Music and podcasts too.Reading as a hobby for men has fallen on the wayside. Doesn't mean they are illiterate but reading is competing with videogames, social media, and streaming services for people's attention
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Music and podcasts too.Reading as a hobby for men has fallen on the wayside. Doesn't mean they are illiterate but reading is competing with videogames, social media, and streaming services for people's attention
This is probably the number 1.Reading as a hobby for men has fallen on the wayside. Doesn't mean they are illiterate but reading is competing with videogames, social media, and streaming services for people's attention
Is this the official book thread on thecoli?...brehs need to start dropping their goodreads profile and lists for 2025. Im wrapping up Jane Eyre right now...bout to run through all the classics 1st quarter next year and then start jumping into some fiction
Reading allows you to transcend and put your mind out this prison planet
I’ve got too many fukking books and I’m gonna get more
Neuroscience, philosophy, spirituality, history and the fiction based on them.. that’s where the true learning is
What you interested in and I got you
Drop some titles brehda my kindle right now.
What you interested in and I got you
Any neuroscience/philosphy/history titles
These titles arent fully Neuroscience but they link the neuroscience studies — book mark the references and read them yourselves for deeper understanding
Teach Yourself How to Learn - Sarah Yancy McGuire
Shift Into Freedom - Loch Kelky
Limitless - Jim Kwik
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Deep Work
Anything by Jung(more like psychology but important) I’m reading Man and His Symbols
Anything by Franz Fanon(more psychology than neuro but necessary)
Making it Stick
The Man-Not
Afro Pessimism and Icognegro
The New Negro
The Souls of Black folk
Anything Harlem Renaissance related pretty much
Zen in the Art of Archery
Art of War
On War
I Ching
The 4 books and The 5 Classics
Budoshoshinshu
Book of 5 Rings
The Unfettered Mind
Zen and Japanese Culture
Tao Te Ching
Huangzi
The Republic
Synposium
Phaedro
Phaedrus
Temple of Man
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Foulcault
Maybe some Rene Girard if you’re interested in the idea of the scapegoat. But he’s gotta lot of right wing fan boys.
Anything by Thoreau, Whitman and Emerson
Bebop - Scott Deveraux
A Nation of Enemies
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
The FBI war on Tupac Shakur
A Black Soldiers Story
The Mulatto Republic
Anything by Rediker about Pirates
Democracy in Chains
The Counter Revolution of 1776– anything by Gerald Horne
The Half Has Never Been Told
A Respectable Army
A Trail of Blood
Killers of the Flower Moon
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Dark Ghettoes
The Devils Chessboard
Louis Armstrong biography by Collier
The Black Count
Europe and the Islamic World — boring but goes into detail about euros and Muslims living next together
And then physical copies of Landmarks of Thucydides and Herodotus as references are good to have
Yeah I’m going down the Jung rabbit hole finally and I got my dad’s copy of Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Willis. The person who influenced me to get back into reading was that bodybuilder Chris Jones. Now there’s certain shyt I can’t unsee when I look at art and media. Enlightening shyt
if u mess with Jung, checkout James Hollis works. He's a Jungian psychoanalyst
Yeah I’m going down the Jung rabbit hole finally and I got my dad’s copy of Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Willis. The person who influenced me to get back into reading was that bodybuilder Chris Jones. Now there’s certain shyt I can’t unsee when I look at art and media. Enlightening shyt
Also Thomas Merton is a good read too