Are they basically the heart of what's killing the white race?>>>/lit/25066042
Performative faggotry. If you want to read, go read. Don't make a fuckin YT channel about it.
>>527827425>reading is gay performative and retardedOk I guess I’ll keep shitposting
>>527827425nice bait, i'm hooked>who needs bridges and roads and medical care or buildings designed? GAYYYYY!>just hang out, be cool all the time and be alpha>remember, the best way to be white is to be a nigger!
Depends on what you read. Everything fiction is gay
>>527827605>t.
>>527827425I unironically think the problem is we have a bunch of cunts who don't read enough, or at all, and then a bunch who read way fucking too much, and don't act.If you don't read at least one decent book a month, read more.If you don't exercise at least one hour a day, exercise more.If you don't think it's the jews, read more.If you know it's the jews, train more.
>>527827425Shill your shit fucking book else where, haven't seen a shill thread so thinly veiled in ages
>>527827664>t.
>>527827479>>527827425PERFORMATIVE LIKE KAI CENAT
dont know, dont read about them
>>527827568Didn't read lmao
>>527827665plebbitt
Real men don't read, they do things in the physical world.
>>527827425reading is for niggers and faggots
>>527827425I read a lot when I was younger and I had people approach me and tell me it's pointless wastes of time if it isn't teaching me job skills or money related topics.I use my phone now to make myself look like I am browsing social media.
its probably more the worship of black folks
Non fiction is okay.Fiction is just video games for girls.
>>527827618I have a friend who used to think like this (he's Indian BTW, make of that what you will), but I eventually convinced him of the benefits of fiction.Considering how frequently we use terminology from the novel 1984 on this board, hating fiction would seem incongruous.
>>527827703ESL
https://youtu.be/9G-jdIkfyRU?si=UPUBrNI9A4s_2SpOMeat canyon does a whole episode on this.
>>527827618If this is a common sentiment in your country, I guess it explains why the only Estonian writer anyone knows is "the Disco Elysium guy"
>>527827425I have no thoughts on them
>>527827822like dig holes
>>527827618the majority of non fiction you are reading is complete fiction. dumb nigger.
I have three of those cheapass harbor freight shelving units with cardboard boxes turned on their side, full of books, to my side and rear right now. and only maybe 5 of them are fiction
>>527827605>who needs bridges and roads and medical care or buildings designed?No pussy no work. I can't breed so it's literally not my problem.
>>527827875>not reading hemmingway, orwell, melville, mccarthy, homer, tolkein, etc.non fiction is for knowledge. fiction is for wisdom. read both.
>>527827875fiction requires imagination. its probably hard work for you
>>527827955Real men play sports, work with their hands, drive cars, have sex with women, etc
>>527827907And we also do the best in the PISA scores out of European cunts. Only bested by some asians.>>527827880That's not really fiction then, is it. Its a blueprint.
>>527827425Only faggots read. Real men watch Andrew Tate videos and pump iron while committing sex trafficking offenses in their spare time. Don't be a faggot-ass "oh I love Emily Dickinson, I want Death to come all over my face and tits" beta cuck.
>>527828073>>527828081Bing bing wahoo retards also wash that nasty hole between your legs
>>527827742I used to have to hide my books because nosy people would struggle to see their titles and try to talk about them. But I need books to help me avoid people and not get sucked into a wireless microwave.
>>527827836Booksellers in Bagdhad leave their stock outside unattended day and night. There's an Arabic saying, "readers don't steal and thieves don't read."You are the nigger.
>>527828118you forgot work in tunnels
>>527827665>If you don't think it's the jews, read more.>If you know it's the jews, train more.Based except that spacing.
>>527827425I like Plato's "The Republic" and I pick it up from time to time.
>>527827425is that top G?
>>527828343What the fuck do you need to read that for? You're living it.
>>527828121Genuinely the first time I've seen someone on /pol/ proudly admitting to their race being bugmen.
>>527827425It all depends on what you are reading. Reading fiction, vicarious reading, fantasy etc. etc. is strictly passive entertainment no different in essence than watching a movie etc. Reading something like philosophy is only slightly better it is mostly just sort of an indulgent coffee table sort of "wheel spinning" type of thing. However, ultimately written word is just information and it *can* be very beneficial. Learning about a thing through written word is fine. Technical manuals, certain types of textbooks, guides, etc etc. this is a very pragmatic and useful way to spend time.
>>527827425>married sister writes novel>it's "dark romance">first person perspective>love interest is established from the get-go>love interest gets a boner in chapter 2 simply from looking at the protagonist>check books on demand store - most prominent categories are romance, queer, love, new adult & dark romance,erotic
>>527828121It is fiction. It's a narrative about things that never happened. But to see similarities between the fictional setting and the real world proves its worth.To take another Orwell piece, consider Animal Farm. It's obviously allegorical but that doesn't make it non-fiction; animals don't talk in reality.
