That's one of the reasons why I enjoy reading so much because you can immerse yourself in discussions and topics and ideas that transpires time and culture and place. You feel like you are there contemplating the same thoughts that the characters are and being part of the discussion almost and it's just I don't think there's any other medium that can properly do that.
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The Republic
by Plato
so naturally led me to read one to read the Republic which is arguably Plato's greatest work if not one of the greatest political western philosophies of all time what a title everyone and again I was very happily surprised how much I enjoyed it
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Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
I think Moby Dick, I probably to be honest, I'm probably not really ready for it yet, but I'm really glad I read it. Look forward to read it again at some point in the future.
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
I feel like this book is a great tool to just help people and especially, maybe I'm over generalising here, but I feel like lots of millenials are struggling to find meaning. I suddenly feel better equipped for in case--I know that sounds a bit weird to say, but in case something really bad happens, I feel like I... from reading this book, I'm better equipped to know how to handle it. That's a bit naive to say, but I really think there are some important stuff in here.
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Sun and Steel
by Yukio Mishima
There are some nicer books that I have that are actually quite rare I guess the Sun and Steel. It's just like I don't think they print this anymore so it kind of feels weirdly important to own if that makes sense.
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Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Next book: Gay Science! And know what you want to do it's okay! I give you the pass! The first time I read Nietzsche I read Beyond Good and Evil I didn't understand a goddamn thing. Don't watch my book review it's embarrassing and I'm not gonna pretend I'm some Nietzsche scholar now either but I had a bad time first reading him because he was referencing all these different philosophers and I had no clue who they even were after reading more philosophy coming back to Nietzsche again my reaction was still bad because I went this guy was making fun of all my heroes what the *** so Nietzsche for me was a slow cook I will admit. But the best way to understand philosophy is to understand the person behind it and the more I feel like I had done that the more I came to love Nietzsche. Uh he loves his words he's very great at them he's very harsh and very brutal but you understand that he targets philosophers that he likes or that he at least admires to some degree.
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Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
One of my favourite quotes from a book, another great book I read actually, I recommend, Norwegian Wood by Murakami. - "Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives we nurture death."
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Everyone knows Don Quijote for its humour and for how silly it is and what a loveable character it is but, and yes it is, it is very humorous, but after reading it I realised that it is so much more than just that. And I'm so glad I read it. It's my favourite piece of classical literature that I have ever read. [...] It's the longest book I've read but it is also the longest book I've ever enjoyed and honestly, I can't wait to reread it. I could go on more, but there is really no point. It is quite hard at some points. I would be lying if I said that it was the easiest read I ever had but it is 100% worth it! Check it out! Don Quijote 5 out of 5. Beautiful, so glad I read it!
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In the Buddha's words
by Bodhi Bhikkhu
Afterwards I read In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon. This book is amazing.[...] I was super fascinated by this book. This is just a very selected part of it. I don't want to get into all of it. If you're interested in Buddhist teaching, this is a great book to start off with.
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No longer human
by Osamu Dazai
I absolutely loved reading this book. Dazai clearly is a phenomenal writer and this is everything I would want from a novel.
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Life 3.0
by Max Tegmark
I'm gonna read Life 3.0 By Max Tegmark which is, he describes AI and how it, how it may or may not affect us in the future. He is a Swedish genius. I don't know if his genius, but he, the people compared to the Swedish Elon Musk and Elon Musk even praises the book. My parents recommended this as well, so I started already a little bit, and it's very interesting
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
It reminded me of my favorite part of one of my favorite novels which is The Count of Monte Cristo and it's when the count says "There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness"
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
Any advice for people getting into Yukio Mishima? What would I advise? Just read it, it's great! Read the tetralogy. I want to reread Mishima. That was a comfy time just plowing through all this literature. Could read some Mishima. [...] they're all in japan my whole library but I love this book (The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea) so much I bought another copy of it. It's weird with a Japanese author because I love his writing style or his prose so much but it's obviously translated so what does that really say, you know, can I say that I like an author's style of writing even if it's translated?
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In my opinion the beauty of fiction is when you have characters that are interesting and a story that really grips you in a way that the ideas behind it isn't as transparent and they have so much more impact - Dostoyevsky does this best ('Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot')
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
I read 1984 by George Orwell before and it's one of my favorite books. It was a book that really left that impact on me and the meaning and the story tied together really gripped me and I think about it a lot.
