Books that changed your life or books you think every man should read. I have the fit approved book list, need to try and find it and Ill upload it. But also looking for many more other recommendations.
conan the barbarian: the book based on the movie
Michael Chrichton's "Timeline"
Based /fit/bro in that book
It changed the way I approach risk.
>>31388355
Disgusting. Read Howards original work.
Gottfried Feder's manifesto
Squat everyday
Das Kapital
Welcome to the NHK(novel)
The Communist Manifesto
suck my dick, /pol/
read plato, anything by the stoics, everything by nietzsche, and myth of sisyphus by camus
should also read stuff about probability
Heart of Darkness and Slaughterhouse 5.
Also Holes
>>31388414
What is the deal with the influx of communists on /fit/? It's not a viable social structure, history demonstrates this
Night angel trilogy. Better train to be a killer.
>>31388475
>>31388414
>Das Kapital
>the communist manifesto
mein negerz
>>31388484
History says the same of capitalism too.
American Psycho. Not only is the batshit insanity entertaining as fuck, but I think is also a reminder to not take oneself too seriously as vanity in all forms is shown in a negative light
>>31388475
Random question: that isn't a book as such, right? It's a really a short text, a pamphlet on communism?
>>31388503
>not meine kameraden/Tavaritschi
You fucked up
>>31388484
there are serious (perhaps insurmountable) structural issues with leninism and stalinism, but communism - the absolute absence of a state, and a classless society - has literally never existed, and you won't find a single "communist" state that ever claimed to have achieved communism. So no, history has not proven that communism doesn't work.
History has shown us several deeply flawed attempts to reach communism - flawed attempts which we can learn from in an effort to built a better, less exploitative and callous world.
That's the only idea I'm married to.
The communist manifesto
Critique of pure reason/practical/judgment
Also anything by Plato
I'm pretty surprised to see other commies on /fit/ it makes me feel warm inside
>>31388565
Yeah it isn't really a manifiesto of communism, just Marx's agitation in germany during his time. Good introduction to his ideas though.
>>>>31388481
I love Heart of Darkness. The eerie atmosphere of the setting, the chaos. It's definitely up there
>>31388604
The paris commune, Ukrainian free territory, free catalonia, etc
>>31388565
It's about 50 pages. Too long for a pamphlet. A short story, perhaps.
>>31388641
but does it work
>>31388331
This book is really insightful. It really teaches you a lot about the workings of the human mind and yourself. I almost always have positive encounters with people after reading this book.
>>31388637
It was a pamphlet though
>>31388565
Yeah.
If you want a serious recommendation of the sort of texts I read which describe my intellectual journey from not giving a fuck to full communism now:
People of the Abyss
The Enigma of Capital
Das Kapital (there's a good series of read-along lectures on youtube by David Harvey, they're a big help when approaching Kapital for the first time)
Capital in the 21st Century
State & Revolution
>>31388648
It absolutely works
>>31388331
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa. Based on a true story about a wandering preacher named the Counselor who established an anarchic community based on free love and religion in a remote area of Brazil just before the turn of the 19th century. The Brazilian government had to sent 4 military expeditions against basically peasants before the settlement was crushed. One of my favorite books of all time
>>31388641
>>31388653
Beat me to it
>>31388648
Yes, absolutely. I highly recommend it.
>>31388615
I bought it ages ago and never read it for some reason. I think i'll give it a look today. Cheers
>>31388331
How to win friends and influence people.
It's like a shortcut to social cues and business tactics that everyone should know but overlook.
Sophie's world.
Decided I wanted some mind gains as well.end up making me start questioning my existence. Have a new found love for philosophy.
Tfw going thru a existental crisis.
>>31388657
Also: Lenin's "A Letter to American Working Men" is a short and easy read:
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/class-struggle/v2n5nov-dec1918.pdf
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
Mack Bolan series - Don Pendleton
The Art of Peace - Morihei Ueshiba
The Destroyer series - Warren Murphy
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
>>31388604
It is a flawed system because it is unattainable, as you have demonstrated.
Brave New World, Animal Farm and The New Testament. Better than this marxist shit.
