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02-16-2016, 12:37 PM
Just read through Animal Farm. Great read, I can't believe I missed it for so long.
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02-16-2016, 01:13 PM
Animal Farm taught me that soon enough revolutionary leaders become as corrupt as those they ousted. Its a work of genius. I read he got the idea when he worked at his farm.
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02-17-2016, 10:35 PM
The Culture of Critique - Kevin MacDonald
I read one this after Roosh reviewed it. It's a complicated but excellent book that explains why ethnic Jews are over-represented in certain radical political and cultural movements. It was a breath of fresh air to hear someone who could explain this sort of thing in a non-prejudiced, non-tinfoil-hat sort of way, but at the same time not be scared of a touchy subject. Great book that sheds light on why our politics and culture are in such a messed-up state.
Lincoln Über Alles - John Avery Emison
A book about Lincoln's presidency and the Civil War. It destroys the popular "Lincoln freed the slaves" meme, (just read the Emancipation Proclamation sometime) and also talks about Lincoln's influences, the legality of secession, slavery/race laws in the North, the circumstances leading up to the Civil War, and Reconstruction. If most of your knowledge of Lincoln and the Civil War is from public schools or universities, I'd highly recommend this book.
Moscow 1941 - Rodric Braithwaite
Historical book that mainly covers the Siege of Moscow in 1941 by the Germans. As historical books go, this one is like a microscope. It goes into detail on Soviet expansion, subsequent invasion by the Nazis, battlefield conditions, government propaganda, internal power struggles, and daily life in besieged Moscow. It quotes people from generals all the way down to peasants. The book really gives a sense of what it must have been like in that situation - the desperation, the confusion, and the relief when it was all over. The most exciting history book I know of.
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02-18-2016, 02:10 AM
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Great, gripping read, highly recommended.
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03-06-2016, 12:28 AM
Hi there. These ones Helped me out.
H.G. Wells : 1, A Modern Utopia. 2, The Shape of things to come .3,The open Conspiracy
Zbigniew Brzezinski : 1, The grand Chessboard . 2,Between two ages
Carroll Quigley : 1, The Anglo-American Establishment. 2, Tragedy and Hope
Jacques Ellul: The Technological society
Bertrand Russell : 1, Proposed roads to freedom. 2, Icarus. 3, The impact of science on society. 4, The scientific outlook. 5, The conquest of happiness. 6, Education and the good life.
Jacques Attali : 1, Millennium- Winners and losers in the comingworld order. 2, A brief history of the future
Eric G. Wilson: Everyone loves a good Train wreck
William Barrett: Irrational Man- A study in Existential Pholosophy
Theodor Adorno: the Culture industry
Robert H. Thouless: Straight and crooked thinking
Arno Gruen: The insanity of Normaility -Toward understanding Human destructiveness
Robert B. Cialdini: Influence- The psychology of persuasion
Martha Stout: The myth of sanity -Divided consciousness and the promise of awareness-Tales of multiple personality in everyday life
Timothy D. Wilson : Strangers to ourselves - Discovering the adptive unconscious
John C. Parkin : F**k it - The ultimate spiritual way
Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority
Andrew M. Lobaczewski: Political ponerology
Robert D. Hare: Without conscience-The disturbing world of psychopaths amoung us
Key Redfield Jamison : Night falls fast- Understanding suicide
Nien Cheng: life and death in Shanghai
Rene A. Wormser: Foundations- Their power and influence
Ronald T. Potter Efron : Angry all the time -An emergency Guide to Anger control
John Bradshaw: Healing the shame that binds you
Gustave Le Bon: The crowd- A study of the popular Mind
Charles Galton Darwin : The next millian years
Daniel Estulin : The Bilderberg Group
Antony C. Sutton: 1, Wall street and the Bolshevik revolution. 2, Wall street and FDR.
3, Wall street and the rise of Hitler
Aldous Huxley: 1, Brave new world. 2, Brave new world Revisited
Edward Bernays: Propaganda
Matthew Josephson : The Robber Barons
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids
George Orwell: 1, Animal Farm. 2, 1984
Yevgeny Zamyatin : We
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Rosa Koire : Behind the green mask -U.N Agenda 21
Alan Watt : 1, Cutting Through Volumes 1,2,3. 2, Waiting for the Miracle- The Symbiosis of Exoteric and Esoteric Societies and their unfaltering goals down through the ages.
Roosh V: A dead Bat in Paraguay
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03-11-2016, 07:25 AM
Is Moby Dick a must read?
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03-19-2016, 12:46 PM
Anybody read JM Coetzee? He is a South African Nobel Prize winner.
