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Patrick, I love you mate. And I'm with you by the way. Kindle is changing the way I read. I'm not sure if I like it or not - I'm jumping around a lot more, bec
by lionhearted 17y ago
Patrick, I love you mate.
And I'm with you by the way. Kindle is changing the way I read. I'm not sure if I like it or not - I'm jumping around a lot more, because I don't have to worry about finishing a book to take off the large stack of books I'm traveling with. So I'm reading a little history, a little philosophy, a little fiction, and so on.
Anyways, while we're on the topic, may I recommend Gutenberg.org if you haven't already thoroughly perused it?
Here's a few you might like.
Their top 100:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/731 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/731
Japanese literature including Genji Monogatari:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19264 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19264
Complete Sherlock Holmes:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661
On War:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1946 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1946
All of Shakespeare:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a65 http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a65
Thus Spake Zarathustra:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1998 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1998
Oh my, Gutenberg is just awesome. That's just the beginning of what I got. If you like literature, definitely try out Genji. If you haven't read On War, you simply must check it out - it teaches you how to think. At least read the first 20 pages, it's that valuable. Very incredible even if you don't care about history or military science, it's definitely been more valuable to me than Sun Tzu, and a lot of people like him.
As for Nietzsche... he's an odd duck, isn't he? Anyway, check out Zarathustra, you'll either love it or hate or both. I find myself disagreeing with quite a lot of it, but then occasionally he explains himself so completely perfectly and explains reality so succinctly and accurately. The good parts of Zarathustra are like Individualism Crack, it's a huge high reading and getting excited at.
There's lots more on Gutenberg, too! Almost everything out of print that's well known. I got 53 books from Gutenberg the day I got my Kindle so there's quite a lot I haven't gone through yet. Got copies of a lot of the foundational science texts to skim later for inspiration, etc. Really great stuff, highly recommend you spend some time on Gutenberg if you're the voracious reader.