>>31388530
There's really nothing to say if you actually believe that
>>31388691
would you be able to recommend anything for someone who has done the whole existential crisis thing and is now just really depressed?
can't really pinpoint one, I read a lot
but the book that spooked me the most was Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
>>31388484
>not a viable social structure
No ones done it yet. Every culture that has tried it hasn't followed the rules. So in the sense that humans are greedy little shits by nature...it's not viable. So based on human nature it's not viable...not because history showed a bunch of people who followed the shorthand version.
Also
If /fit/ is into fiction, read the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's top tier fiction writing.
>>31388749
I thought of this when I read your post, think you might like it. It's a bit out there as far as feasibility all things considered, but nonetheless interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4l3pBovB_c
>>31388749
so anything which hasn't happened yet, or which has failed in an experiment, is evidence that it will never work and should be given up on?
Boy i'm glad you aren't in charge of... well, anything.
Some serious academics have taken long hard looks at previous experiments and torn them to pieces - I'd recommend Janos Kornai's "The Socialist System" if you want an actually intelligent teardown of command-economy socialism, for example.
But a genuine, intellectually honest socialist or communist will be prepared to look that criticism in the face, take it on board, and ask "how can we do better?"
"it didn't work so just give up" is incredibly fucking lazy thinking. Especially when "it didn't work so give up" actually means "just let capitalism keep brutalising people forever"
>>31388814
Yes, that is my exact point, that humans are inherently self interested, and that prevents perfect communism from ever existing, which is a realization most people make in their late teens and it's also why communism has been the sole province of edgelords who argue with middle aged soccer mom's on Facebook and think they're leo strauss
>>31388786
Seneca. stoicism.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
>>31388414
>>31388475
Step it up, faggots
>>31388839
You're way too emotionally invested in this bud. Also strawmanning,
>>31388839
They didn't say "it didn't work, just give up".
They tried dozens of different variants, and all failed.
>>31388786
Different person. During my existential crisis:
books:
The Stranger - Albert Camus
film:
>The Seventh Seal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtkFei4wRjE
>Blade Runner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcZHjKJBnE
>Taxi Driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLpMx8_TYOo
>Seven Samurai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mw6LyyoeGE
>>31388883
"i'm not prepared to actually read or anything lol, but here's what my social studies teacher told me about reds under the bed and Why Communism Will Never Work"
>>31388786
Nausea by Sartre
>>31388630
all failed
>>31388641
I would have posted this one as well. Great book for dealing with a lot of negative people in today's world.
I enjoyed reading "Ride the Tiger" and got me into works by Nietzsche and René Guénon (Crisis of the Modern World is a very interesting read as well)
>actually taking communist propaganda seriously
not gonna make it
>>31388331
factotum by charles bukowski
basic economics by thomas sowell
how to win friends and influence people
any college book that is an introductory to something or is for a 101 class.
>>31388917
Good argument, way to refute my points
>>31388934
>The Paris Commune
>failed
"the First Regiment of naval infantry stormed into the cemetery. Savage fighting followed around the tombs until nightfall, when the last 150 guardsmen, many of them wounded, were surrounded; and surrendered. The captured guardsmen were taken to the wall of the cemetery, known today as the Communards' Wall, and shot."
these cowards being executed are proof that a classless society can never work
>>31388331
The Book of Pook
>>31388604
It will never work. Greed is human nature. Those who seek power will attempt to gain it through any means, including exploiting what is otherwise a benevolent social system.
>>31388917
Communists are low test beta males
>muh equality of outcome
You'd steal gains if you could to improve your own flabby body, commie goblin
>>31388960
>not posting based Women
I've only read Women and Post Office. Both were 9/10. What's Factotum about? Is it any good?
>>31388966
thanks
>>31388999
trips never fucking lie
deal with it pinkos
>>31388985
And afterward 3 divisions were directed into the city and the revolt crushed.
So yes. Failed.
>>31388941
Way of Men and A Sky Without Eagles are also some decent reads - just common sense stuff that men inherently should know.
>>31389009
That's about all the response you'll get until you try something besides ad hominem
>>31388994
>Greed is human nature
self interest is human nature, greed is different.
all animals are self-interested.
