Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom #4)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis

About a quarter way into Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman. I would have to be him to describe what it is like.

About a quarter way into Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman. I would have to be him to describe what it is like. — Paine

I read it a few years ago. Very good.

Bleeding Sun - Samuel Sagan

Process and Reality - Alfred North-Whitehead.

The Chessmen of Mars (Barsoom #5)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Rigor of Angles by William Egginton

Quite an interesting book mixing Kant, Heisenberg and Borges to explore the limits of human understanding.

Title based on a wonderful quote by Borges:

"Enchanted by its rigour, humanity forgets over and again that it is a rigour of chess masters, not of angels”

"Encantada por su rigor, la humanidad olvida y torna a olvidar que es un rigor de ajedrecistas, no de ángeles.”

Everytime I check this thread I am impressed by how much you read. Do you have a special technique? How many pages a day do you read (fiction and non-fiction)? How much of a book would you say you retain in % ((fiction and non-fiction)?

Thank you for the Q&A.

I try to read 90 to 120 minutes per day. I'm hoping to increase that a bit, as I just retired. I couldn't say about retention, my personal focus is on integration, to have the information fit into an overall coherent framework. From the Dewey critique I'm currently reading I learned about John Ruskin, who seems to be something of a modern renaissance man and epitomizes the kind of socially conscious and impactful philosophy to which I aspire. Reading should be inspiring. The key, for me, is to make it part of your routine.

Gaiman's Norse Myths

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic.

Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation by Jairus Banaji

Speculum Mentis
by R.G. Collingwood

The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom #6)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Kaufmann, Walter A.. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Princeton Classics Book 3). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

in tandem with

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated) (Series Five Book 24) Delphi Classics. Kindle Edition.

Letters from Underground re-reads


Dostoevsky

Do you mean Notes From Underground? A seminal text for me.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez — Jamal

Finished. Jamal scores it 11/10.

Now reading Passing for Human by Jody Scott.

Re-reading Great Expectations and about to crack open Ryle's Dilemmas (thx @Banno)

Fooled By Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This is philosophy of the market, which touches on philosophy of math. The same author wrote The Black Swan. There's a black swan event brewing in China as we speak.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
— Jamal

Finished. Jamal scores it 11/10. — Jamal

Thank you, that is helpful to know. :up:

-Noble Dust


Yes , must have been a slip, for it is the first existential work I came across, without knowing it was that. Read it at 16 years of age way back

-Noble Dust

Again, guarantee to script blue, it truly is an ‘existential errand for me,

There's a black swan event brewing in China as we speak. — frank

Don't worry! They'll cook it and feed it to the masses.

“ Don't worry! They'll cook it and feed it to the masses.”




Or promise pearly gates fed to pigs

Don't worry! They'll cook it and feed it to the masses. — Wayfarer

The Chinese masses are turning middle-class. There's a threat in that that Chinese communism never had to deal with. They have a learning curve ahead of them. But for now their economy is tanking. The immediate significance of that to me is that the Aussie dollar is dropping relative to all other currencies.

The Disoriented, Amin Maalouf.

The Woodlanders
by Thomas Hardy

@180 Proof

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Redemption-Philipp-Mainl%C3%A4nder/dp/0645498076/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Q1S6IHXRFSEX&keywords=the+philosophy+of+redemption&qid=1705765531&s=books&sprefix=the+philosophy+of+redepmption%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C184&sr=1-1

Thank you! :cool:

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