•”A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide To The 21st Century” by Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein, two evolutionary biologists that talk about the novelty and uniqueness of today’s world and how to develop the thinking tools to better face and confront the issues of today. Their main stress is that many things can be talked about and looked from an evolutionary/adaptive perspective, which they think, the lack thereof, in today’s society and has potentially caused so much tension, tribalism, etc.
It has recently become a New York Times Bestseller
•All of the Jesse Ventura books: Jesse Ventura was Minnesota’s only governor that ran and won as an independent. He was a professional wrestler, movie star, and Navy SEAL/UDT. Jesse Ventura has frequently had talks in public where he criticizes the US government and politics. Specifically, he points out the faults and disingenuous intentions of the government, talking about conspiracies, hidden/controversial documents, the chaos of the two parties in politics, etc.
•”Making Sense” by Sam Harris is a book that sums up many episodes of Sam’s podcast “Making sense.” Very popular conversations with scientists, professors, researchers, politicians, military men, etc. Sam Harris is a philosopher, NY Times best-selling author, and neuroscientist. In a time of so much confusion, it is nice to see someone that is fair, makes sense, and is logical. Whenever I think of the most reasonable person in the public sphere today, I think of Sam Harris. He talks so eloquently and delivers in a way that everyone can understand and if one is reasoning then they will agree with his points.
•”Becoming A Marine Officer.” I bought this as a little helpful guide to the organizational structure of the Marine Corps, ranks, some history, etc. Just an extra edge to help me on this path of becoming an officer in the Marine Corps.
Do any of you all read? What are you reading now & why?
Do audio books count? Lmao. I don’t really like physical reading, my brain doesn’t really conjure the images from the written words that I’d need to be entertained, but audiobooks work for me.
I’ve fallen off in favor of some Patriots football podcasts since the NFL got rolling last month. But over the summer I was listening to some of the old classics. Reading is totally fine, but I feel like some people try to big-time you and act like you’re less intelligent if you don’t read, so I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder towards it, haha. Because depending on what you’re reading, you’re really not doing much more than watching a movie, in terms of it’s just some fictional story that you now have heard (or seen in the case of movies). So this summer I listened to stuff like Oliver Twist, 1984, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, and The Great Gatsby. I was entertained by all of them, but at the end of the day, I don’t feel any more enriched for having read them, or at least no different than if I watched a movie…. although some of the people on GAG and just the world in general have clearly gotten WAY too spooked by 1984, lmfao, I’ll forever laugh now when I hear people say anything in real life is Orwellian, “Big Brother” and all that, because that’s simply dramatic. But anyway, I buy the whole “books tell the story better than a two hour movie” thing, it’s just that, unless I read some sort of STEM-related information, I’m probably not any “smarter” for reading it. People can just make references and I’ll understand now.
Anyway, I don’t say any of that to disparage people reading, it’s a perfectly fine form of entertainment, but usually it’s a fictional story, or an agenda’d work by/about a certain person or pertaining to a certain topic, so it’s not really “knowledge” I feel like I’m gaining, just be told a tale or hearing someone’s opinion, which can for sure be interesting, but should be taken with the appropriate amount of salt. It’s just funny now because now that I’ve actually done some faux-reading, I’m wondering what the big fucking deal was lmfao. But I kind of decided to just run through the literary classics so people can shut the fuck up about it, and my early feeling is what I thought: it didn’t make me any smarter or more worldly. Maybe that’ll change, I don’t know, but so far I wonder why the fiction genre is so highly touted, other than it’s entertainment purposes. I saw War & Peace is available, it’s a 60 hour listen, but it’d be kind of funny to tell some snooty tweed jacket/suede elbow patches clown that, yeah, I read your fancy Tolstoy book, and quite frankly, I found it [fake British accent] “raaaaahther elementary.” Lmfao
Seems like some of your books will be worthwhile to you on your chosen career path though, so that’s cool.
Currently reading: SciFi: "Persepolis Rising", Book 7 of the Expanse series. Portuguese: Short stories in Portuguese. Spanish: An Elementary Spanish Reader
Just finished: "The Bone Clocks" by David Mitchell, "The Night Circus", "Ninth House", "Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine", "Nemesis Games" and "Babylon's Ashes", "A Chomsky Reader"
I read a mix for pleasure, discovery, and to maintain language fluency. The last dozen or so books some were recommendations, the sci-fi is mostly my jam and I enjoy it for a variety of reasons but one of the deeper is the freedom the genre has to explore concepts both new and old, realistic or fantastical. I really enjoy Chomsky's interpretation/perspective on world events, and his dry sense of humor.