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima
Right after reading the... The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, I loved it so much and I wanted more because it was so short. I read "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and I absolutely LOVED IT!
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The Odyssey
by Homer
I also have a really old edition of The Iliad and the Odyssey which I'm very proud of a lot. It's probably one of my favorite books ever written highly recommend reading it.
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The Illiad
by Homer
I also have a really old edition of The Iliad and the Odyssey which I'm very proud of a lot. It's probably one of my favorite books ever written highly recommend reading it.
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Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics! Wow what a fun title! Please tell me more Felix! Okay I will! Aristotle the greatest one, no, no, no one of the greatest philosopher of all time. He studied under Plato though he taught Alexander the Great himself. He said all these amazing things thought women had less teeth than men. You could have just checked bro, you had a wife I Googled it. Bro what happened I want to know? Nicomachean Ethics is the first philosopher book that I read that discusses the idea of happiness and 2 300 years or whatever later it is goddamn relevant.
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Our Mathematical Universe
by Max Tegmark
This book brought up so many scientific possibilities that I had obviously no clue about they were never taught to me in school and to me they're just mind-blowing. I really don't want to sound like that one ninja tweet I can't stop thinking about Quantum fixes or whatever it is.
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
by Ruth Benedict
I read the sword and chrysanthemum, I don't know if that's how you say it. It was written by Ruth Benedict, an anthropologist that was hired by the American government during World War II as an attempt to understand the Japanese people and their mindset at the time [...] Some people say it's not accurate, some people say it is. I just found it really interesting.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
[About Fahrenheit 451] it is so bad, it is so terrible. I think it is a perfect example of a book that the moral is the core center of the novel which just makes it so god damn boring.
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It was the longest one I read, and I- I mean that. Sometimes this book was very hard to get through, but the parts that shines in this novel truly shines.
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The Decay of the Angel
by Yukio Mishima
Any advice for people getting into Yukio Mishima? What would I advise? Just read it, it's great! Read the tetralogy. I want to reread Mishima. That was a comfy time just plowing through all this literature. Could read some Mishima. [...] they're all in japan my whole library but I love this book (The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea) so much I bought another copy of it. It's weird with a Japanese author because I love his writing style or his prose so much but it's obviously translated so what does that really say, you know, can I say that I like an author's style of writing even if it's translated?
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Woman in the dunes
by Kobo Abe
I really recommend reading it, even if you heard me spoil it because it is a really fun, nice read. I mean, come on, it even has pictures in it. What more can you ask for? The [...] I would give this a 4 out of 5. It's a really nice book.
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
I tweeted out on twitter asking if their were any recommendations for Japanese authors because I enjoy reading Murakami (After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore)
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The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima
I read some of his [Yukio Mishima's] more weird stuff - 'The Sound of Waves', 'Sun and Steel', 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' -, his short stories - 'Death in Midsummer and Other Stories'. There is so much great work from him that I feel, I enjoy every page that I read.
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
One of the earliest books I read this year was the 'Brave New World' written by Aldous Huxley. I loved this one especially because it is a good mix of comedy and ,intentional or not I don't know, and how grim it gets, how dark it is which really delivers this impactful meaning behind it.
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The Inferno
by August Strindberg
Last but not least, the Inferno by August Strindberg, or [August Strindberg]. Again, this is not a good introduction to August Strindberg. [...] It's very fascinating but very bizarre to read, like reading the notes of a madman almost.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
When I was younger I loved reading and I loved sharing, discussing books with my granddad. Obviously I was really young, I was like 10 or 12, so I don't know how much of a discussion it was. But he was so happy and fascinated that I was.. I liked reading and we read Sherlock Holmes because he loves Sherlock Holmes. He tried to get me into this private Sherlock Holmes group but I was too young to really understand. I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid.
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
I wanted to read another classic which is, my eye is so itchy, I'm sorry, the Old Man and the sea
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Enchiridion
by Epictetus
Everyone always talks about stoicism "Marcus Aurelius he was so cool he was like an emperor but also philosopher" okay sure absolutely but don't sleep on Epictetus! Wait a minute sleep on? Sleep on Epictetus? The Enchiridion by Epictetus, last name base name. On the very first page he describes stoicism perfectly it's almost like they came up with it!