>>31388819
what a delusional old cunt
>Dec of 1991+
>believing in communism
Go to bed, Ivan Ivanovich
>>31389008
it is about being poor and drinking and working crappy jobs. go read it now. every idealistic young person should read it in order to undrstand how cruel the world is. If I posted women not many people would understand ( you know where you are right?).
the novel he wrote about showbiz was okay. pulp was nice and easy. most of his short stories are gems.
Bible.
>>31388371
Pic related for same reason.
Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies - the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy.
cyberpunk noir sf very violent
the main character is alpha as fuck
>>31388999
>>31388917
fuck off commie jew. No one agrees with you
>>31388999
There's one really simple trick to see if something is communist: does it have a state? Bureaucracy? Civil Service? Standing Armed forces? Police? If it do, it aint a communism. This was all laid out long before any of these states existed, so it's not exactly commies trying to shift the blame and cover their tracks.
>>31388331
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley/William Danko
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
Your Money or Your Life – Joe Dominguez
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy: by William Braxton Irvine
The Magic of Thinking Big: by David J Schwartz
Starting Strength – By Mark Rippetoe
Arnold’s Bodybuilding for Men – by Arnold
>>31389077
>short stories
I never knew he wrote shorts. I'll check them out
> being poor and drinking and working crappy jobs
So pretty much like Women and Post Office? That description probably sounds boring to people who haven't read his books, but it excites me. Bukowski is awesome. Depressive realism coupled with humor and lucidity.
>>31389118
False, that's merely the final stage of communism. A government that strives towards that is still a communist government.
>>31389106
the image was sorta ok until the chavez part. he was an asshole who got rich scamming his people and installed a pseudo-theocratic rule and cult around him
>>31389106
Noice, saved
>>31389156
variant
>>31388331
>Books that changed your life
Not gonna make it chasing epiphany after epiphany my young newfriend.
>>31389156
>he was an asshole who got rich scamming his people and installed a pseudo-theocratic rule and cult around him
So communism/socialism as it's actually found in the world.
>>31389183
Just for keks version
>>31389150
A government that works towards that is, by literal definition, a state and not communist by the definition of communism as put forward by the founders of the idea. It can be socialist, but a communist state is a contradiction in terms.
opinions about No More Mr Nice Guy?
it got my attention but are there any anons that read it?
>>31389082
based movie
>>31389234
Now we're just splitting hairs.
>>31389132
the way he writes about it is beautiful. it got turned into a movie that sucks, but the last scene is okay.
his poems are good but his short stories are where he is able to truly write about life.
if you search for factotum pdf you can read it online for free
one of my favorite poem of his
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW12Ealvj0s
iam drunk just like bukowksi hehe
![Erstausgabe_von_Mein_Kampf[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XWgnnkM.jpg "Erstausgabe_von_Mein_Kampf[1].jpg")
>>31388331
>>31389270
No, we're really not, because words have meanings and those meanings matter. A "communist government" or "communist state" cannot exist by definition, because the definition of communism is a stateless society - the state must (to use lenin's term) "wither away" as the need for it is eroded.
What you have before that is (to again use a commie term) the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which is a state designed to violently crush dissent and the resistance of the bourgeoisie. This is a class state like any other, but the difference being that it's a state of the majority oppressing the minority of bourgeoisie (as opposed to the usual state, which operates the opposite way round).
Even a true proletarian dictatorship is a rare sight (the paris commune probably counted).
The Dark Story of Eminem
Harry Potter books (really good, honestly)
The Dark Tower series
>>31388530
This.
>>31389251
just read it and think for yourself
>>31389341
Commie here. This is actually really good. Not for edgy reasons, just interesting.
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
>>31389341
Mein Bruder.
Johnathan Livingston Seagull
>>31388552
I found it difficult to read with all the long chapters about clothes and music but the rest was really interesting
Cleanse your minds from the degeneracy of post-modernism, brahs.
> Not wanting to be the poster boy of a regime which encourages hard work and eliminates fatties
> Capitalists are fat enablers.
> checkmate, atheists.
>>31388484
/fit/ is mostly college age users, the peak of naïve political faggotry.
