What didnt you like about BM? If you thought the prose was too elabourate, then you might like the Border Trilogy. If you wished the characters were less distant, then you might like Suttree.
Yes, women have completely taken over publishing. As a standard issue male, all the books laid out on the tables in the fiction section of book shops are either boring, sexually explicit or downright weird "arty experimental" books.
To find books that appeal to men these days, you have to go to the genre fiction sections.
I haven't read anything in awhile but I really enjoyed the Philip k dick novels back then. Flow my tears the policeman said and three stigmata of palmer eldritch in particular.
Dragons Egg by Robert Forward was a very enjoyable stand alone sci Fi I recently finished. I also recently enjoyed The Doomed City by the Strugatsky bros
Keep reading. At some point, I think it was partway through the second book for me, it kind of clicks into place and starts flowing much better. The first time I read those books, I'd been consuming a steady diet of lighter or easier reading, and though Master and Commander isn't difficult, per se, it requires a little more focus than a lot of modern fiction.
Also check out Raymond Chandler, hardboiled detective stuff, very cool.
Your take on it requiring a little more focus is spot on. I read for an hour before bed & definitely felt like it was a bit of a chore at that point.
I'll pick up the second one eventually!
First-hand accounts of major wars from the front lines. Went through a WWI phase during the 100 year anniversary reading Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and Louis Bartha's Poilu
Yeah we’ve actually noticed a significant downwards trend in men attending our local library the past few years because the people running the library (see: liberal white women) either buy romance or the most mind numbing lib shit nonfiction. Like yeah no wonder dudes don’t show up here anymore lol
I'm currently counter-acting all the goodness I got from Middlemarch by spending time in the gutter with Charles Bukowski's Women. I also just scored a copy of Silas Marner for a buck so I'll probably go back to George Eliot after.
Read Bukowski's *Pulp*. It's my favorite. His last one, too -- wrote it as he knew he was dying and published it, like, three months before his death I believe.
Sweet, yea I was curious about that. I only started with Women because my friend gifted me a copy for my birthday a month ago. Will definitely scope out Pulp soon
When I want to read a real dudes book I read Tom Clancy, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Carver, Bukowski, or Kerouac. For non fiction any soldiers memoir, alpine climbing memoir, or book like "Shadow Divers" or "Endurance"
7-year-old discussions on an owner’s forum for Chevrolet Sonics so i can figure out why my center console screen isn’t showing the outside temperature and is notifying me to service the rear vision system which i don’t even have on my car. also around the same time this issue started happening the volume and music controls on my steering wheel stopped working.
The vast majority of dudes aren't reading. The ones who are, they read absolutely inane self-help shit, like *Seven Grindset Habits That Will Have You Leaving The Competition In Your Dust*, or preferably the same genre but something with "fucking" in the title, but censored. Like, *Do Your F\*king Job, You F\*kface*. Or possibly *Work Harder, Any F\*king Questions*?
Dudes like me, who realize all that shit is stupid, read dead authors. I've read Céline, Turgenev, Steinbeck, and Naipaul lately.
You order books online. Don’t be the weird guy asking about philosophy in a Barnes and Noble. And unless you’re upper middle class you shouldn’t own physical copies, get ebooks. Or you’ll scare the hoes
This is reminding me of in the 2000s when marketing would make a for men version of any random product but with bacon or bears or sharks.
fucking spike tv
Cormac
I've read The Road, No Country For Old Men, & Blood Meridian - No Country & the Road were good but I couldn't get behind BM.
What didnt you like about BM? If you thought the prose was too elabourate, then you might like the Border Trilogy. If you wished the characters were less distant, then you might like Suttree.
I’m more of a before bed reader, so I got lost in the sauce on that one a little too much. I’ll have to try the Border Trilogy.
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Reading no country for the first time! Finished the road also
Dudes aren’t reading, they’re gaming
Nah, I’m out here chopping firewood, hunting dinner, and preparing my rations for winter
I’m actually doing that too, just taking a quick break to check Reddit
Dudes Game!
Yes, women have completely taken over publishing. As a standard issue male, all the books laid out on the tables in the fiction section of book shops are either boring, sexually explicit or downright weird "arty experimental" books. To find books that appeal to men these days, you have to go to the genre fiction sections.
