Pamela Des Barres - I’m with the Band
Charles Perrow - Normal Accidents
Biopsychology of Marxist Fanaticism
Bare Faced Messiah
John Gardner - The Sunlight Dialogues
I eventually plan on reading Joseph Nicolosi; he was the guy who invented “gay conversion therapy.” I’m working on a short book about how homosexuality is made up.
Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone as well as The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen, the first is about a first generation Japanese-American growing up before and during WWII, the second is an interesting quasi-apologetic biography of Henry Kissenger.
What are the highlights of the first book?
Hi all, just joined 5 minutes ago, and I’m reading the Fellowship of the Ring.
I’ve watched the first trilogy and after reading the book series I will hopefully watch the hobbit trilogy
Hi there, thanks for joining the forum! If you like Tolkien, you might want to check out Dunsany, who was a big influence on Tolkien (as well as Lovecraft).
Interesting, I will check this out - thanks.
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Rene Girard
Reading Law - Scalia and Garner
Autobiography of Malcolm X is pretty cool, he’s very much redpilled in the /pol/ack sense. Strong sense of racial pride, strong conviction that he and his people are being oppressed by the Jew (and more often, “the White Man”), was religiously zealous. He’s a very entertaining writer too. Was born a country bumpkin who moved from Lansing MI to Boston then Harlem. He went from being a shoe shiner to a drug dealer to a NOI preacher/missionary. Check him out.
Reading Law is a book about the interpretation of texts. Legal texts more specifically. It’s more of a reference text than a piece of literature, but you can read it like a piece of literature. Really enjoyable.
Is it true that he was a pimp and believes in Yakub?
He was more of a middleman between established prostitutes/brothels and white people. I differentiate between that and a pimp because pimp’s pimp out women Malcom did not pimp any women out.
He also believed in Yakub when he first became involved with the NOI. He believed every word from Elijah Muhammad’s mouth, at least initially (i’m not finished the book just yet). I can attach Yacub’s origin story as told by Malcolm, it’ll just take me a little. It’s more thorough than Wikipedia’s entry.
Currently reading Machiavelli’s “The prince”. fairly interesting if one doesn’t know much about the political situation of Italy in the renaissance.
Also interesting to draw conclusions about modern leaders “A prince doesn’t have to keep his promises if it doesn’t benefit him, he should only seem like a man that keeps his promises, even if he doesn’t” (paraphrasing)
Most Right-wingers would really benefit if they would read some of the classics and get a basic grasp of how rulers actually think.
Certain leaders of certain globe-spanning empires who do every single thing a certain middle-eastern nation demands of them, are not actually our friends
I am reading ‘Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean’ by Alex Christofi. It’s a bit light on the historical context, and that’s a shame, because there is much to say about Cyprus and Greco-Turkish dynamics in the Middle Ages & Early Modern period. But I am enjoying it.
Also reading “Judgement at Tokyo” which is about the post WWII trials in Asia.
Everyone would benefit from the classics. Agreed though
Currently, I’m for the most part occupied with reading ‘The Power of Silence - against the dictatorship of noise’ by Cardinal Sarah. So far, it’s a good book and it’s making me appreciate the few bouts of quiet I can find, but it’s also helping me come to the realization of just how rare such bouts are. But by ‘silence’, the cardinal does not mean the absence of noise, which quietness is. Silence, according to the book, is a way to God and an indication of His presence. Multiple times the prophets and Jesus went into the desert to pray, because the isolation, thus silence, that it brings is most conductive to hear God.
I haven’t read much beyond this yet, but if nothing else, it helped me be more mindful of this spiritual silence; and of quietness, of course. More still, it’s making me appreciate cardinal Sarah for his insights and for his worldly experience outside of these concepts. I doubt he would become the next pope due to his age, but if he did, it would be quite a thing to have someone who is so aware for the need of tradition, faith, and reverence to God.
Hi, thank you for joining. Do you follow Serp Kerp?
I’m reading Enchantment by Orson Scott Card, recommended by a mutual on X. Also reading The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter. Thinking of adding another non-fiction.