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-cd16b460cfa7Book 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-bc91-7ad54ac4cf62Book 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-a8a4-239fbe29cea9Book 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-d14ab382a5a3Every 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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Next .. read Cryptonomicon... it is a crazy fantastic adventure. A can't miss.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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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Fucking faggots not learning any new skills.
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Yes, Bruce Schneier was paid by NSA to subvert crypto algorithms in his books and code!
Fucking kike, GODDAMNED JEW !!!!
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He was revealed on usenet in 1997 or 1998 on the cpyher punk hangouts.
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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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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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