/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21730878]

What books should I read in prison?

[Anonymous No.21730881]

>>21730878
Just imagine how comfy prison would be if solitary let you have paper, writing implements, and books.

[Anonymous No.21730883]

history books since they all build on eachother and it can be a larger project

[Anonymous No.21730886]

>>21730881
how hard is it to get specific books? do you have to suck the warden's dick and beg permission to get a single shitty book from the prison library or could your mommy send you things

[Anonymous No.21730890]

>>21730878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3_ZL4-TCoE

[Anonymous No.21730907]

>>21730881
They do, just look at Kaczynski. He's writing (and publishing) entire books from prison and he is in the highest level of solitary supermax as one of the most notorious serial killers and terrorists in US history. The cells next to him were Timothy McVeigh and one of the world trade center terrorists, who were his buddies during exercise hour.

[Anonymous No.21730909]

>>21730886
You can't have anything in solitary in the US. In general pop you can't have anything but approved religious materials, self-help, or social justice/pulp fiction.
There's an extremely small list of approved materials. If it were possible to have Plato, Aristotle, Kant, etc in prison then there would hardly be a reason to be outside prison if you're a NEET.

[Anonymous No.21730910]

>>21730878
Don Quixote
Pisan Cantos
Consolation of Philosophy
The Travels of Marco Polo
Le Morte d’Arthur

[Anonymous No.21730914]

>>21730907
He writes over mail because the federal gov is requires to allow prisoners to send and receive mail. I doubt he is able to touch a single book outside The Bible for maybe 30 minutes a day.

[Anonymous No.21730921]

>>21730878
Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.21730945]

>>21730878
>What books should I read in prison?
What have you done, raped a white woman or something?
If i would be you, i would choose from ancient Greeks, if you get there vibe, maybe you will enjoy ass fucking in the showers more. But i don't know, i was never in jail.

[Anonymous No.21730954]

>>21730921
this and MacBet

[Anonymous No.21730966]

>>21730921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDri7-rdHYk

[Anonymous No.21730977]

>>21730878
The Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.21730978]

>>21730914
Then how is he writing commentary on anprims and shit?

[Anonymous No.21731454]

>>21730878
All of them
I read 3 books a week for years.
Dont read radical political philosophical, religious books too much. especially if its all down the same path. You are more mentally susceptible to persuasion while incarcerated. Also, work out. I went in beerbellied and starting a second chin couldnt run a block or do a pullup. Came out looking like a 6'4 8pack abs greek god. I could run 5 miles, do 700 pushups in an hour and 30 pullups in a row with good form.

[Anonymous No.21731461]

>>21731454
Did you do it all in the gym or any bodyweight stuff in your cell time? Any recs for barebone basics?

[cockler No.21731463]

>>21730878
The Practical Guide to Escape Prison

[Anonymous No.21731492]

>>21731454
But more importantly than all that, what did you do to get locked up? We all want to know anon, I'm just the one who decided to ask.

[Anonymous No.21731550]

>>21730878
That looks like the sweetest jail ever. I had to live in segregation after taking the virtue of a 13 year old

[Anonymous No.21731638]

>>21730909
You have to deal with niggers.

[Anonymous No.21731645]

>>21730909
I’ve been to jail and as long as the book wasn’t a major read flag you could get it sent to you. You could only have so many at a time though and had to donate to the library. There was Pynchon, American Psycho, Bolano, etc floating around

[Anonymous No.21731656]

>>21731550
You should have killed yourself and saved us the tax dollars.

[Anonymous No.21731761]

>>21731454
Hello Steve Donoghue

[Anonymous No.21731821]

>>21730907
Kaczynski is dead. He passed away last year.

[Anonymous No.21731853]

>>21731461
Not that anon but:
"Solitary Fitness" by Charles Bronson
"Jailhouse Strong" by Adam Benshea and Josh Bryant
"Convict Conditioning" by Paul Wade

They all boil down to doing hundreds of reps of bodyweight movements like pushups, situps, squats, and chinups. Bronson also had some interesting uses for towels and chairs as workout implements. Some prisons have weightrooms, most do not. As a prisoner you have a lot of time on your hands and not much else to do. If you join a gang (for protection) they may even REQUIRE you to workout with them.

[Anonymous No.21731862]

>>21730878
All of them. What’d you do?

[Anonymous No.21732706]

>>21731461
Both
They dont have free weights just machines and cables.
If you get a cool celly you can do a bodyweigh routine in your cell. They also had a small track in the yard.

[Anonymous No.21732822]

>>21730878
Read Pic related. If you're going to do time you might as well get to know what time actually is.

