God tier books thread
working offshore for 6 weeks and i want to get some good books to read.
God tier books thread
working offshore for 6 weeks and i want to get some good books to read.
>God tier books
Mein Kampf naturally
Maybe the Bible too, same thing.
read and memorized them both already
Slaughterhouse 5
John dies at the end.
Hammer of Eden by Ken follet
1984 is soooo cheesy and overrated
What genre?
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
try animal farm next
David Copperfield (Dickens)
house of leaves by mark z danielewski. it's the best book you'll ever read.
please post a better book than 1984. I am honestly curious
name of the wind and a wise man's fear by patrick rothfuss
if you like 1984 try brave new world
Homage to Catalonia, if you haven't read it already
Vile Bodies (Waugh)
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
Dog Soldiers (Robert Stone)
>offshore for 6 weeks
The Art of Auto-fellatio: Oral Sex for One
by Gary Griffin
spend your free time practicing
reading that right now actually, about 20 pages before i finish it. It's bloody depressing.
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>1984
The Road to Wigan Pier is better.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
Tolkien Silmarillion
I liked Fahrenheit 451 more, and the The Road as depressing book.
I second this. Pretty fun story.
Also Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk and Lolita by Vlad Nabokov.
>F451
May as well go the full way and just recommend anything by Bradbury. That nigga is great at what he does.
The foundation trilogy - isaac asimov
Coldfire trilogy - c.s. friedman
Caves of steel - isaac asimov
Dune - frank herbert
On a pale horse - piers anthony
The elric saga - michael moorcock
The pillars or the earth - ken follett
Just some ideas to get you started
Also any of the Saga of Recluse by l.e. modesitt
Strap yourself in mate.
It's labelled as teen fiction (no shit I read it when I was in high school) but "I am the Cheese" has a really chill vibe.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
>Caves of steel
You might as well recommend the whole robot series
>The Road
In comparison with 1984 this book is more current, I have to admit.
>Fahrenheit 451
I found this to be too concentrated on the books. Also, harder to suspend disbelief than with 1984 and The Road and generally less enjoyable. I still have to see why so many people (including my dad) acclaim it so much.
>things you tell sophomore girls because you can't play guitar
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I really would, those are such great books.
Also the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams is up there on my list too. Not that the two are related
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The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
and End of the Silver Age by Yasutaka Tsutsui, if it's somehow translated in your language. It's Battle Royale but with 70-year olds and more rapey. Good shit.
Too much fiction ITT
This book has the best words.
Enders game, speaker for the dead, any of the enders games books really. The shadow series is really good too.
>I only read nonfiction books so I can advance my knowledge of information
lol
Jesus Christ so many Vlads ITT
Sarte is godly
That's my favorite thing about books, because of all the different perspectives we have some books just don't have the 'right' individual meaning to make the impact that they do on others
The Tibetan Book of living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
I second this, was a real eye opener
The wall is the fucking shit, man. I cried when he decided to grow his moustache. Truly inspirational.
Superior to 1984 in every single way
Wanna compile the gooduns in this thread
>F451
>Animal Farm
>Lolita
>Snuff
>The Wall
>Catch-22
>I Am The Cheese
>The Road
All them shits OP
I feel like your the type that hates the book because they were forced to read it high school
>I Am The Cheese
Muh nigga
>Lolita
I-i ain't clicking that shit n-nigga
>Doesn't include The Cremator
Nigger
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Quads of tttruth
All of the 6 original Dune books
Wheel of Time series
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Discworld
If its your jam, the Forgotten Realms books
The first dozen or so Horus Heresy books. Fulgrim, the first 3 and Legion in particular.
Brave new world should be on there tbh
>Catch-22
muh nigga
kek when is he gonna release his new book
I'm getting a neckbeard vibe from this
>All of the 6 original Dune books
Only the first one
>Wheel of Time
Boring
>Malazan Book of the Fallen
Boring
yo my dharma brother
Any of the Jack Reacher books. Persuader by Lee Child in particular is great.
I think Dune is overrated and spends too much time explaining the lore. Granted it has good parts, but it also has a lot of boring filler. Then again what book doesn't? I did like the movie
buddhism for the win!
>not following on
I can understand, they get a bit preachy. Though it's still a good story to finish off and a good timewaster
>the other 2
I guess you're not a fantasy fan.
The original book did try and explain it. I have a collection of the first 3 that seperated all that into appendices and a glossary.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is amazing. It's basically the dudes autobiography with a bit of fiction mixed in. Have you read any of Hunter S. Thompson? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was great, not big. Now Hunter's biography is amazing ( Fear and Loathing in America ) I also recommend Kingdom Of Fear by him also. Stay away from the campaign trail books unless you like reading about Nixon.
John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
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>The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
Watership Down and House of Leaves
It's a little ridiculous when a fiction book has a glossary. I love to read, but I'm too busy with work to get sucked into lore.
Oh shiet didn't know the tom cruise movies were based on books
I fucking hate Ayn Rand and her stupid followers. Objectivism is garbage-tier philosophy.
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old path white clouds - thich nhat hanh
>I guess you're not a fantasy fan.
I am. I do like the Discworld for humour, and they're actual fun stories. For actual fantasy I would recommend something from Ursula K. Le Guin say The Wizard of Earthsea for example
The Triflers by Mumkey Jones. It's the edgiest shit and I love it.
Name a better philosophy
Finnegans Wake
It takes more than 6 weeks, though.
An Inspector Calls.
13 Reasons Why except the cast isn't a bunch of depressing overgrown toddlers
Hey, muh nigga!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is pretty good, a decent introduction to Nietzsche's philosophy.
Terrible book
She made some mistakes like putting her logic to grammar (grammar is first, logic second a rethoric third) but that book is mind bending.
Did LRH write Dune?
Everyone posting philosophical shit. Here's a phisisophical book that's Also a kickass adventure story
Cynicism
I will check it out
Antifa's handbook
A quick read
Stoicism
well this is why most kids hate reading.
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
They're making a series out of it, hopefully R-rated.
Is this good?
I just read LOTR and have this on my shelf but am afraid of being disappointed.
I can get behind this.
Nah, nah. Nihilism. It's a conglomerate, agnosticism, and existentialism.
Fuck, it's a mix of cynicism, agnosticism, and existentialism*
I'm going to repeat a couple that have already been mentioned.
Dune
Slaughterhaus 5
Sirens of Titan
I Am Legend
A Scanner Darkly
Ha funny, started reading this yesterday and im about half way through now
agreed, it is childish, just look at her followers - Paul Ryan etc
even Jack London was a better philosopher than Ayn Rand
as a novelist though, she is ok, i read fountainhead in high school and liked it
Why not all three?