Every time I read anything from Stephen King, I think he really gets the American spirit. I mean, fanatical cults, domestic terrorism, serial killers and crazy murders, hardcore school bullying and school shootings, assassination of presidents, UFO paranoia, drug addiction, satanism... Everything is there in his books.
>What King stories have fanatical cults
The Stand, Under the Dome, Revival, The Tommyknockers, Dr. Sleep >domestic terrorism
Insomnia and I'm sure there are others
King's Rage, for example, depicts something close to a school shooting two decades before Columbine; The Dead Zone is literally the story of a crazy man who must become a terrorist to save America; and Children of the Corn accurately tells what life is like in the countryside.
Rage is ridiculously expensive now for the original print. I was fortunate enough to get the Bachman Books original print, which included Rage before Columbine happened. Last I checked, that copy of the Bachman Books is worth ~$100AUD.
Rage was a good story, though. Very enjoyable.
Some weirdo book about Qanon trannies or something. Also, the book should be about some apocalyptic cult they form, and of course how it fails miserably
They usually can't. One thing that amazes me every time is that they always show the surface pretending it's the depth.
Not that I dislike it, quite the opposite. It can give birth to good literature. But they're fundamentally unable to see beneath the surface.
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Autism
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As Nietzsche said, all depth is on the surface.
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Nietzsche was a shitposter. You Americans need to dive more into European literature. Hundreds of great names you're missing out.
I've only been on this board for a few days and this is probably the second or third time you're recommending these same books, are you braindead to the point of being unable to say something different?
There's not even a need to read this book, you can sum it all up in saying that they revolutionized the efficiency of workers by placing the different things required for the creation of a burger in a convenient way that put requirements of someone working in the kitchen way lower and those who were even halfway competent managed to become very efficient. Everything else is basically meaningless, the jump from it being a mom & pop shop into becoming as influent as it is now is not really a mystery in any way, maybe they were some of the first ones to treat their workers with just the bare minimum but it's a thing that has become so common nowadays that pretty much everyone is aware of it.
Tell me something this book offers in terms of unique perspectives that go beyond what I just described.
>Tell me something this book offers in terms of unique perspectives that go beyond what I just described.
The author Ray Kroc is not the founder and creator of McDonald's. He came later, elbowed out the original McDonald's brothers that made it and took credit for it. The system existed before he joined in.
>Hebrews rule America >HEEBS RULE DA WORLD!!!!
The US and EU have the most wealthy people in the world. And they tell Israel what to do. Name the wealthiest israelites and I can name ten not israelites wealthier. Get over your nineteenth century meme
This >ripping off Indians for land >enslaving Black folks to make money without breaking a sweat >miscegenation >having your miscegenation comeback to but you in the ass
To add on to Rage, I'd like to recommend the three main Columbine books:
- Columbine (Dave Cullen)
- A Mother's Reckoning (Sue Klebold)
- No Easy Answers (Brooks Brown).
AMR and NEA were written by people that personally knew Eric and Dylan. They tell their stories of the 90s and what Eric and Dylan were like in the real world, before any of the tragedy happened.
Also, while we're on the topic of true crime, Deviant by some Harold S. guy (I can't for the life of me spell his last name). By the same guy is another book called Maniac, which is about the Bath School Bombing of 1927, which remains the deadliest mass murder in an American school (at least in modern history; I guess that one Indian mass killing would count but I forget if they killed more than Kehoe or not).
I think those true crime books are good at capturing the darker side of America.
To add on to Rage, I'd like to recommend the three main Columbine books:
- Columbine (Dave Cullen)
- A Mother's Reckoning (Sue Klebold)
- No Easy Answers (Brooks Brown).
AMR and NEA were written by people that personally knew Eric and Dylan. They tell their stories of the 90s and what Eric and Dylan were like in the real world, before any of the tragedy happened.
Also, while we're on the topic of true crime, Deviant by some Harold S. guy (I can't for the life of me spell his last name). By the same guy is another book called Maniac, which is about the Bath School Bombing of 1927, which remains the deadliest mass murder in an American school (at least in modern history; I guess that one Indian mass killing would count but I forget if they killed more than Kehoe or not).
I think those true crime books are good at capturing the darker side of America.
, but I recommended it as 'starting' material before you dive into the rabbit hole that is Columbine. Of course, it's still optional but it gives a good overview of the events that unfolded. I see how you mean he had an agenda though: he wrote a book about Nikolas Cruz, called Parkland, and that was absolute propaganda from what I've read of it.
Allan W. Eckert wrote "The Winning of America" series: 1) The Frontiersmen 2) The Wilderness Empire 3) The Conquerors 4) The Wilderness War 5) Gateway to Empire 6) Twilight of Empire
JR
A Fan's Notes
Ouch. Was thinking optimistically, along the lines of Leaves of Grass or something, but.. oh, well
I fear you're correct
Every time I read anything from Stephen King, I think he really gets the American spirit. I mean, fanatical cults, domestic terrorism, serial killers and crazy murders, hardcore school bullying and school shootings, assassination of presidents, UFO paranoia, drug addiction, satanism... Everything is there in his books.
well he gets the spirit of 1980s rural post-industrial New England for sure
What King stories have fanatical cults and domestic terrorism?
