/fitlit/

Name 5 books that would benefit me and that aren't boring as fucking shit.

>>42683874
The intelligent investor
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
A game of thrones

>>42683874

1. The Bible (New Testament especially)
2. 7 habits of highly successful people
3. The art of war
4. The science of getting rich
5. To kill a mockingbird

>>42683874
>>42683892
Rich dad poor dad

>>42683874
the subtle art of not giving a fuck

this is some junior high level shit so far

>>42683892
>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
no homo

>>42683874
>>42683947
Not him. I haven't read The subtle art of not giving a fuck, but I have read Models wich is a good book.

Gym Candy

>>42683844
Reading Wallace in 2017 is not cool. I had a English professor last semester who looked and dressed just like him. Not a coincidence I think.

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>>42683892
>Meme
>Meme
>Game of Kikes: Fat Autistic Alcoholist's Sex Fantasies
Fucking LMAO

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>>42683951
Something being simple doesn't make it wrong, just as something being complicated doesn't make it right.
And I hate when people criticize what's available but don't offer better alternatives.

Phaedrus
Nichomachean ethics
Enquiry concerning human understanding
PI
Stages in life's way

become a moral human being

I only just started reading so some might think those books are meme tier
>the art of war
>meditations
>the art of worldy wisdom
>the 48 laws of power
>the prince
>analects of Confucius
>on the ends of good and evil

>>42683874
Murakami does amazing prose. Read South of the Border, West of the Sun. Its fun and light hearted and will help you ease into literature.

>>42684894
T. Pseudo-alpha

Go learn a martial art, you'll learn all that you've mentioned. Provided you've a good coach

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>>42684504
Why you hating on game of thrones

>>42685902
I'm already a martial artist

>>42685929
Pseudo intellectual

>>42685959
It's fun
If I or anyone on /lit/ wanted to be smart they would be read encyclopedias and stuff

>>42685976
Wait.... what?

>>42685976
>>42685988
I'm calling the GoT hater a whiny pseudo intellectual, and edgy cuck at that. Not bashing the series

>>42683844
Infinite Jest is literally one of the worst written books I ever had the displeasure of being tricked into reading. Only picked it up because a hot bartender with an english degree kept ranting about it to me when I was young and easily drawn in by thots. Threw it in the trash before page 200.

Good thing we get dem aesthetics and dgaf about bitches anymore :D.

>>42683874
No longer human by Osamu Dazai
Art of war
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
The Divine Comedy

Infinite Jest is great overall but the last hundred or so pages are an unrewarding chore to get through.

I'd much rather listen to documentaries while I'm doing art or other things.

>>42686080
post some of your art

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>need to work, and sleep
>want to lift, read, watch films, play vidya, practice coding, write music, get gf
>only 24 hours in a day

Who came up with this bullshit

>>42683844
I'm reading the The Witcher books right now. Bretty entertaining. How would /lit/ rate them?

>>42683874
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
Plato's The Republic
Mein Kampf - Hitler
Das Kapital - Marx
The Richest Man in Babylon - George Samuel Clason

>>42683844
I'm reading the internet at this very moment

>>42686187
I read mein kampf recently and holy shit it is a badly written book. Do people actually read it or do they just put it on their bookcases to be edgy faggots?

>>42686336
it's a very long and drawn out piece of literature. hitler made no point in skipping over anything he thought. a problem you may have encountered is on the translator. a few words and slang were difficult bringing over to english.

>>42686107
You got to pick something and stick to it, can't do everything at once. Reduce your computer time to 2-3 hours (vidya, Internet surfing, whatever).

Reading Aristotle right now but it's a fucking slog. The concepts are easy as shit but I have to read a sentence like 5 times to glean what the fuck he's actually saying.
Does this make me a brainlet? Im reading him with the goal of reading Neitchze (will never spell that name correctly)

>>42686146
/lit/ would laugh at you for reading fantasy that's also a videogame adaptation but from what I've heard it's a bretty fun series

>>42686040
Lovecraft was kind of a waste imo
Maybe I just didn't get out of it what I was supposed to

>>42686336
>>42686383
English version?

