Post 'must read' books you recommend

How to Win Friends and Influence People from Dale Carnegie unironically helped easing me autism. Completely changed my life.

>>75579858
it's Niccolò not "Niccolo", accents are important

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the only book you need to become a shitposter extraordinaire

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Spoiler: He was Greek

>>75579942
My parents made me read that when I was a kid. There's a couple things I still consciously do as a result of reading it.

Al-Qur'an Al-Karim

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Terminal Innocence.
Originally a Danish book called Den kroniske uskyld

>>75579858
The lusiads
One hundred years of solitude
1984

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>>75579858
A real masterpiece

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This one is really cool. It also makes you spend five minutes on every sentence to figure out what it means.

At the moment I'm reading the biography of Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore. I can recommend it to anyone who is interested in the guy. Really good book thus far.

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basically non-fiction nowadays

Anna Karenina

>>75579858
Crime and Punishment
Karamazov Brothers
War and Peace
Master and Margarita
The White Guard

>>75580891
2bqf I want to learn Russian one day to read those books

The Promise Land by Reymont

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>>75579858

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>>75580843
>brave new world
>basically non-fiction

>>75580891
this is crap t_b_h

Anabasis by Xenophon
Gallic wars by Caesar
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

No Longer Human's pretty good
>inb4 weeb

the wind up bird chronicle

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>>75580253
>Fall

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>>75579858

Reading this book will change your life forever. You will never see the world in the same way again.

If you seek intelligence and wisdom, I very much recommend it, if you seek happiness, contentment and peace of mind, avoid it like the plague, ignorance is bliss.

If you care to read books on a computer/tablet screen it's free online:

Text:

Volume 1
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm

Volume 2
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/

Volume 3
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/

.PDF:

Volume 1
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

Volume 2
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-II.pdf

Volume 3
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-III.pdf

Audiobook:

Volume 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhBYTcvrwO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJOoiKRG2rI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDKIknNjt_0

(couldn't find more)

>>75580767
My favourite mastodon album

>>75579942
This book is common sense

>>75580891
They're all too long and boring

>>75588085
Ok

>>75579942
I really liked that book as well.

The three most life changing books I've read have been:

How to make friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco

>>75585509
>read marx
>agree with some statements he makes
>see nothing wrong with most of them

>>75580891
Karamazov Brothers is too heavy for my lil brain

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>>75579858
Pretty nice WWI book.

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>>75588416
Also, I would add The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because it's pretty /int/ related and prove that Argentinians are white.

>>75588595
>and prove that Argentinians are white.
wut

>>75588235
>he never read it
>criticizes its content despite not knowing it
why do you do this?

>>75588642
Dude I own it

>>75588670
Yeah but have you read it?

>>75589025
I read some chapters

>>75579858
To understand the Balkans read:
The bridge on the Drina
The damned yard
Death and the Dervish
The mountain wreath

>posting a book from before 1950
>Imply you will ever read it or enjoy it

>>75589191
>the classics are bad

>>75589191
Any good, but not too complex Italian books you'd recommend to someone who's learning Italian?

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>>75579858

>>75589422
read JoJo in italian, comic books are great if you want to learn vocabulary

I largely dislike french culture but Atomised by Houellebecq and le rouge et le noir by stendhal are great

>>75589460
Tbh, i'd like to check out Italian comics, and sure why not manga in Italian. I'll defiantly try it, got a link?
However, i'm looking for something to test my reading, i wanna get a certificate (not right now, but eventually), i think it would look good on my CV.

>>75579858
'The Desert of the Tartars'.
A brilliant book about a man wasting away in a lonely outpost waiting for an event that may or may not happen, with a few pages that really made me contemplate things and an ending like I love them most: sad to the bone.

I think some poor souls on here might really relate to this.

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>>75588235
>read Marx
>realize the world is just a big hoax
>powerless to do anything about it
>tfw

>>75580864
Literally the cuck book

>>75589306
you do not read a classic because you want to read a book, you read it because it is a classical and it will enhance your personal culture.
>>75589422
anything from camilleri or malvaldi is fine

Start with the greeks

>>75579858
Il Principe may be his best known, but you really should read the Discorsi if you're into Macchiavelli. Principe is just a revised and abrigded monarchist version of the Discorsi he made to brown-nose Lorenzo de'Medici, as he was a well known republican and had become persona non grata after the de'Medici take-over.

