“Mein Kampf” - roughly translated means “my diarhea”
or
“Physics & The New world”
I forget the author but a
good book about the relationship between man and the external world.
Alot of Einsteins ideas in there.
Read “Shadow over innsmouth” by H.P. Lovecraft.
Also,if you have time,read “Necronomicon”,hehe.
It’ll scare you out of a years growth my friend.
[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
Also,if you have time,read “Necronomicon”,hehe.
It’ll scare you out of a years growth my friend.[/quote]
I have a friend who’s been pushing this on me for a long time. I’ve never got around to it. I read really, really slowly. Is it worth my time?
Only read the first four, before it turned into a total crapfest.
[quote]Michael570 wrote:
The Dark Tower series (7 books) by Stephen King
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[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
Only read the first four, before it turned into a total crapfest.
Michael570 wrote:
The Dark Tower series (7 books) by Stephen King
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Total crapfest? WTF? Turn in your nuts at the office on the right on your way out the door.
[quote]doogie wrote:
Cthulhu wrote:
Also,if you have time,read “Necronomicon”,hehe.
It’ll scare you out of a years growth my friend.
I have a friend who’s been pushing this on me for a long time. I’ve never got around to it. I read really, really slowly. Is it worth my time?[/quote]
To read what? The Necronomicon? If you’re not ready to read this book don’t.I think you’ll be alright with a fake version.But if you ever find a real copy of the real scrolls,please know what you’re doing.I have the actual scrolls that date back over one thousand years.This kind of stuff can play with your mind if you don’t know what you are doing.I’m not saying you should read it,but whatever happens isn’t my fault.
No one has mentioned John Steinbeck yet.
Cannery Row is one damn fine piece of literature.
Also, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
and Ayn Rand’s stuff is also good.
Stephen King’s “Long Walk” is really good.
and perhaps you’d like"The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" and the other books of the series.
Steve
Oh come on. I could write for pages about how the last 3 books sucked. But if I did it would be full of spoilers.
The story got way too bloated with new characters and situations that the reader doesn’t care about (those stupid animal things and vampires), what was innovative in the first 4 books became boring and repetitive (going back and forth to NYC and Maine over and over . . .) and the ending sucked beyond all belief.
I know King was making a big statement and he wanted this series to be the center of his “universe” where all his other works mix with it. Well he certainly mixed them all right. And produced vomit.
It pisses me off too because The Waste Lands and Wizard And Glass were amazing books. Story telling at its finest.
[quote]doogie wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
Only read the first four, before it turned into a total crapfest.
Michael570 wrote:
The Dark Tower series (7 books) by Stephen King
Total crapfest? WTF? Turn in your nuts at the office on the right on your way out the door.
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[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
doogie wrote:
Cthulhu wrote:
Also,if you have time,read “Necronomicon”,hehe.
It’ll scare you out of a years growth my friend.
I have a friend who’s been pushing this on me for a long time. I’ve never got around to it. I read really, really slowly. Is it worth my time?
To read what? The Necronomicon? If you’re not ready to read this book don’t.I think you’ll be alright with a fake version.But if you ever find a real copy of the real scrolls,please know what you’re doing.I have the actual scrolls that date back over one thousand years.This kind of stuff can play with your mind if you don’t know what you are doing.I’m not saying you should read it,but whatever happens isn’t my fault.[/quote]
This is the version I’m referring to:
I’m not silly enough to pretend it’s a real book.
Haha, very witty. I would think he doesn’t.
[quote]nephorm wrote:
Check out “Anti-Semite and Jew.” [/quote]
I have, but is that a philosophical work per se, or more an essay?
I was referring to stuff like Being and Nothingness, etc.
I read there was a story where he sent his manuscripts to Heidegger for review, and Heidegger would send his stuff back basically calling him a derivative hack. Funny, how much he knew even back then.
I just could never get into his shit, IMHO he was a wanker media-hog commie bastard.
Seriously, if there ever was a T-man philosopher it was Albert Camus - that dude was a pimp. Athlete, Nobel prize winner, banged lots of women, went out like James Dean.
[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
Only read the first four, before it turned into a total crapfest.
Michael570 wrote:
The Dark Tower series (7 books) by Stephen King
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I agree with Nate, the books seemed to just get worse and worse. The first one was great and the next three were pretty good. I made it through the fifth, but then a few chapters into the sixth book I had to stop reading to prevent puking all over myself. It was GARBAGE.
On a less critical note I’d recommend Salem’s Lot, On Writing or Danse Macabre, a cool little overview of books, movies and TV shows representing some of the best the horror genre has to offer.
If you like short stories I thought Night Shift and Skeleton Crew were brilliant.