>>527828436>flag>talks of raceAmigo, i have bad news for you
>>527827618The other anons will cope but I agree with you. That's not to say it isnt ok to have some very very limited % of your time devoted to useless passive entertainment like reading fiction. But most people treat it like a hobby itself.
>>527828118well i do 3 out of 4 of those and then i go read
>>527827618see >>527828009
>>527827665Honestly based and timeless words that will probably live in my mind for the rest of my life.
>>527828506It's more about there being limited hours in a day, a week, a year, your life etc. The amount of time spent in completely passive entertainment should be minimal whether it is reading on some fantasy book, or vidya, or movies etc. It's a comparative waste of time. Even if let's say it was late at night and you were laying in bed and had an hour to kill... do you not have actual hobbies etc that you could be looking at a technical book to learn more about in that time etc.?
>>527828633Why don’t you drive cars?
>>527827618non-fiction, like the holocaust amirite?
>>527828684"News" is not really same as reading books. Sure, that's full of fiction sold as truth.
>>527827425Read a book, dummy
These guys are faggots but you're an even bigger faggot if you get your opinion on reading from 4chan. Not the most blessed speakers in terms of prose.
>>527828795The thought that "hobbies must be productive and lead to a financial outcome" has destroyed the point of hobbies. If my hobby is laying in grass, so fucking be it.
>>527829083Cope.
>>527828228Unamuno never travelled outside of Europe
>>527828795I think much of what I'm driven to learn more about comes from reading fiction. Also, I think it's beneficial to stimulate my imagination.
>>527829405Give me an example what are you learning about by reading fiction. Not trying to be a jackass I am just curious. See in my case it is simple- I like plants, forestry, landscaping etc. My nightstand has a bunch of botany textbooks, ag manuals, forestry books, print outs from the ag extensions, field guides, climate almanacs etc. on it.The only time I look at those books is before bed etc. when I cannot literally go outside and actually do things.
>>527828506big brother and o'brian are the 2 halves of the demiurge, one more remote, the other more immediate. many other examples, like skynet and terminator, emperor and vader, sauron and saruman, ming and klytus, burns and smithers, and snowball and napoleon.smith is taken to room 101 to be tortured. 101 is the 26th prime number, which is important because the gematria of YHVH is 26. it also represents the 2 pillars jachin and boaz with the 0 being the doorway in between.the telescreen is a way of showing bb's omniscience. they are all seeing and all hearing, and are ubiquitous. masons and occultists in general syncretize YHVH with saturnian deities in general, but more specifically set from egyptian myth. he is also associated with pigs. master blaster is another good example of a dyad associated with pigs.when the protagonist has sex in a movie, it usually relates to receiving the holy spirit, aka male and female becoming one.
>>527829203this
>>527829739gates of enlightenment from manly p hallnote the pillars and doorwayintro classes in unoversity are anat 101, psych 101, etc
>>527829967beck knows, devil's haircut videonote the time, and the pillarsi think that's the ny stock exchange?
>>527829203Financial outcome? No. Productive yes. It isnt about money it is about doing something active not passive. Building things, improving property, growing things, making things, etc etc. These may not have financial gain but they are active and constructive rather than vicarious and passive. In fact many of the things I do as a hobby cost me money.. lol something I am very well aware of. But they are constructive and worthwhile and long term. Tgere is a great long term satisfaction in building a tangible thing and seeing improvement around you because of something you did yourself. The only nonconstructive hobby I have is that I will often just spend time in the woods, particularly in spring. Piddling around looking at plants and stuff. This technically helps me learn about plants of course but zi really do it because I enjoy it. But I make an exception here. There is a difference between having a fascination with the natural world vs the creation of some random persons fantasy scribbling.
>>527829728I mentioned Animal Farm earlier; reading that encouraged me to learn more about the real man Trotsky who has an analogue in the book. I could've learned about him at any point before reading it, but I didn't care to as I only barely knew who he was.
>>527830036forgot pic
>>527827425The literary canon is pale, male, and stale. We need more books that explore the experience of two spirit nonbinary diabetic plus size ADHD queer Cherokee-Black-Indonesian meme war survivor food insecurity activist community organizer healthy at any size wymyn.
>>527830097og mad max, same idea, same time
>>527827836>reading is for niggers and faggotsReading is definitely not for illiterates
>>527827903That dysgenic beast of a host judging anyone
Redundant. Only men can read and write. We don't teach women because they'd start scribbling frivolities and wasting time.
I'm ready to dive into what has been described as the modern Pride and Prejudice, sisters!
