/ub/ - Überhengst

>>1174
I am not an avid reader of books, but I can suggest a couple I liked.
>The girl with all the gifts
>The devils teardrop
>Mr. Mercedes

Here's a personal favorite of mine.

>>1174
Oi cunt! I assume you have read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. If you haven't wtf. Read the Silmarillion pleb.

Stormbringer

>>1174
Read locke! All memes aside check out atlas shrugged.

>>1327
i've been reading atlas shrugged, didn't think i'd make it but it's really good
actual spoiler ahead:
kinda wish john galt's speech near the end was shorter. every time i think its gonna wrap it up it goes on another 20 pages

>>1174
Why Civilizations Self Destruct.

>>1179
Hell yeah I've read those books, they were fucking gold!
Also ATTENTION EVERYONE: GREAT EXPECTATIONS IS SHIT
>>1329
It's because the civilizations forget what made them great, and start taking their greatness for granted, so they start assuming everyone can be great and cancer people who kill great societies and create shit ones are worth listening to when they say "Your society should change to make me happier".
Multiculti societies fail. Either the foreign influence spreads to make a group have less in common, or the foreign influence solidifies in a little cliquish circle of foreignfaggotry.

War and peace

>>1328
Ayn Rand made the brilliant (from a marketing standpoint) decision to write her philosophy books as intricate fables of what she was trying to get across. Arguably, even publishing the books is an expression of her philosophy. The advantage is that her ideas are some of the most easily digestible out there. The disadvantage is that, because of this, her philosophy is frequently held up by people who can't read anyone else because it's too complicated, and her ideas aren't really that great.
It's a good starting point, though. It goes from Heinlein to Rand to real philosophers, if you want to go the libertarian route but can't read philosophy.

The Prince by Machiavelli
Essential for understanding politics and statecraft.

Vanity Fair
Large book, easy read, pretty funny, a classic.

>>1174
this is Peter Zeihan's Accidental Superpower. it's an easy read and gives you a good insight into how the world is ordered and how that's going away.
he's a glow nigger analyst and overly optimistic about America's future but it's definitely a learning experience and a bit uplifting if you're an American who's taken one too many black pills.

I recently read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain which I thought was pretty good. It is a fictional comedy about a 19th century engineer who gets transported to 6th century England where he narrowly escapes execution by passing himself of as a great wizard and thereby securing a place in the kings court. He then uses his modern day knowledge to secretly educate and improve the life of the common people while at the same time undermining the authority of the church and nobility whom he dislikes.
It was written in 1889 so the english is pretty hard to understand at times but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I read it in epub format using an app on my phone so I tried converting it into a pdf to be able to post it here but it seems I messed up the image size and page numbering. Sorry.
Hope anyone who sees this thread likes it.

Recently I read Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini and I am currently reading the Red Nails story from the Conan series. Reading stuff like this really shows what modern writing is missing.

Also gotta love some of the lines in these Conan stories

>>2209
It's hard to believe that Howard wrote those stories for one and a half cents a word for magazines printed on the cheapest, roughest pulp paper, which used his stories as spacers between ads for magnetic hernia cure trusses, isn't it?

Howard died very young, too. He was only thirty years old when he blew his brains out in a fit of melancholy over the death of a relative.

Finally read Don Quixote.
Good shit! Can't think of anything smart to say about this book.
How has your reading gone, lads?

Have you read Mein Kampf? There was a thread about reading it, where we read 10 pages a day, and someone picked out the important parts and commented on them. It was sad to see it die after 100 pages or so.
Anyway so file related is The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi. It's an important book if you're interested in esoteric hitlerism, and the hindu view of Hitler.

Glad I found this thread, I was thinking of making one like it.

>>3225
I've been meaning to read that. If I'm not mistaken it's a meditation on honor?

I read Infinite Jest a few months ago, the first of the "meme trilogy" of 4/lit/, and I wasn't disappointed. It's generally seen as a refutation of postmodern irony. Just get ready for a long haul, it's around 1100 pages of what's mostly rambling, and lots of it isn't what it seems.

>>3227
I read MK years ago but I'll add this to my "to read" list.
>>3228
I thought DQ was meant as a "fuck you" to ancient stories of honourable errant knights.

>>3229
I've actually heard that too, now that you mention it. From InfoGalactic:
>When first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel. After the French Revolution it was popular for its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and seen as disenchanting. In the 19th century it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily tell "whose side Cervantes was on". Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's idealism and nobility are viewed by the post-chivalric world as insane, and are defeated and rendered useless by common reality.
All to add to the mystery of it, I guess. Definitely going on the backlog, with priority. There must be something to it if the amount of translations to come out of it are only superseded by the Good Book.

https://archive.org/details/d-moon-man-political-reflections-arising-out-of-my-sojourn-in-vienna/A+Moon+Man+-+Introduction.mp3
I have found an important audio book I thought I would post it here. MoonMan reading Mein Kampf. Enjoy.

anyone got good book about eastern Europe ?

