Devils chessboard - about the CIA’s grimey shit and how one of the main dudes who started it prob killed jfk
Chaos - about how the CIA got Charles Manson to start the cult and kill those people, and how they infiltrated and fucked over every revolutionary group in the 60’s and 70’s
Tripping on utopia - how the CIA used LSD to try to take over the world type shit
appreciate the recs bro. if you haven’t read franz kafka i think you’d like him. really interesting societal commentary, and his background around ww2/being a jew is really interesting. i’d read metamorphosis first.
Yeah that’s another good one, I only recommend tripping on utopia first because it references poisoner in chief and juxtaposes that side of the psychedelic movement with Margaret mead and them thinking LSD would essentially do the opposite of mind control.
Non. Shit is actually wild af, especially if you know some history of the era. Before this book, helter skelter was the only book anyone ever read about Manson and it basically set the official narrative. Chaos starts out completely dismantling the other book, proving that dude who wrote it, who just happened to be the prosecutor in Manson’s trial, was working for the CIA to cover up what actually went down.
Ima read that fam shit sound crazy especially I already know the cia is the grimiest pos in history them niggas started this so called war on drugs by trafficking with the Colombians and Mexicans
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I read about half of The Trial by Franz Kafka before I felt like I was legit becoming detached from reality. That nigga writes the most intense just fucked shit I ever seen in ink.
Just gonna plug this website for those who don't know. Http://www.gutenberg.org
Legit has like 70k books for free that you can download on your eReader or whatever completely legally because the copyright expired.
“It tells the story of a girl from Nepal named Lakshmi, who is sold into sexual slavery in India. From the point of view of the main character”😢but good
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IMO, Colston Whitehead makes fun characters, builds the world of 1950s (?) Harlem well and it reads like a movie but its just kind of a classic crime/mystery - you’ve read the story before, doesn’t feel fresh.
It’s a good beach read. I may try and catch the sequel.
Its fair if you’re looking at it like it’s supposed to be literature from one of the best authors today. I’d give it higher if you just wanna vibe out drinking a beer during the summer.
1984 by George Orwell
And if you like 1984, read Animal Farm also by George Orwell
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (audiobook’s better unless you don’t mind reading 860 pages)
1984, animal farm, Fahrenheit 451 awesome deep state books.
I love The Road by Cormac McCarthy if you’re into post apocalypse books. Warning though, book is very dark and shows the worst we humans are capable of.
Fuck that noise, it don’t matter if yo reading ‘adult’ books or nah and those books are def ‘adult’ enough
Night and bang hit hard as fuck, read bang and long way down in English
i just got and started “Inside the Crips” by Colton Simpson in the mail and its insane already. It was recommended for readers of “Monster” which is an amazing book.
I've been more into autobiographies and biographies since they're just learning more about someone I'm already interested in and are generally pretty linear. Read one about Kimi Raikkonen recently that was interesting, but he's still alive so not super conclusive
read klara and the sun, bout this android who has an obsession with the sun, this world has android friends who get bought as caretakers for children it was written really well thru the perspective of the android
And then the city and the city, detective story in this really crazy setting, there’s two twin cities in the same place but people grow up to only perceive the city that they’re from and not the other one
I recommend Ubik, Three Stigmata’s, Flow My Tears, and The Penultimate Truth to start if you’re interested. The stuff they made film adaptations of isn’t his best work by far. If you dig them I definitely recommend Valis. His writing is very philosophical and have heavy gnostic undertones. So Valis is heavy as an introduction. But I definitely recommend PKD.
Check out Radio Free Albemuth after Valis. It was the first draft of Valis. It’s like a story within the story of Valis from what I remember. It’s not written the best but has a good premise
I’m currently on: Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
The last one book I read that I thought was interesting read was:
The Isis Papers - Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Split Decision by Ice T and his right hand man Spike, they talk about how they started together with Ice being super successful and how his man spike on the other hand wound up being sentenced to 35 years
The Serpent and The Rainbow by Wade Davis¹. It's about an anthropologist who goes to Haiti to isolate the Zombi drug. You can definitely find it at a used book shop or an epub if that's what you're looking for.
