Some of those are too heavy for someone easing into real literature.
Aurelius - Meditations
If you want to get into the Greeks you need to start properly
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Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Again this is too heavy for someone starting out. I know a lot of people read it in their teens but those lengthy songs are offputting. He should start with The Hobbit instead.
Lewis - That Hideous Strength
Why would you recommend a final book in a trilogy?
Adams - Watership Down
Agree. Good jumping off point.
Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Way too heavy.
For Russian literature start with something like The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov. I like the Michael Glenny translation myself.
Hobbes - Victoria
You want to start him off with fucking Hobbes? Do you want him to never pick up a book again ever?
Heinlein - Starship Troopers
Its okay but not much different from what >>13066942 suggests.
can anyone suggest some books for me
Ease into it.
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (Glenny translation). Russians are God tier when it comes to literature.
If you are thirsty for more start browsing /lit/. Half chans version is still good.
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I agree on that point.
Roman, but I didn't recommend it because of its context. It contains better life advice than the "just do it" self help books of today.
Perhaps.
Because it stands on its own well enough and is the most important of the three.
True. I just love it.
I hate the light satanism and Christ the doormat approach of that book.
It's a very different Hobbes. We're not talking about the Leviathan guy. The book is from 2015 IIRC and gives a family man's scenario of 4th generation warfare in a US context.
>Its okay but not much different from what >>13066942 suggests.
If promotes healthy relations between sexes and one's duties. I consider it essential reading for young men of today.
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True enough. I'll have to check out Victoria.
I'm obviously not as well read as I would like but I try my best. I'm slowly trying to build up my collection and only buy second hand so I dont put money in a Jews pocket. Heres a selection.
Honestly the more men we get back into reading the better.
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Good start. Lots of classics. Consider branching out into nonfiction, biographies, and history.
James Joyce is a /lit/ meme people use to flex about the books they've read. 2deep4u ramblings that don't add value to your life aside from illusory feelings of intellectual superiority. Would not recommend to anyone focused on actually bettering themselves. You might as well be reading Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning.