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>>36699353
>literary fiction gives us more insight into life than self help books
Probably true, but fiction is still shit. Read biographies
>>36699896
like whose? Biographies honestly seem boring as fuck to me. Just looking for books that let me learn something.
>>36700062
Find a famous person in a field you like
>inb4 "meme book"
>>36699353
GOAT book
I've been reading this, and have found it very helpful.
Sun and Steel
I feel like few books capture "humanity" like Huckleberry Finn does.
>>36699353
>>36700109
wat
>>36700062
Benjamin Franklin.
>>36700200
Does it include the parts where he treated black people like animals and executed gays?
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is all you need. Reading anything else is a waste of time.
>>36700428
>not starting with the Greeks and early European philosophy to get a solid understanding of what Nietzche is referencing
/lit/erate here. I'll post a few, any particular requests?
I have travel books, vikings, short stories, essays etc
>>36700469
Vikings, greeks etc seem interesting, just lost wher e good starting points are.
>le manly stoicism meme
fucking hate this literally the self help bullshit of the ancient world
>>36700520
For a good history of the Greeks to start with, go for "A Brief History of Ancient Greece" by Pomeroy et al.
This guy is wrong about "suffering" through Homer and Hesiod, the former at least is extremely enjoyable.
I'll post a few more after dinner.
>le manly stoicism meme
fucking hate this literally the self-help bullshit of the ancient world
Always have enjoyed Kafka
I'm on this at the moment, good tales about self-creation
Entertaining asf
>>36700591
Do you have an actual refutation
>>36700667
Does it have anything to do woth JoJo?
>>36699353
>>36700773
You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders!
>>36700392
Probably not because then American Liberals and Conservatives would both be conflicted. Liberals suddenly forced to hate a guy they cherrished, conservatives forces to agree with a guy they thought they hated.
>>36700807
In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise-- and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature? . . . But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.
t. Nietzsche
>>36699353
how has this not been posted
Julius Evola: Ride the Tiger
A book about making it in a world that does not want you to.
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
A book about how careless people have gotten. The wild mans struggle with civilisation, heroism, and promiscuity is definitely relatable.
>>36700835
Because it's filled with cringe core self help books
>>36700835
>>36700868
there are some self help books, but most of it is well known literature
>>36700854
Agree about BNW, I think it's very underrated by most people, who see it as just a "muh totalitarianism, muh state" high school dystopia, but I think the themes run far deeper than that
>>36699353
This is fucking tragic, /fit/ reading lists are just for fags who want to make themselves feel educated and alpha at the same time. Go to /lit/, read good literature, philosophy and history in general, not just whatever some pleb on /fit/ recommends out of his own feelings of inadequacy.
>>36700752
Mike Tyson's favorite book desu
>>36700921
And what if /fit/ recommends what /lit/ recommends?
It seems with your post you wanted to seem superior and shitpost at the same time, got to /s4s/ and study the true shitposters, not this half rate trash that you produce.
>>36700854
>>36700883
BNW is a fucking amazing book
The people who can't understand the underlying themes aren't intelligent
> inb4 *tipping intensifies*
its a much better representation of a dystopian future than 1984 and its crazy to look at the parallels between todays society and what Huxley imagined
definitely underrated though, nobody knows about it
>>36700870
would add Rommel's Attacks in military strategy column
>>36700953
Book recommendations on /fit/ are meme tier, in an even worse way than on /lit/.
>>36700958
Except for every single high school student ever
>>36700958
>nobody knows a book that is mandatory reading in many high-schools and is the second most popular dystopia
>>36700958
>nobody knows about it
Kek
GOAT book
>>36700980
So Neitzsche, Dumas, Kafka, Junger, and the fucking Greeks are meme tier and wouldn't be recommended on /lit/.
Please lad leave lad
>>36700373
That book is a piece of shit. I'd pick something from Mark Leyner over that, especially if we are talking /fit/ related.
>>36700983
>>36700984
>>36700985
All of the other students in my college class would disagree with you.
It was a mandatory read at my hs, but apparently not in other places.
>>36701003
Didn't say that. Kafka is meme tier though.
2bh the giveaway is whenever people recommend Machiavelli's The Prince (and yes, this happens on /lit/ too). It's not political philosophy. It's not even machiavellian. It's interesting if you want to know about the state of the Italian peninsular around the time he was writing, and vaguely interesting to "see how far people will go to keep power", though if you don't realise that keeping power is a means to an end here, the entire purpose of the book is lost on you.
>>36701021
>community college detected
>>36701039
>meme tier
And what does that mean, oh erudite man?
Also, Discourses on Livy is best Machiavelli
>>36701051
state college actually
>>36700921
I read lit starting list but now there is just so much different shit. This is easier, what is good literature, philosophy etc?
>>36700598
I'm back
>>36701356
any requests and I'll see if I have it
>>36701430
mesoamerican civilizations
>reading pseudo-intellectual meme books
>"learning" how to think by listening to others
Willingly letting someone else fuck your brain good while you stand back and enjoy. Literally mental cuckoldism.
Not that the majority of people here have even read the books they post/recommend anyway.
>>36701466
I don't have a chart, but I can rec a few books:
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition - Cabeza de Vaca
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
The flayed God: The mesoamerican mythological tradition : sacred texts and images from pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America
The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript
The Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader
>>36700752
just finished reading that. was purdy good
>>36701430
>>36700598
Thanks for this, going to start the book you suggested.
>>36701700
It's a great book; infact it's the first book I properly read. The Greeks are slightly challenging, but a great way to get into literature.
>>36700752
This guy knows what's up.
I also recommend The Three Musketeers.
>>36700092
I quite enjoyed the contrast between this society and that depicted in Brave New World. I think Huxley presents a more relatable society to our own, where people aren't brutally forced into obedience but rather coddled into it. A sense of listless carefree life is enough to subdue 99% of a populace. I think this is also applicable to lifting, so few do it they'd rather just content themselves with Netflix and microwave food.
Obviously I say this as a westerner. If you're rising up in the Arab spring then 1984 is more accurate, but the surveillance state is definitely applicable to both.
>>36700077
>tfw you love many field but never cared to know famous people from said fields
Life is sad.
>>36699353
Read julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul.
>>36699353
Anybody who recommends Thus Spoke Zarathustra to people is a fucking poser who only pretends to understand Nietzsche, because that book is impossible to understand without reading at least some of his previous work.
If you want to read Nietzsche, start with something like Gay (no homo) Science.
>>36700062
http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/
also other articles there are fun to read.
Book thread? I'm gonna have to post this again.
Every thread until you answer them
>>36702406
I'm sure you could have them answered if you went to /sci/ mate
>>36702419
This is directed at a specific /fit/ anon.
>>36702406
why do i as a paramedic need to know any of that?
Just started reading this
im not much of a reader, but i liked The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky. i have the attention span of an 8 year old and it was a short story, so i give it an 8/10.
>>36700392
It's at its heart a military manual, y u trying to read politics into it bruv
>>36700752
Related
Basically the flip version, alternates between boring af shit about building a school and a cool af plot to blow up the entire spanish government
>>36700106
Infinite JUST
>>36702790
whoops, forgot pic
I'm reading th dresden files, pretty entertaining series of books
>>36703026
>reading black libary 40k shit novels just because i invested so much time in it already.
its still fun but after 30 books the horus heresy is getting stale. and you can only read omnibuses about space marines so many times.
>>36702608
It's only for one specific /fit/ anon that posted that he was reading Shankar's QM book in a book thread.
He knows who he is
>>36703691
kek sorry to get in the way of this beef senpai
>>36703839
That's right pham. I'll make him grovel
