Name one actually interesting book that you've read recently. And don't be a try-hard.
Name one actually interesting book that you've read recently. And don't be a try-hard
Jason Nguyen
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Jaxson Bennett
The man who was Thursday
Elijah Powell
Mckenna's Food of the Gods. Proposes that naturally occurring hallucinogens are the missing evolutionary link, and documents their use by ancient peoples.
Grayson Morris
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's The Future Eve. 19th century metaphysical novel disguided as sci-fi. I've never read anything like it. Go read it now.
Adam Perry
That's fucking wild. I was going to post Food of the Gods too, but by Khaw
Ryan Torres
finished the Crying of Lot 49 the other day; was pretty good. some of the character names made me roll my eyes. it wasn't nearly as good as GR
Henry Edwards
Nana.
If you really want to understand Woman, is a must read.
Colton Davis
I only read interesting books. There’s no time to waste!
Cooper Cooper
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
Robert Edwards
Count of Monte Cristo. Granted I haven't finished it, about 700 pages in, but I really like the big display of characters and all types of different events. I think I'm going to be reading more novels soon.
Andrew Long
Currently going through Marquez's work.
Thomas Mitchell
Elementary particles by Houellebecq
Asher Reed
Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections
His obvious teetering on schizophrenia memories reminded me of how Joseph Campbell described the children who would become shamans in tribes.
Aiden Brown
I'm 85% done with it and it's really gotten boring right now when you see the set ups for the retributions and it starts focusing too much on the kids because you know what's going to happen already.
Jackson James
Josiah Perry
Gods of pegana
Chase Phillips
The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist.
Joshua Baker
Audio Power Amplifier Design by Douglas Self. I swiped this from the boys down the hall to cure my insomnia, and ended up staying up all night reading it instead.
It reads kind of like a dinner conversation with a friend who just happens to be an incredibly talented physicist and engineer. I don't understand all of it, but I did learn enough to tell the difference between audio science and audiophile superstition.
Ryan Ortiz
based, thanks user.
Jeremiah Walker
Les Miserables, not even memeing
Juan Lee
Malmoth the Wanderer
The book served as a great inspiration to Wilde, Lovecraft and countless others.
Colton Wright
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Isaiah Evans
I read Primo Levi's Auschwitz Trilogy and found it pretty engaging.
Owen Wright
Learned about this from À rebours. Might have to go ahead and read it.
Jeremiah Cook
Master of Go by Kawabata. The psychology behind the moves were pretty fascinating.
Ryder Adams
Life and Fate.
Thomas Young
Hard rain falling
Thanks Cliff
Mason Thomas
I read four novellas by Patrick Modiano earlier in the year and no one ever talks about him on here. The French have a way about them.
Christopher Long
I’m always reading interesting books. Just finished ‘On the Accuracy of Economic Observations’ by O Morgenstern today.
Very interesting book right there. Would read more of him but I’ve moved on to Kelso and Adler’s Capitalist Manifesto.
As a teacher of reading and learning, Adler is top-notch.
As an chief editor of mathematical works, he is borderline retarded.
As an economist, he is okay.
This is my first experience with Louis Kelso and I have to say: not bad, not great, but not bad. They essentially restate Hayek’s viewpoint, which for his pivotal book ‘The Road to Serfdom’ needed to be stated, yet they are stating some important things regarding Capitalism: that it is in a constant state of realizing itself and that democracy is also in a constant state of bettering itself. They use the analogy that democracy has not always been perfect so therefore neither has capitalism.
Morgensterns Book was more my speed. He was critical of the data-researching institutions that publish data within the United States: namely the Census and USDA. But this new economics book isn’t bad. I can already tell it’s not getting five stars like Morgenstern’s though.
Also, I am getting sufficiently into Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments at this point (I am over one fifth done) and I enjoy his distinction BETWEEN wisdom and wealth. How they are different paths and the former can lead to the latter but the pursuit of the latter does not lead to the former :3
Grayson Adams
Farwell to Arms. It's an absolutely pleb filter.
Gavin Rogers
You've been reading On the Accuracy of Economic Observations for a while now.
Tyler Williams
I read it for like 15 days motherfucker. I said I finished it in the very post you quoted. Check my goodreads.
Lucas Hill
"welt der waffen" (world of arms). an 1870s or so book in german about the military history of the world. learned a lot of new things that got lost over the years but also some outdated stuff. still its interesting to get a glimpse of the pre worldwar view on history.
Jacob Diaz
Aaron Torres
Ayden James
This one is astonishing great. I really enjoyed it
Mason Edwards
Not read, but reading The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone. It's good prep before diving into the Greeks and philosophy as a whole.
The books I have completely read recently were not interesting.
Parker Lewis