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19611940

Anonymous Wed Dec 22 01:40:56 2021 No.19611940 [Reply] [Original]

What are some beautiful nonfiction books to read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 01:56:44 2021 No.19611988 >>19611940 Hegel, Augustin - Confessions, Nietzsche

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:01:58 2021 No.19612004 >>19611940 the book of nature anon. go outside.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:03:29 2021 No.19612006 I love "coffee-table" books which are heavy on beautiful pictures and the like. DK's Explorers comes to mind.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS Wed Dec 22 02:09:16 2021 No.19612023 File: 160 KB, 640x514, 371F3822-944F-48D8-BBFF-F11F8ED6E54B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19612004 This one

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:13:33 2021 No.19612039 >>19611940 This Full Man looks so happy to draw a pail of water at his cottage. He looks so happy to Just Be. :) >>19612023 No one cares slut.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:18:31 2021 No.19612049 >>19612023 Has anyone ever came up to you in public and recognized you?

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS Wed Dec 22 02:23:08 2021 No.19612055 >>19612049 Possibly one recognition, but he didn’t approach. Don’t change the subject though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:24:19 2021 No.19612057 >>19612055 Would you be weirded out

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:34:37 2021 No.19612081 >>19612049 >>19612057 wtf is a « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » ? why would anyone recognise it? dead serious >inb4 lurk moar

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:36:14 2021 No.19612087 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 02:55:35 2021 No.19612136 >>19612081 She's posted her face before (she's got nice tits btw)

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 03:12:37 2021 No.19612180 >>19612136 literally nothing is gayer than that

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 07:52:16 2021 No.19612817 File: 161 KB, 1009x1600, Zero Cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19611940 Id recommend something about math from a more layman point of view, can really help put things in perspective

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 07:55:32 2021 No.19612826 File: 48 KB, 258x386, BriefHistoryTime.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 08:36:36 2021 No.19612976 The Rings of Saturn

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 08:41:50 2021 No.19612994 File: 300 KB, 1200x1800, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19611940

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 08:53:32 2021 No.19613049 Any Bachelard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 09:30:13 2021 No.19613166 >>19611940 The Holy Bible

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS Wed Dec 22 11:01:33 2021 No.19613459 >>19613166 >nonfiction >beautiful >names one of the ugliest books of mythology

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 12:48:31 2021 No.19613890 File: 30 KB, 261x400, 17667995.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Amazing anthropological study about the "little people" in the celtic countries, awokes a beautful memory of a sacred tome where things had more meaning

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 12:53:02 2021 No.19613920 >>19613459 The psalms are and have always been beautiful pieces of poetry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 13:07:10 2021 No.19613982 >>19611940 The Quran

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 13:08:29 2021 No.19613987 >>19613982 The Quran is meant to be sung, idiot.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS Wed Dec 22 13:18:55 2021 No.19614031 >>19613920 So like putting an Emily Dickinson poem amongst an anthology of Naked Lunch, the Bell Curve, Eragon and a biography of Gandhi tacked on

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 13:29:03 2021 No.19614096 >>19613459 >doesn't appreciate the beauty in the message of the Bible >doesn't appreciate the beauty of the language it's self Butterfly, you've got a long way to go before you can comment on any book

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 13:39:03 2021 No.19614125 >>19614031 So you understand most of the Bible isnt mythology?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 16:42:12 2021 No.19614950 >>19614031 >So like putting an Emily Dickinson poem amongst an anthology of Naked Lunch, the Bell Curve, Eragon and a biography of Gandhi tacked on That would be the greatest book of all time

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 16:59:40 2021 No.19615024 >>19614096 guess how I can tell you're esl

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 17:04:31 2021 No.19615051 >>19614031 Grow up.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 17:05:32 2021 No.19615056 >>19615024 You aren't allowed to comment on ESLs if you're monolingual. At least they're actively trying to learn another language.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 18:18:37 2021 No.19615428 >>19612023 This is unironically a very good book. Probably the best latin/roman book on philosophy. I would also suggest Zhuangzi.

>>	happiness !!a/OIDIldPy9 Wed Dec 22 18:24:12 2021 No.19615453 File: 19 KB, 500x371, 1618770294735b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō The Gospel in Brief

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 18:41:42 2021 No.19615525 >>19614031 >>19613459 LONDON O N D O N

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 21:03:52 2021 No.19615992 >>19611940 >based grampa heidegger gettin pail of water look at him go. to answer your question, I really like Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 23 04:39:37 2021 No.19617267 File: 74 KB, 475x555, yrwtwerqe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19614031 >So like putting an Emily Dickinson poem amongst an anthology of Naked Lunch, the Bell Curve, Eragon and a biography of Gandhi tacked on