Author Topic: BOOKS!!! (Read 6680 times)

hangclean · « **Reply #25 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:56:19 PM »

Quote from: benchthis on April 21, 2009, 05:43:36 PM

well that dude who called us out on the amount of books we read got me thinking... maybe he's right...
so i took a trip to Barnes and Nobles and made a few purchases... im going to try and read a book a week

i bought
The Pathway by Laurel Mellin
Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

Man's search for meaning is a great read.

Doug_Steele · « **Reply #26 on:** April 21, 2009, 11:00:31 PM »

Quote from: benchthis on April 21, 2009, 09:28:50 PM

is it worth the 69$

YES, I am already going to purchase Volume TWO and it that book totally opened my eyes to so many things!! If $69 is to much money for you to spend, save all of your money because all these other books are garbage.

CalvinH · « **Reply #27 on:** April 22, 2009, 08:01:31 AM »

History and historical fiction.in historical fiction you can find authors lead character intersting and end up reading a series on that person.

Mr. Magoo · « **Reply #28 on:** April 22, 2009, 08:02:53 AM »

Who the hell buys books?

Library cards people come on, havn't any of you seen "Good Will Hunting"?

Tapeworm · « **Reply #29 on:** April 22, 2009, 09:29:04 AM »

Any of the Jeeves & Wooster stories by PG Wodehouse. I laugh 'til I cry.

SuperNatural · « **Reply #30 on:** April 22, 2009, 05:55:04 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Magoo on April 22, 2009, 08:02:53 AM

Who the hell buys books?

Library cards people come on, havn't any of you seen "Good Will Hunting"?

You spent 150 grand on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at your public library.

Doug_Steele · « **Reply #31 on:** April 22, 2009, 05:58:16 PM »

Quote from: SuperNatural on April 22, 2009, 05:55:04 PM

You spent 150 grand on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at your public library.

You should have money to spend on books. They run like $75 a piece

NarcissisticDeity · « **Reply #32 on:** April 22, 2009, 06:01:39 PM »

Quote from: CastIron on April 21, 2009, 09:29:33 PM

I resort to this allot.

Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding: The Master Blaster's Principles of Training and Nutrition

I had it lol and just about every other book on bodybuilding

burn2live · « **Reply #33 on:** April 22, 2009, 06:06:00 PM »

Quote from: MB_722 on April 21, 2009, 05:58:59 PM

Return it

download it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/44260817/Man_27s.search.for.meaning.pdf

Awesome, thanks man

NarcissisticDeity · « **Reply #34 on:** April 22, 2009, 06:10:44 PM »

Two great books , if you can find them.

NarcissisticDeity · « **Reply #35 on:** April 22, 2009, 06:12:58 PM »

Quote from: SuperNatural on April 22, 2009, 05:55:04 PM

You spent 150 grand on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at your public library.

" Do you like apples? " " Yes I like apples " " I got her number , how do you like them apples?"

stormshadow · « **Reply #36 on:** April 22, 2009, 06:14:53 PM »

Quote from: benchthis on April 21, 2009, 05:43:36 PM

well that dude who called us out on the amount of books we read got me thinking... maybe he's right...
so i took a trip to Barnes and Nobles and made a few purchases... im going to try and read a book a week

i bought
The Pathway by Laurel Mellin
Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

Excellent book, and perfect rebuttal to Marxist principles and way of thinking.

Eisenherz · « **Reply #37 on:** April 22, 2009, 06:18:48 PM »

THE ONLY TWO BOOKS I RECOMMEND.