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The Gay Science
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Next book: Gay Science! And know what you want to do it's okay! I give you the pass! The first time I read Nietzsche I read Beyond Good and Evil I didn't understand a goddamn thing. Don't watch my book review it's embarrassing and I'm not gonna pretend I'm some Nietzsche scholar now either but I had a bad time first reading him because he was referencing all these different philosophers and I had no clue who they even were after reading more philosophy coming back to Nietzsche again my reaction was still bad because I went this guy was making fun of all my heroes what the *** so Nietzsche for me was a slow cook I will admit. But the best way to understand philosophy is to understand the person behind it and the more I feel like I had done that the more I came to love Nietzsche. Uh he loves his words he's very great at them he's very harsh and very brutal but you understand that he targets philosophers that he likes or that he at least admires to some degree.
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Zero to One
by Peter Thiel
Next book we have, quite random actually, it's uh Zero to One by Peter Thiel. [...] I didn't really find myself like oh hey while reading it when I was writing down my thoughts on the book I... they all tended to be quite negative which, and i'm not entirely sure why, but I think it's just the overall culture around these type of things that probably makes me look at it and in an unfair light. I'm not saying this is a bad book by any means. [...] there's a lot of just random thoughts that I think he's interested in being shared. The main gist of this book is the idea that if you want to go from zero to one if you want a startup that really makes it and the banger you want to come up with something that isn't just replicating what other businesses are doing but something that's unique. It's not bad but I will have to rate it two out of five because, just because I think he's holding back and I think he is... it felt a bit random to be honest
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The Useful Knots Book
by Sam Fury
Next book, this is the book that truly matters this is the book that changed my life ,okay, The Useful Knots book How to Tie the 25 Plus Most Practical Knots [...] I guess that's the thing with the book it tells you the philosophy of knots. You know any idiot can tie a knot but the goal is to tie a knot that is fast, strong and also easy to untie.
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The Affirmation of Life
by Friedrich Nietzsche
I actually wanted to make this video because I think you will really like Nietzsche as well. He's a german philosopher born in 1844 and before we dig too much into this I just want to preface by saying that you know I'm not an expert I'm just making this video to hopefully inspire you guys to dig into his readings as well because there's so many misconceptions about Nietzsche that sort of makes you wonder if anyone's ever actually read him? As someone who did read him and didn't understand anything but for me it was really fun to discover just how wrong I was. [...] What Nietzsche actually stood for was something really beautiful and that I think a lot of these teenagers could benefit from which is his life affirming philosophy.[...] Nietzsche wants you to recognize life and all its suffering and at the end of it say yes that was life, one more time please once more and that's life affirmation and that's to me it's the beauty of Nietzsche.
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L'Étranger
by Albert Camus
I have a couple good recommendations yeah starting off with a stranger by Albert Camus [...] It's a short read it's it's entertaining, if you haven't read a book in a while and want to get back into it I think this is a great place to start. I loved it so much I read his other works.
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Plague
by Albert Camus
I read his other works the plague as well which is uh equally amazing
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
And lastly, love this book! Who would thought I would pick this up? Another random pickup. I've been literally just going on Goodreads and they've been recommending me some bomb ass books. This book is... I love it! I love this book. Read this book, it's great, you'll feel great reading it. [...] It's just a lovely story and I highly recommend it
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison
I got this 'I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream'. It's really good. Very short story, horror story.
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Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus frequently quotes Epictetus in his famous written word Meditations
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The Cynic philosophers
by Emperor Julian
A few months ago our house is broken into [...] at the same time I was reading about Diogenes the ancient Greek philosopher who only lived with one item in his possession which was a wooden bowl even this he got rid of on the day when he saw a peasant boy drinking water by cupping his hands
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Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
I've been reading a lot of great literature. Book of Disquiet, amazing. Loved it.
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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
I tweeted out on twitter asking if their were any recommendations for Japanese authors because I enjoy reading Murakami (After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore)
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Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
I tweeted out on twitter asking if their were any recommendations for Japanese authors because I enjoy reading Murakami (After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore)
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Bushido
by Inazo Nitobe
Great book to learn about the samurai's impact on Japanese culture.
