phoebemills ago

The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley

I've enjoyed reading this book; it is informative and funny. And it is perfect for those just getting into the anthropology and interested in this field. The witty account of the research fieldwork in a small tribe in Cameroon offers a clear picture of the real life of a cultural anthropologist. Highly recommended!

PatriciaCarter ago

Silence of the Lambs, Arch of Triumph,

3dk ago

Read this: The Code Book

It's easily the most interesting book I've read. Talks about the history of cryptography. Stories, but als concrete examples and the Math + tips for further reading. It's a good read, even if you are starting out with zero knowledge of math, programming, history, cryptography and information security. It's a good intro to a deep rabbit hole.

hema_n ago

Read what you enjoy..!!

GSM ago

Michael Crichton's Timeline is pretty good.

jamesed ago

I would start by reading Love and Death in the American Novel:by Leslie Fiedler. This book goes into the symbolism and mythology that is prevalent in most American Novels and how they play out in Character and plot development. The second book that is a must read is How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler. This book is much along the line a Fieder's book.

After I read these two books I went back and re read the stuff written by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemons). What I assumed were just children's and young adult books actually had a lot of adult content if you understood what Clemons was writing about. These two books will certainly make you stop and think about what you are reading.

On the other hand if you just want pure fun stuff, read Detective Strong Oak and the Case of the Dead Elf.Can you imagine a Dwarf Detective (who is a natty dresser) (his Taylor is a GAY ORC, ) immersed in a wold where a male human Surfing Champion has gone missing and a Elf surfer is the prime suspect.

cantaloupe6 ago

This book is a fun read, the writer is skilled, and funny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whiskey_Rebels

talmoridor-x ago

"Might is Right" by Ragnar Redbeard

BumpMeansCoke ago

Western canon. Read a bunch of these, you'll give yourself a good education. Http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

Gigglestick ago

I really enjoyed the “I am number Four” series. It’s for young adults though... also the Circle series and Paradise Trilogy by Ted Dekker. He’s a Christian author but he’s not blatant about religion. He has kind of a darker way about him too. Hitch Hiker’s guide to the Galaxy is good too. Also, you should check out “The Outsiders” it’s about greasers vs socials in ~ the 40’s 50’s era. It’s damn good. Easily read in a day too, about 150 pages. The Firm - John Grisham. Straight lawyer gets black mailed by company and shit hits the fucking fan dude. Good book.

Those are entertaining books I enjoyed from genres I like. If you want classics

The Outsiders (mentioned above)

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Heinlein.

East of Eden - John Steinbach

Your Brain on Porn (also explains addiction in general, not just porn) - Gary Wilson

No More Mr Nice Guy

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

Last 3 are self help books. Should keep you entertained for a month or few.

AmaleksHairyAss ago

This is important, OP:

Start with books you enjoy. In fact for three years ONLY read books you enjoy. If reading becomes a burden you'll stop, no matter what you tell yourself about it. Learn to enjoy reading by reading things you enjoy. Only when that is achieved, branch out into diverse topics.

Trippertje ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I used to like reading so i know how it feels. I miss reading so it shouldn't be hard to make it fun again

OriginalJoker ago

To understand many references here on Voat and similar sites, 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell. I frequent thrift stores and buy copies every time they appear on shelves, I read each one about every six or nine months. 1984 was a dystopian view of the future written in 1948 (Orwell transposed the last two numbers to get the year of his novel); it is often said that it was supposed to be a warning, not a how-to manual. Animal Farm is written as a children's story, but the message is everything but a child's tale, it was written as a warning to show what socialist societies inevitably succumb to and how they degenerate to that point.

Similarly, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They are both written on a 10-11th grade level, and not hard to read. They are also dystopian future novels in which the authors were trying to extrapolate which way the political and social climates were trending. Aldous Huxley as a person is also worth a study, if even spending an hour or so online visiting Wiki links. He was a major player in the eugenics movement in the earlier part of the 20th century.

dan_k ago

  • The International Jew - Henry Ford

  • The Turner Diaries - William Pierce

  • Atlas Shrugged - Anne Rand

  • Camp of the Saints - Jean Raspail

  • The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

jollux ago

(((ayn rand)))

Bin that, replace it with Myth of the 20th Century by Alfred Rosenberg.

Camp of the Saints is a pageturner, read it if you want a thrill with some existential dread.

cantaloupe6 ago

Atlas Shrugged makes an interesting read even thouh Anne was a poor writer.

DukeofAnarchy ago

Excuse me it's Ayn.

IT IS AYN!

cantaloupe6 ago

Ayn ... there were some long winded sections some might flip past.

Trippertje ago

Thanks for the suggestions, i'll put them on my list!

thebearfromstartrack ago

"How To Read" should be your first stop.

