Book recommendation thread
Let's make a thread, shall we? Let's say one user voices their request, and then the next post provides a recommendation.
I have nothing to recommend to you, because it's only this year that I want to get HUGELY into reading, so you know.
I'm looking for something airy, dreamy, with themes of running away, otherness, dissimilarity, finding your own voice and place in the world. Something for a small, hurt soul that I truly am. Lol.
Thanks for your inputs and happy reading!
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Seems like every best-seller's marketing campaign nowadays. You could go to a bookstore and pick the first book you can findOriginally Posted by discohijack
I recently got the Kindle version of Dario Nardi's "Neuroscience of Personality" and was marginally less disappointed than I expected to be
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The book you're looking for is Battlefield Earth.
You might like any of the “Amber” books by Roger Zelazny. I think the first one is “Nine Princes in Amber”.
Another possibility are any of “The Dying Earth” books by Jack Vance. While not set in that universe, you can get a flavor of them by his short story “Green Magic”, which I found online.
That's the only series of books that I read twice. Chris "Corey" Carl Corey....
I couldn’t get into the Amber series myself, but Zelazny was inside my head when I met my ex-wife and he wrote “Itself Surprised.”
For me, that was a momentous short story. I believe he wrote the story after he learned that he had terminal cancer.
Have you read Lord of Light? that's another good one. I love Yama "death God"
I think that was another book I tried to read but failed on page three.
It’s weird how some authors can write the best stuff and also the most unengaging.
Really? That one won the hugo award for best novel. I really liked it.
I think I tried reading it three times and ground to a halt each time.
Well to each his ownI think I tried reading it three times and ground to a halt each time.
Well to each his own
Socionics provided me with an explanation for why certain books were popular when I thought they were unreadable. What surprises me is when one author can be at times fantastic and at other times unreadable.
Poul Anderson wrote “The Man Who Came Early”, a great, great short story, and he wrote a few entertaining adventure stories, but he also wrote some terrible junk.
Maybe it’s compatible to music’s “one hit wonders”.
My impression of Zelazny's writing is that he was Ne ego. Does that sound right to you and @chriscorey?
https://www.amazon.com/Crème-Brûlée-.../dp/1846014794
fuuuck thats the kind of reading i need right now
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
it’s a sweet and insightful book
Highly recommend Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. No book, not a single other book, has mobilized me into changing my mindset half as fast as this one. It's powerful.
Are we talking fiction or non-fiction? Anyone who knows me knows the two non-fiction books I'd recommend. "Slaying Your Fear: A Guide for People Who Grapple with Insecurity" by Adam Lane Smith and "No More Mister Nice Guy" by Dr. Robert Glover. Those two books were literally the final pieces of a puzzle I'd been trying to piece together for over a decade.
If you're depressed and/or suffer from anxiety issues the meds won't fix them no matter how hard that charlatan you call a therapist tells you. They treat the symptoms. They're supposed to enable you to get over the hump and actually fix the underlying issue. What is/are the underlying issue/issues? They never told you that part for good reason. Because if they did you'd just fix that and be done with the meds immediately and forevermore thereby. Ain't no money or avenues of control in that. If you want a happy marriage/partnership/whatever floats your boat you owe it to yourself to fix the issues those books tell you both about and how to fix. Only you (with the aid and grace of the one true and eternal God) can save yourself. Only those who can save themselves can ever hope to save others. Vanquishing all my many and myriad vices in record time now that I know what I must do to ensure I can actually realize a happy life both for myself and all whom I deign to give a fuck about!
If we're talking fiction I'd highly recommend "The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane" by the immortal Robert E. Howard. All the stories involving the Avenging Puritan in one tome. Everyone and their grandma knows him for "Conan the Barbarian" but before there was Conan there was Solomon Kane. If only the IRL Puritans were but a tenth of a percent as awesome, badass, and as actually devoted to the one true God as he was we may not be living in clown world right now...
Yeah he seems so.
The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice
-Krishna
I have a certain idea that authors can be typed by their demonstrative in their writing. I'm not 100% sure he was xII, but I'd tentatively go with that over ENxP. Zelazny plays with multiple levels of meaning, and with existential theological/philosophical questions, to such a level that proves he's obviously proficient with Ni, but even so it's all still play and all directed in the service of Ne. In Lord of Light Sam's sermon equating true morality to aesthetics -- that strikes me as an Alpha NT line of thought (the quote in my signature expresses a similar idea for instance), and even though Sam distances himself from it (as an Ne ego distances himself from Ni questions, even after pursuing them himself) I wonder how much of that was the author's own views creeping in.
I second No More Mr. Nice Guy. Actually should give it a re-read after these past few years, definitely worth a refresher.
"the art of learning" by Josh Waitzkin
"we want to live - the primal diet" by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
https://linktr.ee/tehhnicus
Jesus is King stops black magic and closes portals
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Your face makes your brain and sociotype – how muscle use shapes personality
I want to care
if I was better I’d help you
if I was better you’d be better
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Mein Kampf by A. Hitlęr. Pure EIE. Its heavy reading though, very intense imo. I could only read 80 pages and then I had to stop.
The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.
(Jung on Si)
All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
A direct line into the head of an ILI.
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The Midnight Library - Matt Haif
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Both are fiction novels about depression, but entirely different in tone. The first is more lighthearted while the second is dark (but in a dark-comedy sort of way). I liked reading both.
Has anyone read Thomas Pynchon? If so, worth reading or no?
Yes, I read Gravity's Rainbow, and I thought it was a work of pure genius. I'm tempted to regard it as one of my favorite reads. The only thing that would keep me from doing so is one disgusting scene that occurs partway through the book.
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I picked up a random book of short stories at the local bookshop with the fascinating title The Return of Count Electric. I imagined that it might be a tongue-in-cheek romp through a Steampunk universe, in the same vein as Michael Swanwick's "Darger and Surplus" stories, but no.
The title story was extremely well written, in the style of an intelligent LII, but I should have read the reviews first. Instead of being an entertaining comedy, it was one story of many, in which
"Offbeat plots and characterizations strengthen a collection of 11 tales featuring the usual bunch of loners, sociopaths and psychotics who have spread hints of menace and violence through countless modern short stories."
It was a story of an emotionally flat-lined psycho-sexual serial killer, and all too realistic. Not what I was expecting.
Reading it completely spoiled my morning.
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