Official Sup Forums Book Club

Official Sup Forums Book Club.

Every month we should decide on a book and read along. I suggest we have weekly book threads every Sunday.

If everyone likes the idea I guess we should vote on what we should read first.

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what do you recommend?

First things that come to mind are The Iliad/Odyssey or The Culture of Critique.

Culture of Critique is at the top of my list of to read. The other two are too boring.

>The Iliad/Odyssey
i love this book m8

>Two people on Sup Forums want to read books
>everyone else is in the BLACKED threads

Oh well.

Start with the Greeks, as they say.

I have a huge list, I could post it if anyone needs ideas.

I'm illiterate but if you read the books out loud and send me mp3s I'll participate. You have to do different voices for different characters though.

>leaf

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Capitalism and Freedom is good, I've read it a couple of times, really got my neurons firing.

Pure Goldwater is good as well, anything Goldwater wrote is palatable enough to even swing normies into Small-State Governance mindsets.

What would you recommend from that list?

I'm in! Love the idea. I agree of starting with the greeks, it has been more than 15 years since I last got into it seriously

I vote for Faust

Nietzche, Evola and Spengler are classic Sup Forums authors, they've been revered here since forever. The Decline of the West by Spengler and Ride the Tiger by Evola are maybe the two most iconic Sup Forums books. Nietzsche literally inspired Hitler, God bless their souls.

LotR is great of course and and if you haven't read it yet you're probably not even white.

Lovecraft is amazing and was a low key uber racist.

Beowolf is an amazing classic, as is Dante's Inferno.

Everything on the pic is good though desu.

Go for it, it's always good to swap reading lists.

>Nietzsche literally inspired Hitler
Look, Nietzsche was truly my red-pill after coming from a background of (((post))) modern theory but event if your statement was true it represents a fundamental misunderstanding on Hitler's part.

>Hitler was a socialist
Nietzsche believed, quite correctly, that socialism is the secular outgrowth of the slave morality - "and the meek shall inherit the earth" writ large. See "slave morality".

>Hitler was a German nationalist
If there is any political sentiment Nietzsche despised more than democracy it was nationalism. He once called it, "soil addiction". There is no other group of people Nietzsche loathed more than Germans; I can't think of a single positive thing he had to say about them. Read any of his works on Wagner (barring his earliest works, especially The Birth of Tragedy) to get a sense about this.

>Hitler was an anti-semite
If there was any group of people he admired it was the Jews. He saw their God as harsh and robust compared to the limp wristed God of the New Testament.

That being said, I would strongly recommend any polack to read at least Beyond Good and Evil. Also see Walter (((Kauffman's))) excellent introduction.

>Lovecraft is amazing and was a low key uber racist.
>low key

Here we go!

The Odyssey
Edda
The stranger
Notes from underground
The catcher in the rye
The crying lot of 49
Slaughter house five
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Metamorphosis
The Great Gatsby
Lolita
Siddhartha
Blood meridian
Stoner – John Williams
Catch 22
One hundred years of solitude
Ficciones
The grapes of wrath
The lost days of Socrates
What we talk about when we talk about love
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Slouching towards Bethlehem
Brave new world
A Clockwork Orange
American psycho
Lord of flies
Do android dream of electric sheep
Malazan – garden of the moon
Dune
The Children of Man
The Southern Reach Trilogy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Old Man’s War
The Way of Men
Programmed to kill – David McGowan
American lion
Richard Dawkins got pawned

Thats all I can remember. I have a bigger list somewhere but not all of it would be good Sup Forums material.

Low key because it's kept low key in modern discussions. He was himself not low key about it at all.

The amazing thing about Nietzche is just how broad his work actually is in scope. Multiple people with diametrically opposed viewpoints 9eg antisemite or prosemite) can all read his work and be inspired by it because there's just so much there.

Definitely worth a read for any intellectually curious man, Sup Forumsack or not.

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Shouldnt we also have a time set for the thread? Like every sunday at 2000

As soon as we vote on a book I was going to set a time but yes, every Sunday at 2pm (On the US east coast) would be when we get things started.

I dont know if it will catch on but I think if we stick to it we can make it a permanent fixture. Sup Forums needs better threads and the men on this board need to read more.

Well, you can count me in. :)

Cool. Did you have anything you wanted to read? The list is already made up but next vote I will try to include it.

Voting either the Odyssey or Plato's Republic.

Both are objectively perfect. The second should be mandatory reading for every Sup Forumsack.