>>42686618
yes, my copy is translated by Ralph Manheim with an introduction written by Abraham Foxman, a jew who was in charge of the ADL. really shows how corrupted Hitler's writing has become. it's tough finding a pure copy

>>42683844
I'm a psued. Played too many video games and now books can't keep my attention.

>>42686665
I read an original German one from the 30s
I can't tell how bad the translation in English is though

>>42683874
Starship Troopers

>>42686683
literally just force your way through 30 pages and youll get into the

if you dont have the willpower to fucking read you would never make it in the gym why are you here

>>42683874

Spin
The Shadow Out of Time
The Scientific Principles of Strength Training
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I Ching

>>42686809
into the groove*

>>42683947

My nigga

There isn't a single book that will give you any meaningful change of mind unless you are already prestined to think/act that way.
Example: if you are not a business man and do not have the born-with ambition of becoming rich, then no book in the world can help you to become rich.

Ergo: if you have the desire to read books and get inspired by written words, then it will likely have some kind of output for you.
But then you would already be reading books.
Hence, convincing someone with no interest to read books of trying it will yield no results.

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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Stranger
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Hot Zone
Things Fall Apart

read these and tell me any of them bored you

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>>42686884
meant for >>42683874

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>>42686884
>Things Fall Apart

>>42686930
What? It's a good book

>>42684466
reading wallace - whose main philosophical anxiety was that irony will eventually poison all discourse - in 2017, an era marked by gigantic levels of irony poisoning, is not cool? you're right lmao

>>42683844
>not reading IJ on the lat pulldown machine
>letting the weight thou wouldst pull to thyself exceed thine own weight

>>42686826
>Spin

MY NIGGA!

>>42683874
>every book I've read is boring

t.brainlet

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>>42686187
>Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
if there's only one book you must read, it's this one. You don't need anything else.
Just read this book op and you will become a better man. Not a perfect man because it's impossible to follow every guideline Marcus is giving you. But you will better your behaviour, the way you talk to people, the way you manage your friends, how to consider death, how to stray further from meaningless yet harmfull desires (and also feelings like hatred, anger, sadness, nostalgia, vainglory, etc...), how much you must love your family and protect it, etc...
If you are a stressed person like me, you will find quietude in this book for there's an answer to every question.
>inb4 you made this book look like the bible
To each its bible i guess.

>>42687160
First thing I thought of when Trump got the nomination was Johnny Gentle.

>>42686040
The divine comedy is shit. Literally a self insert fanfic of the bible. Literally the only interesting parts are the imaginative ironic punishments in hell (often administered to people he didn't like IRL), and that's only part of the first third of the poem. Paradisio in particular is fucking snoresville

>>42687767
what specifically did it help with? what are some of the lines you thought were most meaningful?

i read it, didn't think it was that special tbqh

>>42683844
realtalk reading phenomenology of spirit with a pump feels soooo good

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>>42687894
everything related about death and how pointless it is to worry about it. It may seems "lmao edgy" for some but i remember when i was a kid i was unable to sleep for days because of anxiety crisis. I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that one day my parents, my sibling and i will die, one way or another. I guess witnessing the slow death of my grand father on is death bed because of a crushing lung cancer when i was 8 didn't help.
Another line i remember was the one about "finding an escape", let me quote him :
>People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too.
>Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like.
>By going within.
>Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul. >Especially if you have other things to rely on.

>>42686000
Fag

>>42685929
A lot of pages and not a whole lot of meaning. And before I get called a pseudo-intellectual again I'll just admit that I'd rather just watch the series and read something more interesting instead. Not going to do that either but just saying. Don't waste your time reading thousands of pages of poorly written autism

>>42683844
How to become a billionaire
The America we deserve
How to get rich
Time to get tough
The art of the deal

>>42687767
I'm reading it but I would recommend a more modern translation than the 1800s one I'm reading. They tended to use very long sentences where we could get the same point across briefly now. It really makes it more difficult than it has to be when the point is the message, not the prose.

