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#21
If we're posting other peoples' lists here's a great one by Thomas777. Several books I greatly enjoy here.

https://realthomas777.substack.com/p/ess...dissidents

Also a great comment below.


Quote:I want to very much QUALIFY this post by explaining my...RELUCTANCE...as it were to drop general BOOK recs. I don't want to sound meanspirited or short, but there's a tendency among intellectually curious people to believe (subconsciously or not) that EVERYTHING that is opaque in history or the POLITICAL realm of man's existence is somehow to be found in a BOOK - it ISN'T. You WILL not find, ''THE BIG BOOK of HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM and WHY YOU SHOULD NOT ABIDE the STATE RELIGION''. NOR will you find a 200 page volume of, ''WHAT the ALLIES LIED ABOUT and WHAT REALLY HAPPENED in WORLD WAR II''. Books are a TOOL - the HISTORIAN, the ANALYST, the REVISIONIST utilizes TOOLS to construct the TRUTH of the PAST and the PRESENT - just as a carpenter uses a hammer and a saw to build a HOUSE. End of SERMON. - T
#22
(11-15-2022, 08:27 PM)anthony Wrote: If we're posting other peoples' lists here's a great one by Thomas777. Several books I greatly enjoy here.

https://realthomas777.substack.com/p/ess...dissidents

An excellent list. As a great fan of the big Chitown man and a member of the 777 Mob, I hope to work my way through all of these someday.

As for myself, here are my favorites. I will only include those which I have read myself, so there are many gaps in the broad canon, so to speak. I'm sure that most of these will not be particularly groundbreaking to you, but this is my best attempt at a "Romero canon," i.e. the books that have most informed me throughout my life. I will put a squiggle (~) before books which have some significant flaws or shortcomings IMO, but which have still strongly informed my worldview.

History and Sociology
The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
Magicians of the Gods - Graham Hancock
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
Agricola - Tacitus
Germania - Tacitus
Caesar and Christ - William Durant
Ancient Rome: A New History - David Potter
The World of Late Antiquity - Peter Brown
Albion's Seed - David Hackett Fischer
~The Nine Nations of North America - Joel Garreau
~American Nations - Collin Woodard
Generations - William Strauss and Neil Howe
The Fourth Turning - William Strauss and Neil Howe
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order - Samuel Huntington
Hitler's Table Talk - Hugh Trevor

Philosophy and Politics
The Republic - Plato
The Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Men Among the Ruins - Julius Evola
~Industrial Society and its Future - Theodore Kaczynski
~The Rational Male - Rollo Tomassi
Bronze Age Mindset - Bronze Age Pervert

Religion and Spirituality
The Bible
City of God - St. Augustine
The Confessions - St. Augustine
~The Kybalion
~The Hermetic Tradition - Julius Evola
The Metaphysics of War - Julius Evola

Biology
The 10,000 Year Explosion - Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
The Races of Europe - William Z. Ripley
On the Track of Unknown Animals - Bernard Heuvelmans
Living Wonders - John Michell And Robert J M Rickard

Fiction
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
Dune - Frank Herbert
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
The Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolff
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm Macdonald
Everything by H.P. Lovecraft
#23
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#24
(11-29-2022, 08:51 PM)BillyONare Wrote: [Image: basedworldreadinglist.png]

I've actually been meaning to read Made in Abyss. Good reminder and fun image.
#25
if people actually read Generative Energy, why don't they mention Peat's anti-hereditarian screeds, approvingly quoting, or outright saying, that IQ as a concept only exists to justify racism, etc.? some of this might be from his "mind and tissue" book, but GE also has such remarks.
#26
the answer is that nobody actually reads his books, and the entire list is a joke. did the hentai not tip you off?
#27
(12-27-2022, 04:37 PM)Tiferhil Wrote: Having reread Mishimas 'Temple of The Golden Pavillon' lately I came to the conclusion that most of western reviews of  it and 'Sailor Who Fell From Grace With Sea' criminally underrate his uniquely dignifying portrayal of youth rebellion in favour of concentrating on  Social Issues, universal themes and such. All modernist and realist western literature I've encountered that does treat on adolescence always puts it in the context of maturing and presents it as a mere stepping stone on the way to adulthood, its quirks inconsequential or negative in results. Mishima completely rejects this convention, instead leaving his protagonists to follow their self-created ethical codes to their logical consequences and ends the story there. It seems to me that most readers can hardly comprehend it without pathologizing characters behaviour as products of mental illness or maladjustment.

I think that Japanese media might be the hardest to process in the world despite its popularity. Hardest popular contemporary media anyway. They're the most sophisticated culture which hasn't been assimilated into our hive. And even before that their historical assumptions and worldviews have always been so different to our own. People have this same problem interpreting mere anime and video games. And as we get weirder increasingly less strange Japanese assumptions and possibilities become lost on most of us.
#28
The Ego and It’s Own by Max Striner was a quick read. The part about the nature of Critique and talking about Liberalism was pretty good.

