fair point, but actually it is not a bad place to start promoting such activities, haha

yeah you watch tiktok

Your time can not be too important since you spend it on hltv forums...

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You remind me that my bf reads manga's and comics. Maybe i can steal a few of his for some reading purposes. I haven't read manga's before, but i don't mind most anime, so it coukd be a fun read.

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the only book i have ever read from start to end

I have read that book a few years ago. There were many threads with different people in a different places. It felt like a reportage in which victims of zombie apocalypse described their story.

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i read couple books from him knowing is nice but actually doing what is told is the challenge

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You do learn a lot from those 1 minute bites of info. The issue is that it's very hard to digest the information properly because the next short is already playing. Thats why I'd rather watch 45 minute long documentaries, which would give me time to digest all the information properly, as well as add multiple more points of information no amount of shorts could've helped to explain. Just yesterday i watched a national geographic full episode they posted to youtube about the south tower.

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Way too overrated.

Read Herodotus and Diodorus together. Herodotus ends with the Persian wars, Diodorus covers the period until the Peloponnese war. When you reach that point, start with Thucydides and leave Diodorus. After that follow up with Xenophon's Hellenica. When you end up with Xenophon's Hellenica ctrl+F into Diodorus's work and write Agesilaus II or just Agesilaus until you find the paragraph, where he is in Egypt. For me, you can follow Diodorus all the way until the First Punic War - I think there was a lacuna on it (might be in Livy, don't really remember, but I think it was in Livy). So when you reach the First Punic War, open Polybius - you can read him until the end (destruction of Carthage - 146 B.C.) if you want a view of everything happening during that period, or you can go into more detailed writing of Livy (AFTER the First Punic War), but he reflects mostly on Rome and barely mentions the states of Hella (for example the exploits of Philip the V'th before his interaction with the Carthaginians via embassy). At 146 B.C. turn back to Diodorus (key word - destruction/ruin of Carthage or something like that) and follow freely until you reach the name of Jugurtha. Then leave Diodorus again and read the "Jugurthine War" by Salustius. With it ending, you can read Plutarch's works: "Life of Sulla", "Life of Marius" and Appian's "Civil Wars" (you can read only Appian's work if you don't want to track the conflict that heavily). Now, there is a HUGE happening, which you, in my opinion, must not miss - the Mithridatic war (Appian, but my favorite is Life of Lucullus by Plutarch... and maybe "Life of Pompey") Afterwards Plutarch's Life of Caesar + Caesar's own works - you must seek their chronology yourself, I forgot if he was in Spain before or after Egypt (might have been 2 times) - I just know his first is "Civil war". Together with them, start The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius and keep up with the chronology. After Caesar, continue with Plutarch's: "Life of Brutus" and "Life of Antony" (the second one is very good detailed). Suetonius "The Twelve Caesars". Outside of Suetonius, I am not familiar with the life of Augustus, but if you want to read A.D. I'd recommend to you to start with Tacitus, on whom I currently am (haven't read since a while, but will start him soon again) :) There are more sources, but on first thought this is what I came up with from Herodotus until the birth of Christ. EDIT: All sources mentioned are available for free on the internet.

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Dostoyevsky is boring and overrated

I find his works a bit boring. Like the only valuable thing I remember from: "On anger" was that by stagnation the anger doesn't affect you that hard. Cicero's treatise are muuuuuch better, in my opinion.

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Oh man that whole book series was a blast! My dad had given me the whole series of books as a kid and i remember how much i enjoyed it, even as a kid. Maybe i could reread it, i hold the series in very high regards.

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I hear the queen's gambit is really good, but thats the only chess book i know of.

Memes, the DNA of the soul!

Of course it does, reading material is reading material. My bf has a few himself, maybe we could read some together. Any you suggest?

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nor Dostoevsky? I guess it was mandatory in primary school

Are you open or closed though?

no wonder your attention span must be fucked. People need to read now more than ever