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What books do you recommend, GAF?
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JareBear: Remastered
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GAMETA
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Hmmm... I was thinking more Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky..
What classical literature americans have?
GAMETA
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Sounds interesting, I'll give it a look
GAMETA
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Wow, the author is a PhD, I bet this is a must read
SurprisedPikachu
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Read any of the books by Tom Clancy before he died, not the ghost writers abusing his name for a quick buck. The man was so good at what he did that he was investigated by the government because his descriptions of top secret military exercises were fucking ON POINT. I'd say as a fictional series they're meaningful simply because of that.
DunDunDunpachi
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The Aleph and Other Stories.
And The Island of Doctor Death And Other Stories.
Two of the best short-story collections you can buy.
And The Island of Doctor Death And Other Stories.
Two of the best short-story collections you can buy.
RainblowDash
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The Red Rising series
Prison Mike
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Prison Mike
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Not you Tesseract lol
MaestroMike
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
End of Heart Disease by Dr. Fuhrman
Eat to Live by Dr. Fuhrman
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition by Julieanna Hever
Nutrition Science and Applications by Smolin/Grosvenor
Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Spent countless hours reading these books.
End of Heart Disease by Dr. Fuhrman
Eat to Live by Dr. Fuhrman
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition by Julieanna Hever
Nutrition Science and Applications by Smolin/Grosvenor
Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Spent countless hours reading these books.
CyberPanda
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GAMETA
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OK, so so far I got:
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
Demons - Dostoyevski
Neuromancer - Willian Gibson
Any American or English classical literature you can recommend?
I remember reading about a book that had something to do with the american civil war or its post effects... was Bird something if I'm not mistaken... any leads?
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
Demons - Dostoyevski
Neuromancer - Willian Gibson
Any American or English classical literature you can recommend?
I remember reading about a book that had something to do with the american civil war or its post effects... was Bird something if I'm not mistaken... any leads?
GAMETA
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Sounds interesting, I'll give it a look although I'm not sure I'll find a local version... importing books can get expensive
Annnd I found it for 35 local bucks, pretty good price for an imported book. Gotta love Amazon's world domination.
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DunDunDunpachi
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I'd recommend reading Notes From Underground, another one of Dostoyevski's shorter books.
GAMETA
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Already have, amazing book. I identified more with the narrator than I'd like to... great to see "our type" already existed in the eighteen hundreds, tho... makes you realize we're not that different after all.
KorbinDallas
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DunDunDunpachi
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Indeed. I think it's amazing how you can read the thoughts of a dead person and find some commonality.
Sounds like you want more classic lit. If German lit is okay (I read the english version) The Magic Mountain is good. Since you like Dostoyevski, you might enjoy John Ruskin's letters and lectures. Leo Tolstoy is worth a read too (start with Kingdom of God Is Within You).
If you like sci-fi, fantasy, and even historical fiction done in a very American style, I recommend R.A. Lafferty. His books are somewhere between sci-fi, fantasy, and American tall tales.
If you like outlandish, ridiculous sci-fi, A.A. Attanasio is one to check out. He wrote a whole trilogy that is essentially post-apocalyptic Akira gone mad.
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JBat
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To kill a mocking bird?
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The Jungle - About industrial working conditions in America (early 1900s)
Great Gatsby - About class inequality in America (1920s)
Grapes of Wrath - About the American dustbowl (1930s)
To Kill A Mockingbird - About racial inequality in America after slavery but before the civil rights movement (1930s)
After that you end up in World War 2 and more science fiction/fantasy stuff follows.
GAMETA
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Thanks man, great suggestions!
I've been trying to read more political, philosophical and "psychological" stuff, I think that's what I meant by meaningful... I don't really like technical books, so classical literature focused on human struggle and behavior has proven interesting...
I still like fantasy and sf but now that I'm past 30 it sometimes feels like a complete waste of time... I wanna go deeper
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GAMETA
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Yep, that's the one. Would you recommend?
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DunDunDunpachi
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Read some C.G. Jung. He is a great read and seems to cross over into political, philosophical, and religious topics as he discusses psychology. I also like Kierkegaard who was a "hopeful existentialist" before existentialism was a thing.Thanks man, great suggestions!
I've been trying to read more political and "psychological" stuff, I think that's what I meant by meaningful... I don't really like technical books, so classical literature focused on human struggle and behavior has proven interesting...
I still like fantasy and sf but now that I'm past 30 it sometimes feels like a complete waste of time... I wanna go deeper
Also read True Believer by Eric Hoffer, one of the most important political books imo.
A good American lit book is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Belmonte
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It is only my first Dostoievski book so I can't compare with the others but I'm liking The Idiot a lot. It is about a man very pure of heart (as the synopsis says, a figure half Don Quixote, half Jesus Christ) and the consequences of being such a good person in the real world.
I'm very impressed with Dostoievski intelligence and writing ability. I will definitely check his other works.
I'm very impressed with Dostoievski intelligence and writing ability. I will definitely check his other works.
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ThatStupidLion
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my uncle oswald by roald dahl
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jufonuk
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Danny the champion of the world
To be honest Dahl did a great load of books
day of the Jackal is a good book also
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I still like fantasy and sf but now that I'm past 30 it sometimes feels like a complete waste of time... I wanna go deeper
There's always nonfiction too. Sometimes a history book can be as engaging as any novel. Your imagination still gets put to work.
Belmonte
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Non fiction books I read and recommend are Sapiens, from Yuval Harari and 12 Rules for Life from Jordan Peterson.
Some people I talk with said to me that Sapiens is history for dummies. Perhaps it is but as a dude with a mediocre formal education -schools in my country are really bad- I found it very interesting. The book fixed many blind spots I had in my understanding of our species history. I don't know where you live but give it a look, perhaps you will find interesting.
12 Rules for Life is the most dark self-help book I ever read and probably because of it, one of the most helpful. I wish I had read it in my teenage years. So many misunderstandings would be undone. There are no "don't worry, be happy" or things like that in 12 Rules for Life. Only no nonsense stuff with science, philosophy and religion to back it up. There aren't novel ideas or mind shattering philosophy like Nietzsche's books. It is a book which explains why many common sense ideas survived for centuries.
Some people I talk with said to me that Sapiens is history for dummies. Perhaps it is but as a dude with a mediocre formal education -schools in my country are really bad- I found it very interesting. The book fixed many blind spots I had in my understanding of our species history. I don't know where you live but give it a look, perhaps you will find interesting.
12 Rules for Life is the most dark self-help book I ever read and probably because of it, one of the most helpful. I wish I had read it in my teenage years. So many misunderstandings would be undone. There are no "don't worry, be happy" or things like that in 12 Rules for Life. Only no nonsense stuff with science, philosophy and religion to back it up. There aren't novel ideas or mind shattering philosophy like Nietzsche's books. It is a book which explains why many common sense ideas survived for centuries.
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The Bloody-Nine
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JBat
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I've never read it honestly. It's on the list but haven't gotten to it yet. But some things in the vein of what you might be looking for that I can recommend:
Animal farm
Brave New world
Catcher in the rye
A separate peace
GAMETA
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I've read the first two. Great books.
SirKicksalot
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Then try some books that make full use of the medium's strengths, like Dictionary of the Khazars or Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (and watch the movie too).
Ballthyrm
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If you like short stories, Ted Chiang is a Master.
He wrote Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation: Stories.
Thought provoking stuff in the good sense.
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