Fit approved books thread! Books to exercise the mind?

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A little off the theme, but I highly recommend this to anyone who has a nicotine addiction that deep down they would like to be rid of.

I smoked 20 a day for years and quit cold turkey after reading this. That was 5 years ago and not once have I missed smoking nor come close to relapse.

I suppose it is /fit/ related as smoking is one of the most anti fitness things a person can do.

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/zenmind.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiK1OfSydrOAhVBSyYKHVNfBBgQFgiQATAQ&usg=AFQjCNGDZHXBbVHTHAEfA8mdVfNBAFq4_g

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>>38438695
you mean like books that have to do with fitness? or books that we're reading? I'm reading farenheit 451 currently (yes I know it's babby's first meme book) and I'm really liking it. just started it yesterday but might even finish it tonight or tomorrow.

>>38438695
idk about fit approved but here are some books Ive read/am reading currently


Fiction:
John dies at the end
this book is full of spiders
The dark tower: the gunslinger

non-fiction and stuff:
A brief history of nearly everything
How to win friends and influence people

>>38438927
I recently read the gunslinger too and without excess spoilers tbqh when it was revealed where the kid was from it kinda killed my mood for the entire thing

>>38438975
Ive heard the series gets better and the gunslinger is the worst installment, just sort of a necessary read to get into the rest of them.

>>38438994
was yours the revised version? in his own words he fixed a lot of shit so I assume it was even worse before

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Currently reading this. It's my first book of the /lit/ meme trilogy. It's pretty great so far, definitely getting some mental hypertrophy desu

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Lot of people hating on this but its pretty good

>>38439022
Shit
>>38439757
Shit
>>38439779
God Tier

>>38438756
I'm interested (altough I'm a non-smoker), what are his methods for breaking an addiction?

>>38439779

why, anon?

>>38439855

it's quite easy in theory
>stop doing it

comes down to pure willpower and you wanting to stop more than the pull from the addiction.

It's about framing the addiction in your head in the right way, and becoming aware of your automated thought patterns which leads to you doing the thing you're addicted to.

I used to bite my nails til I was 25.

>>38439940
>me


this is was my own method

>who cares about his method

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>>38439940
>It's about framing the addiction in your head in the right way, and becoming aware of your automated thought patterns which leads to you doing the thing you're addicted to.
This right here is what I'm interested in, can you elaborate a bit more or should I just fuck off and read the book (don't wanna since I don't smoke)? A qt for your efforts.

Shit tier books in here. OP, I read at lead one or two books a week.

I don;t know what you're into, but here are some of my favorites:

Non-fiction:
The Doctrine of Fascism - Mussolini
The Way of Men - Donovan
Meditations - Aurelius
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Lawrence
Western Civilization Bites Back - Bowden

Fiction:
Roverandom - Tolkein
The Sound of Waves - Mishima
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
The Idiot - Dostoevsky

>>38440002

like I said

>I haven't read the book

this is what I've learned myself and have picked up tips&tricks from everywhere regarding addiction, because I find it fascinating.

however, you always have automated thoughts in your head running. Most of the time your not even aware of it. Your own self-talk (as they call it).

I would like to guide you in the way of

>Negative Thought Patterns and Cognitive Therapy

it's much written about it in psycholgy and you'll find a vast amount of it everywhere on google and whatnot.

>>38440053

Thank GOD there's someone else here who has taken the redpill.

Daily reminder you're not a man unless you unironically read the /pol/ recommended reading list.

>>38440214
Oh, I've actually never seen the /pol/ reading list. These are just books I read and happened to like. Where can I find the list, I'd probably like it.

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Haven't finished this yet but its a good read so far. About 1/3 done.

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>>38440261

>>38439834
>>38439779

What's the appeal of his book? Isn't it just an autobiography of some average Scandinavian?

