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/lit/ Book Club Thread Nanonymous No.16476 [D][S][L][A][C]
Hello, Nanons. I`ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but I was hesitant it would not be well received among a /g/ atmosphere board. I have noticed that few on here do have interest in literature, even /g/ posters read a programming book or two. Full transparency, I am not the Nanon who started the book recommendation thread, but his inquiry gave me the confidence to go ahead with is idea. That said, the idea behind this is stupidly simple:

1. We come to an agreement as to what book we read. (The E-Book format will be provided in the thread).
2. We determine how long until we reconvene to this thread. (Ex: Two or Three weeks).
3. Discuss our thoughts about the book. (No limits as to what you may discuss, just be sure to effort post).

I cannot stress enough, but effort posting is essential. If you feel like your reply isn`t up to par, don`t feel rushed to post it. This book club is designed to be inherently slow, so we may all gather our thoughts appropriately, and fit it into our schedules. For future reference: I will define a "session" as the point from which we recommend books to the point of when we are finished discussing the book we choose. When you recommend a book, be sure to attach the file to your post. For more than one book, reply to your post with just the attached file.

Basic Rules:
Keep recommendations to three books per "session."
Big effort posting.
Be transparent and honest.
All books must be in E-Book format and available for you to post.

Nanonymous No.16478 [D][U][F] >>16490
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Now, to start this off. Feel free to give your take on the overall idea, but also provide literature for us to read. Here`s my recommendation as to what we should read for this session:

"Hellstorm," by Goodrich Thomas
This is a historical read, that goes in-depth of the hardships experienced by the German people during World War II. Right off the start, he writes of accounts describing women being nailed to barn doors and raped, children mutilated and men castrated.

I`m going to keep my recommendation down to one, as to not over saturate the thread. Also, most of the E-Books in my collection are historical. I find myself interested in science fiction, but really any genre I am open to reading. Even a scholarly articles, lol. Your recommendation posts do not have to be super effort postings, for the book will speak for itself. Let`s say, this upcoming Saturday is when we will make our final decision as to which book we will read. And our agreed upon time frame will begin the following Monday.

Nanonymous No.16489 [D][U][F] >>16491 >>16496
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Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
A good look at the US, Britain, France, and Germany from a financial perspective during the interwar period. Discussion of reparations, debt, booms and busts, and the transition to keynesian economics.

>It was not simply the extraordinary numbers involved; it was the dizzying speed at which prices were now soaring. In the last three weeks of October, they rose ten thousandfold, doubling every couple of days. In the time that it took to drink a cup of coffee in one of Berlin’s many cafés the price might have doubled. Money received at the beginning of the week lost nine-tenths of its buying power by the end of the week. It became meaningless to talk about the price of anything, because the numbers changed so fast. Economic existence became a race. Workers, once paid weekly, were now paid daily with large stacks of notes. Every morning big trucks loaded with laundry baskets full of notes rolled out of the Reichsbank printing offices and drove from factory to factory, where someone would clamber aboard to pitch great bundles to the sullen crowds of workers, who would then be given half an hour off to rush out and buy something before the money became worthless. They grabbed almost anything in the shop to barter later on for necessities in the flea markets, which had sprung up around the city.

Nanonymous No.16490 [D][U][F] >>16491 >>16496
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>>16478
Count me out I think, I don't like e-books, I didn't get past hegel and existentialists for the last three years because of that.
>historical (novels)
Yeah.
>science fiction, fantasy
Yeah no, only swift-tier.

I'll be reading mostly books untranslated to english next month and some pseudolingustic shit, but I'll be also reading Les Voyageurs de l'Impériale, Aurélien and Nadja so I'm suggesting those.

Nanonymous No.16491 [D] >>16496 >>16497
>>16490
>Count me out I think, I don't like e-books
I'm sure we could pick something that you could find a physical copy for, though obviously it would be more expensive. I just checked for >>16489, and it's supposed to be in stock in various bookstores near me, might be true for you as well.

Nanonymous No.16496 [D] >>16498
>>16490
>>16491
If it`s just the three of us, then it would be a lot easier to accommodate our personal preferences.

