Anyone into self development books?

Mostafa wrote:

Anyone into self development books?

No one's into self development books ? elitist pricks.

Mostafa wrote:

Mostafa wrote:

Anyone into self development books?

No one's into self development books ? elitist pricks.

I don't need to better myself. I'm already perfect

Pretty much every self-development book is based on faulty psychology and has no basis at all. In fact the only books I've read on bettering oneself that actually have some support through modern psychology are found in Mysticism.

Kamikaze wrote:

Pretty much every self-development book is based on faulty psychology and has no basis at all. In fact the only books I've read on bettering oneself that actually have some support through modern psychology are found in Mysticism.

Not all I must say; The one I just started reading called The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma is actually irrelevant to psychology and tries to delve ino inner peace and peace of mind through using methods used by Yogi's in India, it's really awesome and provides the most realistic examples and most practical and already existing methods you'd find.

Reading Fight Club and it's AWESOME, just like the movie, no really exactly like the movie..

I've been reading tons of Bukowski.

Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics by Stefan Molyneux.
http://freedomainradio.com/Books/UniversallyPreferableBehaviourEthics.aspx

Requiem for Marx by Yuri Maltsev (ed.)
http://mises.org/books/requiem.pdf

Just finished the Sci-fi novel Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds. It was really good and it reminded me of Dune a little bit.

Shit I still have a half read book lying around. I have no time for reading these days. I guess if I spent more time reading and less time on the interwebz, it might go better

Finished Fight Club yesterdat, would have finished it sooner, but homework kept on coming...

More surreal than the movie and the last 4 chapters (out of 30) was fucking weird.

^ I'm reading Rant by Palahniuk. It's not written in tradition novel form, so it kinda throws you off. Plus it's very very unrealistic. The protagonist can tell what someone ate 3 days ago by performing oral sex on them. Like wtf.

Most spiritual/psychological self-help books are crap.

I'm presently reading The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. It discusses current developments in neuroscience, genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics and then argues that within the next two decades we will start seeing people who are as much nonbiological as they are biological. It's really interesting if not a little too optimistic.

So, I just bought : Far From The Madding Crowd, Cime And Punishment, The Old Man And THe Sea, thoughts?

Mostafa wrote:

So, I just bought : Far From The Madding Crowd, Cime And Punishment, The Old Man And THe Sea, thoughts?

I've never heard of 'Far from the Maddening Crowd'.

BTW, currently reading Camus 'The Fall'. About fifty pages to go, then I want to find the other two books in collection by Camus and 'Nausea' by John Paul-Sarte.

It's a Thomas Hardy novel.

I decided to attempt Cervantes' Don Quixote. So far I've gotten to p. 300 and I must say it's pretty fucking brilliant to think that someone could've written something so satirical and witty 400 years ago. An excellent read.

Ahmedeus wrote:

Recently read: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I read that in English class recently. It would've been enjoyable except for the retarded and repetitive questions that we were allways having to answer.

I'm reading a bunch of books for my thesis, but if anyone in interested in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I really recommend The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Benny Morris. He's the best Israeli historian imo and is very successful at deconstructing the traditional Israeli historical thought on the subject. Really the best work on the subject if you ask me, and it really gives a full understanding of how the region got to the point it is at today.

son_ov_hades wrote:

I'm reading a bunch of books for my thesis, but if anyone in interested in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I really recommend The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Benny Morris. He's the best Israeli historian imo and is very successful at deconstructing the traditional Israeli historical thought on the subject. Really the best work on the subject if you ask me, and it really gives a full understanding of how the region got to the point it is at today.

Should I expect a biased opinion since he's Israeli..?

No not really. He is the founder of the "new historians" in Israel, who go against the traditional Zionist views. For example he argues very effectively that the Palestinians were never encouraged to leave their homes by Arab leaders. You will probably disagree with some of his findings, but this is not agenda driven historiography by any means.

I'd really like to read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, has anyone read it, opinions?
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Just picked up The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose. It discusses math, physics, cosmology, psychology, philosophy, and how all these things interact to make strong AI an impossibility.






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The Name of the Wind and its sequel A Wise Man's Fear are both very good fantasy books. Patrick Rothfuss is definitely one of my favorite authors.

Choogly wrote:

The Name of the Wind and its sequel A Wise Man's Fear are both very good fantasy books. Patrick Rothfuss is definitely one of my favorite authors.

Hi Choogly.
Mind going to the intro thread and saying hi? Thanks in advance.