/lit/ - Literature

>>18211099

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>>18211099
Bias confirmation bs for a midwit with no genuine interest in literature.

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>>18211117
Yeah this guy will won’t be Napoleon or even a mid tier US wwii general.

God, it explains the absolute state of the US military though

America is fucked

>people's history of United States and Roots of Strategy have pristine spines
>Seven pillars of wisdom has damaged spine, likely from being repeatedly read

Not many of those books have been read. The ones that do likely haven't been read by that man.

No you didn’t and no he isn’t.

>>18212564
Do you think these dudes’ houses are Fort Knox or something?
> “Hey bro can you take pics of your dad’s bookshelf for me I want to check out what he’s reading”
> “Sure bro”
What about that is unbelievable? That I worded it in a clickbait-y sort of way for (You)s?

He's got Hemingway and London. If he actually reads them he had my respect.

>>18212638
Has not had *

>>18212535
good fuck that little hat howard zinn

>>18212643
leave it, it's funnier that way

No Tom Clancy? That's not a dad

>>18212545
I don't get this. Only some of my read books have cracked spines. A lot of them have no visible cracking, unless you look really close.

>>18211099
Embarrassing.

Is your "Friend's Dad" aspiring to be school shooter.

>>18211099
the taliban book is good, have read, would recommend, though it's now a bit too old

>>18211099
I'm getting strong DC area vibes. Is he retired? Or working as some kind of lobbyist. .

>>18211099
Kids in china probably read harder shit.

>>18211099
So /lit/, what books would you recommend to a fresh 2LT in the USAF?

>>18211334
>me want power
>me want money
Yeah Napoleon was a real genius.

>>18213344
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd

>>18211099
It's 90% pop history
I would be expecting like studies instead of literally American Sniper.

>>18213373
if napoleon was not a genius, then genius does not exist

>>18211099
Yeah no what do you expect? He's a general, not a scholar. He didn't get to where he was by reading, he got to where he was by doing. Even if books like American Sniper are "low brow", they're relevant to his job and lifestyle, and probably what his colleagues are reading. There may be a lack of literature that opposes what he thinks, but not many people are big enough to read something they know they won't like (would you ever read twilight?).
Not to mention that there's absolutely nothing wrong with reading books you enjoy. Stop gloating in your "eclectic tastes" like a r/music highschooler who just discovered /mu/core.

>>18211101
>Lake Wobegon
Certified boomer, so he's definitely in the age range for a general.

>>18213344
Catch-22, if you haven't already read it.

>>18213976
>He's a general, not a scholar
You would be suprised how much work of a general is just scholarly. Military academies don't jerk off over American Sniper. They apply rigorous methods just like any type of science.

>>18213336
>Kids in china probably read harder shit
what did you expect from a burger ZOGbot?

>>18214193
>You would be suprised how much work of a general is just scholarly. Military academies don't jerk off over American Sniper. They apply rigorous methods just like any type of science.

I 100% believe this is a career officer's bookshelf, and if he's got a kid old enough to be posting on 4chan he probably is a general.

>>18214770
I mean
>book about running
>old military manuals
>pop military history
>token boomer fiction
Regarding the last two categories, the specific selection screams "military guy".

>>18211117
Correct, but this guy still reads far more books than the average American.

>>18214774
Specifically, he's in the Army.

>>18212630
No I think the story is made up from start to finish

Ghost wars by Steve coll is a fantastic book. Well written and well researched.

>>18214866
You’re somewhat correct in your suspicions, he’s only a one star (brigadier) general. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘story’ though, all I did was ask my friend to take pics of what his dad reads

>>18213319
No, but I think he’s on the way out right now. Don’t want to doxx, but east coast that’s not not DC

>>18214915
didn’t mean to say ‘not’ twice

>>18214920
...or did you?

>>18211101
>starship troopers
>sparknotes for orwell
lmao
it all makes sense for a US general. random polisci/international affairs shit, boomer novels. whatever

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>>18214870
Kinda fascinated by the idea of generals reading Ghost Wars like even they want the "secret history" of Afghanistan.

>>18213274
This comes up every time. Raised-by-wolves Anons who can't imagine reading a book without trashing it. I have to assume they've never touched anything antiquarian.

bump

>>18216823
to keep it interesting here’s an eval form

>>18216988
Lmao is this real?

>>18217092
yes, you can tell because of the misspellings

>>18211117
Kinda true but still harsh.

>>18211108
>Bruce Springsteen, Lake Wobegon, and Thomas Fucking Friedman
No wonder this country hasn't won a war in 30 years

>>18217599
Everything about America is rotten down to its core, including the shitty Constitution.
I wish there was a way to range IP block Amerimutts.

>>18211099
My Dad was a pretty distinguished naval officer for 30 years and got up to commanding two huge ships (a guided missile destroyer and a cruiser), also went to Iraq for both wars. He's an odd guy who doesn't get out of the house that much and seems pretty bubbled in as a person. Very caustic personality as well but he can turn the charm on when he needs to. Odd, almost victorian sense of honor. I get the impression he's probably a cut above most of the people he knows in terms of iq but is in kind of a melancholic mental state. He reads the usual boomer stuff like Ayn Rand, Chrisopher Hitchens, and Guns, Germs, and Steel. But then he'll also read surprisingly advanced stuff like Robert Musil, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Hardy etc. He's got a real interest in things like Austen, Dickinson, and Shakespeare which he mostly keeps to himself. As well as a fondness for classic art like Vermeer and Schiele

>>18213196
lel'd you can usually spot these thick ass paperbacks with super bright contoured lettering
>>18215432
would you read a book about the pandemic?

>>18217652
I would be he had a great English teacher at some point

>>18217913
I feel like it's a mix of pretentiousness and genuine intelligence. He's funny at dinner table conversations because he saws through people's opinions of things in a mocking manner and shows surprising insight. Then turns around with this high school jock sense of humor so as not to be taken seriously

>>18215432
I mostly buy paperbacks (young and middle class) so almost every book I read ends up with some creases

>>18211101
>two copies of the naked and the dead

>>18211099
Looks like an average boomer’s bookshelf. There are a lot of 1 star generals that are just decent pilots or paper pushers that got promoted up through age and attrition with pretty average intellectual abilities for a college graduate who probably did 2-3 years in their 25-30 year career at the War College of some other school. ITT europoors and children sperging out that a military careerist isn’t reading Hegel for fun

>>18212535
I keep a couple of copies of Zinn around to wipe my ass with, commie fantasy propaganda makes solid TP

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>>18212564
cringe

>>18212535
Name two documents more damaging to American historiography than 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' and 'A People's History'
Isn't it so curious that Zinn and Diamond are both J*ws?