>42686930
>not realizing that okonkwo is the literally ultimate chad

>>42686930
shoo shoo knowledge goblin

>>42683874
The new testament
A new model of the universe P.D Ouspensky
The forgotten solider Guy Sajer (with the old breed is also great)
Mythology
Man and his symbols

You must think with your brain.

>>42683874

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

>>42686884
> How to Win Friends and Influence People

this was poorly written garbage

Dune

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>>42688292
> for some but i remember when i was a kid i was unable to sleep for days because of anxiety crisis. I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that one day my parents, my sibling and i will die, one way or another. I guess witnessing the slow death of my grand father on is death bed because of a crushing lung cancer when i was 8 didn't help.
You and i brother, you and i
Could never accept death after that, fell for the nihilist meme a bit and rotted for 15 years.
Will read meditations as soon as i get home.

Thank you man

>used to frequent /lit
>lots of nitpicking and assholes pretending like they'll someday write anything that anyone gives a fuck about.
>stop going to /lit, start going to >fit and /k.
>work out and shoot guns now for fun.
>/litizens now seem like gigantic insufferable faggots.

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>>42689058
only good suggestion itt

>>42683900
He said not boring

>>42689058
Fantastic book

>>42687234

I didn't read them, but do you think Axis and Vortex are worth reading?

>>42686067
you must have gotten out of the water to read them

>>42687854
same. he also completely predicts the face tune thing everyone is doing on snapchat and IG

>>42683874
>Cannot appreciate art unless it's engaging and entertaining only on the most basic levels.

How's this sport's season going, brainlet?

>weak beta twink reading the fedora of literature
Clockwork.

>>42691785

infinite jest is actually really good lel

I've been reading Camus lately and thoroughly enjoyed it. He's very good at creating likable characters that feel genuine. I'd recommend The Plague to pretty much anyone.

>tfw you'll never have a friend like jean tarrou

>>42683900
>the bible
gas urself kike

>not reading The Trial by Kafka to get pumped before a lift

makes me furious

>>42687767
For understanding Stoicism the Meditations is the worst book you can read, the Enchiridion is far superior and straight forward in its ethics.

>>42691820
The Trial is great. It annoys me that people meme about Kafka so much.

Funnily enough, one of the characters in >>42691813 (The Plague) misreads what is implied to be The Trial as a mystery novel.

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>>42683874
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Meditations on Hunting - Jose Ortega y Gasset
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Coming Home To The Pleistocene - Paul Shepard

>>42686040
Seconding The Divine Comedy. If you haven't read Dante you can't really claim to be literate.

>>42686884
Seconding Hemingway's short stories. One of the best writers of the 20th century.

Mein Kampf and anything by Marx belong on the dustheap of history: screeds crayoned by morally imbecilic failures, worth reading only as case studies in pathological wrongness.

>>42683844
>memefinite meme
*tips*

>>42691852
The trial is the most boring shit ever. Dryest book I ever read. Dude's a fucking normie and it's just about his gay normie life. Same with the stranger

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>>42691819
>recommends new testament
>kike

>>42692125
Mein Kampf and Das Kapital just strike me as works that belong in the same bin as Atlas Shrugged; trite ideological writing spurred on by skewed morality and personal failure. And for some reason they're not.

>>42686965

dude YAMS lmao

>>42692156

lel

>>42687854

same dude wallace called the progression of our whole degenerate, pleasure seeking rocket missile culture

>>42686965
Chapter 3: Okonkwo acts like a dumb nigger
Chapter 4: Okonkwo is such a stupid nigger
Chapter 5: This fucking nigger
Chapter 6: All about Yams

When you read it like a white man the only real takeaway is that blacks are incapable of civilization.

>>42689518
They're bronze medals to Spin's gold but still worth it, in my opinion. Adjust your expectations.