The Passing of The Great Race by Madison Grant was also a quick read. It’s probably outdated but something worth reading.

The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Freuebach is a long read. I am currently reading it and it’s pretty good so far.
#29
Has anyone read Paul Town’s new book Tales from the Dissident Right?

Some passages that I had to transcribe:

Quote:After Joseph Daedalus finished coding the world’s first Star Wars Battlefront II wallhack he felt an intense surge of guilt and post nut clarity identical to how General Jaden McNeil felt after watching a BLACKED.com video and ejaculating all over the hardwood floors of the apartment his best friend Nick Fuentes inherited from his dead grandmother and was generously letting McNeil stay in.

Quote:I hate hate hate HATE The Amarna Forum. I dedicated a 72 hour fast to the downfall of The Amarna Forum.

Like much of Paul Town’s writing, it is often hard to tell if he is being ironic or not. I find this distasteful. It’s a way to seem profound without saying much and to shield himself from criticism.
#30
(01-17-2023, 06:48 PM)BillyONare Wrote: Has anyone read Paul Town’s new book Tales from the Dissident Right?

Some passages that I had to transcribe:

Quote:After Joseph Daedalus finished coding the world’s first Star Wars Battlefront II wallhack he felt an intense surge of guilt and post nut clarity identical to how General Jaden McNeil felt after watching a BLACKED.com video and ejaculating all over the hardwood floors of the apartment his best friend Nick Fuentes inherited from his dead grandmother and was generously letting McNeil stay in.

Quote:I hate hate hate HATE The Amarna Forum. I dedicated a 72 hour fast to the downfall of The Amarna Forum.

Like much of Paul Town’s writing, it is often hard to tell if he is being ironic or not. I find this distasteful. It’s a way to seem profound without saying much and to shield himself from criticism.

I keep forgetting who this Paul Town character is.
#31
Read 4 books this month so far, the first 2 listed I had already been reading in the previous year though:
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War by W. Bruce Lincoln
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Now I'm reading Dune Messiah and Always With Honor, after that I'll probably continue on with the Dune series while selecting "The Terrorist's Dilemma" by Jacob N. Shapiro or "The Campaigns of Napoleon" by David G. Chandler for my next non-fiction read.
#32
(03-16-2022, 12:34 AM)Leverkühn Wrote:
(03-16-2022, 12:22 AM)cats Wrote: Would any of you happen to know the best translator of Nietzsche's works? Currently reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra as translated by Hollingdale. Seems good, but I'm not proficient enough in German to read the original, so I couldn't tell.

Hollingdale is good; I think he is considered to accurately capture the deep philosophical meaning behind Nietzsche's work, at the expense of being less stylistically clean. Walter Kaufmann is the other big Nietzsche translator, and his shortcomings seem to run in the opposite direction - great style, but does not properly get at the complexity of N's thought, and at time reading Kaufmann alone will lead you to not fully understanding N's position. Because I think Nietzsche's style is so important, I would recc Kaufmann for the future but you aren't going wrong per se with Hollingdale. Overall though both are fine unless you really expect to get into the fine details, at which case you'll likely be reading both translations or just reading N in German.

Here is an article on the shortcomings of Kaufmann's Nietzsche translation though, in case interested. JSTOR gives you 100 article reads/month so this might be worth using one on:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jni....43.1.0068

kaufmann is also notorious for deliberately mistranslating Nietzsche to make him seem less anti-Semitic - he castrated nietzsches philosophy by decontextualizing nietzsches opposition to christianity and inventing a neutral position on slave/master morality. kaufmann outright lies & accuses nietzsche of being desperate for a future of race mixing (kaufmann writes "in the dawn, Nietzsche persists in his gigantic scheme for a future mixed breed and considers the advantages of an ingredient of Chinese blood.", & "belief in the heredity of acquired characteristics and the conviction that race mixture might favor the attainment of culture — both in nations and in individuals")

imo rj hollingdales translations are best
#33
Finished a few last month.

Read a good number of Kafka's short stories because I love the In The Penal Colony. They almost all have a similar structure or topic to Borges, but are written like a schizotypal ESL drifting from topic to topic. Very bad.

The first volume of Kotkin's Stalin is exhaustive and very good. Highly recommended. The guy is very charming in interviews as well. Most books about russia or china, especially in the last decade, have modern politics looming over them but he's mostly free of it.