[Anonymous No.21732838]

the entire 3 volumes of das kapital with supplementary texts + theories of surplus value

[Anonymous No.21732847]

>>21732838
i actually thought about deliberately donating books that have an implicit political slant to prisons such that any prisoners that did happen to come across the aforementioned books would be radicalised to a cause of my choosing, they’re already in disagreement with the status quo and likely already hold the ruling establishment in disdain

[Anonymous No.21732850]

>>21732838
Him being in prison isn't punishment enough?

[Anonymous No.21732928]

>>21730914
Surely even inmates like T.K. are allowed literature, unless it's How to Break Out of Supermax.

[Anonymous No.21732946]

>>21732838
>read a bunch of books seething about capitalism and proposing solutions to human suffering and enslavement that literally don't work

very gay, if anything a prisoner should read neetch so he can becooooom the ramen noodles merchant everybody likes or some shit. reading commie garbage in the slammer will just make a person more resentful about their situation, especially since the chances for communist praxis (which isn't even desirable) are nonexistent. dumb commie frognigger.

[Anonymous No.21732952]

>>21730914
if you actually knew anything about teddy k you'd know he gets sent a fuckton of letters and gifts including various books.

[Anonymous No.21732954]

>>21731550
Greentext?

[Anonymous No.21732967]

>>21731550
Well, was it worth it?

[Anonymous No.21732979]

Papillon
Cool Hand Luke

[Anonymous No.21732987]

>>21730878
Any and all of them. Prison is a reader's paradise. You got nothing to do and all the time in the world to read up. Malcolm X famously taught himself to read and write by copying the entirety of the Oxford dictionary and reading most of the prison library.

[Anonymous No.21733000]

>>21731853
>>21732706
Thank you, I already live like I'm in prison, in a tiny box surrounded by violent black people so I am now en route to swoletown

[Anonymous No.21733253]

>>21731821
source?

[Anonymous No.21733259]

>>21733000
Start dilating your butthole so it doesn't rupture when they fuck it.

[Anonymous No.21733266]

>>21733259
What kind of brain poisoned weirdo thinks this and types it

[Anonymous No.21733268]

>>21731821
>>21733253
He’s sick (cancer I think) and probably won’t last much longer but still alive, they just moved him to a prison with better medical facilities.

[Anonymous No.21733568]

>>21730886
In my corner of Yurop the prison libraries most often suck ass, they get assigned a tinies tbudget possible, so mainly rely on getting decomissioned books from civilian libraries, some donations, provate books left by the inmates and whatever was purchased decades ago, when the library was being set up. Goes without saying that most of its is some old normie pop literature, mixed with high school curriculum, self help and religion. Only way to get access to specific books is to get them sent by someone in a package. Packages are a privilege and must not contain things deemed physically dangerous or hindering social rehabilitation, for example by aiding criminal activity, enabling extremism and so on. So the requested literature better be either reasonably wholesome (normie tier vanilla porn is deemed wholesome, except in enhanced security facilities) or esoteric enough that the guard checking the parcel cant really tell what it is about - but shit in Arabic or other tourist/inhuman languages is double checked and witheld until you gonna write a complaint. Having personal books in your cell is also a privilege that can be witheld upon commiting a disciplinary infraction, personal library must be also small enough to fit on the shelf allocated to the inmate. Phones as well as e-readers equipped with card readers and any kind of transceiver are forbidden. TVs and radio sets are wired into internal broadcasting center of the facility. Consoles are allowed only without internet access. PCs only in exceptional cases after obtaining permission from the warden and only with approved and legal software.
That being said majority of inmates are mildly retarded normies more interested in sending them porn magazines, vidyas, cigarettes, spices and candies, than subversive antisemetic chud literature. Then there is also money, which can give many possibilities, at least until there is an external audit incoming.
TLDR: prison life is not good for bibliophiles.
.t former prison guard

[Anonymous No.21733630]

>>21733568
Is being a prison guard a comfy literary lifestyle career choice?

[Anonymous No.21733638]

>>21733266
It's a warning not to go to state prison.

[Anonymous No.21733646]

>>21732838

[Anonymous No.21733727]

>>21733630
Yeah, as long as among your favourite genres are personnal questionnaires, service books and shift schedules.

[Anonymous No.21733953]

>>21730878
No limit on book packages in my country, so I read what I got sent. Mostly non-fiction.

[Anonymous No.21733995]

>>21733727
I meant more in terms of lots of time to sit around and read/think/write.

[Anonymous No.21734794]

>>21730878
All of them.
Confinement is the brains only freedom