1. Journey to the West
2. On Writing by Stephen King
3. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
4. The Black Company 1-3
5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

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It sounds cringey but pic related literally changed my life when I read it a few years ago. I identified so much with the main character and his life and vowed to not end up like him. I don't think I came away with the message that the author intended, but that doesn't matter.

>>42692225
It's a story about a person. You sound like the kind of guy who only got tennis and weed out of Infinite Jest.

>>42683892
>a Meme of thrones
Wow considering the popularity of GOT its really stupid you´ve recommended one of the dullest franchise in the history of tv series franchises? Seriously each episode following the Stark family and their pals from westeros as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make dragons and magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Martin vetoed the idea of anyone but HBO directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Game of thrones series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though
"No!" The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous.Martin´s mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that he has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of A song of ice And Fire by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these manchildren are reading ASOIAF at 29 or 30, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "ASOIAF" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>42692168
The fact that you're the first person so far to mention Ayn Rand gives me hope for this board...

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>>42683844
Well this turned into a pretentious circle jerk. I probably should have figured as much.
Read what you like. Just read.
If you derive meaning or a lesson from a book you've read, good.
If not it's not instantly garbage because you simply will it to be so.

uhh, the plebtier taste you fucks have in books

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>>42692571
>>42692572
Case in point.

>>42692156
The Stranger? Meursault is the most autistic guy I've ever read a book about.

>>42687160
Where did you get the idea that irony poisoning was his major anxiety?

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>>42686826
>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I'm only 60 pages away from being done with this book.
>tfw this book makes me crave eggs and ham because they stop at various places to eat for breakfast
>ywn go on a road trip cross country with your son and eat at odd hole in the wall places
>muh quality

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7 mysteries of life
Jack
a way to see the world

Reading has taken my shitposting to the next level. this is the only thing that motivates me to read. I used to rap,that used to motivate me to read 2books a week when i was in my teens. I wanted to rap like Immortal technique. kek!


However, if i read too much at one time I'll just skim and not retain shit. so i take breaks and think about what i read, i like to write little phrases down that I will use later.

I wrote down the phrase "he bought into" I'll use it later in the sentence "he bought into the keto meme"

just read nietzsche my dudes and learn to overcome nihilism

>>42693106
>breakfast at random diners across the country
this is my favorite kind of travel kino desu

>>42686590
I like him but he's repetitive as fuck. A lot of his stories are very similar and it works to the detriment of his writing as a whole.

>>42692405
>It's a story about a person
Not according to the author.

>Infinite Jest
Never read that but given how much /lit/ likes it I'm sure it's trash.

>>42686107
I feel ya. I've reduced it to sleep, class, lifting, studying, playing music, in that priority. I think I could add a gf if I spent less time on the internet, but no way in fuck could someone do all that and read, watch films, and play vidya. Gotta give up entertainment someday bro.

>>42693255
Paging Roland Barthes. Whether or not you become interested in the stuff about decolonization and Africa and masculinity, you get an interesting human story between yam facts.

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>>42683874
>Name 5 books that would benefit me and that aren't boring as fucking shit.
1. Animal Farm - George Orwell
2. The Dark Fields - Alan Glynn
3. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
4. The Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
5. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

>>42683892
this is a troll post

>>42683903
>>42683900
good suggestions

>>42683874

- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche

>>42687358
a good 90% of books are useless garbage**
fuck off, pea-sized shit for brains.

>>42690522
I like genuine and enthralling content, not pseudo-intellectual bullshit lmao. Silly brainlet

>>42683844
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzche
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
The Problem with Socialism - Thomas DiLorenzo
Iron John - Robert Bly

These should be at the top of your list desu

Very scintillating stuff. Not to say you shouldn't read ANY fiction but these get the noggin joggin

>>42693722
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a phenomenal book but i dont recommend it for the into too Nietzche

Lost 35 pounds and read The Stranger and The Trial.

I'm trying!

