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Recommend me good books

over 8 years

to read while I do nothing at work. Thank you

over 8 years
Skulduggery Pleasant is some good childish bants tbh
over 8 years

Escurai says

Are you a teen fiction man?


i think it's safe to say no, but i'm willing to hear any recommendations in case i feel like reliving my tween years
over 8 years
Are you a teen fiction man?
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veryniceboy says

i'm used to hearing of him from political nutcases. i just went down through his wiki tho knowing ur good character garyoak and there's definitely some interesting stuff there


A lot of fascists and other right-wingers do read him, he routinely appears on book lists from /pol/ and also right-wingers on /lit/ but I find his writing is interesting even if I don't agree with a lot of his ideas.
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i'm used to hearing of him from political nutcases. i just went down through his wiki tho knowing ur good character garyoak and there's definitely some interesting stuff there
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daemons says


Discordia says

Demons
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs


demons is what my username is named after btw also




Marry me Lilin..
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veryniceboy says

isn't evola like fcking insane?


He was anti-semitic and a radical traditionalist. Wouldn't call him insane though.
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isn't evola like fcking insane?
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Discordia says

Demons
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs


demons is what my username is named after btw also

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Sims says

i also feel like since i saw the life of pi movie i don't need to read the book, but i'm a casual.


The movie is great, but there's a lot of really cool philosophy and stuff they couldn't show in the movie. I'd definitely recommend reading the book!
over 8 years
i also feel like since i saw the life of pi movie i don't need to read the book, but i'm a casual.
over 8 years

Discordia says

Demons, also sometime called 'The Possessed' -- Dostoevsky
Siddhartha -- Herman Hesse
Glass Bead Game -- Herman Hesse
Island -- Aldous Huxley
The Sound and The Fury -- William Faulkner
Gödel, Escher, Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter
Letters from a Stoic -- Seneca
The Doctrine of Awakening -- Julius Evola
The Upanishads
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs(https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start) -- Multiple Authors




i've actually read the upanishads ironically. i'll try to cehck out a few from this list too
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godel escher bach is also hard as fck to just throw urself into lol and i think i've failed that one outright for the time being

hofstadter is cool af tho, his metamagical themas magazine column compilation is awesome
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Cody says

life of pi - good story.


More than just a good story. Truly a masterpiece, you should check it out
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i am just saying. i failed reading it first time round picking it up out of nowhere
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Demons, also sometime called 'The Possessed' -- Dostoevsky
Siddhartha -- Herman Hesse
Glass Bead Game -- Herman Hesse
Island -- Aldous Huxley
The Sound and The Fury -- William Faulkner
Gödel, Escher, Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter
Letters from a Stoic -- Seneca
The Doctrine of Awakening -- Julius Evola
The Upanishads
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs(https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start) -- Multiple Authors
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brothers karamazov is a behemoth of a book to go picking up out of nowhere. notes from the underground would be a better place to start with dostoyevsky
over 8 years
think I'm going to check out Permutation City, Life is Illuminated, and The Brothers Karamazov first. thanks for the recommendations
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daemons says

Confessions of a Mask
Dubliners
Plato's Dialogues
Meditations
Notes from Underground
The Brothers Karamazov
Up, Simba!
Schoolgirl (Dazai)


read these, things i would rate lowest from highest but they are all really great

Up, Simba!
Notes from Underground
Schoolgirl
Confessions of a Mask
Dubliners
Plato's Dialogues
Meditations
The Brothers Karamazov
over 8 years
Beautiful and damned by Robert drake for some easy reading short stories
over 8 years
life of pi - good story.

omnivore's dilemma - nice bit of non-fiction

blink and the tipping point from Malcolm Gladwell contain good timeless concepts

the hobbit is something i want to re-read soon, i watched some scenes from the movies and it made me reminisce

some others that don't come to mind immediately
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Edark says

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is amazing!


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over 8 years
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is amazing!
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Confessions of a Mask
Dubliners
Plato's Dialogues
Meditations
Notes from Underground
The Brothers Karamazov
Up, Simba!
Schoolgirl (Dazai)
over 8 years
Read Everything is Illuminated, it's my favorite book