>>527827425does he actually read them or use ai to summarize them
I loves reading many years ago. Recently started reading fiction and listen to audiobooks. But I got shocked looking at what's currently available.80% of the books are by female authors80% of the books are crime-slop or female romance slop 80% of the books are woke slopI love horror and all modern horror seem to be "gothic horror" slop which isn't horror at all it's pretty much female romance slop as well. Not scary at all.You really need to look for a needle in a haystack to find a good book. When you walk into a bookstore or looking at audiobook catalogue you can practically smell the estrogen in the air. I can't find any modern "male kino". Nothing like All Quiet On The Western Front or Ghost Story by Peter Straub or Lovecraft or American Psycho, Fight Club and other Chuck Palaniuk books, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas and so on.So just like video games and other nerd cultures, literature seem to have been hijacked by vagina creatures and trannies. Though I don't know if it's because men stopped reading books or if this shit that caters to females made men stop reading books.
>>527831210thisll rustle ya jimmies
>>527830089See I don't get it. You read a book and it inspired you to read about some politico guy. It just doesn't get much traction with me I guess.
Currently trying to figure out what comes next in society.
>>527827425Pretending to be smart just because you read is incredibly retarded.It's mostly just a way of entertaning unless you're reading a textbook of something.
>>527827839We live in money worshipping cultures. Our souls' paths to heaven is paved with pages of books.
>>527828504>>love interest gets a boner in chapter 2 simply from looking at the protagonistyes, women's idea of being the protagonist is >I showed up and guys started fighting for me all "women's novels" are about that
>>527831860Maybe you'd get it if you read more. But even if you don't, maybe you can see how fiction can be beneficial in that way.It can also be entertaining, but there's nothing wrong with that. The best non-fiction books are entertaining.
>>527831581I want to read some good fiction, not get demoralized by blackpill books.
I just finished this and still can't decide whether it was communist propaganda or not.
>>527831860i wonder if some people here are not seperating fiction from literature. i guess fiction can be passive entertainment but good literature is like a technical manual for life
Performative
>>527828504
>>527827425It's the opposite. People who don't read get all their opinions from retards and YouTube/twitch instead of reading and understanding a range of different opinions on a given topic and coming to their own conclusions. People who don't read are essentially cattle.
>>527827425"Book people" suck. More than 99.999% of books aren't worth reading."Book people" never read good books by people like John MacArthur or Texe Marrs. Instead, "book people" read crap fiction from dumb satanists like Steven King and JK Rowlings.
>>527833177This is the OG communist propaganda pushed on kids in school. Steinbeck was a filthy pinko
>>527827425I can't focus long enough to read more than a paragraph at a time. Reading an entire book would be hell.
>>527827425Reading is good. The people I don’t respect are “readers” who only read faggy self help books and whatever political book some guy on the news is trying to sell. Wastes of time.
>>527833602>"Book people" We call them females, anon.
>>527827425I read a summary on AI. I can ask a summary of each chapter if i wanna go indepth.
>>527833601This is why serfs were literally banned from learning to read in feudalistic societies by the way.
>>527833711They're *mostly female
>>527833666IDK man, it made a lot of good points. Corporate greed is a problem. Slaughtering pigs and dumping them in a river to keep the price of pork high while half the nation is starving seems deeply immoral.
>>527833793I don't read much fiction, I've only really read dune. I'm considering reading LOTR, but I've seen the films so many times.
AI has made reading books moot.
>>527828961Only 6 million? Why stop there?
>>527833883>The heavily restricted, sanitized and lobotomized corporate chat bot has made reading mootWhew.
Tate was right. Again
>>527827618I only read autobiographies of actresses under 40
>>527833931They probably need the rest for lamp shades and guinea pigs for their masturbation machine development
>>527834012Isn't this the guy who claimed to be a world champion kick boxer and got destroyed in a fight by a youtuber?
>>527827425Nerds. I drive a Bugatti bitch, I don’t have time to read stupid books.
Reading fiction is healthy for your imagination, reccommend neal ashers books. But alot of books are just full of filler, like mark steins america alone, you can bullet point that books main points in one page, the rest is just waffle. Also, in regards to reading pol, pol is probably better for people to browse and learn from because of it's lack of censorship, except in certain cases. X/twitter the algorithm takes a dump in your head and has flaws, reddit is of course, garbage.
>>527827425>"is white literacy killing whites" asked the jewish OP knowingly
>>527827425i'm at the point where if you ever post a hobby you do in the internet you're a turbo faggot who deserves nothing
>>527834119that's still less embarrassing than read books as an adult male.
>>527827907Borges was based
>>527827479FPBP
>>527833602> omg it's le lucifer!christcucks are so fucking embarrassing
>>527827839Hustle culture needs to be destroyed if our sense of humanity is to be saved.
>>527834445Yeah. The Statue of Liberty is actually the goddess Isis and it’s a masonic symbol.
>>527834283You write like someone who doesn’t read.
>>527834012im fine with him thinking this. i realised ten years ago that some people just have less imagination than others and theres nothing to be done about it. books arent for him because the words dont make ideas in hs brain
>>527834012>nigger hates readinghow unexpected
>>527827425>Are they basically the heart of what's killing the white race?No? Are you a well poisoning faggot?Yes.Anyone trying to dumb down White males is a well poisoning faggot.
