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    Alpha or not, some of my favourites:

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, Chad Orzel.
    Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick.
    Strange Brains and Genius, Clifford Pickover.
    The Einstein Factor, Win Wenger and Richard Poe.
    Super Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
    Breaking the Spell, Daniel C. Dennett.
    Einstein's Cosmos, Michio Kaku.
    The Road to Reality, Roger Penrose.
    The Essential John Nash, Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar.
    Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin.
    A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking.
    Paradoxes from A to Z, Michael Clark.
    Relativity Simply Explained, Martin Gardner.
    The Evolution of God, Robert Wright.
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    chuck klosterman

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    K.A. Applegate?

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    Anton Chekhov - LII

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    I want Vonnegut on team alpha /pout

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    Vonnegut is very ILE in my opinion. He has all of it. Fi PoLR / Ne Ti and so on.
     
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    Dumas - SEI

    Twain - probably ESE
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    Terry Pratchett?
    Moonlight will fall
    Winter will end
    Harvest will come
    Your heart will mend

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    If Vonnegut was Alpha, he'd be ISFp, not ENTp. Though I hold the opinion that he was an E9 INFp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by k0rpsy View Post
    Take him, and Mark fucking Twain too.
    You're a sweetheart <3

    Quote Originally Posted by radio
    If Vonnegut was Alpha, he'd be ISFp, not ENTp. Though I hold the opinion that he was an E9 INFp
    I dunno, I can see ISFp over INFp easily. I could also see ENTp, though. Have you read any of his essays about his own life experiences or his opinions on things?

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    ive only read one book by vonnegut and i kept waiting for it to get interesting or get to some kind of point and then it was over...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lungs View Post
    ive only read one book by vonnegut and i kept waiting for it to get interesting or get to some kind of point and then it was over...?
    The same happened to me with a Twain book, except that I stopped reading at some point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by munenori2 View Post
    Terry Pratchett?
    I leiked Good Omens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FoxOnStilts View Post
    I dunno, I can see ISFp over INFp easily. I could also see ENTp, though. Have you read any of his essays about his own life experiences or his opinions on things?
    Hmmm not his life experiences but opinions, sure. Which is why ENTp is a bit bewildering tbh. He seems very warm and quite, uh, tactful, to be Fi polr. ENTps to me come off as much more abstract and detached in perspective.

    e.g.

    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

    “Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”

    I mean he could be a very F-like ENTp but most likely he was just an F type.

    re: Ne vs. Ni, I'm not sure I can explain this because I'd have to go into a lot more detail than I'm capable of at the moment but random quotes that bring to mind Ni (or maybe just N > S):

    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

    “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”

    Just my perspective/two cents/etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Radio View Post
    Hmmm not his life experiences but opinions, sure. Which is why ENTp is a bit bewildering tbh. He seems very warm and quite, uh, tactful, to be Fi polr. ENTps to me come off as much more abstract and detached in perspective.
    I could go with SEI. He just seems SUPER alpha Fe imo. That's what I get out of most of his stuff. Not a lot of Ni or Se. But I do recommend reading something other than his fiction; specifically, Man Without A Country comes to mind. He's a lot more....jaded and cynical, I guess. It's like his fiction books are, "Hey, here's how everything should be" and the rest are "Hey, here's why everything fucking sucks and people are assholes".

    It's just odd to me because he seems to me like an SEI who is heavy with the Ne-Ti or an ILE who is very in touch with the Si-Fe.

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    Stanislaw Lem
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    Quote Originally Posted by k0rpsy View Post
    Take him, and Mark fucking Twain too.
    Whoa whoa whoa, I mean his books are not that great granted. But him as a speaker?
    Easy Day

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    Robert Sheckley is likely an LII 3 so/sx with a strong connection to 9. His short stories were a fun read. There were aliens fishing for people via food in their refrigerators, and some war-like civilization placing a draft on a population that was incapable of aggression, so they had to build a prison to try to convince them that they fit in. Lots of absurdity and social commentary abound.


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    I'm listening to

    and it paints Einstein as a dualized ILE and Godel as a hermit crab of a fucked-up LII.

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