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What are Your Favorite Books?

submitted by __47__ to books 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:06:46 ago (+20/-0)     (books)

Mine are:

"No Country for Old Men."
"The Road."
"Layer Cake."
"Papillion."


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[ - ] zongongo 2 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 13:50:56 ago (+2/-0)

I'll list a few.
Sun Tzu, "The Art Of War"
A. Burgess, "A Clockwork Orange" Jacques Mesrine, "Instinct De Mort"
Ward Churchill/ Jim Vander Wall,
"Agents of Repression"

It's a random sampling of books I see on my shelf that I appreciate and would recommend.

Maybe "Justine" by Marquis De Sade,
In french of course. Pretty degenerate but still a great book.
Not for everyone.

[ - ] zongongo 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 14:01:45 ago (+1/-0)

I have to add "The Wanting Seed",by Anthony Burgess.
An unsung dystopian, kind of satire, replete with outlawed procreation, leather clad homosexual police with black lipstick.
Reminds me a bit of where we're going.
I read it more than 40 years ago but it has stayed in my mind, more than "1984",
Which is another one I recommend.

[ - ] zongongo 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 13:28:16 ago (+1/-0)

I read "Papillon" and another book by
... Hénri Charriere, "Banco".
Fun reads but I think he exaggerated a bit.

[ - ] __47__ [op] 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 13:40:33 ago (+1/-0)

I agree. If it all is true it's quite a life.

[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 10:19:05 ago (+1/-0)

Most of my favorites have already been listed but two kid's books I really enjoy are Lord of the Flies and Flowers for Algernon.

[ - ] BushChuck5002 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 08:35:09 ago (+2/-2)

Robinson Crusoe

The Hobbit

Neuromancer

[ - ] NeverHappened 2 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 09:51:14 ago (+2/-0)

I was going to suggest Robinson Crusoe.
I read it within the past five years for the first time and was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.

[ - ] Stonkmar 4 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 07:33:43 ago (+4/-0)

Little Women
Rules of Attraction
Pillars of the Earth
The Call of the Wild
Catch 22
The Sot-weed Factor

[ - ] NeverHappened 4 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 09:40:27 ago (+4/-0)

I just finished Call of the Wild again yesterday! So good.

[ - ] Puller_of_Noses 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 06:03:01 ago (+0/-0)

The Legacy of Heorot - Niven/Pournelle

Scifi tale of one of the first interstellar colonies. Boomers with 'ice on their minds' to excuse their incompetence.

[ - ] zongongo 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 13:37:59 ago (+0/-0)

Yess, Larry Niven/ Jerry Pournelle.
One of my favorite books is "Inferno"
By this same pair.
I read a lot of Sci-fi when I was younger.
"Lucifers Hammer" was pretty good too.
Same duo.

[ - ] VitaminSieg 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 02:03:24 ago (+1/-0)

The River, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, (short stories) by Flannery O'Connor

Gisli's Saga

Chrysanthemums, by John Steinbeck

Where The Trail Forks, by Jack London

The South, by Jorge Luis Borges


[ - ] Jinglebanger 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 00:28:04 ago (+1/-0)

Armor by John Steakley.
Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz.
The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle.
The Hammer and the Cross by Harry Harrison.
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove.

[ - ] Belfuro 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 00:48:38 ago (+0/-0)

You know that harrybturtledove is a jew and all his books contains anti white subversion especially guns of the south?

[ - ] Jinglebanger 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 12:04:21 ago (+1/-0)

Yes. I read it as a boy. Still a good book if you ignore the last third or so of it. It got me to make the connection between the civil rights movement and communism long before I paid attention to that sort of thing.

[ - ] CoronaHoax 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 23:52:48 ago (+1/-0)

Original Peter Pan and Robin Hood

[ - ] WhatColorIsYourTigerCage 5 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 23:37:10 ago (+5/-0)

1984
Starship Troopers
Bible
Flatland
Moby Dick
Peter Pan

[ - ] Panic 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 11:11:26 ago (+1/-0)

Oh my, Flatland was wonderful.

[ - ] hylo 3 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 23:27:31 ago (+3/-0)

Metro 2033

[ - ] AlexanderMorose13 5 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 23:26:51 ago (+5/-0)

Hands down, I had to pick one, and I was trapped without being able to get any more. Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill. A close second would be the Richest Man in Babylon.