>>527827664All I see is a handsome man reading a book -- something an ugly illiterate nigger like you wouldn't understand.
>>527835147Jesus ripped off Hercules, what's your point?
>>527827618You need fiction to learn foreign languages.
>>527828399not even close you obviously didnt read it
>>527827425Reading is essential to know your enemy, know war, know anything really. This is why Jews think you’re trashy goyim, being well learned and using your intellect is required. If you don’t use your intellect you are no more than a bumbling ape. This must be shill shit.
>>527827425
Nice to see the British cuckold government is still sucking off aids cocks.Man jailed for "mean hand gesture"Don't jail child rapists you clearly love Starmer jail people doing "mean gestures".God I hope these these politicians get diversified.
>>527835206you type like a nerd that has a dick dryier than the desert
>>527835768Same reason they killed magazines, it was a gateway to books and people could learn science, politics and other things.Now the vast majority of magazines or picture quarterly semi magazine books are just leftist talking points, Vogue and other trashy woman's propaganda.
>>527833330I find the concept that some random person I don't even know would be writing a "manual for my life" as a big problem. These writers are themselves usually troubled and could have any number of motivations for writing. Anyways, if you are looking for that sort of thing, then you should look to a religious text or to the people around you who you know and can learn from ideally your fathers grandfather etc.
>>527832943I don't see the logic in reading more fiction so I can learn to enjoy reading more fiction kek. Again we can keep rehashing this... but it is totally passive vicarious entertainment. That's the issue. Fantasy behavior is not a hobby. It is just a time killer and sort of a low brow one at that. At best it is a way to waste time passively (we already have such limited time in life). At worst it is actually mentally unhealthy. You're immersing yourself repeatedly in some fantasy world of some rando you don't even know for extended periods of time. I actually view that as someone unhealthy. I don't buy the imagination thing either, immersing yourself in these other works sort of pollutes your own natural imagination both consciously and subconsciously.
I'm reading the Prince rnBefore that I read Bram Stoker's Dracula.I usually read while tanning/sitting by the pool.
>>527839301Oh also reading LOTR to my kids we are on book 4. Tolkien uses lots of geographical descriptions that are antiquated but interesting, I always forget how much of the books is describing the landscapes (4th time reading it)
>>527834283It's not, tate is more cringe. Tate looks like he's never been in a fight before. His stance is a joke. Look at his faggy fighting style.
>>527828436Estonians are finngolians.
>>527827568Making videos about it is performative.
>>527836178Reading is one of the top rated attractive features in a man by women.
>>527840060That's just what they say. All they really care about is money, looks and height, in that order.
>>527827425>look how smart i am. i read BOOKS!>NOBODY else does that!
>>527840060holy cope. libraries must be the best pussy magnets on earth
>>527840163If you’re after a conservative woman, sure. I exclusively date leftist women which is a different set of criteria (still tall and decently attractive).
>>527840410keep telling yourself that until chad sports page reader steals your girl. and if that doesn't happen, that means your girl prefers a beta, which should prompt self-reflection
>>527827703yo just make my mouth look like an anal prolapse bruv
>>527827618It's healthy to mix your reading with fiction.Trust me as interesting as an in depth look at a battle or some shit might be, drudging through multiple books of it can drag.What really hooked me was audiobooks, a decent narrator will elevate slop
I read about 500 pages a month.Right now I am reading A Tale of Two Cities, and I am struggling with Victorian English. People spoke way more complex back them, and Dickens way of explaining stuff with allegories make knots in my ESL brain.Next book will probably be Faust (in portuguese, because I am not fluent on German).I highly recommend as a hobby. It helps to cultivate discipline that can harvested for other aspects of your life, like, work.
>>527827742I just googled what this book was about.Literally feminist slop from a whore who makes her living out of selling her body to the "patriarchy" (the irony).So fucking sad. Women back in time had to hide their identities to publish their books, and now their most popular books are just pornography.
>>527840770>>527841305>food analogyspoken like someone who doesn't read fiction
>>527835435Nah, learn foreign languages using their scientific works.
>>52782761899.9% of nonfiction is gay as fuck too.
history is the gossip column for closeted faggots who want a wife.
>>527827425Lol
>>527827425Read plato aristotle hegel nietzsche
It all depends what you read. "Just read" sounds like anarchy.
>>527842069Dialectial logic, evolving truth. Ewww.
>>527842069Bunch of literal who "thinkers" writing coffee table nonsense if you ask me.
>>527841990Do people actually go to book stores nowadays?I order all my stuff from online (even used books).Pic related is the most sold physical books from Brazil's "amazon" (we have amazon here, but is nowhere near as popular).It's all religious slop for people who never read the bible or "how to get rich quick" books (written by destitute scammers who make money writing books).
