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Four Books You Must Read Before We Get Nuked --- All 4 Books --- Advanced to Extremely Advanced Reading Comprehension

submitted by Jeff_Cajun_Year to books 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 00:26:50 ago (+10/-0)     (books)

Using this thriftbooks links because.. it's not amazon .. etc..

In no particular order

Book 1
War and Peace. Difficulty Advanced
Great Book with lots of French character names to remember. You will be confused for about 200 pages then it takes off and gets really good. It's about war.. and then peace.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/war-and-peace-by-leo-tolstoy/261057/all-editions/?resultid=6ba90b18-670b-48aa-a641-cd16b460cfa7

Book 2
Les Miserables --- Ok not super hard to ready but it's long and has many
story lines.
Because it is fucking awesome. A must must read. Adventure and a look at the old days. Great book. Forget any movie you ever saw.. it's bullshit.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/les-misrables_victor-hugo/245959/all-editions/?resultid=93d49147-bfdc-4e5e-bc91-7ad54ac4cf62

Book 3
Cryptonomicon Difficulty -- Very Difficult.

This book is great, it has Action, Code breaking. Secret Nazi gold. More code breaking. Throw in some mathematics and some Alan Turing. And underground tunnel secret Nazi gold. So if you like Action Action Action with High level mathematics and Code breaking and more secret underground trapped hidden nazi gold.. this is the book.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/cryptonomicon_neal-stephenson/253851/all-editions/?resultid=b54a8785-4b75-4722-a8a4-239fbe29cea9

Book 4
The Sotweed Factor. Difficulty.. are you out of your fucking mind?

Huge book. Many many many pages. You want to remember characters? Try hundreds.
You will be confused for about 500 pages but then.. slowly you will become enlightened. Set back in the day of Dandy's and Fops . the new World of America is burgeoning.. A complete idiot who nobody likes gets sent to America to become the Poet Laureate of Maryland. They sent him there to get rid of him. He ends up selling tobacco. ( The Book Title is from Olde English. SOTWEED is what they used to call tobacco in the 1780s. Factor is what you call now a " middleman " ..ie. the happy merchant Buys tobacco then " Factors " in his profit , and resells it. So the title reads as such " The tobacco middleman " This Book is 100 percent fucking amazing. At the end it's one of those books you say.. Just fucking WOW.
If you make it to the end. First 500 pages you will struggle and plow through.. filing name in your head to be retrieved at a later date. By page 600 you will not be able to put it down. THIS BOOK IS FUNNIER THAN HELL ONCE YOU REALIZE WHAT IS GOING ON.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-sot-weed-factor_john-barth/288771/all-editions/?resultid=bc200432-c16c-4ed3-9af0-d14ab382a5a3

Every one of these books is The Best of the Best and I could not decide which I like more. You want a challenging read? Each one of these books you will be extremely happy you read it.

Enjoy.


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[ - ] Stonkmar 0 points 2.9 yearsJun 10, 2021 09:32:45 ago (+0/-0)

Just wanted to let you know I went out and bought The Sot-Weed Factor specifically because of this post. I have about 150 pages to go and it is fantastic; thank you very much for the suggestion. It reminded me, in small part, of the book Middle Passage by Charles R. Johnson. Check it out if you haven't already. Thanks again.

[ - ] Jeff_Cajun_Year [op] 0 points 2.9 yearsJun 11, 2021 00:24:02 ago (+0/-0)

Ahhh... you will know.. the secret of the eggplant.


Next .. read Cryptonomicon... it is a crazy fantastic adventure. A can't miss.

[ - ] Stonkmar 0 points 2.8 yearsJun 13, 2021 17:12:24 ago (+0/-0)

Cryptonomicon is on my list. Just finished up Sot-Weed today, and I think I'll have to go back on my review of 'Fantastic'. The ending didn't quite meet what the first 90% of the book lived up to. After Bloodsworth Island, it all seemed to be rushed. And I still don't understand why Anna went all salvage for a time. Very ambitious book, I'm glad I read it. First Blood by David Morrell is next for me, and then I think Cryptonomicon will be after that.

[ - ] Jeff_Cajun_Year [op] 1 point 2.8 yearsJun 13, 2021 23:58:56 ago (+1/-0)

The sotweed factor is actually a parody.

Read the wiki if you want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sot-Weed_Factor_(1960_novel)

Basically by the time that one guy disguises and changes his identity for the 400th time then they reveal it's the same guy and nobody had any idea. You realize you are not supposed to believe it and it's a big joke. They reveal it's the same guy and you go.. Riiiiiiiight.... yeah.