>>75593289
Very informative post, really made me think

>>75591711
Hi /lit/

>>75580802
I tried Reading this for Fun Back in high school and I just couldn't do it after only one page

>>75580891
I agree except for master and margarita

>>75585509
I read the Communist Manifesto once but Not Das Kapital. It brings Up some good Points, but it's a too utopistic idea befitting best only for a small community and Not an entire nation

>>75587902
Same my UK-ite friend

>>75589449
so much this

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Redpill desu

>>75588937
Good read about a Perfect Society. It was also interesting how he used the perfect Society to explain his Definition of justice, however, his ultimate justification of doing what's right at the end seemed Kind of a let down compared to everything else He was talking about

>>75598334
hi serbia

>>75580843
I could go for a handful of soma right now.

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politic: be realistic

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
The Stranger (Camus)
Republic (Plato)
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)

>>75588595
CARE to elaborate on that Joke or reference you are trying to make there?

If you want to see what is Democracy or you want to expose today's democrat LARPers you have to read:
1. Aristotle: Athenaion Politeia (Constitution of the Athenians)
2. Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration (it's included in Book 2 of "History of the Peloponnesian War")
(FYI Spartans had elections every year, also they had something like referendums but they were NOT considered as Democrats)

Also:
Plato (everything)

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If anyone is interested in sci fi/fiction, this is a good book for you. It takes place in modern day Times if the Aztecs weren't defeated and took over the World.

It's a book in a collection of similiar Type books like one if the ancient Egyptians took over, one with the Norse men and a couple of others too

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>>75579858

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The ultimate redpill

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>>75598678
The Communist manifesto sux, it is all politicizing and buzzwords,(it's a manifesto obviously) read Capital, that is economic, sociological and revolutionary science.

It really is a good read, and it will blow your mind, I already gave you links, if you don't wanna read it because lefties, then I can't help you, if you close your mind off to knowledge, even just knowing what the fucking book that the people you disagree with says, then I can't help you, sadly the vast majority of leftists (and people in general) haven't read the book and therefore don't really understand what it's all about, the whole point of it is that Marx takes these examples (which are real, from real life examples in his life which he had the documents for from ledgers and first hand accounts of people) like (I can never do this justice in a fuggin 4chan post)

>5000 african farmers grow and pick tons of cocoa beans every day and get like 20 cents an hour, working for a huge cocoa bean company, in a day one farmer picks like 50$ worth of cocoa bean but earns $2.40
>cocoa bean company sells it to mars candy co or whatever which also add nuts, which are picked by indian farmers for similar wages with a similar difference in worth of labour vs wages to make snickers or w/e, cocoa bean company makes a huge profit, and mars
>if the cocoa bean + nut companies use the profit to pay workers more, but other companies doing the exact same shit don't, the other companies win under the rules of capitalism because paying workers more lessens profit
>the other companies can then afford to replace the farmers with machines, always instead of using the machines to let the farmers do less work for the same pay because it's cheaper and the owners of the companies always want more money because if they don't the company might fail + greed
>this just spirals more and more and more as technology gets better
>the state is already working TO SUSTAIN THIS
>the state should do the reverse

read capital

>>75580319
... G***** ? C'est toi ?

>>75580336
Fuck you Leaf, you beat me to it.

>>75579858
Everything by Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough

>>75579942
Wording this dbh

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Just finished the Iliad/ Even after 3000+ years the story is still amazing. Want to finish the odyssey this month and then tackle Virgil's Aeneid. Damn American education made it seem like all important literature was written in the last 100 years in the states, what nonsense

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>>75579858
The singularity is near by Ray Kurzweil

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Dune
I Robot

>>75580891
>Master and Margarita
>The White Guard
huh haven't heard of these two

>>75600719
wow this is inspiring
i now want to kill millions of poor people through starvation to destroy the nations economy and ultimately end up with state capitalism anyway BUT also the NKVD gets to knock on my door at 3am to fuck my wife and kill my kids

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if you are going to buy Faust buy this translation of it

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>>75610470
also this

>>75588212
>The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
are you rich?

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t. reading now

>>75585509
I will give me this.

De Bello Gallico
The Lord of the Rings

>>75610610
How does it work?