>>527842288>>527842221It's at least somethingDon't read erotica
>>527828073Fiction is where the ideas are. People who only read non fiction are actually the equivalent of Jeopardy winners. Facts with no ideas or creativity. You have to read both but fiction is much more important.
>>527842309fat goblin witch losers do but they never read.they dont even read the material they themselves publish
>>527842309thats the trick to get rich quick books.its for the author to get rich, not for the reader.it works... slowly.
>>527827665
>>527827425Nothing wrong with it. I’m not letting them take over the written word like they took over red wine.
>>527842538Reading fiction and nonfiction are both technically nonconstructive until they are applied in some actual tangible pursuit.
>>527827425I read all the time. Fuck you. Just for that I’m going to start copying entire passages from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace into every thread I participate in
>>527828219I read books like this in public, usually when I take my kids to the park, doc visits and the like.
>>527827618>Don't Read>Don't watch Movies>Don't play Vidya>Dont do anything besides work, sleep and then work againNice try jew.
>>527833880You’ve missed the entire ending if you’ve only ever seen the movies. There is a chapter in the book toward the end that wraps up the theme and moral nicely and it was cut from the movie
>>527842288Your inability to abstract the deep meanings behind Nichomachean Ethics doesn’t mean it is babble.
>>527843636Your ability to come up with lingo and academic circumlocution for indulgent musing and coffee table conversation doesn't mean it ISN'T babble.
>>527827742Anyone else nooticed how women always do that "let's laugh at him" behavior when they want to catch the attention of the male they're supposedly laughing about?
>>527827425I read smut (for men) and programming books. I don't read anything else.
>>527827425>don't read classic literature, goy>your opinions should come from highly manipulated anonymous sources and e-celebs only >read these pre-digested snippets of text and youtube video essays instead>have an AI overview so you don't have to do your own research>information that is older than six months is obsolete>get with the times
>>527840622Why do those preferences matter when the goal is procreation?
>>527827742What book has the most aura when you read it in public?
>>527848381Lowest aura is self help and feminist literature. Next to that is any of those shitty books news pundits shill. Young adult books will get you laughed at. History books are higher aura if they aren’t centered around subjects considered cringe like the Roman Empire or WW2. Cormac McCarthy is high aura. Same with a lot of classic literature. Shakespeare is good if you don’t act pretentious about it. You can get away with reading epic fantasy or sci fi as long as it isn’t young adult trash. Nobody’s going to look at a huge Sanderson book because his books are long and to caveman brains “long book=smart reader”
>>527827618When the world is presented to you as a lie. The best way to understand it is to understand fiction. As such I would argue that fantasy light novels such as wuxia and xianxia are great for the development of political ideas for red pilled anons. A large amount of zog schemes and psyops are fantasy and reading fantasy novels improves a red pilled individuals ability at spotting them. While the other books available for you have been available for the masses for a hundred years with very little effect for nationalism. Therefore the books that are available and advertised for us are also a psyop. Because these books try to drag you into the author’s normie narrative. But to be honest a retard will always be a retard. So it might be pointless for you faggots to read since you have been born as plebs and have commoner blood.
start with the greeks
>>527827665Absolutely based anon
>>527827618>has never read a great novel in his lifeIt’s like saying portraits are the only art worth looking at
>>527828219I used to study my chemistry books on the metro, and it's pretty wild how people lean in to read with you. Like people would sit next to me and 45 degree turn their head leaning in
>>527829728Fiction forces the reader to expand his or her imaginative capacity. It can also help develop empathy. It can provide a simulation of events to preprogram response. It's entertaining. Good fiction develops personal character and resiliency.
>>527849435I think that is the craziest nonsense I ever heard. I really dont think painting a mental image of someone else's fantasy world in your mind based on their words is quite as much as big a deal as you think it is. I mean marginally more involved thab watching TV or playing vidya perhaps but not a major jump. And even so it doesnt really mean all that much to imagine fantasy worlds that is more or less ehat daydreaming is- it is not a particularly cosntructive activity under any conditions imho. Reading fiction books for entertainment can never develop character and resilience. Those are things which are much harder to develop and it is honestky laughable and almost insane to think you could get them from reading a fiction book.
>>527848381
>>527827425>accepted baldness and bought the razor>got the arm tattoo to fit in>tuned in the tranime>grew the beard>went to the gym to prove im not gay>changed my wallpaper to book spines so i dont look like a failed malewhat factory produces this?
I grew up hating to read. never did my book reports, never would read for my free time. use to think that reading for free time was stupid because movies and videogames........then i started reading books on antisemitism and politics and i came to realize that reading is most important if its used to better your life and the real reason i hated reason because for the most part its goyslop to dull down people into thinking they are pseudo intellectuals. Do you really believe in the book To Kill A Mockingbird that the nigger didnt rape the chick. because before /pol i was so sure that was the point of the book. after /pol i realized its a liberal jew defense lawyer trying to get his rabid nigger client off the charges.