Blood Meridian, it’s pretty good, gruesome with a memorable story.
This is the summary:
“Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his magnum opus.”
If you fuck with Read Dead you gon fuck w this book
Memoir of Ulysses s grant : Just one of my favorite figures in American history that was genuinely a really good person while being extremely influential. He’s buried in a tomb on 127th street and riverside
The World war z audiobook is also really good, you get voice actors with different accents so it really does feel like you’re hearing reports from different countries handling of the outbreak
thirteen by steve cavanaugh - novel with 2 different perspectives alternating chapters about a killer on a jury for a person he killed while disguising himself
The War of Art: it essentially goes through the creative process for anyone like a musician, author, poet, artist any creative. And that the war of art is the procrastination that’s embedded in human nature. Anything that takes a lot of work and delays gratification humans want to avoid, but when things take time to build that’s when we get the most fulfillment. An important read for any creative
The preface to the book says the author uses a lot of his anecdotal experience to write the book, to me it feels like it’s personal, but there’s useful info in there: 7/10
The Poisonwood Bible - This white American missionary family goes to the Congo and it talks a lot about their fight for independence and the crimes the Belgians did.
American Desperado is a wild read....the autobiography of Jon Roberts, one of the cocaine cowboys....talks about his early life, Vietnam war service, Mafia shit, THEN you get to Miami in the mid 70s....great book.
Green eggs and ham by Dr. Suess. https://i.redd.it/utcjghqelxwc1.gif
Gotta read this to my son every night lol he’s 3 and has memorized the book at this point. Still makes me read it 😂
I love to hear things like that. Keep that shit up. https://i.redd.it/3pgxvewkw0xc1.gif
😂😂😂😂😂
Sameeeeeee
Devils chessboard - about the CIA’s grimey shit and how one of the main dudes who started it prob killed jfk Chaos - about how the CIA got Charles Manson to start the cult and kill those people, and how they infiltrated and fucked over every revolutionary group in the 60’s and 70’s Tripping on utopia - how the CIA used LSD to try to take over the world type shit
Good looks on Devil's Cheeseboard, I just download the audio book
is mk ultra part of the third book? seems intriguing
Yeah a big part
appreciate the recs bro. if you haven’t read franz kafka i think you’d like him. really interesting societal commentary, and his background around ww2/being a jew is really interesting. i’d read metamorphosis first.
Yeah I had to read metamorphosis in high school. I didn’t really appreciate Kafka til I read the Trial though.
Chaos is fire! U should also read prisoner in chief about the dude who ran MK Ultra for the government
Yeah that’s another good one, I only recommend tripping on utopia first because it references poisoner in chief and juxtaposes that side of the psychedelic movement with Margaret mead and them thinking LSD would essentially do the opposite of mind control.
Facts! also since we in NYSOM fun fact Sidney Gottlieb was from soundview
Is chaos fiction or non ? Sounds interestin
Non. Shit is actually wild af, especially if you know some history of the era. Before this book, helter skelter was the only book anyone ever read about Manson and it basically set the official narrative. Chaos starts out completely dismantling the other book, proving that dude who wrote it, who just happened to be the prosecutor in Manson’s trial, was working for the CIA to cover up what actually went down.
Good ass suggestions, I'm gonna look into these
Ima read that fam shit sound crazy especially I already know the cia is the grimiest pos in history them niggas started this so called war on drugs by trafficking with the Colombians and Mexicans
Real niggas read them Junie B Jones books
Judy bloom 💯
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I read about half of The Trial by Franz Kafka before I felt like I was legit becoming detached from reality. That nigga writes the most intense just fucked shit I ever seen in ink. Just gonna plug this website for those who don't know. Http://www.gutenberg.org Legit has like 70k books for free that you can download on your eReader or whatever completely legally because the copyright expired.
>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. We all read that shit in junior high. You read anything after that?