> Book club
> Spend 30 minutes a day reading a pointless fucking book and come back on Sunday and have a pointless fucking discussion. Let's vote on it guys!
Learn new skills/languages. You know, the stuff that's actually challenging.

Upboating Plato's Republic

>interacting with the greatest minds of Human history and learning from them is fucking pointless
>Talking and having good conversations with people is "fucking pointless"
>pic related

What a charmed life you must live.

>pointless fucking books that have shaped humanity.

They're not the greatest minds in history, though. They were just professional quote makers that think like everyone else.
Spend your time learning new skills instead of sucking a dead guy's dick.

What languages do you know american?

languages waste mental space on learning words rather than substance

English, Dutch, and Spanish. That's about it.

>tfw

Shoo shoo Jew.

Reading is a white man's game, you wouldn't understand.

not bad, and what are you working on currently?

>new (((skills)))
t. wageslave

That raises a good question. What languages would Sup Forums recommend learning?

Ive been thinking about learning German, French, or Russian. I would heavily prefer to stick to European languages.

The Gulag Archipelago

Learning how to play the drums. I'm trying to master 40 rudiments and apply them to the drum set. After that, I'm going to probably start learning French.

Not yet, but if I have I will you know. :)

I think you guys would enjoy this book.

>tfw the entire mechanism of government and state we use today to run our countries is just ancient 2000+ year old memes and pasta

French is worth learning. French girls are horny nihilistic sluts and love a guy with an Anglo accent and France has an amazing history of literature. Yeah most of their philosophers were cucked fags but there's still a lot of good shit there.

I'm sure German and Russian would be great as well, IDK how I would gauge them against each other.

German is the closest to English I think and would probably be the easiest to learn, but those French girls...

>mfw I don't understand the pic
Explain plis

For my legionaries by Corneliu Codreanu
Culture of Critique by Kevin Macdonald
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (stalag version)
Revolt against the modern world, Ride the tiger and Men among the ruins by Julius evola
The republic by aristotle

How was France (Assuming you've been there)?

And the West is nihilistic. Literally every girl i talk too doesnt want kids and is a rampant nihilist, to the point where their life is in shambles and they repeatedly make stupid choices. All of them are whores too. Their morals go out the window the second they get out of Highschool.

Plato's cave of shadows

I think German would be the easiest to learn from the three. Russian has clauses which suck ass. French is close to German in regard to difficulty.

Most worth it language? I think that would be Russian if you want to go into literature. Russians have the best literature, I personally think.
If you prefer TV and stuff, both France and Germany have a lot of dubbed movies, cartoons & animes, porn and documentaries. France more so, than Germany. In the end I think you should chose the language that you intend to use and of which you like the melody.

I started Hungarian just because of this
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You know a lot of languages already, so easiness of the language shouldn't be a factor. If you like the way the language sounds go for it.

WINTER IS COMING - KASPAROV

>vote

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I agree it'll help off put some of these other low effort threads like the mgtow, hating black people, blacked threads, and etc.

Essential /the west is doomed/ core coming through

So what are we reading, m8s? 'Cause I certainly didn't read the thread.

r8

desu sign me up, i have the best jew impersonation

he also wrote the way of man also, haven't read either are they worthy picking up?

Absolutely, they're designed to be read together, start with Way of Men.

Okay. It seems that The Iliad/Odyssey is the clear winner here.

If people are interested, get your copy and we will have another meet up at 2pm (on the east coast US) to talk about it.

PDF versions should be easier enough to find online.

You can vote still but it looks like there is a winner.

Submit all suggestions and I will make sure something is included for the next vote. If a lot of people dont like the current titles we can have another vote.

How doomed is the west, according to that book?

I've started reading Atlas Shrugged today. Did I fall for a meme of some sort?

You fell for the Jewess subversion meme.

Cool, I'll suggest Shadow of the Torturer for next time and get started on reading The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Thats a pretty attractive girl, do you have sauce on her?

If you havent read decline, start there.

I nominate decline of the west, simulacra and simulation cuz its kinda short, and morals and dogma by manly p hall, since its the rulebook of the elite.

And they are all square 1 books, so might as well start fresh for the non-literary inclined.

If we want fiction, i say silmarillion, classic greek mythology, or maybe a clancy novel.

good list - I've read about 1/3

I have never to my knowledge spilled sauce for xer.

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Best case scenario every western country becomes Japan, worst case scenario collapse of industrial civilization, most likely scenario permanent 1930's style great depression

I'm reading Stalingrad right now. Should be required reading for every edgy Naziboo

>iliad/odyssey

Jesus guys some of us dont have that kind of time. Pick one or the other for christsake.