Other favorites:
Think and Grow Rich
The Intelligent Investor
Feeling is the Secret
The Art of Money-Getting
The Science of Getting Rich

[ - ] puremadness 5 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 23:09:35 ago (+5/-0)*

Neuromancer

silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled from random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information. Please, he prayed, now -- A gray disk, the color of Chiba sky. Now -- Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray. Expanding -- And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity. Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America, and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach. And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release on his face.

[ - ] BushChuck5002 -1 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 08:36:29 ago (+1/-2)

Fuck yeah. #3 on my list.

[ - ] Scyber 5 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 23:05:07 ago (+5/-0)

My 2 all time favorite books - Mein Kampf and "On the jews and Their Lies" by Martin Luther.

Horton Hears a Who is my next one (lol)

[ - ] SteppingRazor 3 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 22:42:05 ago (+3/-0)*

I’m reading Shogun now, there’s two books you need to get. It’s a monster of a novel.
Good book if you like jap culture. There’s a new series of it on my Plex when I finish the book.

Pillars of the Earth is a must read, about a mason that builds cathedrals in the 1100s I think. A couple books spun off that and are also worth reading.

My wife recommends books to me also, I love historical fiction. The Four Winds takes place during the dust bowl and is really good.



[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 2 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 08:07:08 ago (+2/-0)

Both adaptations of "Shogun" were good, but as good as they were, they paled in comparison to James Clavell's book. That was a masterpiece.

[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 09:47:30 ago (+1/-0)

My brother likes historical fiction and likes Robert Jordan. I've only read Jordan's WOT and Conan stuff but enjoy his writing style.

[ - ] TheNoticing 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 22:14:54 ago (+2/-0)

The Turner Diaries
Unintended Consequences
Ender's Game
If I can get an audio file of Mein Kampf, that would probably be one of my favorites too.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior 3 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:33:50 ago (+4/-1)

No one said mein kampf

Martin Luther's book about the jews what ever the name is

Henry ford's books about jews all of them

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 3 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 22:16:16 ago (+3/-0)

You're trying too hard, buddy

[ - ] bohmoonx 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:32:52 ago (+2/-0)

Go Dog. Go! by PD Eastman. My kids love that damn book back in the late 80's and now reading it to my grandkids. Spoiler alert: The dogs are planning a huge party, not sure what kind of message that sends but I don't think it involved any drugs.

[ - ] __47__ [op] 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:44:34 ago (+1/-0)

It didn't PD Eastman had to get approved by Suess.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:31:16 ago (+2/-0)

Catch 22
1984
Daemon

My own book... demon 1994<<< might be the title im still editing

[ - ] Trope 4 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:30:48 ago (+4/-0)

I don’t have any favorites as I use books for knowledge and wisdom but a few come to mind:

What Women Want When They Test Men. The author of this book breaks down feminine behavior very elegantly and explains their unending desire to nag.

He so perfectly explained it through analogy: A man’s confidence is like a nice tight ass on a woman. We know it is a nice ass but we cannot help but want to give it a nice slap regularly to confirm this fact. (Con77 knows exactly what I’m saying)

In that same logic, a woman likes to piss off their man because they unconsciously love every moment he gets to assert himself. Once you understand this, it makes relationships so much easier. In contrast: every time a man becomes submissive to a woman, he unknowingly makes himself less attractive to her. IE: Nice guys.

[ - ] CoronaHoax 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 14:10:56 ago (+1/-0)

Wanna know what else keeps a woman in line and unexpectedly keeps them attracted? Just getting another woman.

That’s the other route you can go if you don’t want to put up with the gay nagging route.

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 6 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:26:19 ago (+6/-0)

- Dune - by Frank Herbert

- Blood and Honor - Reinhold Kerstan

- The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials (The Middle Ages Series) - by Edward Peters

- Tesla: A Biographical Novel of the World's Greatest Inventor - by Tad Wise

- Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization - by Graham Hancock

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 3 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 08:05:43 ago (+3/-0)*

Dang, another fan of Graham Hancock. "Fingerprints of the Gods" made me aware of so many things I suspected by didn't know. The basis of his "lost civilization" thesis is extremely credible and based in fact, that at the end of the last ice age, a fragment of a comet struck the earth, causing a global catastrophe.

There is a book that discusses the astronomy, physics, and geology of that event. "The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture" by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith.

Related to that is "Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History" by William Ryan and Walter Pitman. This is a description of the book:

two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea. Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed clear evidence that this inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying hundreds of feet below the level of the world's rising oceans.

I find it amazing that there is so much scientific discovery proving the global catastrophe of about 15,000 years ago, which is discussed by journalists like Hancock, but scientists don't change when new evidence comes along until they are overwhelmed by it and a new generation forces the issue.

