Influential Literature

[Paleocon]

With the two most active Happy Hour threads descending into banality I thought it might be nice to have a fresh thread around. I would like to know what literature has influenced everyone the most or at least what everyone enjoys reading.

For me some of the most influential literature (other than the Bible of course) have been the writings of Russell Kirk and Edmund Burke's Reflections on the the Revolution in France.
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[Riddlewire]

Fiction that has influenced me:
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
*A good series for young people to read. Helping the more adept among them to understand long-term planning in cause-and-effect relationships. Although it's still just fiction, it's still very mind expanding for bright kids.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
*Wanna know how the Leftists control human society? This is their instruction manual. Required reading for anyone over the age of twelve.

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
*Much more for entertainment. Goodkind fictionalized every bad thing happening in Obama's America. And he predicted it all almost perfectly, with the series actually ending in 2007. The Tour de Force is Faith of the Fallen (published in 2000). I swear Goodkind could see through time and witness Obama's "wealth redistribution", as this book is a scathing indictment of those policies. He should have stopped there, though. As the series drags on blandly after that.

Nonfiction:
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
*If you studied higher level statistics and probability, this is the book for you. Well, three or four chapters out of it, anyway. The portions most relevant to CF are those about the flaws of scouting and the lies of statistics (Chapters 1,2,6, & 10, I believe). The rest of the stuff is just a bunch of ego-stroking for Billy Beane and some really worthless material about trade strategies (and I'm a lifelong baseball fanatic). If a college football coach ever wanted a cover-your-ass excuse for recruiting a white runningback, he could reference Moneyball and just say he was betting on the recruiting market using flawed performance metrics and that he was trying to exploit that inefficiency by located undervalued talent (white runners). That way he sounds like some kind of math geek instead of a football coach and the caste media would twist themselves in knots trying to figure out if they can legitimately criticize him (The sports media LOVES Moneyball. They believe it to be absolute fact. Even though, for baseball, a lot of the premises in the book have proven to be built on flawed assumptions over the years).

Will update if I think of anything else.
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[Paleocon]

Fiction that has influenced me:


Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

*Wanna know how the Leftists control human society? This is their instruction manual. Required reading for anyone over the age of twelve.

To my shame I have not yet read 1984 although through frequent discussions and references to it I am probably aware of many of the social control aspects of it. Still it is on my list after I get through De Tocqueville and Calhoun.

One of my high school English textbooks contained Animal Farm which I read although I cannot remember if it was assigned or not.

 

[The Hock]

Right now I'm working on "Whistle", James Jones' last novel. I've read a lot of books, but lately I haven't been the devourer of books I once was, with middle age and a medical condition my concentration isn't what it used to be.

Plus I think the internet has pulled me (and a lot of other people) away from paper books. But I appreciate the question (and your posts, Paleocon, always thoughful and informative) and it reminds me that I want to get back in the habit of sitting down with a good book. Edited by: The Hock

 

[Menelik]

Just finished reading Under the Dome by Stephen King. A lengthy read but well worth it. A site that I have discovered on the web is The Gutenberg Project. Lots of the old classics are available there for free. I am currently readingSailing Alone Around The World, by Joshua Slocum.


http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/slgln10.txt

 

[Paleocon]

The following was written in 1790, yet remains relevant even today:

"The literary
cabal had some years ago formed something like a regular plan
for the destruction of the Christian religion. This object they pursued
with a
degree of zeal which hitherto had been discovered only in the
propagators of
some system of piety. They were possessed with a spirit of proselytism
in the
most fanatical degree; and from thence, by an easy progress, with the
spirit of
persecution according to their means.
What was not to be done toward their great end by any direct or
immediate act
might be wrought by a longer process through the medium of opinion. To
command
that opinion, the first step is to establish a dominion over those who
direct
it. They contrived to possess themselves, with great method and
perseverance,
of all the avenues to literary fame. Many of them indeed stood high in
the
ranks of literature and science. The world had done them justice and in
favor
of general talents forgave the evil tendency of their peculiar
principles. This
was true liberality, which they returned by endeavoring to confine the
reputation of sense, learning, and taste to themselves or their
followers. I
will venture to say that this narrow, exclusive spirit has not been less
prejudicial to literature and to taste than to morals and true
philosophy.
These atheistical fathers have a bigotry of their own, and they have
learned to
talk against monks with the spirit of a monk. But in some things they
are men
of the world. The resources of intrigue are called in to supply the
defects of
argument and wit. To this system of literary monopoly was joined an
unremitting
industry to blacken and discredit in every way, and by every means, all
those
who did not hold to their faction. To those who have observed the spirit
of their
conduct it has long been clear that nothing was wanted but the power of
carrying the intolerance of the tongue and of the pen into a persecution
which
would strike at property, liberty, and life." -- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France


