Thread 24620595

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Anonymous 8/8/2025, 12:32:08 PM No.24620595 >>24620651 >>24620750 >>24620772 >>24620773 >>24622422 >>24622531 >>24622542 >>24622612 >>24623403 >>24623412 >>24624190 >>24624361 >>24624430 >>24624438 >>24624472 >>24625513

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alright im about to read my first book. what's the best book in the entire world to read? non-fiction only.

Anonymous 8/8/2025, 12:57:10 PM No.24620651 >>24620668

>>24620595 (OP)
The Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump

Anonymous 8/8/2025, 1:05:59 PM No.24620668 >>24622415 >>24624423

>>24620651
unironically might be a good pick even though i have no idea what it says on the inside

Anonymous 8/8/2025, 1:55:25 PM No.24620750

>>24620595 (OP)
Finnegans Wake

Anonymous 8/8/2025, 2:04:24 PM No.24620772 >>24622850

>>24620595 (OP)
>what's the best book in the entire world to read? non-fiction only.
Swing and a miss. That's like saying "what's the best poem in the world? English haikus only."

Anonymous 8/8/2025, 2:05:41 PM No.24620773 >>24623564

>>24620595 (OP)
Maybe something like Gödel, Escher, Bach, honestly.

Anonymous 8/8/2025, 2:10:23 PM No.24620780

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I'll show you the best book in the world if you show me the best film in the world.

Anonymous 8/8/2025, 5:07:55 PM No.24621153

Euclids Elements

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 2:16:19 AM No.24622415

>>24620668
Not worth it, just a bio of someone else writing how busy trump is.
So busy he cannot even write his own book lol

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 2:18:14 AM No.24622422 >>24622611 >>24626064

>>24620595 (OP)
>im about to read my first book
American detected

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 3:15:24 AM No.24622531 >>24623403

>>24620595 (OP)
The best book in the entire world? Why It's right over there on my shelf!

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 3:19:43 AM No.24622542

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>>24620595 (OP)

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 3:56:41 AM No.24622611

>>24622422
So what third world shit hole do you come from?

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 3:57:42 AM No.24622612

>>24620595 (OP)
Revolt Of The Masses

Trust me

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 7:10:29 AM No.24622850 >>24624436

>>24620772
unless i can learn something from the book that will help my life somehow, i cant be bothered

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 1:34:11 PM No.24623403

>>24620595 (OP)
>non-fiction only.
The dictionary.

>>24622531
You motherfucker! Give it to OP so he can read it!

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 1:39:47 PM No.24623412

>>24620595 (OP)
Start with the greeks

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 2:54:56 PM No.24623564

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>>24620773
that's a fart-sniffing meme-book unfortunately
if you want to recommend something in that vein, go with McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy"... it even has the summed up Godel Escher Back, taking up no more than 3 pages somewhere in there

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 5:25:48 PM No.24623863

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E Knuth

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 5:33:42 PM No.24623886 >>24625919

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A pickle for the Knowing Ones. Just don't come crying to mean ol /lit/ when you get filtered because you lack the degrees in advanced mathematics and philosophy to understand the text.

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 7:14:38 PM No.24624190

>>24620595 (OP)
the critique of pure reason by immanuel kant

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:14:49 PM No.24624361 >>24624915

>>24620595 (OP)
The holy Bible

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:24:34 PM No.24624405

Read Napoleon's Biography by Andrew Roberts and strive to become Him.

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:29:03 PM No.24624423 >>24624425

>>24620668
>unironically might be a good pick even though i have no idea what it says on the inside
why the fuck would it be a good pick even though you dont know anything about it?

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:29:59 PM No.24624425

>>24624423
You're on lit. You think anyone even reads anymore.

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:31:41 PM No.24624430 >>24625043

>>24620595 (OP)
what is this picture from?

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:33:58 PM No.24624436

>>24622850
what makes you think you cant learn something that helps your life from fiction books?

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:34:03 PM No.24624438 >>24627891

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>>24620595 (OP)
>non-fiction only
Any historical narrative. I really enjoyed "Two Years Before the Mast"

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 8:43:04 PM No.24624472

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>>24620595 (OP)

Anonymous 8/9/2025, 11:25:30 PM No.24624915

>>24624361
hear hear!

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 12:26:58 AM No.24625043 >>24625513

>>24624430
It is some sort of fan art of "The Night Land" by William Hope Hodgson.

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 3:27:38 AM No.24625513 >>24625941

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>>24625043
>>24620595 (OP)
>It is some sort of fan art of "The Night Land" by William Hope Hodgson.
is it a good book anons? lots of authors I appreciate loved it but it's apparently written in 17th century style prose... and whyle I have no problem reading non-fiction from that era... but fiction... fiction in that style, dense prose, for 800 pages...

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 8:47:09 AM No.24625919

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>>24623886
Second edition. That one contains the punctuation marks appendix.

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 9:04:34 AM No.24625941 >>24626181

>>24625513
there's a version called the night land: a story retold, which updates the prose but still has a pretty archaic feel. i think it's pretty damn good.

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 10:41:24 AM No.24626064 >>24626615

>>24622422
Americans are absolutely in the top decile among nationalities when it comes to reading, cope

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 12:44:00 PM No.24626181

>>24625941
thanks

Anonymous 8/10/2025, 4:47:27 PM No.24626615

>>24626064
i wager those stats are massively propped up by masses of foids reading shit like chestnut springs and brownqueer fantasy that gets shilled on "booktok"

Anonymous 8/11/2025, 12:22:42 AM No.24627891

>>24624438
that list needs some tom wolfe (e.g. bonfire of vanities)