Book recommendations?

AFODO · May 25, 2024

Greetings, I want to love reading, and I'm looking for a book that makes itself read, if that makes sense. Simply, I want to buy a physical book that I like to read, I want to read a good story.
It can be fantasy too, if it's not far-off, twisted, the essential point is it to have a good story that is enjoyable to read.
I'm also not interested in the type of horror that is too sensitive / nsfw / not good to immerse yourself into.

I will also want to start reading Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and similar but I'm afraid these will be too hard to read and eventually be boring. I enjoyed reading Zarathustra until the first "speeches" section.
If you are a Hungarian you can also recommend a specific edition / translator.

Epiphany · May 25, 2024

AFODO said:
Greetings, I want to love reading, and I'm looking for a book that makes itself read, if that makes sense. Simply, I want to buy a physical book that I like to read, I want to read a good story.
It can be fantasy too, if it's not far-off, twisted, the essential point is it to have a good story that is enjoyable to read.
I'm also not interested in the type of horror that is too sensitive / nsfw / not good to immerse yourself into.

I will also want to start reading Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and similar but I'm afraid these will be too hard to read and eventually be boring. I enjoyed reading Zarathustra until the first "speeches" section.
If you are a Hungarian you can also recommend a specific edition / translator.

If you want philosophy then Seneca's Letters is great for understanding stoicism. Marcus Aurelius' meditations was never intended to be published, it was his personal journal, even though it was written from 2nd person, so it may not be as easy to read for someone who knows nothing about the subject.

But if you found Nietzsche's obtuse biblical writing style to be palatable then any book should be no issue for you.

The Bhagavad Gita is easy to read and not too long. Philosophical, but with spiritual themes. It is a proper story and not dry and academic like other philosophy.

The Tao Te Ching is also good. It feels related to stoicism but is written in poetry instead of prose.

As for fiction, if you can stand dark and violent themes, Cormac McCarthy is one of if not the greatest modern writer in american literature, and usually incorporates some philosophical themes into his books. You will like him if you like westerns or Dostoevsky. Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men are very good.

He was heavily inspired by Dostoevsky, as was Nietzsche. I have only read Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky. It was good, but also dark and cynical. Dostoevsky has a few other legendary novels like The Brothers Karamazov, Crime & Punishment and The Idiot.

स त न म · May 26, 2024

Try one of Gopi Krishna's books. Excellent books on kundalini.

LoyalSS · May 26, 2024

sir if you want you can read online before you order a book in this site:

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you have access to great authors. as well there is writings of Marcus Aurelius

AFODO · May 26, 2024

Thank you all!
@DarkAries? Which edition you read of Zarathustra, and the other books you might recommend? Any place/shop/publisher that sells "censured" books?

Skyveryflat · May 26, 2024

LoyalSS said:
sir if you want you can read online before you order a book in this site:

Books

tradition.st

you have access to great authors. as well there is writings of Marcus Aurelius

thx broooo that's cool wonderful

xlnt · May 26, 2024

https://ca.biblio.com/9780895090041

Gave this book to my dad today as birthday present. Good read.

Found originally on the JoS website.

Dragonheart666 · May 26, 2024

The Art of War by Sun

Amar.Utu.k · May 26, 2024

AFODO said:
Greetings, I want to love reading, and I'm looking for a book that makes itself read, if that makes sense. Simply, I want to buy a physical book that I like to read, I want to read a good story.
It can be fantasy too, if it's not far-off, twisted, the essential point is it to have a good story that is enjoyable to read.
I'm also not interested in the type of horror that is too sensitive / nsfw / not good to immerse yourself into.

I will also want to start reading Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and similar but I'm afraid these will be too hard to read and eventually be boring. I enjoyed reading Zarathustra until the first "speeches" section.
If you are a Hungarian you can also recommend a specific edition / translator.

These books have valuable thoughts and with a simple syllable, allegorical in places:

Baopuzi - Wikipedia

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Wuzhen pian - Wikipedia

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Parallel Lives - Wikipedia

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Among these resources you should strain your intellect, they are serious works of great value:

Hermetica - Wikipedia

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Plato - Wikipedia

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Alchemical texts

These treatises will require heightened awareness, allegories are constantly used here that require experience in meditation, and these are treasures:

AFODO · May 27, 2024

This thread got bigger than I thought, thank you everyone! If anyone has any book they liked to read don't hold yourself back from sharing it.

DarkAries · Jun 9, 2024

As you can see, I read a lot

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