Honestly, the man is the greatest alive at historical fiction. Gates of Fire is about the Spartans at Thermopylae

It's a West Point req'd reading list book

Ernst Junger's "Storm of Steel" was pretty good. I'm looking for the 1922 version though, cause I hear it's a lot different than the one from the 1970's.

I really liked Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War

Storm of Steel was good as far as historical works go, but there was no narrative

Gates of Fire will challenge you as a man--no joke

I'll look into it. I should probably read it being a Cadet

Yeah, you'll have to, eventually

I'm also gonna write up interview questions for Jared Taylor on the train

There's no harder book on 'being hard' than Gates of Fire

That's literally what it's about

the last fiction book I read was Pat Conroy's "The Lords of Discipline"

Dudes at various ages going through the battle of Thermopylae in various ranks and experiences--while being written by an arguably master historical novelist

GOT has nothing on GoF

my goal is to write history books someday

The only book I read once a year

Read Stephen Pressfield to see what a master at the craft looks like

Patton's "War As I Knew It" was a really interesting book. It's the collection of the journals that his wife edited and allowed to be used, and the start of the book he was never able to finish.

being in this organization makes me feel so dumb

normally I'm more well read than the people in around

but then I go to IE meetups and the conversations are way over my head

I'm not a well read as most people in IE, but I'm defiantly more read than your average guy my age

they're always analyzing philosophy that I can't understand

most philosophy probably needs to be read multiple times

most books in general need to be read multiple times unless it's simple stuff

well

it probably depends on your reading level

I got lazy with reading as a teenager

being part of this movement inspired me to start reading full books because I want to not because I have to

I never did that when I was younger

I did go on Wikipedia tangents though

Along the lines of most books needing to be read twice, I'd say the authors failed

I know that I *can* read a book twice and gain more, but for an author to expect anyone to read their book twice (luckily they did the first time), is bad strategy

I just forget stuff

and my reading comprehension isn't where it should be

probably higher than then average person

but lower than 🅱ig 🅱rained IE members

lol, to be fair my reading comp is sky high--but not my math score

>Read this book, guy
>Oh, I know where this is going.
>Here's some long division
>erm, where's my book..?

ahahaha the conversation I just witnessed in the train station

> where are you from, Russia?