TheBuddha ago

An entry-level book on English.

Trippertje ago

Hahaha thank you

TheBuddha ago

It's not just you. When did 'recommend me' become fashionable? The missing 'to' makes me unreasonably perturbed.

Trippertje ago

Is that a common mistake? I learned most of my english from the internet. English isn't my native language.

TheBuddha ago

I usually see it from people from India or that region. I suspect it's a grammar thing, as many aren't native English speakers.

So, it's fairly common. I see stuff like, "Recommend me a good cell phone." It should probably be more like, "Could someone please recommend a good cell phone?" English really is a bitch to learn as a second language.

Trippertje ago

I have a hard time typing/writing in english. I can speak it just fine and i can read any book in english.

TheBuddha ago

It's not easy and you are understandable. I'm similar with Spanish. I'm nearly fluent, but haven't a clue how to spell everything. If I read it, I can understand it.

Gigglestick ago

Why u talk like that me?

TheBuddha ago

"Noone" and "alot" also irk me. So doesn't "payed," even though it's acceptable.

My grammar isn't perfect, but that red squiggly underline means something!

Gigglestick ago

Who the fuck spells it payed? It hurts my brain to do that.

TheBuddha ago

A surprisingly large number of people. I looked it up and it's considered acceptable, but non-standard.

It drives me unreasonably batshit crazy.

Hand_of_Node ago

It's acceptable if you're referring to rope or line, otherwise not. Those are the people who should have their typing fingers clipped. (at least figuratively)

Also, someone should have told me about this subverse that never appears on the front page.

Gigglestick ago

Yeah, but that’s the equivalent of saying transgenders are acceptable. Because enough people bitched.

TheBuddha ago

Meh... Trannies don't bother me. Some of my best friends are fags. I've met innumerable trans people. They seem to like drama, but they're usually good at knowing who has the best drugs.

Gigglestick ago

Pushing their viewpoints on children and people bothers me. I don’t condone genital mutilation, especially when their drugs interferes with my water supply.

bb22 ago

Tell me what subjects interest you and I can give more tailor-suited recommendations.

Trippertje ago

I'm going for a philosophy and history study next year. Do you know any good books on these subjects

auchtung ago

Heidegger

DukeofAnarchy ago

Conceived in liberty, Murray Rothbard's four-volume history of the American colonial period and the Revolutionary War.

Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy, by Percy Greaves.

jollux ago

Rothbard's parents were David and Rae Rothbard, Jewish immigrants to the United States from Poland and Russia, respectively.

DukeofAnarchy ago

Your point?

DukeofAnarchy ago

Some Voltaire? Candide is short and good.

bb22 ago

Those are broad subjects. I'm a history major myself. What periods of history are you most interested in? I've focused mostly on early American studies, and some on the corresponding periods in Britain from around 1600 onward, but I still have university textbooks that cite all the authorities from various other fields. Even if those authorities are basically propagandist shills backed by major institutions, if you at least identify who these people are, and who their critics are, you can quickly engage in the real debates that they are having and get into some real substance.

Eustace Mullins was a historian from Virginia who wrote extensively on the cultural war against the West. You can find many of his books at the Internet archives: https://archive.org/search.php?query=eustace%20mullins

He has some old video lectures and interviews on YouTube too, like this. Any historical lecture that starts by playing Dixie is bound to be alright in my book, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h_V-ARe_nE

Historiography and historical philosophy are good fields that combine philosophy with historical studies. There are many different schools of historiography that change with the times. Most postmodern stuff today is already beat to death in my opinion ("everything is subjective and everyone is biased"), and just waiting for another paradigm shift, while older stuff is sometimes outdated in terms of methodology. Hegel, Machiavelli, and Oswald Spengler are some examples of prominent historical philosophers.

Unfortunately, it's also a field that seems to be dominated by Jews. Marc Bloch has a relatively quick read that touches on some deep ideas: The Historian's Craft. The irony is that Bloch was a French socialist Jew, but also a soldier in the French military, and the school of French historical thought he came from (history as a class struggle) was modified by Germans (history as racial, or national, struggle), so many of the same ideas hold up well enough that they can be applied across the political spectrum when you just ignore the class struggle bullshit, something that was never as relevant in the US anyway. In The Historian's Craft, he actually doesn't even talk about class struggle that much, but mostly how historians should serve society by acting as mankind's collective memory, and how they should understand their local history first, starting with the most recent, and working back into the past, in order to get a more intuitive feel of things, rather than starting with the most ancient studies before any sense of context has been developed by the historian. The idea of "thinking locally" is also consistent with Jeffersonian Republicanism, where power is decentralized and local communities are central, so as long as you don't get turned off by the guy's personal background, the ideas themselves are pretty useful. Local history is a valuable thing for historians to pay special attention to, since most people focus on the big global highlights of history. And like I said, it's a pretty quick read. Bloch never finished the book before the Germans killed him, because he was a soldier and officer in the French resistance.

