Non-Fiction Reccomendations - I like books :D

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I have recently read two novels that I enjoyed tremendously.

Lucifer's Banker by Bradley Birkenfeld - Exciting tale about a Swiss banker turned American whistleblower. It's like a bond novel, with women in bikinis, cigars, hot sports cars, and of course crime.
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe - Unbelievable story of the Sackler Family, and their complete history in America and their involvement/coverup of the Opioid crisis.

Post some books you recommend!
 
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
When The Going Was Good by Graydon Carter
Among The Thugs by Bill Buford
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
 
Some lighter reads I've enjoyed recently:

Marching Powder - Rusty Young
Into Siberia - Gregory Wallance
Go Down Together - Jeff Guinn
Paddy Whacked - T. J. English
 
Scott’s Last Expedition - Robert F. Scott; the journal of the man behind the titular I’ll-fated expedition to the South Pole. Alternately, Race to the South Pole compiles Scott’s journal against Amundsen’s (who led the team that actually succeeded).

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry Patterson; Patterson’s account of hunting the titular lions as they terrorized a railroad-building project in Kenya.

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn; first-hand accounts of the Soviet political prisoner system during Stalin’s reign.
 
The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev - A response to "Into Thin Air", one of the best climbers in the world at the time tries to set the record straight about the 1996 Everest disaster after a faggot reporter tried to control the narrative. I love it and have read it like 3 times.
 
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Mark Sedgwick
Some wild stuff about eccentric European intellectuals trying to Retvrn To Tradition by dabbling in occultism, becoming esoteric fascists, converting to Islam, and generally being lolcows. It's a serious history, but very entertaining.

Straight Life by Art Pepper
Autobiography of a heroin-addicted white jazz musician. Interesting stuff about being a lowlife in 1950s/60s California, covering prison (including years in San Quentin) and mid-century style rehab. He also joins a cult for a while.

Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burroughs
History of 1960s left-wing radicalism in America. Some funny stuff in there, like the time the Weather Underground decided that monogamy was reactionary, so they had regularly scheduled orgies and all got STDs; or the time Tupac's stepdad conned a bunch of white feminists into helping him rob a money transport for the revolution... but really because he needed coke money.

Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed
Biography of the great folk song collector.
 
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The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
A memoir about the making of The Room, one of the most infamous so bad it’s good movies ever made. (oh, hai, mark!)
Co-written by the one of the lead actors, it’s simultaneously hilarious, depressing and even gets darkly psychological at times. One of my favorites, you don’t need to have seen The Room to enjoy it but I highly recommend it and I also recommend listening to the audiobook version as Sestero does a great Tommy Wiseau impression.
 
I accidentally bought The Executioner's Song a while back and i got a bit mad since i had no interest at all in reading like a thousand pages about some weirdo murder guy but I ended up really enjoying it. Theres an insane amount of research that went into it and Gilmore is actually an interesting charachter. Highly recommended.
 
Safir dijo:
It's She-Wolf of the SS for those prefer the Soviet ~a e s t h e t i c~. If you want to learn about the IRL Soviets: obviously not, it's pornographic fiction. If you want to fap and this is your jam: sure.
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What makes you say its fiction? What book on soviet shit would you recommend?
 
Safir dijo:
It's She-Wolf of the SS for those prefer the Soviet ~a e s t h e t i c~. If you want to learn about the IRL Soviets: obviously not, it's pornographic fiction. If you want to fap and this is your jam: sure.
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Your Galaxy Express 999 pfp means you’re a stopped clock, though I’m still waiting for you to be right the second time.
 
Plagues and Peoples was a book I purchased for a dollar and ended up being the most interesting book I read in college. A bit dry, it's still a fascinating way to view history.

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Plagues and Peoples is a seminal book on epidemiological history by historian William H. McNeill, first published in 1976 by Anchor Books.
It presents a groundbreaking interpretation of world history by examining the profound political, demographic, ecological, and psychological impacts of infectious diseases on human cultures.
McNeill argues that disease is not merely a biological phenomenon but a social one, shaped by ecological, economic, and cultural factors, and in turn, it has fundamentally shaped the course of civilizations.
The book analyzes pivotal epidemics such as smallpox in Mexico, the bubonic plague in China, typhoid in Europe, and the Athenian plague, highlighting how these events influenced conquests, population shifts, and societal

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