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Aurelius' Meditations always gets posted when /fit/ is here

>non-fiction

maybe plebbit will be more your speed

>>9925087
Meditations is ok,but it's a series of reminders rather than actual instruction in stoicism. I'd recommend Epicetus and Seneca's writings OP.

>>9925024
Notes From Underground
A Confederacy of Dunces
Death on the Installment Plan

>>9925229
>wasting brainpower on self-contained make believe with no tangible relation to other books save for a short series
One day you'll realize real life is the greatest drama ever told, full of literally all of the greatest teachings that were ever only assimilated in minor part to your sources of "intellectual" autoeroticism.

>>9925292
Talk shit post lit. Rec me some of that good non-fic, laddie.

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>>9925403
I can't dictate your interests to you. You just have to decide what interests you and start from there. What you say is as bad as asking for music recommendations, but without any preface. Who am I to tell you to listen to my favorite instrumental bands if vocals or lyric are something you place a substantial emphasis on?

Anywho, I'm reading Seneca right now. I may read the Iliad next to preface and offer insight to my continued reading on religious ideas (pic related, only read the first volume so far). I also have the collected works of Plato which I may have to dig into if my (late as fuck) BookDepository order continues to be delayed, as I've finally cleared through 85% of my backlog, with exception to pic related and of course the Plato volume.

>>9925486
Homer is fiction, though.

>>9925445
That's shockingly bad.

>>9925486
>non-fiction
>homer
fuck off back to the squat rack and take your pretensions with you pseudboi

The Holy Bible

>>9925539
You are very silly

>>9925556
>b-but if it's a primary mythological source it's not fiction!
clutch harder kid

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>>9925445

>mfw people will actually take that list seriously

>>9925518
>>9925539
A fiction that has been so assimilated into the canon of Western culture that its reference is an ubiquitous feature of almost any theologian or historian you pick up, and to a less emphasized extent (primarily among later) philosophers. Therefore to deny yourself the insight into the context of the work by not assimilating their vehicles of reference into your own understanding is to rob you of the potential insights that a wide mass of non-fiction work proffers to the student. The Bible may be called "fiction" in a certain manner of speaking but it should still be maintained a required reading for if nothing else then the multitude of influences later students of it drew to establish their work and their contributions to Western culture. Again, to forego the necessary frames of reference actual historical figures used in their intellectual creations is to forego a fuller, richer understand of those creations.

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>>9925024
Infinite jest

>>9925445
Back to the containment board

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>>9926158
What are you gibbering on about, we're on the commie containment board right now.

>>9925024
also came from fit a few years ago. Started with the Greeks and never looked back. I can advice to start with Herodotus if you're just looking for what's there

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>>9925024
Starting Strength