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Hey Veeky Forums it's Veeky Forums here. I don't really read all that much but I'm looking to make some brain gainz. What would you cunts recommend? Preferably non-fiction

Aurelius' Meditations always gets posted when Veeky Forums is here

>non-fiction

maybe plebbit will be more your speed

Meditations is ok,but it's a series of reminders rather than actual instruction in stoicism. I'd recommend Epicetus and Seneca's writings OP.

Notes From Underground
A Confederacy of Dunces
Death on the Installment Plan

>wasting brainpower on self-contained make believe with no tangible relation to other books save for a short series
One day you'll realize real life is the greatest drama ever told, full of literally all of the greatest teachings that were ever only assimilated in minor part to your sources of "intellectual" autoeroticism.

Talk shit post lit. Rec me some of that good non-fic, laddie.

Start here

I can't dictate your interests to you. You just have to decide what interests you and start from there. What you say is as bad as asking for music recommendations, but without any preface. Who am I to tell you to listen to my favorite instrumental bands if vocals or lyric are something you place a substantial emphasis on?

Anywho, I'm reading Seneca right now. I may read the Iliad next to preface and offer insight to my continued reading on religious ideas (pic related, only read the first volume so far). I also have the collected works of Plato which I may have to dig into if my (late as fuck) BookDepository order continues to be delayed, as I've finally cleared through 85% of my backlog, with exception to pic related and of course the Plato volume.

Homer is fiction, though.

That's shockingly bad.

>non-fiction
>homer
fuck off back to the squat rack and take your pretensions with you pseudboi

The Holy Bible

You are very silly

>b-but if it's a primary mythological source it's not fiction!
clutch harder kid

>mfw people will actually take that list seriously

A fiction that has been so assimilated into the canon of Western culture that its reference is an ubiquitous feature of almost any theologian or historian you pick up, and to a less emphasized extent (primarily among later) philosophers. Therefore to deny yourself the insight into the context of the work by not assimilating their vehicles of reference into your own understanding is to rob you of the potential insights that a wide mass of non-fiction work proffers to the student. The Bible may be called "fiction" in a certain manner of speaking but it should still be maintained a required reading for if nothing else then the multitude of influences later students of it drew to establish their work and their contributions to Western culture. Again, to forego the necessary frames of reference actual historical figures used in their intellectual creations is to forego a fuller, richer understand of those creations.

Infinite jest

Back to the containment board

What are you gibbering on about, we're on the commie containment board right now.