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Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
by Yukio Mishima
I read some of his [Yukio Mishima's] more weird stuff - 'The Sound of Waves', 'Sun and Steel', 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' -, his short stories - 'Death in Midsummer and Other Stories'. There is so much great work from him that I feel, I enjoy every page that I read.
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The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin
I've read this, it was suggested by bacon man youtuber. I heard there's 2 more books that continues it, but the characters are so uninteresting I don't think Ill read them any time soon. It's a really unique, fascinating sci-fi though, would recommend as well.
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
The first one is the "The Master and Margarita" written by Mikhail Bulgakov [...] It's a black-satire comedy around Christianity. It's very weird, but I really loved it. [...] 5 out of 5
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Japanese Death Poems
by Yoel Hoffmann
The next book I want to talk about is Japanese Death Poems Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death [...] So the book starts off with zen buddhism which is actually my favourite part of the book. I didn't think I would enjoy it. I kind of wanted to just jump to the haikus but it just features incredible stories of zen buddhists or masters that died sitting upright and right after they finished their last brush strokes of their poem. I don't know if that is true or not, but it just sounds badass! [...] It's a great book. It features a lot of haikus that's never been translated before so I really, really loved it.
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Basho's Haiku
by Bashō Matsuo
Bashō, world famous Japanese poet who defined this style of writing where you count the syllables of the poem. His death poem reads as: "Falling ill on a journey // My dreams go wandering // Over withered fields"
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Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
It seems that the author has his own ideas about certain things like capitalism and socialism and these. I guess they're complex things to describe anyway. The bias of the author to me is clear in there, at least. And that sort of mudded the waters. But regardless, I really really enjoyed this book.
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Mythos
by Stephen Fry
Mythos with Stephen Fry. I thought he was just a stand-up comedian, but apparently he's an author as well. This is probably not the book I wanted to read, but I enjoyed it very much, regardless. Stephen Fry being a comedian, you can tell he does an excellent job at retelling the ancient Greek myths.
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Stoner
by John Williams
Now I was reading this and I kept thinking "When is the punchline coming?" "When is the weed joke coming?". I was on page 420 and I realized, "I've just spent hours reading a boring book about a boring man's life!". It has nothing to do with weed. Not a single weed reference. I'm just kidding. Obviously. It's actually a really great book. I really enjoyed reading it
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Dune (6 books)
by Frank Herbert
The book takes a long time a long time to really take speed in my opinion, but what it does is an amazing journey that I love taking part of[...] I think this book can definitely be interpreted in different ways even though, it's really just a badass space adventure. Given it four out of five stars.
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Tony Takitani
by Haruki Murakami
I thought as well if you maybe don't feel like reading something as long or something like that we would read a Murakami short story, so I thought we would read Toni Takitani, so maybe we can discuss some aeeh short stories where Murakami has amazing short stories, and I think that's probably one of his strengths.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
So I asked Marzia what her favorite book was it's the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde another, fine piece of literature, and I understand exactly why Marzia loved this book, it has a meaningful, uh a meaningful story with sort of horror elements to it [...] It's extremely well-written, and I really really really enjoyed this book. I thought it was fantastic and I totally understand why it's Marzia's favorite book. I would rate this 4 out of 5.
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Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
It's just very interesting. It really made me look differently on, how we value species; I look at the humanity in the future, but overall it was just a fun space adventure. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was it was fun from the beginning to the end.
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12 Rules for Life
by Jordan B. Peterson
Twelve rules of life. I didn't read the title it's a self-help book. I don't think I ever would have read a self-help book. It gave me a lot of new perspectives that I never thought I would even have, it was very interesting even reading about advice that doesn't resonate with me at all.
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
It's a very tragic sad story. It was really fun to read from start to finish however and I really really enjoyed it. It was a great recommendation. Thank you, Brad. Appreciated it.
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Bushido, the Soul of Japan
by Inazo Nitobe
Last but not least, I read--uh, I was so fascinated by the whole Samurai and I wanted to learn more about Samurai so I read "Bushido: The Soul of Japan". For anyone that wants to learn more about Japanese culture and the history of it, I think Bushido is a great starting point.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
I used to love Jules Verne & Sherlock Holmes as a kid.
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