Just finished Blood Meridian. Lots of murder, lots of rape, lots of saying nigger. Would recommend.

The servile state by Hilaire Belloc

>>1174
Not too sure if it counts, but there's a book a friend and I made that I believe is subtly whitepilled enough for your tastes.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3PJ978P

>>8525
Here's the genre.

>>8526
Samefag, please; shill your shitty book elsewhere

>>8528
ID:f5bb4d2 here.
Not the same fag and I posted the genre to boost /ub/
Sorry.

>>8529
Mind giving a quick rundown? A short description? Are there other ways to aquire it outside Amazon?

>>8533
I believe >>8525 is the right anon to answer that.

>>8534
Well, what gets me is the unvalidated or even referenced assertion
>I believe is subtly whitepilled enough for your tastes. Having read the 5-page preview on Amazon, I wonder what it is about the book that the poster feels is expressly suitable for OP, and why the arbitrary criteria of 'subtly whitepilled'? If the author really wanted to draw interest to the book, shouldn't they consider at least posting the back cover spiel? Nah, this smells of artifice and blatant self-promotion.

>>1174
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch has been my latest /lit/ obsession for about a year. Even better than Scanner Darkly, perhaps the greatest novel ever written. Real deconstruction of the self type stuff.

Not sure where to ask this (the /mlpolit/ thread's archived), but does anyone have a collection of Iron March books? I've got "A Squire's Tale", "The Awakening of a National Socialist" and "RFM-01 Mental liberation".

>>8721
Use Yandex to search for the following PDFs:
- a squire's trial
- american futurist manifesto
- faith and action
- fall to madness
- hitler's priest - the anton holzner collection
- next leap
- path of gods - handbook for the 21st century fascist
- revolutionary fascist manual (rfm) 01 - mental liberation
- the awakening of a national socialist
- the fag agenda
- zero tolerance

>>8722
Thanks fren

Anyone got an updated version? 4chan lit actually got dumber

>>8544
Philip K. Dick is overrated. He'd mainline methamphetamine and crank out a fifty thousand word novel in a weekend, tripping balls the whole time. Before he became a famous "sci-fi literatchoor" name the editors at the big publishing houses were able to force him to bend his unhinged visions into something like a coherent story. Once he became skiffy famous he could, and did, tell the editors to fuck off, and his printed work, never great, got much worse for it.

Another problem with his work is that it wasn't just the drugs. He really was crazy, bipolar and depressive. He made multiple suicide attempts in the 1960s and 1970s, some of them while fucked up out of his head on very nearly anything he could get his hands on, from speed to psylocybin mushrooms, singly or in combination. He was institutionalized a number of times. And his much-abused heart gave out on him in 1982. He was just fifty-three when he died.

Anyway. Most of his novels after around 1974 were not stories in the conventional sense at all, but, rather, recountings of psychotic episodes where he believed, for example, that God was a satelllite in orbit above his house, zapping divine knowledge into his head with brilliant pink laser beams that were invisible to everyone but him. VALIS was incoherent but the publishers printed it anyway, because he was famous enough and had enough fanboys who would buy whatever he shat onto the page. There is the same problem with Heinlein's work after around 1965.

One of the things that irritates me the most about Dick's work, either the early, relatively tame stuff, or the late incoherent stuff, was that in his stories he was constantly flirting with ontological weird shit, but only flirting, and was never willing to embrace the weird and commit to it. Like, the protagonist would see a guy on the corner with a hot dog cart. And he'd turn away to look at something. And he'd look back and there'd be just a slip of paper on the ground, and he'd pick it up and it'd just say "HOT DOG STAND" written in a shaky hand in pencil. And he'd carry the note around for the rest of the story, thinking to himself, "This is the Logos. This is the Word of God that I have here in my hands." And it'd turn out, no, government agents were just drugging and hypnotizing him for some kind of convoluted bullshit you can't bring yourself to care about. You read the story and you think "oh boy, this is gonna get WEIRD, this is gonna be good, I wonder if it's gonna be as good as that Rudy Rucker story I read last week," as Cthulhu rises out of the Pacific Ocean to glare down disapprovingly at Los Angeles. And then, gotcha! It's not Cthulhu at all. It's a guy in a rubber suit. It's not the Logos. It's just a conspiracy. It's not a coherent story. It's just Dick typing up what he thought he saw when he was tweeking on meth for two straight weeks without sleeping and had a psychotic break. It is perhaps ironic that a guy named Dick always leaves the reader with blue balls.

If you want to read 20th Century science fiction the three authors that come immediately to mind for me are Poul Anderson, H. Beam Piper, and Cordwainer Smith. Maybe also Larry Niven and Gordon R. Dickson.