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So I’ve decided to take 2 years to completely educate myself in a path that I’ve deemed sufficient enough for gaining more insight into Western Culture.

I will be reading this list by the date these works were published; in chronological order.

I seem to be missing a big chunk from the 2nd Century AD until about the 1800s.

Any recommendations that would fit within my laid out list and help expand my knowledge of the works to come after them?

List to be posted in following posts

>> No.15635457

32nd century BC
Gita
25th century
Egyptian Book of the Dead
22nd century BC
Gilgamesh
13th century BC
Old Testament
8th century BC
Iliad
The Odyssey
I Ching
Upanishads
Hesiod Works and Days
6th century BC
Pindar
5th century BC
Lotus Sutra
Heracles
4th century BC
Tao Te Ching
Plato
Aristotle (After Plato)
Epicurus
3rd century BC
Constellation Myths
1st century BC
Lucretius
Georgics
1st Century AD
New Testament
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses Ovid
On the shortness of life
Letters from a stoic (after shortness)
2nd Century AD
Alexander The Great by Arrian
Tacitus Histories/Annals
Outlines of Pyrhonism
Discourses of Epictetus
Enchiridion
Apollodorus Greek Mythology
Marcus Aurelius
4th Century AD
St Augustines Confessions
7th century AD
Poetic and Prose Eddas
Quran
8th Century AD
Tibetan Book Of The Dead
10th Century AD
Ibn Fadlan
14th Century AD
The Book of Marvels and Travels
1532
The Prince
1543
On the Jews and their lies
1677
Spinozas Ethics
1776
The Wealth of Nations

>> No.15635464

>>15635446
Wow his hips are larger than his shoulders. Is this the result of consuming too much estrogen?

>> No.15635467

Soooo ftm or....?

>> No.15635468

Yeah ngl OP you could really benefit from a ton a laser hair removal and some double D's

>> No.15635469

>>15635464
He’ll be fine

>> No.15635471

>>15635457
>13th century BC
>Old Testament
Lol. Try closer to the 3rd century BC.

>> No.15635476

>>15635464
>>15635467
Klinefelter, I'm assuming

>> No.15635481

>>15635464
Looks like Akhenaten.

>> No.15635489

>>15635446
We don't have a culture anymore, you'll be studying history

>> No.15635492

>>15635457
1802
Phenomenology of Spirit
1819
The World as Will and Representation
1822
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
1842
Dead Souls
1843
Fear and Trembling
1844
The Ego and It’s Own
1845
The Condition of The Working Class in England
1848
Communist Manifesto
1854
Walden
1855
Leaves of Grass
1857
Hasheesh Eater
1859
Oblomov
1867
Das Kapital
1882
God and The State
The Gay Science
1885
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1886
Beyond Good And Evil
1887
On the Genealogy of Morals
1888
Ecce Homo
1889
Twilight of The Idols
1890
Hunger
1892
Conquest of Bread
1895
The Exploration of Colorado River and it’s Canyons
The Anti-Christ
1898
Garden Cities of Tomorrow
Late 1800s
Rudyard Kipling
Stephane Mallarme
William Butler Yeats
Mihai Eminescu
Early 1900s
Young Germany (written in 1962)
Critical Writings of Marinetti
Futurism a Microhistory
Cantos of Ezra Pound
Surrender to Night

>> No.15635495

>>15635481
So they're an alien?

>> No.15635502
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15635502

>>15635457
>No Summa Theolgica

>> No.15635504

>>15635492
1908
Scouting for Boys
Reflections on Violence
1909
Futurist Manifesto
1913
Marxism and The National Question
1917
State and Revolution
Growth of the soil
1918
Decline of The West
1920
Storm of Steel
Rambling Birds
Terrorism and Communism
1921
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
1923
Devil in the flesh
1924
Count D’Orgel
1925
Mein Kampf
1926
The Outline of Sanity
1927
Crisis of the modern world
The Prison notes
Being and Time
1929
The Revolt of The Masses
1930
The Myth of The Twentieth Century
1932
Futurist Cookbook
Journey to the end of the night
Doctrine of Fascism
1933
No More Hunger
1934
Revolt Against The Modern World
1936
Death on Installment Plan
For My Legionaries
1938
Homage to Catalonia
The Theater and It’s Double
Man of Vision (written in 1980)
1939
The Flight
Spring Comes Again
1941
Beautiful Image
1942
The Myth of Sisyphus
1943
The Fountainhead
1945
The Reign Of Quantity
A Dark Stranger
1946
Economics in One Lesson
1947
The Alternative
1949
Confessions of A Mask
The Accursed Share
A short history of decay
1952
All gall is divided
1954
Technological Society
The Doors of Perception
1956
Heaven and Hell
Temple of The Golden Pavillion
1957
The Glass Bees
Atlas Shrugged
On The Road
1960s
Catch A Wave (written in 2006)
1961
Ride The Tiger
1962
Propaganda
1963
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
1964
The Psychdelic Experience
Maos Little Red Book
1965
In Praise Of Older Women
1966
Law of God
1967
The society of the spectacle
1968
Sun and steel

