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I've been on a non-fiction kick for a while now so I'm currently reading three bookarinos. There will be pictures of the synopsis on the cover so you know what's up. They are as follows:

1. Waking Up by Sam Harris (A neuroscientist by education but has become a public intellectual after the success of his books, his others I recommend as well)


2. The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens (My favorite journalist/non-fiction writer/essayist. Greatest debater and public speaker I've ever seen, I recommend all of his books and a god place to start is to watch his interviews & debates & lectures on youtube to wet your palate)


3. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon by Karl Marx ( I love politics and this is my first book by Marx. I don't consider myself a socialist or a Marxist (yet? maybe this book will begin to change that, but Karl Marx, wether you like him or his ideas or not, is undeniably one of the most influential and important philosophers of all time. Arguably the #1 most influential in modern times. Just for this reason I would want to read him, but what made me crack open this particular one is that it was on a list of favorite books of Hitchens, he was a Post-Trotskyist International Socialist starting when he was a teenager until his late 50's when he admited it didnt mean anything to him anymore, although he still considered himself a Marxist, but i digress)


PS: If anyone has any questions about the books let me know in this thread
 
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BTW ANYONE can help me to locate a digital copy of:

'A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'

I would be eternally grateful. I collect books, but if I bought everyone I MIGHT use, I wouldn't have a home, food, warmth.... the bottom of Maslow's Pyramid, in essence.



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keseyhitchens said:
I've been on a non-fiction kick for a while now so I'm currently reading three bookarinos. There will be pictures of the synopsis on the cover so you know what's up. They are as follows:

1. Waking Up by Sam Harris (A neuroscientist by education but has become a public intellectual after the success of his books, his others I recommend as well)


2. The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens (My favorite journalist/non-fiction writer/essayist. Greatest debater and public speaker I've ever seen, I recommend all of his books and a god place to start is to watch his interviews & debates & lectures on youtube to wet your palate)


3. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon by Karl Marx ( I love politics and this is my first book by Marx. I don't consider myself a socialist or a Marxist (yet? maybe this book will begin to change that, but Karl Marx, wether you like him or his ideas or not, is undeniably one of the most influential and important philosophers of all time. Arguably the #1 most influential in modern times. Just for this reason I would want to read him, but what made me crack open this particular one is that it was on a list of favorite books of Hitchens, he was a Post-Trotskyist International Socialist starting when he was a teenager until his late 50's when he admited it didnt mean anything to him anymore, although he still considered himself a Marxist, but i digress)


PS: If anyone has any questions about the books let me know in this thread
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All three of those look really interesting.

Didn't Hitchens sell out to the right after 9/11? I didn't realise he considered himself a Marxist.

And I've read other selections from Marx, but not the Eighteenth Brumaire.
 
Some Jean-Michel Ribes theatre... He's so lucid and funny, esoteric sometimes, real shit, and i'm not even Charlie, even though i like the spirit....
 
"White" by Bret Easton Ellis. Collection of essays about his career and the sacred cows of sterile modernity.

And "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang. Short stories from a true master of sci-fi. Great imagination teeming with ideas, and well written.
 
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All three of those look really interesting.

Didn't Hitchens sell out to the right after 9/11? I didn't realise he considered himself a Marxist.

And I've read other selections from Marx, but not the Eighteenth Brumaire.
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Sam Harris is fantastic. Waking Up Was great, but I also really enjoyed his short books on Free Will and Lying. One of the clearest and most consistent heterodox thinker around.

On the topic of Hitchens, his memoir (name escapes me) is absolutely brilliant. I 'read' it as an audio book narrated by Christopher himself and it was fascinating. He discusses his political views as they develop over his life at some length. Worth a read/listen.
 
Kaosu no Musume, by Masahiko Shimada.

It's about a little boy affected by narcolepsia and who develop shaman's skills, like seeing the future, and who go past several initiations.

At the same time, there an adolescent girl who is kidnapped by a psycho who locked her up and torture her for taming her as a killing machine, while she loss all memories that were before her kidnapping.

At some point, the two personas will meet and will get caught in a quest wich seems like a spiral of violence for social justice against the 1%.
 
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Le Locataire Chimérique, by Roland Topor.
It's about a man who find an appartement and start being harassed by his neighbours, until he go totaly crazy, that's at the same time darkly fun, and fucked-uply scary. It can be considered as one of the first "œuvre d'art" panic, an artistic movement which is in the continuation of the surrealism and the absurd.
The only thing that's fucker up about this book is that this pedophile ass of Roman Polansky adapt it under the title "The Tenant" in the 70's, i saw the film, it's not that bad, but the book, as always is way more stylish..
 
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