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Currently halfway through The Road on /fitlit/'s recommendation. Learning it was published in 2006 makes me wonder "is this a doomsday prepper fanfic?" but the book is just so good.

It's got a Hemingway kind of feel, but he never wrote the "constantly surrounded by enemies" theme like McCarthy does afaik. It's always war (boring, then briefly terrifying) or some veteran whose girl is a literary gains goblin or about to die.

A+ book, would read again. Initially interested via dystopias, but post-apocalyptic is really another genre

I have pretty much every book ever listed in these threads, /pol/ and some Veeky Forums ones in my amazon wish list, but yeah

gonna drop the few images i have on this computer

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If you like history or Lewis & Clark, I recommend this, great read

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>Harry potter

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>Fernando Pessoa

Oh boy, did I love having to study his work

complain with Veeky Forums bro

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Books are an outdated mode of media consumption/and inefficient for education.

You can receive information much faster through video and the internet.

The Bible???

Even if you're religious it's like a book you just pick up and read for leisure.

basic af my dude

>islamic thinkers
>no ibn khaldun

Farewell to mein seids

>odyssey above iliad
>karamazov above crime&punishment
>DADoES, Faust and paradise lost are less important than harrry potter
>Kafka only gets 1 book on the list

is this some quentin list?

>el big bang gatsby

oh..

Some other good books that aren't on the list, but the authors are:

Dostoevsky: Poor People (written in letter format) and The Idiot (awkward epileptic coming back to Russia)

Nabokov's short stories (nostalgic modern realism, not pedo)

Orwell: A Clergyman's Daughter (girl who loses her faith), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (man who wages war on money)

Is stoicism a meme? I read the first few pges and I dig it. Also, any other classical writings you guys would recommend?

>infinite jest and gravity's rainbow in the top ten

is this how Veeky Forums e-stats?

Blood Meridian, not trying to get Veeky Forums-points just an amazing cowboy novel that goes against the memes of the genre. Entertaining as fuck.

That seems like a good progression into stoic literature. Backwards in time.

Marcus --> Seneca and Epictetus --> Chrysippus and the fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes

You should relabel that "info"graphic to Germanistik and delete everything but Tolkein, Beowulf, and Parzifal.

Then add the Prose Edda, the Old English Judith, the Exeter Book, the Nibelungenlied and Gudrunlied, Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan, Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Der arme Heinrich, and Walther von der Vogelweide's Minnesaenger

That will set you on the correct path

forgot to add Franz Xavier von Schoenworth's fairy tales. Inspiration for the Brothers Grimm

haha i used to troll that guys wordpress comment board for days, one of the easiest trolled people of all time.

sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

all you need. stop with the lists and the pics and the recs and read.

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lol i think it's past your bedtime kid

"The Way Of Men" and "Becoming Barbarians"
Both of them are short books and you can find them online. Autor is Jack Donovan (pic related)

Reading promotes better retention. If you aren't an idiot or saddled with a learning disability, reading is a much more effective way to learn than any audiovisual media.

>fiction
>self-help
Holy shit how fucking stupid is Veeky Forums?

>Roman Catholicism
Summa Theologica

Orthodox Christianity is where it's at though

ia801305.us.archive.org/13/items/HitlersRevolutionByRichardTedor_383/HitlersRevolutionByRichardTedor.pdf

Too bad he loves boypussy.

Brave new world by aldous huxley. Like holy shit it is accurate as fuck when it came to predicting what part of the future would be like. This guy practically predicted raves and rolling.

That's a bad thing how?

Spot the odd one out

Pretty much most of Tolstoys novels, The Kreutzer Sonata is something to read for Veeky Forumsizens. In War & Piece I believe a lot of Veeky Forumsizens can relate to Pierre Bezukhov and in Anna Karenina Levin is the guy to root for. He hates the city, lives on the land, praises manual labour, had girl problems, exercises (bodyweight I assume), thinks of an hero-ing (this part must seem quite weird, but it's pretty much Tolstoys own story as you can read in 'My Confessions')

Tolstoy is someone all of Veeky Forums can look up to.

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
The consolation of Philosophy - Boëthius
Letters - Epicurus (tetrapharmakos)
Ape & Essence - Huxley (Brave New world too obviously)
Fathers and Sons - Toergeniev

>tfw you start books, stop at a random point and take ages starting up again

Remember to breathe

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>Is stoicism a meme?
No, not at all. It teaches to stay calm and take the world as it is. Once you go stoic, you will see the world and people in a new light.

My nigga

the bible

>Luther's "On the Jews and their lies" nowhere to be found on that list

this and The Fountainhead

If you like that, all the pretty horses may interest you. Also by McCarthy and also about cowboys.

No dude, why do you think it survived all this time, stoicism is really comfy.

>open this thread to post this for easy (You)s
>already posted

4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Literature_by_type

The fountain head no doubt changed my life

went from a self pitying baby to believing in free will

Epictetus

>top tier taste
>stops mid book
>begun other books

are you me?

Its about time for the resurrection

lets set the pace

1 book x week

names for goodreads group

And? Op wanted essential literature, meaning the basics too you fucking idiot pseud.

i get physically bored reading.

books literally put me to sleep.

how 2 fix

quit being a brainlet

A terribly written book by some overrated pseudo - philosopher and praised by high school kids that found objectivism and like it because they think it makes them look smart when in fact it tells everyone they have no idea what they're talking about.

Like libertarianism? Not a problem, just don't base your views on her works. Not only are they simplistic (and long winded), they're written by a hypocritical welfare queen.

thanks great shit advice.