I'm far from a book snob and I enjoy reading fiction, but I always get the same feeling I get when gaming which is disappointment, guilt, and an overall sense of not be fulfilled. Whenever I'm relaxing and enjoying something, I always feel lie I should be somewhere doing something else to progress my life. So I try reading non fiction novels. I can only read so much non fiction stuff about Jews, their evil, and the pedophile Jewish cabal that rules us all before I get blackpilled and want to disassociate. Anyways my favorite books are >20,000 Leagues Under the Sea>Treasure Island (original ye olde English adds some charm>Frankenstein>Dracula>Lord of the Rings series>The Hobbit series>Harry Potter Series (Guilty Pleasure), Potter adults are as bad as Disney adults and ruined enjoying anything in this universe.
Depends what they are reading.
>>527833666Holy fuck kek digits.
>>527827425>want to>wantSo this mutt is not going to read anything
>>527833865It is a book dumbass. Steinbeck was a left-tard but I did like “Of Mice and Men”.
>>527829728goblin slayer teached me that I can burn an entire mosque with a sack of fine yeast
>>527827425Nothing wrong with it. I look at it like a good way to learn things. I try not to make a big deal out of it but I get a lot more out of reading books than I do from browsing the internet most of the time (unless it's web browsing something related to what I was reading).I read a lot of research papers and non-fiction books. Although the fiction I have read I liked a lot. The Worm Ourobouros (or whatever it is called) is the fiction book I've been working on for months and it's probably my favorite book right now.Latest book I was reading was the biography of Napoleon by Roberts, specifically I skipped to the Chapter titled "Austerlitz" around page 350.I didn't realize how much can be learned from Napoleon and how it can be applied to other areas of life. I recommend you anons at LEAST read that chapter. The biography is very well written. Also check out the Worm Ourobouros, Tolkien and CS Lewis liked it a lot.
>>527829728Which botany books do you have? I have a few myself and I've really enjoyed them.
>>527827425i wake up before dawn and listen to plumbers, electricians, and carpenters describe the best way to solve different basic problems with minimal cost and effort while I walk my dog- I listen to audiobooks the 9 hours im at work- then another evening walk and listen to classical music and bible as read by AI anthony hopkins.then as I eat- listen to distressed animal cries and demonic chanting. as I fall asleep I listen to text to speech copies of obscure esoteric schitzo babble from thousands of years ago to recent, all of legitimate occult quality and value.if you are schitzo. to be clear i am blind and mute. and I hate the sound of the world.
>>527827618I imagine people who say this lack imagination or have some other brain deficiency. If you dont read everything youre coping and ngmi
>>527849704its andrew tate, famous for his love of reading.and he is israeli so the factory is making chads.
>>527827618everything is fiction.
>>527827618>Everything fiction is gaySo basically most of "recorded" history?
>>527854051As a very generalized key for trees I use the Sibley books. For just general botany I think the one I have is from Raven. For grasses weeds and sedges vines etc. I use mostly materials I got from the universities nearest to me or the ag extension for cultivation propagation general forestry and stuff like that. I think the hyper localized university and extension stuff is the most useful though.
>>527827425reading is fine. talking about reading is faggot behavior.
Why is the east so prone to writing unrequited love?
>>527831210The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where "feed" and "seed" both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Feeduck and Seeduck".
>>527856061me top right
>>527857066Because the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love
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>>527827479This. If you wanna read then just fucking read. Dont be a loud faggot about it.
>>527828165You're on 4chan and you know what Bing Bing wahoo is. Stop playing.>t. someone that mostly stopped interacting with fiction around 18
>>527857206Well it genuinely makes me suicidal. I hate the author for goading me on and duping me.It's best to keep away from those kind of things.
>He hasn't learned how to ingest the basic fundamental universal governing foundational numerical information of the universe through his third eye transmuting into memetic thought pattern that automatically changes his reality into any fiction/non-fiction he wantsngmi
>>527856724Historians are much like reporters, they report and fact check events from a perspective that would get the story incorrect almost every single time. Also they are paid usually paid and influenced to write said history which leads to bias. Trust the work of historiographers instead because they have fewer of these biases and study in great depth just how much the faggot lied about events that don't add up when multiple accounts are being taken into consideration by the historiographer
>>527827618Fuck you fucking faggot, go stay on your gay ass beta bob loser mentality "grind" like some low iq nigger piece of shit.
>>527827665A pair of real mocassins like that would be sweet
>>527827618Fiction is our heart. If you can't see that then you shouldn't be on here.
>>527827605>typed on his little gay computer while I made an Asian family type this at gunpoint while I jerked off and ate raw beef on the back of a flaming hearse driven by midgets in SS uniformsNgmi, bro do u even brainforce
>>527849704Why do you have a photo of a kiwi hunter? That really looks like my deceased uncle, I feel like I've seen a ghost
>>527844698I tend not to notice female behaviour these days.