>>38440276
Great book, easy to apply to any facet of a mans life

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>no one has posted any hegel

>Reading books
Lmao no wonder you are virgins

Is there a torrent where I do not have to be scared of any kind of legal repercussions?
I am travelling up to 1h everyday with subways and shit an want some books other than about coding better
(Still wouldn't mind the one or two about better java)

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>implying there was anything more edgy that german engineering books

>>38440317
Forget torrents. Use IRC, under net and irchighway both have channels dedicated to ebooks. I'm sure there's tutorials somewhere to help you out

doing some pre-term reading lads

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>>38440375
forgot pic

>>38440317

just listen or download audiobooks from youtube if you want. downloading a torrent is also valid.

>>38440276
>>38440300
What's it about? Throw a pitch of what's stuck with you please?

>>38440545

Deliberate practice is what leads to exceptional performance not some innate talent that you are born with.

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>>38438695
Probably the only metaphysics book I've picked up that didn't leave me with a bad taste in my mouth afterwards.

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>>38438695

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>it's another zero books related in any way shape or form to /fit/ thread

>>38439779
I like the part where he cleans

>>38438994
Itts considered the best out of the series you mong

>>38440835
Fuck off goat rapist

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Warhammer 40,000 novels

>>38438927
John Dies at The End is great taking de cucky narrative aside.

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>>38443381
This is a Muslim board, Kafir.

>>38443496
This will certainly get you into the mindset

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>ywn run endlessly through the canyons of the Mexican desert, dodging wildlife and cartel patrols

Feels bad man

>>38440281
ty

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

>>38443664
Good book desu

>>38444535
That's our boy

>>38443434
summary? im interdasted

>>38444663
American goes to Spain during Civil War to fight facist scum. Brutal, not /fit/ related but will stimulate your mind.

Also 100 years of solitude and 2666. Mental gains right thur

>>38438806
That's pretty cool man. I just re-read it. It really is a beautiful world, in a scary way of course. They're already censoring common books like tha adventures of huckleberry Finn. They're changing "nigger" to "slave". Next thing you know, they'll be rewriting history entirely.

>>38438806
Read Martian Chronicles next.

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I'll post the few I got.

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>>38444770
Really this is a better thread. We can provide some books for young men with a certain mindset here but really anything to do with reading should be lit

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>>38444786
I think that's 3/3.

>>38443359
totally man. the writer is a cracked.com semi cuck beta male, but the paranormal aspects of the book are written really well, and the comedic aspects of the book made me laugh a bunch. The sequel (this book is full of spiders) isnt as good but i enjoyed it a lot anyway.

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>>38444809
Reading Marcus Aurelius meditations right now.. pretty bro tier book give that a shot.

>>38438806
I love this book, I cried the first time I read it

>>38443359
sorry
this:
>>38444851
was meant for
>>38443505

>>38444663
very quickly: there are two ways your brain thinks. one is very fast, where intuition comes from. the other is slower and deliberate, logical. This book explores biases of this first system of thought and bridges into self criticism as well as criticism of others. really good read

>>38439940
>comes down to pure willpower

He literally goes on and on about how using willpower to quit will cause you to fail

It's about getting through whatever physical withdrawal symptoms you have, then understanding that you aren't missing anything. The book is pretty much entirely about smoking, since it goes into specifics of why smoking is stupid and how great it is to quit. But I guess the general principles of it would work for any habit or addiction. There's a reason he also wrote books about drinking and being fat

>>38438756
I never thought nicotine addiction was that bad. I dipped a half tin of chew a day for close to 3 years, then noticed my teeth were getting yellow and my gums were receding so I said fuck that and stopped. I obviously wanted one out of habit but after a couple days I totally forgot about it. Maybe cigarettes are different, but doesn't dip have more nicotine anyway?

>>38443496
/tg/ please leave

>>38440053
>The Sound of Waves - Mishima
Nice but I would suggest the Sea of Fertility tetralogy

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Any good books that have made you cry?