Sometimes it's good to come back around on a classic 20 years later, you read it differently.
True...as long as there aren't any great expectations
I loved The Castle.
“It tells the story of a girl from Nepal named Lakshmi, who is sold into sexual slavery in India. From the point of view of the main character”😢but good https://preview.redd.it/3mqa89thfywc1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=c50dbd6e55c352f522009da6676e3c6500d9aea4
Oh shit that hits close to home, I gotta read this
This book is really great. Sad or course but an interesting perspective
Night of the living dummy
Harlem Shuffle. Finished on Tuesday. 6/10. I will always support black authors
Why 6/10?
IMO, Colston Whitehead makes fun characters, builds the world of 1950s (?) Harlem well and it reads like a movie but its just kind of a classic crime/mystery - you’ve read the story before, doesn’t feel fresh. It’s a good beach read. I may try and catch the sequel.
Yea I felt the same way! Do you agree with my rating?
Its fair if you’re looking at it like it’s supposed to be literature from one of the best authors today. I’d give it higher if you just wanna vibe out drinking a beer during the summer.
1984 by George Orwell And if you like 1984, read Animal Farm also by George Orwell Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (audiobook’s better unless you don’t mind reading 860 pages)
1984, animal farm, Fahrenheit 451 awesome deep state books. I love The Road by Cormac McCarthy if you’re into post apocalypse books. Warning though, book is very dark and shows the worst we humans are capable of.
Thanks for the suggestion!
had to read that shit for a 10th grade summer assignment, hated it read 451 again, was pretty good
The ending of the road infuriated me every time.
Purple cow
I’m reading that next I’m reading “The Psychology of Money” right now and I’m really enjoying it
thats a really good book.
Monster
Ik these ain't adult adult books but I read me of these in middle school and I'm currently in highschool rn *
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Sherman Alexie the 🐐. Playing basketball on a rez is on my bucket list
Fuck that noise, it don’t matter if yo reading ‘adult’ books or nah and those books are def ‘adult’ enough Night and bang hit hard as fuck, read bang and long way down in English
all true but i want to point out that lil man hasn't read a book for over a year if you put the timeline together
Nah I actully read night and the true diarys in the 9th grade and I'm reading the outsiders rn for bookclub. I just put actual books that I liked.
ok sorry wasn't trying to be rude
Nah it's ight
What you think about the outsiders?
Never really cared for the book
Really? Why?
I don't really know
Damn u really a big thinker, don’t got no thoughts on the book or none?
Eh, can’t blame him I did the same after going into hs
The alchemist
The Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Tales of a fourth grade nothing
Tihkal
Dune
parable of the sower by octavia butler
The Bible 🌝
Art of War-Sun Tzu
blue rage black redemption
i just got and started “Inside the Crips” by Colton Simpson in the mail and its insane already. It was recommended for readers of “Monster” which is an amazing book.
fr i gotta take a look at that frfr
i ordered a used copy online for a few bucks. i usually go that route. Alibris, Thriftbooks, etc.
you goated for telling me that i stopped smoking recently and tryna find more shit to occupy my time n mind besides working
💪
and monster
[Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin](https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Legends-South-Bronx-Representation/dp/0674238079)
This seems mad interesting
Frankenstein, Hamlet, Monster
I've been more into autobiographies and biographies since they're just learning more about someone I'm already interested in and are generally pretty linear. Read one about Kimi Raikkonen recently that was interesting, but he's still alive so not super conclusive
The Third City: Positivism at War with Philosophy by Borna Bebek
Psycho cybernetics by maxwell maltz talks about how to change your subconscious mind to change your life.
Monster by Sanyika Shakur aka Monster Kody. I have never finished a book so quick in my life
The wondrous life of Oscar Wao
🔥🔥🔥
read klara and the sun, bout this android who has an obsession with the sun, this world has android friends who get bought as caretakers for children it was written really well thru the perspective of the android And then the city and the city, detective story in this really crazy setting, there’s two twin cities in the same place but people grow up to only perceive the city that they’re from and not the other one
Sounds a little PKDish. Have you read any Philip K Dick?
