Hemingway was the first author I truly appreciated beyond just entertainment. The Sun Also Rises along with Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold were what brought me into a conceptual understanding and love of literature. I'd be amiss not to mention Twain, and Shakespeare if we're counting playwrights.
For the last couple years I've been reading less fictional works and a lot more philosophical literature, particularly Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, etc. Recently I've been on a sort of existentialism bender - reading Sartre's No Exit and some Camus.
Oh, and shout out to my homeboys Beckett and Schopenhizzle.
You dig on any psychology? How about sex?
I've just started reading Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha. I don't usually buy a book before I've read it & know I'll want to revisit it's pages often but I did buy this one based on a reference from my dearest, closest friend & confidant who assured me I'd have no regrets.
He was right.
I'm just a few chapters in & I'm in love.
Human psychology & sexuality & the people bold enough to really bore into those subjects & be willing to share what they've found, no matter how unconventional or on the contrary of what everyone else thinks they know, are my bread & butter, my wine, the air in my lungs, the blood in my veins, what I live for... this thing is beautiful, is what I'm getting at.
I hope you'll check the libraries in your area for it.
Even if it's not your thing, it's worth taking a peek at. You won't regret it.
Sounds interesting, if not quite what I usually read. I'll check it out. I've read a decent amount of Freud and some of Carl Rogers' client-centered therapy ideas... but these things really hit at the psyche much in the same way that philosophy does. I think psychology and philosophy discuss the same thing - psychology views it through a microscope and philosophy delves inside.
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Hemingway was the first author I truly appreciated beyond just entertainment. The Sun Also Rises along with Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold were what brought me into a conceptual understanding and love of literature. I'd be amiss not to mention Twain, and Shakespeare if we're counting playwrights.
For the last couple years I've been reading less fictional works and a lot more philosophical literature, particularly Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, etc. Recently I've been on a sort of existentialism bender - reading Sartre's No Exit and some Camus.
Oh, and shout out to my homeboys Beckett and Schopenhizzle.
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You dig on any psychology? How about sex?
I've just started reading Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha. I don't usually buy a book before I've read it & know I'll want to revisit it's pages often but I did buy this one based on a reference from my dearest, closest friend & confidant who assured me I'd have no regrets.
He was right.
I'm just a few chapters in & I'm in love.
Human psychology & sexuality & the people bold enough to really bore into those subjects & be willing to share what they've found, no matter how unconventional or on the contrary of what everyone else thinks they know, are my bread & butter, my wine, the air in my lungs, the blood in my veins, what I live for... this thing is beautiful, is what I'm getting at.
I hope you'll check the libraries in your area for it.
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Sounds interesting, if not quite what I usually read. I'll check it out. I've read a decent amount of Freud and some of Carl Rogers' client-centered therapy ideas... but these things really hit at the psyche much in the same way that philosophy does. I think psychology and philosophy discuss the same thing - psychology views it through a microscope and philosophy delves inside.