[quote]swordthrower wrote:
Nobody mentioned Dostoyevsky! You have to read Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov before you die, or you go straight to hell.[/quote]
I died of boredom when reading Crime and Punishment. Since I tried to read the book, I am not in Hell. Must be somewhere in Limbo then… 
[quote]badboybody wrote:
Stranger in a strange land - heinlein
Friday - heinlein
Enders Game - o.S. Card
Inca’s Gold - Cussler
Harry Potter - Rowling[/quote]
Dude if you liked the Harry Potter books, I would recommend the fuck out of the His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman. They masquerade as kids books, but there is some amazingly powerful stuff in them about religion and spirituality. Leaving the hippy shit aside, they are just awesome books.
To the main thread, above recommendation stands. What I’m reading at the moment: “The House of Morgan” by Ron Chernowski A great book about JPMorgan, used as a parable to document the history of banking. Then again if you’re not interested in finance avoid like a case of syphillis.
“Super Foods” by Stephen Pratt, I picked this up after TC’s “Power Foods” article recommended it. It’s an interesting read but I think TC’s article did a good job synopsising it and was funnier. Now if only I could get my hands on the other book referenced in that article…
I agree with the Economist as your non T-Nation regular reading and also recommend Fortune if you like business.
Alwyn Cosgrove summed it up best though when he said “No book I’ve read has made me dumber” or whatever that quote was.
[quote]doogie wrote:
Cthulhu wrote:
doogie wrote:
Cthulhu wrote:
Also,if you have time,read “Necronomicon”,hehe.
It’ll scare you out of a years growth my friend.
I have a friend who’s been pushing this on me for a long time. I’ve never got around to it. I read really, really slowly. Is it worth my time?
To read what? The Necronomicon? If you’re not ready to read this book don’t.I think you’ll be alright with a fake version.But if you ever find a real copy of the real scrolls,please know what you’re doing.I have the actual scrolls that date back over one thousand years.This kind of stuff can play with your mind if you don’t know what you are doing.I’m not saying you should read it,but whatever happens isn’t my fault.
This is the version I’m referring to:
I’m not silly enough to pretend it’s a real book.[/quote]
No,no,no.
These are fake copies.Let me explaion.I’ll stay on topic,I won’t digress:
Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sana?, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia – the Roba el Khaliyeh or “Empty Space” of the ancients – and “Dahna” or “Crimson” desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. [The Rebel Press edition adds this editor’s note: “A full description of the nameless city, and the annals and secrets of its one time inhabitants will be found in the story THE NAMELESS CITY, published in the first issue of Fanciful Tales, and written by the author of this outline.”] He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.
In A.D. 950 the Azif, which had gained a considerable tho’ surreptitious circulation amongst the philosophers of the age, was secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople under the title Necronomicon. For a century it impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressed and burnt by the patriarch Michael. After this it is only heard of furtively, but (1228) Olaus Wormius made a Latin translation later in the Middle Ages, and the Latin text was printed twice – once in the fifteenth century in black-letter (evidently in Germany) and once in the seventeenth (prob. Spanish) – both editions being without identifying marks, and located as to time and place by internal typographical evidence only. The work both Latin and Greek was banned by Pope Gregory IX in 1232, shortly after its Latin translation, which called attention to it. The Arabic original was lost as early as Wormius’ time, as indicated by his prefatory note; [the Rebel Press edition adds paranthetically: “there is, however, a vague account of a secret copy appearing in San Francisco during the present century, but later perished in fire” – a transparent reference to Clark Ashton Smith’s tale “The Return of the Sorcerer”. Indeed, Lovecraft says in a letter to Richard F. Searight (1935) “This ‘history’ must be modified in one respect – since Klarkash-Ton’s ‘Return of the Sorceror’ (pub in Strange Tales 3 yrs. ago) tells of the survival of an Arabic text until modern times.”] and no sight of the Greek copy – which was printed in Italy between 1500 and 1550 – has been reported since the burning of a certain Salem man’s library in 1692. An English translation made by Dr. Dee was never printed, and exists only in fragments recovered from the original manuscript. [This sentence does not occur in the first draft of the essay. It was added later, after Frank Belknap Long had quoted from “John Dee’s Necronomicon” in his tale “The Space Eaters” (1928).] Of the Latin texts now existing one (15th cent.) is known to be in the British Museum under lock and key, while another (17th cent.) is in the Biblioth?que Nationale at Paris. A seventeenth-century edition is in the Widener Library at Harvard, and in the library of Miskatonic University at Arkham. Also in the library of the University of Buenos Ayres. Numerous other copies probably exist in secret, and a fifteenth-century one is persistently rumoured to form part of the collection of a celebrated American millionaire.