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03-20-2016, 06:15 AM
1. Christopher Maurer's interpretation of Baltasar Gracián's The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle. I read it once a year.
2. Horse Sense: The Key to Success Is Finding a Horse to Ride, by Al Ries Jack Trout. One of the most down to earth, red pill business books I have ever read. If you want to start a business, read this book first.
3. The Book of Proverbs (Old Testament). Speaks more about money and business acumen than any other topic. I prefer the New American Standard Updated Version (any NASB published after 1995).
I could list dozens as I'm an avid reader, but these three had a personal impact on me.
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03-26-2016, 01:36 PM
I agree with Proverbs. I try to read a chapter a day based on the calendar date (today is Proverbs 26). Also Ecclesiastes, which helps you to realize just what all the stuff you accumulate amounts to. It keeps life in perspective.
+1 to The Art of the Deal. Also, Think Big And Kick Ass in Business and in Life. I read that one a few months ago, and it definitely changed my way of thinking.
Straus and Howe's "The Fourth Turning" is a great perspective on generations and the cycles of history.
Anything by Covey, but especially The Seven Habits. I used to listen to the audiobook of it at least once a year. I should start again.
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05-26-2016, 04:18 AM
Into the Silence by Wade Davis
Wade Davis is an anthropologist by trade. I first learned of him through his book Light at the Edge of the World. This book blows that out of the fucking ocean, and then into orbit.
Into the Silence is the best book I have ever read.
It chronicles the original exploration, surveillance, mapping and subsequent 3 summit attempts made on Mt. Everest by the British in the early 1920's.
What makes the story truly spectacular is that it also delves into the history of each man on the exploratory teams, who coincidentally enough all served through World War 1 in various capacities.
It sheds light on just how terrifically macabre that time in history was, as well as the pure triumphs of each of these men to grind through The Great War and thrive throughout the rest of their lives.
It gives you harrowing accounts of the actual battles that took place during the war and the pure incompetence of the Allied officers and General Haig's offensive strategy that led to so many deaths. It supplies eyewitness accounts of the brutality that wreaked havoc on the bodies and minds of so many forcibly hapless young men and the Allied citizenry.
Davis provides an excellent narrative and put in what seems like decades of work compiling all the relevant newspaper clippings, correspondence and personal diaries of these men.
Mostly soldiers or ex-military, these were some of the hardest men to ever live. The photos included are truly amazing and show these canned-milk drinking, hardboiled-egg eating, tweed-wearing HEROES attempt to dominate the most treachorous landscape on Earth after already living through the most formidable battles in the history of mankind.
Read it.
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09-28-2016, 04:50 AM
White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell. It is free on the internet.
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09-28-2016, 08:07 AM
Influence and Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini.
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09-28-2016, 03:06 PM
"Law of Success" by Napoleon Hill. Predecessor to his more famous "Think and Grow Rich" (also superb). These are originally 1920s and 1930s success manuals. Require a diligent approach, over time. My teenaged sons and I have just taken six months to study and apply the first work in detail.
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01-27-2017, 06:18 AM
Has anyone read Wilhem Marr? Thoughts?
Beliefs are more powerful than facts.
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02-06-2017, 04:42 PM
I just saw War and Peace the series. It was excellent. How is the book?
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04-22-2017, 07:15 AM
Are Adios America and David Duke's Awakening must reads?
All you gotta do is ask them questions and listen to what they have to say and shit.
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04-22-2017, 08:19 AM
I just finished Duke's "My Awakening" last week. I consider it a must read, and highly recommend it. Can't speak for Adios America.
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04-22-2017, 09:45 AM
"Think And Grow Rich" (Napoleon Hill)
"Convict Conditioning" (Paul Wade--penname)
"The Secret of the Ages" (Robert Collier)
"Scientific Advertising" (Claude Hopkins)
"Millionaire Success Habits" (Dean Graziosi)
Those I have read cover-to-cover. Some multiple times.
An idea for other members:
Install a random number generating app on your phone.
Grab a book in your rotation (one which covers principles you want to enforce permanently). Either a print copy or a digital copy.
Use the random number generator app to spit out a digital location or page number at random. Set the timer app on your phone for a specific number of minutes (I use 10 minutes per book). Start reading from the top of that page or location for the allocated time.
Grab this opportunity throughout your day whenever you can. Fill the holes in your day with empowering reading. I generally pack 40 to 60 minutes of such empowering reading into every day. Over time, the effect is remarkable.
Periodically, I work other books in and out of the rotation. Those five above are the current ones, but many others come and go. A lot of them come back too.