What did you read this month?

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Tell me what is on your reading list?

Give me some ideas about good books.

Need not be mgtow.

I’ll start. Because of Halloween, I re read all of HP Lovecrafts works.

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[Truthseeker82Participant 6406]

Actually want to start The Brothers Karamozov. Tolstoy. I hear it’s a deep read, but I need something stimulating. ?

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Truthseeker82 wrote:

Actually want to start The Brothers Karamozov. Tolstoy. I hear it’s a deep read, but I need something stimulating.

100 years ago I was taking 2nd semester college English taught by a fat c~~~. It was composition / environmental indoctrination. On the side I read the brothers K and would ask her questions about it. She had no clue. English prof never read the Brothers K.

It is long, but I loved it. Jesus and the inquestion is the best chapter in literature.

But I liked “dead souls” by gogol (I think) much better. That should be a must read for anyone going to law school or mgtow.

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[TuneoutParticipant]

Richard Thaler – Misbehaving – A study of behavioural
economics – really makes you question the so called
‘experts’ and their use of computer analytics to try and beat the market.

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[DwightDavidParticipant 859]

I recently finished a book called “Ike and Dick” by Jeffrey Frank. It’s about the strange somewhat dysfunctional relationship between Pres.Eisenhower and Vice Pres.Nixon. Really interesting. Learned a lot about both men.
I also read “After the War Was Over” by Neil Sheehan. This one is about everyday life in Hanoi and Saigon in the late 80s early 90s. This one was also interesting if not a little out of date now. But it was written about the same time when Vietnam was starting to open up more and ease up on their own citizens, trying new economic policies and moderating somewhat politically.

[joetechParticipant]

If you’re looking for an illuminating read try “All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer. If you’re red white blue true and America is AWAYS right…you might want to skip it.

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[NerevarParticipant 8040]

6 different writers – War of the Spider Queen Saga (fantasy, good stuff)
Dan Simmons – Hyperion (sci-fi, awesome stuff)
Marilyn Manson – The Long Hard Road out of Hell (autobiography)
Peter d’Hamecourt – Vladimir Putin, the King’s Drama (non-fiction, mishmash of stuff)

That’s about it for the last month.

"One of the best things internet exposed is just how insane women are." - Freeman_K

[EekParticipant 1162]

I actually went to the bookstore today for the first time in a while. I picked up:

A Python programming book. Ive been using Python for years but never really had a book on it, so I was looking for some alternate flavor.
A compilation of HP Lovecraft stuff. I was familiar with it, but had never sat down and read much of it.
A book on basic principles of quantum mechanics, it was in the bargain bin and looked interesting.
The complete works of Shakespeare, mostly to look good on the shelf, but I also thought about rereading some of those plays with the red pill mindset. Also, it was bargain bin.

[joetechParticipant]

My favorite(bite your tongues guys) has always been “The Grass is always greener over the septic tank” by Erma Bombeck. She was no feminist…she was a realist like me.

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[Anonymous 3]

I drive for a living and burn up audio books. This month:

Count of Monte Cristo
The Prince
Pilgrim’s Progress
The Godfather
Fahrenheit 451
Maltese Falcon

[Anonymous 24]

Hey Jan, I am a big fan of Lovecraft as well as tons of older sci-fi/fantasy. I have one large bookcase filled with just old DAW paperbacks, I must have 400 or so of them there and in a few boxes, probably have read about half of them at this point…

Recently I re-read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Think on These Things. It is basically a study of learning and hurdles that the human mind puts in the way of itself for protection in a sense. He says that one must be in constant rebellion of what he knows/has been taught in order to be “enlightened”. Meaning, if you are so attached to what you think you know or an opinion you may have that you cannot listen to others, you are done. May as well just checkout completely and not even pretend to be interested in anything on an intellectual level, as you have left yourself no space for learning/evolving.

Then we have Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things. Amazing read. To think this guy two thousand years ago philosophized the existence of atoms and base elements is insane. This book is a must read in my opinion.

I also read a Mack Reynolds book, Cosmic Eye. (one of those old DAW paperbacks) Totalitarian/Dystopian in nature. It was decent.

[RoyDalParticipant]

I have P.T. Deutermann’s Ghosts of Bungo Suido on my shelf.

Before that I’m going to read James R. Benn’s latest: Blue Madonna. The whole world, and all that’s in it, waits for the newest Benn novel!

I just finished, and heartily recommend, Daniel Silva’s Black Widow!!!!

Other than the above, I’m reading non-fiction, science, history, that kind of s~~~.

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[sidecarParticipant 35842]

I’ve been reading the Mortdecai trilogy. MUCH better than that Johnny Depp POS.

[Mr. ManParticipant 2916]

I’m reading “The Rider” by Dutch author Tim Krabbe. It’s a classic account of a 150 km bicycle road race, and is a classics piece of writing on the sport.

[NerevarParticipant 8040]

On Lovecraft, my absolute favorite story is The Shadow out of Time.

Anyone agree?

"One of the best things internet exposed is just how insane women are." - Freeman_K

[RumpoleParticipant 995]

I am currently reading the following:
Earl J. Hess, The Battle for Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta
Timothy B. Smith, Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory
Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra

[GeraldParticipant 3631]

Working on The Way of Men by Donovan, the meditations of Marcus Aurelius, a book about surviving the zombie holocaust in London, and some fictional outer space thing I don’t really know what it is about yet because I fell asleep three pages in.

And some business stuff.

No longer can we walk away, we must run. Remove the motive power.

[joetechParticipant]

Isaac Asimov’s “Treasury of Humor” is another good one I’ve read. I know Asimov is mostly known for his science fiction work, but he’s written other types of work as well.

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[KimmurielParticipant 480]

Thomas Sowell “Basic Economics”

"You meet a few exceedingly forsaken, Sit around the cooler refusing domestication" Aesop Rock

[Mr. ManParticipant 2916]

BTW, Jan, I love this thread. We have a lot of avid readers here, and it’s nice to see what books this diverse group of men are reading.

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