/lit/ - Literature

>unironically a really good and helpful read

Has anyone here read this book and what are your thoughts? More importantly, did you do the exercises and did it improve your life?

Books that'll help me get pussy. Whether through actual advice in the book(haven't read pic related but it fits right?), or because reading the book will make me more interesting to women (the communist manifesto)

>>20331869
LOSING NAIVETY 101

Maxims - Guicciardini
Maxims - La Rochefoucauld
Pocket Oracle - Gracian
Book of the Courtier - Castiglione
The Prince - Machiavelli
48 Laws - Green
Influence - Cialdini
How to Win Friends - Carnegie
Power - Pfeffer
The Craft of Power - Siu
The Art of Deception - Mitnick

And of course, picrel. Don't let anyone take advantage of you, OP. It's dog eat dog. Understand the games being played so that you can protect yourself.

Need some books recommendations for my friend.
>22 year old white guy
>very agreeable
>was liberal not long ago
>has hard time standing up for himself and being confident
>doesnt like conflict (although he just started some striking classes)
>gets manipulated by women

Trying to put together a small reading list and want /litl/'s feedback. Obviously I'm not trying to turn him into some crazed redpill retard either.

>48 laws of power
>Meditations
>pic related? Unsure if it's any good

Toxic femininity is real. Third wave feminism ruined entire generations of men.

Books to help me overcome my nice guy syndrome?
I've already read the pic but it doesn't help much.

Post a book that changed your outlook on your personal life for the better. Bonus points for literature that significantly helped alleviate your depression or anxiety.

For me its pic rel when I read it at 21

>>18550755
>>18551002
If you want to read something that might make you better at being social while staying true to yourself i would recommend "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by Dr. Robert A. Glover.
It might not give you "10 ways to make a strangers in the street become your BFF in 10 seconds" but it will at least give you some reasons as to why you have problems at being social and from there you might be able to fix those problems and become less autistic.

What books should I read to grow out of Nice Guy personality?

>>17511232

What's a book that radically changed the way you behave and think on a day to day, especially in interpersonal contexts? Preferably non-political books, strategy and power is fine. For me, it's pic related.

I'm considering this book as a gift for a friend of mine who needs to move the fuck on.

Is it as cringey as the title suggests?

I thought it was gonna be a manual for going postal, but its just some faggy self help book.

Have you ever read any self help books that actually helped you?
I relate a lot with pic related. Probably the only time a self help book actually did that.

Unironically read this. at least the first half or something is good advice.

>>15166089
I bought it (way of men) and read 30% and thought it was pretty good. Looked up the dude (donovan) on youtube and was kind of turned off the whole thing. What I found were some videoes where he and some buddies dressed up and ran through the woods with body painting or some shit in the middle of the night like what the fuck dude I don't want to turn into some kind of a pervert, you know.

But it was pretty interesting and I'm a bit conflicted on whether the guy is an idiot or he knows his shit but what he wrote made a lot of sense! In some video he was talking about Jack London books like the sea wolf, it is supposed to be good.

I also read No more mr. nice guy. The advice was solid and the guy having tons of experience and a degree made it more legit. But I watched some videoes of this dude to, fucking hell not again, he came of as a boomer talking about how women are more horny than men because they can have multiple orgasms, he also was extremly dismissive of answearing questions during the q and a so I was a bit turned off from that book too even though the guy is legit. But the advice was solid ( in the book not the lecture)

Which books can help me with being more alpha/in control of the situation
I have some days where I’m pretty confident and have a certain swagger but then there are days where I’m a beta simp cuck (noticed, it happens usually when I fap the day before)
Also I can strike up convos with qties at my uni but then I loose myself and bore them especially (especially when it comes to texting lmao)

Has anyone ever read this book, and was it worth it? Also, are there any self help books that are worth reading in general?

>>14156733
No, get a real book to help you be a good, genuine person instead of learning how to suck up to people and kiss ass

>>14143720

>>13923406
>>13924285

These and pic related are the canonical guide to masculinity for girly men. Puer Aeternus was written when only Europe was affluent enough to have a masculinity crisis. Iron John was popular in the '70s after 1st-wave feminism. NMMNG was popular 5-10 years ago.

There are a million ways to be masculine. Do NOT make the same mistake as everyone in this thread of aping people or mannerisms that you vaguely consider "manly". That is the thinking that gave us the Fedoralord.