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5 books every man should read before the age of 30?

>> No.11594574

>>11594559
i want to read those gazongas

>> No.11594577 [DELETED] 

dianetics
8-8008
a history of man
scientology: the fundamentals of thought
the way to happiness

>> No.11594578

>>11594574
Where did you learn to read braille?

>> No.11594607

>>11594577
go back to the spaceship, ron.

>> No.11594678

>>11594559
Probably books that are cringe inducing if read as an adult

>1984
>Brave new world
>Steppenwolf
>L'Etranger
>A clockwork orange

>> No.11594694

>>11594559
Jezebels and so on and so on

>> No.11594711

The bible
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Meditations
12 rules for life
The complete works of Oscar Wilde

>> No.11594756

>>11594559
Move over fags, here's the real list:

>Fifty Shades of Grey
>Mein Kampf (Yiddish translation)
>Chronicle of Aviation
>Transformers: A Novel
>Eragon

>> No.11594777

>>11594756
>Eragon
Unironically I've read this.

OP

>> No.11595679

Animorphs: The Invasion
Animorphs: The Visitor
Animorphs: The Encounter
Animorphs: Elfangor's Secret
Animorphs: The Message

>> No.11595684

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Native Son by Richard Wright
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Roots by Alex Haley
Black Boy by Richard Wright

>> No.11595828

>>11594559
the book of disquiet
ferdydurke
journey to the end of the night
neetchan in general
complete shakespeare sonnets

>> No.11595894

>>11595828
>ferdydurke
whut? u mean dosty?

>> No.11595912
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>>11595894
no

>> No.11595919

>>11594559
Blood Meridian
Fight Club
American Psycho
Naked Lunch
Twilight

>> No.11595939

>>11594559
The Bible
Complete Plato
Moby Dick
Don Quixote
Histories (Herodotus)

>> No.11595980

>culture of critique
>mein kampf
>12 rules of life
>barbarians
>the bible

>> No.11596028

>>11595684

YOUVE GOT BIG BALLS, ROY

>> No.11596062
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11596062

5 books every man should read before the age of 18

>> No.11596121

The Second Sex
Naruto Shippuden
Crime and Punishment
Captain Underpants
Mike Tyson autobiography.

>> No.11596224
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The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics
On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present
The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
Understanding Human History: An Analysis Including the Effects of Geography and Differential Evolution
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

>> No.11596225

>>11596121

I have an unusually challenging time disagreeing with this list.

>> No.11596249

>>11596121
How can one list be so based (and redpilled)?

>> No.11596317

>>11595679
Fucking Y E S

>> No.11596593

>>11595828
>the book of disquiet
>ferdydurke
how can you enjoy the book of disquiet and Ferdyshitduketrashlit at the same time?

>> No.11596629

>>11595939
>>11594678
I like these two lists. Very practical.

>> No.11596672

>>11594559
The Bible
Mein Kampf
and 3 for leisure

>> No.11596722

The Republic
Wealth of Nations
The Prince
Pick one: Infinite Jest/Catch 22/The Recognitions/The Magus (i.e. a foundational post modern text)

Tbh I need to read more so this list is definitely incomplete.

>> No.11596776

The Bible
The Iliad and The odyssey
Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Ulysses
The Bothers Karamazov

>> No.11596783

>>11594559
ohhh sexy
ohhh my cock is stand
so sexy madam wearing cutting sweater showing nipnops ohhh

>> No.11596837

>>11594559
is she preggy with baby??

>> No.11596914

>>11596837
mommy mommy gib me milky

>> No.11596943

>>11594711
>Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
You can't recover from this tier of pop title

>> No.11596970

>>11594559
Stop consuming sexually arousing material and habitually masturbating. If you can't get a handle on that, your reading efforts matter little.
Remember, in the words of Rufus, to relax the mind is to lose it.

>> No.11597018

>>11596970
>to relax the mind is to lose it.
Rufus who? Scrimgeour?

>> No.11597042

>>11597018
Gaius Musonius Rufus

>> No.11597046

>>11594711
Get that JBP normie shit out of here, otherwise good

>> No.11597052

Einstein Relativity
Newton Principia
Structures of Scientific Revolution
Galileo Dialogue
Hawking Brief History of Time

>> No.11597081

How about this

Euclid’s Elements
Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Tocqueville’s Democracy In America
Plato’s Republic
Aristotle’s Metaphysics

This list is FINAL

>> No.11597083

>>11594574
>>11594559
>>11596783
>>11596837
>>11596914
>softcore only
not even worth a stroke

>> No.11597099

>>11597083
It's never worth one. You objectively get nothing from it. You waste time and limited physiological resources. The penalty is post orgasmic blues, the prolactin. Just getting aroused has negative effects. Better to rise above it all. I never was a heavy reader until I finally put an end to habitual masturbation.