Please don't fuck the thread up

Eumeswil is 300 pages meditating on the impossibility of leftism working and it's wonderful if you like literary fiction
Others:
The camp of the saints
The culture of narcissism
The history of the peloponnesian war
One day in the life of Ivan denisovich
Growth of the soil
The Outlaws--this is actually a great choice because it balances right-wing didactic ideological discussion with an enjoyable war/action-adventure narrative

Spoiler, way of men is the gang. Too bad most us dont have friends.

I got a question boys, how much time should I allocate to reading? my day is pretty busy would 30 mins be enough time to make enough progress with the rest of the other anons?

Paradise Lost.

Get a version with good footnote translations and explanations. For the first fifty or so pages it'll be like reading Clockwork Orange, having to check what something means every 5 seconds, but once you start reading it like you do modern English it's fucking fantastic.

> And the golden scepter which once ruled you shall become an iron rod to beat you down.

i made a thread about setting one up, we were supposed to meet up on /lit/ but never did, but hey i still have this i made!

>implying you can't learn new skills and languages while reading book for leisure
You fucking retard.

I love this idea, although not a fan of fiction. Just a waste of time, im all for history books, or philosophy books, or even a self improvement book

>Best case scenario every western country becomes Japan

How? That seems extremely unlikely.

>worst case scenario collapse of industrial civilization

Well, its looking like we have done some permanent damage to ourselves. I think this might be the most likely.

> most likely scenario permanent 1930's style great depression

Jesus Christ. I cant believe we did this to ourselves. What madness drove us to commit suicide like this.

Sorry lad, it wasnt up to me. Just read one yourself, its not like both are a requirement. Stick to the Odyssey, I would say.

Reading is suppose to be fun. Schedule time for it but dont treat it like an obligation. Maybe 30 minutes sounds about right but of course everyone will have varying speeds.

Next thread will be mostly nonfiction. Anything you want to see on the list when we finish the current book?

I nominate this book, it deals with the correlation between degeneracy an the fall of civilizations.

I had an amazing time in France. Spent 5 months there during a highschool exchange with an amazing French family with 5 kids and one other Canadian in Alencon. It was an amazing time for me especially considering how amazing my host family was. The Louvre was amazing as well, the Mona Lisa sucks ass but some of the stuff there is mindbogglingly amazing, especially the architecture of the building itself. There were nogs harassing tourists at every other tourist location though which sucked and actually helped red pill me. They did this shit where they would hastily slap an artsy wristband on you that you can't pull off, then harass you until you pay for it. Fucking niggers. That was about a decade ago too, I'm sure the nog situation is way worse now, especially in tourist areas. If I went back now I would be sure to go to a province with a low Muslim density.

I hate it when your posts make me realize you are all 14 year old boys. "The Spike" is the most appropriate book to read at "the current conjuncture".

The way of men wasn't particularly noteworthy. It was ok but there isn't much intellectual depth. Read it if you want but it's not a big deal if you give it a skip, and considering how much actually great literature there is out there I'd recommend the skip.

I second this. I read it a decade ago, but could use a refersher

It's worth reading IMHO. He gets down to the nitty gritty. If you've ever worked in squad sized elements it's cool because it goes into what makes them work with his elaboration on the bund.

> Implying pretentious book fags actually learn new skills on the side
Try to teach them anything that requires actual skill and practice. Watch how quick they are to dismiss it because it's a "distraction" to them. Post results.

Lol drums, literal nigger tier music, gas yourself kike

J.S. Mill's On Liberty

The Vedas (non-meme translation that wasn't written by some poo-looer street toilet shaman).

>Try to teach them anything that requires actual skill and practice. Watch how quick they are to dismiss it because it's a "distraction" to them. Post results.
You're pathetic and insecure.

"Fugue for a Darkening Island" by Christopher Priest.

British Post Apocalyptic scifi from 1970.

Overlooked cuz it be pertinent to Europe's plight today.

You heard of it here.
Enjoy.

Starship Troopers

Anyone got a good copy of revolt against the modern world or ride the tiger in a kindle format? Mine are corrupted gibberish

You might like sex at dawn

bookzz

but also don't, because it's trash and you don't have the philosophical or historical context most likely.

I'm down for this.

>instantly grouping up everyone ITT as pretentious book fags
How very jewish of you.

Mr.Goldstein please.
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No I'm not. I feel great about myself and I'm majoring in Math.