>What King stories have fanatical cults
The Stand, Under the Dome, Revival, The Tommyknockers, Dr. Sleep
>domestic terrorism
Insomnia and I'm sure there are others
Thank you
King's Rage, for example, depicts something close to a school shooting two decades before Columbine; The Dead Zone is literally the story of a crazy man who must become a terrorist to save America; and Children of the Corn accurately tells what life is like in the countryside.
Rage is ridiculously expensive now for the original print. I was fortunate enough to get the Bachman Books original print, which included Rage before Columbine happened. Last I checked, that copy of the Bachman Books is worth ~$100AUD.
Rage was a good story, though. Very enjoyable.
Avengers: Endgame
Some weirdo book about Qanon trannies or something. Also, the book should be about some apocalyptic cult they form, and of course how it fails miserably
bowling alone :^)
Emerson's prose and Whitman's verse.
That's probably true for the old, lost and dead American spirit. The third anon ITT is more spot on.
Yep, fear so
Blood Meridian or Naked Lunch
> Naked Lunch
The novel about pedophilia, drugs, and homosexual penetration?
The book about control
of your sphincter
Burgers can't see anything beneath the surface, can they?
They usually can't. One thing that amazes me every time is that they always show the surface pretending it's the depth.
Not that I dislike it, quite the opposite. It can give birth to good literature. But they're fundamentally unable to see beneath the surface.
Autism
As Nietzsche said, all depth is on the surface.
Nietzsche was a shitposter. You Americans need to dive more into European literature. Hundreds of great names you're missing out.
The American spirit SCREAMS. It’s not behind dozens of layers of degeneracy and postmodernism.
>dozens of layers of degeneracy and postmodernism.
How can you be so obtuse?
Naked Lunch is unAmerican. Get over it, gays.
You have to go back
I've only been on this board for a few days and this is probably the second or third time you're recommending these same books, are you braindead to the point of being unable to say something different?
I think Huck Finn
Lost in the Cosmos
Transgender athletes are the heart and soul of America so probably Elliot Pages memoir or something
Obviously the Bible.
Any books about worshipping Black folk honestly.
Grapes of wrath
Of mice and men
As I lay dying
King? Naked lunch? Zoomer gays really are clueless
There's not even a need to read this book, you can sum it all up in saying that they revolutionized the efficiency of workers by placing the different things required for the creation of a burger in a convenient way that put requirements of someone working in the kitchen way lower and those who were even halfway competent managed to become very efficient. Everything else is basically meaningless, the jump from it being a mom & pop shop into becoming as influent as it is now is not really a mystery in any way, maybe they were some of the first ones to treat their workers with just the bare minimum but it's a thing that has become so common nowadays that pretty much everyone is aware of it.
Tell me something this book offers in terms of unique perspectives that go beyond what I just described.
>Tell me something this book offers in terms of unique perspectives that go beyond what I just described.
The author Ray Kroc is not the founder and creator of McDonald's. He came later, elbowed out the original McDonald's brothers that made it and took credit for it. The system existed before he joined in.
Moby Dick
Dingdingsdingding the winner
The Bible embodies the Hebrews.
Never embodied Europe btw
>The Bible embodies the Hebrews
Hebrews rule America so it's a good reply. Torah and Talmud are also good replies for OP.
>Hebrews rule America
>HEEBS RULE DA WORLD!!!!
The US and EU have the most wealthy people in the world. And they tell Israel what to do. Name the wealthiest israelites and I can name ten not israelites wealthier. Get over your nineteenth century meme
This
>ripping off Indians for land
>enslaving Black folks to make money without breaking a sweat
>miscegenation
>having your miscegenation comeback to but you in the ass
Bout as American as it gets
To add on to Rage, I'd like to recommend the three main Columbine books:
- Columbine (Dave Cullen)
- A Mother's Reckoning (Sue Klebold)
- No Easy Answers (Brooks Brown).
AMR and NEA were written by people that personally knew Eric and Dylan. They tell their stories of the 90s and what Eric and Dylan were like in the real world, before any of the tragedy happened.
Also, while we're on the topic of true crime, Deviant by some Harold S. guy (I can't for the life of me spell his last name). By the same guy is another book called Maniac, which is about the Bath School Bombing of 1927, which remains the deadliest mass murder in an American school (at least in modern history; I guess that one Indian mass killing would count but I forget if they killed more than Kehoe or not).
I think those true crime books are good at capturing the darker side of America.
Columbine, by Dave Cullen, is essential if you want to start to understand the modern domestic terrorism in the West. A very good book indeed.
No, that one is notoriously inaccurate. It's Cullenbine. He has a very specific agenda at work.
I'm
, but I recommended it as 'starting' material before you dive into the rabbit hole that is Columbine. Of course, it's still optional but it gives a good overview of the events that unfolded. I see how you mean he had an agenda though: he wrote a book about Nikolas Cruz, called Parkland, and that was absolute propaganda from what I've read of it.
Notes of a Dirty Old Man.
As I Lay Dying
Any books about celebrating a lack of freedom while making fun of other countries for having more freedom.
Day of the Locust
not ignored one
Talmud to understand why, Bible to live there
Moby dick
Something about treating blacks as gods.
I long for a future where we have the hindsight to properly piece together the American war machine.
Allan W. Eckert wrote "The Winning of America" series: 1) The Frontiersmen 2) The Wilderness Empire 3) The Conquerors 4) The Wilderness War 5) Gateway to Empire 6) Twilight of Empire
All of Thomas Wolfe's novels
easiest answer of my life.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Self published My Little Pony x Naruto erotic fanfiction collection
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