>> No.15635507

>>15635446
Church fathers

>> No.15635508

>>15635464
Remarkably poor upper body strength has made him disproportionate. People associate upper body with arms, but a great deal of it comes from the torso itself, in the lats, deltoids, and pectorals.
His diet isn't good, but it's good enough that he isn't a fat fuck. The problem would go away if he did chin ups and push ups. It wouldn't take that much, even.

>> No.15635515

>>15635504
1969
Sea of Fertility Tetralogy
Ubik
1972
Anti-Oedipus
1973
The Trouble With Being Born
Equus
1974
Meditations on The Peaks
The Exegesis of Phillip K Dick
1977
Eumeswil
1979
Culture of Narcissism
1981
Simulacra and Simulation
VALIS
1982
Conquest of The Useless (written in 2009)
1985
Blood Meridian
1987
The Rules Of Attraction
Fanged Noumena
1988
Manufacturing Consent
1989
Sublime Object of Ideology
1990
Sexual Personae
1991
American Psycho
The Holographic Universe
1992
Food of The Gods
Catechism of the Catholic Church
1993
Living Within Limits
1994
Revolt of The Elites
Socialism is a Science
1995
Industrial Society and It’s Future
1998
Culture of Critique
2001
The Heart is Deceitful above all things
The death of the west
2009
Capitalist Realism
Can Life Prevail
The fourth political theory
2010
Technological Society
2011
Beyond Human Rights
2015
Submission
Anti tech revolution why and how
2016
I Am Brian Wilson
2018
Bronze Age Mindset
2019
Chaos
Harassment architecture
Selfie Suicide
Bugeyed
2020
Savage spear of the unicorn

>> No.15635517

>>15635471
Ya, I read that it was written between 13-3 but I decided to organize it in 13th century BC because it was started then.

Should I move it to 3rd BC?

>> No.15635518

>>15635508
Fuck off /fit/

>> No.15635539
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>>15635446

>> No.15635552

>>15635508
It looks like the problem is his bone structure. Building muscle might make it less obvious, but it will still be there.

>> No.15635561

>>15635492
Add Critique of Pure Reason if you're going to read Hegel and Schopenhauer.

>> No.15635562

OP here

I should also add that about 80+ of these are already read by me, but included to show what I’ve covered

>> No.15635571

>>15635561
I must have missed that on the list, since it’s in my cart

>> No.15635584

>>15635571
makes sens

>> No.15635587

>>15635502
>Summa Theolgica
I’ll add this one for sure

>> No.15635945

>>15635552
He's not a genetic marvel, no doubt. But working the right muscle groups broadens the chest, shoulders, and back.

>> No.15635959

you shouldn't have to read 1/10000th of this crap to be a right wing nationalist

>> No.15635982

>>15635587
dude thats like 5 volumes its a troll post for sure

many just recommend his confessions at most

>> No.15636028

>>15635982
Oh, I just read the top part of the Wikipedia article. Thanks for the heads up
>>15635959
I’m not trying to be that

>> No.15636053

All these books and I guarantee you will not find what you're looking for in any of them. We're living the new book now, OP

>> No.15636063

>>15636053
What I’m looking for is the books themselves, so you’re wrong

>> No.15636106

>>15636063
Why?

>> No.15636167

>>15636106
Because my goal is to read famous literature that will lead into better understanding of the literature inspired by it.

The lessons they teach along the way are worth it, and from the 80+ of these I’ve read, that’s held true to such an extent that it warrants further reading.

Also you’re gay

>> No.15636168

>>15635457
Scholar of Arab literature here:

I noticed you're interested in Ahmad ibn Fadlan's writing about the Vikings.

I may recommend Ibn al Nadim's "Kitab al Fihrist" / "The Catalogue," as that was one of the world's first attempt to create an encyclopedia of the world's histories. It highlights the Africans, Greeks, Asians, and more.

