In an attempt to build willpower and strengthen my attention span...

In an attempt to build willpower and strengthen my attention span, I plan to go 30 days without using any electronic devices, outside of a "dumb phone" and an MP3 player.

What should I read during this time?

I'll tell you about myself, so that you might tailor your suggestions.

I'm a white, slightly overweight male in my early thirties: I live alone, but have a 20 year old girlfriend with whom I share no common interests, and whose sexual past disgusts me. I'm insecure about my intelligence, appearance and sexual ability. I have become increasingly conservative and racist in the last few years. I am not happy. I have a general distaste for the modern world. I'm an atheist, but am more and more regretful that I have no faith in the divine. My opinion on sex is very puritan, though secretly I am a pervert. My family is poor white trash who are always fighting with one another.

What have you got?

Would you mind creating a journal (obviously with pen and paper) and then typing it out at the end so we can all read it? I'm really interested in this but can't afford to do such an experiment.

Please start a blog or something!

Yeah, sure. Why not.

what genre(s) do you enjoy? what have you read that peaks your interest?

one month in the woods with a bag of mushrooms and the complete works of RAW. Microdose throughout the experience so you always borderline sober but never not high. Alternate between the fiction, starting with Illuminatus! and a re-reading of Prometheus Rising after each new novel you finish, then work through the rest of the non-fiction.

Dump your girlfriend, move to Portland. You will know what to do next.

>RAW
The fuck is this?

I've read very few books in general and hardly none at all in the last 10 years.

The last book I read was "A day in the life of ivan denisovich". Just started a Dostoyevsky novel, but can't remember the name.. he's planning to kill an old pawnbroker...

I liked the lord of the rings as a kid. In the 7th grade i was mesmerized by it. But I don't like fantasy in general.

I supppse my favorite book is 1984, or factotum by bukowski. The whole downtrodden loser/exploited person tyle thing appeals to me, I guess. Maybe something more upbeat would be good, though.

Enjoyed "practical philosophy" texts on stoicism and Epicureanism. Would like to know more about Diogenes.

I read some Kafka but it felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie. Either I'm too dumb to get it, or there's nothing to get.

>I'm insecure about my intelligence, appearance and sexual ability. I have become increasingly conservative and racist in the last few years. I am not happy. I have a general distaste for the modern world. I'm an atheist, but am more and more regretful that I have no faith in the divine. My opinion on sex is very puritan, though secretly I am a pervert.
100% Houllebecq, Elementary Particles
Also
Crime and Punishment or Notes from the Underground

the qu'ran

I watched a speech he gave at a bar on YouTube once, I didn't feel like he made much sense and seemed like a new age nut job.

Took mushrooms as a teen and remember it feeling very profound and enlightening. I don't feel like I learned anything, but it felt that way. Took lsd for the first time last year. Just made me very happy and giggly. Didn't have that same feeling of uh.. profundity