Thread: Bookies

I have three goals for the next four months:
be drunk
don't be fat
read books

I had a pretty good list going on the last forum, but it burnt down. So....what should I read??

Hey you stupid Asian cunt, we already have a book thread called SCI-FI HORROR. delete this.

Shouldn't you be finding me parn?

Have you ever seen Sci-Fi horror? There is nothing sexier. start posting down ?a.

Are you reading for pleasure or for self-education? If it's the latter, I could recommend anything from the following fields.
History. Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology. Political science. Culturology/Anthropology.

If it's for amusement, then what do you like, what genre, what writers?

Pleasure reading for sure.

I keep re-reading shit, which pisses me off. It's a waste of time, right? I'm into Dumas, Herbert, McCarthy, Vonnegut, Wolfe, Thompson, Lovecraft, Austen and the Brontes (I'm a massive female)....is that enough?

Actually, fuck that, give me your philosophy and political science recommendations. I'm interested.

A few of my favorite books:
Kink by Kathe Koja. Also Skin is really good. She has another one of short stories like horror stuff, called Extremities. I think, of all my reccos, youll like these best.
Not fantastical or anything. Just really good stories.
Extremities:

In the hypnotic, psychological landscape of "Extremities, " people pushed to the limits of endurance enter extreme states of mind and being. These 16 stories are "over the edge of madness, self-destruction, and sexual obsession"

Kink:

An erotic story of the intellectual, emotional, and sexual obsession created in the three-way affair between a man and two women. Set in gritty night clubs and a decadent art scene, this is an intelligent study on personal transformations and moral bankruptcy.

Skin:

As a sculptor of metal, Tess is consumed with the perfection of welds, the drip of liquid metal, addicted to the burn. Her solitary existence ends when she meets Bibi. A self-proclaimed "guerilla performance artist," Bibi pushes her body to the utmost in her dancing, sculpting it into a finely tuned machine. But the limits of her body frustrate her. With Tess, she creates a performance art of mobile, bladelike sculptures and human dance that becomes increasingly violent and dangerous. Still this is not enough for Bibi. Her desire to grow and transform leads her to body piercing, then to ritual cuttings and scarrings. And further. Though Tess breaks their partnership, she cannot stop Bibi's dark exploration of the limits of her body. Her search is self-destructive, all-encompassing...unstoppable.

John David Morley's The Anatomy Lesson is also great.

Taking its inspiration and title from the famous Rembrandt painting depicting a 17th-century autopsy, The Anatomy Lesson follows Kiddo, a precocious American teenager, on a drug-distorted journey through the maze of modern Amsterdam, as he struggles to come to grips with the death of his brilliant older brother.

<- Ive read this book like five times.

The Frog by John Hawkes

Asleep by a lily pond just before World War I, a young French child swallows a frog that not only survives within him but becomes a companion for life, sharing his physical and psychological pain but also giving him a strange sort of power over others.

<- awesome stuff happens

Anything by Daniel Woodrell. Id start with Tomato Red

When one of their number, a young gay man, is killed, three friends from the American South set out to expose the so-called upstanding citizens who have no qualms about killing another human being because of his sexuality.

That description kind of sucks. Its much better than all that.

Originally Posted by DuraMater

Actually, fuck that, give me your philosophy and political science recommendations. I'm interested.

I hope you're not trolling! Cause I'm gonna type shit and google the exact name of books for you!

Philosophy.

Novice level, in case you've never read anything about it, so it's gonna be newbie friendly and sort of an introduction:
* Descartes - Principles of Philosophy
* Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy

Advanced level:
* Aristotle - Metaphysics
* Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
* Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun
* Thomas More - Utopia
* Nietzsche - The Antichrist
* Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
* Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
* Robert Owen - Book of the New Moral World
* Plato - The Republic
* Plato - Critias
* Plato - Protagoras
* Proudhon - What is Property
* Roterdamski - The Praise of Folly
* Rousseau - The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right
* Spengler - Decline of the West
* Engels - Anti-Duhring

Political science novice level - for newbies
* Duverger - Political Parties
* Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
* Canetti - Crowds and Power
* Alexander Zinoviev - Katastroika

Advanced level:
* Antonio Gramsci - Prison Notebooks (not the full version)
* Danilevsky - Russia and Europe
* Lenin - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
* Lee Kuan Yew - From Third World to First
* Locke - Two Tracts on Government
* Machiavelli - The Prince
* Marx - 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
* Richelieu - Political Testament

ENJOY.

I think you WERE trolling!

Originally Posted by DuraMater

Actually, fuck that, give me your philosophy and political science recommendations. I'm interested.

Most of philosophy is pointless and boring. And i don't think you'll be into Julius Evola, Nietzsche, Clausewitz and Machiavelli if the last two are counted as philosophers.

History, economics and politics will also bore the shit out of you unless its a female biography. You might like Casanova and Lord Byron though. And since I'm sure you're not interested in anything over 2 decades old you should get Robert Greene books. Its an easy read that mixes history, politics ad philosophy into one kinda how to do book.