What are some good books to read for someone who's lacking

Diary of Malcom X

>>7406961
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius & Discourses by Epictetus. Stoicism is a bretty gud substitute for fatherly advice.

Epictetus

>>7406985
>tfw when father isn't a despot dropping bon mots

>>7406961
Same person here.
I've been considering picking up Cicero, Machiavelli and Nietzsche to fill up a void in my mind.

>>7406966
Kek

>>7406986
>>7406985
Can someone voocaroo the correct pronounciation of epictetus

>>7407000
ebin-teetus

>>7407000
Epictetus is literally pronounced
Epic-tee-tus
you just have to have to stretch out the 'te' sound like in 'T-shirt'

Anything Kafka if you want something depressing.

If you lack a father, become one.

>>7407051
>impregnating and raising a child with a woman in this day and age
just setting yourself up for brendan fraser-tier kekery

What's worse, for a girl to grow up motherless or a man to grow up fatherless.
I think the latter, since men tend to be the better parent

>>7407055
Why is Brendan Fraser associated with this fatalistic meme?

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>>7407061
you tell me

the cat in the hat

>>7407061
His wife took all his money, then demanded she pay him more than he could afford. Something like 50k monthly and he has been out of work.

Honestly. Lunar Park by BEE really touched my daddy issue nerve. It didn't make me feel any better but it sort of gave me an excuse for being such an asshole.

>>7406961
star wars

>>7408043
Seconding this.

No More Mr Nice Guy: Robert A. Glover
Models - Mark Manson
the charisma myth - olivia fox cabane

>>7407009
Kek'd harder than I'd like to admit.

>>7406961
war and peace

>>7406961
brothers karamazov

>>7406961
Infinite Jest