ages and keep fetishizing the gradual accumulation of the complete Hong translations of his works
>tfw have 5 books on Napoleon that I want to buy and read, but I just started reading about ancient Rome and will probably not reach Napoleon for almost a year

>> No.7191853

>>7191824
It's a book about Donald trump, of course not. Well, unless you're into memes and meme humans, then yeah sure it's worth your while

>> No.7191882

>>7191853
DUDE

REPUBLICANS

LAMO

>> No.7191888

In the miso soup by Ryu Murakami
Tempo di uccidere by Ennio Flaiano
Nobody move by Denis Johnson
A little history of the world by gombrich ernst h.

planning to buy some Italian/French comics now

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>>7190253

Where did you get Eumeswil?!?

This came in the mail recently. I'm looking forward to reading it when I have more free time. I also got the Butcher by Alina Reyes and Nothing Natural by Jenny Diski.

>> No.7191997

>>7190253
Whoa, whoah, whoah. Is that a reprinting of Eumeswil in English? Where can I get this?

>> No.7192449

The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism
The Hegel Myths and Legends
Hegel Dictionary
Genesis and Structure of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Hypollite
Philosophy of History
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
Hegel and Aristotle (Modern European Philosophy)
Cambridge Companion to Aristotle
Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy

MECW Volume 25 (anti-Duhring & Dialectics of Nature)
MECW Volume 3 (Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right)
The German Ideology
The Lenin Anthology
Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
Auguste Blanqui and the Art of Insurrection

What is to Be Done? (Chernyshevsky)
Red Star
Utopia (More)
News From Nowhere
Looking Backward
The Iron Heel
Darkness at Noon

Red Star Over China
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Born of the People

Philippine Folk Tales (Forgotten Books)
The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

>> No.7192554

>>7191715
>not Rosenzweig for Jewish mysticism

>> No.7192557

>>7191984
telospress

>> No.7192585

>>7191984

I saw something in the NYtimes book review about her a few weeks ago that compared her to Borges I think

>> No.7193055

>>7191383
It's on amazon right now.
30$ from Telus Press

>> No.7193058

>>7193055
Telos**

>> No.7193198

>>7193055
not on .ca apparently shit cost so much it hurts, but on the telos site it's 26$ but i doubt they deliver here

>> No.7193244

>>7192449
You're buying too much titles at once. I'm sure you won't read half of them.

>> No.7193314

>>7190266
I am very interested in stuff like this, so post more!

>> No.7193894

>>7190282
>Storm of Steel
>Novel

>> No.7193903

>>7193055
>30 fucking dollars

For fuck sake.

>> No.7193905

>>7190253
You tried Infantry Attacks by Rommel?

>> No.7193941

>>7191888
10/10

>> No.7194531

Just bought today:

The Essential Kabbalah
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E.Lawrence
The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel
Brief History of Ancient Rome (Oxford)
The Annals by Tacitus

How'd I do, lit?

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7194704

Ordered this... What am I in for?

>> No.7195023

>>7194531
>The Essential Kabbalah
literally why
>The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Sure, why not
>The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
Meme-tier
>Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel
>Brief History of Ancient Rome (Oxford)
>The Annals by Tacitus
Good books

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7195059

Should be here tomorrow. Catching up on /lit/'s top 100 books picture.

>> No.7195412

found all of these in a bargain bin last week:

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
The Sirens of Titan
All the Pretty Horses
Fahrenheit 451 (I liked the 60th Anniv. cover so I bought it again)
Bleeding Edge

>> No.7195432

Animal farm
Lord of the flies
Death of Ivan ilych
Tropic of cancer

Rate.

>> No.7195433

>>7195059
If that's USD, you paid too much, anonski. Good books tho.

>> No.7195469

>>7195059
>I am a Cat at 6 dollars

where did you find that?

>> No.7195477

>>7195469
looks like thrift books

>> No.7195557

>>7195023
>>The Essential Kabbalah
>literally why
I like mysticism.

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>>7193903
Jünger's pretty expensive in my experience and most places only carry the edited version of Storms of Steel to boot.
Also I find there's almost no chance picking him up at antiquaries, though I did find a copy of On The Marble Cliffs. Weird book.

Fucking Jünger.

>> No.7196551

>>7195751
ü

>> No.7196806

>>7195433
$12 is too much for three books?

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>> No.7196926

>>7196921
do you like harlan ellison?

>> No.7196941

>>7196926
Actually ive never read any of his work. Came highly recommended though so when i saw this stack of books for a steal i grabbed them.

>> No.7196945

The men with green faces

>> No.7196956

>The Death of Ivan Illych and other stories
>Heartsnatcher
>Lolita
>Taipei

Had a birthday last September. I got a small mountain of books that aren't listed here.

>> No.7196965

>>7196941
>>7196921

Would you guys say "I Have no Mouth..." is a good place to start? I want to get more into him.

>> No.7197099

>>7190253
>Eumeswil
Mad jealous of you tbh fam

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7197111

I'm not sure if anyone read this, but if so, is it worth 10 euros? Andrew Solomon. - Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost (It's the hardcover & fully intact)

>> No.7197144

>>7196965
What part of 'never read any of his work' is too hard to grasp? Read it and find out.

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Is this in your German art of war collection?

I suggest Hitler's Army by Command magazine
Richard A. Gabriel's Subaoti the valiant
Dairy of a Napoleonic foot soldier- Jackob Walter