Seeking Book Recommendations

car23975 · 2019-01-05T04:53:04+00:00

Plato’s the republic. You might get sad at the end.

Kwen_Oellogg · 2019-01-05T04:26:59+00:00

And Atlas Shrugged...

The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Kind of like today.

It's a long read but very good.

samizdatstudio · 2019-01-05T08:20:07+00:00

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's a relatively short and easy read, but superbly dense and loaded. There's an absolutely deranged level of self-awareness, to the point where the protagonist is both the most admirable and the most deplorable person you could imagine.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Widely considered one of the greatest books ever written, though it's not for the faint of heart. Over a thousand pages, VERY dense, VERY wordy and immaculately complex - and it deals with the most bizarre subjects- everything from institutional oppression to creative obsessions to drug addiction, incest, radical terrorist groups whose members are all confined to wheelchairs, a mysterious film that is so entertaining that anyone who watches it dies from a lack of will to do anything else in their lives, and the lingering ghost of a father who is trying to make a connection with his seemingly perfect son because their relationship was entirely superficial and paper-thin when he was alive.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace. A short collection of essays by the same author of Infinite Jest, but this book is a lot more approachable and easy. It just has wonderfully weird male characters that are really complex and nuanced and go MUCH deeper than all the standard mainstream characteristics of typical males - nobody is a bland heroic savior whose defining trait is strength and good looks, they're all twisted in the most fascinating way
Check out anything by Philip Roth if you want a look into male angst, sexual aggression, frustration and the pressures and compulsion to succeed, struggles with identity and self-loathing and deconstructing religious morality.

UnterMensch88 · 2019-01-05T14:42:30+00:00

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Republic - Plato
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Capital - Karl Marx
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
The Bible
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Critique of Pure Reason / Critique of Practical Reason - Immanuel Kant
Phenomenology of Spirit / Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences - Georg Hegel
The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer
Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
Beyond Good and Evil / Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Twilight of The Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche
On The Heights of Despair / The Trouble With Being Born - Emil Cioran
The Decline of The West - Oswald Spengler
Industrial Society And Its Future - Theodore Kaczynski
Revolt Against The Modern World / Men Among The Ruins - Julius Evola
For My Legionaries - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
Germany Tomorrow - Otto Strasser
The Fourth Political Theory - Alexandr Dugin

After you start reading, you'll never stop.

MadPreacher1AD · 2019-01-05T04:12:33+00:00

I can recommend the Tanakh and B'rit Hadashah since they are filled with red pill truths while giving life style advice.

xiaodre · 2019-01-05T09:49:19+00:00

one of my favorite books of all time is Connections, by James Burke. Its non-fiction, a different take on history, and filled with great funny and true stories.

for fiction, i recommend The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkein, which is a great adventure book. what can i say about this book -- its a classic. My kiddo reads it to me every night as a bedtime story.

Not a fan of high fantasy by the person who created the genre? Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. one of the funniest books i have ever read.

if you are looking for a foundational philosophical book, short, but fucking riveting, i mean intense, Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.

all of these books show men doing crazy things, thrown into impossible situations, and changing themselves and their world. all of these books are easy to read and they entertain (me at least..).

EDIT:

looking specifically for something like a man finding himself? here's a specific story for you: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemmingway, a short story inside any book of Hemmingway's short stories, which are all good, but also in the book The First 48, the first 48 short stories Hemmingway published. Its a great fictional story about what a woman is to a man, what a man is to a woman, and what a man is to himself.

leathershopgirl · 2019-01-15T12:52:32+00:00

Virtually anything by Ernest Hemmingway. I particularly love, 'Islands In The Stream'. I have a copy bound in cyan blue leather and it seems to evoke the seas around the Bimini islands.

Title	Seeking Book Recommendations
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Date	January 5, 2019 4:08 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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