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Could you recommend me some manly books?

>> No.1111363

The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.1111372

>>1111363
No OP but that seems to be the only book anyone really agrees with when they make suggestions for 'manly' books.

>> No.1111375

beowulf

>> No.1111377

The Old Man and the Sea
Musashi

>> No.1111392

Sounds like you don't want to pass off as some kind of book loving faggot.

Read 'Filth' by Irvine Welsh.

>> No.1111401

i found a lot of manliness in The Gambler by Dostoevsky. Not just badass manliness, but childish and pathetic manliness. It's a very short and easy read and doesn't really go anywhere, but I loved it.

>> No.1111424
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1111424

any Hemingway, really

>> No.1111456

blood meridian by mccarthy

suttree by mccarthy

the silent cry by oe

mysteries by hamsun

>> No.1111615

I know this may start a shitstorm but what about manly books that don't revolve around violence. What about books about honor and other positive manly traits?

>> No.1111624

>>1111375
This.

>> No.1111626

>>1111615

To Kill a Mockingbird?

>> No.1111636

>>1111615
isn't really about honor but it's not either about a strong badass. The Red and the Black by Stendhal

>> No.1111652

>>1111636
written in 1830 but it already explains how to escape from the friendzone...

>> No.1111659

Death of Ivan Ilych, or War and Peace. Russian literature is manly.

>> No.1111662

>>1111615
don quixote. the truest book about chivalry.

>> No.1111672

>>1111659
Indeed it is.

I would suggest 'And Quiet Flows the Don' by Mikhail Sholokhov. As manly as it can get.

>> No.1111677

All seven books of the Raven by James Barclay.

Mercanaries go around killing shit and stealing shit, end up saving the world. Manly shit.

>> No.1111937

Master and Commander

>> No.1111964

>>1111672
>>1111424

Good suggestions.

>> No.1112885

Alright, these are all nice suggestions, if you're A GIRL.

Lemme tell you about a REAL MAN'S manbook.

It's called The Worm Ouroboros, by manly man E.R. Eddison.

It's about these four buff dudes with mustaches from a place called Demonland going around the world kicking the everloving shit out of everything they run across, mainly because they can.

One of them bare-chest wrestles a big buff dude with a beard who happens to be the king of Witchland and totally smashes his skull in.

So this starts a war with a bunch of big buff bearded dudes try to fight these mustached dudes, but it doesn't work, because they're just not as manly. I mean these guys go around ripping out monsters' guts with their bare hands, banging any chicks they come across, and treating people like shit because they KNOW they're better than everyone else and everyone else knows it. Then at night they sing about their manly deeds and revel in the fact that they're so great and manly.

And it's one of the best books ever written.

>> No.1112912

>fantasy
>manly
Choose one.

>> No.1112922

>>1112912
I don't need to choose.

ER Eddison chose for me, and he just "overwhelmingly badass"

>> No.1113319

>>1111375

This, or one of the icelandic sagas. Egil's saga has been my favorite so far.

>> No.1113326

The Old Man and the Sea.

Goddamn. It's like reading a beard.

>> No.1113327

People have already recommend Beowulf and Icelandic sagas. What about The Odyssey and Gilgamesh? Both feature kings going out of their home land and fucking the shit out of every adventure they come across. Also, both feature really hot sex, and battles against gods and giants.

>> No.1113328

I suggest you go ask /tg/, just ask them to tone down the Fantasy, and ... wait this is exactly what you say.

I'm in a nWoD game, and I want my character to me more of a manly man, not 'rip and tear' huge muscles sort of manly, but 'code of honor' and chivalry sort of manly.

Does anyone know of any books I should read...

>> No.1113334

>>1113328
Maybe some of James Clavell's asian series?

Or probably something about soldiers. QUICK, /LIT/, WHAT ARE SOME GOOD BOOKS ABOUT SOLDIERS? But, you know, ones that aren't solely about how much war sucks.

>> No.1113409

>>1113328
Oh damn you.
I clicked on this thread just because I saw the phrase nWoD game.
Shame on you, tricking me like that.


Also if he's a Mage read Mistborn. Or Dresden.
Manly books. But not the stuffy old things that /lit/ suggests.

>> No.1113412

The Book of Five Rings

>> No.1114340

>>1113334
so nothing about soldiers /lit/ ?

>> No.1114360

The Affected Provincial's Companion by Lord Whimsy

>> No.1114375

>>1111331
John Jakes, Clive Cussler, Patrick O'Brian

>> No.1114382

20,000 leagues under the sea. Nemo is a badass.

>> No.1114383

What about "seven pillars of wisdom" by t.e. lawrence?
or "thin air" by krakauer?

>> No.1114392

The Iliad

>> No.1114412

Cuckoo's Nest - last real man on the planet is abused by fascist women and weak, "intellectual" men and eventually has to be destroyed.