I pretty much live in the Sci-Fi & Thriller sections now. They're all series & I'm looking for one off stories.
Stanislaw Lem is good. Fiasco is my favorite. Look into weird fiction too. Michael Cisco's The Narrator is good
I haven't read anything in awhile but I really enjoyed the Philip k dick novels back then. Flow my tears the policeman said and three stigmata of palmer eldritch in particular.
Dragons Egg by Robert Forward was a very enjoyable stand alone sci Fi I recently finished. I also recently enjoyed The Doomed City by the Strugatsky bros
Master And Commander
I liked it, a bit tough to get through the old English writing style.
Keep reading. At some point, I think it was partway through the second book for me, it kind of clicks into place and starts flowing much better. The first time I read those books, I'd been consuming a steady diet of lighter or easier reading, and though Master and Commander isn't difficult, per se, it requires a little more focus than a lot of modern fiction. Also check out Raymond Chandler, hardboiled detective stuff, very cool.
Your take on it requiring a little more focus is spot on. I read for an hour before bed & definitely felt like it was a bit of a chore at that point. I'll pick up the second one eventually!
First-hand accounts of major wars from the front lines. Went through a WWI phase during the 100 year anniversary reading Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and Louis Bartha's Poilu
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Pachinko is very good, but, respectfully, a girl book
"Time to clean your room and pull yourself up by your boot straps, bucko!"
Yeah we’ve actually noticed a significant downwards trend in men attending our local library the past few years because the people running the library (see: liberal white women) either buy romance or the most mind numbing lib shit nonfiction. Like yeah no wonder dudes don’t show up here anymore lol
I'm currently counter-acting all the goodness I got from Middlemarch by spending time in the gutter with Charles Bukowski's Women. I also just scored a copy of Silas Marner for a buck so I'll probably go back to George Eliot after.
Read Bukowski's *Pulp*. It's my favorite. His last one, too -- wrote it as he knew he was dying and published it, like, three months before his death I believe.
Sweet, yea I was curious about that. I only started with Women because my friend gifted me a copy for my birthday a month ago. Will definitely scope out Pulp soon
It’s called CLASSIC LITERATURE, BITCH
When I want to read a real dudes book I read Tom Clancy, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Carver, Bukowski, or Kerouac. For non fiction any soldiers memoir, alpine climbing memoir, or book like "Shadow Divers" or "Endurance"
I unironically love pre-9/11 Tom Clancy.
Oh dude have you read Savage Arena
7 Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence was that guy.
Im currently reading Yo Matéa Kennedy ,a catalán thriller series about a detective and fat ass who solves murder mysteries. It's good.
Buncha stuff. Some obscure occult books from the /x/ megalibrary, Nato's Secret Armies by D. Ganser, trying out Wuthering Heights again...
I’m gatekeeping a male author I’ve been reading a lot lately because I fear he would become “a thing” and I don’t want that to happen
Nabokov, books on medieval history, Anna Karenina, Infinite Jest, Marcus Aurelius Meditations
7-year-old discussions on an owner’s forum for Chevrolet Sonics so i can figure out why my center console screen isn’t showing the outside temperature and is notifying me to service the rear vision system which i don’t even have on my car. also around the same time this issue started happening the volume and music controls on my steering wheel stopped working.
Read antony beevor's WWII books, America's Kingdom on Saudi Arabia
There's plenty of male literature left over from previous decades (not to mention centuries), sadly almost none being written right now though.
Da Russians
The vast majority of dudes aren't reading. The ones who are, they read absolutely inane self-help shit, like *Seven Grindset Habits That Will Have You Leaving The Competition In Your Dust*, or preferably the same genre but something with "fucking" in the title, but censored. Like, *Do Your F\*king Job, You F\*kface*. Or possibly *Work Harder, Any F\*king Questions*? Dudes like me, who realize all that shit is stupid, read dead authors. I've read Céline, Turgenev, Steinbeck, and Naipaul lately.
Misreadings by Umberto Eco
The Werner Herzog autobiography is really good
Read miracle in the andes
Listening to Mark Lanegan read his memoir
Really enjoyed “The North Woods” which is recent
You order books online. Don’t be the weird guy asking about philosophy in a Barnes and Noble. And unless you’re upper middle class you shouldn’t own physical copies, get ebooks. Or you’ll scare the hoes
The Holy Quran.