What are examples of classic literature, that every man should read?

zemnieks1 · 2020-01-08T13:34:56+00:00

I really enjoyed reading Jack London, especially his short stories about the wild north and stuff. Recommend it to literature lovers, easy to read and hard to quit.

RP anecdote - he wrote a short story with RP truths unknowingly about this Pacific Ocean island Native American chief who fell in love with a woman of a neighboring tribe. The woman at first loved him as well, but then one day a ship of Scandinavians came to the island and the captain of the ship was a huge (7ft height), strong, muscular, blonde and blue-eyed Scandinavian. He lusted the chiefs wife, and offered a lot of goods to the chief in exchange for his wife. The chief declined everything, and the Scandinavian captain got really mad and just put the woman on his shoulder and said he will kill everyone if they try to get her back. The woman of course hysterically cried, tried to get off his shoulders, pulled his hair, bit him etc., but nothing could hurt that rock of a man.

Indian chief heartbroken of course made his life goal to get her back. Years and years passed, he went all over the place, Siberia, Alaska, California, all the known islands to find the Scandinavian beast and his stolen wife. After like 10 or more years he found a lead, when some guy in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush told him about how a huge blonde guy and a native girl went down the Yukon river to find gold. The chief found them, and they didn't recognize him, so he pretended to know the place, and told them that he will guide them to the gold. Three of them went on a long trip through the northern wilderness of Canada for the gold, and the chief was plotting to kill the Scandinavian guy in order to take his wife back. One time during their trip a perfect chance to kill him came, when he went from the camp to hunt for some meat and get wood for the fire to keep the woman warm and fed. The chief joined him, and stabbed him in the back multiple times when he least expected it. A fight started, lots of noise, the Nordic beast of a man was hard to kill, and even if the chief was armed with a knife, he got beat badly himself. In the end, the Scandinavian guy bled to death, and the chief barely survived. After the fight, best part comes.

The woman came to see what the fuss was all about and was shocked to find her new husband, her rock, her beast lying dead, and the chief laying next to him exhausted with a knife. The chief then started talking in their native language, much to the shock of the woman, and revealed who he is. He was waiting for her to be happy that he had rescued her and their love could continue on their small tribal island in the Pacific. Now the Red Pill comes. She started laughing hysterically at him, saying that how could he even compare himself to the Scandinavian man. She said how after he kidnapped her, she fell in love with him because he was always up to something, he was a beast, evil to most of the people around, except for her. She felt like she was a part of him. A lion in the jungle, who can achieve anything, and she was allowed to come with him. She told the chief how they had traveled the whole world, dangerous adventures, how he always found a way to get resources, and she felt the safest with him. After she finished admiring her dead husband, she suddenly pulled out a knife herself, and told the chief that he is stupid if he thought that she will go back to that lonely island and live a boring "love filled" life with him. She stabbed herself, laid next to her beast and waited to join him and his adventures in the afterlife.

She didn't need that beta guy who promised her a calm life filled of love on an island. By red pill terms, she got pretty alpha-widowed by the Scandinavian guy, and loved him because of his purpose and masculinity.

GayLubeOil · 2020-01-08T20:41:35+00:00

Real men read real books not shit fluff that 8th graders do their books reports on. You lift real weights. You eat real food not mommies chicken nuggets so read real books.

Catch 22: is definitely a classic. It's antiestablishment and has a strong discourse on how the system cannibalizes young men for profit.

Judges on Judging: Not a classic by any means just a bunch of judges writing about how they don't give a fuck and do whatever they feel like from the bench.

Welcome To The Dessert of The Real: Not a classic either. In 2002 right after September 11th Zizek writes about how the corperate office drone wants a catastrophe to happen to free him from wage cage, that's why he watches apocalypse movies to fulfill his fantasy. September 11th was the fulfilment of his castration fantasy that's why Americans jerked off to it for years.

This is the first time I saw an academic throw two middle fingers up and say very offensive antiestablishment things.

Das Kapital: probably one of the most influential books ever. An absolute bitch to read, but since so many books either built off from or are a response to, at some point you have to read this book if you want to understand politics and sociology. Also out marxing leftists is an enjoyable pastime.

Sublime Object Of Ideology: the synthesis of economics and psychology. In otherwords how economic systems create psychological drives. They teach from this book at Harvard.

Nofapislit · 2020-01-08T15:40:00+00:00

Crime and Punishment, it's Russian.

Psychological_Radish · 2020-01-08T13:52:44+00:00

Madame Bovary is basically about a woman who leaves her boring Beta husband to go have fun with a hot Alpha.

I'm a China buff so I've always enjoyed Pearl Buck's novels set in the early 20th century, the Good Earth series especially. Lots of Red Pill themes including ONEitis, golddigging whores, self-improvement, how women's value changes with age, etc. Funny that Buck was a self-described feminist, too. I don't this work could even be published today.

wawakaka · 2020-01-08T15:57:22+00:00

Three musketeers

PhaedrusHunt · 2020-01-08T19:15:13+00:00

Wow where do we start so many good books.

Let's go by author.

Henry Miller. Anything you can get your hands on.

DH Lawrence. He's got a lot of good stuff I really like his short stories. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a great alpha fux beta bucks tale. It gets right down to the root of what women find attractive in a man.

Charles Bukowski just because he's hilarious and he always writes honestly.