>> No.11597124

>>11597099
you forget that it provides a temporary immunity from cogitative sedative effects from chronic interaction with women

>> No.11597131

>>11595939
Best list ITT

>> No.11597136

>>11597124
I've always had a rebound in sexual urges for several hours afterward. The opposite of immunity.

>> No.11597142

>>11597083
you can see her fucking nipples holy shit

>> No.11597190

>>11594578
Severely underrated post

>> No.11597199

>>11594756
>Mein Kampf (Yiddish translation)
You've inspired me to work on an ancient Hebrew translation of Mein Kampf

>> No.11597208

The Bible
Brothers Karamazov
The Golden Bough
Violence and the Sacred
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

>> No.11597263

>>11597190
it's a lame ass joke
you can't honestly find it amusing

>> No.11597266

>>11597190
It was a pretty bad post in all honesty my brethren.

>> No.11597279

Naruto
One Piece
Dragon Ball
Phenomenology of Spirit
My Hero Academia

>> No.11597286

>>11594756
Absolutely disgusting. Burn your collection.

>> No.11597296

>>11594559
God I wish that were me.

>> No.11597624

The Odyssey
The New Testament
Parerga and Paralipomena
Crime and Punishment
Ulysses (if into literature. If not, the usually regarded classic of his country)

>> No.11597686

>>11596224

This seems pretty good desu

>> No.11597916
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>>11594559
going to try and be 100% unironic here:

my struggle volume 2
the bible
werner herzog: a guide to the perplexed
12 rules for life
convenience store woman

>> No.11598135

This thread is really problematic. Here's a REAL list:

Milk and Honey
The Bell Jar
The Handmaid's Tale
The Beauty Myth
The Second Sex

>> No.11598144

>>11598135
based & redpilled

>> No.11598215

Finnegans Wake
Pale Fire (it is purple)
Paradise's Lost
Gravity Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Dune

>> No.11598800

>>11598144
based & redpilled

>> No.11598831

Bible
The brothers karamazov
Ulysses
Pascals pensées
Complete Shakespeare (or at least the major plays)

>> No.11598860

Iliad Odyssey
King James Bible
Plato's Dialogues
The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare's major plays

>> No.11598870

>>11598144
>>11598800

>> No.11599140

The Second Sex

>> No.11600179

>>11595980
>>culture of critique
Is it worth reading?

>> No.11600357
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>>11594678
>L'Etranger
I thought it was funny

>> No.11600479

D. Quixote
Crime and Punishment
Hamlet
Odyssey
Plato's Symposium or Goethe's Faust

>> No.11600506

>>11594678
hello felix

>> No.11601611

>>11594559
>ctrl+f
>still no 120 days of sodom
You disappoint me, /lit/.

>> No.11602830

Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Kafka on the Shore
Starship Troopers
Myth of the Rational Voter

>> No.11602882

attempt at a non meme list

odyssey
moby dick
sorrows of young werther
human all too human
the glass bees

>> No.11602885

The Bible, Plato, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Milton

>> No.11603602
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Fragments of Heraclitus
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
SICP
An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
BAP book

>> No.11603656

>>11594559
>Ecclesiastes
>The Old Man and The Sea
>Crime and Punishment
>Don Quixote
>Moby Dick

>> No.11603667
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>>11603602

>> No.11603852

>>11594559
>The Bible
>Plato's collected works
>Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
>Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morality
>Dostoevsky's The Idiot/Crime and Punishment/Brothers Karamazov/Demons

>> No.11603931

beyond good and evil
culture of critique
200 years together
thus spake zarathustra
nicomachean ethics

>> No.11603944

the illiad
death of arthur
storm of steel
might is right
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

>> No.11604170

>>11594711
>Unironically 12 rules for life
It's not bad, but it really shouldn't be in a top 5 literature list...

>>11594756
Actually kek'd

>>11595939
nice

>> No.11604228

>>11594578
kek

>> No.11604321

>>11594559
120 days of Sodome, Juliette and Justin from Sade; Venus in Furs from Masoch and Les Chants De Maldoror