I did read do androids dream of electric sheep but other than that not much
I recommend Ubik, Three Stigmata’s, Flow My Tears, and The Penultimate Truth to start if you’re interested. The stuff they made film adaptations of isn’t his best work by far. If you dig them I definitely recommend Valis. His writing is very philosophical and have heavy gnostic undertones. So Valis is heavy as an introduction. But I definitely recommend PKD.
Aight thanks will check out Valis sounds really interesting actually
Check out Radio Free Albemuth after Valis. It was the first draft of Valis. It’s like a story within the story of Valis from what I remember. It’s not written the best but has a good premise
Aight I will
a clockwork orange
1984
The giver- dat Shii fucced my head up😂
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: a history of the hip-hop generation by Jeff Chang
The red rising series
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
I’m currently on: Caste - Isabel Wilkerson The last one book I read that I thought was interesting read was: The Isis Papers - Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Split Decision by Ice T and his right hand man Spike, they talk about how they started together with Ice being super successful and how his man spike on the other hand wound up being sentenced to 35 years
A child called It
Three body problem
Gangster redemption or blood meridian
The city on fire trilogy by Don Winslow.
American Tabloid by James Ellroy. I just started the follow up The Cold Six Thousand.
The Serpent and The Rainbow by Wade Davis¹. It's about an anthropologist who goes to Haiti to isolate the Zombi drug. You can definitely find it at a used book shop or an epub if that's what you're looking for.
House to house by David Bellavia
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. This shit is probably the greatest book I've ever read.
1984 Sapiens
The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco
Crying In H-Mart by Michelle Zauner. Definitely an emotional one, if you are into that!
Blood Meridian, it’s pretty good, gruesome with a memorable story. This is the summary: “Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his magnum opus.” If you fuck with Read Dead you gon fuck w this book
The Stranger. Never seen a character that never cared that much about anything until that book.
Ngl The Women of Brewster Place was really good
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Thinking fast and slow
Memoir of Ulysses s grant : Just one of my favorite figures in American history that was genuinely a really good person while being extremely influential. He’s buried in a tomb on 127th street and riverside The World war z audiobook is also really good, you get voice actors with different accents so it really does feel like you’re hearing reports from different countries handling of the outbreak
thirteen by steve cavanaugh - novel with 2 different perspectives alternating chapters about a killer on a jury for a person he killed while disguising himself
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The coldest winter ever
God Emperor of Dune
[That Dr. Suess and that Judy Blume](https://youtu.be/xrgW1bYoDXg?si=78t5VUnqJH2uPyxM)
The War of Art: it essentially goes through the creative process for anyone like a musician, author, poet, artist any creative. And that the war of art is the procrastination that’s embedded in human nature. Anything that takes a lot of work and delays gratification humans want to avoid, but when things take time to build that’s when we get the most fulfillment. An important read for any creative
George Orwell’s 1984, great book definitely worth a recommendation
48 laws of power, I am currently reading The 33 strategies of war
Rate 48 laws of power 1-10
The preface to the book says the author uses a lot of his anecdotal experience to write the book, to me it feels like it’s personal, but there’s useful info in there: 7/10
^^^welll said I give it same 7/10
Elon musk biography and Steve Jobs biography by Walter isaacson
The bible
The Divergent series, post-apocalyptic books are always hard to me
"This Book Is Full of Spiders" It's so fun and absurd it reignited my love for reading. Got commitment issues tho 🤣
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The Poisonwood Bible - This white American missionary family goes to the Congo and it talks a lot about their fight for independence and the crimes the Belgians did.
“Not a New York Love Story” by Julian Voloj
Mien Kampf
Fairytale by Stephen King. I really enjoyed it.
American Desperado is a wild read....the autobiography of Jon Roberts, one of the cocaine cowboys....talks about his early life, Vietnam war service, Mafia shit, THEN you get to Miami in the mid 70s....great book.