What are you reading /pol/?

Hobbes' Leviathan and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Also >>>/wsr/

Was disappointed with Dune after hearing it hyped so much. It was alright, not bad. But it's not another LotR, for god's sake.

>>131117617
Comparing LotR to Dune is like comparing Nords to Italians "becuz they're both white bro"

stop it.

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Just got the first dune book in the mail. Trying to hurry through Virus of the Mind, The science of the meme by Richard Brodie. Is Dune wurf? Is it redpilled?

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I am going to read my own book again.

>>131115065
re-reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Pretty good sci-fi, if you like stuff like Dune.
who here old-fashioned paper book reader?

>>131115065
I liked the last three books better than the first three

>>131115065
I just finished Dune again a few days ago, I hadn't read it since middle school. It's pretty good.

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>>131118187
God Emperor of Dune is the most red-pilled. It reads like a political philosophy text book, but the instructor is a 3500 year old worm-man who has the memories of his entire ancestral line.

>>131118814

I am.. except when I was stuck on a boat 4 months. Had to kindle my ass off.

>>131118986
this. dune is fucking batshit crazy.

>>131115065
The Keys of Enoch

>>131115065
>Just finished 'Band of Brothers'

>just starting 'Man in the High Castle'

The Old Man and the Sea

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>>131115065

>>131115065
If you want something quick, simple, and not too deep, give The Moon is a Harsh Mistress a go. Have a copy:
ftp://121.17.126.74/data1/ts01/english/novel/batch001/20100511205526916.pdf

Dune is overrated as fuck. It's an entertaining read, but holy shit does it not live up to the hype. Starship Troopers is much better for your brain, imo.

>>131118986
Yah lots of guys don't get through the whole series - I loved the later installments even more than the early ones.

Dune is truly brilliant.

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>>131115065

Not explicitly political but:

Antifragile
The Bed of Procrustes

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Gave this a read pretty interesting look into a post nuclear world and some of the politics to go along with it. Def worth picking up

>>131117725
That was its reputation. It is explicitly marketed as being "the only peer to Tolkein in fantasy/sci fi"

"fremen"
"lasgun"

>-,-

>>131115065
Anything by Michel Houellebecq.

Clash of Civilizations by Huntington - I'm surprised how many people haven't actually read it.

'10,000 Year Explosion' by Greg Cochran, 'Blank Slate' by Steven Pinker, and 'Race: A Troublesome Inheritance' by Nicholas Wade are all pretty mild redpills/entry points for the HBD question.

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>>131117617
Read this, it's much better than that Muslims in space bullshit

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>>131119910
heinlein is based af tbph

>>131120105
I'll 2nd this

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Kinda reading them all at once.

>>131120030
It's one of my favorite series, but Chapterhouse gets a little to out there even for someone as into those books as me.

Also fuck Brian Herbert

>>131120105
>canticle for liebowitz
>>131120294
>book of the new sun
two great books, i am the only person i know irl who has read them.
book of the new sun is one of my top reads of all time. might read it again some time.
>mfw i actually bought 'lexicon urthus' a dictionary specifically for book of the new sun

>>131120106
>using emoticons on 4chan
Get the fuck out of here, reddit.

>>131120294
>book of the new sun
10/10 taste

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Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald, everything falls into place as you read this.

>>131115065
Currently reading:
Free Men, Free Women - Camille Paglia
Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky

>>131120182
I'm reading Clash as well. Very informative and I feel like I'm reading about current events today.
>>131120076
This guy is based

Finally got around to read 1984 and its pretty good up to where I am atleast

>>131120422
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a fun read, too. I've heard some interesting things about the topics Heinlein wrote about across his books, notably about the differing political concepts between his better-known novels.
In essence, the idea is that he was exploring different extremes of political thought. Starship Troopers was his exploration of conservatism. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was his exploration of Libertarianism. And Stranger in a Strange Land was his exploration of communism.