>>31388481
>mfw recently bought Heart of Darkness on a book sale
Gonna read that amongst Gullivers Travels, Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes
>>31389757
an absolute game changer
>>31388477
Underrated post
>>31390072
>a smile spread across the lower half of Rachel Jeantel's chins
Not really a game changer, but still a nice book to challenge common thinking: Freakonomics by Seven Levitt
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
>>31389035
>>31388941
>>31388859
>humans are inherently self interested
nah, it's that "perfect" communism has a shit model of human nature
>>31391599
>masculinity is problematic and should be ridiculed
The Ginger Man
It's just fucking based
>>31388355
That was pretty good. I liked how it basically said he had ptsd from being a gladiator.
He original works are pretty good as are the Robert Jordan stories of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Bible
>>31391710
>conan
>ptsd
Disgusting.
>>31391760
Rambo
Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
>>31391739
Still my favorite after all these years. What a satisfying read.
>>31391688
Fucking
Based
Good tastes anon
>>31391760
It gave him more development as a character. Its pretty lame for a character to never have anything emotionally affect them. Its much deeper than CONAN MAD! CONAN HORNY! CONAN SMASH!
>>31388502
Based choice my man.
Anybody citing The Communist Manifesto is guaranteed to be 14.
Capital is another story, however. Marx truly was a one of a kind genius. Even if one does not walk away from the text a Marxist, his analysis (the surplus theory of value, and beyond) will forever change the way you see the world we live in, and what makes people tick.
>>31388764
Ayn, get out of this thread, you are drunk
>>31394580
cliffs??
alchemist, little prince, mt analogue
>>31389082
Chappies a fukin faggit kunt
>>31394625
Are you asking me for a cliffnotes version of Kapital? I'm fucking confused. Just go read it. You can sort of skim the parts where he goes through calculations with cotton and all that, if you just trace the general idea of what's happening. Even better, watch David Harvey's podcasts and read the book section by section. Harvey makes it easy and enjoyable.
https://7chan.org/lit/src/Robert_Glover_-_No_More_Mr_Nice_Guy.pdf
It fixes emotional issues that I'm sure many of you are suffering from.
Essential ancient literature:
>Herodotus
>Thucydides
>Iliad
>Aeneid
>Thebaid
>Posthomerica
>Cyropaedia
>Anabasis (Xenophon)
>Parallel Lives
>All the writings of Catullus, Martial and Callimachus
Essential Lucian:
>Hermotimus
>Demonax
>Dialogi mortuorum
>Cataplus and Nekyomanteia
>Navigium
Vegetius is somewhat useful if you're interested in the physical conditioning of the Roman army; Batrachomyomachia is a good Iliad pisstake.
>>31388331
First Blood, what it means to be a man
>>31391688
God-tier.
Actually reading Asimovs entire works starting from Caves of Steel through to Foundation and Earth is an all round (i cringe to use this term) epic experience.
Read his short story "The Last Question"
So fukken good ayyy
>>31388791
>Johnny Got His Gun
DARKNESS
>>31389341
>>31394690
I hope you're a fucking classics major. I can't imagine wasting one's time with that much Greek/Latin, unless you're doing it for the elbow-patched tweed.
the epic of gilgamesh
>>31388987
>The Book of Pook
this
The Dark tower series make me want to be a Barajas like Rolland, but there's a book called son of the mob it's a pretty good book it's for teenagers honestly but it helped me understand relationships and how perception over impression is more important
>>31395016
Badass* goddamn autocorrect
>>31389082
>why you build chappie just to die?
>>31388916
Read the stranger this year in HS it's the only good book we've red all year.
Has anyone ever read "The code of the warrior"?
I was thinking about getting it, but im not sure if its worth it or not.
>>31388331
The Aneid. There is no other.
>>31388331
A farewell to arms by Mark Rippletities
>>31388609
>Critique of pure reason
Blegh
>>31388916
>The Seventh Seal
Das it
>>31397881
kekekekekekekekek
>>31394708
IMPRISONING ME
>>31398233
ALL THAT I SEE
>>31389784
This
>>31388862
>31388862
>Seneca
Muh nigga.
read his complete works for my honours thesis. He's pretty solid. But, I liked Cicero better. Maybe because Cicero is so flippant.