Diplomacy by Kissinger is mostly good. It has a lot of cope because of the nature of the author and the subject, but he's still very smart and worth reading. It's putatively a history of diplomacy in the western context, but is actually about the extreme idealism of America's view of the world contrasted with others. It becomes a bit of a list of times Americans failed to understand others weren't arguing or dealing in absolute good faith, but that's an important lesson when exploiting this is China's primary diplomatic strategy. (The other is being obnoxiously sanctimonious.)
#34
(12-27-2022, 04:37 PM)Tiferhil Wrote: Having reread Mishimas 'Temple of The Golden Pavillon' lately I came to the conclusion that most of western reviews of  it and 'Sailor Who Fell From Grace With Sea' criminally underrate his uniquely dignifying portrayal of youth rebellion in favour of concentrating on  Social Issues, universal themes and such. All modernist and realist western literature I've encountered that does treat on adolescence always puts it in the context of maturing and presents it as a mere stepping stone on the way to adulthood, its quirks inconsequential or negative in results. Mishima completely rejects this convention, instead leaving his protagonists to follow their self-created ethical codes to their logical consequences and ends the story there. It seems to me that most readers can hardly comprehend it without pathologizing characters behaviour as products of mental illness or maladjustment.

it seems your posts are gone but i had intended to write a reply once i finished reading the sea of fertility tetralogy, which i have now done. i really adore mishima, his stories are a pleasure to read and give me the impression of familiarity with the mind who wrote them. when i am made to see the world through mishima's eyes it's a view refreshingly close to my own, it felt as if he had dedicated them specially to me, particularly spring snow and runaway horses which were more or less pure stories about youth following it's ideals through to their conclusion just as you described. these two were a joy to read, lovely reflections of my ideals, and the bitter ending of the decay of the angel told me everything i needed to know about how mishima felt in his final days.

i think BAP must be right that mishima has some fundamentally occidental element to him because while his nature is unmistakably japanese, nothing in his books feels alien to me. somehow he represents the commonality between japan and the west and while our origins may have been disparate our futures have been bound up together irremediably since the meiji era (or at least, thanks to mishima i cannot see it any other way). mishima was the living embodiment of japanese tradition and his ability to be forward-looking without intimating the slightest betrayal of this tradition is something i find extremely inspiring. if anyone is my "role model" or "hero" it is him.
#35
Recently finished reading The Biography of Manuel by James Branch Cabell. A long series by an erudite southern gentlemen from the turn of the 20th century, very easy to recommend, has a particular blend of comic and melancholic that I haven't seen in a book before.
#36
(02-23-2023, 11:00 PM)combiner Wrote: Recently finished reading The Biography of Manuel by James Branch Cabell. A long series by an erudite southern gentlemen from the turn of the 20th century, very easy to recommend, has a particular blend of comic and melancholic that I haven't seen in a book before.

I've been looking at those for a long time. That's a time and place in American culture I've enjoyed every time I've stepped in.
#37
(03-01-2023, 12:01 AM)anthony Wrote:
(02-23-2023, 11:00 PM)combiner Wrote: Recently finished reading The Biography of Manuel by James Branch Cabell. A long series by an erudite southern gentlemen from the turn of the 20th century, very easy to recommend, has a particular blend of comic and melancholic that I haven't seen in a book before.

I've been looking at those for a long time. That's a time and place in American culture I've enjoyed every time I've stepped in.

Delphi very recently put out an ebook edition of his complete works, but other than that and some dubious POD paperbacks from Wildside Press, he's had absolutely zero presence, even though during his lifetime he enjoyed a respectable readership. Hell, Eddison and Peake still get printed, but not Cabell.
The Delphi ebook's up on zlibrary if you were invited to their recently decentralized iteration, PM me for a link if you need one.
#38
(03-06-2023, 09:59 PM)combiner Wrote:
(03-01-2023, 12:01 AM)anthony Wrote:
(02-23-2023, 11:00 PM)combiner Wrote: Recently finished reading The Biography of Manuel by James Branch Cabell. A long series by an erudite southern gentlemen from the turn of the 20th century, very easy to recommend, has a particular blend of comic and melancholic that I haven't seen in a book before.

I've been looking at those for a long time. That's a time and place in American culture I've enjoyed every time I've stepped in.

Delphi very recently put out an ebook edition of his complete works, but other than that and some dubious POD paperbacks from Wildside Press, he's had absolutely zero presence, even though during his lifetime he enjoyed a respectable readership. Hell, Eddison and Peake still get printed, but not Cabell.
The Delphi ebook's up on zlibrary if you were invited to their recently decentralized iteration, PM me for a link if you need one.

Did not know this. Very cool. Thank you for the offer but I've already found it. I'm using Anna's Archive for books lately.
#39
(05-23-2022, 04:35 PM)bertram Wrote: I recommend everyone here read Prometheus Rising if they haven't already #cindy #futurism

Thank you.
Although the author could barely go 10 pages without worshiping jews, this turned out to be a refreshing and fascinating read.
I wonder though why he was so convinced that we would reach immortality within his life time. Apparently he was not able to sense the scientific stagnation, which was already setting in.
#40
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes 

Jaynes postulate from the unsymmetrical nature of language in the brain that before humanity had Gained consciousness(volition) humanity was a race of mindless automatons that would get hallucinations from the right  counterpart of the Werniche area of the brain communicating with it. 

He adduces the progressive change of language and historic evidence(structure of civilization and change in nature of religion) to corroborate this point. This theory also explains why early human civilizations were so strange and aliens. 

Very interesting theory and would recommending reading his book.



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