Novel Recommendations

[Basman]

2 hours ago, Erol said:

@Basman

Dude, Not everything is about learning. You can learn from novels, maybe better, maybe worse, I won’t get into that, but you completely miss the point.

By reading novels you get immersed into different mindsets, views on the world, and you get to be fully in with your emotions sometimes. And now the most important part:

It’s fun

 

Definitely worse. Why waste your time on that shit? But you do you brah.

[enchanted]

8 hours ago, Basman said:

Definitely worse. Why waste your time on that shit? But you do you brah.

So you don't like art - in the form of literature? Or intellectualism? 

Also where does Tony Robbins recommend to shit on other people's interests? 

Edited 3 hours ago by enchanted

[enchanted]

8 hours ago, Erol said:

Thanks everybody for your recommendations. I already ordered some of your books and my Goodreads list is packed now! 😊

Awesome, great topic! 

 

[Erol]

On 3.5.2026 at 3:49 PM, enchanted said:

These are awesome books on human nature that contain many deep emotional, complex themes - things that stage yellow thinkers might enjoy. 

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Brothers Karamazov. There's a reason it's routinely considered one of the best books of all time. 

Some shorter books:

A Short Stay in Hell by Peck

I Who Have Never Known Men 

I just read A Short Stay in Hell and it was so good. Uff after reading i got that feeling you get coming home after a long vacation and you're a bit disoriented

[enchanted]

1 hour ago, Erol said:

I just read A Short Stay in Hell and it was so good. Uff after reading i got that feeling you get coming home after a long vacation and you're a bit disoriented

Tell me about, that book is as existentially unsettling as it is profound. Glad you enjoy it too. "I Who Have Never known men" is equally bleak and disorienting if you like that sort of thing. They are nice and short too. 

[Basman]

3 hours ago, enchanted said:

So you don't like art - in the form of literature? Or intellectualism? 

Where is your reading going to take you in 10 years time? If you like reading, just read self-help. It will completely change your life. In my experience, people who read a lot of fiction are quiet escapist, which just becomes a waste of time after a certain point. Really sad and pathetic. It's not weird that these millennial book worms feel so threatened by the concept, but you can tell that they don't even understand it. They don't read self-help.

4 hours ago, enchanted said:

Also where does Tony Robbins recommend to shit on other people's interests? 

Awaken the Giant Within, page 394. Shit on Enchated specifically every chance you get. 

[T_i_m]

The last thing I read was The Black Obelsk by Remarque. It's about a young man who tries to figure out life while living in troubled economy and society of post WW1 Germany. There's no exciting plot, it's a bit slow-paced,  but I found it very relatable as a young man myself, also in a troubled country. The novel discusses relationships, women, religion, mental health, society, war and politics, art and happines. All sorts of stuff that the main character tries to figure out in similar ways that many of us do as well at that age. Surprisingly, sometimes it even goes into spirituality and non-duality.
There's also enough good humor and some fun events in that book. And because of the slow pace you really have time to understand the characters, which I liked.
So I'm glad I've stumbled upon it.

[T_i_m]

1 hour ago, Basman said:

which just becomes a waste of time after a certain point.

I think this is very true about self-help

[Basman]

7 minutes ago, T_i_m said:

I think this is very true about self-help

Skill diff.