>>38438695
moby dick is one book everyone should read once a year

let that sink in

>>38439022
>>38439022
still haven't read this, maybe one day

>>38440281
>Karl Marx
>/pol/approved reading
>no Evola
What kind of shit list is this?

>>38440314
>he isn't making physical and mental gains
Enjoy not making it, subhuman savage

>>38438927
Oh lord. Someone else that's read A brief history of nearly everything. Mirin

>>38444971
>Being physically dependent on any external substance
>Not that bad

>>38438927
>A brief history of nearly everything
>a retarded version of Hawking's worst layman book
Lmao

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Stay zen my friends

>>38439779

i cant explain why but i really enjoy reading this. im about 3/4 through book 3 and look forward to starting 4.

its literally just him talking about growing up and his life but i enjoy it. and i romanticize norway a lot. so theres that.

also, meditations and moby dick. read that shit yall.

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Essential /fit/ reading.

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>>38445641
>He doesn't understand the inherent limits of Eckhart's teachings

>>38444971
Dip is harder to quit imo because it doesn't make you feel like shit when you're doing it. Part of what makes quitting smoking so enjoyable is being able to breathe like a normal person

>>38445216
The Sun Also Rises is better imo

>>38445687
is that a grill

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>>38445796
>fit/
>girl

>>38440053
Where do i get meditations

>>38440002
I haven't read the book but I can tell you some things that helped me quit:

Realising addiction is a bad excuse. That I choose to smoke even if I do it habitually.

Realising that even thinking 'don't smoke' is still thinking about smoking. The best way of thinking about it is not to think about it at all, or try to stop yourself from thinking about it even negatively.

Realising that every cigarette I didn't smoke was good for me, rather than seeing it as every cigarette I smoke as back to square one.

Realising what I would think to myself to convince myself to have a cigarette, and then stopping myself from thinking those thoughts.

It took me about a year to quit. Though it's not that simple. It's a learning process, during that year there were points where I had given up and was a full time smoker again, but eventually it got to the point where I would stop giving up. A lot of it is about focusing on the positives, so rather than saying 'oh I failed again' I would motivate myself by saying 'hey, remember that time I went two months without smoking? Clearly I know how to do this'.

Also, there's a distinction between chemical addiction and habit. To this day I still smoke every now and then, but I never let it go on long enough to develop it into a habit, so it's been eighteen months and I haven't become a regular smoker again and have managed to keep it to the occasional indulgence.

>>38439022
Its awesome.

>>38440562
>Deliberate practice is what leads to exceptional performance not some innate talent

biggest pile of bullshit

it's both practice and talent, you can train deadlifting for 20 years but if you are born as a woman, any man can outlift you within months.

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Personal favorite

>>38438796
Good experience with this one? I've always wanted to start meditation but a lot of sources never seemed to be good.

>>38438806
I read this my sophomore year of HS and it's been one of my favorite books ever since. It's been like 10 years so I hardly remember any of the details though. Think I'll revisit it soon.

>>38445568
if you like this, I can recommend you "the power of habit"

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This.

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>>38438695
>that library's organization


Disgusting

>>38449238
>that image
C'mon

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QUESTION
Does anyone have the text/picture from marcus aurelius - meditations about getting up in the morning?

ALSO
This is a classic fit approved book.

>>38445702
Explain yourself, friend.

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It's demographic is for dudes that don't know how to pick up chicks.

However it does explain pretty well femenism and all the bullshit guys to suck a chicks dick

7/10

>>38449161
Power of habit helped so much in growing up when I needed to. I read it whenever I feel like I'm losing touch

>>38448662
thats a lie, and if you keep telling yourself that you will never achieve mastery of anything

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Little late, but I'm surprised no one posted this. Seems like it would be right up /fit/s alley.

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>>38438695
"Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident they will make their way by their own effort."

>>38450367
Post literally one thing that is good from this book.

>>38440053
Really loved The Way of Men. About due to read it again.

