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>>9831822
Hitler's Mein Kampf

(I'm into redpills and genocide)

The Mountain Wreath

>>9831837
It wouldn't be any funnier if it weren't about novels. Go back to /b/. Clientele there suits you better for sure

bump for self interest.

Read the sticky. Better yet, just read what you want. It'd be stupid to take the suggestions from recommendation threads seriously.

>>9831778
hitler's Mein Kampf against Women by Schopenhauer

>>9831530
Fuck off

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>>9831575
no

>>9831530
are you 12?

At the gettin place, aka the bookstore.

Point me to someone who reads these books and I will hire him

>>9831529
dwight schrute's reading list

just as well i'm not a neckbeard fantasy fan and read actual literature instead

>>9831442
>posting on /lit/

No you don't, liar.

just like dune. author dies before he writes the 7th book. the story is finished in fanfic form by the hacks brian herbert and kja / dan weiss and david benioff

Not OP. I would like to see a fun to read, US history 101 book

>>9831401
wikipedia

try the homework board
>>>/hm/

OP here, using the term "crash course" was a mistake; I am looking to go deeper than just that. I'd like books that can give more detailed accounts. On the list to read so far is Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. I'd like to read Napoleon's autobio. Again, thank you for any suggestions.

i've read the first two and i think he's very good
he writes perceptively and sincerely and makes mundane shit thrilling and relatable

i enjoy that he's unafraid to portray himself as a cunt

>>9831392
I hated him before I read him and then i realized he was actually good

>>9831406
This post is /lit/ in a nutshell.

>>9831378
That's ok op. Literature isn't for everyone. Enjoy whittling

aesthetic brutality and edge are two different things

>>9831399
>>9831402
>corncobbers

you need to go back. corncobs tortilla yecarthy is a pure hack and only impresses middlebrow pseuds like yourselves

>>9831298
>muh perceived spirituality
Everyone is smug about something

>>9831298
Atheist here. Many of the atheists who get triggered by it grew up in shitty fundamentalist families and are reacting against it. Personally, I don't get triggered by Christianity, I just think that it's retarded.

It's the only religion they're really familiar with.

It's hilarious seeing how so many arguments concerning God just stick to a very basic Protestant-Christian defintion of God, yet it's all taken so seriously.

>>9831286
why are you even on this board?

>>9831522
What does that even mean? What are you insinuating?

Is this a case of "stop liking what I don't like" mentality?

What's wrong with reading natural history? I have fiction also.

How was the vital question, I've read one Nick Lane book and liked it, I read power, sex and suicide

>>9831275
oooh-la-la wee wee in my butt monsieur, of course it is a good read! we Frenchmen are the pears of the pop, the cheese of the plate! monsieur, I impear you to read baudrillard instead oui oui oh-lala monsieur!

I read it. Its definitely a pop-history book. The author tries to form thoeries and make connections to the text based on archeological evidence mostly. I can't really speak for historical accuracy, but its a forgettable book. A quick read though.

>>9831275
Mind sharing the chart?
Don't read that - delve right into the Illiad/Odyssey first.

>>9831176
Literally who?

i bet you he regrets some things

>>9831176
This is the Rooski who only writes in dialogue, no?

>>9831166
Consumption will fill you with knowledge and experience; it does much more than helping you copy what you consume.

You really must define "worth it". Happiness is but the rise after a fall; you don't need anything to be happy, and you certainly don't need to read books; at least this would be true if, from the moment we're born, we weren't thrust upon a world that fills us with the desire for "more this and more that", effectively fucking up the whole balance when we realize the truth about happiness.

In practice, philosophy can aid you in the pursuit of piece of mind, so there's that; true, useful philosophy can, however, also be found in works of a non-philosophical nature, of course.

>>9831166
If it's only a mere hobby for you then it might not be worth it. For some of us it's part of a lifestyle. We're not looking towards some imaginary finish line so that we can look back and say "finally, all of my reading has paid off!"

How else would you fill your time?

Literature may not be an ideal hobby, but among the ones you can do almost endlessly (as opposed to exercise, nature walks, etc.), literature is among the best.

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I hope you like cheeky sing-a-longs, jokes about farts and Python-esque put-downs, Thomas.

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robert

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>>9831025
Its a thinly veiled allegory for Christ.
Search for fulfillment, death, resurrection

>>9831031
It's actually a criticism of Rand

>>9831031
>>9831039
It's about a fucking caterpillar that eats too fucking much. Quit searching for deeper messages in every single book that exists.