It's bad out there. Real bad. I don't know what it is about book stores that makes them so fucking gay but holy shit it's bad. Major retailers are bad by virtue of what's being published these days but used stores outside the super high end collectors market seem to all be the worst sort of refugees yes love is love no person is illegal shitlibs and intentionally curate that stuff. I used to be a huge reader but you couldn't pay me to read most popular fiction these days. Pic related, saw this prominently displayed when i was christmas shopping. Nyt best seller. Fucking bleak. Men don't read much now for the same reason that when the NSDAP reclaimed their institutions from commies, kikes, and subversives they burned their literature. I'll stick to the classics and early to mid 20th century pulp and anthologies for my light reading.
>>527858054There are so many reasons why it's in decline but the obvious one is all authors have to go through a publishing agency and a bookstore too so anything remotely masculine is snuffed out
>>527848381Mein Kampf, but only if you every now and then chuckle to yourself and say "oh that guy..."
>>527848381I had so many weird people come up to me when I read this in Australia on holiday
>>527857391Bald ass bitches deserve no happy end, barefoot and pregnant>>527857469I'll just make the correct assumption that the winner is ALWAYS lying.>>527858296>Mein KampfIt's tedious, mostly poorly written and quite milquetoast considering its reputation. The bits about the current state of Germany and his childhood were OK.
>>527827425I grew up in a retirement community watching old people die telling me stories about their lives some of them weren't meant to be told to a 10 yr old boy.I read everything when I was young the small-town library ran out of books to read and had to order more just to shut me up. I stopped reading when 26 yrs were old that was when I decided I wanted to do the things I had read about and went and did them. That was 30 yrs ago and now the only thing I read now is whatever is on the screen. Go out and experience life there's time enough to read when you're in a retirement community.
>>527827425You Americans puzzle me a whole lot. Any mother and father I've met who's even remotely right in the head wishes their son to at the very least do well in school, and here you are constantly wishing the opposite upon yourselves.
>>527827425Reading books is one of the great predictors of success in life. If you do not read books, you are destined to be a failure like all of the coping illiterates in this thread.
Read the Greeks. Read the Romans. You'll literally feel more kinship from the words of someone like Tacitus than from any modern retard alive today.
>>527859452nah, one of the biggest fuck ups in life i know had a (rented) house full of books that he had to lug from place to place every time he was evicted
>>527859106Haha, it's lonely being a non-Chinese reader of wuxia or any Chinese literature.I wish we had a board for it.The Nips themselves are sinophilic but I guess it's not acceptable to be openly so.
Everyone is just trying to make money from social media because they don’t want to wage anymore. I can’t say I blame them.
>>527834445>wrongthinkiners are so fucking embarrassingUnlike you pious goylem
>>527827425>>527827479don't know this Millennial hipster term.is "male readers" supposed to mean YouTubers?or just males who read?if you're a male and you don't read, you are a problem, and likely a useful idiot
>>527859868You know exactly what it means
>>527827479Reading is, by its nature, a solitary activity. Performative reading is sad. Unless you are a bookworm and that's something you sincerely are, pulling out a book in a social area is sad. I would do college reading in bars but I was reading like 5 books a week at the time. And no girls ever came up to me, a regular posted up at the corner of the bar, to talk to me about what I was reading, mostly because it was like about linguistics or some philosophy shit with a pen making notes. I was just studying in a bar.
Based!!! I love reading
>>527827425Reading is masculine, toilets only read porn books. Just look at how shit the industry got since they took over.
>>527860092I know some people who read in public because they use public transportation and it's their only time not working and sometimes people sit and read at a park for the scenery. Not everyone who reads in public is an attention seeking urban smugtard.
>>527840852it's an allegorysidney carton is jesus, note the themes of vicarious atonementthe girl he loves is the jewish peoplea carton is another name for a box, an empty container. one branch of gnosticism held that jesus and the christ were two distinct entities. jesus was a human, but the christ was a spirit that inhabited him for a timelike jesus, he went to his death willingly
>>527849701saklas the fool is a name given to the demiurge in the apocryphon of johnthe other 2 names given are yaldabaoth, child of chaos, and samael, the blind God.this is the origin of the killer clown, and jerry's character on seinfeld
>>527827425School literally would be better if they removed phones and forced reading classics in latin or greek At least for the year or two of books worth reading
>>527827425I have read an entire talmud's worth of /pol/ posts. I am very well read.
>>527827425What sort of idiotic take is this? Why are you saying "male readers" like its a thing all of its own and ignoring that, presumably, literally everybody reads books? You wouldn't say "male non-readers" like its a thing people actually do, would you? - that wouldn't make any sense whatsoever!