Have you read Becoming a Barbarian?

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>>38438695
Old, but still good. Highly recommend Life is a Dream and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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Shogun is a must read.
You must read it or you'll never make it.

>>38449295
Don't judge it by it's cover.

>>38450476
"On the tree on the mountain" It's a passage in the second part.

>>38438806
I hated this book. Loved all the other meme books apart from this and 1984.
This is ofc only my opinion

>>38450273
thats true, no woman can be really good in deadlifting, compared to men. Why waste your lifetime? I'll never draw, but I can play piano quite well.

>>38438756
Read it and it didn't help because I had no interest in quitting.

Then I met a qt 3.14 which I had a 4 year relationship with. She was a non smoker, so i decided to quit. And I did, cold turkey.

I left her 2 years ago and didn't feel anything similar for another grill since then. Recently I started smoking again. And god I love that killing shit.

Will probably stop again when I have a real motivation to do so.

>>38451763
There are plenty of skills that dont have everythhing to do with your physical frame. Obviously no skill based activities like fuking powerlifting arent gonna be possible to become great other than that you're a fool that doesnt want to challenge your gay slothful life narrative that "wah i cant do drawing well cus i wasnt born able to doit" mi am totally sure your gay stupid fuckhp,e didnt even look up what deliberate practice is . Kys you self defeating nu logic fag

>>38445880
If you read the book, you will realize how incorrect you are about this and how easy it actually is to quit if you reinforce it enough prior to that final cigarette.

Enjoy your next relapse.

>>38443664
Loved that book

Time, space & things, B.K.Ridley
The closest thing to an accessible physics book published in the 80s

>>38451983
sorry, can't understand your gibberish

anyway. there IS certain point you can raise your skills, as woman you can go up to kg bench press, unless you're born with some specific anomaly, as potat... down syndrome victim, you CAN'T raise your IQ above certain range, no matter how hard you train. Same with music, social skills, drawing, languages and so on.

You can focus on ones you're talented with, or waste your lifetime following delusions.

>>38452670
>as woman you can go up to kg bench press
as a woman you can go up to 80 kg bench press*

I'm tired, sorry

>>38438927
>A brief history of nearly everything
>How to win friends and influence people
I love those books.

>>38452670
You have no evidence that "innate talent" is something your born with. You used powerlifting as an example. Powerlifting is a strength sport and if you werent such a dipshit you would know the difference between skills and strength. Furthermore, iq has very little to do with talent. Indont know why you used iq's stability over a lifetime with a bunch of skills that anyone can learn and master. The book in the original post cites tons of studies that break down what real world class performers actually do differently from the merely average performer. Iits flabbergasting how you come up with the weakest arguments for an idea that is so wrong and yet you continue to argue as if you have ever read anything on htis subject before. Please stop spouting pop opinions and using horribly off topic connections that frankly make you look alike an idiot.

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I recently read some old horror stories, courtesy of some guy in the Bloodborne general /vg/ (pic related) when I got it in my mind to see what the whole Cthulhu meme was about.
I have to say, I'm prone to agree with him too; M.R. James wrote some crazy good stuff.
As for Lovecraft, I actually found Call of Cthulhu to be a bit overhyped, but might be the books written to expand on the Cthulhu mythos make it stand out better. I really liked The Colour out of Space. However, these are all pretty good stories, and as a non-native English speaker, it was fun to expand my vocabulary with the new (Or rather, old) words I found in them.

On a less positive note, I read Stephen King's It, and was massively underwhelmed, and did not care very much for the writing at all. The only thing I found that really stood out was the way he describes childhood obesity in one of the characters, even though that too basically turns into a generic sob story. I wouldn't discredit King enitrely, as I really enjoyed the Dark Tower series and a few of his other books I've read, but the titles slip my mind.

In lifting, I really enjoyed reading Wendler's thoughts on training in his book about the 5/3/1 training program, which really looks interesting.