>>131120603
>I bought the lexicon
Nigga you bought the book? Was it helpful/cool? I remember spending ages back in the pre internet days trying to figure out certain words

>>131120926
1984 is a pretty terrifying book imho. not even because of the 'big brother is watching you' stuff, but the way the language is stripped bare and people can't even think about rebellion let alone act it out.
1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451, the Great Prophetic Trilogy as I like to call them.

>>131121035
it is a really helpful book. wolfe uses so many obscure and extinct words (but none invented) i would say it's essential tbph.

What is the more red pilled book in economics?

>>131121187
Oh absolutely, it never occurred to me before that language was this important

>>131121187
Brave New World was astoundingly insightful

>>131121187
Based
I've read the first two of that unholy tyrannical trinity

>>131121418
Industrial Society and its Future

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>>131115065
>Evola
Don't bother.

Go for pic related instead and receive the ultimate redpill about everything.

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>>131115065
I enjoyed Dune quite a bit. Its a good combination of fantasy and science, the movie was god awful though.

Dunes strongest point is its incorporation of ecology and, to a lesser degree, metabolism/physiology. It also predicted technologies present today. My only real beef is its ending, a little rushed for me

>overall, good book
>9-9.5/10

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EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ GOONANS WORK AND GET INVOLVED IN THE FOUNDATION

Looking for good fiction recommendations, anons. Preferably something in the same vein as ASOIF except not so gay and horrible

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I just finished pic related. It's like a 19th century greentext story from a butthurt /r9k/ autist who cannot into social interaction, but still thinks he's better than all the normies around him.

>>131115065
>Evola
if you want a bunch of weird shit about Hinduism sure

An actual starting point is "The Decline of the West" by Oswald Spengler

but if you still want esoteric stuff read Rene Guénon instead of Evola

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>>131121860
>not so gay
It's pretty edgy but still good readin

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>>131120294
Nigger pls

>>131121996
>/pol/ reading comprehension

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>>131121187
I think that the most important aspect of 1984 is the destruction of the family unit. I am currently only a third of the way through it but that is what sticks out the most to me. Other than that I believe that Brave New World was far more insightful.

I am going to likely finish 1984 this weekend but so far I think Huxley was more accurate than Orwell.

>>131120872
I will be reading this after my next read of The Prince.

>>131121546
if anybody hasn't read Fahrenheit 451, it is arguably the most prophetic of the three books.
in a nutshell, a dystopian society where books deemed offensive, for any reason are burned

>>131115065
Forever war - joe haldman
Starship troopers - heinlein
brave new world - huxley
animal farm/1984 - orwell

You're welcome

>>131122517
Starship troopers isn't even heinleins best work. Kys

>>131122295
Looked whatever the fuck this is up. Main characters named
>cheradenine zakalwe
>diziet sma
>skaffen-amtiskaw
Why the fuck does every character sound like a bull dykes wet dream?

>>131122295
I love the Culture novels (best AI characters in fiction), but to compare them to Book of the New Sun is utterly ludicrous.

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>>131122367
What? That's basically what the story is. A frustrated social outcast waxing philosophical about the human condition through an anecdote involving him awkwardly interacting with others.

Half the posts on /r9k/ are like that.

>>131122295
>gravitas jokes

>>131122634
fyi, the culture novels don't feature any humans (at least not from earth) so you won't find any normal names or references in them at all

>>131122630
Didn't say it was but its definitely the most political

>>131122423
Read that in the 8th grade and while we read my teacher drew comparisons to modern society and was constantly making the argument that we were rapidly approaching that dystopia. And that was 2008. Damn he was based for an 8th grade english teacher.

>>131119767
/thread
KJV only

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The unabridged original English translation is by far the best.