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[space hillbilly]

This is that i like about caste football, Influential literature and best movie car chases on the same page!

 

[DixieDestroyer]

Mine include...

- Holy Bible (KJV & Geneva), authored by God Almighty
- The Constitution, authored by The Founding Fathers
- The Federalist Papers, authored by The Founding Fathers
- "The Brotherhood of Darkness", by Dr.Stan Monteith
- "The Creature from Jekyll Island", by G. Edward Griffin
- "1984", by George Orwell
- "A Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley (member of the Elite)
- "Hope of the Wicked", by Ted Flynn

 

[Anak]

I'll go ahead and bump this thread as it makes for a potentially interesting discussion.

The books most influential on my own ethnocentrism would be Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard(allegedly Jack London), The Revolt Against Civilization by Lothrop Stoddard, Which Way Western Man? by William Gayley Simpson, and E.O. Wilson's work.

My view of history was mostly influenced by Spengler(Decline of the West) and Yockey(Imperium, Enemy of Europe), but also Comte de Gobineau, and Eustace Mullin's "The Biological Jew," which is a nice companion piece to Spengler and Yockey.

On the Jewish question David Duke's Jewish Supremacism, Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald, and Jurgan Graf's "Holocaust or Hoax?: The Arguments". David Duke's book is an excellent primer on the subject, just as Graf's is on Holocaust Revisionism.

On religion, I am mostly agnostic, but the Norse Eddas, the Illiad, and the Bhagavad-Gita were more influential for me than the Bible.

The books I enjoy reading are generally like the ones I listed, and history books, as well as classic fiction such as Balzac. I liked Dune, but generally I do not like science fiction, it's usually too pro multi-cult and gynocracy.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

this is a great thread!

some really good books have been mentioned, thus far, so i'll not repeat any of them. i read a lot of Louis L'Amour's books when i was a wee sprout, and they had a big impact on my sense of individualism in the face of adversity. my favorite was actually a sweeping work of historical fiction (not his typical dime-store gunfighter tales): The Walking Drum. i found many similar tales of proud, strong White men in the works of Jack London and similar novels.

the last work of fiction i'll mention is Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. itwas fantastic. she is a jew i can appreciate.

as for non-fiction, the Constitution and most anything related to the Founding Fathers' philosophies is important to read. history of all eras is vital to learning why things really happen, although finding accurate historical booksis always difficult.

 

[Old Tired White Guy]

Some recent m,aterial

The HUnger Games books made a fine point about the excesses of a Government with total control.

this is a great thread!

some really good books have been mentioned, thus far, so i'll not repeat any of them. i read a lot of Louis L'Amour's books when i was a wee sprout, and they had a big impact on my sense of individualism in the face of adversity. my favorite was actually a sweeping work of historical fiction (not his typical dime-store gunfighter tales): The Walking Drum. i found many similar tales of proud, strong White men in the works of Jack London and similar novels.

the last work of fiction i'll mention is Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. itwas fantastic. she is a jew i can appreciate.

as for non-fiction, the Constitution and most anything related to the Founding Fathers' philosophies is important to read. history of all eras is vital to learning why things really happen, although finding accurate historical booksis always difficult.

 

[Tom Iron]

Gentlemen, Good thread. I'm a lifelong reader. I don't want to influence anyone. Read what you want. But I will say that I've come to the conclusion that certain books should only be read at certain times in life. Once you pass a certain age, you shouldn't be reading certain books. "Atlas Shrugged" is one I can think of off the top of my head. I loved that book when I read it when I was young, but I know I could never pick it up again and read it again. Just like life, you pass things by. A guy in his fifties just said to me he was having trouble reading it and I told him what I thought and he was relieved and put it down. He'd just passed it by and was beyond such reading.