George MacDonald Fraser. He wrote a whole series of novels called The Flashman Papers. Incredibly entertaining, the best historic fiction I've ever read. Also hilarious. He was also screenwriter in some of the James Bond films. He wrote another story called Black Ajax about the life of Tom Molineaux, a former slave and prize fighter that won his freedom boxing, then went to England and almost won the heavyweight crown.

The book of five rings by Miyamoto musashi

The tao te ching

And I'm literally the only person I know besides my dad to read these but when I was a kid I LOVED the original Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's funny because he's actually sort of a betrayal of Nietzsche's superman. Nobody's ever been more alpha than Tarzan lol. . Super cultured and intelligent-- a genius really-- But also a brood of a savage that can kill a lion with a knife lol. And it's all very well written. Trust me there's worse stuff you could get your hands on.

Trevanian. Everything that guy wrote is great. Especially shibumi and the main

I must not forget Hemingway my friend

oooKenshiooo · 2020-01-08T13:10:38+00:00

Russian classics are pretty good, as Jordan peterson tends to keep milling on and on about.

Shogun by James clavell is an exotic insight into the strange world of feudal Japan.

Heart of Darkness, the literary inspiration to apocalypse now.

Faust I and II by Goethe are pretty interesting if you are interested in occult topics.

Some people would consider certain works of Stephen King classics. Namely the dark tower, IT, the stand.

Religious works, such as the Bible and the Upanishads may also be very inspiring.

Dorian Grey is also a great novel, especially considering the fact, that Oscar wilde wrote it partly out of spite, just to proof he could write a bestselling novel. :D

amwfhunter · 2020-01-08T14:58:13+00:00

I'm Chinese. If you ever can find an english translation of smiling laughing proud wanderer. 笑傲江湖 (xiao au Jiang hu). I usually dont read fiction but this tale is a martial arts novel. The protagonist Ling Hu Chong is an alcoholic swordsman who sees the world for what it is. A cesspool of bullshit after being betrayed by his own people for standing up for his principles. Talks about power struggles and how he detaches himself from the world. Some red pill knowledge there too despite the usually blue pilled chinese traditonal culture.

There are a few movies based on this. Notably the Swordsman (starring sam hui) and Swordsman II (starring Jet Li) as well as tv drama adaptations.

BrodinsOats · 2020-01-08T17:59:37+00:00

The Odyssey

Domebeers · 2020-01-08T18:09:21+00:00

Torah

legoyodaiamtruly · 2020-01-08T19:01:21+00:00

If you are at all interested in politics, 1984. I've also heard good things about atlas shrugged and fountainhead but those are huge books (1168 pages for atlas shrugged)

LiquidRevenant · 2020-01-08T19:20:53+00:00

The Sound and Fury - William Faulkner
Demons - Dostoyevsky
Lord of The Flies - William Golding
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Ulysses - James Joyce

jm51 · 2020-01-08T19:47:00+00:00

'Kim' by Rudyard Kipling.

https://freeclassicebooks.com/Rudyard%20Kipling/Kim.pdf

Set in India at the time of the Raj. An orphan boy in a land full of intrigue and who to trust can be a matter of life or death.

The story could be told in any setting where a wrong word can have you fucked over.

Compared to Kim, I spent my youth wearing a blindfold.

FayGagSlo · 2020-01-08T22:00:02+00:00

It's not about what you read, it's about how you read - what you relate to, what you remember, what you follow up on, and what knowledge from books you are able to use in real life. Writing down important stuff helps.
How many people do you know, who told you that they read book x and book y and book z, but can't tell you shit about what's inside of them.

Reading is a twofold process of talking to the author and yourself at the same time -reading what the author is trying to tell you, and talking with yourself (thinking), because you relate to authors story with your own stories/experience. It's actually not that smart to reccomend books, you are going to click with what suits you, and what you are able to understand, it also depends on your past readings and personal experience.

That being said, you can never go wrong with the greatest thinkers of our history, it just might take years of reading before you get them. Here are some of them:
Plato (weather you believe it or not, Plato invented theology and is the source to the most fundamental ideas about Christianity - all apostoles read him, so did the majority of the biggest and most important literature writers from renaissance until industrial revolution), Aristotle (invented logic, and wrote about 160 books about/in preety much all scientific fields, wrote the first book about happiness and good life - Nicomachean Ethics),
Descartes (scientific and philosophical revolution),
Kant (told us how our reason works, his theory is fundamental in todays cognitive science), Nietzsche (explained nihilizm, also a prophet when it comes to saying what will happen to majority of people right aroud year 2000s, invented modern psychology, went really deep and inspired Jung and Freud),
Wittgenstein (told and showed us how language works) ,
Hannah Arendt (deciphered ancient politics and clarified political vocabulary, invented the concept of totalitarianism, wrote an astonishing book about human minds called Life of the Mind) ,
Dostojevski (human psychology in a story),
Kafka (often mistaken for a fiction writer, actually a genious critic of the modern world, who instead of writing philosophy, hid his philosophy in stories)
Orwell and Huxley (prophets),
Noam Chomsky (fouder of modern linguistics, probably the best political critic alive)

TheGoblinTurkey · 2020-01-08T22:25:25+00:00

Playboy Magazine

TheeSakred · 2020-01-09T03:53:45+00:00

Think and grow rich, how to win friends and influence people, atomic habits

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