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Anyone here read Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl? I feel like it's the kind if thing that would be assigned in a lot of psych classes. It's by this neuroscientist who went to auschwitz and his takeaway from that experience. Depressing as gently caress, but he has some interesting things to say about humanity. |
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Apr 8, 2015 17:47
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man who mistook his wife for a hat is good
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dogcrash truther posted:depends on whether you have a deep interest and passable knowledge in the complex details of economic statistics, so probably not. i also did not have the interest or knoweldge and it was rough going. the beginning is definitely worth reading, which is where he lays out his theory in laymans terms. the rest of the book is good if you want to understand and potentially critique the basis of his claims, but i certainly do not know enough about economics to do that so it was all kind of a waste. agreed, it gets very detailed very quickly. on that note my mom told me they all had to read it as schoolchildren in the ussr which sounds like a drat nightmare |
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Apr 8, 2015 17:48
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sexual nightmare posted:Anyone here read Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl? I feel like it's the kind if thing that would be assigned in a lot of psych classes. It's by this neuroscientist who went to auschwitz and his takeaway from that experience. Depressing as gently caress, but he has some interesting things to say about humanity. yeah I have read it. the first part is interesting and good and then he starts preaching about his psychiatry method. |
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Apr 8, 2015 17:50
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Swizzbutt posted:agreed, it gets very detailed very quickly. on that note my mom told me they all had to read it as schoolchildren in the ussr which sounds like a drat nightmare uhh pretty sure you're thinking of Das Kapital |
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Apr 8, 2015 17:50
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this thread is really building my to read list.
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Apr 8, 2015 17:51
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Selfsuck Roadhead posted:uhh pretty sure you're thinking of Das Kapital lol yeah oops |
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Apr 8, 2015 17:53
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It's a good thread.Selfsuck Roadhead posted:yeah I have read it. the first part is interesting and good and then he starts preaching about his psychiatry method. I agree. I feel like everything that needed to be said was in the first part - there's some powerful stuff in the first part. I don't know enough psychiatry to comment on the second half, but it seemed kind of hokey to me. |
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Apr 8, 2015 17:57
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I recently finished You Can't Win by Jack Black (not that Jack Black) If you want to read an old man's tall (but true and autobiographical) tales about riding the rails, pulling heists, cracking safes, and smoking opium, this is the book for you. Also, I just looked and apparently they did a film adaptation that's currently in post-production and should be released later this year, which is bound to be dope if it's anything like the book. |
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Apr 8, 2015 18:07
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beer pal posted:should i read it? i tried buty it was too hard 
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Apr 8, 2015 18:09
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it sounds like jack black did win though, at lots of stuff |
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Apr 8, 2015 18:19
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sexual nightmare posted:It's a good thread. hm. i think the second half is really good from a practical standpoint |
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Apr 8, 2015 18:21
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Selfsuck Roadhead posted:it sounds like jack black did win though, at lots of stuff He did pull off some successful heists, but he also spent a good portion of his life in jail/prison and ended up drowning himself by tying weights to his ankles and jumping in a river so 
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Apr 8, 2015 18:24
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dogcrash truther posted:hm. i think the second half is really good from a practical standpoint Hmm. Maybe so. I read the book as part of a Humanistic Psych class, which happened to be one of the worst classes I ever had to take (the professor was a year from retirement and didn't give any shits). That might have colored my view. What other psych books would you guys recommend? |
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Apr 8, 2015 19:20
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I love knowledge, this thread is really good. I'm trying to read Trainspotting now and it's almost impossible to decipher Renton's accent. |
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Apr 8, 2015 19:25
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crust munch posted:this interests me it should, it's really good. here's an online version of one of her most famous stories (some typos in this version, i think the person typed it up from a book). it's about middle of the pack for her in terms of quality, i think, but it's a good intro: http://davidlavery.net/Courses/3840/stories/screwfly.html dogcrash truther fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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Apr 8, 2015 20:04
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Apr 8, 2015 20:06
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donald westlake is a very cool writer you should all read donald westlake
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Apr 8, 2015 20:20
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I'm reading the satanic verses these days, with some required reading for class interspersed. |
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Apr 8, 2015 20:32
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ulvir posted:I'm reading the satanic verses these days, with some required reading for class interspersed. I read The Jaguar Smile (which had hell of typos) a few years back but I've never read any other of his books.
