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Looking for books with characters who exude masculinity, positive male role models and the like.

Interested in this bec I was raised by women and lack masculine traits

>> No.19299450

The Iliad then the Odyssey.

>> No.19299987

>>19299450
Those are both good, are there any after the greeks though?

>> No.19300024

>>19299431
Genre?

>> No.19300032

>>19299431
Legend by David Gemmell. Literally shed manly tears while reading it.

>> No.19300043

>>19300024
Any will do

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>> No.19300046

>>19299431
Masculinity is a myth. Jesus is the greatest male role model; follow his footsteps.

>> No.19300059

>>19300046
What do you read to follow his steps?

>> No.19300096

The Big Sleep. Most of the Marlowe stuff is good enough, just not Farewell, My Lovely. Marlowe becomes too filled with self-doubt

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>>19300059
>The Gospels
>The Book of Common Prayer
>The Kingdom of God is Within You
>The Gospel in Brief
>The Jefferson Bible
>Crime and Punishment
>The Idiot
>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Divine Comedy
>The Pilgrim's Progress
>St Augustine's Confessions
>The City of God
>On Christian Doctrine
>Summa Theologica
>Summa contra Gentiles
>The Big Book
>Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
>The Official Boy Scout Handbook (9th Edition)

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Howard Roark for the win

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>> No.19301858

>>19299431
Were they hot?

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Resume with the Russians

>> No.19301995

>>19301858
Only one was attractive but 3/10 personality

>> No.19301999

>>19301995
just say that you are a homosexual

>> No.19302014

>>19300046
>Femboy AND tradcath larper
How can somebody be so cancerous?

>> No.19302352

>>19300134
How do people respect someone to the point of worship him yet make subject him to the same mockery as we do between each other?

And if the gospels had been preserved, then they would've been of use.

>> No.19302383

Jacobus de Varagine's Golden Legend and Plutarch's Lives. Fiction is gay.

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>>19302352
It's never the people who mock him who worship him seriously.

>> No.19304845

>>19299431
The Three Musketeers
The Oldman and the Sea