I listened to the Sam Harris podcast for a while, very interesting stuff.
I'm reading 100 years of solitude by Gabriel García Marquez. So far, I'm really enjoying it. The way you get a glimpse into the lineage of the Buendías family and the evolution of Macondo is not human. The magic mixed within the characters lives is mesmerizing and enchanting with a perfect subtlety.
I love reading but I'm not reading at the moment. The last book I read is called "Hija del Camino" (which literally translates into "Daughter of the Way"). This was last year and now I'm planning on buying a book called "La Buena Suerte" ( The Good Luck).
Hard Copy: - Breakthrough Advertising - The Intelligent Investor
Audio: - The Intelligent Investor (I like hearing and reading it) - Laws of Success in 16 Lessons
I'm of the opinion, unless you're using the information you're reading you're really just pleasure reading so I only read few books at a time. It's not entertainment or feel good for me.
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That’s primarily why I read.
To me, there’s always SOME info or WISDOM to be learned from or used/applied in one’s life that you can get from books of any sort.
I get a lot of forbidden information by watching podcasts and reading a bunch on-line. I have some amazing Fascibuch 'friends' who share mind blowing information on all sorts of subjects.
But I always have a book that I'm reading, too. Right now I'm reading one that a friend shared with me called The Killing Snows. It's a historic fiction drama about the Irish famine. My ancestors immigrated to the U. S. from Ireland in 1850, so I'm interested in that topic. Plus I'm a history buff.
I just finished The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky. Before that I read Hidden History: the Secret Origins of the First World War. Both mind blowing books.
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton I really like this book but life keeps pulling us apart. It's just a light humourous book about a writer and her life, navigating dating, some family issues and internal questioning. It's an easy read and just what I've needed in my current circumstances.
I recently read a book by Bob Goff on how to love others the way that the bible says you should, it was a decent book but I did not like the suspense that came in a lot of the chapters. I hate drama and suspense which is one reason I prefer self help books over other genres.
1. Law of Success (1925) - American Philosophy of Noteworthy Achievement
2. Change your paradigm Change your life
I think it is obviously why I'm reading them and everybody should read them if they want a good life. I don't read anything that doesn't help my life and help me better myself.
Yes. Yes, i am. I really like this one. It's like daily stoic challenges. I don't agree with everything. Or maybe it's Holiday's interpretations I don't always agree with, but the quotes from Seneca, Aurelius, etc. are interesting and food for thought.
I love reading, but I'm finding it difficult to focus because I always end up watching youtube. But anyways, I'm really into dystopian novels, fantasy and dark fantasy, romance, and modern fiction. I'm reading a book for school called "Dear Martin" It's by Nic Stone, it's about a young black teen that's experiencing a lot of racial inequality, he starts writing letters to MLK because he's someone he really looks up to and is also trying to balance out relationships and school.
lol I was actually not the reader type until quite recently. I've only read a handful of books in my life and even then either I was forced to by school, or I forced myself to read them because it ''ought to be done.''
But this summer I binged the TV show ''The Expanse'' and I liked it so much, I bought a physical copy of the first book that the show was based on. Currently am slowly reading through it and unironically for the first time in my life I'm actually enjoying reading a book.
I read extensively on my job and don' really spend time reading books at home but I do spend time with American History questions on Quora and other internet sources.
I have read all of Jesse Ventura books, but at this moment I am not reading very much. My eye sight is failing as I am aging and its now hard to read without some sort of magnifying glass.
Read foe relaxation or to learn even a 59 the learning doesn't stop. Currently reading hard copy of The Bro Code by Barney Stinson and Matt Kuhn The Unplugged Alpha by Richard Cooper and as an Ebook The Flight of the Old Dog by Dale Brown
I read LOTS. I always have had a hunger for books. Often I'm reading more than one. At the moment I'm reading The Meaning of Pain. Tree of Smoke. May Week Was in June. The Daily Stoic. I much prefer non-fiction and memoir. Great question, thanks.