I will recommend one book on Hitler. "Hitler's Table Talk." Really interesting. A very limited 19th century man with limited vision. Of course, the powers that be wouldn't want anyone to read that.

Tom Iron...

 

[Bronk]

I'll go ahead and bump this thread as it makes for a potentially interesting discussion.

The books most influential on my own ethnocentrism would be Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard(allegedly Jack London), The Revolt Against Civilization by Lothrop Stoddard, Which Way Western Man? by William Gayley Simpson, and E.O. Wilson's work.

My view of history was mostly influenced by Spengler(Decline of the West) and Yockey(Imperium, Enemy of Europe), but also Comte de Gobineau, and Eustace Mullin's "The Biological Jew," which is a nice companion piece to Spengler and Yockey.

On the Jewish question David Duke's Jewish Supremacism, Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald, and Jurgan Graf's "Holocaust or Hoax?: The Arguments". David Duke's book is an excellent primer on the subject, just as Graf's is on Holocaust Revisionism.

On religion, I am mostly agnostic, but the Norse Eddas, the Illiad, and the Bhagavad-Gita were more influential for me than the Bible.

The books I enjoy reading are generally like the ones I listed, and history books, as well as classic fiction such as Balzac. I liked Dune, but generally I do not like science fiction, it's usually too pro multi-cult and gynocracy.

Excellent list, Anak, though I haven't read Duke's book or Graf's.

Yockey's Imperium is downloadable and free. Orwell's 1984 is a must. I read it in high school under the tutelage of a teacher who really understood Orwell's works and the history around them and his guidance gave me a deeper understanding of politics. The memory hole and Newspeak are as important today as ever. You get more out of Spengler as time goes on, very rich stuff there.

I prefer heavy reading and I would encourage those of you who do to pick up anything by the 19th century's Southern stalwart John C. Calhoun. Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun is a great collection. Calhoun was a genius and a white supremacist, so naturally he is out of favor with today's crowd. "A Disquisition on Government" is a masterpiece that some of Calhoun's detractors grudgingly admit is first rate work.

There are too many books I could recommend but I'll end by saying Stephen Koch's Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Muzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals will knock your socks off.

 

[Awake in America]

Gentlemen, Good thread. I'm a lifelong reader. I don't want to influence anyone. Read what you want. But I will say that I've come to the conclusion that certain books should only be read at certain times in life. Once you pass a certain age, you shouldn't be reading certain books. "Atlas Shrugged" is one I can think of off the top of my head. I loved that book when I read it when I was young, but I know I could never pick it up again and read it again. Just like life, you pass things by. A guy in his fifties just said to me he was having trouble reading it and I told him what I thought and he was relieved and put it down. He'd just passed it by and was beyond such reading.

I will recommend one book on Hitler. "Hitler's Table Talk." Really interesting. A very limited 19th century man with limited vision. Of course, the powers that be wouldn't want anyone to read that.

Tom Iron...

I was past 40 when I read Atlas Shrugged for the first time, but it was in year 1 of the Obama Regime, so I think I was able to forgive some of the cartoonish plot devices, and boring speeches in it because it spoke so well to what was and is going on right now. One thing did stand out by omission amongst all of these characters that were involved in industry, finance, law, the arts, etc... Maybe I missed one along the way, but I don't think so. Of course the same could be said for the villains in Atlas Shrugged as well. Gault, Readen, Taggart, Wyatt, Mulligan, Danagger, Danneskjöld, d'Anconia .... not a one among them. I thought that was interesting.

 

[Kaptain]

These made my list mostly because they are my favorite fiction books and they do have an influential message:

The Great Gatsby: The changing of America from Western values (traditional American values) vs. Eastern values of moral decay (what I call Jewish values) sexual immorality, artificial money, stocks, bonds, mafia, life in the fast lane etc. It also has a great romantic story. My favorite book.

Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. Animal Farm for history lesson and 1984 for a future lesson. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 also. These authors seemed to be giving us coded warnings/lessons that wouldn't allowed to be said in real terms.

William Pierce's The Turner Diaries.

Non-fiction: David Duke's books, March of the Titans, Scalp Dance, Day of Deciet.......