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Have fun faggot.

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Start with the Greeks

>>42241557
>All the "unvirgin yourself" and "just bee urself" self help books
>Game of thrones book
>No mein kampf
>No art of war
Might as well recommend harry potter and lotr

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>>42241575

>>42241599
>Harry Potter and Lotr in the same sentence

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>>42241609

>>42241609
Both are extremely engaging, immersing and well written, both are fiction, both are completely useless for self improvement.

>>42240344
Fuck self improvement books. Do yourself a favor and start reading literary classics and get some brain gains faggot.

>>42241629
>Lotr
>Well written
Guy created an immense lore with his amazing imagination but his writing was bland at best.

>>42240344
SS is a good book for the detailed descriptions of the mechanics of lifting.

Can't recommend self-help books, but there are plenty of great inspirational books out there that don't try to offer a one size fits all roadmap to happiness and success. Guys who write self-help books are often full of shit or speak in such broad terms that their advice is worthless once you look into it.

I like survival stories. I'll read anything about someone who should have died doing something but persevered like a motherfucker and kept on going.

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I'm really liking this.

Anyone got any similar to recommend?

Is les miserables a good book?

>>42243960
very much so, but it's a behemoth to tackle if you don't read regularly.

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A modern and usable veiw on stoicism

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A idea in your head is useless if it just stays there, its yiur job to bring it to life, sit down and do your job.

>>42241652
This anon has the right idea OP.

Self help or improvement books are kind of a wash. You find a lot more insight and perspective from literary classics like he said.

Four Feathers for instance is complete fiction, but the novel wrestles with existential fears like love, abandonment, courage, cowardice etc; you end up finding more truth in well written fiction than you do in straight up philosophy or academic books.

Four Feathers, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Two Years Before the Master, Captains Courageous are all really great. Shakespeare is good too if not a little bit daunting to muscle through the archaic English.

I'm reading a new book called North of Boston now. Murder mystery thriller type, so far so good

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>>42240344
Delete your phone

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>>42240344
this book is not a meme
read it - twice
the advice it offers may seem obvious, but I guarantee you're not practicing what it says.