>>31389692
Niiiiice
>>31398775
>honours thesis
shut up nerd
>>31388999
>You'd steal gains if you could to improve your own flabby body, commie goblin
SHOO SHOO COMMIE GOBLIN
>>31394690
>Not including the presocratics and fragments of the poets
>Not including Plato and Aristotle
>No Cicero or Seneca
Pretty solid list otherwise. Loving the Cyropaedia inclusion. I would include Hesiod also.
Also
>That moment in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War when Cleon actually puts his money where his mouth is and Thucydides isn't sure what to say.
haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
>>31394715
Not op, but yeah. It's also just interesting in a lot of ways
.>>31398794
Shieeeeet. Atleast I can deadlift lmao3pl8 for reps and I'm banging a Tibetan cop?
>>31398890
>I'm banging a Tibetan cop?
Liar. Tibet doesn't have cops. Only Chinese troops and Tibetan Monks.
The whole Harry Potter series
>>31389120
Thx for ths anon
Read Berserk son
>>31388331
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
It represents the last testament of a proud warrior race where the things that made a man a man were valued above all.
>inb4 nig
>I'm white
>>31389120
anywhere to download these?
>>31388484
History demonstrates that modern communism does not follow the original teachings from Marx but instead follow Leninism and Stalinism. Lenin didnt follow Marx and Stalin didn't follow Lenin.
Read the picture of dorian grey
summary: aesthetics are shit
>>31388331
Everything by Evola, Spengler and Nietsche
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
>>31399578
Look into Rene Guenon.
>>31388786
EPICURUS NIGGA
or Mark Twain
>>31388331
Native Son. About a poor black guy who kills a wealthy white girl accidentally but realizes how great it feels.
Brave New World
Spring Awakening
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (not even kidding, it's a great book)
>>31399578
>putting Evola in the same category as Nietzsche
Fuck you
>>31388987
THIS
Dune
Stranger in a strange land
Moby Dick
Philip K Dick (went through a PKD/heavy psychedelic phase with my kindle, all his works have kind of blended into one psuedo-reality in my mind, so can't pinpoint a specific work but now I feel like I'm living in a virtual reality constructed by my own mind existing in a realm outside of the simulation)
The Life of Pi* (read it when I was teen, opened up my mind to a lot of concepts that I disregarded entirely involving religion and possibilities of God, pretty good for an adolescent mind but probably not relevant to a developed thinker)
>>31394723
noice
![small-gods-2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/WvlGoBi.jpg "small-gods-2[1].jpg")
Discworld was a huge influence on me in my teenage years, and Small Gods pretty much encapsulates my views on religion.
Needless to say this was a subpar week for me.
>>31402635
;_;
>>31388475
Biggest load of fat neckbeard, NEET bullshit in human existence.
>>31388604
You from the Eastern block bitch? You hail from the Iron Curtain? Because I do, and you have no fucking idea what you are talking about you armchair revolutionary
>>31389341
Did you hear Germany is going to release a new copy of the book with like another 500 pages of c commentary by a bunch of Jewish University prof.?
>"MUH 6 GORILLION"
>>31403566
It's hilariously ironic.
>editing books isn't fascist at all, goyim. :^)
>>31388653
>>31388641
damn, i still have to get around to reading it
i'll do it soon then
>>31400563
good taste all around mang
>>31388484
JIDF pls go
>>31388641
>>31388653
This
The Power of now and Think and Grow Rich
>>31398925
>Implying I don't live in Canada
>>31388641
>>31388653
incredibly overrated
i'm going to sum up the entire book for you:
>people are self-centered
>ask people questions about themselves
>think about their motives and not just yours
if you were born with half a prefrontal cortex you already know everything in this book
48 laws of power
Art of seduction
Welcome to the modern world
>>31388999
>pol pot
>using guns to kill people
Nigger you need to learn about the Magic Tree and the Killing Fields.
>>31388331
tao te ching
>>31389183
Needs to replace Marcos with Bane
>>31388331
Im monitoring this thread
>>31388371
lol this one made me win a decent amount of cash in my home games back in high-school
>>31404574
>being this autistic
It's a crude drawing that was copy/pasted.
>>31399639
so much this
>>31389106
reddit, the pic
I just want to awkwardly look at semi-naked men, can we refrain from discussing the plight of the proletariat
>>31388764
1984 also
>>31391688
You already made it, brah.