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 11:34:42 ago (+1/-0)

That book led me to read "Pole Shift" and that made global scale events relatable.

Pole Shift: Scientific Predictions and Prophecies About the Ultimate Disaster - by John White

All that preps you to understand what happened to The Richat Structure in that period ~15,000 ago.

Proving Richat Structure Was Under the Ocean in 2min (Covered in SALT) Atlantis & Eye of the Sahara

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDrv3I4lDAY

[ - ] Osmanthus 4 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:25:23 ago (+4/-0)

The book I would recommend to everyone is the original "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

This is the book that has the best chance at changing your life for the better.

[ - ] dassar 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 22:31:10 ago (+1/-0)

Haa, i still have that around somewhere when i picked it up at book fair or some such back in early mid 80's.

[ - ] Osmanthus 5 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:23:16 ago (+5/-0)*

I despise The Road and Cormac McCarthy. His books read like they were written by someone who has never actually been outside.

For example, he describes an idyllic brook as amber colored and the smell of fish is like moss. The entire setup of the book is an incompetent mess.

[ - ] Panic 2 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 11:10:02 ago (+2/-0)

And the movie was retarded. Pissed me off.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 6 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:52:59 ago (+6/-0)

I don't exactly have favorites so much as some good ones I remember.

Starship Troopers
The Princess Bride
The Hobbit/LOTR
The Martian
The Expanse(first few books, then it fell off)
Ender's Game trilogy(not the later ones)
Old Man's War(series)
The Wheel of Time(until the author's bitch took over)
The Belgariad/Malloreon
1984
Brave New World

And a whole host of others I don't remember right now.

[ - ] TheNoticing 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 22:15:53 ago (+2/-0)

You don't like the Ender's Shadow series?

I feel like the end of both series ended on a lame note. It wasn't very good.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 16:40:25 ago (+0/-0)

It was ok for the time. Now a days it's fantastic, comparatively. It didn't keep me interested for more than a couple of books though.

[ - ] Belfuro 2 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 00:59:52 ago (+2/-0)

Since you like fantasy novels


The best adult fantasy series ever written is Malazan book of the fallen.
Epic , mature, fantastic.


Sing out if you need help getting epub copies.

[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 09:42:40 ago (+1/-0)

I have heard Malazan is among the best fantasy works of all time. I am having so much trouble reading the first book I'm afraid I'm retarded. The only other book I've had "trouble" reading was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. That book took me over a decade to get through but I'm glad I did. I probably just wasn't ready for that one but I have no explanation for my difficulty with Malazan.

[ - ] Belfuro 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 23:55:27 ago (+1/-0)

Yep you are not alone.

The style is unique. The author hides information from the reader like who the point of view is.

An analogy is like driving at night when you've only driven in daylight.
You need to stop trying to see everything as you can see enough to get to where the story is going.

My brain clicked and off i went.

The story that unfolds is vast and well worth the trouble adapting to

[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 1 monthApr 23, 2025 10:23:35 ago (+1/-0)

Dang, good analogy. I will give it another try keeping this in mind. Thanks!

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 16:39:29 ago (+1/-0)

I tried listening a few times and that didn't go over well. I'll try reading it.

And I'm well aware of how to get epub versions of everything. What I don't like is my years-old ereader is starting to get wonky and there's nothing better out yet.
Very slow moving innovation in that market. Lots of 'I want to be an iPad' and not much on 'better screen for actual reading, screen size, speed, internal storage, battery'.

[ - ] Belfuro 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 23:56:21 ago (+0/-0)

I just use my phone.

[ - ] Belfuro 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:33:44 ago (+1/-0)

The expanse contains judeo-nigger shit which i am intolerant of.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 16:35:46 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, that's why I dropped it. I can only stand so much.

[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 09:39:05 ago (+1/-0)

I thought Sanderson did a decent job. Harriet is the bitch who ruins everything.

[ - ] bosunmoon 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:52:45 ago (+1/-0)

The book with no title. masquerade, animalia and fox with socks.

[ - ] Not_C 8 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:50:11 ago (+8/-0)

I'm surprised that no one has said The Turner Diaries yet.

But here is a good reading list that was posted on here years ago -

https://pomf2.lain.la/f/fowuqy76.jpg

[ - ] Stonkmar 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 07:29:36 ago (+1/-0)

The Turner Diaries is a book, and the plot is interesting, but it's not a great book.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 16:42:04 ago (+1/-0)

Yup. It's purely /ourguy/ sort of material, but it's not very good. Though there's not much /ourguy/ fantasy/scifi stuff out there.