>>131115065
sage

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>>131122207
Will check it out, thanks anon

>>131122690
Its an assault on rational egoism and nihilism by revealing the darker side of man thag desires destruction and negative consequences to justify his individuality. Its a brilliant philosophical manuscript delivered in an entertaining story. I'd recommend reading the wikipedia on it; Wikipedia actually does a decent job with breaking down Doestoevsky.
t. Philosophyfag

>>131122700
did i mention some of the best ship names too
>No More Mr Nice Guy
>Just Read The Instructions
>Kiss My Ass
>Big Sexy Beast
>Funny, It Worked Last Time
>Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The
>Attitude Adjuster
>Frank Exchange Of Views
>All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff

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>>131122788
So the books are about culture or is that just what we're calling the series I'm confused?

>>131122796
Dunno.. time enough for love is pretty thick on politics, as is I will hear no evil...

>>131122690
yeah everyone's a fucking autist you annoying prick

>>131115065
evola is GREAT! read yockey's imperium, its an unofficial sequel to the decline of the west with a humorous bent. at least i find yockey to be very funny

>>131123119
>Mistake Not

>>131123119
>meat fucker

>>131123170
the novels depict a vast space-faring civilization known as 'the Culture'
it's a kind of post-scarcity, hyper advanced anarchist society 'managed' by artificial intelligences

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There is only one correct answer. When you finish it, read it again.

Just finished the Quran. Gonna read the Mahabharata next.

>>131123386
>"I don't believe a word of it," Wyoh added.
>"We've got Mike and we're going to win! Mike dear, you say we're going to fight Terra--and Mannie says that's one battle we can't win. You have some idea of how we can win, or you wouldn't have given us even one chance in seven. So what is it?"
>"Throw rocks at them," Mike answered.

>>131123386
>not posting time enough for love
fucking peasant

>>131115065
If you have not read Kevin MacDonald's trilogy, do it. At a minimum read Culture of Critique.

>>131118187

Not in the most narrow contemporary sense. Still worth reading, particularly re: the exploration of being in history as it happens and attempting to impact its course, also the weighing of committing atrocities now against the possibility of future total extinction (and the questioning of one's own prescience/judgement that comes with that).

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Fiction= The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Non-fiction= A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium.

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i just finished some pop history: Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley (pic related) and a fun historical novel: The Burnished Blade by Lawrence Schoonover

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>>131115065
The bear went over the mountain.

Good read.

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Just finish Stephensons diamond age, but pic related is a must read

>>131123170
>john c wright

nice

Best book on
success, discipline, "how to get things" done?
My list have
Dale Carnegie. Anything better?

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re reading this one.

I'm about to finish Kurt Schlichter's first book about a post-split America. Hardly great literature, but it shits all over contemporary liberals for three hundred straight pages, so it's got that going for it.

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bretty good

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>>131115065
https://www.amazon.com/Miracles-American-History-Amazing-Answered/dp/0982710194

loaned it 2 my father, so im w8ing til he's done; so im reading blogs, the bible and other simple stuff in the mean time..... this is the only book i wana read atm

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kino

>>131121695

Why not bother with Evola?

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After Europe create A.I. and it run out of control
it's time for muslim to do the butlerian jihad and then the DUNE novel will come true

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>>131115065
all his stuff is online so i read it on my phone

>>131125672
>he doesnt ride the tiger
>he doesnt reeeee against the modern world
shiggy diggy niggy

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Im 250 pages in. Really good.

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Anyone who's never seen the animated version of Lord Of The Rings has missed something special.
Accused of being white a white supremacists meme its art work highlights the spiritual battle that is integral to the true spirit of Tolkeins work.
Seriously this you have to see.
It's part of my personal religion, ingesting mushrooms and using this to launch a spirit quest is highly recommended.

> no mention of the original AI waifu Rei from Gibsons idoru sequence

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>>131117617
>LotR
>good
hahahahahaha

"dumping in dixie"

you shitlords

>>131115065
Evola was a retarded mysticist who believed in hi-tech Atlanteans and shit like that.

>>131126063
good thing itll never happen...haha...r..right

>>131126065
Why was it accused of white supremacism? I've seen it, I really don't think it deserves the negative reputation it has, I remember enjoying it.

