What books do you personally recommend someone to read?
I have an hour (or more) of break time at work and I'd rather spend it reading.
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What books do you personally recommend someone to read?
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top IQfy work break books:
>the stranger
>e-girlta
>paradise lost
>crime and punishment
>confederacy of dunces
>book of disquiet
>master and margarita
The enchiridion and discourses of Epictetus(penguin or oxford)
Marcus Aurelius Meditations(Gregory Hayes version)
The Cynic Philosophers(Penguin)
Musonius Rufus complete works
Idk what kind of shit do you like to read
I primarily read the lit adjacent stuff on break, the letters and essays of writers that I like, i can read a few letters or an essay in its entirety on break. I don't like reading longer works in short little fits. Sometimes I also read short stories but generally not.
HG Wells
Sherlock Holmes
CS Lewis' Space Trilogy
Master and Margarita by all means.
Plays are good for work breaks, mainly because of the act/scene system.
Lord of the Rings.
Chuck Palahniuk.
A Clockwork Orange.
Metaphors we Live by.
>Lord of the Rings.
>Chuck Palahniuk.
midwit
>reading to look smart
>having so little awareness of self and the world
When reading in public there is a certain pragmatism required, reading things like lotr and Chucky P. tends to attract the sort of people who read in public as a social ploy. The key to successfully reading in public is too read things which have a certain amount of disconnect from popular culture, those works which most who know will realize you are reading to read and your book is not just some pathetic fertility statue. Generally you want to avoid things which are too removed from popular culture, such works generally attract the most pathetic sorts, those lacking in awareness. Pornography is best read in private.
idk man. I think you should have a nice day
All of these books are worthless drivel (and no, I don't need to read the books to know this)
KJV
NIV
New Jerusalem
Capital
II Rubin's economics
Blake
Titus Andronicus
Ordinary Men
Robert Graves (WHILE jerking off, ESPECIALLY TO KING JESUS, BUT YOU HAVE TO READ WHITE GODDESS FIRST)
GOOD LIST!
Literally anything. But maybe in an hour you could dig into some short story collections. Check out some by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Hardy, Kafka or Borges. All of them are masters.
the dwarf
the long ship
the adventures of Jonathan corncob
Tom Jones
flashman papers
Simplicissimus
just finished salammbo, it had very rich descriptions of stuff and wasnt too complicated narrative-wise so you would probably enjoy it in short break increments.
>omg... Is that a cute girl??? Doing le quirky thing? And she's Japanese? SO HECKIN COOL
have a nice day you shut in homosexual
>omg... Is that an instagram model??? Showing off her butt? And she's Brazilian? SO FRICKING HOT I'M GONNA COOOOOOM
>omg... is that a G W F Hegel book??? Showing off discourse? And its Phenomenology of Spirit? Cool. I'm going to turn him on his head and frick his face.
Western philosophy canon. Start with Hegel