AmaleksHairyAss ago

You'll want to get a list of influential philosophers and skim their works. When something catches your eye stop and dig in until you're no longer enjoying it.

jollux ago

There's something to be said for pushing through that second half of a dense book.

AmaleksHairyAss ago

I still disagree. If you want to flagellate yourself, don't do it with books. Reading isn't strictly for enjoyment, and obviously if you're reading for knowledge you're not always going to have fun. But reading just to be doing something difficult is silly. It's counterproductive. You'll be training yourself to not read.

jollux ago

How do you feel about science textbooks, then? They're not exactly light reading.

AmaleksHairyAss ago

I didn't say no one should read anything not enjoyable. I advised OP not to read anything unenjoyable for a while. And then I said to you that doing so for its own sake is folly. Don't twist my words.

jollux ago

Hey now, no need for accusations. I'm taking my point to its logical conclusion to make it easier to understand. I agree with your first point, and disagree on your second.

AmaleksHairyAss ago

Reading for knowledge can be good and useful even if it's not enjoyable. Reading just to be reading something difficult is not good.

jollux ago

I thought it was pretty obvious that you're going to get knowledge from a difficult text. I was assuming that when you're reading something, you're also comprehending it and assimilating the knowledge.

Kromulent ago

Read what you enjoy. If you like it, you'll do it all the time.

Go to the library and wander around, pull interesting books off the shelf and open them in the middle and read a few pages. If it catches your interest, read more. Repeat.

There are no bad books or bad ideas. If you want to read it, it's the right thing to read.

OriginalJoker ago

I hope your libraries are better than my local libraries. Mine think that Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, Nora Roberts, and John Grisham are the height of modern civilization.

I live in an intellectual garbage pit. Mail order is the only thing keeping me sane.

DeadFox ago

Mein Kampf, This Time The World, Siege

Trippertje ago

I ordered mein kampf this week. It's a book that i've always wanted to read. I'll put This time the world and siege on my list aswell.

DeadFox ago

Don't hold your breath on buying Siege, been trying to find it for close to two years now lol. PDFs are free online however.

Reddit_traitor ago

i made post about Mein Kampf about which version is the best. I got mix answers so i don't know what the best version to read is.

DeadFox ago

I would say read the Ford version if you can. Mein Kampf was written in German for a German audience, and directly translating it into English will cause a bit of the meaning to be missed due to sayings that translate wrong

bb22 ago

Unless you're deep into history, it probably won't make much difference, from the critiques I've seen of the different translations. They're mostly word substitutions in different places, but not enough to change the overall sense of the book.

blagjesus ago

thriftbooks.com to buy them on the cheep.

Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan

Law Without Nations by Jeremy Rabkin

The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

The Bell Curve by Charles Murray

There are great book threads over at /pdf as well.

OriginalJoker ago

Another place with cheap books is hamiltonbook.com -- they only ship to the US, but unlike almost all retailers, they will take money orders (an essential criteria for my needs). They're not a huge store, but they do have a good selection.

blagjesus ago

very cool. I'll check them out next time I pick up a book.

Renatus ago

The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Key_System

It's public domain so PDF copies are freely available online. Audiobook versions on YouTube.

Also, The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manipulated_Man

Both books will change your life.

Hand_of_Node ago

Do you happen to have a PDF link to The_Manipulated_Man?

Slugworth ago

The Cat in the Hat is a good starter book

Themooninthesky ago

Not just a starter. Dr. Seuss was a genius. I’m waiting for the left to call him racist or white National. Then I will know for sure armegeddon is upon us.

hangry ago

1984, George Orwell

level_101 ago

Add Brave new world - Aldous Huxley to that list as well.

Trippertje ago

For sure planning to read some orwell, i also heard good things about animal farm.

bamex ago

Just curious as to your age range? I mean having not read Orwell or anything. Lord of the Flies was required reading in my day also.

Trippertje ago

I am 19 years old. i used to read a lot of books, mostly fiction. I didn't read orwell even though it was required reading. I want to start reading books but i don't know where to start.

bamex ago

I read voraciously, mostly fiction. Lately into apocalyptic or dystopian type shit. If you dont read paper message me and I will send you a link for all types of books for free.

hangry ago

Yes, if you didn't read that in school already, it's a good one. Are you looking for history, fiction, politics, what?

Trippertje ago

I'm looking for books that makes me understand the world more. I'm looking for good history, fiction and philosophy books. Do you know any interesting politics books? Books on politics sound pretty boring.

Approved ago

"Human Bullets" by Sakurai.

Trippertje ago

Putting it on My list, thanks!