But it would be better to say the whole fundation saga.
>>31394539
GOAT book.
>>31389516
Part of the post-modernism and character development. All that shit is meant to emphasize the vain encyclopedic knowledge Bateman has to help emphasize how vacuous the culture is. The fact that you couldn't stand it helps show how little tolerance real people have with such bullshit
>>31391739
Read it awhile ago. Fan fuckn tastic. Wouldreadagain/10
Antifragile. or The Black Swan.
definitely.
>>31394539
so good
Has changed me a good bit.
pretty good, pro tips and tricks from dead fuck
>>31402635
I'm sad now...
Anyway, Yeah I'd suggest the Discworld series. I'm a wide reader and it's the only book series that has made me laugh out loud.
..Just stay away from the horrific first two books.
>>31406307
Finished it two days ago. 10/10 would embrace objectivism.
>>31406307
>>31406307
Is it worth reading. I have the book, got it as a gift, read like 100 pages in, and stopped, felt like reading something else and Atlas didn't really intrigue me. Should I go back and just finish it? I hear lots of mixed reviews.
>>31394539
Loved the first one. got shitty God Emperor of Dune onwards
>>31406416
I read that Rands writing and her philosophy was terrible, but her philosophy was mostly built on Aristoteles works and I thought her writing was excellent. I slept 4 hours one night because I stayed up reading it. It could do without the 60 pages monologue. Its also important to understand the writing tradition Rand comes from, in Russia you couldnt really write any system criticism in plain words, so they put it in novels instead. Thats why her heroes are so amazing and good at everything, it's not meant to be read as depicting actual, believable people. Still though, great book, and some truly actionable, life-changing observations about friendship and relationships.
>>31406307
>Enjoying self instert fiction written by someone who can't even follow their own ideals and doesn't understand the end result of their worldview.
If anything, the best use of atlas shrugged is as a warning regarding the hubris of valuing oneself so highly that you reduce everyone around yourself to caricatures rather than real people.
>>31406307
Lmao ayn rand died poor, cashing in welfare checks.
>>31406556
And Marx was a leech upon his family who got his maid pregnant before firing her. The woman used speed on a daily basis for ten years, it fried her brain a little. Doesn't make her arguments any worse by itself. But yeah, she had some debilitating mental problems at the end.
The Journeyer by Gary Jennings. Too lazy to find a cover pic.
>>31405814
>>31405814
Ma nigga
Also, second on the 48 laws of power. Read it in high school and changed my focus. Not radically, but certainly wiped some naivete away.
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (you stop taking things too seriously)
Catch-22 (same as above)
Portnoy's Complaint (just found this really funny)
Is redudant, has a lot of 90's basketball which i don't really care about, and a few passages where he reminds on how he fucked Madonna, but it inspired me to making it and getting social gains.
Lone survivor. Its crazy how strong your the human body really is. Also communism is based on false sociology, if the workers control the means of production they will just become the new ruling elite and the cycle will start over again.
>>31388414
>>31388414
No one can get through das kapital. I've known two doctorates who've given up. It's Everest of scholarship.
>>31399425
>>31399425
This.
I always wanted to be Okonkwo . The most alpha guy in the history of literature. Makes teddy Roosevelt look like Richard Simmons
>>31389082
>>31398863
>>31401278
>>31388477
>>31388862
>>31388916
Philosophy:
Thucydides- History of the Peleponesian War
Aristotle- Nicomachean Ethics
Epictetus- Discourses
Council of Nicea- The Bible (easy mode: Genesis, Exodus, Ecclesiastes, Job, Gospels, Acts, Romans, Epistle of James)
Erasmus- The Praise of Folly
Thoreau- Walden
Camus- The Stranger
Fiction:
Dumas- The Count of Monte Cristo
Melville- Moby Dick
White- The Once and Future King
McCarthy- Blood Meridian
Pratchett- Small Gods, Night Watch, Thief of Time
Scientific/Behavioral:
Skinner- Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Some Guy on the Internet- Book of Pook
Dubin- Rapid Interpretation of EKGs
Costanzo- Physiology
Kuhn- Basic Physics
Pauling- General Chemistry
Mims- Getting Started in Electronics
I couldn't really think of a good introductory text to biology.