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Apr 8, 2015 20:38
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Is blindsight by peter watts good? saw it namedropped in the space thread. I don't like the writing style much - at least it's on cc - but could maybe bear if it was good overall
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Apr 8, 2015 20:40
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very cool books: The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich - philosophic work by a christian guy examining metaphysics of anxiety. he breaks down the difference between anxiety and fear, and the different types of anxiety, and gets into the obsessive over-thinking neurotic heebie jeebies of how one faces and overcomes raw existential anxiety through Faith. Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton - This really clever guy like Oscar Wilde clever, who grew up questioning everything, explains how he went from radical skepticism to Christian faith and he does it with all sorts of clever and witty paradoxes and stuff. He does a great job explaining how rationality by itself is a stupid perfect circle that gets you nowhere except for the loony bin. Infinite Jest - gently caress yes. DFW A Supposedly Fun thing I'll never do again ; Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace's brilliant mind in more digestible doses than Infinite Jest, basically a series of essays and reflections, non-fiction stuff. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - more DFW - fiction stuff if you like DFW but you haven't checked out his story about John McCain, you really should because it's wild to see a Republican cast in the light of wallace's vision Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord - Marxist social theory stuff, basically a series of short but dense theses that develop the topic of the Spectacle, the images and illusions that dominate our contemporary world. excellent must read for leftists The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde : does the decadent life appeal to you? do you wish you could spend your days chillaxin to the maximum and enjoying worldly pleasures? what if you could live the ultimate life of excess and sin and still walk amongst mortals without the burden of your deeds weighing down on you.... read this book. excellent for anyone afraid of growing up and clutching onto enjoyment Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault : all about punishment, torture, prison, the means by which we break bodies as a demonstration and protection of authority, and how it's evolved over time and social conditions into the breaking of souls with horrifying and spooky accurate visions of the future dystopia we find ourself wading into today Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - think dpimpjedi the younger years but way funnier The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It's a short and easy read, a science fiction story about a war between humans an an alien race from deep space. The aliens and the battlefield are indeed so alien and far away that the distance needed to travel is titanic. Soldiers are put into a form of stasis and travel at extremely high speeds approaching the speed of light to reach these aliens. The result of this travel is time dilation because of Einstein's razzamatazz. After his first tour of duty, the protagonist finds himself feeling like an alien at home on a planet that has changed severely. He's only aged a few months or so while the rest of Earth has leaped forward into the future. Struggling to adapt, he reenlists, despite his jaded attitude towards the military. Joe Haldeman wrote the book after his experiences fighting in Vietnam, he talks about the disillusionment experienced by soldiers experiencing combat for the first time, he talks about the propaganda and military culture, he talks about the struggles adjusting to life after all of it. Commie NedFlanders fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 9, 2015 ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭ |
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Apr 9, 2015 00:19
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for some light fun facts that might blow your mind, look into author Mary Roach She's done stuff like Bonk! (book on sex research), Spook (book on ghosts/afterlife) , and Stiff (book on death and cadaver research) they are fun and gross and interesting reads that'll give you lots of weird poo poo to talk about at whatever social things human beans do these days. she does a lot of books about scientific research but it's very accessible to someone who doesn't read academic papers. ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭ |
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Apr 9, 2015 00:27
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suicide bi cop posted:On Capital - Karl Marx These also i'll add A People's History of the United States of America - Howard Zinn if you're new to left wing ideas this book does a great job of summarizing US history from the perspective of exploited peoples (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭ |
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Apr 9, 2015 00:30
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Apr 9, 2015 00:34
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Apr 9, 2015 00:41
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Chef Shimi posted:The Death and Life of Great American Cities I'm currently reading this and it's good. |
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Apr 9, 2015 00:51
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sexual nightmare posted:In Norwegian Wood, I thought the scene where the main guy and the second girl sip on beer and play guitar while it's raining ash from a nearby housefire was one of the most beautiful, romantic things I've ever read Norwegian Wood was worth reading but I can hardly believe it was written by the same guy as all the other Murakami I've read. Murakami made me want to be a writer because all of his stories are about extremely boring things but they're told romantically and with enough weird surrealism that they're fun to read anyway. |
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Apr 9, 2015 00:56
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BYOB Ross posted:I'm currently reading this and it's good. you ever read "city" by clifford simak? |
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Apr 9, 2015 00:58
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 I don't often read non-fiction but Huck's Raft is a very cool book. |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:00
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Hick Magnet posted:Norwegian Wood was worth reading but I can hardly believe it was written by the same guy as all the other Murakami I've read. Murakami made me want to be a writer because all of his stories are about extremely boring things but they're told romantically and with enough weird surrealism that they're fun to read anyway. It seems different on the surface, but I saw a lot of similarties to wind-up bird. Right down the the characters - a girl who the mc is in a relationship with that has a dark past, a girl who's fun and energetic that likes the mc for some reason, a main character who's apathetic about life, etc. What I really like most about Murakami is the amount of detail he puts into things and the way they're presented. It's like you said, he puts ordinary things in a perspective that makes them seem magical, yes at the same time relatable. |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:12
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dogcrash truther posted:you ever read "city" by clifford simak? Nope. I haven't read any fiction in a while. Lately I've only been reading planning and design stuff. |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:15
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Whoa "City" is really expensive. |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:16
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Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - think dpimpjedi the younger years but way funnier
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Apr 9, 2015 01:18
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Bwee posted:Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - think dpimpjedi the younger years but way funnier Rip windmill slayer |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:18
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BYOB Ross posted:Whoa "City" is really expensive. Is it really? Huh. I've had my copy for probably 15 years. Is it out of print? |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:39
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BYOB Ross posted:Nope. I haven't read any fiction in a while. Lately I've only been reading planning and design stuff. Have you read S M L XL by rem koolhaas? |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:40
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dogcrash truther posted:Is it really? Huh. I've had my copy for probably 15 years. Is it out of print? Must be. There's new copies on amazon for 2k and used are like $60. dogcrash truther posted:Have you read S M L XL by rem koolhaas? No but it's sitting in my amazon wish list. I haven't touched much architecture yet except Bricks and Mortals and a history of visual styles I like to keep around. I used to think I wanted to be one until I learned what it really entails. |
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Apr 9, 2015 01:48
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master and margarita
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