>>38452851
This kind of gems is the reason why I'm still hanging out here at this tibetan mushroom seller board.

>>38452769
>You have no evidence that "innate talent" is something your born with

You have to be some kind of mongoloid imbecile to doubt it. Are you trying to imply that everyone is born equal? Like, mind is a blank card and can be filled with anything, spawn of Einstein can be raised to the same IQ (you know, skill with solving riddles) as a son of average Bush voter? Or to the same math skill? Offspring of Beethoven can be trained the same way as your offspring?

4chan, some things never change

>>38440389
Cool. Does it use Scheme programs to illustrate concepts?

>>38439801
Thoughts on this one? I was thinking about buying it

What are some alternatives to "Models"?

>>38452413
Try "The Theoretical Minimum".

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>>38439855
>>38439940
Nope.

He even says will power is completely useless as it suggests addicts are missing out on some great pleasure by quitting.

The main point of the book is:
- smoking isn't actually that nice
- the relaxation of a cigarette is what non-smokers feel all the time (because they're not satiating an addiction which becomes unbearable every 1-2 hours)
- tell your self "isn't it nice not to be a smoker"

A lot more stuff but those were the 3 things that stuck with me.

>>38453342
book of pook maybe

>>38452997
yes, thats exactly what im saying because the book which you failed to read, or even research the same field, SAYS EXACTLY THAT. IT CITES FUCKING 4 STUDIES ABOUT TALENT IN CHILDREN AND GUESS WHAT ??? YOU"RE FUCKING WRONG U FUCKIN IDIOT DONT EVER COME HERE TO MY BOARD AND TRY TO ARGUE A POINT YOU HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NO RESEARCH ON. YOUR FAGGOT ASS HAS LITERALLY BEEN ARGUING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT THE VERY BOOK YOU'RE DENYING IS TRUE IS DESIGNED TO PROVE. WHAT THE FUC KIS WRONG IWTH AU U FUCKAING IMBECLIE AHOLY SFUCKING KILL YOUSRELAH'OGEHW'AG NIGHGER NIGGER NGIEGER NIGGER

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>>38449866
there u go bud

>>38453787

well, certainly you are talentless when it comes to basic communication

you know, people are born with certain number of brain cells that can be applied for certain activities (i.e. controlling fingers or imagining music). This Number can be changed, but only at certain age. This is why some people are so good at some things and so bad at others, 4 cherrypicked studies with flawed interpretation can't change that.

>>38454203
and now science:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4101876/

"deliberate practice accounted for 30% of the variance in music performance"

see, you can train piano for 30 years and still play like shit, because you do not have this part of your brain developed - it's like trying to run without legs. 70% of music performance is beyond practice. And if your performance is 1% worse than your oponent, you are worthless in this field.

>>38453787
>Falling for the "hard work and dedication" meme

You will never be as good as someone with significantly more innate tallent , in most fields, no matter how hard you try. You are either under 15 or have never been in a situation where you work really hard for something and watch someone effrotlessly be 5x better than you if you cant accept this fact.

>>38454651
>innate tallent
guess this is the concept he disagrees with - and he is partially right

experiments with twins shows that "only" 25% of performance is affected by talent. His false conclusion is "75% is my hard work" - no, 75% is mostly exposure during early years.

75% of children who started piano lessons at age 4 develop "perfect pitch", while only 3% of children who started at age 9 can develop it.

call it innate talent. call it early years practice, doesn't matter.

>>38454651
>or have never been in a situation where you work really hard for something and watch someone effrotlessly be 5x better than you

and I remember my guitar lessons - took me 2 fucking months to barely learn this song, I was really proud of myself, "yeah, hard work pays", then this girl took guitar first time in her life and was able to play it after 3 hours. Somehow I CAN'T get the concept of fingerboard, while I have no problems with piano.

>>38440835
Verily, this a good book.

