book recommendations

i want to get into reading outside of school assignments but i have trouble finding quality shit. help.

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

i've heard fahrenheit 451 is good

read anything by john scalzi

i know it's kinda lame but here
1984
fahrenheit 451

stuff that i liked but is somewhat kidish
chocolate war and its sequel

stephen king

room wrote:read anything by john scalzi

scalzi is basically vox day if he was a leftist, don't waste your fucking time

here's some actual recommendations i have on hand right now

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann - basically an overview of the changes that were brought on across the world by the columbian exchange, pretty cool and also full of shit you probably weren't aware of

The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - a very long, very comprehensive book on theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, and the muckracking journalists of the time. really fucking cool and hard to put down, and it's long as fuck to boot.

A History of the American People by Paul Johnson - also long as fuck and comprehensive, basically goes through the entire history of america up to the 1990s

History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky - really just sorta speaks for itself

Comrades and Strangers by Michael Harrold - an interesting book written by a man who spent a significant portion of time in north korea, and made many friends along the way. definitely worth reading just for the premise alone, but it's also just something you don't often get to hear about

rt i dont know who vox day is but is everybody some kind of monster in your eyes

i read his books, which by the way include zero political shoehorning, and they're good
wtf

also nonfiction aaa im so burnt out on that stuff

room wrote:rt i dont know who vox day is but is everybody some kind of monster in your eyes

i read his books, which by the way include zero political shoehorning, and they're good
wtf

also nonfiction aaa im so burnt out on that stuff

he's rt
his whole charm comes from the fact that everyone sucks in his eyes and he's not afraid to give you whatever reason he thinks that's the case

vox day is someone who by most standards is a radical right-winger. he's mostly known for the rabid puppies and pissing social justice warriors off

and what does he have to do with scalzi

room wrote:and what does he have to do with scalzi

scalzi is an idiot who likes to le ebin shoehorn his progressive af agenda into literally everything just like vox day

he also does not like vox day and the two have a hilarious spat which in part lead to the creation of the rabid puppies to fuck with the hugo awards

i have seen none of this, read redshirts, agent to the stars, old mans war I

believe me i have seen shoehorning authors, i read two of cory doctorows books on a car trip, jesus christ

whatever he says on his obligatory author blog i dont curr, btw
his books are good and free of agenda and thats all i care about.

viubladan ul yangnos wrote:

room wrote:read anything by john scalzi

scalzi is basically vox day if he was a leftist, don't waste your fucking time

here's some actual recommendations i have on hand right now

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann - basically an overview of the changes that were brought on across the world by the columbian exchange, pretty cool and also full of shit you probably weren't aware of

The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - a very long, very comprehensive book on theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, and the muckracking journalists of the time. really fucking cool and hard to put down, and it's long as fuck to boot.

A History of the American People by Paul Johnson - also long as fuck and comprehensive, basically goes through the entire history of america up to the 1990s

History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky - really just sorta speaks for itself

Comrades and Strangers by Michael Harrold - an interesting book written by a man who spent a significant portion of time in north korea, and made many friends along the way. definitely worth reading just for the premise alone, but it's also just something you don't often get to hear about

ill look into some of these

rtcity is mad gay

room wrote:rtcity is mad gay

READ A BOOK READ A BOOK READ A MOTHERFUCKING BOOK

buy some land, buy some land, what
FUCK SPINNIN RIMS

this is gonna sound maxhomogay but bestsellers and classics lists cross-verified with goodreads and librarything reviews are typically a good way to start and yes i know this thread is old

anything by kurt vonnegut though

Flamdini wrote:this is gonna sound maxhomogay but bestsellers and classics lists cross-verified with goodreads and librarything reviews are typically a good way to start and yes i know this thread is old

anything by kurt vonnegut though

vonnegoober was a commie

this is a good story he wrote though

oaky wrote:

Flamdini wrote:this is gonna sound maxhomogay but bestsellers and classics lists cross-verified with goodreads and librarything reviews are typically a good way to start and yes i know this thread is old

anything by kurt vonnegut though

vonnegoober was a commie

"Vonnegut expressed disappointment that communism and socialism seemed to be unsavory topics to the average American, and believed that they may offer beneficial substitutes to contemporary social and economic systems.[104]"
you're just making me like him more
harrison bergeron is a really good piece though- a great takedown of what marx would call "barracks communism" and what a lot of the pardon the term SJW types espouse now. i actually had to read that one for english at some point before ammy pestered me into reading breakfast of champions, which was also good

i gotta read The Last Lecture for AP lit and I ain't even started on it lol i'll read it over the weekend
there was also an option for one called tuesdays with morrie, which seems like a pretty stellar book

>ap lit
hope you had a nice life

fuck you talkin bout son im a god at literature