>>42686891
This is funny
Good pic, anon

>>42692232
>1. Journey to the West
Which translation? I have Wu Cheng en's which I read most of ten years ago and I just remember it being so dry when it wasn't five straight pages of poetry

>>42683874
An American Tragedy
Pincher Martin by Golding
The Adventures of Huck Finn
As I Lay Dying
1984 and 451 Fahrenheit
Flowers for Algernon
Frankenstein (even if just for the Frankenstein's passage)
The Future of the American Negro
The Last of the Mohicans
My Antonia
Norwegian Wood by Murakami
The Stranger by Camus
Tess of D'Urbervilles
Their Eyes were watching God
Tobacco Road (fucking funtastic)
Wuthering Heights
Winesburg Ohio
White Fang (bar the sentimental last part it's amazing)

Reading through L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, pretty cool so far

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>>42691839
>implying gymrats have the required intellect to compare both works and shit an analytical dissertation about muh stoicism
ho and it's not about which one is better, but which one suits you the best, which one is better translated in your native tongue and which one is the most meaningful for you.

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>>42686107
replace music with drawing and you're pretty much me
there must be something out there to reduce our sleep to 4-5 hours

>>42686575
The books came first though didn't they?

Surprised nobody's even mentioned Notes from Underground yet. It's pretty good, devastating and/or hilarious depending on where you're at and where you're coming from, and it's a good intro to Dostoevsky.

>>42694851
>Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Unironically fuck the fuck off, Hardy is a hack

>>42693802

I remember the first time I tried marijuana.

>>42693199
Reading Nietzsche is hard without having a lot of knowledge of classical works of philosophy.

>>42688389
Look at this self-help book by Trump, fucking based.

>>42683844
Just finished A Brave New World and A Clockwork Orange, both incredibly enjoyable reads

>>42683892
>A game of thrones

THE MORE SHE DRANK, THE MORE SHE SHAT

For me,it's travel narratives

>>42683874
In your case Oregairu

>>42683874
Slaughterhouse 5
Barry Lyndon
1876
Cosmos (kinda outdated though)
Relativity

Honorable mentions:
Homesteading
The Definitive Book of Body Language
Churchill's Black Dog and Kafka's Mice

>>42686794
Or any Heinlein.

>>42701481
>Barry Lyndon
I watched the movie and it was meh except the cinematography.

How different is that from the book? Care to elaborate?

>>42701565
It's pretty similar. All it does is expand on his time in the army and as a gambler. It's more of a social commentary on nationalism and social class than the movie is

>>42683844
I've taken to reading digital comic books when I'm doing recumbent bike, really helps me zone out.

>>42700349
you can at least read Beyond Good and Evil or Twilight of the Idols as standalone things. You wouldn't get Thus Spake Zarathustra at all though without any familiarity with what he's trying to satire and subvert.

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anyone here read between sets?

does reading help?or is it a meme?

>>42702087
It's generally overrated by pretentious faggots. All it is is a form of entertainment. It's not going to make you the next Einstein or anything. You'd probably learn more from dicking around Wikipedia per time spent

>>42702000
I do it whenever I lift alone, take one page reading as my rest

>>42683903
Fuck of MLM cuck

If you read that book and actually got something out of it you're either 6 years old or pea brained

>>42686040
Is no longer human good robotcore or is it just misanthropic edge?

>>42692156
>stranger
>normie

you probably read a bootleg version

>>42687160
that's... really fuckin' ironic

>>42687854
same

>>42690450
oh jeez you're right

None of you fags even mentioned the rational male.

Definitely an eye opener.

>>42683874
The antichrist
Thus spoke zarathustra
The art of war
Mein kampf
Might is right
The prince

>>42692225
What's the yams?

>>42683844
I just read a plot synopsis of the infamous infinite jest and it just looks like "le capitalism is bad lmao!" kinda shit

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starting strength
the picture of dorian gray
les miserables
the old man and the sea
thus spoke zarathustra
linear algebra done right