Best Book/s You've Read

[ZarParticipant 5]

Hey Guys, have blasted through my book back-list this year and only have a half a dozen or so books left to read.

Was wondering what books you guys have learnt the most from, and would recommend most strongly. A top 3 would be awesome!

Also first time posting so Hello to you all, will post an intro soon.

[Anonymous 5]

Most here see the MGTOW trilogy as being essential reading.
The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar
The Anatomy of Female Power by Chinweizu
The Predatory Female by Rev Lawrence Shannon.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Command and control.

Sapiens.

The hobbit.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Manipulated men for the win in position 1, 2 and 3

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[Point Of No ReturnParticipant 4074]

Robert Frost’s Poems

Know when it is your duty to give them zero explanations for your actions.

[black_knightParticipant 2602]

My top 3 so far would, in no particular order of preference, probably be:

1) 1984 – George Orwell (fiction)
2) Governing the Soul – Nikolas Rose (non-fiction, academic)
3) The Whitsun Weddings – Philip Larkin (poetry)

Why?

I think 1984 is a masterpiece, and for me it brought into focus exactly how powerful governments and ideologies are over personal lives. It opened my eyes to the phenomenon of power, and it resonated with my then growing cynicism about human nature.

Governing the soul kind of speaks a little to 1984. It fascinated me because it explains very eloquently the depth to which psychologists have normalised particular social behaviours and practices. Behaviours and practices 99.9% of people don’t realise are conditioned into them through accepted ‘expert’ discourses on matters such as child rearing and war.

Philip Larkin was a poet that resonated with me. I now know why: he was fairly red pill, and felt a lot of disdain at how shallow society was. The Whitsun Weddings are, I feel, Larkin at his most critical. Each poem, like most poetry, takes a lot of time and study to appreciate fully, but when you finally understand them on all their layers, and all the meanings, you’ll feel in good company. Think of it as a poetic version of this website. The title poem The Whitsun Weddings is a materpiece. A real critique on marriage, and the contemporary (1960s) cheapened, ritualised, automatic customs associated with it.

Here’s a Larkin poem called Love Again. It’s not from the Whitsun Weddings, but it’ll give you a flavour of him. This is Larkin talking about women f~~~ing chads, people having one night stands, and having sexual relationships, and feeling the despair at it all, especially for it never really happening to him. Not quite MGTOW stuff, but something I think a lot of men can relate to.

Love again: wanking at ten past three
(Surely he’s taken her home by now?),
The bedroom hot as a bakery,
The drink gone dead, without showing how
To meet tomorrow, and afterwards,
And the usual pain, like dysentery.

Someone else feeling her breasts and c~~~,
Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me supposed to be ignorant,
Or find it funny, or not to care,
Even … but why put it into words?
Isolate rather this element

That spreads through other lives like a tree
And sways them on in a sort of sense
And say why it never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.

[Anonymous 6]

The Prince by Machiavelli
The Bible
Plato’s Republic
Two Treatises of Government
Leviathan

[AutoliteParticipant]

“A Thousand Shall Fall”

(considered one of the best books ever written on the subject)

https://www.amazon.ca/Thousand-Shall-Fall-Canadian-Bomber/dp/155002454X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498227209&sr=8-1&keywords=a+thousand+shall+fall

[LosPukeParticipant 514]

The Bible
The 48 Laws of Power
The Power of Now

[AutoliteParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

The Bible

LosPuke wrote:

The Bible

I’ve read it but I’m really waiting for the movie. I think they should let Quentin Tarantino do the ending…

[Anonymous 14]

The Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.
The Lord of the Rings Quartet by Tolkien.
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand.

[Joey AlfioParticipant]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence

Dune

1984

And pretty much all books written by ancient Greek authors like Aristotle, Philoponus, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Thucydides, Archimedes, Euclid, Pericles, etc, etc.

Δεν υπάρχει τίποτε αδύνατο γι’ αυτόν που θα προσπαθήσει. - Μέγας Αλέξανδρος

[joetechParticipant]

All The Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer

Collision Course by Alvin Moscow (the story of the Andrea Doria and Stockholm collision…a great sea story)

I can’t think of a third one I’d recommend that hasn’t already been mentioned.

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[GrumpyParticipant]

And No Birds Sang – Farley Mowat
The Prince – Machiavelli
Marching Through Georgia (The Draka series) – S.M Stirling
Everything written by J.R.R Tolkien
Exxoneration – Richard Rhomer
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (et al) -John La Carre
Everything written by William S Stephenson
Encyclopedia’s Americans, Britannica, and Canadiana

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[MarriedNotBuriedParticipant 136]

“Watership Down” – You will be confused at first. Stick it out until the snare bit before you decide if you like it or not. Its a slow burn with bang finish. Also rather MGTOW-ish in a way. More Rabbits-GTOW I suppose.

Also,
“The Old Man and the Sea” – A great pro-MGTOW story.
“Lord of the Rings” – Had to read it twice to really understand how deep the story telling is.

[ZarParticipant 5]

Will defiantly be checking most of them out. Thanks for the suggestions.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

I don’t like to read, and when I do, it’s books based off of games or movies I enjoy or of the Japanese culture:

Resident Evil – SD Perry
Conan The Barbarian
Conan The Destroyer
Zen And the Japanese Culture

All the books I had to read in my English classes back in school were books I didn’t like, and I had to just to pass the class.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[MaxParticipant 887]

The Odyssey by Homer
The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

I became a MGTOW because this was the only logical solution for a man survive in a world replete of gynocentrism and biased against men!

[AutoliteParticipant]

I recently re-ordered a book that I read 35 years ago.

https://www.amazon.ca/F-86-Sabre-R-J-Childerhose/dp/0830686495/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498440675&sr=8-1&keywords=famous+aircraft+F86+sabre

The title and the book’s cover are a little deceiving. The book isn’t really about the airplane itself but rather it’s the story of R.J. “Chick” Childerhose, an RCAF pilot who flew the Canadair built CL-13 variant of the F86 Sabre jet.

I need to be reminded that Canada was once a country to be proud of…

Canadian remembers his F-86 Pilot Days with winning humor.
A personal account of becoming an F-86 pilot in the RoyalCanadian Air Force. Never in combat, but a charming story full of dryhumor. I picked up the book, read half of it on my return flight to Tulsa, and left it in the seat back pocket. I have spent alot of time looking for a replacement copy (still looking). Highly recommended. END

The most captivating aviation biography I have encountered.

If you ever wondered what it was like to fly an F86 Sabre this book will plonk you fair square into the seat. The flying is all non combat and so has a charm of its own, bringing out the cameraderie of this unique era in early jet aviation.

I was 12 years old when I received a copy of this book from the author (he went to high school with my mother). In the intervening 35 years, I have read it hundreds of times, and the cover is dog eared and cracked beyond recognition. A wonderful personal story of flying in an era long gone, when individual initiative still drove combat piloting. I recommend this book heartily and am so glad to see it on here.

A great “Boys Will Be Boys” book about the greatest fighter plane ever designed, the North American F-86 Sabre. Explains why boys (now girls, too)will never be able to grow up AND be a fighter pilot! As a civilian pilot with a few hours in an “86”, I can understand the author’s enthusiasm for that airplane and the validity of many of his observations. Very highly recommended!

[Anonymous 8]

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks

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