>>31407305
That guy is not a role model dude
>>31407581
Couple of extra things to note: I assume you know linear algebra, that English is your native language, and that you understand that reading all of this takes years.
My list should also include Dostoevsky- Brothers Karamazov (Pevear + Volokhosky transl)
Vonnegut- Hocus Pocus
>>31388727
Fun Fact:
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior is a true story, and the old dude/mentor is an amazing coach who still coaches this day whose name is Masumoto Watanabe.
he is the current Olympic Vault coach, currently coaches high level team in a California Gym
the more you know....
by the way he will not admit that the book is about him
but the author has admitted it is.
>>31407578
Okonkwo was a bitch who thought that being violent and mean-spirited was the same as being "alpha", then couldn't handle the change when it came to him, and blamed others instead of owning up to the fact that he couldn't just suck it up and adapt like everyone else.
>>31388481
Heart of Darkness is god tier.
A Farewell to Arms made me want to drink a handle of liquor and slit my wrists in a bath tub.
Pic related
Also, Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
>>31394690
>>Anabasis (Xenophon)
That was a wonderful read. I should crack open the book again
>>31407305
How many STDs do you think he has? And he still fucks famous people? Do they all just have a crap ton of STDs?
Where the Red Fern Grows.
The Dark Tower series-Steven King
Altered Carbon series-Richard K Morgan
Only 12 books you need for the rest of your life.
>>31407705
He was a man of cast iron self discipline and principle. There was nothing mean-spirited about him. The only man ever despised - his father - is exactly the kind of man that everyone despises. He was idle and silly and poor and irresponsible to his family and kids and made no apologies for it. Okonkwo demonstrated contempt, but not mean-spiritedness or pettiness. Such emotions would have been beneath of his unimpeachable integrity.
>>31388331
unqualified reservations- mencius moldbug
The Bible
anything by fabio fusaro. my favorite argentinian along with based coscarelli
>>31399502
Yes, because Marxism cannot be accomplished. Human nature is the reason it always turns into Leninism, Stalinism, Maonism, Kim Jung Ilism. Whatever communist dictator exists, add an ism to it. And that's real life communism, the theoretical is impossible
>>31388641
>>31388653
I don't know, reading these books haven't helped me at all. It felt like I was just rote memorizing proper social interactions rather than knowing the qualities that make for engaging social conversations. And each one changes for each situations.
>>31388331
Green Eggs & Ham
>>31407954
*tip*
Muscle by sam fussell
>>31407950
You mean unqualified recommendations.
With your language skills, I'm not sure if we can trust your "reservations".
east of eden
>>31388370
Orey shit. You mean the sword fighting nigga that decides to remain in the past?
>>31388641
>>31388653
I read those and it worked but using the same shit over and over again made me the beta because I was always there for people and they took me for granted.
>>31407540
I read 1/5th of it and I believe that. It's not hard it's just boring. Also his assumptions are way off.
>>31406497
>Rand comes from, in Russia
This is the biggest thing people don't understand about Rand. She has this big vision, but the history of Russian literature dictates that she can't just explain it, it needs to have a long drawn out explanation that slowly builds evidence leading up to a conclusion.
In practical terms, Rands writing is a "fictional research paper" written as a novel.
Because Rand's prose is so immensely long and thick, I might go so far as to tell people to just listen to all the audiologs from Bioshock, because that gets the point across pretty well.
>>31394539
Yes... it is a mind opener of ideas.
>>31388484
I thought there was a study a while back that showed in small groups of similar race/history/creed it worked really well.
Kind of like nationalism. but when you apply it to a larger group it fall to bits because they there is no point helping someone that's not part of your culture?
If im wrong call me a faggot and tell me why plz (no pol plz)
>>31388502
Nice
Any how. Steppenwolfe by Herman Hesse, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The War Against the Chtorr by David Gerrold and some book about zen philosophy. Marginally I could also say 1984 and Brave New World.
>>31411509
Hell yea. Dude was /fit/ as fuck. Helped his DYEL friends and was a Medieval weapon master.
Don't want to spoil it for anyone besides that.
>>31413894
Great book and suitable for a lazy afternoon's reading. I might have to fish it out.