[ - ] MCDLXXXVIII 0 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 23:59:24 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Eliack 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:34:14 ago (+1/-0)

"Crime and punishment"
"The light between oceans"
"The giver"
"The man who was Thursday"
"Hay bin Yakzan"

Ehh a lot of my favorite books aren't translated to English so my list is a short one.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:25:03 ago (+1/-0)

Fiction: "The Sot-Weed Factor" by John Barth

Non-fiction: "Kicking the Sacred Cow" by James Hogan

[ - ] Stonkmar 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 07:31:45 ago (+1/-0)

I was waiting for the Sot-Weed Factor. Glad somebody's read it.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 07:53:26 ago (+0/-0)*

I was genuinely depressed when I finished it because I'd never again be able to read it for the first time. I first encountered it in 1982 listening to it being read on a daily radio segment. It was the damnedest thing I'd ever heard and bought a copy the next day. Since then I've read several of Barth's novels, but nothing ever topped that one.

It's considered a "difficult" book because it's long and complex, but I had no trouble with it because it was fun. I DID have trouble finishing "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Infinite Wisdom". Both were slogs. I've read "Ulysses" several times and "Finnegans Wake" once over several years (with a lot of notes), but neither of those was as laborious as Pynchon's longer books. I found Dostoevsky more or less readable once I got used to the dense 19th century prose.

Now that I think on it, as much as a enjoyed and admired Barth's work, I think my favorite book would have to be "Great Expectations". Nothing short of a masterpiece.

[ - ] Stonkmar 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 11:51:38 ago (+0/-0)

I got through Floating Opera but couldn't finish Giles Goatboy.
Ulysses is on my list.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 0 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 12:14:13 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah, "Giles Goatboy" was a bizarre and inferior novel. It had some clever moments, but it was too long to carry the conceit.

[ - ] Belfuro 3 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:03:51 ago (+3/-0)

Want to try something different?

Try Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinneman.

Best in its genre

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:40:35 ago (+2/-0)

Reading the wiki reminds me of Despot's Game.

[ - ] Belfuro 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 21:34:48 ago (+2/-0)

Well written.
Great characters.
Unique.
Great humor.
Love the major events. Full of strategy, violence and loss

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 20:01:30 ago (+1/-0)

Hard to say.

I think in terms of anarchism (I'm an anarchist) probably TAZ by Hakim Bey and Proudhon's 'What is Property?'

I could add Siege I suppose. Interestingly, anarchist clearinghouses have been known to carry it.

[ - ] pickingrinninspittin 6 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:38:10 ago (+6/-0)

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

Any of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett (moreso for the earlier ones).

The Harry Potter books.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 2 points 1 monthApr 22, 2025 08:10:32 ago (+2/-0)

Terry Pratchett was a good writer and world builder with an innate gift for storytelling. I'm listening to his work on audio (mostly at the gym and while driving). He was certainly no genius, but what he accomplished in his short lifetime, that is, his prodigious output, was remarkable.

[ - ] __47__ [op] 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:41:43 ago (+1/-0)

Good list. I remember playing a point and click game based on discworld.

[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 1 monthApr 22, 2025 09:44:53 ago (+1/-0)

I have enjoyed Harry Potter when I read it myself and each time I've read it to the kids.
Discworld is great and I will have to check out the other suggestion for sure. Thanks!

[ - ] paul_neri 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:21:21 ago (+3/-2)

As a kid my favourite books were:

Coral Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coral_Island

My Side of the Mountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain

As an adult...Playboy and Penthouse.

[ - ] __47__ [op] 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:22:24 ago (+2/-0)

Gary Paulsen is legit. Have a leather bound soft cover of Hatchet.

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:21:18 ago (+1/-0)

I like those books. Recently I read 'The Trailer Park Parable'. Its decent.

[ - ] paul_neri 1 point 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:18:50 ago (+1/-0)

1. saw the movie
2. saw the movie.
4. read the book.It was a thick book.A good read.

[ - ] __47__ [op] 0 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:21:36 ago (+0/-0)

Try reading them Paul. They're difficult ad Mccarthy doesn't quote lines but it's intense. Not to say the two movies are bad. No Country is one of my all time favorite movies. Anton was such a diabolical fuck.

[ - ] xmasskull 2 points 1 monthApr 21, 2025 19:13:24 ago (+2/-0)

Same-Except "Papillion" is #1.