What is the most based book of all time?

"Mountain Cooking" by John Parris.

It's 1/3 cookbook 2/3 stories about living in Appalachia from roughly the early 1900s until the 1970s or so. The insights are fascinating, particularly (imo) because of their lifespans. These were people living in the mountains doing hard, manual labor and eating cathead biscuits + sawmill gravy every single day for breakfast and they all regularly lived to be 90+ years old. And this was decades before any medicine we would consider "modern" was available. He, as an adult, interviewed people that lived through the American Civil War. So even people from the Civil War era were living lifespans respectable by modern standards.

To me it was interesting because I had been told all through school that people were lucky to live to be 60 or 70 up until the 1960s or so. That seems to be patently false, at least for the people who called the Smokies home.

His book talks a lot about culture and traditions, living with Native American tribes in the region, foraging, hunting and preservation techniques as well as medicines created from various herbs, tinctures and poultices sourced from local materials. A lot of this older knowledge has already been lost in lieu of more modern applications, the efficacy of which--I would argue--is contestable.
 
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"Mountain Cooking" by John Parris.

It's 1/3 cookbook 2/3 stories about living in Appalachia from roughly the early 1900s until the 1970s or so. The insights are fascinating, particularly (imo) because of their lifespans. These were people living in the mountains doing hard, manual labor and eating cathead biscuits + sawmill gravy every single day for breakfast and they all regularly lived to be 90+ years old. And this was decades before any medicine we would consider "modern" was available. He, as an adult, interviewed people that lived through the American Civil War. So even people from the Civil War era were living lifespans respectable by modern standards.

To me it was interesting because I had been told all through school that people were lucky to live to be 60 or 70 up until the 1960s or so. That seems to be patently false, at least for the people who called the Smokies home.

His book talks a lot about culture and traditions, living with Native American tribes in the region, foraging, hunting and preservation techniques as well as medicines created from various herbs, tinctures and poultices sourced from local materials. A lot of this older knowledge has already been lost in lieu of more modern applications, the efficacy of which--I would argue--is contestable.
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That actually sounds cool as fuck, definitely on the list
 
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wow how did I know people were going to post the bible and Uncle Ted's essay and the moustache man book ITT lol. some of yall need to lighten the fuck up and get a new gimmick. anyway the real answer is this

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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. it is likely one of the driest books you'll ever read, being essentially a novel-length statistics white paper, but IMO it's worth it. it is a long-form attempt at data-driven analysis of American democracy and why it never seems to work as intended (hint: the answer is not that everyone aside from you is too stupid to do it right). now you, the cynic, might be thinking: "you're retarded, I already know the American political system doesn't work. after all, it elects the wrong candidate half the time! also, jews!" you moron, you imbecile, you gay bitch. this book isn't mere whining about politics. its analysis provides some interesting insight into aggregate human behavior as related to electoralism, information that allows you to rewrite your expectations in a more informed and less cynical way. if you're exasperated and disillusioned with American politics, read this book. it makes a lot of things make sense.
 
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wow how did I know people were going to post the bible and Uncle Ted's essay and the moustache man book ITT lol. some of yall need to lighten the fuck up and get a new gimmick. anyway the real answer is this

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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. it is likely one of the driest books you'll ever read, being essentially a novel-length statistics white paper, but IMO it's worth it. it is a long-form attempt at data-driven analysis of American democracy and why it never seems to work as intended (hint: the answer is not that everyone aside from you is too stupid to do it right). now you, the cynic, might be thinking: "you're retarded, I already know the American political system doesn't work. after all, it elects the wrong candidate half the time! also, jews!" you moron, you imbecile, you gay bitch. this book isn't mere whining about politics. its analysis provides some interesting insight into aggregate human behavior as related to electoralism, information that allows you to rewrite your expectations in a more informed and less cynical way. if you're exasperated and disillusioned with American politics, read this book. it makes a lot of things make sense.
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Nigga, you underestimate how much I enjoy dry ass reads, I've read like half of the technical manuals in the army, as long as it's informative I'm in!
 
Daddy's Angry Juice said:
I don't get this, why is a guy not wanting to eat spoiled eggs and rotten ham such a big deal?
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He's rejecting everyone telling him to do a thing, how to do a thing, and he must have that thing regardless and he is saying "Get fucked, I don't want this shit"
The rejection by a single person telling the masses to go pound sand.
 
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He's rejecting everyone telling him to do a thing, how to do a thing, and he must have that thing regardless and he is saying "Get fucked, I don't want this shit"
The rejection by a single person telling the masses to go pound sand.
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Unfortunately in the end he bends the knee and sucks the girlcock.
 
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He's rejecting everyone telling him to do a thing, how to do a thing, and he must have that thing regardless and he is saying "Get fucked, I don't want this shit"
The rejection by a single person telling the masses to go pound sand.
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But he end up being a man beaten by the system telling to eat things he knows he shouldn't, and ultimately brainwashed into thinking the system was right all along.
 
New Testament sucks ass (except for the part Jesus beats up a bunch of money lenders) you got everyone sucking jesus' ass then you have Paul (Formerly Saul the killer) walk into the desert and be "blinded" and then blessed by an angel and then he became Paul, an event that was witnessed by nobody but Paul, and that Paul wrote about. it's funny Paul also wrote a lot of the New Testament. Really makes you think.
 
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