If there's one book you recommend everyone to read before they die, what would it be?

If there's one book you recommend everyone to read before they die, what would it be?

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In Search Of Lost Time
Please post more girls with nice calves

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MDD

who's that cutie?

Benedict de spinoza

Growth of the Soil

you're a riot user

My mother always said so

The Prince and Other Writings
>The ultimate red pill

Apparently it's from "porn as therapy" by alain de botton. Seems to have been taken down though, or redirected to another part of his weird project. Anyone have an archive?

The Picture of Dorian Gray

a cook book

Moby Dick

The works of Edgar Allan Poe

David Coperfield by Edmund Wells, it's more thorough than the Dickens one.

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Unironically my diary, you will thank me later

This. It's incredible to me how many people can't cook, or cook decently. Pathetic desu.

Infinite Jest

If they're on their death head, Finnegan's Wake should encourage them to die a little faster.

Ironically: On the Jews and Their Lies
Unironically: The Enchiridion or the Epic of Gilgamesh

Easy.
The Culture of Critique

There's really only on practical book on that shelf unless you're aspiring to be a chef.

Sauce?

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Grapes of Wrath.

Only 60% through it so far, but its fantastic. One part sincere realist American prose, and another part poetic political treatsie. Its a time in history so many people have forgotten about and yet its so interesting and important to remember. Its funny that Steinbeck is often considered a classic American author and yet he seems unapologetically socialistic. Fucking scathing critiques of capitalism and imperialism but grounded in humanity and reasonability.

The bibble

The Odyssey.

well, this thread was surprisingly disappointing

or perhaps it has somehow proved that reading is a waste of time

Thanks user

Don Quixote

Middlemarch, it's tough getting through it but it's great.

Watch the John Ford adaption after, it's good.

i'm 99% sure that's a porn actress and her name is Julia Roca and in scenes she sounds like a man

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Imagine being Alan the Bottom and contacting a whore to playout you're embarassing fantasy because you think there might be a market for it? Why Spinoza? Is there anything less sexy? Other than Hume

hey son, pornography isn't prostitution. check your christian ideology before you shrek yourself

>pornography isn't prostitution.
No it's worse, not only do get paid for sex, but you create a product from the act that get's distributed to hundreds of thousands, it's much worse. Turbo whores
I hate them

Jingo by Pratchett

millions of women are lol'ing at your life

FUCKING CUNTS SEX IS BAD SEX IS BAD SEX IS BAD THEY'RE WHORES AND I HATE THEM BUT I REALLY LIKE CUTE GIRLS I DO BUT THEY'RE WHORES TO ALL OF THEM AAAAAAHHHHH

Nice bait. Tell me which.

my diary

You wreak of insecurity

Quran
Hopefully they convert as well

It's Larousse's Country Cooking. Old fashioned but great.

Bocuse, do you have a cabinet filled with truffles?

On food and cooking: half of it is a biological treatises. It has diagrams of the 'anatomy of wheat' and chemical formulas of proteins. Cool book though.

Bouquet de France. I don't know that one but the subtitle made me assume it's some kind of cultural essay of some guy's culinary trip. I might be wrong there.

Escoffier is literally a reference work for Chefs from the early 20th century. Aka "1001 ways to use fond"

I'm not dissing your collection btw.

The Ego and Its Self

Ohhhhhhhhh nigga you fucked up.

I'm not practicing to be a chef, but that doesn't change the practicality of these books. Escoffier and Bocuse are the most useful of the bunch because they have quality instruction followed by the widest range of recipes -- see pic. No matter what scavanged or dead thing I have got by hunting or buying, I can make something with it: birds, rabbit, frogs, snails, deer, fish, cows, crustaceans, offal, etc.

The Larousse book is comfy but it's just a simple cook book, and assumes you already have training. Pure Beef is concerned with only one meat, and there's only so many ways to do that. Seven Fires is kind of a meme, but the photos are beautiful and teaches how to cook outdoor with minimal supplies. On Food and Cooking is as you said, an interesting book on the why of things; if I want to start exploring how to make buckwheat noodles from scratch, or am forced to make them out of acorns or whatever, I can use that as a guide. Bouquet de France is my favorite of the group - it's a dude touring post-war France. He beautifully describes the countryside and cities, giving tours of landmarks and stopping frequently in boarding houses or hotels. Very often he'll beg the recipe from the chef at these places, and they are preserved in the book.

Postang bc I love cookbooks and you should too.

boom, eat.

Did you know how to prepare liver? I didn't. Also that bit at the bottom starts like a menudo recipe.

Thanks for sharing user, I want to become a more versatile cook and these books look interesting

You're welcome user, and remember: Anyone Can Cook! (TM)

Man's Search for Meaning

I prefer Karnaby Fudge by Darles Chikkens

Oh my mom has this book. Is it good or not?

breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Wonderful satire, easy read, and some of the best subliminal messages i've ever had the glory to read

Mallman's Seven Fires? It's okay. Mostly useful if you're larping as a cowboy and want to learn how to cook out on the range with just oil, salt, and iron. He describes seven different setups for cooking, inspired by South American gauchos. Great photos, mediocre recipes.

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this should have been the first post and the last post of this thread

>t. nihilist

Don Q is good but hardly necessary. Life's senseless brutality explains itself, you don't need a work of fiction to dramatize this for you.

Might as well not read anything with that logic

12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos by Professor Jordan B. Peterson

The average person doesn't happen upon a bucket of frogs, neither does he go scavenging under the pier for crustaceans. And if he does want to know what to do with a liver he uses YouTube or Google.

Yes, these are great books, and practical, for a specific kind of chef. And if they work for you who am I to complain.

But none of these books is a good guide on teaching someone how to cook from scratch. Such a book would also focus on technique first, recipes second.