>> No.15636188

>>15636168
Oooh, that’ll be a great bridge to all my European interests. I’ll def add this to the list of maybes

>> No.15636189

>>15636167
Why not study origami, or cooking, or music, or engineering, or oil painting, or any other of the million things out there? Will reading these better you, or just inflate your ego some more? Why would you want to understand the literature inspired by these things? It seems pretty derivative and gay to me, and mostly a huge waste of time.

Also the lessons are shit

>> No.15636191

>>15635517
Some of the royal Psalms may go back to the 9th Century BC. The first draft of the Torah was likely written around 400 BC. The core of the Old Testament was more or less finalized by 200BC.

>> No.15636192

>>15636188
Woops, I meant my eastern interests

>> No.15636198

>>15636189
Because I’m already a good musician, I backpack into the wilderness, I skate, I workout, I slackline, and I enjoy READING.

Jesus Christ is this a literature board or a fucking school marm factory

>> No.15636207

>>15636192
I'm not sure about the extent of translations, but I recommend looking into George Saliba's MIT studies about Nadim to get an idea of what the catalog was about.

I envy all that reading!

>> No.15636213

>>15636191
Thanks for clarifying, I was getting dates for 200 books so it def slipped by me.

What century would you recommend I place it in, compared to the other things I’ll be reading? I’d like it to be placed in some sort of cultural relevance to the rest of the list, to help me gain some vague historical perspective on the world around it, whether connected or not.

>> No.15636218

>>15636207
Thanks for the tip!

I’ve been reading 50-100 pages a day, so hopefully it’ll take 2 years. I’m moving to a yurt on a farm next month, so books will be my only entertainment from here on out

>> No.15636237

>>15636198
Seems pretty ego-driven if you ask me. You'd be better off spending years studying any one of these books than just rushing through all of them like you're talking about, they all have deep life-long mysteries in them. What you're saying is you just want to sample all the greatness of Western Civilization. I'm saying you can actually live it without all the extra effort. Really all that extra effort is a detraction from what you're looking for.

>> No.15636240

>>15636237
Go dissuade someone from reading on another board.

I’m very into reading, what more excuse do I need?

>> No.15636260

>>15636240
Read away, but it's a phase

>> No.15636272

>>15636260
What do you like to read?

What is your reason for reading?

>> No.15636325

>>15636272
I don't like to read anymore, I read a chunk of your list and realized how pointless it all was. But I get it, you want to be a superman of knowledge, because you think that doing so will make you into a better version of yourself. Knowledge without understanding is nothing, but understanding without knowledge is a true power. Now I read whatever comes across my eyes while I go about my business, but I don't really subscribe to any of it. All the wisdom to be gained from reading is already in your ability of self reflection. Read some of those books, you'll see that's what they all say

>> No.15636335

>>15636325
You’re a faggot

>> No.15636347

>>15636335
You understood more before you knew anything

>> No.15636348

>>15635476
It's this

>> No.15636349

>>15636325
But I’ve already read 80+ of these and my outlook has changed significantly. In fact, the more I’ve read of these I find myself with new ideas I didn’t know existed.

So you just post on here for what reason exactly? To tell others not to read? I don’t get it

>> No.15636351

>>15636325
thanks anon, I’ll stop reading. You’ve hit a wall, so everyone else must also hit the same wall.

>> No.15636361

>>15636351
>>15636349
>>15636335
How many of these guys read all the others? How many of the greatest men in history read these? Reading this stuff is a lot different from living it

>> No.15636364

>>15636361
I’m not a great man of history nor do I want to be.

I want to read a fuckload of books because I love reading them.

What’s the problem?

>> No.15636373

>>15636364
No problem at all

>> No.15636429

>>15635457
>32nd century BC
>Gita
Lmao

>> No.15636457

>>15635446

Is that the globglogabgalab?

>> No.15637190

>>15636361
I'm pretty sure the most intellectual people in history read plenty of other authors. Philosophers certainly had to read other philosophers to either learn from them or refute them, for example. Napoleon, the best general of all time (yes, fuck off Brits), was a voracious reader. He read a lot of philosophy and his favorite book was Parallel Lives by Plutarch which explains why he was such an amazing man. He knew whom to aspire to be (Alexander, Caesar) and whom to avoid to be (Demetrius, Marcus Antonius). Honestly you can learn so much from other lives and perspectives than from teachers and parents unless they were well read.
Why am I even replying to you though, you sound like a midwit in all your posts so this will probably fly over your head