How many of these books have you read and which 3 would you recommend above all? #asknostr #nostr #grownostr image

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AussieBean 🦘 2 months ago
Plenty and I love many of them, but this list bothers me. They are almost all fiction. There are no books about actual life, our the even the non-human physical world and universe. This indirect, manipulated way of understanding the world has in part, led us to the divided irrational world in which we live. Choose more non-fiction. Start with Bryson’s short history of everything. Ascend to Dan Dennets Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, or Hawkings A Brief History of Time.
•Brief history of time •Great answers to big questions. •The theory of everything. I have read these and I agree that you also need to read this type of books.
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Bruno 2 months ago
I notice a strong Western bias in that list, any way i understand It's correct following that criteria I'm going to recommend three Eastern books that I've read and i think would be on a list of the 100 most influent books of all time. The art of war - Sun tzu The four books - Confucio Tao te Ching - Lao tse I'm sure Arabs and other cultures have great books that we don't know, hoppefully someone can being them to the table
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SamSnow 2 months ago
Only 9... So I will just recomend 1984 But if you take suggestions out of the list, I would recomend "a sangre y fuego" which I think it was translated to english as "heroes and beasts of spain". It is the best book i've read about the spanish civil war, but what is decribed there fits every war.
19 Stoner probably my favourite. Lolita and Heart of Darkness are beautifully written. One hundred years of solitude is my least favourite - an absolute slog. The Fountainhead should be here IMO - most important book I've read.
It is true that the art of reading needs to be expanded to other types of books on the other side of the world. Surely there is another different vision. Take note your recommendations. Tnks
I believe I have read 11 of these books. Catch-22, Clockwork Orange, Crime and Punishment would be my recommended three. I also like to note anytime I sew it on a list like this, how much I despise The Great Gatsby.