Machiavelli's "The Prince", Anyone read this?

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Or 48 laws of power? How do yaw feel about these books? I'm just now starting to crack open "The Prince" on my kindle.

 

[DarlingNikki]

I read The Prince in high school, I enjoyed it. Very quotable and pretty interesting. Personally, The 48 Laws of Power was better, one of my favorite reads.

Hope you enjoy!

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I read The Prince in high school, I enjoyed it. Very quotable and pretty interesting. Personally, The 48 Laws of Power was better, one of my favorite reads.

Hope you enjoy!

I always hear about the 48 powers of law, cause every wanna be self educated nikka who thinks he's smart around my way reads it, how did you like it?

 

[Non Sequitur]

I've never been more disappointed by a book in my life.

 

[charmander]

I've never been more disappointed by a book in my life.

you ever read The Giver?

 

[thekidfromqueens]

What you get from it, is whatever you go in looking to get from it. If you look at it as a pseudo historical text, then you go into it with a good context of history and see how this dude was trying to handle shyt. If you go into it thinking you're the shyt and can manipulate people after reading 70 pages of text from some Italian dude, then you probably lost already. There are some interesting lessons that you can take from it so read it, and keep reading other books. Use the amalgamation of that knowledge to better yourself.

 

[Non Sequitur]

you ever read The Giver?

No, what's that about?

 

[Piff Perkins]

you ever read The Giver?

that shyt almost made me cry

 

[charmander]

No, what's that about?

The Giver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

shyts fukked up

i read it in 4th grade and it had a profound impact on me





why 4th grade level books are profound to me is a topic for another day tho

 

[DarlingNikki]

I always hear about the 48 powers of law, cause every wanna be self educated nikka who thinks he's smart around my way reads it, how did you like it?

I liked it a lot. I generally read books to learn how others view things, not to apply things to my life, but you can definitely take something from it.

It's basically a book on manipulation, it uses historical examples and text to support the points. Anyone who read that book cover to cover wouldn't brag about what they read, especially if they were trying to apply it to their life.

 

[ugksam]

really not that interesting unless you are super into business/politics and historical texts. And only a few things are applicable in todays society.

 

[Non Sequitur]

The Giver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

shyts fukked up

i read it in 4th grade and it had a profound impact on me





why 4th grade level books are profound to me is a topic for another day tho

Might have to check that one out. Speaking of kids' books, have you ever read:


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(Spinelli_novel)

shyt changed my life, son

 

[South Paw]

Art of war is good also...

 

[JasonSJackson]

The prince, interesting

48 laws of power....how to be a snake

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I liked it a lot. I generally read books to learn how others view things, not to apply things to my life, but you can definitely take something from it.

It's basically a book on manipulation, it uses historical examples and text to support the points. Anyone who read that book cover to cover wouldn't brag about what they read, especially if they were trying to apply it to their life.

Lol of course not, that's probably 1 of the 48 laws

What you get from it, is whatever you go in looking to get from it. If you look at it as a pseudo historical text, then you go into it with a good context of history and see how this dude was trying to handle shyt. If you go into it thinking you're the shyt and can manipulate people after reading 70 pages of text from some Italian dude, then you probably lost already. There are some interesting lessons that you can take from it so read it, and keep reading other books. Use the amalgamation of that knowledge to better yourself.

I'm not sure what I'm looking to get out of it, other than knowledge; of what you may ask? I'm not sure. Life lessons I suppose, as I've fiddled around with a book by Nietzsche called "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and I've yet to finish it all but I've highlighted some things that are very applicable. If you'd like I could pick it up and quote one for you?