Gamma recommended reading books/authors

[DSA4130]

OK in the spirit of producing posts per another thread:

What do the fellow Gamma types here like to read? I'm a big Sci-Fi / Fantasy reader, and am currently doing a re-read of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, in anticipation of his new release later this year - "A Feast for Crows." By far the best fantasy series I've read to date, so I highly recommend it.

I also regularly read Entrepreneur and FSB (Forbes Small Business), and the occasional GQ so I can sound like I know what I'm talking about regarding in-styles w/ my wife (a very well dressed ISFJ).

I'm always looking for a good read, so let me know what some of you would recommend, regardless of genre.

[Smilingeyes]

Lewis Carroll is nice. The Alice books are definitely well worth a read.

Stephen King's Dark Tower series is an excellent ENTJ experience.

Roger Zelazny's Amber series is one of the best mind twisters around.

Have fun!

[Zeia]

I read The Dark Tower Series, very very very good. I highly recommend it.

[Snakeingrass]

Sci-Fi and Fantasy for myself as well. I read a LOT, so I won't bother with specific books - just a list of authors whose work i've enjoyed over the last few years:

Robert Jordan
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Eric Flint
Robert Asprin
Robert A. Heinlein
George Martin
Frank Herbert
Nick Pollotta
R. A. Salvatore
David Weber
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jim Butcher
David Eddings
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

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I've read about 80% of everything the writers above have ever written, so I feel quite safe recommending these names...

[ashlesha]

charles bukowski

[Radio]

franz kafka <3

[inconnu]

Borges, Marquez

Both ILIs

[nanashi]

Borges, Marquez

Both ILIs

Marquez? I just got pissed off by his work. I should be more clear but haven't read it in years...~4/5

[Absurd]

The hangman and the papist.

[Pa3s]

Stanislaw Lem, ILI

[inconnu]

Balzac - ILI
Kissinger, Umberto Eco - LIEs

[Whoobie77]

Umberto Eco - LIEs

I have serious doubts about Eco being a Ni ego. I've only read Foucault's Pendulum, but, it seems like Eco is parodying Ni users with his parades of Satanists and Kabbalists and Aryan cultists who all have a distinct vision of the future. I think his love of information (Te) is genuine, but he seems to collect it in a compulsive, thirsty, dual seeking way. I'm inclined to call him a weak Te valuer with Ni in the Id block, or a Delta NF.

[Gilly]

CS Lewis

[Saberstorm]

CS Lewis

Do you think he is ESI?

[InvisibleJim]

Neal Stephenson - Anathem
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicron
Robert Fiest - Magician
Ian M Banks - Excession
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

[nanashi]

Neal Stephenson - Anathem
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicron
Robert Fiest - Magician
Ian M Banks - Excession
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

I'm pretty sure Beta ST makes more sense for Ayn Rand.

[ArchonAlarion]

I highly doubt Rand was Gamma (Beta ST!). Ugh, god damn Rand type discussions... "Let's argue about socio-types and politics at the same timeeeeeeee!!!!1!!@@"

w/e I will not submit to that, just mentioning I disagree.

[ashlesha]

I highly doubt Rand was Gamma (Beta ST!). Ugh, god damn Rand type discussions... "Let's argue about socio-types and politics at the same timeeeeeeee!!!!1!!@@"

w/e I will not submit to that, just mentioning I disagree.

i was going to ask @InvisibleJim about that, if he was typing rand gamma or if it was just something about that particular book. i didn't really care enough but since you brought it up lol

[InvisibleJim]

i was going to ask @InvisibleJim about that, if he was typing rand gamma or if it was just something about that particular book. i didn't really care enough but since you brought it up lol

A function of the philosophy of the book.

[FDG]

Jack London, of course.

[ashlesha]

people keep bringing up type representatives ahh i was kinda hoping for contemporary stuff but i wasn't going to put that limitation down so i guess that's the consequence.