>>75588085
Something 90% of people lack.

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>>75610384
>Don't read the book
>Still feel at liberty to comment on its content

>>75610384
>morally poisoned by capitalism
Lenin warned us about you

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>>75579858

<======= recommended 4chan reading.

>>75612303
I didn't find an audio book in german only contra positions on its content.

But my whiskey reseller (A man I trust) told me some of it's content and that I can only earn real money through being the owner of something that generates money since the capital increases while labour values are always the same.

Time to buy VW

>>75580843
WE>memedly Huxley

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English and there history
The Anabas (I am Greek)
La plata (France is a British colony)
Pursuit of power
Animal farm(read at school)
Paradise lost
Candide
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
And lastly lavithon

>>75612226
Then it's not common.

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>>75612396
>I can only earn real money through being the owner of something that generates money since..
>Time to buy VW

He's right you know, you can only reliably and in a "stable" way earn money intentionally exploiting other people and fucking them over at every turn, and the capitalist system is really easy to use to your own personal advantage and just "fuck the world, only I matter" etc. but ultimately even your self-interest is damaged.

Knowing this (especially having read some Marx and understanding his points well) you must try to live with yourself., and the damage you do to your own interest and the world.

That is the greatest challenge, if you read (and more importantly, understand) his works; You would understand that under a true Marxism there would be:

UNITED EUROPE UNITED WORLD
WIKILEAKS AND SNOWDEN FREE TO HELP THE WORLD
NO COPYRIGHT
FREE EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS
FREE VIDEO-GAMES+PC PROGRAMS(LEGAL TORRENT)
FREE MOVIES AND TV
FREE HOUSING
FREE EBOOKS
FREE FOOD
FREE HEATING
FREE ELECTRICITY
FASTER DEVELOPMENT, BETTER USE VALUE OF COMPUTING + ALL OTHER TECHNOLOGIES (NO COPYRIGHT)
NO PREDATOR BANKS
NO DEBT
LEGAL (AND FREE) DRUGS
FREE HEALTHCARE
NO PRIVATIZED WATER/ELECTRICITY
YOU + OTHER WORKERS DECIDE WHAT/ HOW MUCH YOU DO AT WORK
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
NO COUNTRIES, NO BORDERS (CAN TRAVEL ANYWHERE ANYTIME)

Your problem is that you haven't actually read Marx yourself and only had other people (with an agenda and probably not understanding Marx, although your whiskey re-seller may be trustworthy) tell you about what the book says, that is perhaps the ultimate level of ignorance, delusion (and bliss). You know nothing, you don't have to do anything, other people can just decide, people that "know better", very comfortable.

Read it for yourself. When you have, you may disagree, or agree. At least you're not being told what to think by other people about the most important critique and analysis of our world, you're making your own decisions.

>>75613258
You exeggerate the impact of it.
But yeh. I will read it.

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>>75613485
>But yeh. I will read it.

Fantastic. Fine work, Comrade.

>>75613523
Don't behave entitled because you read a mediocre philosophical book.

>>75613258
>DUDE FREE SHIT LMAO
i hope you're baiting

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>>75613258

>>75612303
im responding to your retarded comment in which you describe how sad it is that business owners are rewarded for their risks and investments and that poor people have jobs or something

read some of friedman's (an actual economist :)) books instead of the angry ramblings of a neet whose ideas have been proven multiple times to be idiotic and have killed off millions of innocent people

>>75612330
communists do not have any right to comment on morals seeing as how opposed they are to personal liberty. you're a subhuman with mental issues

>>75613258
There's a difference between wishful thinking and feasibility

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>>75613655
>1 book on philosophy

Not quite accurate, here is most of my completed ((philosophy)) books from memory

>Rest of Marx/Engels

Friedrich Nietzsche:
Thus Spake Zarathustra (5/10, struggled to finish too much bullshit parables)
Beyond Good and Evil (8.5/10, his masterpiece)
The Gay Science (3/10) mostly bullshit poetry, obviously insane and irrational by this time)

Arthur Schopenhauer:
The World as Will and Representation (7/10, good but a Hegel ripoff)

Slavoj Zizek:
The Sublime object of ideology (9/10 excellent book and a must read)
The fragile absolute (8/10) very good, but not for beginners.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit (6/10, very "lost in translation" also misguided, but ofc old)
Science of Logic (9/10, fantastic, excellent read, but very "obvious" for modern people)
The Philosophy of History (10/10, MUST READ)

Max Stirner - The Ego and His Own (9/10, challenged my views, interesting, but a bit disjointed)

Jacques Lacan - Discipline and Punish (10/10, a mindblower no lesser than Marx, in my top 5 of all books ever)

What is your list btw? The wikipedia article for Mein Kampf and the introductory points from Plato and Socrates from middle school?

