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Favorite Books/Short Stories Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:54:19 2017 No.9259276 [Reply] [Original]

Alright kind strangers, let's have a favorite book thread. A good friend of mine recommended that I do this and he promised me you wouldn't bully me for my tastes. Let's see if that's true.

1. Starship Troopers
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. Johnny Got His Gun
4. Catch-22
5. To Kill a Mocking Bird
6. Ender's Game
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. 1984
9. Freakonomics
10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

And you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:16:24 2017 No.9259342 This looks like a crypto-sci fi thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:20:34 2017 No.9259361 >>9259276 You should read Julius Evola and then kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:53:07 2017 No.9259475 >>9259342 No I just like Sci Fi personally, what are your favorite books? >>9259361 Taken under advisement.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:30:22 2017 No.9260317

jean rhys - after leaving mr. mackenzie
jane bowles - two serious ladies
ronald firbank - the flower beneath the foot
william morris - the roots of the mountains
frank o'hara - lunch poems
john wheelwright - collected poems
christina stead - the man who loved children
cao xueqin - dream of the red chamber
murasaki shikibu - tale of genji
ted hughes - selected early poems

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 09:24:38 2017 No.9261043

Moon is a harsh mistress-- Heinlein
Shop class as Soulcraft -- Crawford
Storm of Steel-- Juenger
To Hell and Back-- Murphy
Space Trilogy-- CS Lewis
Mere Christianity-- CS Lewis
Brs Karamazov-- Dostoyevsky
War and Peace-- Tolstoy
Confessions of St. Augustine
Enemy at the Gates-- William Craig

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 12:24:54 2017 No.9261826
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>>9259276

>Starship Troopers

This is notoriously one of the worst well known sci-fi books of all time. The fact that it got an award was a huge meme back in the day and triggered a lot of people. And then it was all spaghetti'd up because a lot of people misinterpreted the criticism into being just a reactionary bias against fascism, when in fact the novel just fails to be a fucking decent novel on a technical standpoint, fascism or not.

The characters are non-entities, nothing happens except just a bunch of political ideology being spouted in a fucking bootcamp. There is no forward pace, the prose is cardboard. It SUCKS.

The movie is great because it's a perfect parody of the source material, while at the same time doing what the source material should have done in the first place. More bug killing and human comradery.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 14:42:12 2017 No.9262521 >>9261826 >being this wrong

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 14:51:53 2017 No.9262563 >>9259276 Have you read the other two books in the military sci-fi trinity? - Armor by Steakley - Forever War by Haldeman You can skip Old Man's War.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 15:08:56 2017 No.9262653 >>9262563 I've read Forever War but not Armor. I'll have to pick it up sometime.

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