Anybody recommend any good books?

[Neighbor]

Or magazines?

Or sites w/ solid reading material?

[Certain]

What's your favorite thing you've read recently?

[Aesthetic]

The book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi(The greatest samurai in the history of japan)
Anything by Sun Tzu
The Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
In the Shadow of leaves - Yamamoto Tsunetomo(Considered founder of the first "texted" Bushido Philosophy)
Ninja Death Touch
Lucid Dreaming for Beginners
High Times

Inquire for more

[PancakeBrah]

THE ROAD - CORMAC MCCARTHY

READ IT AND CRY MAN TEARS

[Neighbor]

What's your favorite thing you've read recently?

I just re-read all of Nietzsche's work

[PancakeBrah]

McCarthy is better than Nietzsche. People read Nietzsche to try and be well rounded and seem smart and shit. Plus his name is hard as fuck to type. Just read The Road and be done with it.

[Certain]

I just re-read all of Nietzsche's work

So do you want an aphoristic breather or more of the same?

[Neighbor]

I don't have a preference, just like expanding my tastes & learning new stuff

Not really looking for lessons, just interesting shit to sink my teeth into

[Certain]

Cormac McCarthy isn't a bad choice, then.

My favorite author going right now is Jeffrey Eugenides. He only has three novels: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. All deal with families. All are great. I probably lean toward The Virgin Suicides because I'm a broody motherfucker who relates to The Catcher in the Rye more than a 26-year-old probably should.

[PancakeBrah]

I never liked Catcher in the Rye, even reading it as high schooler. A Clockwork Orange was that book in High School, tbh.

CERTAIN, RECOMMEND ME GOOD BOOKS I HAVE FOREGONE READING IN THE LAST FEW YEARS TO DRINK AND LEARN.

[Sharp]

william faulkner my dude if you havent read him yet

[Certain]

A Clockwork Orange was my favorite book at one point in high school, too. It's probably the only great book where the movie did it justice. I read a lot more essays and feature stories than books, but here are a few good books for anyone looking:

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: Shoutout to TYSON. This is probably my favorite book ever, though.
Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities: If you've never read Wolfe, you should read Wolfe, even if it's just one of his essays.
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections: The plot is pretty slow-moving, but this probably is the most well-written book I've read.
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy: Three novellas usually put into one volume now.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: Again, this is my favorite of his three great novels.

[PancakeBrah]

I've read The Corrections and the other notable book by Franzen. Freedom. I actually preferred Freedom, both were amazing reads though.

Thanks for the recs.

[veritas]

what were your thoughts on neitschze?

[Certain]

I've read The Corrections and the other notable book by Franzen. Freedom. I actually preferred Freedom, both were amazing reads though.

Thanks for the recs.

I need to read Freedom. I think I've passed on it because it took me forever to read The Corrections because I spent so much time being fascinated by the words.

[PancakeBrah]

He's like a magical magician.

But word. I'm going to check out Lolita. Appreciate the recs.

[TYSON]

A Clockwork Orange was my favorite book at one point in high school, too. It's probably the only great book where the movie did it justice. I read a lot more essays and feature stories than books, but here are a few good books for anyone looking:

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: Shoutout to TYSON. This is probably my favorite book ever, though.
Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities: If you've never read Wolfe, you should read Wolfe, even if it's just one of his essays.
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections: The plot is pretty slow-moving, but this probably is the most well-written book I've read.
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy: Three novellas usually put into one volume now.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: Again, this is my favorite of his three great novels.

WTF????

[YDK]

Enders game

[Nigma]

Faucaults Pendulum

[PancakeBrah]

Enders game

Read this twice. Once in middle school, once in high school. Read the next two books in the series too. After Enders Game it gets a little weird. But I ride for the original book. Hope the movie does it justice.

[Rawn M.D.]

Oryx n crake

best book I've read

attwood is great

[Vulgar]

The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall has a ton of info. The concluding chapter is beast mode.

[Witty]

L.A. Requiem

Probably my favourite book.

[YDK]

Read this twice. Once in middle school, once in high school. Read the next two books in the series too. After Enders Game it gets a little weird. But I ride for the original book. Hope the movie does it justice.

Word ice read it a couple times too, enders shadow is good too tbh I read the rest of the series but enders game an shadow are the two best

[Lucos]

shantaram

[oats]

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21483723-eric-stinton

[Matriarch]

THE ROAD - CORMAC MCCARTHY

READ IT AND CRY MAN TEARS

The film adaptation was great!

[Sn00p]

Word at Faulkner. Also John Steinbeck. Fitzgerald.

If you're more into philosophy, try Schopenhauer. Not for everyone, but he has some unique views, that certainly get you thinking.

[Rawn M.D.]

I like sarte the most for Philo

[Geno]

the book of lies
the book of the law

both by aliester crowley

[dead man]

The road is great indeed.

I'm reading oil! right now. It's the novel 'there will be blood' was based on. Haven't made much headway but its pretty good thus far, have not seen the movie so idk what to expect.

Also word to shantaram, that's on my to-read list.

[dull boy]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Challenging Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence (the idea that the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum), the story’s thematic meditations posit the alternative; that each person has only one life to live, and that which occurs in life occurs only once and never again — thus the “lightness” of being. In contrast, the concept of eternal recurrence imposes a “heaviness” on our lives and on the decisions we make (to borrow from Nietzsche's metaphor, it gives them "weight".) Nietzsche believed this heaviness could be either a tremendous burden or great benefit depending on the individual's perspective.

The "unbearable lightness" in the title also refers to the lightness of love and sex, which are themes of the novel. Kundera portrays love as fleeting, haphazard and perhaps based on endless strings of coincidences, despite holding such significance for humans.

[Neighbor]

Thanks for the recommendations

Just woke up, grabbing a coffee & on my way to the book store

[God Of War]

buy some jeffrey deaver books ther dope!

[veritas]

I have much to say about this....


Covert persuasion
33 strategies of war
pimpology
watership down
the birds of paradise

I could go on.