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What's a book you wished you read sooner? Possibly even to the point of regret, lament, or future hope to spread the word so others don't make the same mistakes

>> No.18978677
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Please tell me that's a trap

Also Ulysses. I wish I read that years ago.

>> No.18978683

>>18978674
The King James Bible

>> No.18978690

Storm of Steel or Gates of Fire

>> No.18978694

Most of them.
Replacing the trashy scifi fantasy and biblical stuff
Wish I’d met Graeber

>>18978677
No way.

>> No.18978725
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>>18978683
what was your religious history prior? and how did it affect your mindset?

>> No.18978764

>>18978725
He felt the world one big prison, then he willingly stepped into a gold gilded birdcage. Lining the bottom were news prints promising “your death is only the beginning”
The first to die is what it meant

>> No.18978882

The only book I actually regret not reading sooner is the Republic. I thought it was too simple and that I’d be better served rereading the first ten pages of the phenomenology of spirit over and over, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. It’s a book that’s exactly at your level no matter when you read it, whether you’re 13 or 89.

>> No.18978884

butt

>> No.18978996

>>18978882
this is encouraging and reassuring to hear. it's a first book for many /lit/izens 'starting with the greeks', and the first book for Huey Newton whilst he acquired literacy itself. glad to know it deserves its place

>> No.18979099

>>18978674
is that a f...female humanoid?
I'M GONNA COOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>> No.18979750
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>>18978677
She's not, ya homo :D

>> No.18979754

>>18979750
that isnt her. I have seen the girl from OP pic before and she isnt very good looking without makeup. Pretty homely in fact, and that girl isnt her

>> No.18979762

>>18978674
Interesting question, but I don't have a reply. Promising thread

>>18978996
>and the first book for Huey Newton whilst he acquired literacy itself.
First book he read after learning to read? Fucking based. Did he learn to read in prison or something?

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>>18979750
kek what a weird looking bitch

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>>18978677
>Please tell me that's a trap
idk you tell me

>> No.18979788

>>18978674
>white whore
>blm poster
why am I not surprised?

>> No.18979791

>>18978674
She got cancelled because someone released a video of her saying the N word and now she is fat.

>> No.18979795

>>18979791
>now she is fat
:((((
I fucking hate obese goths

>> No.18979842

>>18979791
shes not fat. she just got married tho lmao

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>>18978674

>> No.18979914

>>18979791
Who is this semondemon

>> No.18980144

Every single photo you see that a girl has posted online has been heavily edited. Don't you find it strange that they're all holding iPhones yet the resolution in every photo is dogshit?

>> No.18980274

>>18979788
Stop being a racist beta bitch

>> No.18980343

>>18980274
sorry, I can't stop being racist towards white women

>> No.18980362

>>18980343
The issue in the above post was your racism.
But of course stop being a sexist beta bitch too.

>> No.18980363

>>18978674
>blm poster
unironically blacked

>> No.18980366

>>18978674
Carefully engineered for BBC

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>>18978674
probably a decent personal finance book
my parents were never in any debt but they also never made any money. just ordinary poor working class people. there was nobody who could have taught me about stock markets, strategies and stuff like that. certainly never learned anything like that in school.
now i'm reasonably well off, but if i had learned that stuff earlier, i would be a lot richer than i am now.

>> No.18980827

>>18979914
@sug4rfairy

>> No.18980985

>>18980363
>>18980366
Zoomer's law.

>> No.18981384
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>>18980274

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>>18980362

>> No.18981409

>>18980362
not supporting blm is racist?

>> No.18981417

>>18978764
> High School tier take of religion.

Butters you're a fucking dumbass

>> No.18981447 [DELETED] 

>>18980362
Shut up nigger tripgfaggot suck off a shotgun please

>> No.18981452
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Manson's Models
Courage to be Disliked
Straw Dogs
Gravity and Grace

>> No.18981455

Jerusalem Delivered

>> No.18981485

>>18981384
>>18981392
Who is this?

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>> No.18981556

>>18981392
meh, would

>> No.18981674

>>18981485
Try using the power of deduction you fucking spastic.

>>18981556
You have a chance, lesbians love a bit of cock on the side.

>> No.18981812

>>18979879
Here’s a you for the actual contribution. Godspeed my friend

>> No.18981820

Basic Economics

>> No.18982157

>>18981820
I have just began with that book, is it anything special?

>> No.18983333

>>18980547
Any tips you want to share?

>> No.18983708

Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey

picked it up after watching forestanon, it's an incredible read

>> No.18984020

>>18983333
Not who you replied to, but I think most popular personal finance books are full of anecdotes for padding or else they're highly specialised. The basic concepts are not overly complicated.
If you're in the UK, Martin Lewis published a free personal finance textbook for use in schools. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2018/11/financial-education-textbooks-funded-by-martin-land-in-english-s/ It's dense enough not to waste your time.

>> No.18984045

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.18984346

>>18978764
>gold gilded

>> No.18984369

>>18978674
Rich Dad Poor Dad
If I'd read this when I was young I would be living a different life. I already bucked the work until you die system but didn't build the passive income empire I could have 30 years ago.

>> No.18984372

>>18984045
gooby pls

>> No.18984393

>>18984045
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726

>> No.18984426

>>18984393
Please tell me it's as awful as I imagine, I don't want to look.

>> No.18984502

>>18984426
call of the crocodile actually isn't so bad until about 80% the way in desu. He employs style in a way that's quite clever.

>> No.18984523

>>18978674
Al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers

>> No.18984532

>>18984393
THANK YOU! Been wanting to see if it was worth all the shilling by Gardner

Now whenever I see these Gardner threads I can link that aswell

>> No.18984552

>>18978764
how did you escape the gilded cage?

>> No.18984595

>>18979879
>>18981812
Why?
Give me a quick rundown.
Is it useful for any kind of office?

>> No.18984670

Catcher in the Rye
Holden would of been a very sympathetic and relatable character for me in high school, but today I kinda get he's just a dumb jaded kid. I at least feel like I'd of not given up on reading so much in high school if I read that instead of The Color Purple, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and other civil rights feminist shit. I'm not even a /pol/tard but those kind of books alienated me from reading.

>> No.18984697

Discourses

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>>18984670
It's true. That stuff *is* hyperpoltical garbage. There's no reason why a boy of 13 needs to be reading about the existential tribulations of fictional black lesbians.

>> No.18984925

>>18984670
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>> No.18986133

>>18983333
Doesn't tell you what to do but how to think (and not think)
>>18984369

>> No.18986150

The Manipulated Man

>> No.18986163

>>18986150
Is that some MGTOW shit?

>> No.18986168

>>18986150
>>18986163
It's a BDSM erotica

>> No.18986606

>>18979842
>fat
>married
same thing

>> No.18987063

I have a set of three small books about Greek philosophy, it contains works of Aristotle and Plato. I din't read yet. That's problem qualifying when I do. Lmao

Apart from that, Meditations really made an impression on me.

>> No.18987166

>>18978683
Funny. I wish I could warn people away from reading the bible.
It made me suicidal.

>> No.18987270

>>18978674
BLM poster in the background. Meh

>> No.18987687

>>18980274
You’re dumb as dirt and everyone knows it. Shut your whore mouth.

>> No.18987734

Lectures on History of Philosophy by Hegel.

>> No.18987744

>>18987734
Why?

>> No.18987756

>>18979766
>>18979750
>>18978674
Ugly fucking face. Looks like a truck hit her