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Board rules Anonymous 01/06/2016 (Wed) 01:52:10 [Preview] No. 4 [Reply]

The only rules currently in force are the site wide global rules. These can be found here:
https://endchan.xyz/.static/globalRules.html

The maximum characters per post appears to be about 2,035. Long posts will be truncated and posted by the system without warning. Bit of a nasty surprise that. We are looking into increasing the count.

In addition to the usual assortment of image-board attachments, PDFs and ZIPed files are supported.

Catalog: https://endchan.xyz/lit/catalog.html

Welcome to /lit/. Enjoy your stay.

Edited last time by litchanwit on 04/13/2016 (Wed) 19:05:34.

Anonymous 01/06/2016 (Wed) 02:51:23 [Preview] No. 5 [Reply]

Last book you've read thread

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Anonymous 01/10/2016 (Sun) 04:48:09 [Preview] No. 17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium_%28Suvorov%29

>The account starts in 1969, when Suvorov, as an ordinary tank company commander, is recruited into intelligence analysis by an up-and-coming Lieutenant Colonel. From there he transfers to Spetsnaz and, from there, into the GRU proper. A combination of circumstances lead to his eventual defection to the British.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov

It was interesting and entertaining, and also a quick read. Pretty much biographical but with lots of insight or anecdotes into Soviet military/intelligence life. I need to start on one of his other books.

There have been a few recent news stories that I read and made me think of this book (I read Aquarium about four months ago).

The head of the GRU recently died, some have implied there might be more the story. Anything involving the GRU is probably not as it seems

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35226131

For some reason there was a story recently lamenting the loss of a TOW missile to Cuba, "accidentally" sent there. Although Aquarium is from 1985 it talks about recovering an earlier version of the TOW missile from a farmer, the west is extremely lax with military technology. Suvarov wonders why but you can read between the lines and figure out that the west intentionally leaks tech to spur the expensive development of the next generation.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/missing-u-s-missile-shows-up-in-cuba-1452213667

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Anonymous 01/10/2016 (Sun) 14:54:41 [Preview] No. 19

>>17

Your synopsis brings to mind the fictional story The Human Factor by Graham Greene, and the real life story of Kim Philby.

I think I will give this a look.

>I don't think I can upload epub here though.

A quick test returns:
>A file had a format that is not allowed by the server.

What you can do is zip up the file and upload that.

(The following link is to another locked thread) regardez:
>>18

Anonymous 01/22/2016 (Fri) 05:41:11 [Preview] No. 20

>>16

No, but written by a comic book writer. It's a decent little pulp story. While his prose isn't fantastic the story is carried on the tonal consistency and strength of its premise (1965 robots have certain limitations that make being a detective difficult).

Anonymous 01/22/2016 (Fri) 06:06:13 [Preview] No. 21

>>5
while technically the last thing i read was the republic, im not going to count it because it was an audiobook. instead im going to say the enchiridion, as it was the last thing i actually read. read it on here http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index-Epictetus.html, and it got me interested enough in stoicism that i went and bought pic related. i must say im really enjoying so far because for one it has annotations on just about every page that give the reader historical context or the meaning of certain phrases, along with an explanation on who this or that person is whenever they are initially brought up, which is quite helpful if you havent looked at the roman empire through a magnifying glass. it also has a brief forward by the translator explaining his intent for this translation, which i found quite nice compared to just being thrown into the mish mash version of it on MIT's site.

Anonymous 01/22/2016 (Fri) 07:01:16 [Preview] No. 22

Metro 2033. Does the whole "Tell everyone you meet your life story and your views on life, death and the afterlife" really happen in Russia?

The bunker is a thing now Anonymous 01/09/2016 (Sat) 05:34:35 [Preview] No. 11 [Reply]

>Redis, our caching layer, has fallen over and cannot get up. Someone yell at Josh.

Looks like we guessed right, there is a need for this place after all.

If you are coming in from the cold that is Next, make yourself at home. Or, even better, make this your new home and welcome welcome.

Anonymous 01/09/2016 (Sat) 05:42:07 [Preview] No. 12

Reminder infinity next is going to be a term that is synonymous with terminal brain cancer if uttered in the same sentence as imageboard hardware

Board capabilities experimentation thread. Anonymous 01/08/2016 (Fri) 14:59:33 [Preview] No. 7 [Reply]

[Thread Locked] Live testing of board functionality.

Edited last time by litchanwit on 01/08/2016 (Fri) 17:47:04.

Anonymous 01/08/2016 (Fri) 15:00:59 [Preview] No. 8

Pushan some big iron guide.

EAT PROSODY PAL! Anonymous 01/08/2016 (Fri) 15:18:51 [Preview] No. 9

Field guide to some serious poundan'.

Anonymous 01/08/2016 (Fri) 15:30:38 [Preview] No. 10

Well kick my ass in a bible fight and call me pleb.

I've found me a place full of solutions without pain, and from problems refrain. I'm in love again!

Have ye a gram of greene Anonymous 01/10/2016 (Sun) 14:48:16 [Preview] No. 18