>>527831210>Fight Club and other Chuck Palaniuk booksWild that a gay has to be to go to for male kino. I say that as someone who read all his stuff through ~2010. Rant might be my favorite. Will continue to reread Lovecraft forever too.
>>527827425yeah...hate how books got coopted by the right wing grift faggotryevery fuckin book thread, every body posts their books of the same few faggot titles and most never even read them
Shogun is a great politics bookCompetition among realistic leading Catholic, Protestant, and non Christian movementsThis is a common trio of competing leadership.
>>527848381A discrete copy of Céline
sorry glow niggers
>>527860092I read on my lunch break.
>>527848381maybe a textbook or a technical book>>527858997lol
>>527850630>after /pol i realized its a liberal jew defense lawyer trying to get his rabid nigger client off the charges.The real message is to not trust a foid, she used that nigger like a wild animal but ratted it out when she wanted to avoid the consequences.
>>527851528Read Robinson Crusoe, it sounds like it would be up your alley
>>527829728Fiction is a concrete instantiation of abstract concepts (platonic ideals even). If you want to learn about relationships, it may be easier to learn from a few concrete instances than ingest an abstract generalised treatment of it.Unlike nonfiction, fiction can also warp reality, to exaggerate and highlight specific parts.When I read Spice and Wolf as an adolescent, I learnt, among other things, that you can trust your partner to be rational and balancing their emotions with reality. It led me to one model for relationships which was a partnership (in the business structure sense) where the thing being manufactured was happiness, security etc.
>>527861079>literally everybody reads booksNo they don't you faggot
>>527863038Ofc you must trust that the author's has designed an instantiation that is accurate or useful. I found Re:Zero to be so heavily contingent and contrived that it offers nothing to learn. the same probably applies to most fiction. I felt like I learnt a tad about power structures and human resource management from Ascendance of a Bookworm. Having said all this, my primary reason to read fiction is still because it is enjoyable. (though whether the fiction can augment my understanding of the world will affect my enjoyment). If I was serious about forming a robust understanding about power or society then I wouldn't read fiction. I'd take to multiple textbooks and essays that would cover the subject systematically, disclosing its biases, provenance, assumptions and shortcomings explicitly.
>>527863785What sort of absolute moron doesn't read?!
I have about 6 David Icke books to read
>>527827425Reading is for faggots. Real men coom to onlyfans whores
looking for a new book.anyone read Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
>>52786425090% of adult American men.
I read Blood Meridian and everybody and their fucking mother was telling me I'd be traumatized by the end, "this book will CHANGE YOU FOREVER omg niggerman help me" hysterics but really it was just a boring Western with some rape here and there
>>527864250You're speaking to an American, Nigel. Does that answer your question?
>>527827618fiction is still nonfiction if its an analysis of the author
>>527863038That's a whole bunch of retarded academia-dorm-room-tier-speak to basically dress up this obsession with chicken scratch some person put to paper. There is a real world out there. Then you have this vicarious nonsense that people just wallow in. You know that retarded philosophy bit you people are always going on about with the person seeing the shadows in the cave? Well that's you. The movies, the vidya, the books- those are the shadows. It's even worse than that. You CHOOSE to sit around in the cave. Hell you have even convinced yourself you can learn major life lessons from it. The real lessons in life always get learned first hand the hard way in the real world. You can bet your life on that much.
>>527864478McCarthy is the most overrated writer ever
>>527865154I was going to argue that there may not be non-fiction that zooms in on the specific things you want to examine, but I guess you're saying to do away with the book altogether and experience it yourself directly.Fair enough, that is convincing, provided your direct experience can cover all the things you wanted to touch on.However, if time/energy is a constraint I'd prefer to sit in the cave for a dozen hours than spend weeks in the outside. Perhaps that is me misprioritising. Also it's me moving the goalposts.
>>527827742If you didn't do something like that to get a girl when you were a kid, then you're probably gay I started using 4chan to impress a girl who told me about /b/ almost 20 years ago
>>527864250Not everyone here loves Quran, Achmed
>>527827425That's not for real, stop shitposting faggot
People like to pretend that books are some special source of knowledge. But reading from books vs. the internet doesn't make you special and if you read about something that you don't plan to actually use you are just killing time.
>>527827618pretty much but not entirelyUlysses is worth readingSartor Resartus is worth readingDostoevskyThus Spake Tharathustraand a few others
>>527827618Wrong. Most spiritually transformative writing is fiction. Would you say fiction movies and games are all trash as well? Or is it just books?
2026 reading list;>Greatness and Ruin - Ricardo Duchesne>The New Byzantines - Sean Mathews>Revenge of The Mystery Cults (3 vols) - Matthew Ehret>Woke Eugenics - Edward Dutton >Eros The Myth Of Ancient Greek Sexuality - Bruce S Thornton>The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth A new Diagram of Man - Douglas Edison>Trance formation of America - Cathy O'Brien