[marooned]

why not jack london? (i read some biographies on him in HS and i wouldn't be surprised if i read these things again, if i'd think he was gamma)

well maybe you weren't saying not jack london

i'm having a horrible day with wanting to jump to assumptions/conclusions

(that was an @ FDG kind of thing)

[FDG]

why not jack london? (i read some biographies on him in HS and i wouldn't be surprised if i read these things again, if i'd think he was gamma)

well maybe you weren't saying not jack london

i'm having a horrible day with wanting to jump to assumptions/conclusions

(that was an @ FDG kind of thing)

I'm sorry? I was really saying Jack London, wasn't being sarcastic!

[marooned]

k, sorry.

[Korpsy Knievel]

Obviously actual gammas and gamma authors don't exist outside of lists of names.

[Absurd]

I see some of them were typed differently but always end up in Gamma. Interesting.

[d1ffe7]

I may have posted this before but I think the book Hannibal is LIE/ESI duality

[Darkworker]

Pavel Tsatsouline books if you are into working out
(ENTj)

[mfckr]

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[Darkworker]

I read him a bit before (that's how I got into kettlebells). He's Ti-ESTp imo.

No way man. I am certain he's ENTj.
Have you watched some of his videos?
I bet if you watch one of his videos you are going to change your mind.
Watch this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL30WSaFJu8
All you see here is Te leadership. Also he has a vision, deep knowledge of his thing (Ni).

[JWC3]

No way man. I am certain he's ENTj.
Have you watched some of his videos?
I bet if you watch one of his videos you are going to change your mind.
Watch this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL30WSaFJu8
All you see here is Te leadership. Also he has a vision, deep knowledge of his thing (Ni).

There is no point disagreing with Ashton, he practices socionix, which is his own warped, albiet predictable version of socionics. In classical (read strictly orthadox, and exclusively adhearent to quadra values) soconics you actually deviated from his perspective in the proper way.

[ArchonAlarion]

There is no point disagreing with Ashton, he practices socionix, which is his own warped, albiet predictable version of socionics. In classical (read strictly orthadox, and exclusively adhearent to quadra values) soconics you actually deviated from his perspective in the proper way.

Whatever this guy's type may be, I don't know if "Te leadership" and "a vision, deep knowledge of his thing (Ni)" are great arguments. If those are good arguments for "classical Niffweed Socionics," then er... okay I guess.

[mfckr]

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[strangeling]

There is no point disagreing with Ashton, he practices socionix, which is his own warped, albiet predictable version of socionics. In classical (read strictly orthadox, and exclusively adhearent to quadra values) soconics you actually deviated from his perspective in the proper way.

ftr, from that video, what I got from it was that the man is a "constructivist" and some logical type. That really only leaves SLI, ILI, SLE, ILE. This makes your claims transparent, as Reinin is part of socionics and it is not in contradiction to Ashton's typing.

and fyi, from what I've seen/read, Ashton's views are not really incongruent with classical socionics, but disregard everything that has been debunked about classical socionics - mostly anything that amounts more to a stereotype or generalization. And that doesn't make his views warped, it makes them better reasoned and it makes socionics warped to expect people to use them.

And I think what people have a problem with is understanding Ashton's views because he steers away from stereotyping or generalizing them, making it hard to explain or present them. But that doesn't make them "different" from socionics either.

[Gilly]

Do you think he is ESI?

ILI

[Saberstorm]

ILI

I never saw that. It could be true.

[squark]

ILI

Don't want to derail this, so do you have reasons why somewhere? I really don't see it

@InvisibleJim No on rand, but there's other threads on that.

[Gilly]

people keep bringing up type representatives ahh i was kinda hoping for contemporary stuff but i wasn't going to put that limitation down so i guess that's the consequence.

How about Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Books positively SEEP Ni, probably ILI.

[ashlesha]

How about Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Books positively SEEP Ni, probably ILI.

i just bought love in the time of cholera and it has been next on my list to read.

[Gilly]

i just bought love in the time of cholera and it has been next on my list to read.

I've only read Tale of a Death Foretold but it was damn good. A little confusing but very good.