1) "Psycho-Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz
2) "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie (second most selling book of all time after the bible)

At the moment I'm bussy reading "The 48 laws of power" by Robert Greene,
   * Law 1 Never Outshine the Master!
   * Law 2 Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
   * Law 3 Conceal your Intentions
   * Law 4 Always Say Less than Necessary
   * Law 5 So Much Depends on Reputation. Guard it with your Life
   * Law 6 Court Attention at all Cost
   * Law 7 Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit
   * Law 8 Make other People come to you, use Bait if Necessary
   * Law 9 Win through your Actions, Never through Argument
   * Law 10 Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
   * Law 11 Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
   * Law 12 Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim
   * Law 13 When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude
   * Law 14 Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
   * Law 15 Crush your Enemy Totally
   * Law 16 Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
   * Law 17 Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
   * Law 18 Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself. Isolation is Dangerous
   * Law 19 Know Who You're Dealing with. Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
   * Law 20 Do Not Commit to Anyone
   * Law 21 Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker. Seem Dumber than your Mark
   * Law 22 Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
   * Law 23 Concentrate Your Forces
   * Law 24 Play the Perfect Courtier
   * Law 25 Re-Create Yourself
   * Law 26 Keep Your Hands Clean
   * Law 27 Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
   * Law 28 Enter Action with Boldness
   * Law 29 Plan All the Way to the End
   * Law 30 Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
   * Law 31 Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal
   * Law 32 Play to People's Fantasies
   * Law 33 Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew
   * Law 34 Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one
   * Law 35 Master the Art of Timing
   * Law 36 Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge
   * Law 37 Create Compelling Spectacles
   * Law 38 Think as you like but Behave like others
   * Law 39 Stir up Waters to Catch Fish
   * Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch
   * Law 41 Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes
   * Law 42 Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter
   * Law 43 Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
   * Law 44 Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
   * Law 45 Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once
   * Law 46 Never appear Perfect
   * Law 47 Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop
   * Law 48 Assume Formlessness

oh and ofcorse.. "Mein Kampf" in German by Hitler himself.

Tapeworm · « **Reply #38 on:** April 23, 2009, 02:42:32 AM »

Quote from: Big Dicked Bob on April 22, 2009, 06:05:12 PM

Yes

No shit Bob?

jehwit · « **Reply #39 on:** April 23, 2009, 07:07:07 AM »

Quote from: benchthis on April 21, 2009, 09:16:09 PM

so for you serious readers what books do you recommend ?

The Holy Bible
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Socrates
Complete Works of Aristotle
Complete Works of Euripides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by Milton
Complete Works of William Shakespeare

I think this list provides a comprehensive entry into the world of Higher Intellect. By all means though, read what you have already purchased first. I think your books constitute a fine beginning. Also, try to make it to a quality art museum in your area. Just walk around and absorb the sights.

The very fact that you have purchased those books makes you more intelligent than 70% of Americans. You are on the right track.

DK II · « **Reply #40 on:** April 23, 2009, 07:11:57 AM »

Quote from: jehwit on April 23, 2009, 07:07:07 AM

The Holy Bible
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Socrates
Complete Works of Aristotle
Complete Works of Euripides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by Milton
Complete Works of William Shakespeare

I think this list provides a comprehensive entry into the world of Higher Intellect. By all means though, read what you have already purchased first. I think your books constitute a fine beginning. Also, try to make it to a quality art museum in your area. Just walk around and absorb the sights.

The very fact that you have purchased those books makes you more intelligent than 70% of Americans. You are on the right track.

You forgot Charles Darwin, my friend.

Deicide · « **Reply #41 on:** April 23, 2009, 07:13:25 AM »

Mexicans!

smaul · « **Reply #42 on:** April 23, 2009, 07:18:19 AM »

Quote from: jehwit on April 23, 2009, 07:07:07 AM

The Holy Bible
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Socrates
Complete Works of Aristotle
Complete Works of Euripides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by Milton
Complete Works of William Shakespeare

I think this list provides a comprehensive entry into the world of Higher Intellect. By all means though, read what you have already purchased first. I think your books constitute a fine beginning. Also, try to make it to a quality art museum in your area. Just walk around and absorb the sights.

The very fact that you have purchased those books makes you more intelligent than 70% of Americans. You are on the right track.

you also forgot Machiavelli's The Prince.