>>75613757
>>75613748
>>75613996

No need to read, just post memes or repeat other people's opinions and statements (I only need to know one school of economic thought, the rest are shit)

>Srsly though how old are you? Do you think that watching your "(political opinion you disagree with) owned" videos on YouTube, and American TV makes you an intellectual? You can just skip knowing what you're talking about because the people on TV tell you so?


>>75614154
Srbija je Kosovo

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>>75614680
>it's a "western european middle class neet gets tricked by communist lies" episode

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>>75614759
>2017 Fascist Poland (Member of EU Reich) commenting on correct politics

Phew, keep paying off those banker debts

Gulag Archiepelago
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World

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nothing ever topped it for me

>>75614801
>Be the literal bankers
>Suck at being the bankers
>LOL we're like a commune now man property is totally like theft and all that jazz man

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>>75579858
Good pick, OP.

>>75580147
We don't use accents in English.

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>>75615066
>(In a thread for suggesting books)
>I won't read your books, no matter what you say!

>>75615145
I've read your books, dude. I've also read On the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and didn't swallow that pill whole either

>>75614680
Jeste

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Also, this one. Don't necessarily agree with all the prescriptions, but as an investigation of power, it's excellent and approachable.

>>75581436
>Anabasis by Xenophon
>Gallic wars by Caesar
Agree.

>>75588642
I am not sure that that is what your countryman said.
My interpretation was:
"Some of Marx's observations and analyses are right, but I do not have the same objections as he has to the world he describes."

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>>75589775
>read Marx
>"wait, this guy is german?"
>burn the book

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>>75615198
>I've read your books, dude.
>I've read your books, dude.
>I've read your books, dude.
>I'VE ALSO READ ON THE WEALTH OF NATIONS BY ADAM SMITH AND DIDN'T SWALLOW THAT PILL WHOLE EITHER

HE FINISHED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMRADES, ABORT! ABORT! RETURN TO KGB HEADQUARTERS! ABORT!

>>75615318
French philosophy is based, but so is (parts of) German philosophy, Frenchies will always be OG tho

>>75615871
French and German philosophy are mostly shit.

The best philosophy is Greek and English.

>>75615906
>english philosophy
kek

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>>75615906
>The best philosophy is Greek

Such as?

>and English

hahahah

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>>75615906
>english philosophy

>>75579858
Have you guys honestly read this book? My English vocabulary is pretty good but the way the book is written is on another level.
I had serious trouble trying to understand the book really.

>>75616286
surely it's translated to boer/belgian or whatever it is you speak

>>75616358
I want to read it in it's "'original state". Yes I'm aware he didn't write the book in English, but it's the closest / best translation.

>>75616401
How would you know? You can't even understand the English version.

>>75616070
>Such as?
are you serious ?

>>75616431
I wouldn't, they're assumptions. A translation over a translation is usually less accurate than a direct one.

Either way, I just looked for the Dutch version and it doesn't exist except for the audiobook and one .pdf I found which -totally- does not match with the English version.

English version: http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince.pdf
Dutch version: http://www.dbnl.org/arch/otte005mach01_01/pag/otte005mach01_01.pdf

The first chapter looks nothing alike each other.

>>75616773
That's because the first link is one book, while the second link are two books.
>MACHIAVELLI
>SLEUTEL VAN ONZEN TIJD
>GEVOLGD DOOR
>EEN NIEUWE VERTALING VAN
>DE VORST
Reading isn't your strong suit is it.

>>75616879
It starts at page 83.

>>75616879
>>75616983
Yeah I noticed it now. Who the fuck would put 2 books together anyway?
Thanks.

>>75617047
No problem. But it happens with compilations.

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My favorite

>>75580253
Wiki says he was Finnish, is wiki wrong?