A still vaguer rumour credits the preservation of a sixteenth-century Greek text in the Salem family of Pickman; but if it was so preserved, it vanished with the artist R.U. Pickman, who disappeared early in 1926. The book is rigidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, and by all branches of organised ecclesiasticism. Reading leads to terrible consequences. It was from rumours of this book (of which relatively few of the general public know) that R.W. Chambers is said to have derived the idea of his early novel The King in Yellow.
H.P.Lovecraft wrote about this in a book and turned it into a sci fi fiction book.So many writers have written about this book,for some people, it would be hard to call it real.But then again it would be hard to call it fake. During WW2 hitler found these scrolls. Then,in the 15 and 1700’s they were printed from the orginal text.One of these copies are at harvard under lock and key. Most countries will NOT let the public get their hands on these because of the spells in them.
I can tell you from first-hand experience it is very real.Only very few have the orginals.
[quote]OARSMAN wrote:
I have, but is that a philosophical work per se, or more an essay?
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That’s a complicated question; but I’d say it is an excellent meditation on the problem, and leave it at that.
[quote]I read there was a story where he sent his manuscripts to Heidegger for review, and Heidegger would send his stuff back basically calling him a derivative hack. Funny, how much he knew even back then.
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Heidegger maintained that Satre misunderstood him, but there is also the possibility that Sartre simply developed his own view.
To each his own.
Dude, are you kidding? it’s a made up book. Not real. It’s fake. You might want to try reading Carl Sagan’s book “demon haunted world” and work on developing your “bullshit detector”
Everyone knows the only real necronomicon was on army of darkness and it flew around bit people. Did your scrolls fly around and bite you? If not, they are not real.
Shop smart, shop S-mart!
[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
No,no,no.
These are fake copies.Let me explaion.I’ll stay on topic,I won’t digress:
Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sana?, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia – the Roba el Khaliyeh or “Empty Space” of the ancients – and “Dahna” or “Crimson” desert of blah blah blah…
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That is your opinion.It is a made up book based on findings and history.You can’t say it’s either real or fake because you don’t know what aspect one is coming from. Go and find the orginal text and do the spells from it.Then come back and tell me if it’s not real(Pss!!!Don’t tell your family.Your mother has a problem with controling her emotions).There are plenty of people who have gone crazy from this kind of stuff.There are plenty of facts.Just because you don’t believe in these evil things doesn’t mean they don’t exist.You have your own beliefs,I have mine.Don’t be so ignorant where you’re scathing upon ones beliefs.
[quote]Flop Hat wrote:
Dude, are you kidding? it’s a made up book. Not real. It’s fake. You might want to try reading Carl Sagan’s book “demon haunted world” and work on developing your “bullshit detector”
Everyone knows the only real necronomicon was on army of darkness and it flew around bit people. Did your scrolls fly around and bite you? If not, they are not real.
Shop smart, shop S-mart!
Cthulhu wrote:
No,no,no.
These are fake copies.Let me explaion.I’ll stay on topic,I won’t digress:
Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sana?, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia – the Roba el Khaliyeh or “Empty Space” of the ancients – and “Dahna” or “Crimson” desert of blah blah blah…
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Are you really suggesting than someone do spells to prove the validity of your book? What century are we in? I hate to break it to you, but spells don’t work. If they did all of the witches wouldn’t have been burned at the stake.
I don’t care what you belive. If you want to sit in a circle with your friends and chant magic “spells” feel free. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. However, you are not entitled to your own facts. And all of the scientific evidence to date points to magic not being real in any way, shape, or form. If you can really cast a spell you can earn a million dollars. Check this site out:
good luck, champ.
[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
That is your opinion.It is a made up book based on findings and history.You can’t say it’s either real or fake because you don’t know what aspect one is coming from. Go and find the orginal text and do the spells from it.Then come back and tell me if it’s not real(Pss!!!Don’t tell your family.Your mother has a problem with controling her emotions).There are plenty of people who have gone crazy from this kind of stuff.There are plenty of facts.Just because you don’t believe in these evil things doesn’t mean they don’t exist.You have your own beliefs,I have mine.Don’t be so ignorant where you’re scathing upon ones beliefs.
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A short list of books I liked:
- Etienne de la Boetie: “The politics of obedience: discourse on voluntary servitude”
- Amin Maalouf: “Leo Africanus”, “Crusades through arab eyes”
- “America the book” by the Daily show with Jon Stewart.
- K. Follett, “Pillars of the earth”
- D. Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy”.
- Kai Bird, “American prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer”.
Anything by the following authors:
Francois Rabelais, Raymond Aron, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Albert Camus.