>>16489
I`ve yet to read a book on historical finance; reading the prologue up to the third chapter has me interested. For context, my only in-depth study into 20th century economics was the founding of the Federal Reserve and it`s affiliation with Zionism. My foreknowledge is superficial at best.

>>16490
Kek. Nanon, I think you have the most exotic taste out of the three of us. Though, your company is more than welcome. I`ll attempt to find one of the recommendations by Saturday.

Nanonymous No.16497 [D]
>>16491
If it isn't too esoteric it could probably be borrowed from a first world library for free.

Nanonymous No.16498 [D][U][F] >>16499
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>>>16496
>exotic
Both Aragon and Bréton are classics. They are even in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century

Nanonymous No.16499 [D]
>>16498
Nope. Can`t say I am familiar. I`ve been through World Literature courses extensively, and I have never been subjected to those writings. In fact, I haven`t had a single literature class go over any of the writings on the list. Authors, I recognize, but not the titles. The course material the Literature classes choose is usually the standard, "The Norton Anthology of World Literature," volumes A through F.

Though, the probably answer is because those are relatively recent publishing, compared to what World Literature classes study. Thank you for the list, Nanon.

Nanonymous No.16501 [D][U][F]
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OP of the other book thread. I’m reading Juan In China right now, but I’m thinking of picking up I Am A Cat next. It’s a historical fiction novel based in the late Japnese Meji period, (it was written in 1905-6) and explores the culture of the Japanese at that time, particularly their relation to the new and rapidly Westernising/Modernising Japan, and its all told through the eyes of a house cat.

Sounds pretty interesting to me, what do you guys think?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat

Nanonymous No.16508 [D] >>16509
I was about to start "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" by Robert Heinlein. I have a few other bookes, science fiction and otherwise, I can list that I was planning on reading. However, I am open to reading pretty much anything. I like this idea OP. Good thread.

Nanonymous No.16509 [D]
>>16508
>bookes
books*

Nanonymous No.16521 [D] >>16522 >>16562 >>16566 >>16595
Maybe we should start with a short book to test the whole "book club" format out. Or we could read just parts of a longer book. I'd recommend "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. It's a true classic and you get much out of it's beauty and underlying philosophy. But of course it's not a short book.

Nanonymous No.16522 [D] >>16559 >>16567 >>16569 >>16633
>>16521
I don't know why, but everytime I want to post with an uploaded PDF I get an error from nanochan.
My other two recommendations for the session are:
Otto Weininger: Sex and Character
Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.

Nanonymous No.16559 [D] >>16569
>>16522
What's the error, and how does it look like? Is the file over 16MiB in size?

Nanonymous No.16562 [D][U][F] >>16570
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>>16521
Nadja is hella short.

Nanonymous No.16566 [D][U][F]
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>>16521
Here is Moby Dick.

Nanonymous No.16567 [D][U][F]
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>>16522
"Sex and Character"

Nanonymous No.16569 [D][U][F]
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>>16522
"Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution"

>>16559
I think, the size was the error. Although I just tried to upload an 1MB epub and I got a file error. One Nanon already uploaded an epub, so it has to be possible. But anyways, thanks for your help!

Nanonymous No.16570 [D] >>16589 >>16594
>>16562
Do you happen to also have a pdf for the Aragon book in English translation?

Nanonymous No.16589 [D]
>>16570
There is none.

Nanonymous No.16594 [D]
>>16570
Depending on how interested you are in it, you could run the french version through deepl. The translations are generally passable, it would probably only fuck up a few scattered words.

Nanonymous No.16595 [D] >>16634
Okay guys, we need to choose a book if this is going to happen. My vote is for >>16521

Nanonymous No.16597 [D]
Yeah, why not. I’ll also go with Moby Dick.

Nanonymous No.16632 [D]
How long do we have to read it? I know its pretty long, so maybe a few weeks?

Nanonymous No.16633 [D][U][F]
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>>16522
>short book
How about The Marching Morons?
It's an hour long read.

Nanonymous No.16634 [D][U][F]
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>>16595
>short book
How about The Marching Morons?
It's an hour long read.

Nanonymous No.16641 [D]
I reread Eugene Onegin today, AMA.