Ha ha ..

fun read .. cryptonomicon will blow your mind

[ - ] Stonkmar 0 points 2.7 yearsJul 29, 2021 15:46:31 ago (+0/-0)

I'm baaaaaAAAAAAck. Just finished Cryptonomicon. It was good; and ambitious. That's about it. I'll never read it again. I liked Sotweed better. Also, if you like eastern shore fiction you should read Michener's Chesapeake - it follows different generations of families from 1600s to 1970. That, I would read again.
Thanks for the suggestions; you have inspired me to actively seek out lengthy books now. I have The Brothers Karamazov and Atlas Shrugged staring at me on a shelf. After those Les Miserable and Moby Dick probably. I usually sprinkle in an easy read in between behemoths. Currently, it's 'Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive' - The Doors biography.
Also, I was told I should probably read The Fountainhead before Atlas Shrugged; any insight?

[ - ] Jeff_Cajun_Year [op] 0 points 2.7 yearsJul 30, 2021 18:59:07 ago (+0/-0)

No don't read fountainhead. Only if you like Atlas Shrugged Which was freaking awesome, it shows how socialism and communism can never work beautifully.

[ - ] Stonkmar 0 points 2.7 yearsJul 31, 2021 19:55:13 ago (+0/-0)

Unconsciously took your advice and started Atlas Shrugged without Fountainhead. Too early for an opinion but I like the writing style.

[ - ] Jeff_Cajun_Year [op] 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 2, 2021 09:33:44 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah.. it's a strange book, the last half being sort of Science fiction.

[ - ] spasswerk 2 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 22:45:58 ago (+2/-0)

Sotweed Factor was amazing not only for the story but for the depth of knowledge of English of the period. Swounds, what a swiving!

[ - ] HughBriss 3 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 08:35:46 ago (+3/-0)*

I actually read John Barth's "The Sotweed Factor" some decades ago, and I've never met another person who has, probably because of the book's length and complexity. I also found it one of the funniest books I've ever read. There is a scene where Ebenezer Cooke, the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Mary-Land (sic) witnesses two whores, one English and one French, hurl insults and epithets at each other over nine pages. Some people have described the book as Rabelaisian for its grotesque and lengthy descriptions, and I would agree, but that's what makes it amazing, because no one writes like that any longer.

One of the motifs in the book is duality and character reversal, and with so many characters, there's a LOT of that going on, and that combined with a great deal of deception, sometimes one doesn't know exactly who is who and what exactly they're doing.

Barth really ties it up at the end and everything fits together. By the time I finished it, I became so close to the characters and enjoyed the read so much that I was really bummed that it was over. You can't read the same book for the first time twice.

I also read a few other of Barth's books, including the thoroughly baffling "Giles Goat-Boy", which I enjoyed, but I couldn't get into the conceit as well as I'd liked. "The Floating Opera" was fun and one hell of a read. I'm sorry I read "The End of the Road", though, because it was really a downer.

[ - ] spasswerk 2 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 22:43:52 ago (+2/-0)

Floating Opera has a chapter (with the wife of the tomato guy) that could be a great stand alone short story. Critics give Barth mixed reviews but I wonder if he was just too strange for them.

[ - ] HughBriss 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 18, 2021 09:55:18 ago (+1/-0)

There's no doubt about that. There's never been any question of his originality and enormous talent as a writer and story teller. As an academic, it seems he should have been a favorite of the critics, but his books are generally regarded "comic novels" and the critics never understood his sense of humor. The same goes for Pynchon, whose books are usually pretty funny (I laughed out loud in several places in "Gravity's Rainbow"), but man, his books are really strange. Critics who can't deal with the unorthodox should just stick with John Updike.

[ - ] spasswerk 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 18, 2021 23:43:28 ago (+1/-0)

This post makes me want to go back to read then again. Now, I must get back to insulting the kids on here.

[ - ] beece 3 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 08:10:44 ago (+3/-0)*



3 worthwhile books that are different from the false conventional historical belief taught in American schools as truth, yet all agree. Reading all 3 will give you a hard deep emotional Red Pill.

1st) "Freedom Betrayed" by ex-President Herbert Hoover. Hoover saw that the Roosevelt administration was strangely working hard to get American into an unnecessary war via USSR agents embedded into the US government and it was literally Hoover’s life's work to document it. Nothing was put into the book that was not double sourced, and he had a full time team working on gathering facts, reworking and re-editing the manuscript for years.

2nd) Operation Snow". Hoover focused on the betrayals that caused the war in Europe and China falling to the communists. He had suspected something like this occurred, but the facts did not come out until 1995 after the USSR fell and we got first hand accounts and documentation from Former Soviet NKVD agents that the USSR had a Jewish agent high up in the Roosevelt administration which the Russians had directed to get the US into war with Japan. That traitor, Harry Dexter White (original name Weiss) with a few other Soviet agents working in the US Government (in the early 50's there were over 20,000 US government workers fired for being "security risks") was wildly successful as he literally brought about Pearl Harbor and the millions of deaths and horrors that followed.