>>131121523
But boring as fuck. Still worth reading.

>>131126360
upvote happy karma (you) upvote

>>131126979
you want nudes or something?

>>131121860
>ASOIF
So fantasy?

Everything early-middle Heinlein is terrific. But none of it is epic, he does not have series. AKA, it is pretty much as far away from high fantasy series spanning multiple decades.

General Fiction recommendation. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Young adult novel about wilderness survival, but I just read it last year and you do not have to be a kid to enjoy it. Read it from a recommendation from TheArtofManlyness.

I read shitloads of ASOIF style fantasy as a kid, but I no longer feel confident that any of them were necessarily any good objectively. If course their is LotRs, and Harry Potter.

>>131122517
> Forever war - joe haldman
I really was not a big fan of this.I don't want to just call it liberal trash, because everything "progressive" in the novel is shown as bad ultimately, sort of. But it is still a slog thorough swamp of degeneracy.

>>131117617
I enjoyed it a little. The buildup was good but the finale was a big snore fest. The world building was probably the best part of this book. I tried reading the rest of the series but gave up after children of dune. After that the series goes to shit

>>131122653
How are the Culture Novels? They sound like they could be degenerate as fuck. Read the first one already, it was OK.

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inb4 2edgy4me

Just finished 'The Fountainhead' and heard it further espouses on individualism and anti commune thinking.

>>131123796
>time enough for love
Who the fuck could read that piece of shit novel. And it is well into Heinlein's brains damaged, senile, degenerate phase.

>>131122378
I thought CS Lewis was the most accurate so far with his trilogy ending with That Hideous Strength. There's a lot of soft references to jews and secret societies and it goes full blown christian at the end, which is kind of gay actually. If you're into science fiction it's not to shabby though.

>>131128312
It's funny.The Culture is basically a left-wing post-scarcity utopia. So the background universe is full of facile degenerates who don't really do anything but faff around.

But nearly all of the humans and AI who keep the whole thing together are a completely different breed. It's basically Orwell's quote about people sleeping comfortably while rough men are ready to do violence on their behalf. Banks, lefty that he was, couldn't deny that this was true.

>>131125672
Evola writes from the perspective of someone who's spent his whole life studying ancient history, mythology, and comparative religion, and assumes his readers have the background of a doctoral-level student of these subjects. He presents conclusions which are generally correct, but supports it with only vague references to the Vedas and Greek mystery cults and expects you to know what he's talking about. He has footnotes in "Revolt Against the Modern World" to texts that have never been translated out of the original Sanskrit, for fuck's sake.

James Frazer's "The Golden Bough" is much less concise, being something like 4000 pages long across 12 volumes in its unabridged version, but it presents all of the underlying research to the reader. You can read it having never seen anything about history/myth/occult studies and come out of the book knowing everything about how culture and religion developed.

>>131129193
Going through the Space Trilogy now, will probably pick up That Hideous Strength tomorrow

>>131128410
the satanic bible is actually really awesome. i would reccomend it to anyone who likes rand.
t. christian

>>131115065
Currently reading the 9/11 Commision Report, it's a fucking behemoth of information.

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>>131120872
I liked Ford better, though MacDonald is not bad

>>131129193
> kind of gay actually
Narnia is so much this. I have to completely agree with Tolkien on this one, Christianity should not be directly aligoried. Not only did it come out as rather sacrilegious, but it was just lame and retarded to rewrite the bible as a children's high fantasy series.

>>131115065
Conan

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Pic related. Now on volume 2 (Dark Star) of about 10. Excellent series about Soviet spies in WW2, but really, they are all about the universal arts of tradecraft.

>>131126063
on page 274. this story legitimately makes me angry because i have no doubt in my mins we're already pascified enough for it to happen.
except for russia, they would definitely mow the chinks down

>>131117617
Dune is great if you happen to enjoy the themes it displays, its political and philosophical themes are more explained in Emperor, if you can call that explaining lol.

>>131122852
This, one of the best novels I have ever read