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    Team,

    I’m going to give you a brief statement about my taste that I don’t want you to take to seriously. I’m also going to give you examples of books I liked and disliked. Give me the best suggestions you have!

    Social media has been smoothing my brain so I need to get back into the realm of genuine mental stimulation. I like philosophy, psychology, history, science and economics. Basically, I want something intriguing and not too challenging to read. Don’t care if its a novel, essay or normal book.

    Books I liked:

    * Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde (Fav novel ever)
    * The Prince – Machiavelli (Great book)
    * Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus (Love existentialist stuff)
    * The Stranger – Albert Camus\^
    * Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu (Amazingly written. concise, so I didnt get bored)
    * Sapiens – Yuval Noah Hariri (How he connects the dots doesnt make sense to me, but I learned so much)
    * Quran – God (not conventionally structured but really nice)
    * The Stranger – Albert Camus
    * PRisoners of Geography – Tim Marshall

    Books I didn’t like:

    * Moby Dick – Herman Melville (nice book but too long and hard to ready)
    * Leadership In Turbulent times – Doris Goodwin (Author went off on too many tangets)
    * A people’s History of the United States of America – Howard Zinn (nice content but kinda got bored reading it)
    * No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai (it was meh, but surprisingly lingered in my brain for a while after i finished reading it
    * Of men and mice – John Steinbeck (waste of my life)
    * Frankentein – Mary Shelly (nice plot, horrible climax and end to story)

    Change my life

    by Odd-Breakfast-7865

    1 Comment

    1. OldTimeyStrongman on

      The Mistress of the Vatican, by Eleanor Herman! It’s a non-fiction book about the woman behind one of the popes, and it’s *so interesting* and well written. A total glimpse into a part of history that I had no idea about!

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