3rd) "The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II" by Viktor Suvorov. One of only 2 USSR GRU agents who defected to the west, Suvorov explains in minute and factual detail why Germany had to attack USSR as a defensive move. At the end you'll say: "Ahaahaha! THAT EXPLAINS IT!"

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[ - ] Khash1488 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 17:40:21 ago (+1/-0)

Thanks for the insightful comment, I appreciate the knowledge

[ - ] Jeff_Cajun_Year [op] 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 00:41:14 ago (+3/-2)

If you think anyone is going to read all your crap you are high. You could have kept it in the original comment thread but you chose to come to my post and spam your bullshit. I may have read it in the other thread, but now your just acting like a woman.

[ - ] Aze 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 17:02:39 ago (+1/-0)

uh, I just finished reading it all...

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[ - ] try 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 06:21:51 ago (+1/-0)*

Thanks for all that. The illiterate people and JIDF paid dis-enchanters who try to make high IQ people flee social networks may attack you. Paid dis-enchanters do exist.

[ - ] Version6 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 09:05:43 ago (+1/-0)

Good info. Some I've recently learned, any other leads for more info would be appreciated.

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[ - ] NiggerFaggot 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 20, 2021 05:00:41 ago (+1/-0)

In a way, they are superior in some facets - you have to be to pull this off. What is essential to remember and distinguish is that while they control, they do not create. A society is built from the bottom up.

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[ - ] NiggerFaggot 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 21, 2021 08:57:10 ago (+1/-0)

Hence the "in a way".

[ - ] spasswerk 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 22:47:28 ago (+1/-0)

For literal laugh out loud comedy, not to mention a great descriptions of bureaucratic BS, I have to suggest Joseph Heller's Catch 22.

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[ - ] spasswerk 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 22:53:55 ago (+1/-0)

Go dog!

[ - ] albatrosv15 2 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 02:31:01 ago (+2/-0)

How about "Serious Cryptography: A Practical Intro to Modern Encryption"?

Fucking faggots not learning any new skills.

[ - ] mikenigger 2 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 05:51:55 ago (+2/-0)

Note that implementing strong crypto without sidechannels in your basement is a pipedream and when shit goes down and everything becomes unmaintained you're SOL.

[ - ] albatrosv15 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 08:35:30 ago (+1/-0)

The rifle and an axe is always the last layer of security.

[ - ] try 2 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 06:18:10 ago (+2/-0)

Bonus points for THAT book not having proven backdoors written cleverly into the C version of the code by a NSA paid stooge, like fucking evil Bruce Schneier.

Yes, Bruce Schneier was paid by NSA to subvert crypto algorithms in his books and code!

Fucking kike, GODDAMNED JEW !!!!


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[ - ] try 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 18, 2021 13:09:41 ago (+1/-0)*

100% fact. He cleverly introduced a bit smear bug in one algorithm of code FROM HIS HANDS called "Blowfish" that took a pass phrase and if any bit in the high bit position of any byte it flipped all bits of that passphrase byte to all the same "1" value : "FF" and if a few tokens in a passphrase had high bit set (from a hash or a foreign language) those too became "FF". It was a clever deception in his code. That code was in firmware from over 18 corporations when discovered by a cryptopunk. He earned his NSA money that year.

He was revealed on usenet in 1997 or 1998 on the cpyher punk hangouts.

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[ - ] try 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 18, 2021 20:28:31 ago (+1/-0)

That's why the algorithms are open sourced and scrutinized by the crypto community

Bwah hah hah hah hah!!!!

The only person to discover that was me! And I published after Blowfish was used for YEARS.

Who the fuck do you think takes valuable time to find NSA backdoors? Almost none are ever found by citizens. Almost none.

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[ - ] try 0 points 2.9 yearsMay 18, 2021 22:49:43 ago (+0/-0)

I gave you a 100% fact.
I gave you info you can corroborate in the Blowfish source code in his best selling original versions of his crypto books.

Its trivial to prove I am correct, and as for who I am, I gave away too much already.

He also contaminated other algorithms using juicy NSA money. He even got fame as payment... a feature bio in Playboy Magazine, etc.

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[ - ] try 0 points 2.9 yearsMay 19, 2021 14:23:21 ago (+0/-0)

do your homework, glownigger.
Continue thread

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[ - ] Cantaloupe 1 point 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 00:38:24 ago (+1/-0)

Thx

[ - ] joesfoot 0 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 03:50:05 ago (+0/-0)

books teach you waybmore than yt videos because they force though and introspection

[ - ] Containingabeaver 0 points 2.9 yearsMay 17, 2021 00:32:31 ago (+0/-0)

Nuke nuke nuke. Jew.