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Jan 25 17 tweets 5 min read
MEN:

You don’t need to take cold showers.

You don’t need to repeat positive affirmations

What you need is to read timeless stories which speak to your inner dog and bring out your raw God given masculine energy.

Here’s 7 unusual books that will do just that:
Quit PSA: This thread took me a lot of time to think about and write.

I have nothing to sell you. No sneaky affiliate links. Nada.

All I ask is a quick RT on the first tweet ☝☝ so more people can get the value.

📕 Let's get you reading some great books....
1) The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer

I've never been to war but this book made me want to.

Mailer's journalistic-styled novel chronicles a platoon of American soldiers as they fight to capture Japanese controlled territory in WWII.

It's a raw and gritty account of what...
it's like to share a common struggle amongst a band of brothers.

This book will teach you the value of brotherhood and the violent beauty of war.
2) Tropical Animal - Pedro Juan Gutierrez

Gutierrez is known as the "Caribbean Bukowski".

Like Buk, his novels are also semi-autobiographical and written with brutal honesty.

This book captures the raw sexual energy a man feels when he meets a woman he's drawn to...
at a predatory level.

Gutierrez's prose is a reminder that despite all the thoughts and beliefs we've inherited through modern culture...

We are just a bunch of monkeys with an animalistic urge to f*ck each other's brains out.

Warning: this book will make you desire Latinas
3) The Professional - W. C Heinz

The path to success is lonely and there's no lonelier path you can take than trying to make it as a professional prize fighter.

This novel follows the journey of a contender as he prepares to fight for the Middleweight Championship of the world.
It will teach you a much overlooked lesson many young men need today: the preparation is just as important as the fight itself.

You'll also get an intimate look at what happens behind-the-scenes in the fight game with trainers, promoters, regulators etc.
4) The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

As a man you need to be an expert problem solver.

This book will show you how to do that through the lens of a private detective; one Philip Marlowe.

You think James Bond is cool? Wait until you meet Marlowe...
When he's not solving cases for his private detective agency, Marlowe is boozing, smoking and seducing beautiful women.

The Big Sleep is the first of the eight hard boiled detective novels Chandler wrote.

It's also his best one.

Expect a wild and twisted story laced with
kidnapping, extortion, seduction, pornography and murder.

This might be the most cinematic book on the list and was turned into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart in 1946 which is also worth watching.
5) Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse

Hesse was the author I needed to read in my developing years.

This novel tackles a crossroads moment every boy faces on his path to being a man:

Are you destined to follow the path laid out for you by society?

One which entails...
study, preparation and ascension up the totem pole of self-development and knowledge acquisition?

Or do you say f*ck it and pursue your own adventure?

And let your raw creative instinct guide your decisions and self discovery...

This book will force you to answer these Qs...
6) The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart

Ever wonder what your life would be like if it was PURE chaos?

No need to wonder.

This (dark) satire of a bored psychiatrist who decides one day to make ALL decisions based off a dice roll is... WILD

This book is insane. Read it with caution.
7) The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

No masculine book list is complete without at least one McCarthy novel.

This is the last book of McCarthy's Border Trilogy.

It's about a cowboy who falls in love with a Mexican prostitute and the dire consequences he must face as a result of..
his decision.

It will teach you one big lesson:

As a man, you *must* face the consequences of your decisions, good or bad....

For man who hides from the consequences of HIS decisions is not a man. He is a coward.
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