Amazing book

Last five books read:

Stoner - John Williams
Barbarian days - William Finnegan
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
The road - Cormac McCarthy

Would recommend them all and need some suggestions on what to read in future.

Currently reading The Martian - Andy Weir

ive been reading The Engineering of Consent by Edward Bernays since i had already read both Crystallizing Public Opinion & Propaganda a few years ago but never got to this one prior. crazy how bernays is literally responsible for american modernity and like no one talks about it

Look at me, look at me.
Just called to say that it’s good to be

Alive...

In such a small world, I’m all curled up with a book to read

Kanyefam havent seen that name in a minute

Have any of y’all read Stillness is the Key yet? And would you recommend it

I am going to recommend you my favourite novel "No One Writes to the Colonel" by García Marquez.
I don't know about the translation because I read it in spanish but the book is really good and it is written with simple language.
The narrative creates some dope atmosphere.
It also deals with death though It is not story driven but has the main conflict

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Just started.

Gonna start later tonight.

Any book suggestions for help find yourself and better understanding others and how the world works?

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz is cool.

You'll have to explain what you mean by "how the world works".

Thank you! And basically how the world works when it comes to karma , energy, and attraction

I don't really read much of that stuff, sorry.

Maybe Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

interested in religious/spiritual or theoretical stuff? or more practical self-help type stuff?

Religious and spiritual

Buddhism (or Buddhist Adjacent):
The Way of Zen - Alan Watts
On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts (also touches some Hindu topics)
After The Ecstasy, The Laundry - Jack Kornfield
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon - Bhikkhu Bodhi

Hinduism / Other Vedic Religions:
The Puranas, Uphanshads, Vedas
Be Here Now - Ram Dass
The Science of Self-Realization - Srila Prabhupada

Esotericism;
Hermetica
Initiation Into Hermetics - Franz Bardon
The Secret Doctrine - Helena Blavatsky
Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Kabbalah: An Introduction and Illumination for the World Today - Charles Ponce

Occultism;
The Equinox - Aleister Crowley
Magick - Aleister Crowley
Liber Null/Psychonaut - Peter Carrol
Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson

Other:
The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
Propaganda - Edward Bernays
Collected Works & Essays of Carl Jung
Collected Works & Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Life Without Principle - Henry David Thoreau
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Cane - Jean Toomer
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

hope at least one of those helps, i tried to mix it up a bit categorically and thematically. would recommend looking into them and reading which ones you find interesting personally

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Siddhartha best on that list. All Hermann Hesse is based. Leave the Crowley for the birds tho

I like Crowley because he gives an interesting perspective on reading between the lines of multiple spiritualities/faiths and a semi-unique idea of self realization. Even if you don’t believe it I think it’s good to read around perspective wise so you can build your own unique perspective. also agree on Hesse.

Currently reading IT and Moby D***, and Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography is coming up in the rotation.

Recently read the Dark Tower 3, 4 and 5, which is just an incredible series. Taking a break for a bit before I finish it next year.

Coming up next I’ve also got:

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (maybe my favorite author)

The Secret History by Donna Tart

Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis

Trying to get back into reading again so i’m forcing myself to read a chapter a day. Sucks cause back in the day before HS I would read two books in a day. Now my ass is struggling.

Flying through The Handmaid‘s Tale right now

What an amazing book

On the last 50 pages, started monday

Finishing Crime & Punishment then moving on to The Brothers Karamazov. Any other russian literature recs?