I really do want to read some more, but I stopped doing it around high school and rarely read anymore. Average time it takes me to finish a book is literally 1-1.5 years if i do finish it because it feels like a chore to me.

I have no issue watching long dry boring films, listening to podcasts, or even long articles. But books just start the sleep countdown for me.

trying to grow your brain by getting into national socialism seems kinda counter-productive.

Get your eyes checked first to make sure eye strain isn't causing you to sleep. Next thing is to correct your reading habits. I always sit up when I read, never read laying down in a bed. Make sure you have plenty of light. Start reading when you're still awake I can start reading at 8 and read until 11 but if I start at 11 I won't make it that long. Make sure you're not hungry too, low blood sugar can make you not pay attention and feel lost. Take breaks when you're first starting ojt, read 10 or 20 pages then get up and stretch or something for a few minutes. Read something that interest you.

If all those fail you might just be a retard and literally too stupid to comprehend what you read.

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bah, time is a problem currently. I work 9 hour days not including commuting to the gym and traffic (I live in LA). My schedule goes:

Leave house at 6:50 AM return at 7:00 PM. repeat for a week.

Read 1 pages a day. It'll be a habit soon enough and you'll probably find reading books less boring.

These books are good for learning things, especially DYI and fitness stuff.

How come your copy of the meditations is so thicc?

Pretty sure I couldn't give a fuck about her philosophical beliefs. I just found personal value in some of her quotes, so sue me.

Since those are public domain, typically publishing companies jam a bunch of other shit by the author in there which are also public domain to get people to choose their product over another publisher's.

>77 posts
>not posting the best response
>body is literally the temple and dwelling place of the king of the universe

Makes sense, thanks.

Is the camus one worth it? I almost bought it the other day but i was unsure.

Certain books go without saying.

required reading for virgins

it will genuinely help you, but take it with a grain of salt

set aside the same time block every day to read. the best one is the half hour to hour before you go to bed.

if a book is boring, then don't read it. find a book that you enjoy reading. there will be books that will keep you up at night because they excite you.

once you're good enough at reading then you can start reading the "boring" books. that's when things get interesting.

so yeah keep a schedule and stop reading boring books

Long ass introduction and a shitload of notes with short explanations or information about almost every paragraph, and also connecting them to other paragraphs in the book to give you a "fuller" understanding about Marcus' ideas and whatnot, as the book itself is pretty scattered.
It's just bonus stuff, unless you are super interested I wouldn't buy it if you already have the book itself.

If you're referring to Sisyphus I haven't read it yet. If you mean The Stranger which is hidden under there, then yeah. It's short and worth a read.

Working my way through this now.

Thanks. Kind of a confusing choice given that it's now more expensive for the book to be produced

>objectivist garbage written for jews

>he isn't an objectivist
Lol

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Yeah. I mean Penguin are pretty huge so it's probably not a loss to them. I imagine most people buying this book nowadays get this one. Supposedly the translation is better in this edition, which is why I bought it in the first place.
I skipped the introduction after a certain point because as usual it's just some guy jerking off to his own knowledge about the subject.

You dumb fucking niggers, posting self help shit gimmicks "h-how to get laid:for virgins,by virgins" and "how to not fail at life:some commie fucks"
Read up books on repairing your fucking bike/car
>inb4 I don't have one
Books on cybersecurity or at least some IT related shit. That's what we contribute to society now that our hunting and gathering days are over. Stop reading your fucking shitty "philosophy" and similar "inspirational" shit books. Do you need inspiration for gym ? Do you need inspiration to take a shit ? No. Only thing that inspires you should be yourself, not some dumb book which assumes it knows all about you and your thought process. How are you any better than youtube watching normie teenage girls ?
And please, please stop reading fucking fiction. It's good as a holiday read, but reading it religiously regularly just proves you aren't an adult yet/ And no, that is not a compliment you immature fuck. You are basically a male version of twilight/50shades of gray reading dumb teenage girls.
protip:You don't become "enlightened" by reading. Instead of reading about meditation, try doing it sometime you pseudo intellectual fuck

Dubs of truth. Nazi wanna-bes should go back to /pol/ where they can justify treason all day in peace.

Stupid book for stupid people

There should be a list with all these books

Some books I like and may appeal to people here (most are "basic", I don't give a fuck, they're still good books to read)

Mediations - already stated above, helps put things in perspective and advocates for controlling yourself as opposed to your emotions controlling you

Old man and the sea - major theme of never letting anything defeat your spirit

Sun also rises - beautiful prose and essentially a discourse on staying away from roasties and entitled degenerates as such company will lose you the respect of authentic people.

Cannery row - no matter how poor/low on the social totem pole you are the social support of a strong community can ease life's troubles

Moby dick - allowing something to consume your life completely is incredibly self destructive

Zora the Greek - strong theme of how balance is important in life. Also to appreciate things in the moment

That's interesting that they have an improved translation, do you know what's better about it?

From what I remember reading it's supposed to be written closer to how the author himself would have phrased everything, while also being easier to read.
I mean it was written close to 2000 years ago so something's bound to be lost in time, and I'm certainly no historical linguist so I wouldn't be able to confirm if it's true or not. If you have another edition on hand you can try comparing something from the sample pages on Amazon or something.

St Augustine, summa theologica, anything by JP2

In the case of textbooks, I think the order is video lecture = book > IRL lecture, but it could be argued that video lectures are better than books. However, most of the books in this thread are fiction or philosophical books, and good luck getting the same information in video form.