I live in a small apartment. Where do i read? I don't think i'd concentrate reading close to my computer. How do you anons read?

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>>38455162
> mfw ride my bike down to the city park and just sit under a tree reading

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>>38455162
Try audiobooks instead of music etc. that got me so interested that I started to actually read these books since its much faster.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8klsjxFY-Nqa-2Pjq6wWG9aIPTqpSpO

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This, along with his non-fiction "God Series".

>>38455162
On my bed every night since I was 14

>>38455227
sounds super comfy desu

>>38438695
Infinite Jest.

>>38455162
Usually in bed, sometimes living room couch, very occasionally at my desk.

>>38438695
> /fit/
> read

Pick one

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>>38438695
Probably not what most people have in mind for these threads - it seems like philosophy and self-help are the most popular genres - but I'd really recommend the Flashman series.

Only marginally /fit/ related, in the sense that he's muscular and horny. Basically, a cowardly asshole English gentleman travels around the world during the Victorian era, getting involved in wars and fucking foreign qt's. 10/10.

How to work on memory retention? Been reading and listening to quite a few books recently and reading up interesting stuff online. However, it just seems like most goes in one ear and out the other. Actually heard good things about nicotine but I ain't ever smoking

>>38460145
supplements. Borone, phosphatidylserine (basically mackerel and salmon), glutamine, arginine with pycnogenol, piracetam.

>>38438725
that book is verbal diarrhea
holy shit
just nonsense

read Decartes or Hume for some deep philosophy that is readable

>>38444786
>odyssey more important than the illiad
nigga what?
the illiad was pretty much the bible in antiquity

>>38443496
Most of them are fucking shit because all of the authors are far too liberal to actually write something dystopian. Also they are all complete retards when it comes to scale. ADB is the worst offender.

Some of the WHFB books are good though.

>>38444729
I love how it's not about some authoritarian government taking control and banning everything but simply us people doing this to ourselves in a democracy. Makes it all the more relatable in this age of clickbait and reality tv. Really makes you think™
>>38444735
I'll add that to my to-read list.

>>38439940
how do I stop nailbiting bro

>>38460885
his post explained your question, just try to be more conscious of what you do with your hands

>>38445854
libgen.io

it has like every ebook

>>38453314
>>38439801
very interesting book, there are some very good points.
But even if you don't like the advices and tips, the book is entertaining enough without them

>>38455162
A few minutes in bed before falling asleep, lazy Sundays while chilling on the couch with a half gallon jug of water, on longer trips (plane or ferry), while waiting for something...

A paperback takes up less space than a hardcover, a Kindle (or other e-reader) takes up even less, and in a pinch, you most likely have your phone with you. I wouldn't recommend reading on your phone as a steady thing, though - the smaller screen makes it hard to focus, and this is coming from someone who has a Nexus 6. I have my Kindle in my bag or in my car in case I need to kill some time.

As a last top: If a book can't hold your attention long enough for you to enjoy it after a little while and you don't have to read it (type school textbooks), you might as well just put it down instead of going through a book you don't even like.

Books you don't like, but have to read, you can feed into a speed reader (I think Spreed is a thing?) and blaze through them while sitting at your computer.

Audio books, as another anon mentioned,could also be for you. You can actually find a good number of them on Spotify, believe it or not. One of my mates listened through Moby Dick in a day earlier this year while we worked in a fish processing plant.

>>38455162
in the bed or on my couch. I live in a small (28m2) apartment too. just get a good reading lamp

>>38439022
Damn i got it a week ago, i will read it soon !

>>38440308
jacob?

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>>38444729
>They're changing "nigger" to "slave".
Damn, really? I should go find my nigger version from high school and keep it somewhere safe. That's gonna be a piece of history desu.

>>38461740
>on longer trips (plane or ferry), while waiting for something...
That makes me miss college when i commuted to my campus. Got a nice 45 minute train ride there and back and I got so much reading done every day.